Wikispecs.org - The Largest Product Database:Privacy policy

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We completely understand that your internet privacy is very important and valuable to you. So here you could read information of how WikiSpecs handles your data and which of it will be stored.


  • WikiSpecs user information will not be sold for any reason. Your user information will not be sold to marketing companies or other groups who want to bother you.


  • Every IP connecting to WikiSpecs will be stored with its connection-time for 30 days because of security reasons. This data is only visible in detail to the database administrator!After 30 days the IP will be deleted and only the connection-time will stay in the database (this means the data is now anonymous and can not be traced back to you) for statistical reasons. Still this data is only visible in detail to the database administrator.


  • If possible, the URL of the Website that referred you to WikiSpecs will be stored -accessible only by the admin. This will happen if you clicked onto a link and if your Browser sends this information. In some Browsers you forbid this feature.The data stored is only the URL address and how often this URL has referred to this homepage by any user.


  • When you publish or edit a page in WikiSpecs, you may be logged in or not.If you have not logged in, you will be identified by your network IP address and it will be seen in public.If you are very concerned about privacy, you may wish to log in and publish under a pseudonym.When publish a page logged in everyone could see only your pseudonym as the author of this page,however your IP address will be stored on the WikiSpecs server and can be seen only by WikiSpecs's server administrators.


  • If you are registered as a User to this webpage, every IP you ever used and how often you used it as well as the time of its last use by this user will be stored on the server and could be seen only by administrator.If you are a registered User and are editing or publishing any page to WikiSpecs, your IP address and Username as well as the time of the change will be stored and seen only by admins too.


  • If a User has been blocked, this fact will be stored and visible to everyone.The list of blocked Users is visible to everyone.If an IP has been blocked, this fact will be stored and visible to everyone who checks this specific IP.The list of blocked IPs is visible only to Admins, all other Users can only check on a specific IP to see if it is blocked.


  • If you try to use a blocked User and/or a blocked IP, the last time of a connection try [admin] as well as the number of connection tryed since your blocking [admin] will be stored and only been deleted if your User or IP is unblocked again


  • The collection of stored data as described above, can be used by the owner of the website to do anonymous statistical analysis for this website. For example to determine how many users have created an event.


  • The collection of stored IPs will not be given away to any third party.
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