GNOME — Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is intended to describe the GNOME Foundation's privacy practices and provide information about the choices you have regarding the ways in which information collected by the GNOME Foundation is used and disclosed. The GNOME Foundation is referred to in this document as the "Foundation".
Your privacy is important to the Foundation. To better protect your privacy and to comply with various laws and regulations, we have provided this policy explaining our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your personal information is collected, used and disclosed. To make this policy easy to find, we have made it available on our homepage and at many of the locations where personally-identifiable information may be requested.
This Privacy policy applies to all information collected by or submitted to the Foundation, including personal data. "Personal data" is data that can be used to identify an individual.
The Foundation collects personal data when:
This policy applies to the Foundation's general operations, supporter program, websites and events.
The information you provide to us will include (depending on the circumstances):
In certain circumstances, we will receive information about you from other sources, including third parties. For example, we may receive personal information from any of the following, who may be based inside and/or outside the EU:
We might also receive information about you from other third parties if you have indicated to such third parties that you would like to hear from us.
Special categories of particularly sensitive personal information require higher levels of protection. These so-called "special categories of data" include details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. Depending on the circumstances, we will also collect information about criminal convictions and offenses.
We need to have further justification for collecting, storing and using this type of personal information. We process special categories of personal information in the following circumstances:
For example, we may collect special categories of information:
In limited circumstances, we may request your written consent to allow us to use certain particularly sensitive data. If we do so, we will provide you with full details of the information that we would like and the reason we need it, so that you can carefully consider whether you wish to consent.
The Foundation uses the personal data you provide to:
As outlined above, in certain circumstances we may use your personal information to pursue legitimate interests of our own or those of third parties. Where we refer to our "legitimate interests", we mean our legitimate business interests in conducting and managing our business and our relationship with you, including the legitimate interests we have specified in the section above. Where we use your information for our legitimate interests, we make sure that we take into account any potential impact that such use may have on you. Our legitimate interests don't automatically override yours and we won't use your information if we believe your interests should override ours unless we have other grounds to do so (such as your consent or a legal obligation). If you have any concerns about our processing please refer to details of "Your Rights" below.
Unless you consent, the Foundation will never process or share the personal data you provide to us except as described below.
We receive personal information from third-party services when you donate to us via online payment mechanisms. We do not sell or distribute this information to third parties. The Foundation uses this information to acknowledge your donation and send you occasional solicitations and newsletters. Donors can opt out of all contact or specify only print or e-mail contact by emailing info@gnome.org. Donor names are posted on our Sponsors and Supporters page as a recognition of their support, as well as listed in our annual report. At the time of the donation, the donor can ask to be anonymous, so that their name will not be publicly recognized.
The Foundation may send you e-mail to authorize accounts you create on our sites, to inform you of important upcoming Foundation events, to send occasional solicitations in connection with our donor programs as described above or in response to your questions. For your protection, the Foundation may contact you in the event that we find an issue that requires your immediate attention. The Foundation 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.
The Foundation'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.
As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, the Foundation 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's hard drive. All sections of Foundation websites where you are prompted to log in or that are customizable require your browser to accept cookies.
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 "sign in" and is modified when you "sign out" of our services.
If you do not want your personal information to be stored by cookies, you can configure your browser so that it always rejects these cookies or asks you each time if you accept them or not. However, you must