Privacy Policy
The openGauss Community understands the importance of your privacy and fully respects it. Please read this openGauss Community Privacy Statement ("Statement") carefully before you submit your personal data to us. If you have any questions about how we process your personal data, please feel free to contact us. Unless otherwise specified, "we" and "us" in this Statement refers to the openGauss Community.
1. How We Collect and Process Your Personal Data
We generally do not require your personal data if you only browse the general content of the openGauss Community ("Community"). We will collect your personal data accordingly in the following circumstances:
a) Account Service
- When you register for an openGauss community account, we will collect your user name, email address, phone number, password, and email/phone verification code. A unique account identifier will be automatically generated. Refusal to provide this information will prevent account creation.
- When you log in to the openGauss community using your user name, email address, or phone number, we will collect the provided credentials and verification code for authentication. Refusal to provide this information will prevent login.
- When you log in using a third-party account (Gitee), we will collect your user name, user ID, nickname, avatar, and email address from that platform for authentication and code repository access management. When you log in using a third-party account that is not bound to any openGauss account, a new openGauss account with a unique identifier will be automatically generated, deriving its user name from your third-party account. Refusal to provide this information will prevent login via third-party accounts.
- After logging in, you can optionally provide your avatar, nickname, and company name. This information is not required for using openGauss community features.
- After logging in, you can modify your email address, phone number, and password, we will collect the provided credentials and verification code for authentication.
- After logging in, you can bind your openGauss account to a third-party account (Gitee). We will collect your user name, user ID, nickname, avatar, and email address from the bound platform. Refusal to provide this information will prevent third-party account binding for login purposes.
b) Mail Subscription. When you use our mail subscription service, we will collect your email address and name (optional). We will provide you with the email subscription service through this email address to facilitate your participation in discussions in the Community.
c) Service Optimization. To ensure the openGauss community functions as best as possible, and to provide better services for you, we will collect information about your browser, computer, and mobile device, including the access timestamp, IP address, request details, access status, size of accessed resources, access source, and request user agent information. Based on this information, we will collect statistics to understand the operating status of the openGauss community. The web analytics tool provider captures data about your activities on our website through cookies and other technologies and provides this data to us anonymously. No website user can identify this information.
d) Contributor License Agreement Signing. When you participate in code contribution through the Contributor License Agreement ("CLA") signing system (click <here to learn more), you need to submit your relevant personal data to the CLA signing system. We will obtain such personal data to verify whether you have signed the CLA, and to conduct relevant statistical analysis to understand how the Community is operating.
e) Meeting Service. When you use our meeting service, we will collect your Gitee ID for configuring related permissions. If you have meeting scheduling permission, we will collect your email address used when you edit the meeting details for the purpose of sending meeting invitations. If you enable automatically screen recording when you schedule a meeting, the recording will be uploaded to the third-party platform Bilibili after the meeting so that more interested individuals and organizations can review your meeting.
f) Content Release. When you participate in Community meetings, Community activities, contribution in the open source Community, blogs, newsgroups, or Community organization, we will request your avatar, name, email address, company name, position, school, individual resume and Gitee ID for posting on our website so that developers can better understand the community, quickly make contact, and participate in the community.
g) Meetup. When you apply for an openGauss meetup, the community will collect your phone number and email address from the application form you fill in. The collected mobile number and email address will be used to contact you later to communicate about the meetup details. Furthermore, the community will request your name and company name for the purpose of meetup sign-ins, nameplates, and other related activities.
g) Satisfaction Questionnaire. When you fill out and submit the satisfaction questionnaire, we will collect your feedback on your experience with the community. If you voluntarily provide your contact information, we will process your name/nickname and phone number so that we can reach out to you for a deeper understanding of your feedback.
We may also collect your personal data from third parties, including other platforms or communities, within the scope of your authorization and consent, or obtain your personal data from other legal and public channels. We promise to process your personal data in strict accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Please read the privacy policies and user agreements of the third parties carefully. If a third party is required to provide your personal data when you use the openGauss Community, but you refuse to allow the third party to collect, use, transfer, or share your personal data when the third party provides services, you may not be able to use related services of the openGauss Community.
2. How We Use Cookies and Similar Technologies
To ensure our website works properly, we may at times place cookies on your computers or mobile devices. Please refer to About Cookies for details about how we use cookies and similar technologies and how they process your personal data.
