Sourceforge & Slashdot - The ultimate spy
- All Slashdot platforms, Sourceforge included, will actively collect any possible kind of personal and device-related infos about you;
- Slashdot will also try to get as much infos as possible from any social media you're using;
- Slashdot will transfer all collected infos into USA servers and let USA government have unlimited access to it;
- Third party organizations, making content available on Slashdot, will have access to your infos and use their own privacy policies.
Attached text excerpts from the original Slashdot privacy statement.
LAST UPDATED: JANUARY 9, 2014 (Effective Date May 24, 2008)
Dice Career Solutions, Inc. and Slashdot Media ("Slashdot Media"), subsidiaries of Dice Holdings, Inc., operate the Internet sites SlashdotMedia.com, SourceForge.net, Slashdot.org, feedery.com, and Freecode.com (the "Sites"). Slashdot Media is committed to protecting the privacy of users of the Sites. This Privacy Statement applies to each of the Sites and describes the information Slashdot Media collects about users and how that information may be used.
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What information Slashdot Media collects
Slashdot Media may collect three types of information from users of Sites: "personally identifiable information", "device information" about the device you are using to access our site, and "aggregate information."
Personally identifiable information is any piece of information which can potentially be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a user of the Sites (such as name, email address, postal address, telephone number).
Device information is information about the device and its attributes (such as information about how your browser is configured, whether your device has enabled cookies, its Flash settings, the device's identification number and other characteristics about the device); it also may be personally identifiable information in cases where it is associated with the name or other identifier for a Site user. We use device information for purposes such as enhancing the user experience.
Aggregate information is non-personally identifiable/anonymous information about users of the Sites (such as frequency of visits to Sites, Site pages most frequently accessed browser type). Aggregate information also may include pages visited along with any navigation and in-page interactions used during each visit. In-page interactions monitored include: clicks and selections, mouse movement, page scrolling, and form fields focused on (specific keystrokes entered into each field are not collected). Aggregate information is used in a collective manner and no single person can be identified by that compiled information.
We also use Omniture, comScore and Google Analytics for aggregation and analysis of session information.
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Social Network Login
If you chose to use third-party social networking sites, such as Facebook or Twitter, to log into one of our sites that offers that login feature, we may collect information, such as your basic profile information, gender, age, interests, and other demographic and geographical information, from the social networking site you use to interact with our site. If you do not want to share information from your social networking account with us you can either decline to use these features or check your social networking site's current privacy setting options to see what options they provide for limiting disclosures when you use login sharing features.
This privacy statement will apply to our use of information collected about you through these offerings. We do not control the privacy practices of your social networking sites. As a result, we want you to be aware that when you use these offerings you may be providing information to both us and the social networking site, and you should review your social networking site's privacy statement to be sure that you know how it will use any data that it collects. Similarly, if you choose to post content from our site through your social networking accounts, you will be sharing information about your activities with your social networking provider.
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How Slashdot Media uses the information collected
Slashdot Media may use the personally identifiable information a user submits for any purposes related to Slashdot Media's business, including, but not limited to:
- To understand a user's needs and create content that is relevant to the user;
- To generate statistical studies;
- To conduct market research and planning by sending user surveys;
- To notify user referrals of Slashdot Media services, information, or products when a user requests that Slashdot Media send such information to referrals;
- To improve services, information, and products;
- To help a user complete a transaction, or provide services or customer support to users and to recipients of Slashdot Media products;
- To communicate with the user and with recipients of Slashdot Media products;
- To update users and recipients of Slashdot Media products about services, information, and products;
- To personalize a Site for the user;
- To notify the user of any changes with a Site which may affect the user;
- To enforce terms of use on a Site; and
- To allow the user to purchase products, access services, or otherwise engage in activities the user selects.
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ONWARD TRANSFER
With whom may Slashdot Media share information?
Unless Slashdot Media has a user's permission, as otherwise described in this Privacy Statement, or as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, Slashdot Media will only share the personally identifiable information a user provides online with other entities that are part of the Slashdot Media corporate family and/or outside service providers who may be used to ship products, process credit cards, provide technical support, handle order processing, or otherwise act on Slashdot Media's behalf. These third party service providers are prohibited from using users' information for any other purpose, including their own marketing.
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Please be advised that in certain instances, it may be necessary for Slashdot Media to disclose a user's personally identifiable information without a user's permission to government officials or otherwise as required by legal obligations. Slashdot Media may disclose such personally identifiable information when responding to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise legal rights or defend against claims, including fraud or infringement investigations.
Data collected online may be combined with information a user provides through other means of communication, such as postal mail or third parties to further carry out the purposes described above under the heading "How Slashdot Media uses the information collected." When users choose to provide Slashdot Media with personally identifiable information, users consent to the transfer and storage of such information by Slashdot Media servers in the United States.
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Slashdot Media may make presentations, white papers and other content from other organizations available to the users of Slashdot Media sites. To obtain access to this content you may be asked to provide personally identifiable information, such as your name and contact information. This personally identifiable information may be shared with the organization that is making the content available and their use of the personally identifiable information will be subject to their own privacy policies.
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Bankruptcy or Sale of business
Slashdot Media reserves the right to share or transfer personally identifiable information and aggregate information to a third party should Slashdot Media ever file for bankruptcy or in the event of a sale, merger or acquisition of Slashdot Media, provided such third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this Privacy Statement.
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