From f1867a73881444dfed9e093425435681ee764922 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eugen Rochko Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 21:47:39 +0200 Subject: Adjust privacy policy (#6666) * Adjust privacy policy to be more specific to Mastodon Fix #6613 * Change data retention of IP addresses from 5 years to 1 year * Add even more information * Remove all (now invalid) translations of the privacy policy * Add information about archive takeout, remove pointless consent section * Emphasis on DM privacy * Improve wording * Add line about data use for moderation purposes --- config/locales/en.yml | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) (limited to 'config/locales/en.yml') diff --git a/config/locales/en.yml b/config/locales/en.yml index 945faa1e2..70af9530c 100644 --- a/config/locales/en.yml +++ b/config/locales/en.yml @@ -691,70 +691,79 @@ en: terms: body_html: |

Privacy Policy

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What information do we collect?

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We collect information from you when you register on our site and gather data when you participate in the forum by reading, writing, and evaluating the content shared here.

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When registering on our site, you may be asked to enter your name and e-mail address. You may, however, visit our site without registering. Your e-mail address will be verified by an email containing a unique link. If that link is visited, we know that you control the e-mail address.

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When registered and posting, we record the IP address that the post originated from. We also may retain server logs which include the IP address of every request to our server.

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What do we use your information for?

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Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

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Any of the information we collect from you may be used in the following ways:

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How do we protect your information?

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We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information.

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We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. Among other things, your browser session, as well as the traffic between your applications and the API, are secured with SSL, and your password is hashed using a strong one-way algorithm. You may enable two-factor authentication to further secure access to your account.

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What is your data retention policy?

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What is our data retention policy?

We will make a good faith effort to:

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You can request and download an archive of your content, including your posts, media attachments, profile picture, and header image.

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You may irreversibly delete your account at any time.

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Do we use cookies?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow). These cookies enable the site to recognize your browser and, if you have a registered account, associate it with your registered account.

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We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

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We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits.

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Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

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We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

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We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.

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Your public content may be downloaded by other servers in the network. Your public and followers-only posts are delivered to the servers where your followers reside, and direct messages are delivered to the servers of the recipients, in so far as those followers or recipients reside on a different server than this.

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Third party links

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When you authorize an application to use your account, depending on the scope of permissions you approve, it may access your public profile information, your following list, your followers, your lists, all your posts, and your favourites. Applications can never access your e-mail address or password.

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Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our site. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

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Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Our site, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old. If this server is in the USA, and you are under the age of 13, per the requirements of COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) do not use this site.

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Online Privacy Policy Only

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This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our site and not to information collected offline.

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By using our site, you consent to our web site privacy policy.

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Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.

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This document is CC-BY-SA. It was last updated May 31, 2013.

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This document is CC-BY-SA. It was last updated March 7, 2018.

Originally adapted from the Discourse privacy policy.

title: "%{instance} Terms of Service and Privacy Policy" -- cgit