3. How We Share Your Personal Data
Sharing means providing third parties with your personal data. The third parties and we would handle the personal data independently. We do not share your personal data with third parties without your consent, except in the following circumstances or as described in this Statement:
a) Sharing under your instruction. We may share your personal data with your consent and under your instruction to the third parties indicated by you.
b) Sharing your personal data as necessary for protecting national security, public security, and your and other individuals' crucial legitimate rights and interests.
c) Affiliates. We may share your personal data with our affiliates (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and its affiliates), for the purposes of service support or security support.
d) Partners. We may share your personal data with our partners. However, we will share your personal data only for legitimate, justified, necessary, specified, and explicit purposes, and share only the personal data necessary for providing our services. Our partners may include:
- We integrate Baidu Statistics SDK from Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd. to provide more complete and high-quality services and better support daily data analysis requirements of activity operations, user operations, and technology development. Baidu Statistics SDK needs to collect and use your necessary personal data, including device information (IP address, OS, network service provider, system language, screen resolution, screen color, region, browser type, browser language, and browser version), usage information (access source, search keyword, accessed pages, pop-ups, visitor ID, number of community accesses, stay duration, access timestamp, and server type and version). For details about the types and purposes of personal data collected and used by Baidu Statistics SDK, and how Baidu Statistics SDK protects the collected and used personal data, please read the Baidu Statistics Privacy Policy carefully.
e) We collect your satisfaction feedback through a questionnaire provided by WJX utilities. Please carefully read the WJX Privacy Policy to understand the types of personal information collected and used, the purposes for which this information is used, and how WJX will protect the personal information it collects and uses.
When we share your personal data with associated companies or partners, their responsibilities and obligations will be governed by contracts and we will require them to take appropriate measures to ensure the safety of the personal data processed.
4. How Long We Retain Your Personal Data For
We will retain your personal data for no longer than is necessary for the purposes set out in this Statement, unless otherwise required by laws or requested by you. Generally, we will store or retain your personal data within the retention period according to applicable laws or service agreements from the date when you obtain your personal data in the openGauss Community. If your personal data has exceeded the retention period and no law requires us to continue processing your specific personal data, we will delete your personal data or anonymize it according to applicable laws.
For example, upon your active request for the deletion of personal account information, the retention period for the relevant data will be one month. We will respond to your request and delete all personal data within that period.
For example, for service optimization, the access timestamp, IP address, request details, access status, accessed resource size, access source, and request user agent information collected based on the access quantity statistics will be automatically deleted after 10 days.
For example, when the community no longer displays you as a member of the community, we will delete your personal data (avatar, name, email address, company name, position, school, individual resume, Gitee ID) within one month.
5. How We Protect Your Personal Data
We take the security of your personal data seriously. We take appropriate physical, organizational, and technical measures to protect your personal data. For example, we use encryption technologies to ensure the confidentiality of data; we implement protection mechanisms to protect data from attacks. We deploy access control mechanisms to ensure that only authorized personnel can access your personal data. In addition, we hold security and privacy protection training. In a word, we are committed to protecting your personal data. Nevertheless, no security measure is perfect and no product, service, website, data transfer, computing system, or network connection is absolutely secure.
6. How We Access or Control Your Personal Data
In accordance with applicable laws and regulations, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- a) Access the personal data we hold about you and obtain copies thereof;
- b) Request us to update or correct your personal data;
- c) Request us to erase your personal data;
- d) Object to our processing of your personal data;
- e) Restrict our processing of your personal data;
- f) File a complaint with the competent data protection authority.
Please note that these rights are not absolute and may be restricted in accordance with applicable laws. If you need our assistance in exercising the requests or rights above, please contact us as set out in the "How to Contact Us" section below.
Generally, we will respond to you within one month, unless otherwise required by applicable laws. Depending on the complexity of your requests, we may extend the period by two further months. In this case, we will inform you of the extension and its reasons within one month of receiving your request. Please note that under some circumstances, for example where we cannot verify your identity, or your claim exceeds your rights under applicable laws, we may refuse your request. In this case, we will inform you in written form that your request is refused together with the reasons for our refusal.
You can change the scope of your authorization for us to collect your personal data or withdraw your authorization. However, your decision to withdraw your consent or authorization does not affect any previous processing of personal data based on your authorization.
7. Personal Data Storage Location
Your personal data is stored in servers located in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. None of our service scenarios involve the cross-border transfer of personal data.
8. How This Statement Is Updated
We may update or modify this Statement from time to time according to changes of our services or data processing. If we update this Statement, we will publish the latest version of the Statement on the website, and it will take effect immediately upon its release. You are advised to review this Statement periodically for any changes. If we make changes to this Statement, we will notify you through appropriate channels (bulletins and pop-ups) and obtain your consent.
9. How We Protect Children's Online Privacy
This website and its contents and services are mainly intended for individuals over the age of 14. Individuals under the age of 14 are not allowed to use the services we provide without the consent of their parents or guardians. If personal data of an individual under the age of 14 is collected with prior parental consent, we will use or disclose the data only if permitted by law, explicitly consented to by the individual's parents or guardians, or necessary for the protection of the individual. If we accidentally collect personal data of an individual under the age of 14 without verifiable prior consent from the individual's parents or guardians, we will attempt to delete the data as soon as possible.
10. How to Contact Us
If you want to contact us or exercise your rights, please contact us at:
Email: contact@opengauss.org
Hotline: +86 187-4087-2239
Last updated: December 5, 2024
Privacy policy version: v20241205