Policy:Privacy Policy: Difference between revisions

Kid Dancers Wiki was founded on a simple goal, to give competition kids a platform where they or others could post contest results, upload photos and videos of their dances and document their success as dancers and many more. We cannot work collectively without gathering, sharing, and analyzing information about our users as we seek new ways to make Kid Dancers Wiki more usable, safer, and more beneficial.

After all, it is people like you, the champions of free knowledge, who make it possible for Kid Dancers Wiki to not only exist, but also grow and thrive.

Because everyone (not just lawyers) should be able to easily understand how and why their information is collected and used, we use common language instead of more formal terms throughout this Policy. To help ensure your understanding of some particular key terms, here is a table of translations:

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When you make a contribution to Kid Dancers Wiki, including on user or discussion pages, you are creating a permanent, public record of every piece of content added, removed, or altered by you. The page history will show when your contribution or deletion was made, as well as your username (if you are signed in) or your temporary account username (if you are not signed in). We may use your public contributions, either aggregated with the public contributions of others or individually, to create new features or data-related products for you or to learn more about how the Kid Dancers Wiki Site is used, as further explained below in the "How We Use Information We Receive From You" section of this Privacy Policy.

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Want to create an account? Great! Do not want to create an account? No problem!

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Finally, when you visit the Kid Dancers Wiki Site, we automatically receive the IP address of the device (or your proxy server) you are using to access the Internet, which could be used to infer your geographical location.  

We want to make the Kid Dancers Wiki Site better for you by learning more about how you use them. Examples of this might include how often you visit the Kid Dancers Wiki Site, what you like, what you find helpful, how you get to the Kid Dancers Wiki Site, and whether you would use a helpful feature more if we explained it differently. We also want this Policy and our practices to reflect our community's values. For this reason, we keep information related to your use of the Kid Dancers Wiki Site confidential, except as provided in this Policy.  

Because of how browsers work, we receive some information automatically when you visit the Kid Dancers Wiki Site. This includes when you use an online tool on a third-party site that loads information coming from the Kid Dancers Wiki Site. This information includes the type of device you are using (possibly including unique device identification numbers, for some beta versions of our mobile applications), the type and version of your browser, your browser's language preference, the type and version of your device's operating system, in some cases the name of your internet service provider or mobile carrier, the website that referred you to the Wikimedia Sites, which pages you request and visit, and the date and time of each request you make to the Kid Dancers Wiki Site.

Put simply, we use this information to enhance your experience with the Kid Dancers Wiki Site. For example, we use this information to administer the site, provide greater security, and fight vandalism; optimize mobile applications, customize content and set language preferences, test features to see what works, and improve performance; understand how users interact with the Kid Dancers Wiki Site, track and study use of various features, gain understanding about the demographics of the Kid Dancers Wiki Site, and analyze trends.  

We actively collect some types of information with a variety of commonly-used technologies. These generally include: