Revision history

Last Revised: November 11, 2005 - Matthew Asham

• Updated entity name
• Added clarification on public data
• Wording change for Specific information sharing (In some circumstances, volunteers may access..)
• Changed privacy officer contact to specific Email address. Postal complaints or issues can be directed to a postal request, available upon request.
• Clarification on "Deletion of personally identifying information"

Briefly, about us.

Privacy Contact

All privacy concerns should be directed towards Matthew Asham. matthewa@bcwireless.net.

Philosophy, disclosure and recourse.

Our goal for the website and our systems is to provide a way for people to work with each other to develop public wireless networks. This means that some of your information may be visible to other people, but by default, we respect your privacy and will not share your personally identifying information unless a service calls for it.

General/Public information sharing

We do not share your private contact information, such as your address, or phone number, however we do display the following information publically:

• Your First name
• Your Nick Name (also your IRC name)
• Your City/Locality
• Your Postal Code
• Your Web Site address and IM address.

For the purposes of providing a method to allow others to contact you, we do provide an Email form that can be used to send you a message based on your Nickname. An example is available for you to review.

Anything you publish to the Wiki is public.

Anything you post to a mailing list is public.

Specific information sharing

In some circumstances additional information may be presented to volunteers:

• Your Email address, or street address.
• Your phone number.
• Your IP address.
• Your geo-spatial coordinates.

For example: If you have listed yourself in the locations database a Site Surveyor will be able to view your street address and phone number in order to assist you with a site survey.

Whenever possible, we will explain what information will be exposed if enabling a feature that could change your privacy status. If you see an area of the website that does not explicitly define how your information will be used, please contact the privacy officer with your concerns and the issue will be clarified, and rectified as appropriate.

If you see something you are not sure of, or are concerned about, contact the privacy officer above and we will rectify the problem immediately.

If your concerns are not resolved in a reasonable amount of time, you can also file a complaint with the Privacy Commisioner of Canada.

Selling of your data.

We don't sell data to anyone. We do not use your data for commercial purposes.

We also disable advertising for any user's logged into our website, to prevent collection of personal data by third parties, such as Google.

Note: Google Ads will reveal your IP address, user agent and the page you were visiting to Google.

Disclosure to law enforcement.

All requests for release of personally identifying information must be served by court order. It's really that simple.

Retention

We maintain account information (such as your login profile) for as long as you use your account. We will remove your personally identifying information from your account profile upon request, which will render your account inactive and unusable. The user_id and username of your account profile will be preserved for database integrity.

Communication

From time to time you will receive communications from the BC Wireless project, it's volunteers, and (possibly anonymous) members of the public.

This may include News Letters, system announcements/notifications, and inquiries.