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== Reliable information about forbidden information ==
It is very important (and commonly violated) to carefully assess reviews of sites that address or contain 'offensive', 'controversial', or 'unsafe' information/material, and also to distinguish the assessment of the site performance from the site information. This is often difficult to do even for reviewers who are aware and conscientious. 
There are sites about unsafe information for everyone that are safe (like .myWoT.) and unsafe (like the very stick & unreliable uniBlue). 
There are sites about controversial issues like abortion, gun rights/control, health/sex, violence/politics, etc., that are safe or unsafe depending on the visitor's developmental stage. Like the movie rating system we should be careful about 'child safety', and give explicit review information about what developmental stages would be disrupted by the site material. This must be carefully distinguished from the site's economic/computer safety and reliability, and from the sites informational truthfulness & reliability. 
This care about clarity is even important for sites that contain what we can deem 'offensive', since abortion, porn, violence, etc. sites will be attempted or viewed by competent and incompetent (youth?) visitors, and if reviews cannot be seen as thoughtful, clear, and careful, they will almost certainly be ignored, to the detriment of all of us. --[[User:JWebOfTrustB|JWebOfTrustB]] ([[User talk:JWebOfTrustB|talk]]) 17:06, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

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This is a collection of answers not found in [http://www.mywot.com/faq the official FAQ].

== Common misconceptions ==

=== Users aren't qualified to rate sites ===

We realize the average web user isn't a security professional and we don't expect them to go out and investigate random websites for safety. We have an active group of experienced users who review sites for technical safety and help the average user avoid security threats. We only expect users to share their experiences with the websites they already know, because they are uniquely qualified to do that. Being able to learn from other people's experiences is the whole reason for this service.

=== Someone has to fall victim first before others can be warned ===

Someone obviously has to discover threats before they can warn others, but it doesn't mean this someone has to fall victim or even be a WOT user. We collect information from a number of blacklists and other sources to warn users of emerging threats before they have to experience them personally.

=== Reputations are easy to manipulate ===

When someone first hears about the concept behind WOT, their first objection is that someone could easily spam the system with tons of ratings and rate down their competitors or otherwise manipulate reputations, but that's not true. We designed the reputation system to be as fair as possible and very resistant to manipulation.

==== Ratings aren't equally reliable ====

Usually in reputation systems each rating is weighted equally and reputations are computed as the average of all ratings, which makes them extremely vulnerable to automated attacks. Therefore, we decided early on to value ratings by their merit and use some of the principles of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference Bayesian inference] for combining the ratings into reputations. Without going into details, the system analyzes each user's rating behavior from several aspects in order to determine their reliability. When you start using WOT, your ratings have little weight, but if you keep rating sites consistently, your ratings will be considered more reliable over time. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy meritocratic] nature of the system makes it far more difficult for spammers to abuse, because bots will have a hard time simulating human behavior over a long period of time.

Note: [[Rating reliability|User reliability]] is determined using statistical modeling and doesn't depend on the number of ratings or whether you agree with other users. Specifically, it's not related to your activity score or user level, which simply tell you how active you've been.

==== Unusual behavior is automatically detected ====

In addition to weighting ratings differently based on statistical analysis of user's rating behavior, we also monitor for unusual rating activity. The system is capable of ignoring spammers without human intervention and almost every type of unusual rating behavior can be detected. We investigate all suspicious activity and ratings from someone abusing the service will be silently ignored.

==== But I don't agree with a reputation! ====

The site's reputation tells you how much other users trust the website. If you disagree with a reputation, it's most likely not because the reputation is being manipulated or there's a conspiracy against the site, but because other people simply don't agree with you. Their experiences may be different from yours, it happens sometimes. You may want to start a new topic on [http://www.mywot.com/forum the forum] to discuss the site's reputation or if you suspect unusual activity, [http://www.mywot.com/support/feedback/problem report it].

== Ratings vs. comments ==

Ratings are often confused with comments, probably because comments are so prominently visible on the scorecard. Users can rate websites on the add-on or on each website's scorecard in <strike>four</strike> two rating components. Ratings are private, which means they are not shown to other users. Reputations are computed only from ratings.

If users want to share additional details about their experiences, they can also write comments to scorecards. Comments are purely informational and have no effect on the reputation. Comments can be voted up or down depending on whether others agree with them. Comment votes only determine the default order of comments on the scorecard, they won't affect the site's reputation. If a site's reputation rating is determined to be controversial, comment voting is disabled to prevent one side from suppressing opposing views by voting them down.

=== Why can't I see how others have rated a site? ===

It's always been WOT's policy to keep user ratings private and have [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot a secret ballot]. If users want to reveal their opinion of a website to others, they have an option to post a comment. If all ratings were public, users might be reluctant to rate certain sites, because it would reveal to everyone they have actually visited them. Not to mention that users with an opposite agenda might start intimidating others to change their ratings. This all would lead to less ratings, which leads to less reliable reputations; something nobody wants.

=== Why don't you show the number of ratings? ===

Unlike it might first seem, the number of ratings won't tell you the reliability of a reputation, and showing it could in fact be misleading to users. It would be trivial for a spammer to rate a site multiple times and thereby make the reputation appear to be reliable, for example. This is why WOT shows you the confidence indicator instead (the small human figures next to each rating symbol). The confidence value tells you how reliable the rating system considers the reputation and it's based not only on the quantity of ratings, but also the estimated reliability of the users who rated the site.

=== Why don't comments always match the reputation? ===

A site's reputation is computed from ratings, not comments. Leaving a comment is completely optional and since users who disagree with the reputation or otherwise feel strongly about the site are more likely to also write a comment, it's not uncommon for comments to appear to contradict with the reputation.

== Malicious rumors ==

It's unfortunate, but the more popular WOT becomes and the more successful it is at preventing people from falling for scams, the more people start attacking us. Often scammers whose business model WOT is hurting or other disgruntled website owners spread malicious rumors about the service in an attempt to discredit it and to discourage people from benefiting from the reputations. This section addresses some of the most common rumors.

=== WOT is a scam, it's illegal, or it's run by criminals ===

People spreading this rumor, whether out of malice or ignorance, rarely even try to explain what kind of a scam WOT is purported to be. This is because WOT is perfectly legitimate, has been around for over half a decade, and has credible backers. The legality of the WOT service has been [http://www.mywot.com/press/safe-surfing-tool-web-of-trust-wins-in-court tested in court] and there's nothing illegal or criminal about the company or the service.

WOT is operated by [http://www.mywot.com/aboutus WOT Services Oy], a Finnish company based in Helsinki. The company was started in 2006 and it's owned by a group of public and private investors, which include the Finnish Industry Investment (an investment company owner by the Finnish government), Open Ocean Capital (the investment company of MySQL founder Monty Widenius), [http://www.mywot.com/press/web-of-trust-closes-investment-round-from-inventure Inventure, and Risto Siilasmaa] (the founder and chairman of F-Secure). In 2010, the president of Finland [http://www.mywot.com/press/innofinland-prize-awarded-to-web-of-trust-community-of-over-16-million-web-users awarded WOT the national InnoFinland prize].

=== The add-on is spyware or adware ===

Due to its concept, the WOT add-on needs to request reputations for each website you visit. It also needs to keep track of your ratings, which it does by creating a random, anonymous identifier for you automatically. It's obvious that this information could be used to track which sites you browse, which is probably why spreading rumors about WOT being [[Spyware|spyware]] is a favorite among those trying to discredit the service. WOT is not spyware or [[Adware|adware]] and does its best to respect your privacy:

* '''Open add-ons.''' <div style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px">All WOT add-ons are open source, which means anyone can download [[Source code|the source code]] and verify what the add-on does. There are no secrets in the add-on, it only does what it says. The Firefox add-on is also thoroughly reviewed by Mozilla's editors every time it's submitted to the Add-ons website. So far, the add-on has been featured or recommended by Mozilla, Google, Apple, and Opera.</div>

* '''No tracking.''' <div style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px">The add-on sends as little information to WOT servers as possible. When you visit a website, the add-on sends the hostname (not the URL) of the site to load the reputation and your ratings. The hostname is encrypted in transit and on our servers logs to prevent eavesdropping. No further requests are made if you revisit the site during the next 30 minutes while the add-on keeps the reputations in its internal cache.</div><div style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px">When you search the web, the add-on doesn't send your search queries to WOT's servers, it only requests reputations for the sites that appear in the search results, provided that their reputations aren't already cached.</div>

* '''Data retention.''' <div style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px">All requests the add-on makes are logged temporarily on WOT's servers. These logs aren't used to track users and the information isn't shared with anyone. The logs are kept temporarily only to create usage statistics and to analyze possible abuse incidents. All logs are deleted after one month. You can read more from [http://www.mywot.com/privacy the privacy policy].</div>

=== WOT sells reputations or blackmails site owners ===

After [http://www.mywot.com/trustseal the WOT trust seal] was introduced, every now and then rumors resurface claiming reputations can be bought, because WOT now sells something to site owners. That couldn't be further away from the truth. Only websites that have already earned a good reputation from user ratings are eligible for a trust seal, and should the website's reputation change to poor in future, they will lose the trust seal automatically. Sending WOT money does not affect a website's reputation, it's still determined from user ratings.

Another more recent variation of this is a claim that WOT is sending website owners email saying they need to pay, usually thousands of dollars, to improve their reputation. If someone has received an email saying this, it was not from WOT. You cannot pay to improve your reputation. If you are a site owner and someone is blackmailing you, contact the police. You can also post the evidence to the WOT forum and we will help you catch those who are responsible.

Update: Since October 2013, WOT trust seals and badges have been discontinued and it's no longer possible to buy them.

=== People who rate a lot of websites are spammers ===

Some of our most active users volunteer their time researching scams or security issues on the web. As a result, they may end up rating even hundreds of sites per day. Occasionally, we hear complaints that these people are spammers, bots, or even paid to rate websites for whatever nefarious purpose. Sometimes the argument goes that it's simply not possible for a person to rate that many sites, which means they must be doing something evil. Of course, none of that is true.

Probably thousands of websites are created every day for various scams, but luckily, there are also people who spend their time warning others. They are able to do this because we provide them access to tools that allow them to rate and leave comments for more than one website at a time. This way, when they uncover a hundred new websites recently set up for scamming people, they are able to rate all of them.

Note that unlike [[#Ratings vs. comments|normal ratings]], which are private, ratings left using the mass rating tool are more transparent, because the user is always forced to leave a comment explaining the rating. The comment also has a special icon on the top right corner that helps you distinguish it from normal comments. Despite these differences, it's important to note that ratings left using the mass rating tool are not considered [[#Ratings aren't equally reliable|any more reliable]] than normal ratings, and have no special meaning when the reputation is computed.

=== Platinum level users decide reputations ===

WOT assigns each user a level based on how active they have been. When someone starts using WOT, they are at the Rookie level. Once they have rated and commented enough websites, they finally reach the Platinum level. The user levels only tell you how active someone has been, they have no other meaning. Unfortunately, some people intentionally misinterpret user levels, and claim that nobody else's opinion matters anymore once a Platinum level user has left a comment for site. That's simply not true.

Since WOT is a meritocracy, the weight of user ratings vary depending on how reliable the rating system considers the user. This is completely different from user levels, and how active someone has been doesn't affect their rating reliability. Rating reliability is determined fully automatically based on analysis of the user's rating behavior. The only purpose for this is to make the system more resistant to manipulation and spamming. If someone tries to abuse the rating system, their ratings are accepted normally, but have such a low weight that they cannot do any harm.

When a new user starts using WOT, their ratings have little weight at first, but if they continue rating sites, the ratings will be considered more reliable after a while. Platinum level users have no advantage over others in this; their rating reliability varies just like it does with others. Not all Platinum level users are considered equally reliable either. In fact, when it comes to rating reliability, most of the users the system considers highly reliable are in lower user levels, which means they do not rate as many sites.

=== Facebook stopped using WOT ===

In May 2011, [http://www.mywot.com/press/facebook-protects-users-from-untrustworthy-websites-with-web-of-trust-reputation-ratings Facebook and WOT announced] that Facebook will start checking the WOT reputation of links posted to their service and will show an intermediate warning page when a user tries to follow a link to a poorly rated site. Recently, certain groups have started spreading rumors that Facebook has stopped using WOT in an attempt to discredit our service. This isn't true, and there have been no changes in our partnership with Facebook since the initial announcement regarding URL checking.

However, it should be noted that Facebook does use a higher warning threshold than the WOT add-on, which means the warning is shown only for sites that have a very poor reputation with a sufficiently high confidence level. In other words, Facebook doesn't warn about all poorly rated sites. Also, while WOT was the first link checking service Facebook integrated to their website, they have added several others since then, including Websense and SURBL, for example. These services have not replaced WOT, and using multiple link checking services was in Facebook's original plans.

Another variation of this rumor includes a claim that WOT was caught buying Facebook likes and includes a fake quote from Facebook. This is also misinformation. WOT has never bought Facebook likes and doesn't see any reason to do so. In fact, selling Facebook likes is commonly seen as highly unethical and websites doing so usually have a poor reputation at WOT. Most likely this malicious rumor was started by an owner of such a service.

In November 2012, Facebook also [http://www.mywot.com/press/web-of-trust-becomes-first-crowd-sourced-security-solution-invited-into-facebook-s-av-marketplace added the WOT add-on to their AV Marketplace]. “We have been proud partners with Web of Trust for the past year and a half, and are excited to announce a new stage of that partnership to keep our users and their data safe. Not only will Facebook users continue to benefit from WOT's reputation warnings when clicking potentially malicious links but also will be able to download their browser add-on for protection no matter where they are on the web” said Joe Sullivan, Chief Security Officer of Facebook.

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The protection of PII is important to maintain public trust and confidence in an organization, to protect the reputation of an organization, and to protect against legal liability for an organization. Organizations have always considered trust, confidence, and reputation as motivating factors in protecting PII. Recently, organizations have become more concerned about the risk of legal liability due to the enactment of many US federal, state, and international privacy laws.

==Examples of PII Data==
The following list contains examples of information that may be considered PII.

* Name, such as full name, maiden name, mother’s maiden name, or alias

* Personal identification number (PIN), such as your Social Security Number (SSN), passport number, driver’s license number, taxpayer identification number, patient identification number, and financial account or credit card number.

* Address information, such as street address or email address.

* Asset information, such as Internet Protocol (IP) or Media Access Control (MAC) address or other host-specific persistent static identifier that consistently links to a particular person or small, well-defined group of people.

* Telephone numbers, including mobile, business, and personal numbers.

* Personal characteristics, including photographic image (especially of face or other distinguishing characteristic), x-rays, fingerprints, or other biometric image or template data (e.g., retina scans, voice signature, facial geometry).

* Information identifying personally owned property, such as vehicle registration or identification number, and title numbers and related information.

* Information about an individual that is linked or linkable to one of the above (e.g., date of birth, place of birth, race, religion, weight, activities, or employment, medical, education, or financial information).

===Source===
NIST Special Publication 800-122 [http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-122/sp800-122.pdf PDF]
<blockquote>National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-122 Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. Spec. Publ. 800-122, 59 pages (Apr. 2010) ''Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII): Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Computer Security Division Information Technology Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8930''</blockquote>

===Web forms / registrations===
If your site has a simple web form to email script or simple forum / newsletter subscription registration most likely you are not gathering any ''personally identifiable information''. If you request a name without requiring first and last names, any "name" can be given.
====Examples of non-PII====
; A simple Contact Us form requesting :
:* name
:* email
:* website
:* subject
:* message

; Site / Forum registration requesting :
:* name
:* user name
:* password
:* date of birth ([[Privacy_Policy#COPPA|COPPA]] compliance)
:* email

; Newsletter subscription :
:* email

====Examples of PII====
; A Contact Us form ''requesting'' :
:* name
:* address
:* city / state / province
:* zip-code / postal code
:* phone / mobile number
:* email
:* website
:* subject
:* message

; Site / Forum registration ''requiring'' :
:* first name
:* last name
:* User name
:* location / address (full or partial)
:* phone / mobile number
:* Password
:* Date of birth ([[Privacy_Policy#COPPA|COPPA]] compliance)
:* email

==Australian Data Protection Act==
[https://www.privacyinternational.org/reports/australia Privacy International Australia report]
<blockquote>The Australian Senate on 6 December 2000 approved the [http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/Privacybill/contents.htm Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill] which extends privacy protections to the private sector. The bill was strongly criticized by privacy advocates and the opposition political party as being far too weak. [http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/SenatePBSub2000.html Commentary] by privacy expert Roger Clarke who describes the bill as "the world's worst privacy legislation." The European Commission has also expressed concern that the law would not be adequate for trans-border data flows.</blockquote>
[http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/Privacybill/contents.htm Advisory Report on the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill 2000]

Also reference: [http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Privacy/privacy.html Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc.]

==Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act==
===Individual rights===
* know why an organization collects, uses or discloses their personal information;
* ''more''

===Organizations requirements===
* obtain consent when they collect, use or disclose their personal information;
* ''more''

sources:
* Wikipedia [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Personal_Information_Protection_and_Electronic_Documents_Act article]
* [http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/P-8.6/ Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (2000, c. 5)]
* [http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/P-21/index.html Privacy Act (R.S., 1985, c. P-21)]

==Dutch / Netherlands==
* The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Ducth DPA) : http://www.dutchdpa.nl/
: ''supervises the fair and lawful use and security of your personal data, to ensure your privacy today and in the future.''

==European Union Data Protection Directive==

''officially Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data''

The '''Data Protection Directive''' is a European Union directive which regulates the processing of personal data within the [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/European_Union European Union].

source: [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive Wikipedia entry]

===European Commission: Justice and Home affairs===
* [http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/index_en.htm Data Protection]
: (alternate) [http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/index_en.htm Protection of personal data]
* [http://ec.europa.eu/justice/doc_centre/privacy/law/index_en.htm Legislative documents]

==Hungary Data Protection Bill==
* [http://abiweb.obh.hu/dpc/ Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information]
* privacyinternational.org - [http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2003/countries/hungary.htm visit]

==Finland / Sweden==
Information security and protection of privacy in electronic communications.
* Finlex : http://www.finlex.fi/
* Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) : http://www.ficora.fi/
*: [http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/2004/en20040516.pdf Act on the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications (PPEC 516/2004)] (PDF - English translation)

==Federative Republic of Brazil==

Article 5 of the 1988 Constitution of Brazil provides that ''"the privacy, private life, honor and image of persons are inviolable, and the right to compensation for property or moral damages resulting from their violation is ensured."''

Reference:
* privacyinternational.org - [http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2003/countries/brazil.htm visit]

==India Privacy Laws==

No specific legislation pertaining to data protection and privacy has been enacted in India. The Indian government is currently considering the idea of enacting a detailed law on data protection under the initiative of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.

References:
* privacyinternational.org - [http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2003/countries/india.htm visit]
* dsci.in - [http://www.dsci.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94&Itemid=79 visit]

==New Zealand==

* The Privacy Commissioner's Office - [http://privacy.org.nz/ visit]
* Privacy Act 1993 - [http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0028/latest/DLM296639.html visit]

==UK Data Protection Act 1998==

[http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?activeTextDocId=3190610 Data Protection Act 1998 (c. 29)] 
[https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998 Wikipedia article]
<blockquote>The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which defines UK law on the processing of data on identifiable living people. It is the main piece of legislation that governs the protection of personal data in the UK. Although the Act itself does not mention privacy, it was enacted to bring UK law into line with the European Directive of 1995 which required Member States to protect people's fundamental rights and freedoms and in particular their right to privacy with respect to the processing of personal data. In practice it provides a way for individuals to control information about themselves.</blockquote>

== United States ==

United States privacy law embodies several different legal concepts. One is the invasion of privacy, a tort based in common law allowing an aggrieved party to bring a lawsuit against an individual who unlawfully intrudes into his or her private affairs, discloses his or her private information, publicizes him or her in a false light, or appropriates his or her name for personal gain. Public figures have less privacy, and this is an evolving area of law as it relates to the media.

The essence of the law derives from a right to privacy, defined broadly as "the right to be let alone." It usually excludes personal matters or activities which may reasonably be of public interest, like those of celebrities or participants in newsworthy events. Invasion of the right to privacy can be the basis for a lawsuit for damages against the person or entity violating the right. These include the Fourth Amendment right to be free of unwarranted search or seizure, the First Amendment right to free assembly, and the Fourteenth Amendment due process right, recognized by the Supreme Court as protecting a general right to privacy within family, marriage, motherhood, procreation, and child rearing.

source: [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Privacy_laws_of_the_United_States Wikipedia - Privacy laws of the United States]

=== California's Online Privacy Protection Act ===

According to California's Online Privacy Protection Act (OPPA), all online businesses that "collects personally identifiable information through the Internet about individual consumers residing in California" must have a [[Privacy Policy]] on its website. If a website fails to add a Privacy Policy within 30 days of being notified to do so, then it is in violation of this Act.
[http://leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=22001-23000&file=22575-22579 California Law Code]

=== US Information Technology Law ===

* [http://www.law.stanford.edu/program/centers/ttlf/law/us/it/ law.stanford.edu]

== Other countries - data protection ==
* Austria [AT] : http://www.dsk.gv.at/
* Belgium [BE] : http://www.privacy.fgov.be/
* Bulgaria [BG] : http://www.cpdp.bg/
* Cyprus [CY] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.cy/
* Czech Republic [CZ] : http://www.uoou.cz/
* Denmark [DK] : http://www.datatilsynet.dk/
* Estonia [EE] : http://www.dp.gov.ee/?js=1
* Finland [FI] : http://www.tietosuoja.fi/
* France [FR] : http://www.cnil.fr/
* Germany [DE] : http://www.bfd.bund.de/
* Greece [GR] : http://www.dpa.gr/
* Hungary [HU] : http://www.obh.hu/
* Ireland [IE] : http://www.dataprivacy.ie/
* Iceland [IS]: http://www.personuvernd.is/tolvunefnd.nsf/pages/index.html
* Italy [IT] : http://www.garanteprivacy.it/
* Latvia [LV] : http://www.dvi.gov.lv/
* Liechtenstein [LI] : http://www.dss.llv.li/
* Lithuania [LT] : http://www.ada.lt/
* Luxembourg [LU] : http://www.cnpd.lu/
* Malta [MT] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.mt/
* Norway [NO] : http://www.datatilsynet.no/
* Netherlands [NL] : http://www.cbpweb.nl/
* Portugal [PT] : http://www.cnpd.pt/
* Poland [PL] : http://www.giodo.gov.pl/
* United Kingdom [UK]: http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk/
* Romania [RO] : http://www.dataprotection.ro/
* Slovakia [SK] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.sk/
* Slovenia [SI] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.sk/
* Spain [ES] : http://www.agpd.es/
* Sweden [SE] : http://www.datainspektionen.se/
* Switzerland [CH] : http://www.edsb.ch/
*: http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/235_1/index.html

 
see also: [[Privacy Policy|Privacy Policy]]

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:* [https://www.mywot.com/guidelines/site-owners Website owner guidelines]
:* [https://www.mywot.com/guidelines/forum-guidelines Forum guidelines]

== Currently there are five forums ==
# [http://www.mywot.com/forum/1 General discussion]
#: General and off-topic community chat.
# [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/5 Site Evaluations]
#: Site owners may post in this forum to have their reputation evaluated by the WOT community
#: Ownership must be '''verified''' to post in this forum
# [http://www.mywot.com/forum/3 Reputation Discussions]
#: For the community to discuss the reputation of domains they don't own.
# [http://www.mywot.com/forum/2 Technical advice]
#: Problems with the add-on
# [http://www.mywot.com/forum/7 Обсуждение репутации сайтов]
#: Ветка для обсуждения сайтов и их оценок сообществом. Если вы владелец, то вам в ветку "Site evaluations"
#: ''translated:'' <blockquote>A forum for the Russian community to discuss websites and their ratings. If you are the site/domain owner, post your site in the [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/5 Site Evaluations] forum</blockquote>

== Post / Reply ==
Older forum posts are presented in the nested post format where replies are placed directly below the post you are replying to.

Newer forum posts, created on or after [http://www.mywot.com/forum/11248-changes-to-the-forum?comment=77514#comment-77514 26 April 2011], are presented in the flat post format and replies are placed in chronological order, these replies contain the text of the post your are replying to in a <quote> tag

see also: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software#Flat_vs._threaded Flat vs. threaded]

=== Post actions ===
; [[File:Icon-edit2.gif]] Edit
: You have the ability to edit previous entries you've made on the forum.
: WOT Forum retains the original post date. Editing does not [https://encrypted.google.com/#hl=en&q=thread+bump&tbs=dfn:1 bump] the discussion.
: As a common courtesy, it is suggested that you place edited content at the bottom of your original comment, for comparison, along with a manually created edit tag such as '''[edit ''date edited'']''' as the top line of your changes being made.

; [[File:Icon-reply.png]] Reply
: Allows you to reply directly to a post. Older, nested-style post replies have no content, newer flat-style post replies contain the post your are replying to in a <quote> tag.

; [[File:Icon-delete.gif]] Delete
: Allows you to delete your posted replies. You can not delete the first / start post, also known as the Original Post (OP). Only WOT Staff and Forum Moderators may remove entire discussions aka: topics or threads.
: Careful, this action can not be undone.

; [[File:Icon-flag.png]] Flag
: Report [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28electronic%29 spam] or other inappropriate content to forum moderators.
: There is a text area which allows the reporter to explain why the comment is being flagged.
: This is not meant to be used for quarreling, if you disagree with a comment simply post a public reply stating so.
: implemented: [http://www.mywot.com/forum/14960-does-anyone-noticed-the-flag-button?comment=101134#comment-101134 August, 2011]

== Allowed HTML ==

The forum does '''not''' incorporate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode BBcode]

Instead you have the ability to use [http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ HTML tags] as well as customized tags specific for certain usages. Basic HTML is allowed. JavaScript, CSS, and other extended rules are sanitized.

Below the post / reply message box, you will see:
<blockquote>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <img> <red> <green> <yellow> <massrate> <quote> 
Lines and paragraphs break automatically. 
Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</blockquote>
Also, notice the link to the official posting help: [http://www.mywot.com/filter/tips More information about formatting options]

=== Standard HTML tags allowed ===
==== <a> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp anchor tag]
: used to make links to other posts or web pages
: Attributes allowed:
:* ''href'' - Specifies the destination of a link
:* ''title'' - Tool tip text displayed with mouse-over
:* ''target'' - Specifies where to open the linked document
:: ''_blank'' - opens in new tab or window
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><a href="http://www.mywot.com">WOT (Web of Trust)</a></pre>
: Result: [http://www.mywot.com/ WOT (Web of Trust)]

==== ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_phrase_elements.asp emphasized text]
: used in lieu of italic tag 
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">This text is emphasized</pre>
: Result: ''This text is emphasized''

==== <strike> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_strike.asp strike tag]
: defines strike-through text
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">This text has been <strike>stricken</strike></pre>
: Result: This text has been <strike>stricken</strike>

==== ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_phrase_elements.asp strong text]
: used in lieu of bold tag 
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">This text is strong</pre>
: Result: '''This text is strong'''

==== <cite> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_phrase_elements.asp cited text]
: Defines a citation
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><cite>This text is a citation</cite></pre>
: Result: <blockquote><cite>This text is a citation</cite></blockquote>

==== <code> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_phrase_elements.asp code tag]
: Defines computer source code text
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example code snippet:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><code>for (i=0;i<=5;i++)</code></pre>
: Result: <code>for (i=0;i<=5;i++)</code>
: Example URL:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><code>http://www.example.com/page.html</code></pre>
: Result: <code>http://www.example.com/page.html</code>
: ''notice the link is not "live"''

==== <ul> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_ul.asp unordered list tag]
: Defines an unordered (bulleted) list; use the <li> to begin each list item
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><ul><li>first line</li><li>second line</li><li>third line</li></ul></pre>
: Result: <ul><li>first line</li><li>second line</li><li>third line</li></ul>

==== <ol> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_ol.asp ordered list tag]
: Defines an ordered (numbered) list; use the <li> to begin each list item
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><ol><li>first line</li><li>second line</li><li>third line</li></ol></pre>
: Result: <ol><li>first line</li><li>second line</li><li>third line</li></ol>

==== <li> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_li.asp li tag]
: Defines a list item.
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example: see ''UL'' or ''OL'' tags (above)

==== <dl> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_dl.asp definition list tag]
: Defines a definition list
: The <dl> tag is used in conjunction with:
:* <dt> defines the item (term) in the list
:* <dd> describes the item in the list
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><dl><dt>item 1</dt><dd>item 1 description</dd><dt>item 2</dt><dd>item 2 description</dd></dl></pre>
: Result: <dl><dt>item 1<dd>item 1 description<dt>item 2<dd>item 2 description</dl>

==== <img> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp image tag]
: used to embed an image in a post or web page
: Attributes allowed:
:* ''src'' - Specifies the URL of an image; images must be available online.
:* ''alt'' - Specifies an alternate text for an image
:* ''title'' - Tool tip text displayed with mouse-over
:* ''width'' - Specifies the width of an image; values are expressed in '''px''' (pixels) or '''%''' (percentage)
:* ''height'' - Specifies the height of an image; values are expressed in '''px''' (pixels) or '''%''' (percentage)
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><img src="http://www.mywot.com/w/wotlogo.png" alt="WOT Logo" title="WOT Logo" /></pre>
: Result: [[File:Wotlogo.png|WOT Logo]]

=== Customizd tags ===
These custom tags are created by WOT Staff and incorporated into forum use; they are not true HTML tags. Some are taken from ideas posted on the forum by members, others are created out of necessity. The color tags were created back in 2009 from this discussion: [https://www.mywot.com/forum/3675--timo-colors-please @ Timo - colors please] Colors are meant for domain references but may also be used for highlighting a point in a conversation now and then. Please do not abuse this added feature.

==== <red> ====
: Format text color to red
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">The color is <red>RED</red></pre>
: Result: The color is RED

==== <green> ====
: Format text color to green
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">The color is <green>GREEN</green></pre>
: Result: The color is GREEN

==== <yellow> ====
: Format text color to yellow
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">The color is <yellow>YELLOW</yellow></pre>
: Result: The color is YELLOW

==== <massrate> ====
: Used to contain domain lists consisting of 9 or more domains
: Reduces post length and page scrolling by placing the domain list into a scrollable container (box).
:: Forum announcement: ''03 Feb 2011'' [http://www.mywot.com/forum/9287-how-to-post-mass-rating-lists How to post mass-rating lists]
:* note: you can combine tags, such as the <red> color tag
: Example:
<div style="margin-left:25px;background:#F9F9F9;padding:10px 20px;border:1px dashed #2F6FAB"><tt>
<massrate> <red> example_01.com example_02.com example_03.com example_04.com example_05.com example_06.com example_07.com example_08.com example_09.com example_10.com example_11.com </red> </massrate></tt></div>
: Result
: '''List of domains/hosts:'''
<div style="margin-left:25px;padding:5px 20px;border:1px solid #333333;width:auto;max-width:400px;height:100px;overflow:auto;">
example_01.com example_02.com example_03.com example_04.com example_05.com example_06.com example_07.com example_08.com example_09.com example_10.com example_11.com </div> 

==== <quote> ====
: Automatically inserted when replying to a flat-style post - ''default reply''
: Can also be used manually as a post / reply tag.
: Attributes allowed:
:* ''user'' - Specifies the name of the member you are replying to
:: automatically added during ''Reply''
:: if optionally used with a manual insertion, the user name must be provided.
: NOTE:
: This tag is incorporated only in flat thread posts created on or after [http://www.mywot.com/forum/11248-changes-to-the-forum?comment=77514#comment-77514 26 April 2011]
: older nested posts will not auto-insert this tag.
: Example:
<div style="margin-left:25px;background:#F9F9F9;padding:10px 20px;border:1px dashed #2F6FAB">
<quote user="Admin"> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam condimentum augue in purus fringilla scelerisque ultricies nisl hendrerit. Morbi tempor faucibus nisl sit amet viverra. Aenean diam lacus; mollis sit amet consequat eget, aliquet eget velit? Pellentesque id bibendum eros. Donec sed leo diam, laoreet venenatis lorem. Nam sed turpis. </quote></div>
: Result
<div style="margin-left:25px;padding:5px;">
[[File:Img-quote2.gif]] '''''Originally posted by:''' Admin'' 
''Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam condimentum augue in purus fringilla scelerisque ultricies nisl hendrerit. Morbi tempor faucibus nisl sit amet viverra. Aenean diam lacus; mollis sit amet consequat eget, aliquet eget velit? Pellentesque id bibendum eros. Donec sed leo diam, laoreet venenatis lorem. Nam sed turpis.''
</div>

== HTML characters ==
For a full list of entities see HTML's [http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html entities] page.

A nice chart is available at: [http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm ascii.cl] 
See also:
* [http://brucejohnson.ca/SpecialCharacters.html HTML Special Characters]

Some of the available characters include:

=== Business ===
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|+'''HTML character entities'''
|-
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Symbol
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Description
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Number
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Name
|-
| © || Copyright || &#169; || &copy;
|-
| ® || Registered || &#174; || &reg;
|-
| ™ || Trademark || &#8482; ||  
|}

=== Currency ===
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|+'''HTML character entities'''
|-
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Symbol
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Description
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Number
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Name
|-
| $ || US Dollar || &#36; ||  
|-
| ¢ || Cent sign || &#162; || &cent;
|-
| £ || British Pound || &#163; || &pound;
|-
| € || Euro || &#8364; || &euro;
|}

=== Punctuation ===
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|+'''HTML character entities'''
|-
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Symbol
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Description
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Number
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Name
|-
| & || Ampersand || &#38; || &amp;
|-
| @ || At symbol || &#64; ||  
|-
| : || Colon || &#58; ||  
|-
| . || Period || &#46; ||  
|-
| – || en dash || &#8211; ||  
|-
| — || em dash || &#8212; ||  
|-
| " || Quotation mark || &#34; || &quot;
|-
| ✓ || Check mark || &#10003; ||  
|-
|   || Space non-breaking || &#160; || &nbsp;
|-
| # || Number sign aka: ''Hash tag'' || &#35; ||  
|-
| < || Less than || &#60; || &lt;
|-
| > || Greater than || &#62; || &gt;
|-
| = || Equal sign || &#61; ||  
|-
| ? || Question mark || &#63; ||  
|}

== Graphics ==
=== Adult content parental advisory ===
Include this image in a post / reply concerning domains having adult related material. 
Please limit usage to one instance per thread.
* English
: [[File:ParentalAdvisory.png]]
: <pre><img src="https://www.mywot.com/w/images/f/f6/ParentalAdvisory.png" /></pre>

== Moderation ==
[http://www.mywot.com/forum/11912-the-wot-forum-to-have-moderators The WOT forum to have moderators] posted: Fri 13 May 2011 - 10:18:39 AM UTC

The General Discussion forum is for posts which are off-topic to website reputation discussions or to WOT support discussions; '''however''' each thread created in the General Discussion forum has a topic as defined in the originating post [OP].

