Terms and Conditions of Use
Summary
There are two cases of using the site that differ principally in connection with the privacy.
In the first case you simply visit the site. This does not expose your identity publicly (see however private logging below). No more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.
In the second case you make a change in the site, be it introducing new information or editing the information already existing in the site. This is a public act, and you are identified publicly with that change as its author. The information on the made change will be retained forever.
Identification of an author
To make any change in the site you have to log in. After 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.
Your IP address (a sequence of four letters determining address in the net) will not be available to the public except in cases of abuse, including vandalism of pages by you or by another user with the same IP address. In all cases, your IP address will be stored on the site servers for a relatively short time and it can be seen by servers. Your IP address, and its connection to any usernames that share it may be released under certain circumstances (see below).
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.
Cookies
JewAge 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. It will be deleted when you close your browser session.
More cookies may be set when you log in, to avoid typing in your user name (or optionally password) on your next visit. These last up to 30 days. 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.)
Passwords
Many aspects of the JewAge 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. No one shall knowingly expose the password of another user to public release either directly or indirectly.
Private logging
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. It is not the intention of the JewAge to use this information to keep track of legitimate users.
These logs are used to produce the site statistics pages; the raw log data is not made public, and is normally discarded after about two weeks.
Log data may be examined by developers in the course of solving technical problems and in tracking down badly-behaved web spiders. 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, including the suspected use of malicious "sockpuppets" (duplicate accounts), vandalism, harassment of other users, or disruption of the project.
Policy on release of data derived from page logs
It is the policy of JewAge 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:
- In response to a valid subpoena or other compulsory request from law enforcement
- With permission of the affected user
- To the chair of JewAge, his/her legal counsel, or his/her designee, when necessary for investigation of abuse complaints.
- Where the information pertains to page views generated by a spider or bot and its dissemination is necessary to illustrate or resolve technical issues.
- 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
- Where it is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of the JewAge, its users or the public.
JewAge policy does not permit public distribution of such information under any circumstances, except as described above.
Author rights: profiles
A system of author rights is introduced at the site, that gives special rights to the person who created the profile. This system does not include profiles of publically significant personalities (except for the situation where the profile is created by a close relative) that are considered “belonging to the society”. For all other profiles, the profile creator has the following exclusive rights:
- the permission to erase the profile
- the right to limit the access of other users to the profile (this includes both editing and reading the profile).
When creating the profile, the creator may choose one of the following ways of access limitation:
- the limitation “only for friends”
- the limitation “only for relatives”
- the limitation “only for myself”
Author rights: articles
When creating an article the creator may choose the type of author rights for the article.
First, the author chooses whether free reprint of the article materials is possible – either according to the GPL (public domain) license; or not - which corresponds to the private domain license.
Second, the author chooses whether to let other users of the site to edit the article.
In all the cases the users have the right to post comments to the publication.
Sharing information with third parties
Except where otherwise specified, all text added to JewAge project is available for reuse under the terms of the GFDL. JewAge 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.
Security of information
JewAge makes no guarantee against unauthorized access to any information you provide. This information may be available to anyone with access to the servers, mainly these are developers.
You may provide your e-mail address in your Preferences and enable other logged-in users to send email to you through JewAge (you may exclude this possibility in the Preferences). Your address will not be revealed to them unless you respond, or possibly if the email bounces. The email address may be used by the JewAge to communicate with users on a wider scale.
If you do not provide an email address, you will not be able to reset your password if you forget it. However, you may contact one of the JewAge administrators to enter a new mail address in your preferences.
You can remove your email address from your preferences at any time to prevent it being used.
User data
Data on users, such as the times at which they edited and the number of edits they have made are publicly available via "user contributions" lists, and in aggregated forms published by other users.
