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Individuals, entities, websites, services, products, and applications that are not controlled, managed, or operated by the Chalo Chatu Foundation. This includes other Chalo Chatu users and independent organizations or groups who help promote the Chalo Chatu movement such as Chalo Chatu chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups as well as volunteers, employees, directors, officers, grant recipients, and contractors of those organizations or groups. We recognize that only a minority of you are familiar with technical terms like “tracking pixels” and “cookies” used in the Privacy Policy. Whether you are brand new to privacy terminology or you are an expert who just wants a refresher, you might find our Glossary of Key Terms helpful. | Individuals, entities, websites, services, products, and applications that are not controlled, managed, or operated by the Chalo Chatu Foundation. This includes other Chalo Chatu users and independent organizations or groups who help promote the Chalo Chatu movement such as Chalo Chatu chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups as well as volunteers, employees, directors, officers, grant recipients, and contractors of those organizations or groups. We recognize that only a minority of you are familiar with technical terms like “tracking pixels” and “cookies” used in the Privacy Policy. Whether you are brand new to privacy terminology or you are an expert who just wants a refresher, you might find our Glossary of Key Terms helpful. | ||
==Types of Information We Receive From You, How We Get It, & How We Use It== | |||
===Your Public Contributions=== | |||
Whatever you post on the Chalo Chatu website can be seen and used by everyone. The Chalo Chatu website is primarily created to help you share your knowledge with the world, and we share your contributions because you have asked us to do so. When you make a contribution to any Chalo Chatu page, including on user or discussion pages, you are creating a permanent, public record of every piece of content added, removed, or altered by you. The page history will show when your contribution or deletion was made, as well as your username. We may use your public contributions, either aggregated with the public contributions of others or individually, to create new features or data-related products for you or to learn more about how the Chalo Chatu Sites are used. | |||
Unless this Policy says otherwise, you should assume that information that you actively contribute to the Chalo Chatu website, including personal information, is publicly visible and can be found by search engines. Like most things on the Internet, anything you share may be copied and redistributed throughout the Internet by other people. Please do not contribute any information that you are uncomfortable making permanently public, like revealing your real name or location in your contributions. You should be aware that specific data made public by you or aggregated data that is made public by us can be used by anyone for analysis and to infer information about users, such as which country a user is from, political affiliation, and gender. | |||
===Account Information & Registration=== | |||
You need to create an account to use the Chalo Chatu website. If you create an account, you need to give us your name or email address. If you do not create an account, you cannot make contributions. | |||
Want to create an account? Great! Don't want to create an account? No problem! | |||
You are not required to create an account to read but when you want to contribute to Chalo Chatu you are required to have an account. If you want to create a standard account, in most cases we require only a username and a password. Your username will be publicly visible, so please be careful about using your real name as your username. Your password is only used to verify that the account is yours. Other personal information is required: name, email address plus a short description and why you would like to join the movement this is to help us verify your identification. | |||
Once created, user accounts cannot be removed entirely (although you can usually hide the information on your user page if you choose to). This is because your public contributions must be associated with their author (you!). So make sure you pick a name that you will be comfortable with for years to come. To gain a better understanding of the demographics of our users, to localize our services, and to learn how we can improve our services, we may ask you for more demographic information, such as gender or age, about yourself. We will tell you if such information is intended to be public or private, so that you can make an informed decision about whether you want to provide us with that information. Providing such information is always completely optional. If you don't want to, you don't have to—it's as simple as that. | |||
===Information Related to Your Use of Chalo Chatu website.=== | |||
We may use common technologies to collect information about how you use the Chalo Chatu website. We use this information to enhance your user experience and to develop new features. We want to make the Chalo Chatu website better for you by learning more about how you use them. Examples of this might include how often you visit the Chalo Chatu website, what you like, what you find helpful, how you get to the Chalo Chatu website, and whether you would use a helpful feature more if we explained it differently. We also want this Policy and our practices to reflect our community's values. For this reason, we keep information related to your use of the Chalo Chatu website confidential, except as provided in this Policy. | |||
===Information We Receive Automatically=== | |||
Like other websites, we receive some information about you automatically when you visit the Chalo Chatu website. This information helps us administer the Chalo Chatu website and enhance your user experience. Because of how browsers work and similar to other major web sites, we receive some information automatically when you visit the Chalo Chatu website. This information includes the type of device you are using (possibly including unique device identification numbers, for some beta versions of our mobile applications), the type and version of your browser, your browser's language preference, the type and version of your device's operating system, in some cases the name of your internet service provider or mobile carrier, the website that referred you to the Chalo Chatu website, which pages you request and visit, and the date and time of each request you make to the Chalo Chatu Website. | |||
Put simply, we use this information to enhance your experience with Chalo Chatu Website. For example, we use this information to administer the website, provide greater security, and fight vandalism; optimize mobile applications, customize content and set language preferences, test features to see what works, and improve performance; understand how users interact with the Chalo Chatu website, track and study use of various features, gain understanding about the demographics of the different Chalo Chatu website, and analyse trends. | |||
===Information We Collect=== | |||
We use a variety of commonly-used technologies, like cookies, to understand how you use the Chalo Chatu website, make our services safer and easier to use, and to help create a better and more personalized experience for you. We actively collect some types of information with a variety of commonly-used technologies. These generally include tracking pixels, JavaScript, and a variety of "locally stored data" technologies, such as cookies and local storage. We realize that some of these technologies do not have the best reputation in town and can be used for less-than-noble purposes. So we want to be as clear as we can about why we use these methods and the type of information we collect with them. | |||
Depending on which technology we use, locally stored data can be anything from text, pictures, and whole articles (as we explain further below) to personal information and information about your use of the Chalo Chatu Website (like your username or the time of your visit). We use this information to make your experience with the Chalo Chatu website safer and better, to gain a greater understanding of user preferences and their interaction with the Chalo Chatu website, and to generally improve our services. We will never use third-party cookies, unless we get your permission to do so. If you ever come across a third-party data collection tool that has not been authorized by you (such as one that may have been mistakenly placed by another user or administrator) | |||
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