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</ul> Compare Anything ›› <i>vs.</i> Diffen:Privacy policy Summary <p>If you only read the Diffen website, no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.
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<p>If you contribute to Diffen, you are <b>publishing</b> every word you post publicly.
If you write something, assume that it will be retained forever.
This includes articles, user pages and talk pages.
Some limited exceptions are described below.
</p> Publishing on Diffen and public data <p>Simply visiting the web site does not expose your identity publicly (but see private logging below).
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<p>When you edit any page on Diffen, <b>you are publishing a document</b>.
This is a public act, and you are identified publicly with that edit as its author.
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<b>Identification of an author</b>
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<p>When you publish or edit a page on Diffen, you may be logged in or not.
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<p>If you are logged in, you will be identified by your user name.
This may be your real name if you so choose, or you may choose to publish under a pseudonym, whatever user name you selected when you created your account.
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<p>If you have not logged in, you will be identified by your network IP address.
This is a series of four numbers which identifies the Internet address from which you are contacting Diffen.
Depending on your connection, this number may be traceable only to a large Internet service provider, or specifically to your school, place of business, or home.
It may be possible that the origin of this IP address could be used in conjunction with any interests you express implicitly or explicitly by editing articles to identify you even by private individuals.
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<p>It may be either difficult or easy for a motivated individual to connect your network IP address with your real-life identity.
Therefore if you are very concerned about privacy, you may wish to log in and publish under a pseudonym.
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<p>Your IP address is also associated and published with any "anonymous" comments that you post on Diffen.
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<p>When using a pseudonym, your IP address will not be available to the public except in cases of abuse, including vandalism of a Diffen page by you or by another user with the same IP address.
In all cases, your IP address will be stored on the Diffen servers and can be seen by Diffen's server administrators and by users who have been granted "CheckUser" access.
Your IP address, and its connection to any usernames that share it may be released under certain circumstances (see below).
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<p>If you use a company mail server from home or telecommute and use a DSL or cable Internet connection, it is likely to be very easy for your employer to identify your IP address and find all of your IP based Diffen contributions.
Using a user name is a better way of preserving your privacy in this situation.
However, remember to log out or disconnect yourself after each session using a pseudonym on a shared computer, to avoid allowing others to use your identity.
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<b>Cookies and Web Beacons</b>
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<p>Diffen will set a temporary session cookie (PHPSESSID) whenever you visit the site.
If you do not intend to ever log in, you may deny this cookie, but you cannot log in without it.
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<p>More cookies may be set when you log in, to avoid typing in your user name (or optionally password) on your next visit.
You may clear these cookies after use if you are using a public machine and don't wish to expose your username to future users of the machine.
(If so, clear the browser cache as well.)
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<p>Diffen uses third-party advertising companies (such as Google) to serve ads when you visit our website.
These companies and their affiliates and business partners may set their own cookies and/or may use information (<b>not including</b> your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
This information, usually used to serve interest-based advertising, includes users' browser, operating system, IP address, ISP etc.
If you would like more information about such practices click here.
Please also note that
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<li> Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on Diffen.
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<li> Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to you based on your visit to Diffen and other sites on the Internet.
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<li> You may <b>opt out</b> of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
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<li> You may <b>opt out</b> of the NetSeer cookie by visiting NetSeer.com, scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking on the Opt Out button in the footer.
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<p>Other third parties whose resources are requested by web pages on Diffen include Twitter and Facebook.
We may add other third-party widgets at any time.
All these services set their own cookies, which they can use to track you and build a profile.
Each of these companies may also sell the information they compile to third parties in accordance with the GDPR or applicable local regulations.
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<p>Diffen's content delivery network (CDN), such as CloudFlare or Fastly, may also set cookies.
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<p>The list of third parties identified in this privacy policy is not exhaustive.
Diffen reserves the right to work with any third party services, which may or may not use cookies.
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<p>You can choose to disable cookies from Diffen or selectively from any of the third parties or advertising vendors (such as Google) by changing your browser settings or using other software tools.
If you disable Diffen.com cookies, you will be unable to log in to the website but will still be able to use a lot of the site's functionality.
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<p>Advertising companies, including those who work with Diffen to show ads to our readers, use cookies to track interests of users across websites.
Opting out of this interest-based advertising can be done on the following pages:
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<li> http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
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<li> http://www.aboutads.info/
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<li> http://youronlinechoices.eu/
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<b>Passwords</b>
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<p>Many aspects of the Diffen's community interactions depend on the reputation and respect that is built up through a history of valued contributions.
User passwords are the only guarantee of the integrity of a user's edit history.
All users are encouraged to select strong passwords and to never share them.
We do not store passwords in plaintext and are unable to tell you what your password is.
You may request a new password via email.
You may also log in to Diffen using your Facebook account.
</p> Private logging <p>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.
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<p>The raw log data is not made public.
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<p>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 Diffen, including the suspected use of malicious "sockpuppets" (duplicate accounts), vandalism, harassment of other users, or disruption of Diffen.
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<b>Policy on release of data derived from page logs</b>
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<p>It is the policy of Diffen 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:
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<li> In response to a valid subpoena or other compulsory request from law enforcement
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<li> With permission of the affected user
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<li> When necessary for investigation of abuse complaints.
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<li> Where the information pertains to page views generated by a spider or bot and its dissemination is necessary to illustrate or resolve technical issues.
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<li> 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
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<li> Where it is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Diffen.com, its users or the public.
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<p>Diffen's policy does not permit public distribution of such information under any circumstances, except as described above.
Please also see the section on <b>Cookies and Web Beacons</b> on this page.
</p> Sharing information with third parties <p>Diffen 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.
An exception to this is the use of third-party cookies as explained above, and our partners as described below.
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Analytics
<p>We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website.
Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies.
The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.
Google's privacy policy is available at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
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Advertising
<p>Diffen uses third-party companies to run automated advertisements on the site.
</p> CafeMedia <p>This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes.
To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here.
</p> Security of information <p>Diffen makes no guarantee against unauthorized access to any information you provide.
This information may be available to anyone with access to the servers.
</p> User data <p>Diffen does not require users to provide any personal information.
it is optional.
You can use Diffen, including contributing content, using a pseudonym and without providing your email.
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<p>Data on users, such as usernames or the times at which they edited and the number of edits they have made are publicly available on Diffen's website.
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<p>Diffen will not sell or share private information, such as email addresses, with third parties, unless you explicitly opt in to release this information, or it is required by law to release the information.
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<b>E-mail</b>
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<p>You may provide your e-mail address in your Preferences.
Your address will not be revealed to any third party.
The email address may be used by Diffen to communicate with you.
for example, to send you a password reset link in response to your request when you forget your password.
If you do not provide an email address, you will not be able to reset your password if you forget it.
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<p>You can remove your email address from your preferences at any time to prevent it being used.
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<b>Log in with Facebook</b>
When you use Facebook to log in to Diffen, we obtain your name and email from Facebook.
We use this information to create an account for you and authenticate you.
Your name is used as your Diffen username and associated with all your contributions on the site.
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<b>Deletion of content</b>
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<p>Removing content from Diffen does not permanently delete it.
In normal articles, anyone can look at a previous version and see what was there.
Information can be permanently deleted by administrators with access to the servers, but only in response to legal action.
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<b>Request data deletion</b>
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<p>If you would like to request deletion of your data such as your user account, please email legal@diffen.com.
Alternatively, you can submit your request via the feedback form.
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