Privacy
Many members have recently come to me with concerns regarding their privacy on StepTalk. They're worried that their family, or their spouse's ex, will somehow find out about this site, their blog, etc. They're worried about other members on this site having the ability to inform their family (or spouses ex) about this site, etc.
I've just added a statement regarding member privacy to our Frequently Asked Questions page to address this issue. Please read what I've posted and feel free to comment on this post with any questions you may still have.
In short, members of this site as well as the public at large know only what you provide to them. Not just on this site, but all the other sites you frequent. That includes social networks like FaceBook, MySpace, etc. Unless you provide your personal information online, there is no way any member of this site, nor anyone searching on the Internet, can find out who you are, who your family is, or who your spouses ex is. Period. Even the administration of StepTalk (that's Dawn and me) don't know who you really are! All we know is your username and email address, plus anything you post to your profile here. Unless you tell us. It's really that simple.
You are as safe and private on this site as you are on any other site on the Internet.
So to those who have contact me, unless you've provided your personal information to someone you don't trust, or published that information to a public forum, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY.
I hope that settles your anxiety, or at least gives you enough information for you to remove or otherwise mitigate your privacy risk on the Internet.
That said, we are working diligently on ways to provide members more control over their content here on StepTalk. That includes the possibility to restrict who can see your blog entries, etc. (think "Friends only"). But even those types of "privacy" controls will not help you if you choose to publish your private information somewhere. Just keep that in mind. There's really nothing that StepTalk, or any other forum, social network, etc. can do to protect you from yourself. Take control of your privacy. Only you can.
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"I hope that settles your
"I hope that settles your anxiety, or at least gives you enough information for you to remove or otherwise mitigate your privacy risk on the Internet."
I was told we cannot remove certain things on here that we have posted.so how do we fix that problem if we have shared more than we should have?everyone makes mistakes and i hope there is something in place that would allow us to delete our comments and forum topics to fix the problem.
You included private
You included private information in a comment on this site? If your post didn't contain names, email addresses, specific places, specific events (that someone could reasonably search for and tie it to something else about you), etc., then you have nothing to worry about.
You can delete your own blog entries and any comments on your own blogs. If you commented on someone else's blog and posted something you feel is too private for you to share, then ask the blog owner to delete it for you.
If you commented or posted to a forum, then only ST admins and moderators can do anything about that. You'd have to send us a link to the specific content, with a good explanation as to why you feel it needs to be modified or removed, etc. Bare in mind that if that's the case it could take some time to get taken care of as we don't have to resources to take care of it immediately.
ok.fair enough.thank you
ok.fair enough.thank you
Can I not change my name
Can I not change my name anymore? I went it to look but there's no option available any longer, unless I'm looking over it. I thought we were able to do that until 1 June?
They changed that last night,
They changed that last night, there was a post earlier regarding that. We are stuck with the user name we have now.
I don't use names just states
I don't use names just states that we live in and I really don't care if BM finds this I did a search on my user name and information about the plant comes up LOL.
i won't use names though out of respect which is not deserved for my family.