Privacy policy

General Scope

This policy covers personally identifiable information collected or stored by BKCASE on its servers in relation to the SEBOK. Consistent with its Data Retention Policy, BKCASE collects and retains the least amount of personally identifiable information needed to fulfill the project's operational needs.

The public and collaborative nature of the project

BKCASE has been collaboratively developed by its users using the MediaWiki software. Anyone with Internet access (and not otherwise restricted from doing so) may edit the publicly editable pages of these sites with or without logging in as a registered user. By doing this, editors create a published document, and a public record of every word added, subtracted, or changed. This is a public act, and editors are identified publicly as the author of such changes. All contributions made to the project, and all publicly available information about those contributions, are irrevocably licensed and may be freely copied, quoted, reused and adapted by third parties with few restrictions.

Activities on BKCASE

In general, this Policy only applies to private information stored or held by BKCASE which is not publicly available.

Interactions with the Project not covered by this Policy include, but are not limited to, aspects of browsing and editing pages, use of the wiki "email user" function, subscribing and posting to BKCASE hosted email lists, and corresponding with the project management team. These interactions may reveal a contributor's IP address, and possibly other personal information, indiscriminately to the general public, or to specific groups of volunteers acting independently of the Foundation.

Users may also interact with one another outside of Foundation sites, via email, IRC or other chat, or independent websites, and should assess the risks involved, and their personal need for privacy, before using these methods of communication.