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Provide privacy policies for our services
Co-authored-by: Martine S. Lenders <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Mikolai Gütschow <[email protected]>
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‎_includes/footer.html‎

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<div class="copyright">
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<small>&copy; 2013 - {{ "now" | date: "%Y" }}. All Rights Reserved |
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<a href="https://github.com/RIOT-OS/riot-os.org" target="_blank">Website Source</a> |
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<a href="{%link imprint.html %}">Imprint</a></small>
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<a href="{%link imprint.html %}">Imprint</a> |
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<a href="{%link privacy-policy.html %}">Privacy Policy</a></small>
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</div>
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</footer><!-- End Footer -->

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---
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layout: simple-page
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title: RIOT
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subtitle: The friendly Operating System for the Internet of Things
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---
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<section class="container">
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<div class="row">
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<div class="col">
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<h2 id="privacy-policy">Privacy Policy</h2>
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<p>This notice describes how the RIOT community uses the personal data
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we collect from you when you use this website or other websites on the
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riot-os.org domain</p>
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<p>As RIOT community, we host the following services covered by this
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privacy notice:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://forum.riot-os.org">https://forum.riot-os.org</a>,
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our forum.</li>
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<li><a href="https://pad.riot-os.org">https://pad.riot-os.org</a>, a
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service to create real-time collaborative markdown notes.</a>
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<li><a
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href="https://tickets.riot-os.org">https://tickets.riot-os.org</a> / <a
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href="https://pretix.riot-os.org">https://pretix.riot-os.org</a>, a
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service for registration of the RIOT summit.</li>
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<li><a href="https://ci.riot-os.org">https://ci.riot-os.org</a>, our
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continuous integration (CI) service to build and test the RIOT source
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code in our Git repository for various boards.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://riot-os.org">https://riot-os.org</a> / <a
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href="https://www.riot-os.org">https://www.riot-os.org</a>, this
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website.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="account-information">Account Information</h3>
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<p>The following data is collected when provided to us:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Personal information:
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<ul>
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<li>The forum collects
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<ul>
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<li>Your username, email address and optionally your full name.</li>
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<li>The content of your posts, data about bookmarks, likes and links you
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follow in order to share that data with others, through the forum.</li>
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<li>The content of private messages that you send through the forum. We
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make private messages available to senders and their recipients, and
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also to forum administrators.</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>The collaborative markdown note service collects
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<ul>
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<li>Your username, e-mail address, and user profiles for GitHub that you may connect
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with via your login.</li>
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<li>Your profile picture loaded from GitHub via your login.</li>
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<li>Pictures that you upload within documents to the local filesystem of the HedgeDoc server.</li>
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<li>Relationships between your documents and your user account. This includes ownership, authorship,
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and revisions of all changes made during the creation of a note.</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>The RIOT summit registration collects
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<ul>
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<li>Your email address to send you the registration tickets.</li>
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<li>The email address, full name, and company you provide for each
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attendee you register.</li>
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<li>Whether these attendees attend the event on site or remotely.</li>
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<li>Other information related to the event organization, including but
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not limited to: optionally provided dietary restrictions, T-shirt size,
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and attendance of sub-events.</li>
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<li>The nationality you provide for the attendees you
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register.</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>The CI service collects no personal information on our side and
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stores any login information locally in your web browser as a cookie
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(see <a href="#cookies">section on cookies below</a>).</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>When you use our following services, no additional data is
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processed or stored:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://riot-os.org">https://riot-os.org</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.riot-os.org">https://www.riot-os.org</a></li>
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</ul></li>
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</ul>
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<p>Furthermore the following information will be processed automatically
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by the forum and the notes service:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Device user agent</li>
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<li>IP address</li>
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</ul>
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<p>This data is stored for as long as your account remains open.</p>
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<p>The data collected on the forum is required for providing the
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service. It will only be used for this purpose. This includes managing
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your account, compile statistics on the forum and topic popularity.
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Furthermore, the collected information is used to defend the forum from
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abuse and technical attacks and diagnose and debug technical errors.</p>
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<p>If you log in to these services using GitHub, your user agent and IP address may
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also be exposed to GitHub.</p>
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<p>We do not intentionally collect or process sensitive personal
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information such as any of the special categories of personal data
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specified by the GDPR.</p>
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<h3 id="cookies">Cookies</h3>
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<p>Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard
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Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you
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visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically
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through cookies or similar technology.</p>
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<p>For further information, visit <a
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href="https://allaboutcookies.org/">https://allaboutcookies.org/</a>.</p>
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<h4 id="how-do-we-use-cookies">How do we use cookies?</h4>
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<p>We use cookies to improve your experience on our website:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Keeping you signed in.</li>
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<li>Remember if you accepted cookies.</li>
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</ul>
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<h4 id="what-types-of-cookies-do-we-use">What types of cookies do we
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use?</h4>
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<p>The websites mentioned above use:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Functionality - We use these cookies so that we recognize you on
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our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These
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could include what language you prefer and location you are in. Only
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first-party cookies are used.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="privacy-policies-of-other-websites">Privacy policies of other
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websites</h3>
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<p>The forum contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy
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applies only to our website and websites within the riot-os.org domain
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mentioned above, so if you click on a link to another website, you
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should read their privacy policy.</p>
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<h3 id="changes-to-our-privacy-policy">Changes to our privacy
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policy</h3>
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<p>We keep the privacy policy under regular review and place any
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updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 19
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August 2025.</p>
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<h3 id="how-to-contact-us">How to contact us</h3>
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<p>If you have any questions about our privacy policy, the data we hold
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on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection
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rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.</p>
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<p>Email us at: <a
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href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p>
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</div>
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</section>

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