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Last updated: 30th May 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Postal Wiki collects, uses, stores and shares personal data when you use this website.

Postal Wiki is operated by JianyueLab Ltd.

This policy is intended to explain your rights under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, the Data Protection Act 2018 and, where applicable, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations.

This Privacy Policy is not a contract. By using Postal Wiki, you do not automatically consent to all processing described below. Where consent is required, we will ask for it separately where appropriate.

Who we are

For the purposes of data protection law, the data controller is:

JianyueLab Ltd

Company number: 16913067

Registered address: Piccadilly Business Centre Unit C Aldow Enterprise, Blackett Street, Manchester, England, M12 6AE

Website: https://postal.wiki

Contact email: [email protected]

Data protection contact:

Role: Site Administrator

Email: [email protected]

We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer because we do not legally meet the criteria to do so. If this changes, this page will be updated.

What personal data we collect

Depending on how you use Postal Wiki, we may collect and process the following types of personal data.

Account information

If you create an account, we may process:

• username;
• email address;
• password hash;
• account preferences;
• user groups and permissions;
• account creation date;
• login and authentication information;
• information you choose to add to your user page.

Wiki contribution data

When you edit Postal Wiki, we may process and publicly display:

• your username or, if editing without an account is enabled, your IP address;
• the pages you create or edit;
• edit timestamps;
• edit summaries;
• revision history;
• uploaded files and file descriptions;
• discussions, comments and messages posted on talk pages or other public pages;
• logs relating to actions such as page moves, uploads, deletions, protections, blocks and user rights changes.

Most wiki contribution data is part of the public record of the website.

Technical and usage data

When you visit or use Postal Wiki, our systems may automatically process:

• IP address;
• browser type and version;
• operating system;
• device type;
• pages visited;
• date and time of access;
• referring page or website;
• server request logs;
• error logs;
• security and abuse-prevention logs.

Communications with us

If you contact us by email or another method, we may process:

• your name or username;
• your email address;
• the content of your message;
• any attachments or supporting evidence you provide;
• our response and internal notes relating to your request.

Personal data you choose to publish

Postal Wiki is a public wiki. You may choose to publish personal data about yourself in user pages, discussions, edit summaries, uploaded files or article content.

You should not publish personal data about yourself or others unless you understand that it may become public, indexed by search engines, copied by other users, mirrored by third-party websites or archived outside our control.

Special category data

Special category data includes information about racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health, sex life, sexual orientation, genetic data and biometric data used for identification.

Postal Wiki does not ask users to provide special category data. However, users may choose to publish such information themselves on public pages.

Where a user has clearly made such information public themselves, we may process it as part of the public wiki record. We may remove or hide such information where required by law, by site policy or where we consider continued publication inappropriate.

Please do not publish special category data about other people without a clear and lawful reason.

Why we use personal data and our lawful bases

We process personal data only where we have a lawful basis to do so.

Purpose	Examples of data used	Lawful basis
To provide and operate the website	Account information, login data, preferences, contribution data	Contract, where processing is necessary to provide account-based services; legitimate interests in operating a public wiki
To maintain the public wiki record	Username, edits, revision history, edit summaries, logs, uploads	Legitimate interests in preserving attribution, transparency, editorial accountability and the integrity of a collaborative wiki
To manage accounts and permissions	Username, email address, user rights, account status	Contract; legitimate interests in managing the website and preventing misuse
To prevent spam, vandalism, abuse and security incidents	IP address, logs, edit patterns, block logs, abuse filter logs	Legitimate interests in protecting the website, users and public content
To respond to enquiries and legal requests	Contact details, correspondence, account or contribution information relevant to the request	Legitimate interests; legal obligation where applicable
To comply with legal obligations	Data required for legal, regulatory, tax, corporate or court-related obligations	Legal obligation
To use strictly necessary cookies	Session cookies, login cookies, security cookies	Legitimate interests; contract where necessary to provide requested services
To use optional cookies or analytics, if enabled	Cookie identifiers, usage data, analytics events	Consent, where required

Where we rely on legitimate interests, we balance our interests against your rights and freedoms.

