Editing The Al'Kabor Project Wiki:Privacy policy

== About this policy ==
This policy is adapted from the [https://wikiedu.org/privacy-policy WikiEdu] website through the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons ShareAlike 4.0] license.

Throughout this policy, we will refer to the website, wiki, allaclone, magelo clone and any and all other services as "Services".

=== The Al'Kabor Project ===
Everquest is a registered trademark of Daybreak Game Company LLC.<br />
EQEmulator and The Al`kabor Project are not associated or affiliated in any way with Daybreak Game Company LLC.<br />

Taken from TAKP's [https://www.takproject.net/|front page].

=== Privacy Policy License ===
This policy is licensed under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode Creative Commons ShareAlive 4.0] license. If you have any questions, please refer to the link provided.

== Information the website collects ==
We collection information across Services to provide the user with such Services. The information we collect may include:
* Email address
* User name
* IP address
* Services access times, such as when a user logs in to an account and makes changes to a wiki page.

We collect information in 3 ways:
# Through you voluntarily providing that information through account creation;
# Automatically through your interaction with our Services; and
# By logging interactions with the website and the archiving of posts and submissions through our Services.

=== Information You Provide to Us ===
We keep and store the information you provide to us in order to deliver the services to you, such as game, forums, and/or wiki accounts.<br />
The amount and type of information you are asked to provide to us may differ between the varied parts of the Services, which may include:
* '''Basic Account Information''': In order to use the services, such as the server or forums, you need to set up an account. This information includes an email address and user name; you may provide more information through a biography or by using the Services, such as posts in the forum; however, the extra information is not required to use the Services.
* '''Wiki-specific Information''': Anonymous users may make changes to the wiki. Any such interactions are logged and stored in order to evaluate the changes and to provide problem resolution in case any issues are found through the edits.
* '''Public Profile Information''': The user name you pick will be made public once you post on the forums. Any other information you include in your public profile will be open to the public, so please keep that in mind when choosing your user name and deciding what information you would like to share.
* '''Content Information''': Any information posted to the Services may be stored for archival and system-use purposes; for example, historical posts to the forums are available for years afterwards.
* '''Communicating with TAKP Developers and Volunteers''': You may also provide us information when you respond to surveys, communicate with our staff about a support question, post a question about your site in our public forums, or sign up for a newsletter. When you communicate with us via form, email, phone, or otherwise, we may store a copy of our communications (including any call recordings as permitted by applicable law).

=== Information We Collect Automatically ===
* '''Log Information''': Like most online services, we may collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access and operating system. We collect log information when you use our Services.
* '''Usage Information''': We collect information about your usage of our Services. For example, we collect information about the actions that site administrators and users perform–in other words, who did what, when and to what thing on a site. Your IP addressed is logged if you make anonymous changes to the wiki, as noted above.
* '''Stored Information''': A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. TAKP may collect and store and/or access that information as required to provide you access to our Services.

== How and Why TAKP Uses Information ==
=== Purposes for Using Information ===
We may use information as described above and for the purposes listed below:
* To provide our Services
* To further develop and improve the Services;
* To monitor and analyze trends to better understand how users interact with our Services and to address any issues that may arise;
* To communicate with you, either through a Direct Message (DM) or via email;
* And, to personalize your experience.

=== Legal Basis for Collecting and Using Information ===
For those users living in the European Union ('EU'), our grounds for processing and storing your information is based on the following grounds:
# The processing, storing and use of information is used to offer access to our Services
# Where such use is necessary to comply with legal obligations
# The use is necessary to protect your vital interests or those of another person
# When we have a legitimate interest in using your information, such as providing access to any and all Services attached the TAKP
# You have given us explicit and/or complied consent, whether it is through DMs, forum posts, or accepting cookies in order to use the Services

'''Note''': Cookies are used on TAKP web Services for your convenience as well as to provide technical auditing trails in the event you, and/or our Services, experience technical difficulties. IP addresses are logged in order to ensure that all users comply with the [https://www.takproject.net/forums/index.php?threads/rules-101.7/ rules].

== Sharing Information ==
=== How We Share Information ===
The Al'Kabor Project does not sell nor does we not normally allow third party access to non-public information. We only share information in limited ways:
* '''Developers and Volunteers''': We may share information amongst the developers and volunteers. This is to make sure that there are as few interruptions to our Services and your experience and interaction with those Services
* '''Legal and Regulatory Requirements''': We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request
* '''To Protect Rights, Property and Others''': We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of TAKP, developers and volunteers, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay
* '''With Your Consent''': We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction. For example, we may share your information with the Internet public, at large, which you authorize us to do so when posting to our Services or interacting in Alliance chat or other forms of communication which you voluntarily engage in while using our Services.

=== Public Information ===
Due to the nature of the Services offered by TAKP, much of the information you provide may be shared publicly, as previously explained. TAKP developers, volunteers and support personnel will not [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dox dox] users or otherwise provide personal information that is not explicitly authorized or that is not posted to well-known public Services (e.g., this wiki).<br />

Please keep in mind that all information you post in the Services, whether through DM, forum topics, wiki edits or through chat channels in-game may be made public, based on circumstances and/or legal requirements.

== Information Retention ==
We may keep information connected to the Services indefinitely. TAKP developers and volunteers may also decide to purge certain information on an as-needed basis. Whether information is stored or deleted is dependent on many factors, some of which include:
* Legal reasons
* Technical limitations
* Historical retention of information (e.g., forum posts)
* And, as a way to enforce the rules.

== Security ==
TAKP developers and volunteers take security seriously. We do everything reasonably possible to protect and safeguard your information against unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of your information.

== Your Choices ==
The use of our Services is voluntary and subject to following any and all rules. When it comes to information regarding your account and personal information, you may:
* '''Limit the Information You Provide''': Some of the information you provide, such as an email address, is necessary to engage with our Services; however, you may choose which email to provide, as an example
* '''Limit Your Interactions on Our Services''': You can choose to limit how much, when and where you access our Services
* '''Set Your Browser to Reject or Delete Cookies''': Follow any guides with which you are comfortable, specific to your browser
* '''Do Not Use Our Services''': As this is a voluntary interaction, you are able to decide not to use our Services

== Your Rights ==
If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (AKA the “GDPR”), data protection laws give you rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

    * Request access to your personal data;
    * Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
    * Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
    * Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
    * Request portability of your personal data.

You can usually access, correct, or delete your personal data using your account settings and tools that we offer, but if you aren’t able to do that, or you would like to contact us about one of the other rights, contact a developer or lead volunteer through the forums. EU individuals also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

== Privacy Policy Changes ==
The Al'Kabor Project developers and volunteers may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes, they will be available through the 'View History' section of this wiki page.