Any reply which is off-topic from the OP may be considered spam. 
Any post / reply advertising products or services linking off site is considered spam.

Spam shall be removed without warning, though for users who have messages enabled a public post will be left informing them what post was removed and why. The reason the PM is not private is for other moderators to be able to view.

; ''re:'' [http://www.mywot.com/forum/4908-forum-guidelines Forum guidelines]
: '''6. Spamming is prohibited'''
: Spamming is defined as either posting multiple times about the same thing or starting multiple topics about the same thing. Continually posting off-topic as well as providing links that have nothing to do with the forum at hand is also considered spam. Spam will be deleted without warning.

; ''re:'' [[Forum_Moderator#Moderator_duties|Moderator duties]]
: '''Spam removal'''
: The purpose is to keep the forum as a channel for useful information exchange, free of spam. The moderators have permission to remove postings that they judge as spamming.

Not all "off topic" replies are considered spam, it depends upon the flow of conversation within the discussion, however a moderator may step in and offer a friendly reminder to ''stay on topic''.

see also: [[Forum Moderator]]

== Inactive accounts ==
There are two forms of inactive accounts:

=== WOT Terminated ===
* Banned
*: Banned users are accounts terminated by WOT Staff generally for some form of abuse such as spamming. The user name retains a profile link and next to the user name you will see '''(Banned)''' All ratings and posts are deleted.
* Deleted
*: When WOT Staff deletes a user's account the user's posts remain and the user name is replaced with ''Anonymous''

=== User Terminated ===
* Delete account
*: Users who [http://www.mywot.com/faq/website/membership#deleteaccount delete their own account] no longer retain a profile link because there is no profile to visit. Their forum posts are retained and next to the user name you will see ''(not verified)''

File:Black-fire.jpg

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Mass rating tool

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=Introduction=
The mass rating tool allows you to rate up to 100 sites at the same time, leaving each site the same rating and comment. This is useful when rating a large number of sites with the same owner, for example. You should always act '''responsibly''' when using the mass rating tool. Using it is a privilege, which will be taken away from users suspected of spamming or abuse.

The mass rating tool was [http://www.mywot.com/blog/98-mass-rating-tool-for-wot-power-users introduced] to the WOT Community back in September of 2008 and was originally offered to users who had obtained the Gold level or higher Platinum level [[Activity scores|activity score]]. Credit is given to WOT user ''Lordpake'' for the original suggestion of a mass submission tool.

==Availability==
On December 28, 2009 an [http://www.mywot.com/blog/216-mass-rating-tool-changes-to-platinum-users announcement] was made informing the WOT Community that access to the mass rating tool has changed to Platinum level users; while current Gold level members who already have access to the mass rating tool will retain that access. However, new Gold level members will have to reach Platinum level before they are awarded the privilege. This change came as a result of members abusing the use of the tool by rating published blacklists and host files without verifying the validity of the source and for not checking these list entries for accuracy. Sometimes innocent sites are mistakenly added to these lists, known as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors#Type_I_error false positive], or sites are added temporarily because they were [http://community.ca.com/blogs/securityadvisor/archive/2008/05/28/compromised-websites-a-real-danger-for-internet-users.aspx compromised], in neither case should these sites ''Reputation'' suffer long term effects within WOT from this misuse.

===Privileges===
The mass rating tool (MRT) is a ''privilege'' which is awarded to members reaching [[Activity scores|Platinum activity level]], assuming that their rating history is not suspicious. If there is detection of misuse or abuse the MRT shall be removed from the abusing member, with no guarantee of reinstatement.

===Special considerations===
WOT Staff reserves the right to offer the mass rating tool to any member regardless of their current activity level. In many incidents, these members which are new to WOT have already established trust throughout the spam / scam fighting community.

==User profile location==
When a member has reached the Platinum level [[Activity scores|activity score]], they will notice in their User Profile a new menu tab labeled ''Mass rating''. Simply open [http://www.mywot.com/user/ your profile] and you can see if you have the mass rating tool available. The URL should be: <pre>https://www.mywot.com/user/00000/massrate</pre> where ''00000'' is your user ID number. 
[[File:Wot_mass-rate_profile.png|User profile menu tab]]
 

==Mass Rating Tool Page Preview==
If you have access to the ''mass-rating tool'', this is what you will see when clicking on the menu tab in your WOT account profile. The components are discussed in detail following this thumbnail.
 
[[File:Wot_mass-rate-tool.png|300px|WOT Mass rating tool.]]

=Mass rating tool components=
# [[#Domain entry box|Domain entry box]]
# [[#Category selection|Category selection]]
# [[#Reputation rating|Reputation rating]]
# [[#Comment section|Comment section]]
# [[#Replacement option|Replacement option]]
# [[#Mass delete|Mass delete]]
# [[#Submit|Submit]]

==Domain entry box==
This is where you may place IP numbers or domain names that you are going to rate and comment as a group. The mass rating tool will rate up to one hundred entries per submission, however, you may place any amount of entries into the box and if over 100, you will receive a message stating the quantity of entries that remain for which you need to click the Submit button repeatedly until all are submitted. If you make an entry error, you will be informed with a "failed to rate: domain name" message. These information messages only display for a short time, so you will need to pay attention as you use the mass rating tool. The IP or domain entries may be placed in URL form, simple name comma separated value (CSV), or simple name linear.

Examples:
{| border="1" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0"
|+'''URL - one per line'''
|-valign="top"
|width="500" height="75"|http://www.example.com/ http://127.0.0.1/ http://www.example.net/ http://192.168.1.1/ http://www.example.org/
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0"
|+'''Comma separated'''
|-valign="top"
|width="500" height="75"|example.com,127.0.0.1,example.net,192.168.1.1,example.org
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0"
|+'''Linear - one per line''' (''most common'')
|-valign="top"
|width="500" height="75"|example.com 127.0.0.1 example.net 192.168.1.1 example.org
|}

<blockquote>Important! Currently the mass rating tool does not support possibility to rate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)], without prior conversion to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode Punycode].</blockquote>

==Category selection==
When mass rating domain entries, you ''must'' include a comment and select the category that best describes the comments you are making. This component displays a drop-down list of currently available comment categories to choose from. For more information, please refer to the [[Scorecard#Comments|Scorecard Comment]] article.

==Reputation rating==
All domain entries that are mass rated will be given the same [[Scorecard#Reputation_rating|reputation rating]] that you select in this section of the mass rating tool. It is exactly the same as making selections on either the [[Scorecard|Scorecard]] or within the Rating window.

==Comment section==
When mass rating websites, you are ''required'' to leave a comment. This is something that should be given careful consideration since all entries you chose to rate are going to be rated equally and given the same rating category. Your comments should be precise as to ''why'' these domains are being rated in a likewise manner. If you have a linkable source that can either verify or show justification for your ratings, it is preferred that you include it. Be descriptive and authoritative when entering your comments, as well as polite.

===Multiple comments===
The mass-rating tool allows up to three comment postings per scorecard per user, including sites marked as [[FAQ#Ratings_vs._comments|controversial]] which overrides the standard scorecard comment entry of only one posting per user. It is recommended to leave only one comment per rating per domain, however you may find that a domain you previously rated for spam and commented using the '''Spam''' category, you are now rating it as a Phishing domain and included the '''Phishing or other scams''' category, both comments will appear on the scorecard. Anyone who is caught misusing the mass-rating tool by trying to spam multiple comments will have their [http://www.mywot.com/forum/5839--controversial-rating?comment=29421#comment-29421 mass-rating privilege removed].

see also: [[Mass_rating_tool#Replacement_option|Replacement option]]

===Comment variable===
To enable your comments to be more precise or to appear more "personal" a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_%28programming%29 variable] has been introduced for use in the comment section. The implementation of this feature was [http://www.mywot.com/forum/5298-massrating-variable announced on the Forum] by ''Timo'' on 12 January, 2010. Credit for introducing template-style variables is given to G7W.
<pre>
!domain
</pre>
''!domain'' is simply replaced with each of the entries being rated that are listed in the [[Mass_rating_tool#Domain_entry box|domain entry box]], whether they are IP numbers, or domain names.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|+'''Mass rating tool input example'''
|-valign="top"
|width="235"|'''Domain entry box'''
|width="355"|a.ns.mywot.com b.ns.mywot.com c.ns.mywot.com d.ns.mywot.com
|-valign="top"
|'''Comment with variable'''
|This nameserver ('''!domain''') is owned by WOT Services Oy and is part of the mywot.com network.
|}

Click Submit to process your ratings.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|+'''Scorecard comment output example'''
!width="235"|Rated domain
!width="355"|Scorecard comment
|-valign="top"
|a.ns.mywot.com || This nameserver ('''a.ns.mywot.com''') is owned by WOT Services Oy and is part of the mywot.com network.
|-valign="top"
|b.ns.mywot.com || This nameserver ('''b.ns.mywot.com''') is owned by WOT Services Oy and is part of the mywot.com network.
|-valign="top"
|c.ns.mywot.com || This nameserver ('''c.ns.mywot.com''') is owned by WOT Services Oy and is part of the mywot.com network.
|-valign="top"
|d.ns.mywot.com || This nameserver ('''d.ns.mywot.com''') is owned by WOT Services Oy and is part of the mywot.com network.
|}

You can verify the desired output of the comments by reviewing your list of entries in your profile by clicking on the "My Ratings" tab or view them directly by visiting the domain's Scorecard.

====More !domain examples====
[[Mass rate comment examples|More examples]] of using !domain in reference URL's

===Comment identifier===
With major [http://www.mywot.com/blog/339-improvements-in-the-wot-scorecard modifications] to the Scorecard, a new icon has been introduced, April 2011, to identify comments posted using the mass rating tool.

[[File:Massrate.gif]]

==Replacement option==
The mass rating tool allows you to rate a group of domains in a selected category and leave a comment. You can re-rate these domains and enter a different comment. By default if you have previously rated a domain your new comment replaces the previous one. If you tick the check mark box for this component, WOT will retain your previous comment and append your new one as well.

''note:''
This only works if the newly selected comment category is different from any previously recorded ratings. You cannot have two or more comments of the same category for the same domain.

example:
You rate 10 domains that are associated to each other in some way and which you have had a good customer experience with. You may wish to leave a "Good site" comment and then re-rate them to also leave a "Good customer experience" comment. If the check mark box is not checked, your "Good site" will be written over with the "Good customer experience" comment, ticking the check mark box will include both comments on each scorecard of the domains rated.

alternative example:
You have a small list of domains that have high reputations for Trustworthiness, Vendor Reliability, and Privacy, yet these domains contain content of a mature nature. You've rated these sites high, excluding the Child Safety reputation which you've lowered to unsatisfactory, poor, or very poor and left a positive comment. You may also wish to leave a warning for parents that the site's content is not suitable for young children. You can leave your ratings as is and rate the domains a second time offering an Adult cautionary comment.

==Mass delete==
Each Scorecard has the ability for a user to remove their comments and to delete their ratings for a website. The mass rating tool also provides this ability to work with more than one domain at a time. This is useful if you have rated compromised websites that are no longer compromised and wish to remove you comments and ratings from them. Simply enter the list of domains into the domain entry box, check mark this component's option and click Submit. Your previous ratings will be deleted and your comments removed.

==Submit==
The submit button processes ratings for one to one hundred entries. If you have more than one hundred entries for rating, the remainder will be displayed and you are required to Submit them again. This process continues until your entries have been depleted. If you Submit with no entries left in the domain list box, it will appear in red and a error message is displayed stating that you have no entries to process.

===Submit limitation===
Submits are limited to 100 per 10 minutes. With each submission allowing up to 100 domains, you are limited to 10,000 domains per 10 minutes. This limitation is in place to stop a malfunctioning add-on or a bot from causing excessive server load.

===Submit notification===
Displayed above the domain list input box, after the ''Submit'' button has been clicked, showing which entries are "newly rated" versus those entries you may have rated previously.
Example:
<pre>Thanks, 87 new comments added and 12 comments updated and 99 ratings updated/added.
Failed to rate: 178.19.101.212.in-addr.arpa.
Your list contains 566 more ratings to be processed</pre>
Note:
If you tick the '''Don't replace my earlier comments''' check-mark box, the resulting notification will display as:
<pre>Thanks, 87 new comments added and 0 comments updated and 99 ratings updated/added.
Failed to rate: 178.19.101.212.in-addr.arpa.
Your list contains 566 more ratings to be processed</pre>

The ''Failed to rate: domain name'' error is returned when an improper domain name is referenced.
178.19.101.212.in-addr.arpa is not a valid domain name, it is the reverse address (IPv4) for IP: 212.101.19.178 reference: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_DNS_lookup Reverse DNS lookup]
Entering ''212.101.19.178'' in the domain list entry box will result with a recorded MRT rating.

=Profile privacy settings=
==User board==
As a Platinum Level Member of WOT and having access to the mass-rating tool you are expected to allow open communication from other users who may disagree in how you've rated/commented on a website. Previously, some mass-rating members had disabled receiving messages from other users registered on the Forums by editing Profile -> Edit -> Privacy Settings and turning "Off" their Boards.

A [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/5227-platinum-level-suggestion discussion] was created on the Forums to disable this feature, in effect forcing mass-rating members to maintain some form of ''responsibility'' for their ratings. It was [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/5227-platinum-level-suggestion?comment=26041#comment-26041 announced] on 13 January, 2010 by ''Timo'' that this restriction has been implemented. Basically, if a Platinum user has their Board messages set to "Off" they shall still receive private message from other users; naturally if the board is set to "On" there is no change.

==Rating / post count==
You have the choice to publicly display or hide the ''Ratings / Posts Counts''. To change this setting, edit your [https://www.mywot.com/profile/edit profile settings] in the '''Privacy settings''' block look for: ''Hide my rating and post counts''

* Not checked (default) allows other users viewing your profile to see your count totals.
* Checked hides count totals from public view, text is formatted to the color blue so you'll always be able to see your daily counts.
Remember to scroll down and click ''Submit'' when making any changes to your profile settings.

This ability was added to the User Profile: [https://www.mywot.com/forum/22354-mass-rating-tool?comment=180624#comment-180624 Fri 11 Jan 2013]

=Whitelist=
Currently there is no facility to maintain an exclusion filter or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelist whitelist] via the MRT.

There are certain IP's and host names which should not earn reputation or comment.

[[MRT whitelist]]

=Caveat=
You have been given this tool because you have rated many domains to achieve the Platinum level status. Be careful as to how you use it, mass rating is a ''privilege'' that can be easily taken away.

* Do not attempt to use this for the sake of increasing your activity score, you might be surprised and discover you no longer have access.
* Do not attempt to manipulate website [scorecard] reputations, you will lose access to the MRT as well as have your previous ratings and comments deleted.

Rating a website's reputation is a serious matter. Rating websites is not a game, there is no "race" to see who can rate more. Please be accurate and at the same time be responsible.

Mass rating tool

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=Introduction=
The mass rating tool allows you to rate up to 100 sites at the same time, leaving each site the same rating and comment. This is useful when rating a large number of sites with the same owner, for example. You should always act '''responsibly''' when using the mass rating tool. Using it is a privilege, which will be taken away from users suspected of spamming or abuse.

The mass rating tool was [http://www.mywot.com/blog/98-mass-rating-tool-for-wot-power-users introduced] to the WOT Community back in September of 2008 and was originally offered to users who had obtained the Gold level or higher Platinum level [[Activity scores|activity score]]. Credit is given to WOT user ''Lordpake'' for the original suggestion of a mass submission tool.

==Availability==
On December 28, 2009 an [http://www.mywot.com/blog/216-mass-rating-tool-changes-to-platinum-users announcement] was made informing the WOT Community that access to the mass rating tool has changed to Platinum level users; while current Gold level members who already have access to the mass rating tool will retain that access. However, new Gold level members will have to reach Platinum level before they are awarded the privilege. This change came as a result of members abusing the use of the tool by rating published blacklists and host files without verifying the validity of the source and for not checking these list entries for accuracy. Sometimes innocent sites are mistakenly added to these lists, known as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors#Type_I_error false positive], or sites are added temporarily because they were [http://community.ca.com/blogs/securityadvisor/archive/2008/05/28/compromised-websites-a-real-danger-for-internet-users.aspx compromised], in neither case should these sites ''Reputation'' suffer long term effects within WOT from this misuse.

