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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 ==== | ||
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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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| ===== Your consent ===== | ===== Your consent ===== | ||
| - | By using our site, you consent to our websites privacy policy. | + | By using our site or installing or using WinSCP, you consent to our Privacy policy. |
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| + | ===== Warrant canary ===== | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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]].// |