On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:31 AM, ant elder <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've added a privacy policy page
> http://tuscany.apache.org/privacy-policy.html and linked to it off the
> General menu.
>
>    ...ant
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:17 AM, ant elder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> FYI the email below about our use of Google Analytics, we need to add a
>> privacy disclaimer page to the Tuscany website.
>>
>>    ...ant
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Henning Schmiedehausen <[email protected]>
>> Date: Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:59 AM
>> Subject: Google Analytics usage on Apache web sites - Privacy policy
>> disclaimer needed
>> To: [email protected]
>>
>>
>> Hi Apache PMCs,
>>
>> during the last few board meetings, the usage of Google Analytics to
>> track the usage of our web sites was discussed. While this is not a
>> problem per se, Google requires in its Terms and Conditions that all
>> sites using it must post a privacy policy (to be exact, paragraph 7 of
>> the Analytics Terms and Conditions at
>> http://www.google.com/analytics/tos.html states that "You must post a
>> privacy policy and that policy must provide notice of your use of a
>> cookie that collects anonymous traffic data.")
>>
>> The legal-discuss group, together with the Jackrabbit PMC and a number
>> of individuals has pursued this issue and drafted up a privacy policy
>> for Jackrabbit, which is available at
>> http://jackrabbit.apache.org/privacy-policy.html
>>
>> The board would like to thank you for this and appreciates the effort
>> and diligence that went into it.
>>
>> If your PMC is collecting information through Google Analytics (ATM
>> there are at least 18 PMCs using it; you know who you are), we expect
>> you to set up a privacy policy along the lines of the Jackrabbit PMC and
>> add a note to your next board report after you have done so.
>>
>> Thank you for your cooperation.
>>
>>        For the Apache board
>>                Henning
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Thanks Ant for sorting that out.

Simon

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