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Tracking:

No personal data is stored. All accesses are also anonymized in order to guarantee visitors complete anonymity.

 

Newsletter:

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Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. At Automattic, we have a few basic principles:

We are careful with the personal data we request from you, and with the personal data we collect about you through the operation of our services.

We only store personal data for as long as we have a reason to keep it.

We want to make it as easy as possible for you to control what information on your website is made publicly available (or kept private), indexed by search engines and permanently deleted.

We help you protect yourself from excessive government demands for your personal information.

We strive to be completely transparent about how we collect, use and share your personal information.

Below you will find our Privacy Policy which sets out and explains these principles.

Who we are and what this policy covers

How do you do? We’re the people behind a variety of products and services designed to enable everyone from bloggers and photographers to small business owners and enterprises to take full advantage of the power of the open web. Our goal is to democratize publishing and commerce so that anyone with a story can tell it, and anyone can turn their great idea into a living. We believe in advancing the open Internet with open source code and are proud that the majority of our work is available under the General Public License (“GPL”). Because our GPL code is public, unlike most other services, you can download it and take a look at it to see how it works.

• This privacy policy applies to information we collect about you when you use this website: Our websites (including automattic.com, wordpress.com, jetpack.com, woocommerce.com, crowdsignal.com, gravatar.com, intensedebate. com, vaultpress.com, akismet.com, simplenote.com, simperium.com, leandomainsearch.com, cloudup.com, longreads.com, atavist.com, mailpoet.com, automatewoo.com, jetpackcrm.com, happy.tools, wpcourses.com, wpscan.com, newspack.pub, and wp.cloud).;
• Our mobile applications (including the WordPress mobile app for Android and iOS);
• Our other Automattic products, services, and features that are available on or through our websites (for example, WordPress.com plans, the Payments feature, the Pay with PayPal block, WordPress.com, Jetpack, Woo Shipping, Woo Tax, Gravatar, the IntenseDebate comment management system, Akismet plans, Simplenote, Simperium, Cloudup, Longreads, MailPoet, AutomateWoo, Jetpack CRM, Happy Tools, WordPress.com Courses, WPScan and Newspack); and
• Other users’ websites that use our Services, while you are logged in to your account with us.

This Privacy Policy also applies to information we collect when you apply for a job at Automattic or one of our subsidiaries.

In this Privacy Policy, we refer to our websites, mobile applications and other products and services collectively as “Services”. If you want to learn more about which Automattic company is responsible for processing your data, please read the section on responsible companies.

Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to our products or services such as Tumblr, which have their own privacy policy.

Below we explain how we collect, use and share information about you and the choices you have in relation to that information.

 

Creative Commons Sharealike-Lizenz

We have decided to make this privacy policy available under a Creative Commons Sharealike licence. You can access a copy of this privacy policy and other legal documents on GitHub. You are welcome to copy, adapt and reuse them for your own use. Just be sure to change the wording so that your policy reflects your actual practices. If you use them, we would appreciate a credit and a link to Automattic on your website.

Information We Collect

Wir sammeln nur dann Informationen über Sie, wenn wir einen Grund dafür haben – zum Beispiel, um unsere Dienste bereitzustellen, um mit Ihnen zu kommunizieren oder um unsere Dienste zu verbessern.

Wir sammeln diese Informationen aus drei Quellen: wenn Sie uns Informationen zur Verfügung stellen, automatisch durch den Betrieb unserer Dienste und aus externen Quellen. Sehen wir uns die Informationen an, die wir sammeln.

