For example, we might use cookies to learn about the list of articles you are following on your watchlist so that we can recommend similar articles that you may be interested in. The following descriptions are designed to provide you with additional detail about our current approach to information collected from automated tracking technologies. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information. We engage in these activities to manage our relationship with you, because we have a legitimate interest and/or to comply with our legal obligations. 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. We will always tell you, at the time we give you an opportunity to share your thoughts, how we plan on using your answers and any personal information you provide. We give volunteer developers and researchers access to systems that contain your information to allow them to protect, develop, and contribute to the Wikimedia Sites.

For example, we use this information to provide greater security, optimize mobile applications, and learn how to expand and better support Wikimedia communities. We give access to your Personal Information to these providers or contractors as needed to perform their services for us or to use their tools and services. While the examples above concerning information about you collected through the use of data collection tools are kept confidential in accordance with this Policy, please note that some information about the actions taken by your username is made publicly available through public logs alongside actions taken by other users. Certain types of collection and use may be optional and controlled via our cookie tools. We also use cookies and anonymous identifiers when you interact with services we offer to our partners, such as advertising services or Google features that may appear on other sites. Make the Wikimedia Sites more convenient to use, such as by using cookies to maintain your session when you log in or to remember your username in the login field.

Understand how you use the Wikimedia Sites, so that we know what works and what is useful. To test features to see what works, understand how users interact with the Wikimedia Sites, track and study use of various features, gain understanding about the demographics of the different Wikimedia Sites and analyze trends. While locally stored data may not be necessary to use our sites, some features will not function properly if you disable locally stored data. We may charge you a small fee for this service. We may disclose personal information to our third party service providers or contractors to help run or improve the Wikimedia Sites and provide services in support of our mission. When you visit any Wikimedia 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. If you are making a request with respect to our Public Records Products, please visit our supplemental Public Records Privacy Statement for more information about submitting a request or exercising your rights for these Public Records products.

To 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 Wikimedia Sites are used. We do not sell, rent, or use your email address to advertise third-party products or services to you. Social Sign-On. You may be given the option to access or register for some features of the Services through the use of your user name and passwords for certain services provided by third parties (each, an “Integrated Service”), such as through the use of your Facebook credentials through Facebook Connect, or otherwise have the option to authorize an Integrated Service to provide Personal Information or other information to us. These various user-selected administrative groups have their own privacy and confidentiality guidelines, but all such groups are supposed to agree to follow our Access to Nonpublic Information Policy. We are not responsible if you circumvent any privacy settings or security measures on our Websites. These choices, and any related consequences, are described in detail below.

For more detail please see our privacy policy and our publisher's description of The Times's practices and continued steps to increase transparency and protections. In the unlikely event that the ownership of the Foundation changes, we will provide you 30 days’ notice before any personal information is transferred to the new owners or becomes subject to a different privacy policy. Your information, including personal information, may be transferred to - and maintained on - computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. In the extremely unlikely event that ownership of all or substantially all of the Foundation changes, or we go through a reorganization (such as a merger, consolidation, or acquisition), we will continue to keep your Personal Information confidential, except as provided in this Policy, and provide notice to you via the Wikimedia Sites and a notification on WikimediaAnnounce-L or similar mailing list at least thirty (30) calendar days before any Personal Information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy. For example, if you upload a photo using the Wikimedia Commons mobile app, please be aware that the default setting on your mobile device typically results in the metadata associated with your photo being included in the upload.