Hey all Whyvillians! This is TEARDROP with some important
information I have researched. Giggler01 made an article about what she found
in the privacy statement. That article made me think if the privacy statement
was really true! So I had to research it and found out if it was really true.
From all the researching I did, I found that the statement
"If an account had been inactive for a year or longer, all of this users
information associated with the account is purged from our database" is only half true.
I found out that the user name is still there, but the
information for it is not. With that statement telling us
Whyvillians that "ALL" information is purged, the name should be purged
too. The statement tells us that everything in that account is no
longer there, but there is really something there still -- the name.
I am an oldbie. So I know lots of people on Whyville. I looked some of
them up in the directory and it said that they were last on over a year ago.
Like the statement said, "all" the information will be purged. Then why is
the name still there?
~This is TEARDROP signing out
Note from City Hall:
We purge personal information, such as your birth month and year, your
email address, etc.
Much as citizens care about their Whyville names, that is not considered
personal information because there is no way someone can find you in real
life using your Whyville name.
So, it isn't as important to purge.
On top of that, we like to keep that name because some of these old
citizens have, for example, written articles for the Times, and we don't
want their names to disappear from the articles.
On top of that, it's also a safety issue. What if someone started
coming to Whyville using your old username? What if they claimed they
were you and started gathering personal info about you and your friends?
That could be pretty annoying at best and downright dangerous at worst.
Whyville is one of the safest sites on the web for kids, and we like keeping
it that way.
Hope all this makes sense.
City Hall
