sindresorhus/refined-github

Mozilla Addons reviewer: "Please add a privacy policy" #2685

fregante posted onGitHub

Just to keep you in the loop to help you understand why Firefox is stuck on version 19.12.9:

More information requested by Cse a day ago

Please add a privacy policy to this add-on that details which user data is being sent and to what services. The critical things to describe in the policy are how your extension collects, uses, stores, and shares or discloses information about people.If your add-on makes it apparent to websites that it is installed, this must also be mentioned. The policy should be about the extension only, not a copy of the website's privacy policy. It should also be the actual text, as opposed to a link to a privacy policy on a website. The privacy policy can be added in the add-on settings under “Manage Authors & License” on AMO.

My response:

Refined GitHub does not collect, use, store, nor share any data; we don't have servers. The extension only operates locally and on GitHub itself.

Help wanted to add a privacypolicy file in case they make this a hard requirement.


Latest:

There should be a privacy policy that states what kind of data is sent to github servers

Help.

posted by fregante about 5 years ago

I was just about to open an issue about the missing Firefox version.


Some info I found on the internet about privacy policies for extensions:

None of the other GitHub related extensions have an Privacy Policy.

English is not my native language, so I'm not the best person to write a policy.

posted by jerone about 5 years ago

Perhaps:

This extension communicates with GitHub to display additional data related to files, repositories and users. GitHub will receive the same unmodified cookies from GitHub.com or your Personal Access Token, if you provide one. Some actions like "Revert Changes to File" will use the GitHub API to create a commit only when initiated by the user. The authentication is done directly between the extension and GitHub, no third party server is involved. There's no advertising and no analytics.

@sindresorhus can you add it here? It's read-only for me https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/addon/refined-github-/ownership

posted by fregante about 5 years ago

@sindresorhus also Chrome is stuck on 4 versions ago and the 20.1.6 publish command returned "OK". Does the Chrome Store say anything about it?

posted by fregante about 5 years ago

can you add it here? It's read-only for me addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/addon/refined-github-/ownership

✅ Very well written.

posted by sindresorhus about 5 years ago

also Chrome is stuck on 4 versions ago and the 20.1.6 publish command returned "OK". Does the Chrome Store say anything about it?

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posted by sindresorhus about 5 years ago

Wow... worse waiting times than AMO.

Let's see if the policy is enough. Could still be rejected for being too vague

posted by fregante about 5 years ago

It looks like the Firefox version was accepted; I got an update to 20.1.6 today. 🦊

posted by jerone about 5 years ago

Hallelujah!

posted by fregante about 5 years ago

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