Public contributions and page history

Postal Wiki is based on MediaWiki. This means that many actions are recorded publicly or semi-publicly.

When you make a public edit, your username or IP address, the edit time, the changed content and the edit summary may be visible in page histories, recent changes, logs, watchlists and other wiki interfaces.

Deleting text from the current version of a page does not necessarily remove it from the page history. Some deleted or hidden revisions may remain accessible to administrators or other authorised users.

We may hide or suppress revisions in appropriate cases, for example where they contain private personal data, serious harassment, unlawful material, security-sensitive information or other content that should not remain publicly visible.

User pages and personal information published by users

Users may create user pages and user talk pages. These pages are public unless the website configuration states otherwise.

If you place personal information on your user page or elsewhere on Postal Wiki, this may be treated as publicly available content. However, you may still ask us to remove or hide personal data about you.

Requests will be considered under applicable law, this Privacy Policy and site policies. We may remove the current text, hide historical revisions or take other reasonable steps where appropriate.

We cannot guarantee removal from third-party search engines, archives, mirrors, screenshots or copies made by other users.

Cookies and similar technologies

Postal Wiki may use cookies and similar technologies.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are needed for the website to work. They may include cookies used for:

• logging in;
• keeping you logged in;
• remembering session information;
• protecting against cross-site request forgery;
• maintaining security;
• remembering basic interface preferences.

These cookies do not require consent where they are strictly necessary to provide a service requested by you.

Managing cookies

You can control cookies through your browser settings. If you block strictly necessary cookies, some parts of the website may not work properly.

Who we share personal data with

We may share or make available personal data in the following circumstances.

Public users and visitors

Public wiki contributions may be visible to anyone who visits Postal Wiki.

Administrators and authorised users

Administrators, moderators, checkusers, interface administrators, developers or other authorised users may access certain information where needed for site operation, security, abuse prevention, maintenance or legal compliance.

Relevant user groups on Postal Wiki include:

• bureaucrat
• checkuser
• interface-admin
• patroller
• suppress
• sysop

Service providers

We may use service providers to host, secure, maintain or support the website. These providers may process personal data on our behalf.

Current service providers include:

Provider	Service	Location / transfer information	Data processed
Cloudflare	CDN, DNS, security, anti-DDoS and traffic filtering	Global network; data may be processed outside the United Kingdom.	IP addresses, request headers, security logs, device/browser information, request metadata
Google reCAPTCHA	Spam and abuse prevention	Data may be processed by Google outside the United Kingdom.	IP address, browser and device information, interaction data, cookies or similar identifiers used for bot detection

Legal and safety reasons

We may disclose personal data where reasonably necessary to:

• comply with a legal obligation;
• respond to a lawful request from a court, regulator or public authority;
• protect the rights, safety or property of Postal Wiki, JianyueLab Ltd, users or the public;
• investigate or prevent spam, vandalism, security incidents, fraud or unlawful activity;
• establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

Business transfers

If JianyueLab Ltd or Postal Wiki is involved in a merger, restructuring, acquisition, asset transfer or similar transaction, personal data may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that the data remains protected.

International transfers

Personal data may be processed in the United Kingdom and in other countries where our service providers operate.

Current hosting and processing locations are:

Service	Country or region	Transfer safeguard, if outside the UK
Website hosting	Japan	Japan is covered by UK-Japan adequacy arrangements, so UK personal data may be transferred to Japan within the scope of those arrangements.
Cloudflare	Global network	Cloudflare may process data internationally.
Google reCAPTCHA	Global / United States	Google may process data internationally.

Where personal data is transferred outside the United Kingdom, we will use an appropriate safeguard where required, such as adequacy regulations, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, or another lawful transfer mechanism.

How long we keep personal data

We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.

