Privacy Policy

[PedroMiguelSS]

While publishing Discussify on Firefox store we got stuck due to a required privacy policy.

If your add-on transmits any data from the user's computer, a privacy policy is required that explains what data is sent and how it is used.

Which seems to be our situation. My question is: do we already have a privacy policy for situations like this one?

@lidel suggested using a disclaimer stating that this is beta quality software for now and comes with no privacy guarantees.

What should we do? @daviddias @satazor @marcooliveira

[satazor]

@daviddias could you please advise on what to do?

[daviddias]

@lidel will be the person with a ton of experience to share light here :)

[lidel]

@daviddias not really ;) ipfs-companion does not gather any data/metrics from users nor manages any accounts, so it has none:

The only insight I am able to give is some prior art from extensions that gather data:

• uBlock: https://www.ublock.org/privacy/
• Ghostery: https://www.ghostery.com/about-ghostery/browser-extension-privacy-policy/
• MetaMask: https://metamask.io/privacy.html
• AdNAuseam: https://adnauseam.io/privacy.html
• Privacy Badger just copied&pasted policy from EFF website: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/privacy/

@satazor Perhaps reaching out to legal team makes sense in this case?

[satazor]

@lidel Yep I think it makes sense indeed. Can you send an email to the legal team with both Pedro, me and David in cc to kickstart the conversation? I don't know their emails and it would serve mainly as an introduction email.

[satazor]

We now have a initial version of the Privacy Policy here: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/pm-discussify/blob/master/PRIVACY_POLICY.md