WikiCollegiate:Privacy policy
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WikiCollegiate Principles
The collegiate community makes many positive contributions to the world. We believe the college community can accomplish even more with deeper and richer cross-university and cross-continental collaboration. We built WikiCollegiate to give the college community a place to create, share and build knowledge.
WikiCollegiate follows three core principles:
1. Share with abandon.
WikiCollegiate succeeds when its community of users share freely and openly. We want you to post ideas, hypotheses, club notes, data sets, files, documents to share with club members, research papers, outlines, and contribute to and benefit from the contributions of others. If we all give more than we receive, the community benefits and so will you.
2. Create and build in public to serve the highest public good.
What we create and build together in the public space of WikiCollegiate will be stronger than what we can create and build in private. Openness and transparency are key WikiCollegiate community attributes. We believe knowledge will advance faster in public space than it will in private.
3. Your private wiki space is yours.
Like a gym locker, what you create and/or store in the private space of your wiki belongs to you and those to whom you give access. Creating in public serves the highest public good, however we understand there will be times when you’ll want to store personal files and documents and create private pages to work on projects with friends or colleagues. We respect your privacy, and encourage you to also make public contributions, share your extracurricular interests and work with the larger WikiCollegiate community.
The Policy
The basics of WikiCollegiate’s privacy policy are pretty simple.
1. What you create, share and build in the public space of the wiki can be seen by the entire WikiCollegiate and online community. When you are logged in and make contributions, those contributions will be identifiable and associated with your username. Treat people in the community with respect, and don’t post anything you wouldn’t want your mother to read or see (i.e., no explicit material).
2. What you create in the private space of the wiki is private and belongs to you. We do our utmost to secure your private wikispace and file space including backing up our servers regularly. WikiCollegiate can not however be responsible for lost data or files in case of technical glitches that may result in the loss of data. We encourage you to keep backup copies of especially valuable files off line for your own protection and peace of mind.
3. Your private space and other user data (e.g., email address and registration data) will remain private unless required by valid subpoena or made compulsory by law enforcement.
4. Two boring boilerplate paragraphs of legalese (sigh):
In no event shall WikiCollegiate or any of its affiliates, or any of their officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, information providers or licensors by liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive or other damages (regardless of their form of action) arising out of (i) use of the site or content by any person, including but not limited to, any damage caused by any reliance on, or any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions in, any information content accessed via the site, (ii) any use or inability to use the site for whatever reason, including but not limited to communications failure or any other failure with transmission delivery or any information accessed through the site, or (iii) any goods or service discussed, purchased or obtained, directly or indirectly through the site, in each case even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
By registering, using or viewing content on WikiCollegiate, you agree to hold harmless, defend, and indemnify WikiCollegiate, its officers, directors, employees, subsidiaries, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, agents, partners and affiliates, successors and assigns from all liabilities, claims, demands and expenses, including attorneys' fees, that are due to, or that arise from your use or misuse of the Site and/or Site, or for infringement by you of intellectual property rights or other right of any third party. We may assume exclusive control of any defense or any defense or any matter subject to indemnification by you, and you agree to cooperate with us in such event.
You didn’t fall asleep? Ok, now get out there, create, and SHARE WITH ABANDON!
