Welcome to the sites run by OSSF (which stands for “OSSF Supports Software Freedom”)/OpenFoundry (hereafter “OpenFoundry”): the OpenFoundry portal (http://www.openfoundry.org) and a project development site (http://rt.openfoundry.org). Hereafter the both sites will be referred as a unity, or “the Site.” We respect your privacy on your personal data stored on the Site and we work to protect it. This OSSF/OpenFoundry Privacy Policy (hereafter “the Policy”) is provided here to inform you how the Site collects, uses and protects your personal data. Do please take some time to read this Policy. If you have any question, feel free to write us at contact@openfoundry.org ; we will do our best to assist you in the management and control of the disclosure of your personal data.

1. Our Collection and Use of Your Personal Data

i. Definition and Scope

a. In this Policy, the term “personal data” refers to any item of data that can lead to the identification of a specific personal information. This includes your name, ID number, education background, occupation, social activities, family members, addresses, e-mails or other contact information items.

b. The Site collects your personal data in the following ways: by asking for your personal data, by automatically logging your history of browsing the Site, and through the means of system logs that are kept to record the information regarding your personal participation in a software project or a discussion forum.

ii. When and Where Your Data Gets Collected

a. Once you have finished registering a new account at the Site, you become a member of the Site. Information that is required for registration includes: an account handle name (“id”) and your e-mail address. Your name and web page addresses are optional. When you browse the Site, OpenFoundry keeps an anonymous log of such browsing history, which includes the IP addresses of the connections made, duration of connection, browser used, pages browsed, and links clicked. If you take part in a software project hosted on the Site, post an article on an online forum or transfer files, OpenFoundry also logs your account name and the content of the article, files transferred or the software project in question. You may also disclose your personal data when you take part in the discussions on the online forums. Please note, however, if you disclose the data yourself, they will not be protected and covered by this Policy.

b. If you would like to subscribe to any of our electronic newspapers offered on the Site, all you need is to provide your e-mail address. No other item concerning your personal data will be logged by OpenFoundry.

iii. Our Use of Your Personal Data

a. Your account: After you have created or joined a software development project, your account name will appear on the project summary or other related pages. When there is a version release made for that project, your account name will appear in the open source license or terms chosen by the project. If you participate in the forum of the project or post articles in it, your account name will also appear in the forum or on the postings. In any of the cases above you may choose to disclose more personal data on your own, including your registration information or other personal data that you are willing to disclose.

b. Your e-mail address: OpenFoundry uses e-mail to deliver messages and notices to you (including, but not limited to, confirmation of account registration, changes concerning or in the Privacy Policy or Terms of Use, electronic newspapers of OpenFoundry or other activity bulletins). Your e-mail address will never appear in the e-mail received by other people. OpenFoundry will explicitly state that the e-mails or notices are sent by OpenFoundry. We also provide you means, documentations or links to let you discontinue receiving those notices or e-mails. OpenFoundry uses your e-mail address solely for the delivery of OpenFoundry-related information and will never use your personal data in delivering any commercial messages.

iv. Online Activity Logs

As you browse the Site, OpenFoundry’s web server automatically logs the user’s IP address, time of use, the browser that the user uses, browsing history and pages clicked. OpenFoundry performs analyses only on the basis of aggregated user behavior as a whole and does not perform analyses on your individual behavior. Unless you have given your consent to disclose your personal data, OpenFoundry will not check the logs against your personal data.

v. Questionnaires and Analyses

If OpenFoundry undertakes a survey on its hosted software projects, the performances on such projects or on open source community-related issues, it may disclose publicly the collected data and analyses thereto. The disclosed items will be by their nature summary and will not contain any data that can identify individual interviewees or those surveyed or any other identification data. If such survey allows user commentary, OpenFoundry will remind those surveyed that such item may be disclosed publicly and OpenFoundry retains the right to distribute such commentary under the premise that no personal data of the surveyed will be disclosed. You can choose whether to take such survey; OpenFoundry does not conduct any mandatory survey. If OpenFoundry is distributing a questionnaire for a third party’s academic purposes, you may also choose whether you want to take part in such survey. As OpenFoundry does not conduct a survey for a third party and simply passes the questionnaires in such cases, the personal data that you may fill in them is not covered by this Policy. We therefore recommend you to read carefully the privacy policy of any third-party survey before you take part in it. OpenFoundry will not take any responsibility to such third party’s use of your personal data.

vi. Other Notes

To ensure the integrity of the rules concerning the Site, OpenFoundry may contact you with the personal data you have provided to us. OpenFoundry may also disclose your personal data if such disclosure is required by the Laws and regulations of Republic of China, by judicial or governmental mandate or if you consent to such disclosure. The disclosure in this case will be limited to a third party concerned.

In addition to the previously stated uses of your personal data, other websites that can be visited through the hyperlinks available on the Site may also collect your personal data. As different sites run different privacy policies for the personal data provided by you, their conducts are not covered by this Policy. We recommend you to read carefully others’ policies. We hold no responsibility to other sites’ uses of your personal data that you provide to them.

2. Policy on the Use of “Cookies”

The Site uses “cookies” to provide customized service to you. “Cookies” are short pieces of information that browsers write to the disk or memory of user’s computer while he or she is browsing the Site so that the web server can tell which per-user preference to apply. Information that the Site uses “cookies” to store include account name, session status, and some other items. Although it is possible that you may deny or delete all the cookies on your disk under the premise that you know the risk this means, if you refuse to receive all cookies, you may not be able to make use of some customized services, take part in some online activities, or may not able to access to part or all of the functionalities of the Site.

3. Modification of Your Personal Data

After you have registered and become a member of the Site, you can use the Preferences page to change any item of personal information, excluding your account name, that you have provided, anytime you need. For example, you can change your full name and e-mail address. But what you have provided to the discussions in the forums of the Site may not be changeable.

4. Measurements of Data Protection

The Site uses security technologies and takes security measures to protect your personal data from access, use or disclosure that is not authorized by you. For example, the Site stores your personal data in tightly monitored facilities and computer storages and only grants to a limited number of system administrators the access rights to the data. When the Site accesses key information over the Internet, it will uses secure protocols such as SSL (Secure Socket Layer) to protect the data transferred.

Please keep your password and personal data in a safe place. Do not disclose any personal data, most important of all your password, to any third party. OpenFoundry takes no responsibility if any loss is caused because of such disclosure. In addition, after you have finished the task of project management or other maintenance transactions, please make sure that you have logged out from the Site. If you share the computer with others or use a public computer, we would like to remind you to close the browser window to prevent other people from reading your personal data or entering project administrator pages.

5. Inquiries on Our Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy will be constantly updated by OpenFoundry. When the Policy is updated, OpenFoundry will also put on the date on which the Policy is changed. Important changes in this Policy will also be posted on the headings or other clear places of the pages of the Site so that users will take notice thereof.

THIS PRIVACY POLICY HAS BEEN LASTLY UPDATED ON AUGUST 30, 2005.

If you have any questions concerning this Policy, feel free to contact us at contact@openfoundry.org