Urantiapedia is founded on a simple, but powerful principle: we can do more together than any of us can do alone. We cannot work collectively without gathering, sharing, and analyzing information about our users as we seek new ways to make Urantiapedia more usable, safer, and more beneficial.
We believe that information-gathering and use should go hand-in-hand with transparency. This Privacy Policy explains how Urantiapedia collects, uses, and shares information we receive from you through your use of the website. It is essential to understand that, by using Urantiapedia website you consent to the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure, and use of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. That means that reading this Policy carefully is important.
We believe that you shouldn’t have to provide nonpublic Personal Information to participate in Urantiapedia movement. You do not have to provide things like your real name, address, or date of birth to sign up for a standard account or contribute content to Urantiapedia.
We do not sell or rent your Personal Information, nor do we give it to others to sell you anything. We use it to figure out how to make Urantiapedia more engaging and accessible, to see which ideas work, and to make learning and contributing more fun. Put simply: we use this information to make Urantiapedia better for you.
After all, it’s people like you, the champions of Urantia Book students, who make it possible for Urantiapedia to not only exist, but also grow and thrive.
Because everyone (not just lawyers) should be able to easily understand how and why their information is collected and used, we use common language instead of more formal terms throughout this Policy. To help ensure your understanding of some particular key terms, here is a table of translations:
| When we say… | …we mean: |
|---|---|
| “Urantiapedia” / “we” / “us” / “our” | The team leaders of Urantiapedia project. |
| “Urantiapedia site” / “our services” | Urantiapedia website and services (regardless of language) of the Urantiapedia project, including the main Urantiapedia website, and the alternative copies in GitHub (Urantiapedia Main project and Urantiapedia Backup project), as well as Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), emails, and notifications; excluding, however, sites and services listed in the “What This Privacy Policy Doesn’t Cover” section below. |
| “you” / “your” / “me” | You, regardless of whether you are an individual, group, or organization, and regardless of whether you are using Urantiapedia or our services on behalf of yourself or someone else. |
| “this Policy” / “this Privacy Policy” | This document, entitled the “Urantiapedia Privacy Policy”. |
| “contributions” | Content you add or changes you make to Urantiapedia. |
| “Personal information” | Information you provide us or information we collect that could be used to personally identify you. To be clear, while we do not necessarily collect all of the following types of information, we consider at least the following to be “personal information” if it is otherwise nonpublic and can be used to identify you: (a) your real name, address, phone number, email address, password, identification number on government-issued ID, IP address, user-agent information, payment account number; (b) when associated with one of the items in subsection (a), any sensitive data such as date of birth, gender, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origins, marital or familial status, medical conditions or disabilities, political affiliation, and religion. |
| “third party” / “third parties” | Individuals, entities, websites, services, products, and applications that are not controlled, managed, or operated by Urantiapedia. This includes other Urantiapedia users and independent organizations or groups who help promote Urantiapedia movement such as Urantia Book organizations, and user groups as well as volunteers, employees, directors, officers, grant recipients, and contractors of those organizations or groups. |
Except as explained below, this Privacy Policy applies to our collection and handling of information about you that we receive as a result of your use of Urantiapedia site. This Policy also applies to information that we receive from our partners or other third parties. To understand more about what this Privacy Policy covers, please see below.
For the sake of clarity, this Privacy Policy covers, regardless of language:
This Privacy Policy, however, does not cover some situations where we may gather or process information. For example, sites or services run by third parties. To understand more about what this Privacy Policy does not cover, please see below.
This section is part of the Privacy Policy and is meant to explain in detail which situations are not covered by our Privacy Policy.
Urantiapedia site is collaborative labor of love that is constantly maintained and updated by a global community of volunteers. This global community of volunteers may sometimes have access to personal Information in order to ensure the functioning of Urantiapedia site.
This Privacy Policy only covers the way Urantiapedia collects, uses and discloses Personal Information and does not address the practices of third parties. For example, this Privacy Policy does not address the practices of:
When you make a contribution to Urantiapedia site, including on comments sections, 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 Urantiapedia site is used, as further explained below in the “How We Use Information We Receive From You” section of this Privacy Policy.
Unless this Policy says otherwise, you should assume that information that you actively contribute to Urantiapedia site, 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 further information, such as which country a user is from, political affiliation and gender.
You are required to request the creation of an account to contribute to Urantipedia site. You cannot create accounts by your own.
If you want to request the creation of a contributor account, we require only a username, a password and a email address. You can change at any time the username and the password, but not the email.
We never require Personal Information like gender, age.
If you consent, we can use GPS (and other technologies commonly used to determine location) to show you more relevant content. We keep information obtained by these technologies confidential, except as provided in this Policy.
We want to make Urantiapedia site better for you by learning more about how you use them. Examples of this might include how often you visit Urantiapedia site, what you like, what you find helpful, how you get to Urantiapedia site, 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 Urantiapedia site confidential, except as provided in this Policy.
Because of how browsers work, we receive some information automatically when you visit Urantiapedia site. This includes when you use an online tool on a third-party site that loads information coming from Urantiapedia site. This information includes the type of device you are using, 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 Urantiapedia site, which pages you request and visit, and the date and time of each request you make to Urantiapedia site.
Put simply, we use this information to enhance your experience with Urantiapedia site. For example, we use this information to administer the site, 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 Urantiapedia site, track and study use of various features, gain understanding about the demographics of Urantiapedia site, and analyze trends.
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. These types of technologies may also be used in online tools on a third-party site that loads information from Urantiapedia site. 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 may include text, Personal Information (like your IP address), and information about your use of Urantiapedia site (like your username or the time of your visit). See below for more information.
