Privacy Policy
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| 11 | 11 | ### Who We Are and What This Policy Covers |
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| 13 | 13 | Howdy! We are the folks behind a variety of products and services designed to allow anyone-from bloggers, to photographers, small business owners, and enterprises-to build and manage a website to share with the world. Our mission is to democratize publishing. We believe in powering the open Internet with code that is open source and are proud to say that the vast majority of our work is available under the GPL. Unlike most other services, because our GPL code is public, you can actually download and take a look at that code to see how it works. |
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| 15 | 15 | This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use: |
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| 17 | - Our websites (including automattic.com, wordpress.com, vip.wordpress.com, jetpack.com, woocommerce.com, polldaddy.com, gravatar.com, intensedebate.com, vaultpress.com, and akismet.com); | |
| 17 | - Our websites (including automattic.com, wordpress.com, vip.wordpress.com, jetpack.com, woocommerce.com, polldaddy.com, gravatar.com, intensedebate.com, vaultpress.com, akismet.com, simplenote.com, simperium.com, leandomainsearch.com, and cloudup.com); | |
| 18 | 18 | - Our mobile applications (including the WordPress mobile app for Android and iOS); |
| 19 | - Our other products and services that are available on or through our websites (including WordPress.com plans, WordPress.com VIP, Jetpack, the WooCommerce Services Extension, Gravatar, the IntenseDebate comment management system, and Akismet plans); and | |
| 19 | - Our other products and services that are available on or through our websites (including WordPress.com plans, WordPress.com VIP, Jetpack, the WooCommerce Services Extension, Gravatar, the IntenseDebate comment management system, Akismet plans, Simplenote, Simperium, and Cloudup); and | |
| 20 | 20 | - Other users' websites that use our Services, while you are logged in to your account with us. |
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| 22 | 22 | Throughout this Privacy Policy we'll refer to our website, mobile applications and other products and services collectively as "Services." And if you'd like to learn more about which Automattic company is the controller of information about you, take a look at the section below on Controllers and Responsible Companies. |
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| 24 | 24 | Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to any of our products or services that have a separate privacy policy. |
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| 204 | 204 | Although most changes are likely to be minor, Automattic may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. Automattic encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the change log below, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or the [WordPress.com Blog](https://en.blog.wordpress.com/), or sending you a notification through email or your dashboard). Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy. |
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| 206 | 206 | That's it! Thanks for reading. |
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| 208 | 208 | ### Change log |
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| 210 | - _September 24, 2018:_ Included information for Simplenote, Simperium, Cloudup, and Lean Domain Search. | |
| 210 | 211 | - _May 25, 2018:_ Added more specific information to help clarify our practices, included information for Polldaddy and Woocommerce.com services, and added information to reflect the requirements of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. |
| 211 | 212 | - _January 3, 2018__:_ Revised and reorganized language throughout to help simplify the policy and clarify our practices. |
| 212 | 213 | - _August 22, 2017:_ Added "Information We Collect from Other Sources" section. |
| 213 | 214 | - _November 2, 2016_: Added that comments submitted as missed spam are retained by Akismet to improve future performance. |
| 214 | 215 | - _February 18, 2015:_ Updated Creative Commons license from 2.5 to 4.0. |
| 215 | 216 | - _September 18, 2013:_ Added that blog commenter email addresses are disclosed to administrators of the blog where the comment was left. |