Donation Acknowledgement Policy

  1. By default a donor's name, country, the date of receiption and the type of the actual donation will be listed on the Donations page.
  1. Donors may request that their name is kept confidential. In such cases the name of the donor is replaced by "Anonymous" in the acknowledgement.
  1. Private as well as corporate donors may get a link to their website, using their name as linking text. Optionally, they may provide us with a logo, which then will be added to the acknowledgement of their donation. The logo must be provided in a "ready to use" form, with a maximum size of 100px x 40px and either in .jpg or .png format.
  1. The project retains the right to deny putting a link and/or a logo online. For example, this could be used if the requested link would point to a website with pornographic or illegal content, or if it's obvious that the sole purpose of the donation is to buy a backlink to a website. A reimbursement of already made donations is not possible in such cases. If in doubt, donors should contact us at donation@madwifi.org prior to a donation.
  1. Individuals may request a so called hostname cloak for use in the Freenode IRC network. A cloak hides the real hostname of a user inside Freenode, providing protection against script kiddy / DoS attacks and thelike. At the same time, with a form like "...@madwifi/donor/<nickname>" the cloak gives the users credits for his/her donation to the project.
  1. Donations exceeding a certain threshold (currently: 100 USD for individuals, 500 USD for companies) will be covered in a news item; the latest three news items are featured on the front page of the madwifi.org website.