Hi there! This Privacy Notice explains how we, at Automattic, process information about the visitors of our users’ websites in connection with the services we provide through WordPress.com, Jetpack (including WooCommerce Shipping & Tax), IntenseDebate, Crowdsignal.com, and Akismet. Read on!
Who’s Who and What This Privacy Notice Covers
Let’s talk first about who we are at Automattic, what we do, and what this Privacy Notice covers.
We are the folks behind a variety of products and services designed to allow anyone?from bloggers, to small business owners, and enterprises?to create, publish, and manage their own websites:
- WordPress.com
offers the design, features, and support to bring a website to life.
- With
Jetpack
, website owners that host their websites elsewhere can connect those websites to features and tools available through WordPress.com and
WooCommerce Shipping & Tax
.
- Crowdsignal
helps site owners create quizzes, surveys, and polls that fit their brand and vision.
- Intense Debate
gives site owners tools to manage comments on their websites.
- Akismet
helps keep spam under control by filtering out spam comments–hundreds of millions, every day!
To keep things simple, in this Privacy Notice we’ll refer to the users of the services we provide through these products and services–such as a website’s administrator, contributor, author, or editor–as our “Users,” and we’ll refer to our Users’ websites as “Sites.” Visitors to those Sites can read published content and interact with the Sites through features such as
comments
, “
likes
,” poll/survey responses, and
follows
.
We put together this Privacy Notice to help our Users understand the information we collect about their Site visitors (a/k/a our Users’ users), and how that happens on their Sites. Our Users are responsible for publishing a privacy policy on their Sites that explains to their visitors how data is collected via the Sites and how that information is used and disclosed.
This Privacy Notice does not apply to the information we collect about Users and those who visit Automattic’s websites (like automattic.com, wordpress.com, jetpack.com, or akismet.com)–that’s covered in our
Privacy Policy
.
Alright, with those introductions out of the way, let’s turn to how we collect, use, and share information about visitors to our Users’ Sites.
Other Resources
You can read more about how our products and services operate on the links at the top of this notice.
And we’d love it if you follow us on
privacy.blog
for more information about privacy and transparency at Automattic.