===Privileges===
The mass rating tool (MRT) is a ''privilege'' which is awarded to members reaching [[Activity scores|Platinum activity level]], assuming that their rating history is not suspicious. If there is detection of misuse or abuse the MRT shall be removed from the abusing member, with no guarantee of reinstatement.

===Special considerations===
WOT Staff reserves the right to offer the mass rating tool to any member regardless of their current activity level. In many incidents, these members which are new to WOT have already established trust throughout the spam / scam fighting community.

[http://ww.revescom.com/]==User profile location==
When a member has reached the Platinum level [[Activity scores|activity score]], they will notice in their User Profile a new menu tab labeled ''Mass rating''. Simply open [http://www.mywot.com/user/ your profile] and you can see if you have the mass rating tool available. The URL should be: <pre>https://www.mywot.com/user/00000/massrate</pre> where ''00000'' is your user ID number. 
[[File:Wot_mass-rate_profile.png|User profile menu tab]]
 

==Mass Rating Tool Page Preview==
If you have access to the ''mass-rating tool'', this is what you will see when clicking on the menu tab in your WOT account profile. The components are discussed in detail following this thumbnail.
 
[[File:Wot_mass-rate-tool.png|300px|WOT Mass rating tool.]]

=Mass rating tool components=
# [[#Domain entry box|Domain entry box]]
# [[#Category selection|Category selection]]
# [[#Reputation rating|Reputation rating]]
# [[#Comment section|Comment section]]
# [[#Replacement option|Replacement option]]
# [[#Mass delete|Mass delete]]
# [[#Submit|Submit]]

==Domain entry box==
This is where you may place IP numbers or domain names that you are going to rate and comment as a group. The mass rating tool will rate up to one hundred entries per submission, however, you may place any amount of entries into the box and if over 100, you will receive a message stating the quantity of entries that remain for which you need to click the Submit button repeatedly until all are submitted. If you make an entry error, you will be informed with a "failed to rate: domain name" message. These information messages only display for a short time, so you will need to pay attention as you use the mass rating tool. The IP or domain entries may be placed in URL form, simple name comma separated value (CSV), or simple name linear.

Examples:
{| border="1" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0"
|+'''URL - one per line'''
|-valign="top"
|width="500" height="75"|http://www.example.com/ http://127.0.0.1/ http://www.example.net/ http://192.168.1.1/ http://www.example.org/
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0"
|+'''Comma separated'''
|-valign="top"
|width="500" height="75"|example.com,127.0.0.1,example.net,192.168.1.1,example.org
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0"
|+'''Linear - one per line''' (''most common'')
|-valign="top"
|width="500" height="75"|example.com 127.0.0.1 example.net 192.168.1.1 example.org
|}

<blockquote>Important! Currently the mass rating tool does not support possibility to rate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)], without prior conversion to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode Punycode].</blockquote>

==Category selection==
When mass rating domain entries, you ''must'' include a comment and select the category that best describes the comments you are making. This component displays a drop-down list of currently available comment categories to choose from. For more information, please refer to the [[Scorecard#Comments|Scorecard Comment]] article.

==Reputation rating==
All domain entries that are mass rated will be given the same [[Scorecard#Reputation_rating|reputation rating]] that you select in this section of the mass rating tool. It is exactly the same as making selections on either the [[Scorecard|Scorecard]] or within the Rating window.

==Comment section==
When mass rating websites, you are ''required'' to leave a comment. This is something that should be given careful consideration since all entries you chose to rate are going to be rated equally and given the same rating category. Your comments should be precise as to ''why'' these domains are being rated in a likewise manner. If you have a linkable source that can either verify or show justification for your ratings, it is preferred that you include it. Be descriptive and authoritative when entering your comments, as well as polite.

===Multiple comments===
The mass-rating tool allows up to three comment postings per scorecard per user, including sites marked as [[FAQ#Ratings_vs._comments|controversial]] which overrides the standard scorecard comment entry of only one posting per user. It is recommended to leave only one comment per rating per domain, however you may find that a domain you previously rated for spam and commented using the '''Spam''' category, you are now rating it as a Phishing domain and included the '''Phishing or other scams''' category, both comments will appear on the scorecard. Anyone who is caught misusing the mass-rating tool by trying to spam multiple comments will have their [http://www.mywot.com/forum/5839--controversial-rating?comment=29421#comment-29421 mass-rating privilege removed].

see also: [[Mass_rating_tool#Replacement_option|Replacement option]]

===Comment variable===
To enable your comments to be more precise or to appear more "personal" a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_%28programming%29 variable] has been introduced for use in the comment section. The implementation of this feature was [http://www.mywot.com/forum/5298-massrating-variable announced on the Forum] by ''Timo'' on 12 January, 2010. Credit for introducing template-style variables is given to G7W.
<pre>
!domain
</pre>
''!domain'' is simply replaced with each of the entries being rated that are listed in the [[Mass_rating_tool#Domain_entry box|domain entry box]], whether they are IP numbers, or domain names.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|+'''Mass rating tool input example'''
|-valign="top"
|width="235"|'''Domain entry box'''
|width="355"|a.ns.mywot.com b.ns.mywot.com c.ns.mywot.com d.ns.mywot.com
|-valign="top"
|'''Comment with variable'''
|This nameserver ('''!domain''') is owned by WOT Services Oy and is part of the mywot.com network.
|}

Click Submit to process your ratings.

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|+'''Scorecard comment output example'''
!width="235"|Rated domain
!width="355"|Scorecard comment
|-valign="top"
|a.ns.mywot.com || This nameserver ('''a.ns.mywot.com''') is owned by WOT Services Oy and is part of the mywot.com network.
|-valign="top"
|b.ns.mywot.com || This nameserver ('''b.ns.mywot.com''') is owned by WOT Services Oy and is part of the mywot.com network.
|-valign="top"
|c.ns.mywot.com || This nameserver ('''c.ns.mywot.com''') is owned by WOT Services Oy and is part of the mywot.com network.
|-valign="top"
|d.ns.mywot.com || This nameserver ('''d.ns.mywot.com''') is owned by WOT Services Oy and is part of the mywot.com network.
|}

You can verify the desired output of the comments by reviewing your list of entries in your profile by clicking on the "My Ratings" tab or view them directly by visiting the domain's Scorecard.

====More !domain examples====
[[Mass rate comment examples|More examples]] of using !domain in reference URL's

===Comment identifier===
With major [http://www.mywot.com/blog/339-improvements-in-the-wot-scorecard modifications] to the Scorecard, a new icon has been introduced, April 2011, to identify comments posted using the mass rating tool.

[[File:Massrate.gif]]

==Replacement option==
The mass rating tool allows you to rate a group of domains in a selected category and leave a comment. You can re-rate these domains and enter a different comment. By default if you have previously rated a domain your new comment replaces the previous one. If you tick the check mark box for this component, WOT will retain your previous comment and append your new one as well.

''note:''
This only works if the newly selected comment category is different from any previously recorded ratings. You cannot have two or more comments of the same category for the same domain.

example:
You rate 10 domains that are associated to each other in some way and which you have had a good customer experience with. You may wish to leave a "Good site" comment and then re-rate them to also leave a "Good customer experience" comment. If the check mark box is not checked, your "Good site" will be written over with the "Good customer experience" comment, ticking the check mark box will include both comments on each scorecard of the domains rated.

alternative example:
You have a small list of domains that have high reputations for Trustworthiness, Vendor Reliability, and Privacy, yet these domains contain content of a mature nature. You've rated these sites high, excluding the Child Safety reputation which you've lowered to unsatisfactory, poor, or very poor and left a positive comment. You may also wish to leave a warning for parents that the site's content is not suitable for young children. You can leave your ratings as is and rate the domains a second time offering an Adult cautionary comment.

==Mass delete==
Each Scorecard has the ability for a user to remove their comments and to delete their ratings for a website. The mass rating tool also provides this ability to work with more than one domain at a time. This is useful if you have rated compromised websites that are no longer compromised and wish to remove you comments and ratings from them. Simply enter the list of domains into the domain entry box, check mark this component's option and click Submit. Your previous ratings will be deleted and your comments removed.

==Submit==
The submit button processes ratings for one to one hundred entries. If you have more than one hundred entries for rating, the remainder will be displayed and you are required to Submit them again. This process continues until your entries have been depleted. If you Submit with no entries left in the domain list box, it will appear in red and a error message is displayed stating that you have no entries to process.

===Submit limitation===
Submits are limited to 100 per 10 minutes. With each submission allowing up to 100 domains, you are limited to 10,000 domains per 10 minutes. This limitation is in place to stop a malfunctioning add-on or a bot from causing excessive server load.

===Submit notification===
Displayed above the domain list input box, after the ''Submit'' button has been clicked, showing which entries are "newly rated" versus those entries you may have rated previously.
Example:
<pre>Thanks, 87 new comments added and 12 comments updated and 99 ratings updated/added.
Failed to rate: 178.19.101.212.in-addr.arpa.
Your list contains 566 more ratings to be processed</pre>
Note:
If you tick the '''Don't replace my earlier comments''' check-mark box, the resulting notification will display as:
<pre>Thanks, 87 new comments added and 0 comments updated and 99 ratings updated/added.
Failed to rate: 178.19.101.212.in-addr.arpa.
Your list contains 566 more ratings to be processed</pre>

The ''Failed to rate: domain name'' error is returned when an improper domain name is referenced.
178.19.101.212.in-addr.arpa is not a valid domain name, it is the reverse address (IPv4) for IP: 212.101.19.178 reference: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_DNS_lookup Reverse DNS lookup]
Entering ''212.101.19.178'' in the domain list entry box will result with a recorded MRT rating.

=Profile privacy settings=
==User board==
As a Platinum Level Member of WOT and having access to the mass-rating tool you are expected to allow open communication from other users who may disagree in how you've rated/commented on a website. Previously, some mass-rating members had disabled receiving messages from other users registered on the Forums by editing Profile -> Edit -> Privacy Settings and turning "Off" their Boards.

A [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/5227-platinum-level-suggestion discussion] was created on the Forums to disable this feature, in effect forcing mass-rating members to maintain some form of ''responsibility'' for their ratings. It was [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/5227-platinum-level-suggestion?comment=26041#comment-26041 announced] on 13 January, 2010 by ''Timo'' that this restriction has been implemented. Basically, if a Platinum user has their Board messages set to "Off" they shall still receive private message from other users; naturally if the board is set to "On" there is no change.

==Rating / post count==
You have the choice to publicly display or hide the ''Ratings / Posts Counts''. To change this setting, edit your [https://www.mywot.com/profile/edit profile settings] in the '''Privacy settings''' block look for: ''Hide my rating and post counts''

* Not checked (default) allows other users viewing your profile to see your count totals.
* Checked hides count totals from public view, text is formatted to the color blue so you'll always be able to see your daily counts.
Remember to scroll down and click ''Submit'' when making any changes to your profile settings.

This ability was added to the User Profile: [https://www.mywot.com/forum/22354-mass-rating-tool?comment=180624#comment-180624 Fri 11 Jan 2013]

=Whitelist=
Currently there is no facility to maintain an exclusion filter or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelist whitelist] via the MRT.

There are certain IP's and host names which should not earn reputation or comment.

[[MRT whitelist]]

=Caveat=
You have been given this tool because you have rated many domains to achieve the Platinum level status. Be careful as to how you use it, mass rating is a ''privilege'' that can be easily taken away.

* Do not attempt to use this for the sake of increasing your activity score, you might be surprised and discover you no longer have access.
* Do not attempt to manipulate website [scorecard] reputations, you will lose access to the MRT as well as have your previous ratings and comments deleted.

Rating a website's reputation is a serious matter. Rating websites is not a game, there is no "race" to see who can rate more. Please be accurate and at the same time be responsible.

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Please do visit our [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum forum] and our [http://www.mywot.com/en/blog blog].
If you are not a WOT member, we urge you to [http://www.mywot.com/en/user/register register].

Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

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The protection of PII is important to maintain public trust and confidence in an organization, to protect the reputation of an organization, and to protect against legal liability for an organization. Organizations have always considered trust, confidence, and reputation as motivating factors in protecting PII. Recently, organizations have become more concerned about the risk of legal liability due to the enactment of many US federal, state, and international privacy laws.

==Examples of PII Data==
The following list contains examples of information that may be considered PII.

* Name, such as full name, maiden name, mother’s maiden name, or alias

* Personal identification number (PIN), such as your Social Security Number (SSN), passport number, driver’s license number, taxpayer identification number, patient identification number, and financial account or credit card number.

* Address information, such as street address or email address.

* Asset information, such as Internet Protocol (IP) or Media Access Control (MAC) address or other host-specific persistent static identifier that consistently links to a particular person or small, well-defined group of people.

* Telephone numbers, including mobile, business, and personal numbers.

* Personal characteristics, including photographic image (especially of face or other distinguishing characteristic), x-rays, fingerprints, or other biometric image or template data (e.g., retina scans, voice signature, facial geometry).

* Information identifying personally owned property, such as vehicle registration or identification number, and title numbers and related information.

* Information about an individual that is linked or linkable to one of the above (e.g., date of birth, place of birth, race, religion, weight, activities, or employment, medical, education, or financial information).

===Source===
NIST Special Publication 800-122 [http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-122/sp800-122.pdf PDF]
<blockquote>National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-122 Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. Spec. Publ. 800-122, 59 pages (Apr. 2010) ''Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII): Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Computer Security Division Information Technology Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8930''</blockquote>

===Web forms / registrations===
If your site has a simple web form to email script or simple forum / newsletter subscription registration most likely you are not gathering any ''personally identifiable information''. If you request a name without requiring first and last names, any "name" can be given.
====Examples of non-PII====
; A simple Contact Us form requesting :
:* name
:* email
:* website
:* subject
:* message

; Site / Forum registration requesting :
:* name
:* user name
:* password
:* date of birth ([[Privacy_Policy#COPPA|COPPA]] compliance)
:* email

; Newsletter subscription :
:* email

====Examples of PII====
; A Contact Us form ''requesting'' :
:* name
:* address
:* city / state / province
:* zip-code / postal code
:* phone / mobile number
:* email
:* website
:* subject
:* message

; Site / Forum registration ''requiring'' :
:* first name
:* last name
:* User name
:* location / address (full or partial)
:* phone / mobile number
:* Password
:* Date of birth ([[Privacy_Policy#COPPA|COPPA]] compliance)
:* email

==Australian Data Protection Act==
[https://www.privacyinternational.org/reports/australia Privacy International Australia report]
<blockquote>The Australian Senate on 6 December 2000 approved the [http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/Privacybill/contents.htm Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill] which extends privacy protections to the private sector. The bill was strongly criticized by privacy advocates and the opposition political party as being far too weak. [http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/SenatePBSub2000.html Commentary] by privacy expert Roger Clarke who describes the bill as "the world's worst privacy legislation." The European Commission has also expressed concern that the law would not be adequate for trans-border data flows.</blockquote>
[http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/Privacybill/contents.htm Advisory Report on the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill 2000]

Also reference: [http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Privacy/privacy.html Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc.]

==Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act==
===Individual rights===
* know why an organization collects, uses or discloses their personal information;
* ''more''
===Organizations requirements===
* obtain consent when they collect, use or disclose their personal information;
* ''more''

sources:
* Wikipedia [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Personal_Information_Protection_and_Electronic_Documents_Act article]
* [http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/P-8.6/ Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (2000, c. 5)]
* [http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/P-21/index.html Privacy Act (R.S., 1985, c. P-21)]

==Dutch / Netherlands==
* The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Ducth DPA) : http://www.dutchdpa.nl/
: ''supervises the fair and lawful use and security of your personal data, to ensure your privacy today and in the future.''

==European Union Data Protection Directive==

''officially Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data''

The '''Data Protection Directive''' is a European Union directive which regulates the processing of personal data within the [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/European_Union European Union].

source: [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive Wikipedia entry]

===European Commission: Justice and Home affairs===
* [http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/index_en.htm Data Protection]
: (alternate) [http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/index_en.htm Protection of personal data]
* [http://ec.europa.eu/justice/doc_centre/privacy/law/index_en.htm Legislative documents]

==Hungary Data Protection Bill==
* [http://abiweb.obh.hu/dpc/ Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information]
* privacyinternational.org - [http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2003/countries/hungary.htm visit]

==Finland / Sweden==
Information security and protection of privacy in electronic communications.
* Finlex : http://www.finlex.fi/
* Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) : http://www.ficora.fi/
*: [http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/2004/en20040516.pdf Act on the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications (PPEC 516/2004)] (PDF - English translation)

==Federative Republic of Brazil==

Article 5 of the 1988 Constitution of Brazil provides that ''"the privacy, private life, honor and image of persons are inviolable, and the right to compensation for property or moral damages resulting from their violation is ensured."''

