Privacy Policy and Data Retention Statement

Privacy Policy and Data Retention Statement for the INCF Software Center

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The statement explains to contributors to projects hosted by the INCF Software Center the steps that INCF takes to ensure the security of the data submitted and used by the INCF Software Center.

INCF Software Center Overview

INCF stores and processes contributions to open source software and information about the contributors of those data. This Privacy Policy and Data Retention Statement explains INCF’s data processing practices and the principles that INCF seeks to follow in relation to the security and retention of those data.

If you feel that INCF fails to follow this Privacy Policy and Data Retention Statement or if you wish to give feedback on it, please contact us at info@incf.org.

INCF Software Center Accounts

You may have an INCF Software Center account, which you use to log into the INCF Software Center and other associated services. You can use your INCF account to add information about yourself to the Center. You may use this account to subscribe, to receive notifications of changes, to bugs, projects, teams, etc. Data you add about yourself can be changed or removed by you by using the same mechanism used to add it originally.

Information added to personal pages is accessible to other users of the INCF Software Center. Users should ensure that personal information is not added to personal pages if such information should not be accessible to other users.

You can close your INCF Software Center account and no longer be shown as an INCF Software Center user. You will no longer receive notifications from INCF. However, INCF will continue to store and show information about public contributions that you have made.

Sources of data

Submitted data

INCF users may add information about themselves via their INCF accounts and/or their personal pages. This information may assist INCF in providing services to the contributor such as email notifications of changes to bugs, projects, teams, etc..

Other Collected Data

INCF does collect other data that are not displayed publicly. We record what and when pages are visited as well as where the pages were visited from (e.g. IP address).

Information about users of INCF may be mirrored from publicly available sources, often by automated processes.

We use cookies to identify you when you visit this website, as well as to allow you to customize how certain pages are displayed to you.

Most browsers allow you to choose not to accept cookies, and to remove existing cookies from your system. If you want to know how to do this please look at the help menu on your browser. However, note that you need to accept cookies from our website in order to use all its features.

Data Security

Physical Data Security

We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you.

Data Usage

We process data collected via this website for the purposes of:

• Monitoring and improving the quality of the INCF services.

• Dealing with your inquiries and requests.

• Maintaining information as a reference tool or general resource.

• Providing you with information about products and services.

Unanticipated Usage

From time to time, we may use visitor information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this policy. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our web site to notify you of these changes. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our web site periodically. We will also announce these changes to users who have chosen 'receive email about site updates' in their profile.

Data Retention

General Data Retention Statement

INCF retains all data submitted by users permanently.

Except in the circumstances listed below, INCF will only delete data if required to do so by law or if data (including files, submissions, bug reports, bug comments, and bug attachments) are inappropriate. INCF reserves the right to determine whether data are inappropriate. Spam, malicious code, and defamation are considered inappropriate. Where data are deleted, they will be removed from the INCF database but they may continue to exist in backup archives which are maintained by INCF.

Projects and Project Teams

Projects and project teams may be deleted at the project contact's request.

As part of INCF’s normal housekeeping, we periodically inspect projects and project teams. We will delete projects or project teams that appear to be abandoned or where no activity has occurred (e.g. a test project or a project containing only spam). In cases where the status of a project/project team is unknown, we may contact the project's contact person for clarification prior to deleting it.

File Downloads

We provide a mechanism for project team members to delete files being offered as downloads.

Bugs

Bugs and bug comments cannot be deleted by users. Team members of a project can mark that a bug does not apply to that project.

Questions

Questions and answers cannot be deleted or hidden by users.

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