American Girl Wiki:Privacy policy
American Girl Wiki is operated by Tawny Dog Software. This policy explains how information is handled when you visit the wiki, use an account, contribute content, or contact us.
This policy applies to americangirl.wiki and its alternate domains: americangirlwiki.com, americangirlwiki.net, and americangirlwiki.org.
Information collected
Visiting the wiki
The server processes technical information needed to deliver pages and operate the service. Server logs may include your IP address, requested URLs, timestamps, browser information, referring pages, and error information.
This information is used for operation, troubleshooting, security, and abuse prevention.
Accounts
When account registration is available, we store the account information you provide, including your username, email address, and account preferences. Passwords are stored using MediaWiki's password-hashing system rather than as readable plaintext.
Email addresses are used for functions such as email confirmation, password recovery, and account-related communication. Your account email address is not ordinarily displayed publicly. Some email features may disclose your email address to the recipient when you choose to use them.
You may choose a username that does not identify you personally.
Contributions
Edits and other contributions are public. Page histories and public logs may display your username, contribution, edit summary, and the time of the action.
Do not put private information into articles, edit summaries, user pages, discussion pages, or other public areas.
Uploaded files may contain embedded metadata, including names, device information, or location data. Check files for information you do not want to publish before uploading them.
Contacting us
If you contact us, we receive the information included in your message, such as your name, email address, contact details, and correspondence.
Copyright notices and counter-notices may include additional information required for the applicable legal process.
Cookies and browser storage
MediaWiki uses cookies and browser storage for functions such as login sessions, security, and interface preferences.
You can control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling them may prevent login or other features from working correctly.
How information is used
Information is used to:
- Deliver and maintain the wiki.
- Manage accounts and account recovery.
- Support editing, moderation, and attribution.
- Prevent spam, abuse, and unauthorized access.
- Diagnose errors and maintain security.
- Respond to correspondence and legal requests.
Service providers
Service providers process information needed to perform their functions:
- OVHcloud provides server hosting and infrastructure services, including infrastructure backups.
- Amazon Web Services SES processes recipient addresses and message contents when delivering wiki-generated email.
- Cloudflare Turnstile processes technical information for anti-spam and abuse-prevention checks when its challenges are used.
These providers may process information in jurisdictions different from your own and have their own privacy policies:
Links to external websites take you to services governed by their own policies.
Access and disclosure
Authorized administrators and service providers may access nonpublic information as needed to operate, secure, and support the wiki.
Information may also be disclosed when required by applicable law or legal process, or when reasonably necessary to investigate abuse or protect the service and its users.
A copyright takedown notice may be shared with the affected contributor. A compliant DMCA counter-notice, including its contact information, is forwarded to the original complainant as part of the counter-notice process.
See Project:Copyright and takedown requests for those procedures.
Retention and public history
Public contributions and attribution records may remain available indefinitely. Removing content from a page does not necessarily remove it from page history, backups, search-engine caches, or copies made by others.
Account records, operational logs, correspondence, and backups are retained as needed for operation, security, recovery, and applicable legal requirements. Routine web-server logs are configured for daily rotation with 14 retained rotations; copies in backups or records needed for an investigation may remain longer.
Information removed from the active service may remain in protected backups until those backups expire.
Account age requirement
You must be at least 13 years old to create an account. If a higher minimum age applies where you live, you must meet that requirement too.
If you believe an account or contribution involves a child who does not meet these requirements, please contact us at support@americangirl.wiki.
Privacy questions and requests
Contact Tawny Dog Software at legal@americangirl.wiki for privacy questions or requests concerning your information.
Please identify the account, page, or information involved. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.
Some records may need to remain for attribution, security, legal obligations, or other applicable purposes. We will explain any relevant limitations when responding.
Policy changes
This policy may be updated as the service changes. Changes are recorded in this page's history.