Reference:
* privacyinternational.org - [http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2003/countries/brazil.htm visit]

==India Privacy Laws==

No specific legislation pertaining to data protection and privacy has been enacted in India. The Indian government is currently considering the idea of enacting a detailed law on data protection under the initiative of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.

References:
* privacyinternational.org - [http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2003/countries/india.htm visit]
* dsci.in - [http://www.dsci.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94&Itemid=79 visit]

==New Zealand==

* The Privacy Commissioner's Office - [http://privacy.org.nz/ visit]
* Privacy Act 1993 - [http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0028/latest/DLM296639.html visit]

==UK Data Protection Act 1998==

[http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?activeTextDocId=3190610 Data Protection Act 1998 (c. 29)] 
[https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998 Wikipedia article]
<blockquote>The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which defines UK law on the processing of data on identifiable living people. It is the main piece of legislation that governs the protection of personal data in the UK. Although the Act itself does not mention privacy, it was enacted to bring UK law into line with the European Directive of 1995 which required Member States to protect people's fundamental rights and freedoms and in particular their right to privacy with respect to the processing of personal data. In practice it provides a way for individuals to control information about themselves.</blockquote>

== United States ==

United States privacy law embodies several different legal concepts. One is the invasion of privacy, a tort based in common law allowing an aggrieved party to bring a lawsuit against an individual who unlawfully intrudes into his or her private affairs, discloses his or her private information, publicizes him or her in a false light, or appropriates his or her name for personal gain. Public figures have less privacy, and this is an evolving area of law as it relates to the media.

The essence of the law derives from a right to privacy, defined broadly as "the right to be let alone." It usually excludes personal matters or activities which may reasonably be of public interest, like those of celebrities or participants in newsworthy events. Invasion of the right to privacy can be the basis for a lawsuit for damages against the person or entity violating the right. These include the Fourth Amendment right to be free of unwarranted search or seizure, the First Amendment right to free assembly, and the Fourteenth Amendment due process right, recognized by the Supreme Court as protecting a general right to privacy within family, marriage, motherhood, procreation, and child rearing.

source: [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Privacy_laws_of_the_United_States Wikipedia - Privacy laws of the United States]

=== California's Online Privacy Protection Act ===

According to California's Online Privacy Protection Act (OPPA), all online businesses that "collects personally identifiable information through the Internet about individual consumers residing in California" must have a [[Privacy Policy]] on its website. If a website fails to add a Privacy Policy within 30 days of being notified to do so, then it is in violation of this Act.
[http://leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=22001-23000&file=22575-22579 California Law Code]

=== US Information Technology Law ===

* [http://www.law.stanford.edu/program/centers/ttlf/law/us/it/ law.stanford.edu]

== Other countries - data protection ==
* Austria [AT] : http://www.dsk.gv.at/
* Belgium [BE] : http://www.privacy.fgov.be/
* Bulgaria [BG] : http://www.cpdp.bg/
* Cyprus [CY] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.cy/
* Czech Republic [CZ] : http://www.uoou.cz/
* Denmark [DK] : http://www.datatilsynet.dk/
* Estonia [EE] : http://www.dp.gov.ee/?js=1
* Finland [FI] : http://www.tietosuoja.fi/
* France [FR] : http://www.cnil.fr/
* Germany [DE] : http://www.bfd.bund.de/
* Greece [GR] : http://www.dpa.gr/
* Hungary [HU] : http://www.obh.hu/
* Ireland [IE] : http://www.dataprivacy.ie/
* Iceland [IS]: http://www.personuvernd.is/tolvunefnd.nsf/pages/index.html
* Italy [IT] : http://www.garanteprivacy.it/
* Latvia [LV] : http://www.dvi.gov.lv/
* Liechtenstein [LI] : http://www.dss.llv.li/
* Lithuania [LT] : http://www.ada.lt/
* Luxembourg [LU] : http://www.cnpd.lu/
* Malta [MT] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.mt/
* Norway [NO] : http://www.datatilsynet.no/
* Netherlands [NL] : http://www.cbpweb.nl/
* Portugal [PT] : http://www.cnpd.pt/
* Poland [PL] : http://www.giodo.gov.pl/
* United Kingdom [UK]: http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk/
* Romania [RO] : http://www.dataprotection.ro/
* Slovakia [SK] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.sk/
* Slovenia [SI] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.sk/
* Spain [ES] : http://www.agpd.es/
* Sweden [SE] : http://www.datainspektionen.se/
* Switzerland [CH] : http://www.edsb.ch/
*: http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/235_1/index.html

 
see also: [[Privacy Policy|Privacy Policy]]

Getting Started

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== Registering ==
In order to get the most out of WOT, you should register. 
After you register, you will gain access to our full range of features. 
Some features are: 
* Unlocking the function to participate in the [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/ forum] and [http://www.mywot.com/en/blog/ blog].
* The ability to write comments on a website scorecard.
* Having a customizable profile of your own.
* Having a wall of your own below your profile.
* Accumulation of [[Activity scores]].
* Unlocking the function to participate in the WOT Wiki.

This is why you should [http://www.mywot.com/user/register '''register now'''!]

=== Customize Settings ===
[[File:Settings_link_on_addon.png|300px|thumb|Where to customize the add-on settings]]
You can personalize WOT's web browsing security to suit your way of surfing. 
Access Settings by opening the add-on and clicking in the top right corner.
By popular demand, there are [http://www.mywot.com/wiki/FAQs#Does_WOT_have_different_protection_settings.3F different types of made-ready settings]. One unique feature of WOT is that there is a colourblind version to add support for those who cannot readily distinguish the various colours on the rating bars.

=== Videos ===
To see videos on all the above mentioned functions or features, check out [http://www.youtube.com/user/MyWOT '''WOT's YouTube Channel''']!

Guidelines

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=WOT Wiki: Guidelines=
==Current Official Guidelines==
The following is a list of guidelines that have been given ''''official'''' status.

==Proposed Guidelines==
These guidelines are currently '''proposed''', and may be discussed on the discussion page.
* If the information is already adequately covered on the main website, do not copy it to the wiki, but link to the main website instead where appropriate.
* Keep the wiki in English
* Any links considered spam, suspicious, or illegal in any way can be removed immediately without permission.

Links by language

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A list of WOT guides, tips and articles not in English. Add links if possible.

==French / Français ==

* [http://www.commentcamarche.net/faq/sujet-15620-wot-web-of-trust-essentiel-pour-l-internaute-avise WOT (Web Of Trust) Essentiel pour l'internaute 'avisé']

Activity scores

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Users are rewarded activity points for rating websites and writing comments. All users have an activity score, which is visible on the <strike>add-on's rating window</strike> and profile pages.

'''Note''': 
The activity score has nothing to do with an individual's [[Rating reliability|rating reliability]].

== Earning activity points ==
You receive activity points every time you rate a website you haven't rated before. If you are a registered user, you will also receive further points from the following activities:
* Leaving comments on website scorecards
* Posting on the WOT website (forum, blog, poll etc.)

Please notice that the activity score won't update immediately after the activity, it's updated only '''once a day'''.

== User levels ==

=== Rank and activity score ===

Registered users are grouped in different ranks based on their activity score. These ranks are visible on the profile and as a border with a distinct color around their avatar elsewhere on the website. The current user levels and the activity point range for each are:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Activity score
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | User level
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Color
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Extra features
|-
| colspan="4" style="border-bottom: 1px solid gray" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | 10,000
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Platinum
| style="text-align: center; color: #CDD6DE" | ▉
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | [[Mass rating tool]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | 6000-9999
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Gold
| style="text-align: center; color: #D0BD85" | ▉
|
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | 3000-5999
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Silver
| style="text-align: center; color: #BFBFBF" | ▉
|
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | 1500-2999
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Bronze
| style="text-align: center; color: #E7B695" | ▉
|
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | 0-1499
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Rookie
| style="text-align: center; color: #6DCFF6" | ▉
|
|}

The scoring system uses a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale logarithmic scale], which means the more points you have, the more difficult it will be to increase your score.

=== Activity score-related changes ===

Effective 04 January, 2013, the [http://www.mywot.com/forum/22354-mass-rating-tool?comment=179432#comment-179432 activity score has been capped at 10,000 points]. There is no higher score achievable.

Also, the [http://www.mywot.com/community Community page] had displayed an ''active users list'' denoting top 100 users based on points achieved; this list has been removed.

Both actions have been taken to help curb plausible abuse of the [[Mass rating tool]].

== Extra features ==
Users may be granted access to the [[mass rating tool]] after reaching the Platinum level, assuming that their activity is not suspicious. This allows you to rate up to 100 sites at the same time, leaving each site the same rating and comment, and is useful when rating a large number of sites with the same owner, for example. You should always act ''responsibly'' when using the mass rating tool. Using it is a privilege, which will be taken away from users suspected of spamming.

Note: All Gold Level Members before the [http://www.mywot.com/blog/216-mass-rating-tool-changes-to-platinum-users mass rating tool update] '''will continue to have access''' to the tool.

Activity scores

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Users are rewarded activity points for rating websites and writing comments. All users have an activity score, which is visible on the user's profile pages. Activity points can be used to judge individual users.

'''Note''': 
The activity score has nothing to do with an individual's [[Rating reliability|rating reliability]].

== Earning activity points ==
You receive activity points every time you rate a website you haven't rated before. If you are a registered user, you will also receive further points from the following activities:
* Leaving comments on website scorecards
* Posting on the WOT website (forum, blog, poll etc.)

Please notice that the activity score won't update immediately after the activity, it's updated only '''once a day'''.

== User levels ==

=== Rank and activity score ===

Registered users are grouped in different ranks based on their activity score. These ranks are visible on the profile and as a border with a distinct color around their avatar elsewhere on the website. The current user levels and the activity point range for each are:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Activity score
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | User level
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Color
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Extra features
|-
| colspan="4" style="border-bottom: 1px solid gray" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | 10,000
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Platinum
| style="text-align: center; color: #CDD6DE" | ▉
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | [[Mass rating tool]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | 6000-9999
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Gold
| style="text-align: center; color: #D0BD85" | ▉
|
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | 3000-5999
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Silver
| style="text-align: center; color: #BFBFBF" | ▉
|
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | 1500-2999
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Bronze
| style="text-align: center; color: #E7B695" | ▉
|
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | 0-1499
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Rookie
| style="text-align: center; color: #6DCFF6" | ▉
|
|}

The scoring system uses a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale logarithmic scale], which means the more points you have, the more difficult it will be to increase your score.

=== Activity score-related changes ===

Effective 04 January, 2013, the [http://www.mywot.com/forum/22354-mass-rating-tool?comment=179432#comment-179432 activity score has been capped at 10,000 points]. There is no higher score achievable.

Also, the [http://www.mywot.com/community Community page] had displayed an ''active users list'' denoting top 100 users based on points achieved; this list has been removed.

Both actions have been taken to help curb plausible abuse of the [[Mass rating tool]].

== Extra features ==
Users may be granted access to the [[mass rating tool]] after reaching the Platinum level, assuming that their activity is not suspicious. This allows you to rate up to 100 sites at the same time, leaving each site the same rating and comment, and is useful when rating a large number of sites with the same owner, for example. You should always act ''responsibly'' when using the mass rating tool. Using it is a privilege, which will be taken away from users suspected of spamming.

Note: All Gold Level Members before the [http://www.mywot.com/blog/216-mass-rating-tool-changes-to-platinum-users mass rating tool update] '''will continue to have access''' to the tool.

User:John Daker

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Myxt:

Hello! I have come back to WOT Wiki after an extended WikiBreak. Still getting the hang of things again, so if I do anything stupid (or if you actually like anything I do), feel free to leave me a message here....

I'm currently working on finding potential malware websites such as gumblar.cn and am in thesis mode - so I may be on semi-frequent "wikibreaks" as my research and writing schedule require. If I don't get back to messages right away, this is usually why. I also contribute over on Wikipedia...

Cheers!
-John

----

I wrote a PM on your profile board - https://www.mywot.com/user/7296054 - because I don't do wiki; i.e., I normally won't follow or notice discussion here.

Regards - Myxt - https://www.mywot.com/user/2169182

User:John Daker

2015-11-24T07:11:09Z

Myxt: Messaging

Hello! I have come back to WOT Wiki after an extended WikiBreak. Still getting the hang of things again, so if I do anything stupid (or if you actually like anything I do), feel free to leave me a message here....

I'm currently working on finding potential malware websites such as [http://www.gumblar.cn] and am in thesis mode - so I may be on semi-frequent "wikibreaks" as my research and writing schedule require. If I don't get back to messages right away, this is usually why. I also contribute over on Wikipedia...

Cheers!
-John

____

I wrote a PM on your profile board - https://www.mywot.com/user/7296054 - because I don't do wiki; i.e., I normally won't follow or notice discussion here.

Regards - Myxt - https://www.mywot.com/user/2169182

Why is my site rated red?

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If you have a website that already has ratings posted on its WOT [[Scorecard]], and if you are dissatisfied with those ratings, you obviously want to fix the situation. But where do you start?

First, take a deep breath. Take a moment to calm down. It's alarming to find your site has a yellow or even a red rating, and your first thought may be that you have some personal enemy. That is rarely the case.

WOT ratings are the sum of all the votes of all the WOT members who expressed an opinion about your site. However, they are weighted based on how reliable each member's previous ratings have been. When a site doesn't have many ratings yet, they have less statistically reliability. But that means there is also more chance to dramatically change your site's ratings.

The [[WOT Forum]] is frequented by many volunteers who want WOT to be more useful and accurate. Some have high [[rating reliability]] scores; some don't. (Scores are secret, even from the members themselves.) These members also want to see more sites earn good WOT ratings by improving things like privacy and security. They want to help you. But they are volunteers and also want to be respected, just as you do. They are from all over the world and represent many languages and cultures. What is legal in your country may be illegal in theirs. You may need to look at your website in a new way.

So take a little time to orient yourself to WOT before you dive straight into a forum thread. Cool down before you end up in a flame war.

==Understanding WOT Ratings==

The first and most important thing to understand is that ''[http://www.mywot.com/wiki/Scorecard#Comments comments] are NOT [http://www.mywot.com/wiki/Scorecard#Reputation_rating ratings.]'' Ratings are the rainbow-colored numeric sliders on the top half of the [[Scorecard]] page. They determine your site's color coded "donut" and whether any warnings pop up when people visit your site.

Comments are the textual posts on the bottom half of the Scorecard. They are a chance for people to explain their ratings if they wish. But they are optional. Often the comments will seem to completely disagree with the rating, as often happens if large numbers of people rate a popular site highly, and the more security-conscious reviewers use the comments to point out why they disagree with the majority. 

[[File:Wot_security_scorecard.png|600px]]
 ''A WOT scorecard with no ratings or comments yet. The colored bars are for ratings.''
 

Comments do not affect ratings. A reviewer can comment without rating and rate without commenting. Someone can give your site an overall good rating while raising a red flag about one particular aspect of your site they consider concerning. If your site has a red rating, the comments people have posted may give you some hint of why, but the comments themselves are not the ''cause'' of the rating.

If your site has a green color background and the numeric rating sliders are in high numbers, ''your site has a good rating.'' If someone has posted a comment that says bad things about your site, keep calm. Negative comments can be addressed, of course. They can be removed or edited by the person who posted them. But you don't want to lose your good, green rating by behaving boorishly while trying to force someone to remove a comment that isn't really hurting your overall rating in the first place.

==="Meritocracy" vs. "Democracy"===

Nobody wants the fate of his site decided by some competitor who registered a hundred usernames on WOT and rated his site down. Nor does anyone want some mentally unstable person with nothing to do but post ratings on WOT to be unduly influencing things. That's why the WOT system weights each user's vote based on reputation. Reputation is secret, even from the users themselves. The votes of new users carry little weight. And the weight of their votes won't increase unless their ratings show reliability in terms of being in agreement with other users. In addition, there are algorithms to detect unusual rating activity that will reduce the weight of those unusual votes or even lead to members being banned.

A very active user -- even a "Platinum member" may not have a good reputation. Regardless of the activity level, his ratings may carry little weight. Don't get distracted by activity level and assume that some disagreeable user posting on the forum is the one responsible for your site's poor reputation.

Website owners often ask how they can improve their reputation. The obvious answer is for people who know and trust a site to rate it on WOT. But one effect of the weighting system is that telling hundreds of users to run over to WOT and rate one site will usually have almost no effect on its reputation (and could be interpreted as scorecard manipulation). The first ratings votes that users cast will have nearly zero weight. Tell your loyal users to join WOT, spend some time, learn about the rating system, read the wiki, rate a variety of sites they know to be trustworthy (or not), participate in the forum discussions, ''then'' come back and rate your site. Their votes will carry much more weight once they've rated enough sites that it becomes obvious which users are legitimate and which users are just being paid to spam a site's ratings.

===Ratings confidence===

On your website's scorecard, there are icons that look like a row of people's heads. Some of the heads may be a darker grey than the others. The number of shaded heads indicates the confidence of the rating level. A rating that is the result of few users, users with low reliability, or users that disagree with each other, will have a low confidence level. Such ratings are easier to change.

