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| - | ====== WinSCP Privacy Policy Draft ====== | + | ====== WinSCP Privacy Policy ====== |
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| - | **Note that this privacy policy is currently under review!** | + | |
| ===== What information do we collect? ===== | ===== What information do we collect? ===== | ||
| - | We can collect information from you when you visit our site or use WinSCP application. People have different privacy concerns. Our goal is to be clear about what information we collect, so that you can make meaningful choices about how it is used. | + | We can collect information from you when you visit our site, install or use WinSCP application. People have different privacy concerns. Our goal is to be clear about what information we collect, so that you can make meaningful choices about how it is used. |
| ==== Visiting winscp.net ==== | ==== Visiting winscp.net ==== | ||
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| After donating to WinSCP, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing address or donation entry details. | After donating to WinSCP, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing address or donation entry details. | ||
| - | Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. Users may opt out of DoubleClick’s use of cookies by visiting the DoubleClick opt-out page | + | Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy policy. Users may opt out of DoubleClick’s use of cookies by visiting the DoubleClick opt-out page. |
| - | ==== Installing WinSCP Application ==== | + | ==== Installing WinSCP application ==== |
| - | WinSCP uses OpenCandy advertising module in its [[opencandy|sponsored installation package]] (and only in the sponsored installer, not in the WinSCP application). By using sponsored version of the installer you support WinSCP development. Thanks you! However, you can always use the other not-sponsored installation package. | + | When installing WinSCP, we might collect anonymous information about the number of initiated and finished installations per geo-location and language. No private information is collected. WinSCP installer might offer you to install a third party application along with WinSCP, in such a case we collect also statistics for its installations. Note that before deciding to install any third party application, you are required to agree to its separate and independent Terms of use and Privacy policy. |
| - | ==== Using WinSCP Application ==== | + | ==== Using WinSCP application ==== |
| When using WinSCP application, we might collect anonymous [[usagestatistics|WinSCP usage statistics]]. You may, however, opt-out from providing WinSCP usage statistics or from WinSCP automatic check for application updates. | When using WinSCP application, we might collect anonymous [[usagestatistics|WinSCP usage statistics]]. You may, however, opt-out from providing WinSCP usage statistics or from WinSCP automatic check for application updates. | ||
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| ===== How do we protect your information? ===== | ===== How do we protect your information? ===== | ||
| - | We use PayPal to process your payments. PayPal offers the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. Please refer also to PayPal Privacy Policy for details. | + | We use PayPal to process your payments. PayPal offers the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive information is transmitted via Transport Layer Security (TLS) or Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. Please refer also to PayPal Privacy policy for details. |
| After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, etc.) will not be stored on our servers. | After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, etc.) will not be stored on our servers. | ||
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| Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. 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. | Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. 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. | ||
| - | ===== California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance ===== | + | ===== California online privacy protection act compliance ===== |
| Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent. | Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent. | ||
| - | All registered users of our site may make any changes to their information at anytime by logging into the forum and going to the 'Profile' page. | + | All registered users of our site may make any changes to their information at anytime by logging into the forum and going to the //Profile// page. |
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| + | ===== Your consent ===== | ||
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| + | By using our site or installing or using WinSCP, you consent to our Privacy policy. | ||
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| + | ===== Warrant canary ===== | ||
| - | ===== Your Consent ===== | + | We have not placed any backdoors into our software and have not received any requests for doing so. Pay close attention to any modifications to the previous sentence. |
| - | By using our site, you consent to our websites privacy policy. | + | Learn about [[wp>Warrant_canary|Warrant canary]]. |
| - | ===== Changes to our Privacy Policy ===== | + | ===== Changes to our Privacy policy ===== |
| - | If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and update the Privacy Policy modification date below. | + | If we decide to change our Privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and update the Privacy policy modification date below. |
| - | This policy was last modified on **2012-05-05**. | + | This policy was last modified on **2015-11-15**. |
| - | --- [[this>../..|WinSCP team]] | + | --- [[this>../../|WinSCP team]] |
| - | //This policy is based on [[http://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/|Free Privacy Policy Generator]].// | + | //This policy is based on [[https://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/|Free Privacy Policy Generator]].// |