Ummat e Muslima:Privacy policy

Ummat e Muslima requires no personal information from anyone who wishes to edit it. The IP addresses of editors are logged, but only visible if the editor has not created an account name. Some editors use their real name for their account, most others use a pseudonym.

Ummat e Muslima editors have a user page that they can use to talk about themselves, list their interests, their country of origin, or just a poem or picture they happen to like. Some user pages are nearly barren, others list a plethora of information about their subject.

There are some reasons why it might not be a good idea to list your last name, street address, and/or phone number on your Ummat e Muslima user page (or indeed, anywhere else on the internet). The main reason is that this information is freely accessible to just about everyone. If for instance you are involved in an edit dispute, a bad-tempered user could use your phone number to make an obscene phone call - or worse, report you for some imaginary offence to the police.

Though it hasn't happened on Ummat e Muslima yet (as far as we know), some other websites have been in the news because a pedophile was using contact information available on those sites to make contact with young children. Even among adults, there have been reports of offline harassment and sexual assault from people who found the victim's identifying information online.