==WOT Means "Web of Trust"==

WOT is about "trust." That's a broad concept, and many people interpret it differently. '''It's not just about whether a site hosts pornography or computer viruses.''' Some people may consider a website trustworthy because the owner strongly believes in a principle, yet someone else may distrust his site precisely because he promotes that principle. Some people may distrust a website owner who is rude, yet someone else may consider them refreshingly honest. All those people have a right to express their opinions on WOT. Ideally, all of them respect free speech and only allow their personal biases come into play if they feel a web site is using deceit, intimidation, or other untrustworthy means of making its case. In the long run, if users can't make that distinction, their own reliability score will be lowered. But each vote, no matter how enfeebled by biased voting, will still be part of the overall rating.

==Hacked websites==

Hacking is probably the main reason good sites get bad ratings. People with obscure websites are dismayed to find their sites suddenly become well-known if there's something dangerous hosted there. The problem can also be related to the IP address where they are hosted, rather than the domain itself. (If you already know your site was compromised, it's not a good idea to post on the forum pretending to have no idea why your site has a red rating. The regular forum participants are perfectly capable of digging up that information and will be annoyed at you for wasting their time. Be up front about it, remove the blacklistings, tell them how you have improved your site's security, then ask how to move forward from there.)

There are a number of websites that collect and post reports of such incidents, such as [http://hosts-file.net/ hpHosts], [http://www.urlvoid.com/ URLVoid], [http://www.malwareurl.com/listing-urls.php MalwareURL], [http://joewein.net/bl-log/bl-log.htm Joe Wein's spam blocklist], [http://stopforumspam.com StopForumSpam], [http://support.clean-mx.de/clean-mx/login.php Clean-MX.de] (see midway down page for links to malware, misuse, and phish look ups), [http://projecthoneypot.org/search_ip.php Project Honey Pot], [https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php ZeusTracker], [http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml Spamcop.net], [http://www.phishtank.com/index.php PhishTank], [http://www.spamhaus.org/lookup.lasso Spamhaus] and other [http://www.mywot.com/wiki/Trusted_Sources trusted sources].

Using a search engine to look for mentions of your domain name on one of those can be very revealing. For instance, if your domain is called "example.com", Google will show all mentions of it on the clean-mx.de site with this search:

"example.com" site:clean-mx.de

Searching for mentions of your domain on the same page as the words "phish" or "malware" can also be useful. (The word "spam" occurs so often that searching for it tends to get too many unrelated hits.)

There's more information at [[How To Check For Blacklisting]].

==Marketing practices that hurt your site's reputation==

===Email spam===

Everyone hates spam. Even spammers don't want to receive it. But many people who use email marketing are surprised to be accused of sending spam. Email doesn't have to be about penile enlargement or erectile dysfunction to be spam.

It's important to understand that many forms of marketing that are not illegal (at least not in all countries) are still considered spam by recipients. The most basic definition of spam is either "unsolicited bulk email" (UBE) or "unsolicited commercial email" (UCE). But the "unsolicited" part is key. People can only handle a certain volume of email, and they don't want to receive more than that, no matter how reputable the sender. If every reputable company sent every recipient just one unsolicited email a month, the total volume would be overwhelming. That's why reputable companies don't do it.

Many new businesses want to jump into email marketing in a big way, and they try to use short cuts. It isn't possible to buy a list of "100% opt-in email addresses", because there's no way the people on that list could have opted in to receive email from ''you.'' You can't buy a software program that will magically increase your website traffic without risking your website being shut down or blacklisted. And it's risky to hire an outside company or to enlist affiliates to market for you, because you are going to be held responsible for their actions -- both legally and in terms of your company's reputation. You must build your email list by having your customers ''ask'' for your emailings. You do that over time, by building trust and offering value. Email marketers that use the best practices to make sure their email is welcome are also most successful at having it delivered and read. Having a longer list of email addresses does you no good if the messages end up in spam bins or get your mail server blacklisted.

In addition, it's important to use a technique called "double opt in" to prevent becoming a tool for pranksters subscribing other people to multiple email lists. After your visitors add email addresses to your list, you should send an email to those addresses to ask them to confirm. Tell them they must respond to the email to be added to the list, and that if they do not want mailings, they should simply ignore the email. ''DO NOT'' do the opposite -- don't ask them to ignore the email if they want mailings and to respond if they don't. That's how spammers confirm that email addresses on their lists are valid, so they can sell them at higher prices. Trying to make people opt out instead of inviting them to opt in will get you branded as a spammer.

===Forum spam, comment spam, astroturfing, sock puppets and other "blackhat SEO"===

In addition to the familiar email spam, the definition of spam has been expanded to cover other types of marketing that are intrusive because they make use of other people's resources without permission or compensation. "Forum spam" or "comment spam" means posting on other people's websites for off-topic marketing purposes, using functions designed for on-topic discussions. Obvious examples are totally off-topic posts (discussions of sites selling shoes on a forum for discussing French impressionists, for instance), but your reputation will also be harmed by multiple forum registrations by "users" who make lame "I agree" and "this-is-a-great-website" posts to include links in their signatures or forum profiles for marketing purposes.

"Astroturfing" refers to posts that pretend to be endorsements from real customers of a product/service but which are really just ads by hired shills (trying to pretend there is a fake "grassroots" reputation). A company that needs to do that doesn't appear to have much confidence in its own ability to achieve customer satisfaction. That hurts trust. "Sock puppets" is similar -- one user creating multiple accounts to have a conversation with themselves, usually with one user account posing a problem and another offering a solutions that involves visiting the sponsor's website. (Imagine a puppeteer with a hand puppet on each hand pretending they're talking to one another.)

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the science of trying to make sure your website is "found" by search engines and that it isn't buried in the deeper pages of search results. The right way to do that is to make sure your site has text and meta tags that include key words that represent your website accurately, as well as by making sure your site isn't constructed in such a way as to prevent the search engine bots from finding those key words. Then people who want to find your site are able to do so more easily. The wrong way is by forum spamming, astroturfing, creating useless websites whose only function is to create links to other sites, "link exchanges", "blog blasting" software, or other methods whose goal is to get your site in the top of every search, regardless of whether the Google user wants to find sites like yours or not. In addition to harming your reputation at WOT, you may find that Google will eventually adjust its ranking algorithm if they find your site is being misrepresented. The result can be completely deleting your site from any search results. It's like getting the search engine death penalty.

Innocent website owners are constantly being approached by scammers who claim that they can improve their sites' search engine ranking. While a rewrite of your website's code may be very beneficial, anyone who makes promises about boosting your Google ranking should be suspect. Certainly anyone who sends you spam in order to get you to use their SEO services is unclear on the concept of "reputation." Do not become involved with such people. It's nearly impossible to remove spammy posts on neglected forums whose owners have lost interest. Those posts remain as evidence of past misconduct and can make the harm to your site's reputation very long-lived.

==Trust issues==

Sometimes there are simply trust issues with a website. Common ones:
* Your site requests information and perhaps money from users, but it has [http://www.mywot.com/wiki/Privacy_protected_domain_registration privacy-protected registration], is registered to a postal drop box, or otherwise lacks transparency without valid reason
* Your site requests personal information but doesn't have a [http://www.mywot.com/wiki/Privacy_Policy privacy policy]
* Your site has a privacy policy that allows you to share identifiable data about your users without a compelling reason
* Your site appears to collect more information than is necessary to carry out its functions
* Your site requests more detailed information than name/email address, but it doesn't have a valid SSL certificate issued in the name of the domain that is using it.
* Your site sets cookies that come from third-party sites, cookies which are longer-lasting than necessary, or cookies which are not explained in the privacy policy
* Your site has [http://www.mywot.com/wiki/Web_Bug web bugs]
* Your site promotes illegal activity or activity many people consider immoral (counterfeit goods, illegal drugs, gambling, pornography)
* Your site is part of a multilevel marketing program
* Your site is selling financial services or work-at-home programs by advertising the profits made in atypically successful cases (particularly when your affiliates would end up cutting into each others' profits if they all worked that hard)
* Your site is about that famously controversial pair of topics, religion or politics, which typically attract extremes of opinion -- especially if the number of people who disagree with you far exceeds the number who agree. In some cases, such as sites promoting extremely unpopular opinions, it simply isn't going to be possible to get a good rating from WOT. WOT's ratings measure something different from what your site is trying to achieve.

==Why do some users have such high post counts?==

Some WOT members are researchers into internet crime, spam, and other security/safety issues. Because dangerous sites are constantly being shut down, criminals respond by registering new ones by the thousands. It's therefore far easier to find bad sites than good ones. People who concentrate on rating bad ones can get very high post counts. Once they have established their credibility over the course of submitting a large number of ratings and forum posts, they may be given access to the [http://www.mywot.com/wiki/Mass_rating_tool Mass Rating Tool (MRT).] When a researcher has a list of hundreds of identical sites that all need identical ratings and comments, the MRT permits them to do so in groups of 100. The MRT user is required to leave a comment to explain how he/she rated and why. Should you feel your site was given an erroneous rating or that an old rating no longer applies, you can usually contact MRT users via private message or by posting a thread in the "Site Evaluations" forum (if you own the website), or otherwise in the "Reputation Discussions" forum.

==How can my site have a red rating if there are no comments (or most of the comments are positive)?==

Repeat after me: ''"Ratings are not comments."'' You can rate without commenting and comment without rating. You can leave a negative comment despite giving a site an overall good rating, and vice versa. A comment that clearly spells out the reason for a rating can magnify the influence of a user by convincing other people to rate similarly, but it is not required. People using WOT as a browser add-on may be quickly rating obviously bad sites they run into while doing an internet search; they don't necessarily need to take the time to stop and compose a comment for every useless scammy site clawing its way into higher Google rankings by using misleading keywords. Requiring comments would discourage participation from most users and would allow more scammy sites to remain unrated.

The only time comments are required is when experienced users are rating multiple sites using the [[Mass rating tool]]. In that case, not only must they leave a comment, they must allow people to send them private messages to ask for more information. Though high activity level may not always translate into a high reputation weighting, experienced users at least have been rating enough sites to have had a chance to build reputation. The longer someone has been posting, the less likely it is for someone who is abusing the WOT rating system to escape detection.

If your site seems unfairly rated, you will find it frustrating to have no explanation in the comments. On the other hand, since the experienced users are more accustomed to leaving comments, a scorecard with no comments may be one whose rating is easier to improve with more ratings.

==I still think someone is rating my site poor for malicious reasons==

Face it, everyone can rate on WOT, and some of those people are immature trolls. If you believe someone is attempting to manipulate a site's scorecard ratings, the appropriate course of action is to submit your concerns to WOT's administrators using this form:
http://www.mywot.com/en/support/feedback

Starting a thread to post public accusations is not encouraged. Such accusations usually cannot be substantiated and merely make the accuser's own site look less trustworthy. The administrators have access to information about who has rated and from which IP addresses, and they place a high priority on preventing scorecard manipulation.

==What if I still can't find any problems?==

Come to the [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum forums]. Read the [http://www.mywot.com/wiki/WOT_Forum information] in this wiki about using the forum, read a few other threads to get the idea of how to get help without starting a flame war, then start a thread to ask for help (only one thread, please, and '''remember to include the URL of the site you're asking about''', with the "http" changed to "hxxp"). The regular volunteers at WOT have a lot of experience tracking down problems and analyzing sites. It can be hard seeing your site dissected in detail. But please realize volunteers spend a lot of time providing a valuable analysis of your site at no charge to you. Keep your cool, look at the information dispassionately, ask detailed questions if you don't understand, then go back to your site and reevaluate things.

If someone has left a negative comment on your site's scorecard, it is appropriate to send that particular user a private message to request they reconsider. Better yet, provide the user a link to [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/request_review a thread you have started through the regular process for having your site evaluated.] It is NOT appropriate to send private messages at random to users you have seen posting on the forum. If you send private messages to request ratings from members who have not previously given your site any ratings or comments, it is considered spamming. Your request will either be ignored or will bring unfavorable attention on your website. There are thousands of sites requesting ratings, and it is unreasonable to expect members to deal with private messages from all of them.

==For more information==

The [http://www.mywot.com/en/faq/search?terms=Why+is+my+site's+reputation+bad%3F WOT FAQ] and the [http://www.mywot.com/wiki/FAQ Wiki FAQ] can help answer more questions in detail. Look them over before submitting your site for review. To get an idea of how much depth is contained in this wiki, take a look at the [http://www.mywot.com/wiki/Special:AllPages "All Pages"] page.

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The protection of PII is important to maintain public trust and confidence in an organization, to protect the reputation of an organization, and to protect against legal liability for an organization. Organizations have always considered trust, confidence, and reputation as motivating factors in protecting PII. Recently, organizations have become more concerned about the risk of legal liability due to the enactment of many US federal, state, and international privacy laws.

==Examples of PII Data==
The following list contains examples of information that may be considered PII.

* Name, such as full name, maiden name, mother’s maiden name, or alias

* Personal identification number (PIN), such as your Social Security Number (SSN), passport number, driver’s license number, taxpayer identification number, patient identification number, and financial account or credit card number.

* Address information, such as street address or email address.

* Asset information, such as Internet Protocol (IP) or Media Access Control (MAC) address or other host-specific persistent static identifier that consistently links to a particular person or small, well-defined group of people.

* Telephone numbers, including mobile, business, and personal numbers.

* Personal characteristics, including photographic image (especially of face or other distinguishing characteristic), x-rays, fingerprints, or other biometric image or template data (e.g., retina scans, voice signature, facial geometry).

* Information identifying personally owned property, such as vehicle registration or identification number, and title numbers and related information.

* Information about an individual that is linked or linkable to one of the above (e.g., date of birth, place of birth, race, religion, weight, activities, or employment, medical, education, or financial information).

===Source===
NIST Special Publication 800-122 [http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-122/sp800-122.pdf PDF]
<blockquote>National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-122 Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. Spec. Publ. 800-122, 59 pages (Apr. 2010) ''Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII): Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Computer Security Division Information Technology Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8930''</blockquote>

===Web forms / registrations===
If your site has a simple web form to email script or simple forum / newsletter subscription registration most likely you are not gathering any ''personally identifiable information''. If you request a name without requiring first and last names, any "name" can be given.
====Examples of non-PII====
; A simple Contact Us form requesting :
:* name
:* email
:* website
:* subject
:* message

; Site / Forum registration requesting :
:* name
:* user name
:* password
:* date of birth ([[Privacy_Policy#COPPA|COPPA]] compliance)
:* email

; Newsletter subscription :
:* email

====Examples of PII====
; A Contact Us form ''requesting'' :
:* name
:* address
:* city / state / province
:* zip-code / postal code
:* phone / mobile number
:* email
:* website
:* subject
:* message

; Site / Forum registration ''requiring'' :
:* first name
:* last name
:* User name
:* location / address (full or partial)
:* phone / mobile number
:* Password
:* Date of birth ([[Privacy_Policy#COPPA|COPPA]] compliance)
:* email

==Australian Data Protection Act==
[https://www.privacyinternational.org/reports/australia Privacy International Australia report]
<blockquote>The Australian Senate on 6 December 2000 approved the [http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/Privacybill/contents.htm Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill] which extends privacy protections to the private sector. The bill was strongly criticized by privacy advocates and the opposition political party as being far too weak. [http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/SenatePBSub2000.html Commentary] by privacy expert Roger Clarke who describes the bill as "the world's worst privacy legislation." The European Commission has also expressed concern that the law would not be adequate for trans-border data flows.</blockquote>
[http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/Privacybill/contents.htm Advisory Report on the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill 2000]

Also reference: [http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Privacy/privacy.html Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc.]

==Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act==
===Individual rights===
* know why an organization collects, uses or discloses their personal information;
* ''more''
===Organizations requirements===
* obtain consent when they collect, use or disclose their personal information;
* ''more''

sources:
* Wikipedia [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Personal_Information_Protection_and_Electronic_Documents_Act article]
* [http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/P-8.6/ Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (2000, c. 5)]
* [http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/P-21/index.html Privacy Act (R.S., 1985, c. P-21)]

==Dutch / Netherlands==
* The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Ducth DPA) : http://www.dutchdpa.nl/
: ''supervises the fair and lawful use and security of your personal data, to ensure your privacy today and in the future.''

==European Union Data Protection Directive==

''officially Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data''

The '''Data Protection Directive''' is a European Union directive which regulates the processing of personal data within the [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/European_Union European Union].

source: [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive Wikipedia entry]

===European Commission: Justice and Home affairs===
* [http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/index_en.htm Data Protection]
: (alternate) [http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/index_en.htm Protection of personal data]
* [http://ec.europa.eu/justice/doc_centre/privacy/law/index_en.htm Legislative documents]

==Hungary Data Protection Bill==
* [http://abiweb.obh.hu/dpc/ Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information]
* privacyinternational.org - [http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2003/countries/hungary.htm visit]

==Finland / Sweden==
Information security and protection of privacy in electronic communications.
* Finlex : http://www.finlex.fi/
* Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) : http://www.ficora.fi/
*: [http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/2004/en20040516.pdf Act on the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications (PPEC 516/2004)] (PDF - English translation)

==Federative Republic of Brazil==

Article 5 of the 1988 Constitution of Brazil provides that ''"the privacy, private life, honor and image of persons are inviolable, and the right to compensation for property or moral damages resulting from their violation is ensured."''