We use this information to make your experience with Urantiapedia site safer and better, to gain a greater understanding of user preferences and their interaction with Urantiapedia site, 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), please report it to us at urantiapedia@gmail.com.
We and our service providers use your information for the legitimate purpose of pursuing our charitable mission, including:
As stated above, we can use commonly-used location technologies to show you more relevant content. As a reminder, you can consent to and/or deactivate our access to these location technologies at any time for example through the native OS functionalities on your mobile device, and still use Urantiapedia site.
When you visit any Urantiapedia site, we automatically receive the IP address of the device (or your proxy server) you are using to access the Internet, which could be used to infer your geographical location. We keep IP addresses confidential, except as provided in this Policy. If you are visiting Urantiapedia site with your mobile device, we may use your IP address to provide anonymized or aggregated information to service providers regarding the volume of usage in certain areas.
We use this location information to make your experience with Urantiapedia site safer and better, to gain a greater understanding of user preferences and their interaction with Urantiapedia site, and to generally improve our services. For example, we use this information to provide greater security, optimize mobile applications, and learn how to expand and better support Urantiapedia community. We also use Personal Information in the manner described in the sections of this Policy titled “For Legal Reasons” and “To Protect You, Ourselves & Others.”
We share your Personal Information for a particular purpose, if you agree.
We will access, use, preserve, and/or disclose your Personal Information if we reasonably believe it necessary to satisfy a valid and legally enforceable warrant, subpoena, court order, law or regulation, or other judicial or administrative order. However, if we believe that a particular request for disclosure of a user’s information is legally invalid or an abuse of the legal system and the affected user does not intend to oppose the disclosure themselves, we will try our best to fight it. We are committed to notifying you via email at least ten (10) calendar days, when possible, before we disclose your Personal Information in response to a legal demand. However, we may only provide notice if we are not legally restrained from contacting you, there is no credible threat to life or limb that is created or increased by disclosing the request, and you have provided us with an email address.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal objections or defenses you may have to a third-party’s request (whether it be civil, criminal, or governmental) to disclose your Personal Information. We recommend seeking the advice of legal counsel immediately if such a request is made involving you.
We, or particular users with certain administrative rights as described below, need to use and share your Personal Information if it is reasonably believed to be necessary to enforce or investigate potential violations of our Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy. We may also need to access and share Personal Information to investigate and defend ourselves against legal threats or actions.
We hope that this never comes up, but we may disclose your Personal Information if we believe that it’s reasonably necessary to prevent imminent and serious bodily harm or death to a person, or to protect our organization, employees, contractors, users, or the public. We may also disclose your Personal Information if we reasonably believe it necessary to detect, prevent, or otherwise assess and address potential spam, malware, fraud, abuse, unlawful activity, and security or technical concerns.
We strive to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We use a variety of physical and technical measures, policies, and procedures (such as access control procedures, network firewalls, and physical security) designed to protect our systems and your Personal Information. Unfortunately, there’s no such thing as completely secure data transmission or storage, so we can’t guarantee that our security will not be breached (by technical measures or through violation of our policies and procedures).
We will never ask for your password by email (but may send you a temporary password via email if you have requested a password reset). If you ever receive an email that requests your password, please let us know by sending it to urantiapedia@gmail.com, so we can investigate the source of the email.
Once we receive Personal Information from you, we keep it for the shortest possible time that is consistent with the maintenance, understanding, and improvement of Urantiapedia site, and our obligations under applicable law. In most instances, Personal Information is deleted, aggregated or de-identified after 90 days. Non-Personal Information may be retained indefinitely as appropriate.
Please remember that when you make a contribution to Urantiapedia site, the page history will show when your contribution was made and your username. The transparency of the project contributions and revision history is critical to its efficacy and trustworthiness.
If you would like to request to access, update or restrict/object to the processing of Personal Information, or receive a copy of your Personal Information for purposes of transmitting it to another organization, you may Contact Us. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.
Please note also that you may be able to exercise some of these rights without our intervention. For example, if you are a registered user, you can access and update some Personal Information in your Account page.
For the protection of Urantiapedia and other users, if you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you may not use Urantiapedia site.
Urantiapedia is not an organization but a simple project created by a community of contributors, with servers that can be located in different countries depending on availabity from our hosting provider. If you decide to use Urantiapedia site you understand that your Personal Information will be collected, transferred, stored, processed, disclosed and otherwise used in the country in which our servers are located as described in this Privacy Policy. You also understand that your information may be transferred by us from the countries with our servers to other countries, which may have different or less stringent data protection laws than your country, in connection with providing services to you.
We are strongly committed to protecting users’ Personal Information. Under this Policy, we may share your information only under particular situations, which you can learn more about in the “When May We Share Your Information” section of this Privacy Policy. In particular, we do not share your Personal Information for marketing purposes.
Because we protect all users in accordance with this Privacy Policy, we do not change our behavior in response to a web browser’s “do not track” signal.
Because things naturally change over time and we want to ensure our Privacy Policy accurately reflects our practices and the law, it may be necessary to modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. We reserve the right to do so in the following manner:
We ask that you please review the most up-to-date version of our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of Urantiapedia site after any effective date of a subsequent version of this Privacy Policy constitutes acceptance of this Privacy Policy on your part.
If you have questions or suggestions about this Privacy Policy, or the information collected under this Privacy Policy, please email us at urantiapedia@gmail.com.
Thank you for reading our Privacy Policy. We hope you enjoy using Urantiapedia site and appreciate your participation in creating, maintaining, and constantly working to improve this free knowledge repository of The Fifth Epochal Revelation of the world.
Please note that in the event of any differences in meaning or interpretation between the original English version of this Privacy Policy and a translation, the original English version takes precedence.
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