<h2>Our Commitment to Privacy</h2>

<p>Your privacy is important to Conservancy. To better protect your privacy and to comply with various laws and regulations, we have provided this Statement explaining our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your personal information is collected, used and disclosed. To make this Statement easy to find, we have made it available on our homepage and at many of the locations where personally-identifiable information may be requested</p>

<h2>The Information We Collect</h2>

<p>This Privacy Statement applies to all information collected by or submitted to Conservancy, including personal data. &ldquo;Personal data&rdquo; is data that can be used to identify an individual.</p>

<p>Conservancy collects personal data when:</p>

<ul>

<li>you visit any Conservancy web site;</li>

<li>you use one of Conservancy&rsquo;s Mailman sites or lists, hosted at lists.sfconservancy.org or lists.copyleft.org;</li>

<li>you use one of Conservancy&rsquo;s Kallithea sites or repositories, hosted at k.sfconservancy.org or k.copyleft.org;</li>

<li>you use one of Conservancy&rsquo;s Etherpad sites, hosted at pad.sfconservancy.org;</li>

<li>you use one of Conservancy&rsquo;s wiki sites or partner wiki sites, hosted at npoacct.sfconservancy.org or copyleft.org;</li>

<li>you use one of Conservancy&rsquo;s project or partner project IRC channels, #npoacct and #copyleft on the Freenode IRC network;</li>

<li>you participate in surveys and evaluations;</li>

<li>you submit questions or comments to us.</li>

</ul>

<p>When you visit any Conservancy web site (including the specific sites named above), we collect your IP address to maintain our servers, estimate de-identified visitor patterns, and attribute changes to public resources like wikis and Etherpad documents.</p>

<p>When you subscribe or post to a Mailman mailing list, Mailman will collect your email address and (optionally) name. When you post to a list, Mailman will additionally archive all the information in your email, including all headers, which typically include your IP address.</p>

<p>When you create an account on a Kallithea site, it collects your email address for authentication. In may also collect your name (to identify your contributions to others) and your SSH public key (optional - to authenticate you when you push changes to source repositories).</p>

<p>When you push commits to a Kallithea source repository, it collects the name(s) and email address(es) information included in the source commits to identify them for archival purposes.</p>

<p>When you use Conservancy&rsquo;s Etherpad site, you may optionally provide your email address to receive emails about changes to documents you are interested in.</p>

<p>When you use a wiki, you may optionally create and sign in to an account to edit pages on the wiki and have those edits attributed to you publicly.</p>

<h2>Sharing Your Personal Data</h2>

<p>Unless you consent, Conservancy will never process or share the personal data you provide to us except as described below.</p>

<p>Conservancy may share your personal data with third parties under any of the following circumstances:</p>

<ul>

<li>To attribute your contributions to mailing lists, source repositories, Etherpads, wikis, and IRC channels.</li>

<li>As required to provide service, and for e-mail housing (as a consequence of uses already described in this Privacy Statement). It is in Conservancy’s legitimate business interest to provide all users an accurate record of data and content provided by Conservancy’s services, and to maintain the integrity of that data and content for historical, scientific, and research purposes. This data and content may include but is not limited to email, code changes, comments, and artifacts.</li>

<li>As required by law (such as responding to a valid subpoena, warrant, audit, or agency action, or to prevent fraud).</li>

<li>For research activities, including the production of statistical reports (such aggregated information is used to describe our services and is not used to contact the subjects of the report).</li>

</ul>

<h2>Donations</h2>

<h2>Receiving E-Mail</h2>

<p>Conservancy may send you e-mail to authorize accounts you create on our sites, to inform you of important upcoming Conservancy events, to send occasional solicitations in connection with our donor programs as described above or in response to your questions. For your protection, Conservancy may contact you in the event that we find an issue that requires your immediate attention. Conservancy processes your personal data in these cases to fulfill and comply with its contractual obligations to you, to provide the services you have requested, and to ensure the security of your account.</p>

<h2>Cookies and Other Browser Information</h2>

<p>Conservancy&rsquo;s online services automatically capture IP addresses. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers, to administer our website, and to help ensure the security of your interaction with our services.</p>

<p>As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, Conservancy uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer&rsquo;s hard drive. All sections of sfconservancy.org where you are prompted to log in or that are customizable require your browser to accept cookies.</p>

<p>Generally, we use cookies to remind us of who you are and to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to provide a better and more personalized service. This cookie is set when you register or &ldquo;sign in&rdquo; and is modified when you &ldquo;sign out&rdquo; of our services.</p>