Type of data	Typical retention period	Reason
Account information	For the lifetime of the account, and for 180 days after closure where needed	Account management, security, abuse prevention and record integrity
Public edits, page history and logs	Normally retained indefinitely unless removed or hidden under site policy or law	Attribution, transparency, copyright, editorial history and wiki integrity
Server access logs	180 days	Security, debugging and abuse prevention
Abuse filter, block and security logs	Normally retained indefinitely unless removed or hidden under site policy or law	Spam, vandalism and security prevention
Email correspondence	6 years after last contact, unless no longer needed	Handling requests, disputes and legal compliance

Backups may contain personal data that has been deleted from the live website until the relevant backup is overwritten or expires. We will not normally restore deleted personal data from backup except where necessary for disaster recovery, legal compliance or security reasons.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law, you may have the following rights:

• the right to be informed about how your personal data is used;
• the right of access to your personal data;
• the right to rectification of inaccurate personal data;
• the right to erasure in certain circumstances;
• the right to restriction of processing in certain circumstances;
• the right to object to processing in certain circumstances;
• the right to data portability in certain circumstances;
• the right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
• rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling, if applicable.

Postal Wiki does not currently carry out solely automated decision-making that has legal or similarly significant effects on users. If this changes, this policy will be updated.

To exercise your rights, contact:

[email protected]

We may need to verify your identity before responding. We will normally respond within one month, unless the request is complex or numerous, in which case we may extend the response period as permitted by law.

Some rights are not absolute. For example, we may need to retain certain information for legal compliance, site security, abuse prevention, public record integrity, attribution or the defence of legal claims.

Requests to remove personal information from wiki pages

If you have published personal data about yourself on Postal Wiki and want it removed, you may:

• edit the page yourself, if you have permission to do so;
• request deletion or revision hiding from an administrator;
• contact us at [email protected].

Please provide:

• the URL of the page;
• the specific text, revision, file or log entry involved;
• why you believe it should be removed or hidden;
• whether the information concerns you or someone else.

Where appropriate, we may remove the current content, hide specific revisions, suppress information from public view or take another reasonable action.

Data about other people

You must not publish personal data about another person unless you have a lawful and appropriate reason to do so.

You should not publish private addresses, phone numbers, private email addresses, identification documents, financial information, medical information, personal disputes or other sensitive information about another person.

We may remove or hide such information where appropriate.

Children and young people

Postal Wiki is not intended for children under the age of 13.

If you are under 13, you should not create an account or provide personal data without permission from a parent or guardian.

If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 13 without appropriate permission, we will take reasonable steps to delete or restrict that data.

If Postal Wiki is likely to be accessed by children or young people, we will consider our obligations under the UK Age Appropriate Design Code and update this policy and our practices where necessary.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data. These may include:

• account authentication;
• access controls for administrators and authorised users;
• server security measures;
• logging and monitoring for abuse and security incidents;
• regular software updates where practicable;
• backup and recovery procedures.

No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

Third-party links and embedded content

Postal Wiki may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content or security of those websites.

If Postal Wiki embeds external content, such as images, maps, videos or widgets, the third-party provider may receive information about your visit.

Email notifications and communications

If you enable email notifications, watchlist notifications or other account-related messages, we may use your email address to send those messages.

You can manage some email preferences through your account settings.

We do not currently send marketing emails. If this changes, we will update this policy and provide any consent or opt-out mechanism required by law.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

When we make significant changes, we will take reasonable steps to notify users, such as by posting a notice on Postal Wiki, updating the “Last updated” date or, where appropriate, sending an email notification.

Changes take effect when posted on this page unless stated otherwise.

Complaints

Please contact us first if you have a concern about how we handle your personal data:

[email protected]

You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office.

Information Commissioner's Office

Website: https://ico.org.uk

Telephone: 0303 123 1113

Address: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, United Kingdom

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or want to exercise your data protection rights, contact us at:

[email protected]