1 This document outlines this service's respect for your personal
2 privacy as a user of the service.
4 - Almost all the text and files that users upload to this site is
5 available under the site license (see the license block at the bottom
6 of this page). Users agree to the license when they register to use
7 the site for the first time. Typically that means that the data can
8 be copied far and wide, for commercial and non-commercial purposes,
9 and in modified or unmodified form. If you're not OK with that,
10 don't use the service.
11 - The following data items are considered *private data* that won't be
12 shared with other users, business partners, or the public at large:
15 * your IM address (AIM, Jabber, or other instant messaging address)
17 - Some private data may be published in aggregate, e.g. "30% of our
18 users are registered with Hotmail addresses."
19 - Your notices (including files) can be downloaded and re-used by
20 other services, either one-by-one or in bulk as
21 [RSS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) files.
22 - Your profile information (including subscriptions and avatars) can be
23 downloaded and re-used by other services, either scraped from the HTML
24 interface or in bulk as [FOAF](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF) files.
25 - Your notices will be forwarded to users who subscribe to them,
26 including users on another microblogging service.
27 - Your profile information will be sent to microblogging services for
28 users who subscribe to you or to whom you subscribe.
29 - Based on your email preferences, you may receive automated email
30 messages for important system events, such as when others subscribe
32 - Based on your email preferences, you may receive an email
33 newsletter. You can opt out of the newsletter if you don't want to
35 - In urgent situations, administrators may send you email directly to
36 your registered email address, even if you've requested no notices
37 or newsletter. *Administrators will use digitally-signed email.*
38 - This service will comply with court orders to turn over your private