Choral Public Domain Library - Privacy policy

This Privacy Policy describes how the Choral Public Domain Library Bulletin Board located at http://forums.cpdl.org/ (hereinafter “the CPDL Forums Site”) uses information collected during your interaction with the CPDL Forums Site. This privacy policy does not apply to the main CPDL wiki web site at http://www.cpdl.org or to its mirrors (e.g., http://www1.cpdl.org, http://www2.cpdl.org).

Your information is collected via two ways. Firstly, by browsing the CPDL Forums Site will cause the phpBB software to create a number of cookies, which are small text files that are downloaded on to your computer’s web browser temporary files. The first two cookies just contain a user identifier (hereinafter “user-id”) and an anonymous session identifier (hereinafter “session-id”), automatically assigned to you by the phpBB software. A third cookie will be created once you have browsed topics within the CPDL Forums Site and is used to store which topics have been read, thereby improving your user experience.

We may also create cookies external to the phpBB software whilst browsing the CPDL Forums Site, though these are outside the scope of this document which is intended to only cover the pages created by the phpBB software. The second way in which we collect your information is by what you submit to us. This can be, and is not limited to: posting as an anonymous user (hereinafter “anonymous posts”), registering on the CPDL Forums Site (hereinafter “your account”) and posts submitted by you after registration and whilst logged in (hereinafter “your posts”).

Your account will at a bare minimum contain a uniquely identifiable name (hereinafter “your user name”), a personal password used for logging into your account (hereinafter “your password”) and a personal, valid e-mail address (hereinafter “your e-mail”). You can configure settings via the User Control Panel to govern what information in your account will be publicly displayed. Furthermore, within your account, you have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated e-mails from the phpBB software.

Your password is ciphered (by using a one-way cryptographic hash) so that it is secure. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the same password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of accessing your account at the CPDL Forums Site, so please guard it carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with the CPDL Forums Site, phpBB or another 3rd party, legitimately ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the “I forgot my password” feature provided by the phpBB software. This process will ask you to submit your user name and your e-mail, then the phpBB software will generate a new password to reclaim your account.