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If you only read content on Domain Meter, no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.

If you add or edit content on Domain Meter, you are publishing every word you post publicly. If you write something, assume that it will be retained forever. This includes entries, directories, guides, articles, user pages and talk pages. Some limited exceptions are described below.

Cookies

Domain Meter will set a temporary session cookie (PHPSESSID) whenever you visit the site.

These cookies are used to track visitors and demographic analysis.

Private logging

Every time you visit a web page, you send a lot of information to the web server. Most web servers routinely maintain access logs with a portion of this information, which can be used to get an overall picture of what pages are popular, what other sites link to this one, and what web browsers people are using. It is not the intention of the Domain Meter projects to use this information to keep track of legitimate users.

These logs are used to produce the site statistics pages; the raw log data is not made public, and is normally discarded after about two weeks.

Here's a sample of what's logged for one page view:

63.165.83.142 - - [21/Oct/2003:02:03:19 +0000]
"GET /wiki/draft_privacy_policy HTTP/1.1" 200 18084
"http://domainmeter.com/google.com"
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85.7 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Safari/85.5"

Log data may be examined by developers in the course of solving technical problems and in tracking down badly-behaved web spiders that overwhelm the site. IP addresses of users, derived either from those logs or from records in the database are frequently used to correlate usernames and network addresses of edits in investigating abuse of the wiki, including the suspected use of malicious "sockpuppets" (duplicate accounts), vandalism, harassment of other users, or disruption of the wiki.

Policy on release of data derived from page logs

It is the policy of Domain Meter that personally identifiable data collected in the server logs, or through records in the database via the CheckUser feature, may be released by the system administrators or users with CheckUser access, in the following situations:

1.In response to a valid subpoena or other compulsory request from law enforcement
2. With permission of the affected user
3. To the owner of Domain Meter, his legal counsel, or his designee, when necessary for investigation of abuse complaints.
4. Where the information pertains to page views generated by a spider or bot and its dissemination is necessary to illustrate or resolve technical issues.
5. Where the user has been vandalising articles or persistently behaving in a disruptive way, data may be released to assist in the targeting of IP blocks, or to assist in the formulation of a complaint to relevant Internet Service Providers
6. Where it is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of the the Domain Meter owner, its users or the public.

Domain Meter policy does not permit public distribution of such information under any circumstances, except as described above.

Sharing information with third parties

Except where otherwise specified, all text added to Domain Meter projects is available for reuse under the terms of the GFDL, published elsewhere on Domain Meter.

Domain Meter will not sell or share private information, such as email addresses, with third parties, unless you agree to release this information, or it is required by law to release the information.

Domain Profile Pages

A detail page is the page, displayed by Domain Meter, that provides details about a website, provides a user the ability to read and write reviews, and provides personalized recommendations for other websites and/or products that the user may be interested in.