.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later OR CC-BY-SA-4.0

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Privacy Policy
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(DRAFT REVISION NO. 2)

1. Definition
=============

- "The Project" refers to App Manager as a project. This includes the git
  repositories (excluding The Project Hosting Providers), E-Mails and its
  maintainers. (See §6)
- "We", "Us" and similar capitalised pronouns refer to The Project maintainers.
- "E-Mail" or "E-Mails" refers to the E-Mails sent directly sent to The Project
  maintainers.
- "The Software" refers to App Manager software distributed by its maintainers.
- "The Project Hosting Providers" refers to GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, RiseUp
  and SourceHut.
- "Third-party Services" refers to The Project Hosting Providers as well as
  VirusTotal, F-Droid, Hosted Weblate and Open Collective.
- "Third-party Websites" refers to the websites that are neither controlled nor
  operated by Us.
- "You", "Yours" and similar capitalised pronouns refer to any person who uses
  The Software or has contributed to The Project in any way.
- "PII" refers to personally identifiable information.

2. Information Collected from You
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2.1. The Project
---------------
We DO NOT collect any information that has not been provided voluntarily by
You. Sources of these information are git contributions and E-Mails. They may
include PII such as Your real name and E-Mail addresses, and should You choose
to send crash reports and logs via E-Mail, they may also include non-PII such
as device name, operating system version, software version, language and so on.

https://muntashirakon.github.io/AppManager/ is the official website for The
Project and is hosted by GitHub (see §2.3). We do not collect any information
from the website.

2.2. The Software
-----------------
We DO NOT collect any information from The Software.

2.3. Third-party Services
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Depending on the services used, the privacy policy of the following services
will be applicable to You:

- `GitHub`_ (Stars, issues, pull requests, discussions, releases, traffic)
- `GitLab`_ (Stars, merge requests, traffic)
- `Codeberg`_ (Stars, issues, pull requests)
- `RiseUp`_ (Stars, issues, merge requests)
- `SourceHut`_ (Tickets)
- `VirusTotal`_ (Malware reports, file uploads, traffic)
- `F-Droid`_ (F-Droid official repository and app store)
- `Hosted Weblate`_ (Translations)
- `Open Collective`_ (Donations, finance)

2.4. Third-party Websites
-------------------------
Links to the Third-party Websites are provided for your own benefit. For your
own safety, it is advised to read and understand the privacy policy of the
websites before visiting them.

3. Data Retention Policy
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Information collected via git are stored forever. These information are also
accessible to anybody at any place. E-Mails without legal importance may be
stored for at most a year. These E-Mails are stored offline in a partition
encrypted via FileVault. Legally important E-Mails may be stored forever both
online and offline. Visit the privacy policy of the third-party services (as
specified in §2.3) and websites (as outlined in §2.4) to understand the data
retention policy of the corresponding services or websites.

4. Removal of Information
=========================
You can request the removal of PII by either sending Us an E-Mail or creating
an issue. You can also request the removal of non-PII, but the removal is not
guaranteed. In both cases, the following information cannot be removed by Us:

- Information present in a commit message such as the ``Signed-off-by:`` tag
- Information contained in a file (since they are a part of git history)
- Forked repositories (You have to ask the person who forked the repository)
- Reactions to GitHub issues, comments and discussions (You have to remove
  them Yourself)
- Information stored by the Third-party Services or Third-party Websites (You
  have to ask them Yourself)

The following information may or may not be removed:

- Mentions in a comment
- E-Mails containing information that have legal importance

5. Changes to the Privacy Policy
================================
All changes except the changes in spelling or grammars to this privacy policy
will be announced in all the official channels. Unless stated, newer privacy
policy will only be applicable to the newer versions of the software.

6. Project Maintainers
======================
1. **Name:** Muntashir Al-Islam

   **Email:** muntashirakon [at] riseup [dot] net

.. _GitHub: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-privacy-statement
.. _GitLab: https://about.gitlab.com/privacy/
.. _Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/codeberg/org/src/PrivacyPolicy.md
.. _RiseUp: https://riseup.net/en/privacy-policy
.. _SourceHut: https://man.sr.ht/privacy.md
.. _VirusTotal: https://support.virustotal.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002168385-Privacy-Policy
.. _F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/about/#terms-etc
.. _Hosted Weblate: https://hosted.weblate.org/legal/privacy/
.. _Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/privacypolicy
