Privacy Policy

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to all visitors and users of the gforge.com hosted services, websites and mobile applications (collectively, the “Services” or “Websites”) and self-managed installations, which are offered by GForge Group, Inc. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using any part of the Websites or self-managed installations, you acknowledge you have been informed of and consent to our practices with regard to your personal information and data.

GForge Group, Inc. is an Internet company. While we are committed to open sharing, we strive to respect the privacy of individual community members and will minimize the information we collect and share.

Data Protection

Oversight of Data Security is handled by GForge Group, Inc.'s owner(s). Should you wish to make modifications, deletions, or additions to any personal data you believe to be captured by GForge Group, Inc., or if you have any general security concerns, please contact privacy@gforgegroup.com.

What Information GForge Group, Inc. Collects and Why

Information from Website Visitors

Like most website operators, GForge Group, Inc. collects basic non-personally-identifying information from Website visitors of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. We collect this information to better understand how visitors use the Website, to improve our Websites and experience for visitors, and to monitor the security of the Websites.

GForge Group, Inc. also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from visitors. GForge Group, Inc. does not use such information to identify or track individual visitors. We collect this information to understand how visitors use the Websites, to improve performance and content, and to monitor the security of the Websites.

Usage Data from Self-managed GForge Instances

GForge Group, Inc. collects information about usage from each self-managed GForge instance through a usage ping. The usage ping sends a payload containing aggregated data such as total number of projects and pipelines, as well as license information and hostname. No project names or other content is sent to GForge Group, Inc. You can opt-out of the usage ping in the administration panel.

Personally-Identifying Information

Users of the Websites may choose to interact with GForge Group, Inc. in ways that provide us with their personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that GForge Group, Inc. gathers depends on the nature of your interaction with us. GForge Group, Inc. collects such personally-identifiable information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the user's interaction with or request of GForge Group, Inc. We will not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described in this Privacy Policy.

Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Website-related activities.

Information GForge Group, Inc. Does Not Collect

GForge Group, Inc. does not intentionally collect sensitive personal information, such as social security numbers, genetic data, health information, or religious information. If you store any sensitive personal information on GForge Group, Inc.'s servers, you are consenting to our storage of that information on our servers, which are located in the United States.

If you're a child under the age of 13, you may not have an account on the Website. Other countries may have different minimum age limits. If you are below the minimum age for providing consent for data collection in your country, you may not use GForge Group, Inc.

Basis for Processing Your Information

Performance of a contract. The use of your information may be necessary to perform the contract that you have with us.

Legitimate interests. We use your information for our legitimate interests, such as to provide you with the best content through our Websites and communications with users and the public, to improve and promote our products and services, and for administrative, security, fraud prevention and legal purposes.

Consent. We may rely on your consent to use your personal information for certain direct marketing purposes. You may withdraw your consent at any time through the unsubscribe feature provided with each marketing email or by contacting us at the addresses given at the end of this Privacy Policy.

How GForge Group, Inc. Uses and Protects Personally-Identifying Information

Sharing Your Information

GForge Group, Inc. only discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that need to know that information to process it on GForge Group, Inc.'s behalf or to provide services available on the Website, and that have agreed not to disclose it to others.

GForge Group, Inc. will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. GForge Group, Inc. discloses such information only when required to do so by law, or when GForge Group, Inc. believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of GForge Group, Inc., third parties, or the public at large.

GForge Group, Inc. takes measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

International Transfer of Information

The Website is hosted in the United States and information we collect will be stored and processed on our servers in the United States. Our employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that process information for us may be located in the United States or in other countries outside of your home country; by using the Website, you consent to the international transfer of your information by GForge Group, Inc.

Communications with You

If you are a registered user of the Websites and have supplied your email address, GForge Group, Inc. may occasionally send you an email to tell you about security, system information, new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. There's an unsubscribe link located at the bottom of each marketing email we send you.

Cookies, Tracking Technologies and Do Not Track

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. GForge Group, Inc. uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of the Websites, and their Website access preferences. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers may set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the Websites, or use the cookie preferences panel on this site.

Tracking Technologies

We use third-party tracking services (Google Analytics), but we don't use these services to track you individually or collect your personally identifiable information. We use these services to collect information about how the Website performs and how users navigate through and use the Website so we can monitor and improve our content and Website performance.

These services gather certain simple, non-personally-identifying information over time, such as your IP address (anonymized), browser type, referring and exit pages, timestamp, and similar data about your use of the Website. We do not link this information to any of your personal information.

Do Not Track

GForge Group, Inc. does not track your online browsing activity on other online services over time and we do not permit third-party services to track your activity on our site beyond our basic analytics, which you may opt out of at any time using the cookie preferences panel.

Global Privacy Practices

Information we collect will be stored and processed in the United States in accordance with this Privacy Policy. For all Website visitors and users, no matter their country of location, we will:

• provide clear methods of unambiguous, informed consent when we do collect your personal information;
• only collect the minimum amount of personal data necessary for the purpose it is collected for;
• offer you simple methods of accessing, correcting, or deleting your information that we have collected; and
• provide Website users notice, choice, accountability, security, and access, and we limit the purpose for processing.

If you are located in the European Union, you are entitled to the following rights:

• Right of access to your personal data
• Right to correct any incorrect or incomplete personal data about yourself
• Right to restrict/suspend our processing of your personal data
• Right to complain to a supervisory authority if you believe your privacy rights are being violated
• Right of data portability (if our processing is based on consent and automated means)
• Right to withdraw consent at any time
• Right to object to processing (if processing is based on legitimate interests)
• Right to object to processing for direct marketing purposes
• Right of erasure from our system (“right to be forgotten”) if certain grounds are met

To exercise your privacy rights, email us at privacy@gforgegroup.com.

Data Retention and Deletion

GForge Group, Inc. will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to perform our contractual obligations, provide you services through the Website, to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, preserve legal rights, or enforce our agreements.

We will delete inactive accounts after a period of twelve (12) months. We will also erase information once it is no longer necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and processed.

Contacting GForge Group, Inc. About Your Privacy

If you have questions or concerns about the way we are handling your information, or would like to exercise your privacy rights, please email privacy@gforgegroup.com.

We will respond within 30 days of receiving your message.

Privacy Policy Changes

GForge Group, Inc. may change its privacy policy from time to time. If we decide to make a significant change to our Privacy Statement, we will post a notice on our website for a period of time after the change is made. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.