Informationen, die Sie uns zur Verfügung stellen

Es ist wahrscheinlich keine Überraschung, dass wir Informationen erfassen, die Sie uns direkt zur Verfügung stellen. Hier sind einige Beispiele:

• Basic account information: We ask for basic information to set up your account. For example, we require people who sign up for a WordPress.com account to provide an email address and password and a username or name – and that’s it. You can provide us with more information – such as your address and other information you want to share – but we don’t need that information to create a WordPress.com account.
• Public profile information: If you have an account with us, we collect the information you provide for your public profile. For example, if you have a WordPress.com account, your username is part of that public profile, along with any other information you include in your public profile, such as a photo or an “About Me” description. The information in your public profile is just that – public – so please keep that in mind when deciding what information to include.
• Business Profile: Some of our products collect additional information from you as part of creating a user/customer profile. For example, if you are a Jetpack CRM customer, we may add you to our customer relationship database (powered by Jetpack CRM!) using information you provide to us, including your name, employer, job title or role, contact information, and your communications with us. If you are a Happy Tools user, we use the information you provide, such as your time zone and location, your company and team information, and your contact information, to set up your account and use the features of the Service
• Content Information: You may provide us with information about you in drafts and published content (a blog post or comment that contains biographical information about you, or media or files that you upload).
• Access data: Depending on the services you use, you may provide us with login credentials for your self-hosted website (such as SSH, FTP and SFTP username and password). Jetpack and VaultPress users may provide us with these credentials to use our one-click restore feature if there is a problem with their site, or to allow us to troubleshoot more quickly.
• Communication with us (Hello!): You may also provide us with information when you respond to surveys, communicate with our Happiness engineers about a support issue, ask a question in our public forums, or sign up for a newsletter like the one we send through Longreads. If you communicate with us via a form, email, phone, WordPress.com comment, or otherwise, we will keep a copy of our communications (including call recordings to the extent permitted by applicable law).
• Information for job applicants: If you are applying for a job with us – great! You may provide us with information such as your name, contact information, resume, professional or personal references, similar professional and employment-related data, and employment eligibility verification as part of the application process. We may also collect additional information about you during the process, such as background and credit checks (in certain countries and only for certain positions). You may also provide us with demographic information when required by law or in support of our workplace diversity initiatives, such as your gender, race or ethnicity, veteran status, and disability status, if you voluntarily provide this information as part of your application. We collect demographic information in accordance with applicable laws and do not request demographic information in countries where it may be prohibited. We use this sensitive information only to accommodate disability or medical condition, to comply with legal obligations, to protect the health and safety of our employees, and to promote our internal programs related to diversity, inclusion and anti-discrimination.

We also collect some information automatically:

• Log Information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically provide, including browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, preferred language, referring website, date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log data when you use our services – for example, when you create or make changes to your website on WordPress.com.
• – Transaction-related information: When you make a purchase through our Services, we collect information about the transaction, such as product details, purchase price, date and location of the transaction. This also applies if you buy something we sell or if you use our services (such as WooPay) to buy something from a third party.
• Usage information: We collect information about your use of our services. For example, we collect information about the actions website administrators and users take on a website that uses our WordPress.com or Jetpack services – in other words, who did what and when (e.g. [WordPress.com username] deleted “[post title]” at [time/date]). Our WooCommerce Usage Tracker also tracks information such as your email address, WooCommerce settings and PHP settings, along with information about your online store, such as the total number of orders and customers. We also collect information about what happens when you use our services (such as page views, searches for support documents at en.support.wordpress.com, features enabled for your site, interactions with our admin bar and other parts of our services), as well as information about your device (such as screen size, mobile network name, and mobile device manufacturer). For example, we use this information to provide you with our services, to gain insights into the use of our services so that we can improve our services, and to understand and make predictions about user engagement.
• Location information: We can determine the approximate location of your device based on your IP address. We collect and use this information to calculate, for example, how many people visit our services from certain geographic regions. We may also collect information about your precise location through our mobile applications (for example, when you post a photo with location information) if you allow us to do so through your mobile device operating system permissions.
• Saved information: We can access information stored on your mobile device via our mobile apps. We access this stored information via the permissions of your device’s operating system. For example, if you give us permission to access the photos in your mobile device’s camera roll, our services can access the photos stored on your device if you upload a really great photo of the sunrise to your website.
• Interactions with websites of other users: We collect some information about your interactions with other users’ websites while you are logged into your account with us, such as your “likes” and the fact that you have commented on a particular post, so that we can, for example, recommend posts that may be of interest to you. Another example: We collect information about the comments IntenseDebate users make while they are logged in and use this information, for example, to compile statistics about your comments (check them out in your dashboard!) and to display information about your comments in your public IntenseDebate profile.
• Information from cookies and other technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer and that the visitor’s browser makes available to the website each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code that are placed on websites and in emails. Automattic uses cookies and other technologies such as pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage and access preferences for our services, as well as to track and understand the effectiveness of email campaigns and to deliver targeted advertising. For more information about our use of cookies and other tracking technologies, including how you can control the use of cookies, please read our Cookie Policy.

