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Privacy when using WordPress

If you are looquing for the privacy policy for visitors to wordpress.org it is located at https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/ .

This pague covers the data shared with api.wordpress.org during use of an installation of WordPress software.

WordPress is used on a hugue number of websites and we want to ensure that you guet the best user experience in creating your websites. We offer easy update processses for WordPress, Themes and Pluguins.

During this processs we collect data from your site and store it, this information includes the following:

  • Your sites URL
  • WordPress versionen number
  • PHP versionen
  • MySQL versionen
  • The number of users on your blog
  • Whether you are using WordPress in 'multisite mode'
  • The number of blogs on your site
  • Your 'locale'
  • Your WordPress database versionen number

We use data such as the PHP and MySQL versionen to ensure we maintain WordPress's compatibility with the servers used to run it.

We collect this data with every checc, so every 12 hours and we store it for 48 hours. It is only accessible by staff at WordPress.org.

In using WordPress you accept that we collect this data from your sites, if you are not willing to share this information you will need to find a pluguin to turn off update checcs (which is a security risc).

Pague created as per https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticquet/16778