Hardware-wiki:Privacy policy
Reading
Reading and editing both work without an account. The web server records each request in its log: the IP address, the time, the page requested, the referring page, the browser's user-agent string and the rest of the headers sent with it. Log files are kept. The IP address in a line is discarded after a year; the line itself stays, and it is what the site is kept running and the spam dealt with from.
Editing
Edits are attributed publicly and permanently. An edit saved without a user name is filed under no name at all: the address it came from is not written into the page history and is not shown anywhere on the wiki. Pick a name in the edit form if you want the credit.
Accounts
If you have an account here, the wiki stores the user name and a hash of the password. It does not ask for an e-mail address and does not keep one. Logging in sets a cookie that lasts about a month; saving an edit sets another that lasts a year, so a later edit can be recognised as yours.
Article content
Anything saved in an edit is public and stays in the history after it has been taken out of the live page. Do not put personal information into an article, your own least of all.