Reference:
* privacyinternational.org - [http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2003/countries/brazil.htm visit]

==India Privacy Laws==

No specific legislation pertaining to data protection and privacy has been enacted in India. The Indian government is currently considering the idea of enacting a detailed law on data protection under the initiative of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.

References:
* privacyinternational.org - [http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2003/countries/india.htm visit]
* dsci.in - [http://www.dsci.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94&Itemid=79 visit]

==New Zealand==

* The Privacy Commissioner's Office - [http://privacy.org.nz/ visit]
* Privacy Act 1993 - [http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0028/latest/DLM296639.html visit]

==UK Data Protection Act 1998==

[http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?activeTextDocId=3190610 Data Protection Act 1998 (c. 29)] 
[https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998 Wikipedia article]
<blockquote>The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which defines UK law on the processing of data on identifiable living people. It is the main piece of legislation that governs the protection of personal data in the UK. Although the Act itself does not mention privacy, it was enacted to bring UK law into line with the European Directive of 1995 which required Member States to protect people's fundamental rights and freedoms and in particular their right to privacy with respect to the processing of personal data. In practice it provides a way for individuals to control information about themselves.</blockquote>

== United States ==

United States privacy law embodies several different legal concepts. One is the invasion of privacy, a tort based in common law allowing an aggrieved party to bring a lawsuit against an individual who unlawfully intrudes into his or her private affairs, discloses his or her private information, publicizes him or her in a false light, or appropriates his or her name for personal gain. Public figures have less privacy, and this is an evolving area of law as it relates to the media.

The essence of the law derives from a right to privacy, defined broadly as "the right to be let alone." It usually excludes personal matters or activities which may reasonably be of public interest, like those of celebrities or participants in newsworthy events. Invasion of the right to privacy can be the basis for a lawsuit for damages against the person or entity violating the right. These include the Fourth Amendment right to be free of unwarranted search or seizure, the First Amendment right to free assembly, and the Fourteenth Amendment due process right, recognized by the Supreme Court as protecting a general right to privacy within family, marriage, motherhood, procreation, and child rearing.

source: [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Privacy_laws_of_the_United_States Wikipedia - Privacy laws of the United States]

=== California's Online Privacy Protection Act ===

According to California's Online Privacy Protection Act (OPPA), all online businesses that "collects personally identifiable information through the Internet about individual consumers residing in California" must have a [[Privacy Policy]] on its website. If a website fails to add a Privacy Policy within 30 days of being notified to do so, then it is in violation of this Act.
[http://leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=22001-23000&file=22575-22579 California Law Code]

=== US Information Technology Law ===

* [http://www.law.stanford.edu/program/centers/ttlf/law/us/it/ law.stanford.edu]

== Other countries - data protection ==
* Austria [AT] : http://www.dsk.gv.at/
* Belgium [BE] : http://www.privacy.fgov.be/
* Bulgaria [BG] : http://www.cpdp.bg/
* Cyprus [CY] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.cy/
* Czech Republic [CZ] : http://www.uoou.cz/
* Denmark [DK] : http://www.datatilsynet.dk/
* Estonia [EE] : http://www.dp.gov.ee/?js=1
* Finland [FI] : http://www.tietosuoja.fi/
* France [FR] : http://www.cnil.fr/
* Germany [DE] : http://www.bfd.bund.de/
* Greece [GR] : http://www.dpa.gr/
* Hungary [HU] : http://www.obh.hu/
* Ireland [IE] : http://www.dataprivacy.ie/
* Iceland [IS]: http://www.personuvernd.is/tolvunefnd.nsf/pages/index.html
* Italy [IT] : http://www.garanteprivacy.it/
* Latvia [LV] : http://www.dvi.gov.lv/
* Liechtenstein [LI] : http://www.dss.llv.li/
* Lithuania [LT] : http://www.ada.lt/
* Luxembourg [LU] : http://www.cnpd.lu/
* Malta [MT] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.mt/
* Norway [NO] : http://www.datatilsynet.no/
* Netherlands [NL] : http://www.cbpweb.nl/
* Portugal [PT] : http://www.cnpd.pt/
* Poland [PL] : http://www.giodo.gov.pl/
* United Kingdom [UK]: http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk/
* Romania [RO] : http://www.dataprotection.ro/
* Slovakia [SK] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.sk/
* Slovenia [SI] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.sk/
* Spain [ES] : http://www.agpd.es/
* Sweden [SE] : http://www.datainspektionen.se/
* Switzerland [CH] : http://www.edsb.ch/
*: http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/235_1/index.html

 
see also: [[Privacy Policy|Privacy Policy]]

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All works on the Web of Trust Wiki are protected by the BY-SA (Attribution-Share Alike) 3.0 Unported licence - [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons for more info.]

WOT Android app

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The unofficial WOT Android app created by user: [https://www.mywot.com/user/6712132 Matiks]

[https://www.mywot.com/forum/54448-wot-android-app?comment=292542#comment-292542 Forum discussion] as announced on March 4th 2015

Tap and trust can be downloaded from here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.matiks.mywot

URL shortening services

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On May 24, 2011, WOT began supporting URL shorteners. Currently (09/28/2012) supported are:

* 4sq.com
* abcn.ws
* aol.it
* apne.ws
* bbc.in
* bit.ly
* bitly.com
* bzfd.it
* clck.ru
* cs.pn
* d3w.io
* dlvr.it
* eca.sh
* engt.co
* es.pn
* exm.nr
* f.ast.ly
* fa.by
* flpbd.it
* gd.is
* goo.gl
* gu.com
* ht.ly
* huff.to
* ind.pn
* is.gd
* j.mp
* lat.ms
* lnkd.in
* migre.me
* n.pr
* nblo.gs
* nyr.kr
* nyti.ms
* on.cnn.com
* on.mash.to
* on.msnbc.com
* ow.ly
* pep.si
* ping.fm
* politi.co
* post.ly
* rww.to
* su.pr
* t.co
* tcrn.ch
* tgr.ph
* thkpr.gs
* tiny.ly
* tinyurl.com
* tl.gd
* tldr.us
* tr.im
* usat.me
* wapo.st
* wp.me
* x.co
* yhoo.it

Add to this list if a new URL shortening service is added.

Activity scores

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Users are rewarded activity points for rating websites and writing comments. All users have an activity score, which is visible on the add-on's rating window and profile pages.

'''Note''': 
The activity score has nothing to do with an individual's [[Rating reliability|rating reliability]].

== Earning activity points ==
You receive activity points every time you rate a website you haven't rated before. If you are a registered user, you will also receive further points from the following activities:
* Leaving comments on website scorecards
* Posting on the WOT website (forum, blog, poll etc.)

Please notice that the activity score won't update immediately after the activity, it's updated only '''once a day'''.

== User levels ==

=== Rank and activity score ===

Registered users are grouped in different ranks based on their activity score. These ranks are visible on the profile and as a border with a distinct color around their avatar elsewhere on the website. The current user levels and the activity point range for each are:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 50px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Activity score
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | User level
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Color
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Extra features
|-
| colspan="4" style="border-bottom: 1px solid gray" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | 10,000
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Platinum
| style="text-align: center; color: #CDD6DE" | ▉
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | [[Mass rating tool]]
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | 6000-9999
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Gold
| style="text-align: center; color: #D0BD85" | ▉
|
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | 3000-5999
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Silver
| style="text-align: center; color: #BFBFBF" | ▉
|
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | 1500-2999
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Bronze
| style="text-align: center; color: #E7B695" | ▉
|
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | 0-1499
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Rookie
| style="text-align: center; color: #6DCFF6" | ▉
|
|}

The scoring system uses a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale logarithmic scale], which means the more points you have, the more difficult it will be to increase your score.

=== Activity score-related changes ===

Effective 04 January, 2013, the [http://www.mywot.com/forum/22354-mass-rating-tool?comment=179432#comment-179432 activity score has been capped at 10,000 points]. There is no higher score achievable.

Also, the [http://www.mywot.com/community Community page] had displayed an ''active users list'' denoting top 100 users based on points achieved; this list has been removed.

Both actions have been taken to help curb plausible abuse of the [[Mass rating tool]].

== Extra features ==
Users may be granted access to the [[mass rating tool]] after reaching the Platinum level, assuming that their activity is not suspicious. This allows you to rate up to 100 sites at the same time, leaving each site the same rating and comment, and is useful when rating a large number of sites with the same owner, for example. You should always act ''responsibly'' when using the mass rating tool. Using it is a privilege, which will be taken away from users suspected of spamming.

Note: All Gold Level Members before the [http://www.mywot.com/blog/216-mass-rating-tool-changes-to-platinum-users mass rating tool update] '''will continue to have access''' to the tool.

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Malware submission

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Submit a suspicious file for evaluation or submit a file that is safe but identified as Malware (FP / False Positive).

==Email submissions==
*Email list for multiple AV vendors and online AV scanners - [http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-report-malware-or-false-positives-multiple-antivirus-vendors.htm#List_Of_All_Vendors List Of All Vendors]

==Authentium==
*Submit virus sample (email or FTP) - http://www.authentium.com/mainv2/submitsample.htm

==Avast!==
*How can I submit a new virus to Avast!? - [https://support.avast.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=199&nav=0,2 Knowledgebase article]

==AVG==
*How To Handle Infection Suspicion? - [http://forums.avg.com/us-en/avg-free-forum?sec=thread&act=show&id=397 Official forums topic]
*Put the file into password-protected archive and email the archive to virus@avg.com with a brief description as well as the password you used to archive it with.

==Avira AntiVir==
*Submit your sample - http://analysis.avira.com/samples/

==BitDefender==
*Virus Submission, how to submit viruses or samples to us - [http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=84 Forum topic]

==CA Antivirus / eTrust-Vet==
*CA Global Security Advisor - http://www.ca.com/us/global-security-advisor.aspx
*Submit malware - http://www.totaldefense.com/support/submit-a-malware-sample.aspx

==ClamAV==
*Submit suspicious file ''or'' false positive (clean but detected) - http://cgi.clamav.net/sendvirus.cgi

==Comodo==
*Submit suspicious file or false positive - http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-security/submit.php

==DrWeb==
*Submit suspicious file or false positive - https://vms.drweb.com/sendvirus/

== Emisoft ==
* Submit samples - http://support.emsisoft.com/forum/57-malware-submissions/
: requires forum registration

==ESET | NOD32==
*Virus Sample Submit System - http://samples.nod32.com.sg/

==F-Prot==
*Submission form for suspicious file(s) - http://www.f-prot.com/virusinfo/submission_form.html
*Submission form for reporting a false positive - http://www.f-prot.com/virusinfo/false_positive_form.html

==F-Secure==
*Submit Samples - http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA/security/submit-samples/

==Fortinet / FortiGuard==
*Submit a sample - http://www.fortiguard.com/antivirus/submit.html

==Lavasoft / Ad-Aware==
*Upload Malware Samples - http://www.lavasoft.com/support/securitycenter/file_upload.php

==McAfee==
*How to Submit Samples to McAfee Labs - http://vil.nai.com/vil/submit-sample.aspx

==Microsoft Malware Protection Center==
*Submit a sample - https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Submission/Submit.aspx

==Norman==
*Submit file for SandBox analysis - http://www.norman.com/security_center/security_tools/submit_file/

==PCTools==
*Submit Spyware [Malware] samples - http://www.pctools.com/mrc/submit/

==Quick Heal==
*Submit sample - http://www.quickheal.co.in/submit_sample.asp
*Submit false positive - http://www.quickheal.co.in/submit_fp.asp

==Sophos==
*Sample submission form - https://secure.sophos.com/support/samples

==SUPERAntiSpyware==
*SUPERSampleSubmit - Submit Samples (''software utility'') - http://www.superantispyware.com/downloads/SUPERSampleSubmit.exe

==Symantec==
*Submit Virus Samples - http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/submitsamples.jsp

==TrendMicro==
*Submission Wizard - http://subwiz.trendmicro.com/SubWiz/Default.asp

==Webroot==
*Sample submission is only available to Webroot product users - [http://support.webroot.com/cgi-bin/webroot.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php Ask a question]

WordPress

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This guide is just the basics to new, non-technical WordPress users. For more advanced technical users, follow the guide on WordPress (Hardening WordPress) - http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress.

==Keep Up to Date==

The first rule is quite simple, keep WordPress up to date, all your plug-ins, and all your themes up to date. Each update is usually because a bug has been found and corrected, new vulnerabilities being found and corrected, or just the functionality has been improved. It is important that you keep all aspects of your WordPress site up to date. The most common cause of your site being exploited is due to some part being outdated.

==Remove unused features==

If you have several themes installed, these can still be exploited whether active or not. Once you have settled on a theme for your site, remove any extra themes from your server.

This is also true for plugins for your WordPress site, even inactive plugins can still be exploited, so any plugins you no longer use, delete these files from your server.

==Reduce Spam==
Through your settings in the dashboard it is advised that you disallow the usage of PingBacks as these can be abused by spammers. Also make sure all comments need admin approval before being displayed on the site. There is an option that will allow a user that has 1 approved comment then be allowed to make other comments without prior approval, switch this off, as it is better just to approve each comment as they are made.

==Recommended Plugins==

*'''Askimet Plugin''' - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/
*:Comments are checked against the Askimet web service to see if the comments look like spam. Any spam comments are moved to a spam folder for you to review at a later date. Very good accuracy rate.

*'''Stop Spammers Registration Plugin''' - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/
*:Any email address that is being used to register on your site is automatically checked against the Stop Forum Spam database. If a match is found they cannot register with your site.

*'''Project Honey Pot Spam Trap''' - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/project-honey-pot-spam-trap/
*:Invisible links are scattered throughout your blog that only Bots can see. Their IP addresses will be tagged and this info will be sent back to ProjectHoneyPot.org

*'''Secure WordPress''' - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/secure-wordpress/
*:Registered users can have a lot of access to useful information that will help them if they decide to hack your site. This plugin will remove some of that information (as well as doing some other minor tweaks) such as removing update notices to non-admins, removes the WordPress version number, error-information on login page, etc.

*'''Login Lockdown''' - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-lockdown/
*:Every failed log-in attempt is logged (IP Address and Timestamp). If a certain amount of log-in attempts are failed within a short time period then the log-in function is disabled for one hour (default setting) for the IP range.

*'''WordPress Firewall 2 ''' - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-firewall-2/
*:This has been updated due to bug fixes on WordPress Firewall. Scans every request made on your site and blocks suspicious requests and notifies the blog admin of any reported attack on the site. Very handy for reducing SQL attacks against a WordPress site as well as many other useful security features.

*'''Lockdown WP Admin''' - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lockdown-wp-admin/
*:Prevent access to WP Admin area by renaming the yourdomain.com/wp-admin/ to yourdomain.com/anythingyoulike/, this is a very handy plugin which hides your wp-admin login area preventing malicious users from trying to access your site through brute force attacks.

Pointless forum threads

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Some forum threads are totally pointless. They have been referred to as "Dead on Arrival" (DoA). They can waste a lot of members time for no reason and should be avoided.

==Departure posts==

People who are unhappy with their web sites' ratings sometimes start threads to tell other forum participants that they have uninstalled WOT and will not be visiting the forum again. Usually instead of mentioning the site they consider misrated or the particular thing they think WOT should do differently, they call the entire WOT system worthless and unreliable. It's sure to get an angry response from people who volunteer a lot of time contributing ratings to WOT.

There's no point continuing a thread if the Original Poster (OP) has quit and won't read it. It's best to ignore such threads.

==Trolls==

Trolls amuse themselves by creating inflammatory posts just to watch people get angry and argue against them. They have no interest in sharing or learning new information. Although they aren't completely absent from the thread, they might as well be.

There's no point spending a lot of time creating a carefully crafted rebuttal to a position the troll doesn't even believe himself. Again, it's best to ignore such threads. They only make the forum less welcoming to new people coming in on the middle of angry and pointless discussions.

==How NOT to be mistaken for a troll==

Plenty of people come to WOT forums with legitimate concerns and grievances. A productive discussion can improve your website and get you a strongly positive WOT review. But a discussion that starts out badly can get worse quickly. Tips for starting a thread when you have a problem:

1. Read the [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/4908-forum-guidelines Forum Guidelines]

2. Read the [http://www.mywot.com/wiki/Main_Page wiki]. (We recognize it can be difficult to find. If you found this page, congratulations, you're in the right section.) There is a lot of information in the wiki about how WOT works and about what criteria people will use to rate your web site. They are called "Frequently Asked Questions" for a reason. If you ask people to spend their time addressing a complaint that is already answered here, it is disrespectful of forum members' time. If you ask for your website to be rated before making sure you have appropriate privacy and security, it makes your site's shortcomings seem more significant than its strengths.