Deletion of content
Removing text from JewAge does not permanently delete it. In normal articles, anyone can look at a previous version and see what was there. If an article is "deleted", any user with "administrator" access on the wiki, meaning almost anyone trusted not to abuse the deletion capability, can see what was deleted. Information can be permanently deleted by those people with access to the servers, but there is no guarantee this will happen except in response to legal action.
JewAge makes no guarantee of validity
JewAge is a voluntary association of individuals and groups that restore together the history of the Jewish families. Besides, JewAge provides an arena for circulation of almost any information related to Jews and the Jewish people. The structure of the project allows anyone with an Internet connection to alter its content. Therefore, even though we make every effort to exclude untrue information, this cannot be done completely. In connection with the above, please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information on any notion in JewAge.
It should be understood that despite that JewAge contains a lot of useful and exact information, nevertheless JewAge can in no way guarantee the validity of the information found here. The content of any given article may recently have been changed, vandalized or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields. We look for ways to check and select the most credible information but we cannot guarantee anything.
None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators, or anyone else connected with JewAge in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.
Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, as an act of good will, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual JewAge contributors, any project administrators, sysops or anyone else who is in any way connected with this project subject to your claims against them directly. You are being granted a limited license to copy anything from this site; it does not create or imply any contractual or extracontractual liability on the part of JewAge or any of its agents, members, organizers or other users.
Any of the trademarks, service marks, collective marks, design rights or similar rights that are mentioned, used or cited in the articles are the property of their respective owners. Their use here does not imply that you may use them for any other purpose other than for the same or a similar informational use as contemplated by the original authors of these JewAge articles under the GFDL licensing scheme. Unless otherwise stated JewAge is neither endorsed by nor affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such JewAge cannot grant any rights to use any otherwise protected materials. Your use of any such or similar incorporeal property is at your own risk.
Pay attention that reading, dissemination or alteration of information found in JewAge may be in violation of the laws of the country or jurisdiction from where you are viewing this information. JewAge does not encourage the violation of any laws; and cannot be responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or use, reproduce, or republish the information contained herein.
Despite that readers may correct errors or remove erroneous suggestions, they have no legal duty to do so, and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever.
No consequential damages can be sought against JewAge, as it is a voluntary association of individuals developed freely to create various open source online educational, cultural and informational resources. This information is being given to you gratuitously and thus there is no agreement or understanding between you and JewAge regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the GNU Free Documentation License. Also nobody in JewAge is responsible for change, editing or removal of any information added by you to JewAge.
Use JewAge at your own risk
Please be aware that any information you may find in JewAge may be inaccurate, misleading, dangerous or illegal. None of the authors, contributors, sponsors, administrators, vandals, or anyone else connected with JewAge, in any way whatsoever, can be responsible for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.
Please take all steps necessary to ascertain that any information you receive from JewAge is correct and has been verified. Double-check information with independent sources. If an article contains dangerous, illegal or unethical information, remember that anyone can post this information on JewAge and the authors may not be qualified in the area in which the information is provided.
Majority of materials in JewAge are not checked by professionals; while readers may correct errors or remove erroneous suggestions, they have no legal duty to do so, and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever.
DO NOT RELY UPON ANY INFORMATION FOUND IN JewAge WITHOUT INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION.
You may find the contents of JewAge objectionable
JewAge has set the purpose of collecting a maximally complete history of the Jewish families. The site may contain information considered arguable or offensive by some readers. We will be glad if the readers will help us find the most objective and adequate way of stating the information.
JewAge may contain vague information that was not included in encyclopedias or similar books. The areas of knowledge addressed by JewAge, are inhomogeneous and they depend on the preferences of authors-volunteers. The readers should not judge the importance of that or another subject based on the fact of the subject appearance in JewAge, and they should not think that the subject is important simply because it is in JewAge.
Thank you for spending time to read this page. We wish you have only positive experiences from using JewAge.
Getting rid of unwanted personal information
We respect your right to consider the information about you published on the site as unwanted for any personal reason whatsover. If this is the case, please, contact us and this information will be deleted.