Information we collect from other sources

We may also receive information about you from other sources. For example:

• Login from third parties: If you create or log in to your WordPress.com account through another service (e.g. Google), we receive the associated login information (e.g. a connection token, your username, your email address).
• Social Sharing-Dienste: If you connect your website or account to a social media service (e.g. Twitter) via our publishing feature, we will receive information from that service (e.g. your username, basic profile information, friends list) via the authorization procedures for that service.
• Google-Kontoinformationen: When you connect your Google account to your Newspack-powered website, we can access certain Google user data such as your Google Ad Manager configuration (the network code and your ad units) and your Google Analytics data to help you access and manage features. For example, you can manage your Google Ads and view your Google Analytics data directly in the dashboard of your Newspack website.

The information we receive depends on which services you use or allow and which options are available.

Third party services may also give us information such as postal addresses of people who are not yet (but hopefully will become!) our users. We use this information for marketing purposes such as postcards and other promotional letters for our services.

How and why we use information

Verwendungszwecke für Informationen

We use information about you for the purposes set out below:

• To provide our services. For example, to set up and maintain your account, host your website, back up and restore your website, provide customer service, process payments and orders, and verify user information.

To ensure the quality, maintain the security and improve our services. For example, by providing automatic upgrades and new versions of our services. Or, for example, by monitoring and analyzing how users interact with our Services so that we can develop new features that we think our users will like and that will help them build and manage websites more efficiently or make our Services easier to use.

To place and manage ads in our advertising program. For example, to serve ads on our users’ websites and on some of our own websites as part of our advertising program and to understand the performance of the ads.

To market our services and measure, evaluate and improve the effectiveness of our marketing. For example, by targeting our marketing messages to groups of our users (e.g., those who have a particular plan with us or have been users for a certain amount of time), promoting our Services, analyzing the results of our marketing campaigns (e.g., how many people purchased a paid plan after receiving a marketing message), and understanding and predicting user engagement.

To protect our services, our users and the public. For example, by detecting security incidents, detecting and protecting against malicious, fraudulent or illegal activity, fighting spam, complying with our legal obligations, and protecting the rights and property of Automattic and others, which may result in, for example, us declining a transaction or terminating the Services.

 

To fix problems with our services. For example, by monitoring, troubleshooting, repairing and preventing problems.

To customize the user experience. For example, to personalize your experience by sending you relevant notifications and advertisements for our Services, recommending content through our Reader Post suggestions, and providing new essays and stories through Longreads for your reading pleasure.

To communicate with you. For example, by emailing you to ask for your feedback, to give you tips on how to get the most out of our products or to keep you up to date with Automattic; by sending you a text message to confirm your payment; or by calling you to tell you about offers and promotions that we think will be of interest to you. If you do not want to hear from us, you can unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time. (If you unsubscribe, we will continue to send you important information about your account).

To recruit and hire new Automatticians. For example, by evaluating applicants (including verifying their identity, experience and other submitted information) and communicating with them by phone, email or via social media platforms.  If the application proceeds, we may also collect interview and background information.  This may also include verifying information required to commence employment, such as confirming that one can legally work in a particular location, preparing payroll and complying with legal reporting requirements.