3. Mention the website you're concerned about. Don't make vague complaints that there are misrated websites. Of course there are misrated websites. Otherwise there would be no need for anyone to add their own ratings. If you want ''YOUR'' web site's rating to be corrected, let people know what it is.

4. Be specific and honest about your problems. Don't pretend you have no idea why there's a bad rating. If your site was hacked and had a phishing page on it, hey, it happens to the best of us. Tell us how you addressed the vulnerability and secured your site. Tell us what other rating sites and blacklists you've contacted to remove the negative ratings. Give us a timeline so we can correlate the problems you've corrected with the dates of negative comments.

5. If you have complaints about the behavior of any particular people, post evidence. For instance, if all the members of a rival forum discussed trashing your forum's ratings, post a link or screen shot of the thread. If a political blogger made a suggestion that people should express their opinions on your WOT scorecard, post a link to that article.

6. If your site is controversial, try to maintain distance on your own views. Tell forum members what the issues discussed on your site are and why you feel your site is making a valid contribution to the public debate. You have a right to free speech; other people have a right to consider your site untrustworthy if they feel it is distorting or concealing facts. People who vote your site down just because they don't agree probably will have very little weight to their reputation. Ratings from them won't have much effect.

7. Use your head before you type, and read your message several times in "preview" mode before you post. The WOT members with the strongest reputations -- the ones whose ratings can help your site the most -- contribute a lot of time here. If you tell them you think WOT is a complete waste of their time, you're not starting out on the right foot. If you have an argument about something a particular member wrote, be respectful and understand that most people are trying to help you. Members with high reputations get them by being quick to correct any errors that are pointed out to them. If you are belligerent, you're not likely to effectively communicate the reason you feel they have made mistakes, and you won't get corrective action. And you won't gather sympathy from other members who do respect them. WOT forum members have more sites asking for ratings than they have time to rate; you don't want your site to be the last one on everyone's list for review.

8. That being said, it's true that there are some people with high activity scores who can be disagreeable. Activity score is not the same as reputation, and being "Platinum" doesn't mean your ratings are more meaningful. There are people who are quick to take offense over things that are merely problems with machine translations between your languages. There are people who have personality issues. If they can't get past those shortcomings to rate objectively, they aren't likely to have high reputations. They aren't the people who can change your site's reputation much one way or the other. Don't be too quick to become defensive and get sucked into arguments with such people; just make sure you are stating your position clearly and let the other members help you steer the discussion in a more moderate direction.

Add-on Settings

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WOT has different abilities based upon the browser it is added to, these restrictions are imposed by the browser developer, consider them "rules set up for third-party extensions."

Video tutorial: [http://www.mywot.com/support/tutorials/21 How to customize WOT settings].

== Access settings ==
{| style="width: 98%"
|- valign="top"
|Both your Profile page and your Settings page are available from the pop-up rating window via any browser.
|
[[File:Wot_rating_window.png|thumb|pop-up rating window]]
|}
=== Browser specific toolbar access ===
{| style="width: 98%"
|- valign="top"
|
;Firefox Right-click toolbar icon menu
:Check for updates
:My WOT
:'''Settings'''
:enabled
|
[[File:Settings_Access-Firefox.png|thumb|right|Firefox toolbar menu]]
|- valign="top"
|
;Internet Explorer Right-click toolbar icon menu
:Check for updates
:My WOT
:'''Settings'''
:enabled
|
[[File:Settings_Access-IE.png|thumb|right|Internet Explorer toolbar menu]]
|- valign="top"
|
;Opera option not available
:Settings access via pop-up [[rating window]] only
|
[[File:Settings_Access-Opera.png|thumb|right|Opera pop-up rating window]]
|}

==Settings menu==
# [[#Guide|Guide]]
# [[#Ratings|Ratings]] - ''default''
# [[#Warnings|Warnings]]
# [[#Searching|Searching]]
# [[#Popup|Popup]]
# [[#Advanced|Advanced]]

===Guide===

===Ratings (default)===

===Warnings===

===Searching===

===Popup===

===Advanced===
[[File:Settings_Advanced_Firefox.png|thumb|right|Advanced Settings browser: Firefox ]]
The following options let you control some advanced add-on features. We recommend that you use the system’s default settings.

<ol style="list-style-type:square">
<li>Log in automatically to mywot.com and enable features that require the add-on (recommended) ✓ ''default''</li>
<li>Re-create the toolbar button if it gets removed (recommended) ✓ ''default''</li>
<li>Enable color blind accessible version
<blockquote>Tip! WOT blog article with video: [http://www.mywot.com/blog/187-wot-has-a-colorblind-version WOT has a Colorblind version].</blockquote></li>
<li>Disable the add-on while in Private Browsing mode</li>
</ol>

Remember to click '''Apply settings''' to save any selection changes you have made.

====Ignore (Whitelist)====
You can enter IP's and/or host names to tell WOT not to check for reputation, disabling warnings/blocking for listed domain(s).

Ignore the following sites: (Example: localhost, .example.com, 127.0.0.)

<div style="margin-left:25px;padding:5px 20px;border:1px solid #333333;width:auto;max-width:400px;height:100px;"> </div>
: ''default:'' empty, no entries

Remember to click '''Apply settings''' to save any entries or edits you have made.

; Input
: CSV comma separated values
: ''localhost, .example.com, 127.0.0., 192.168.0.1''
; Allowed wildcards:
: * (asterisk)
: includes all subdomains. example: ''*.blogspot.com'' ignores blogspot.com and all user blogs
; IP
: single: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx example: 127.0.0.1
: range: xxx.xxx.xxx. example: 127.0.0.
: range: xxx.xxx. example: 127.0.
: note: trailing decimal is '''required'''

Privacy protected domain registration

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Domain names -- the names of websites, like "google.com" or "mywot.com" -- must be registered to assign ownership of the domain name to the proper party and to make sure anyone trying to visit the website with that domain name will be able to find it. The registries for domain names set rules for their respective registrations. Some of the most commonly registered domains are those ending in .com, and the registry for those requires the registrant's name, address, and email address to be public.

That's helpful for contacting someone if there is some emergency affecting his website, but it also provides spammers a rich source of email addresses to harvest. In response, most registrars offer the option of privacy protection, or proxy domain registration.

In a privacy protected domain registration, the domain owner allows the proxy registration company to register the domain in its own name. Ideally, the registrant's rights are protected by the terms of the agreement with the proxy company. But when all is said and done, the registrant does NOT own his own domain name. The proxy registration company does.

Proxy registrations may be perfectly appropriate for noncommercial websites like family photo sharing sites or personal blogs. However, when sites that collect personal information on visitors are unwilling to reveal their own information in their domain registration, it casts doubt on how trustworthy they are. In addition, since no one would use a proxy registration for a highly valuable domain, it also casts doubt on whether the domain owner intends to be in business long enough to build brand recognition.

If you are a business that collects money, mails product and accepts returns, you have a mailing address. Use it in your domain registration. It just works out better in so many ways.

Authentic brands / products

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* [http://www.mywot.com/forum/4497-green-for-the-good-guys Green for "the good guys"]
: RFC-Ignorant
: SURBL
: ClamAV
: Spamhaus
: AbuseButler
: Spacequad
: Joewein
: uribl

WOT Groups

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[[File:WOT_Groups-beta.png|300px|thumb|right|WOT Groups beta]]
01 April 2014

[https://www.mywot.com/forum/44100-hashtags?comment=246810#comment-246810 Announcement] made in the forum discussion: [https://www.mywot.com/forum/44100-hashtags Hashtags] by Donsorg
<blockquote>we are ready to introduce a new section of WOT called WOT Groups Beta through which people can communicate and coordinate the use of tags. Some of the tags are "promoted" to be the starting point of a "group page" under which we collect information, for example, about all linked tags, most tagged domain names, popularity and most active taggers. We have also implemented basic social features such as following people/tags as well as a simple chat discussion board.

In order to be able to contribute hashtags and to participate to the discussion, you need to have a WOT account and also specifically [https://beta.mywot.com/groups/join join WOT Groups Beta]. The group pages, however, will be visible to everyone.

Please note, that this new feature lives on beta.mywot.com</blockquote>

* About Web of Trust
: https://beta.mywot.com/aboutus
* Policies for Groups Beta
: https://beta.mywot.com/groups/terms
* FAQ
: https://beta.mywot.com/faq/groups

* WOT Group user profile
: https://beta.mywot.com/groups/profile
* WOT Group hashtag search
: https://beta.mywot.com/groups/g?query=#hashtag

Password Management

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== How to make a strong and secure password ==

The key to making a strong and secure password is using all types of characters; symbols and different cases should be used many times to make your password near unbreakable. The easiest thing to do is to think of a sentence describing yourself or something that you care about; for example, the sentence could be: "My Favorite Game Is Halo 3". Now, just take the beginning characters of the sentence: MFGIH3; to make it even more secure, replace the 'I' with a '1', and add two asterisks at the beginning and end, having it look like this: **MFG1H3**. Then, make alternate the letters from uppercase to lower case. Your finished password would be **MfG1h3**, and you can easily remember it from your sentence that you made.

Also, it is not recommended that you use common passwords, like 'QWERTY' or 'QAZWSX' or '12345', or 'let-me-in', or your name or birth date; because they are too obvious and easy for a hacker to crack.

=== How to store your password securely and safely ===

It is not recommended that you write your passwords down on a piece of paper or leave them all in one place, since they can easily be stolen. Some other options include encrypting your passwords using a password management software or some other tool.

== Tools ==

=== Password Strength Meters ===

*MalwareTeks: http://www.malwareteks.com/tools/pwd_meter/ (loosely based off passwordmeter.com)

*Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/passwords/checker.aspx

*Password Meter: http://www.passwordmeter.com/

=== Password Managers ===

* AnyPassword: http://www.anypassword.com
* KeePass: http://keepass.info
* LastPass: https://lastpass.com
* Masking Password Generator: http://www.accusolve.biz
* Password Maker: http://passwordmaker.org
* RandPass: http://www.randpass.com
* RoboForm: http://www.roboform.com

Kategorie:Deutsch

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Die '''[[Kategorie:Deutsch]]''' ist eine unter vielen Sprachkategorien. Hier können, bzw. sollten Menschen sich eintragen, die dieser Sprache mächtig sind. Wer noch nicht so bewandert ist, dem werden wir Hilfestellung geben. __ Der Internet-Kommissar __ 2010-03-01__19.24 h

How to remove the add-on and synchronization (Russian)

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===Как удалить надстройку WOT===
Вы можете удалить надстройку WOT из любого вашего браузера. 
Если вам нужно удалить свой аккаунт, смотрите отдельную статью о том, [[Удалить_аккаунт|как удалить аккаунт]].

==== Браузер Google Chrome ====
# Щелкните правой кнопкой мыши значок WOT на панели инструментов
# Выберите в контекстном меню команду «'''Удалить'''»

==== Браузер FireFox ====
# В строке меню выберите раздел «'''Инструменты'''», далее «'''Дополнения'''»
# В открывшейся вкладке «'''Управление дополнениями'''» найдите WOT и нажмите кнопку «'''Удалить'''»
# Перезапустите ваш браузер для завершения процесса удаления.
<blockquote>Совет! Для быстрого вызова вкладки «'''Управление дополнениями'''», используйте сочетание клавиш ''Ctrl+Shift+A''.</blockquote>

==== Браузер Safari ====
# В строке меню выберите раздел «'''Правка'''», далее «'''Настройки'''»
# В открывшемся окне настроек перейдите к разделу «'''Расширения'''»
# В списке установленных расширений найдите WOT и нажмите кнопку «'''Удалить'''»
# Перезапустите ваш браузер для завершения процесса удаления.
<blockquote>Совет! Для быстрого доступа к настройкам браузера, используйте сочетание клавиш ''Ctrl+б''.</blockquote>

==== Браузер Opera ====
# Щелкните правой кнопкой мыши значок WOT на панели инструментов
# Выберите в контекстном меню команду «'''Удалить'''»

==== Браузер Internet Explorer ====
''Завершите работу браузера перед удалением надстройки''
* В операционных системах Microsoft Windows Vista и Windows 7
*: Откройте «'''Панель управления'''» и выберите «'''Программы и компоненты'''», в списке установленных программ найдите WOT и нажмите кнопку «'''Удалить'''»
* В операционных системах Microsoft Windows XP
*: Откройте «'''Панель управления'''» и выберите «'''Установка и удаление программ'''», в списке установленных программ найдите WOT и нажмите кнопку «'''Удалить'''»

===Как удалить синхронизацию===
У вас есть персональная страница участника и после установки дополнения WOT вы выполнили синхронизацию в вашем браузере, привязав к этому браузеру свой персональный анонимный идентификатор, однако, если по каким либо причинам вы решили удалить дополнение, то возможно вам также потребуется удалить информацию о вашем персональном анонимном идентификаторе. При удалении дополнения WOT, в некоторых браузерах, в зависимости от их устройства, информация о синхронизации вашего идентификатора может не удаляться автоматически, поэтому удалять эту информацию придётся вручную. Удаление этой информации не является обязательным, и после удаления дополнения она просто сохранится в вашем браузере и никаким образом не будет нарушать его работу. 

Ниже приведены инструкции для браузеров, из которых вы можете удалить эту информацию. 

''примечание:'' вы выполняете эти действия по данным инструкциям на свой страх и риск, если вы не уверенны в том, что вы делаете, не выполняйте никаких действий и не используйте данные инструкции!
==== Браузер Google Chrome ====
[[File:RemoveSync_ChromeRUS_001.png|thumb|right|Консоль инструментов разработчика «''Developer Tools''» (вкладка «''Resources''»)]]
[[File:RemoveSync_ChromeRUS_003.png|thumb|right|Контекстное меню]]

Заметьте, что в Google Chrome легче всего сначала удалить синхронизацию, а потом уже преступить к удалению надстройки WOT. 
Google Chrome хранит информацию о синхронизации в своём локальном хранилище 
Для того, чтобы удалить эту информацию используется ''Консоль Инструментов разработчика «Developer Tools»'' 
Получить доступ к консоли можно через страницу управления установленными расширениями, находясь в ''режиме разработчика'' 
# Доступ к управлению расширениями Google Chrome:
#:* На панели инструментов нажмите кнопку управления настройками браузера [[File:Google_Chrome_Settings_Button.png]]
#:* В раскрывшемся меню выберите «'''Инструменты'''», далее «'''Расширения'''»
# Переход в режим разработчика
#:* На странице управления расширениями установите флажок в чекбокс [[File:RemoveSync_ChromeRUS_002.png]]
# Доступ к Консоли Инструментов разработчика «'''Developer Tools'''»
#:* Найдите WOT в списке установленных расширений и щёлкните "''background.html''"
# Поиск информации о синхронизации
#:* В открывшемся окне консоли «'''Developer Tools'''» на панели вверху щёлкните кнопку «'''Resources'''»
#:* В дереве слева выберите и раскройте папку «'''Local Storage'''»
#:* Далее выберите единственный вложенный в эту папку объект (ID расширения)
# Удаление информации о синхронизации
#:* В списке справа найдите и удалите эти ключи (на первом рисунке справа они подсвечены жёлтым цветом):
#:*# witness_id
#:*# witness_key
#:* Щёлкните каждый объект правой кнопкой мыши и выберите в контекстном меню команду «'''Delete'''»
# Завершение удаления
#:* Перезапустите браузер для завершения процесса удаления
# Удаление, надстройки WOT
#:* Выполните действия, описанные [[#.D0.91.D1.80.D0.B0.D1.83.D0.B7.D0.B5.D1.80_Google_Chrome|здесь]]

==== Браузер FireFox ====
# Напечатайте в адресной строке "''about:config''" (без кавычек!) и нажмите клавишу ''Enter'' 
# Найдите эти настройки и сбросьте их значения, восстановив их по умолчанию: "''weboftrust.witness_id''" и "''weboftrust.witness_key''" 
# Перезапустите браузер для завершения процесса удаления. 
 
==== Браузер Internet Explorer ====

Информация о синхронизации для Internet Explorer хранится в реестре Windows, поэтому удалить эту информацию можно с помощью ''Редактора реестра''.
[[File:RemoveSync_Rgedit_RUS_x86_001.png|thumb|right|Окно команды «Выполнить»]]
[[File:RemoveSync_Rgedit_RUS_x86_002.png|thumb|right|Окно Редактора реестра]]
[[File:RemoveSync_Rgedit_RUS_x86_003.png|thumb|right|Контекстное меню]]
# Используя сочетание клавиш ''WinKey+R'' вызовите команду «'''[[Media:RemoveSync_Rgedit_RUS_x86_001.png|Выполнить]]'''»
# Введите команду ''regedit'' и нажмите клавишу ''Enter''. 
В окне редактора, в области слева перейдите к разделу: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AppDataLow\Software\Against Intuition\WOT
--------
* HKEY_CURRENT_USER
** Software
*** AppDataLow
**** Software
***** Against Intuition
****** WOT
 
В области справа найдите и удалите эти параметры:
# witness_id
# witness_key
 
Щёлкните каждый объект правой кнопкой мыши и выберите в контекстном меню команду «'''Удалить'''». Закройте окно редактора.

User talk:CTrustGlobal

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