Nupedia.com, the website organizing the Nupedia project, is fully committed to protecting your privacy. The trust of project participants is absolutely essential to the success of this project, and therefore we will protect your privacy.
We may collect--only with your consent--e-mail addresses and other personal information from you. Consistent with applicable law, we will not divulge this information without your permission. But in many cases this information is necessary for us to have--for example, in order for editors and some others to make informed decisions, or in order to contact you.
Those who will not receive any of your information from us include bulk e-mail companies (which, by the way, we officially despise), employers, and the government. We will not use the information that you are a member of Nupedia to help publicize Nupedia (except in impersonal summary format, or with your permission to do so).
We will not make your name or e-mail available, except to editors and specially-tasked editorial associates, on the website without your consent. If you are very concerned about this, however, you should make sure you understand how Nupedia resources work. If, for example, you use Nupedia mailing lists, and you post, then of course your name and e-mail address may show up on your posts and in web-accessible archives.
In short, while for obvious administrative/editorial purposes it is important that we have contributors' names, contact information, credentials, and related information, we are absolutely committed to not letting anyone know anything about you unless you agree to it.