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Privacy Policy

(DRAFT REVISION NO. 3)

1. Definition

  • "The Project" refers to the App Manager project which includes the git repositories (excluding The Project Hosting Providers), E-Mails, and their maintainers. (See §6)
  • "We", "Us", and similar capitalized pronouns refer to the maintainers of The Project.
  • "E-Mail" or "E-Mails" refers to the messages sent directly to the maintainers of The Project.
  • "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 along with VirusTotal, Pithus, F-Droid, and Hosted Weblate.
  • "Third-party Websites" refers to websites We do not control or operate.
  • "You", "Yours", and similar capitalized pronouns refer to anyone who uses The Software or has contributed to The Project in any capacity.
  • "PII" refers to personally identifiable information.

2. Information Collected from You

2.1. The Project

We DO NOT collect any information that You have not provided voluntarily. The sources of this information include your contributions on Git and any E-Mails you send. This information may include PII, such as Your real name and E-Mail address. If You send crash reports and logs via E-Mail, they may also contain non-PII details, such as Your device name, operating system version, software version, language, and more.

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

2.2. The Software

We DO NOT collect any information from The Software.

2.3. Third-party Services

Depending on the services used, the privacy policy of the following services will apply 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).

2.4. Third-party Websites

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

3. Data Retention Policy

Information collected through Git is stored indefinitely and is accessible to anyone, anywhere. E-Mails that do not have legal significance can be retained for a maximum of one year. These E-Mails are stored offline in a partition that is encrypted using FileVault. However, E-Mails deemed legally significant can be kept permanently, both online and offline. To understand the data retention policies of the Third-party Services (as specified in §2.3) and Third-party Websites (as outlined in §2.4), please refer to their respective privacy policies.

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 please note that the removal is not guaranteed. In both cases, the following types of 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 need to ask the person who forked the repository)
  • Reactions to GitHub issues, comments, and discussions (You need to remove them Yourself)
  • Information stored by the Third-party Services or Third-party Websites (You need to ask them Yourself).

The following information may or may not be removed:

  • Mentions in a comment
  • E-Mails deemed legally significant.

5. Changes to the Privacy Policy

All changes, except those related to spelling or grammar, will be announced on all the official channels. Unless stated otherwise, the updated privacy policy will apply only to The Software released after the changes.

6. Project Maintainers

  1. Name: Muntashir Al-Islam

    Email: muntashirakon [at] riseup [dot] net