Information Density: GNOME – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

[H2] Ecosystem

[IMG: GNOME Circle, a new app incubator project.]

[H4] GNOME Circle
Certification and mentoring program for well-designed apps built for the GNOME platform.

[IMG: Flathub, the best Linux app distribution marketplace.]

[H4] Flathub
Get many more third party apps for GNOME on Flathub, the Linux app store.

[IMG: dev docs]

[H4] Developer Platform
Build gorgeous apps using a completely independent technology stack.
Developer Portal
Design System

[H2] Our mission
Miguel and Federico's vision of freedom remains at the heart of the GNOME project. Open source principles, equality of participation, and collaboration remain guiding principles for the project.
GNOME's openness is also one of its greatest strengths, allowing it to provide unique learning opportunities for its participants, and for its software to be used in the most critical situations, from space flight control rooms, to automotive systems, to the laptops of those threatened by oppressive regimes.
Today, GNOME continues its mission to promote software freedom, expanding its endeavours to new computing frontiers. The project leads in several critical areas, from the movement to create a free and independent app ecosystem, to open user centered design practices, to open mobile.
We invite you to join us.

[IMG: Our Mission]

[H2] Scope of This Notice
This Privacy Policy is intended to describe the GNOME Foundation's privacy practices and provide information about the choices you have regarding the ways in which information collected by the GNOME Foundation is used and disclosed. The GNOME Foundation is referred to in this document as the "Foundation".
[H2] Our Commitment to Privacy
Your privacy is important to the Foundation. To better protect your privacy and to comply with various laws and regulations, we have provided this policy explaining our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your personal information is collected, used and disclosed. To make this policy easy to find, we have made it available on our homepage and at many of the locations where personally-identifiable information may be requested.

[H2] The Information We Collect
This Privacy policy applies to all information collected by or submitted to the Foundation, including personal data. "Personal data" is data that can be used to identify an individual.
The Foundation collects personal data when:
you sign up as a Foundation Supporter or otherwise donate to the Foundation;
you visit any Foundation website;
you use one of the Foundation's mailing lists;
you use one of the Foundation's code repositories;
you use one of the Foundation's IRC channels;
register to, present at, and/or attend, our events and conferences, or at our booths when we are present at someone else's conference/event
enter into a contract with us;
sign up for job alerts on our websites, submit a job application, a CV, cover letter, or social media profile to a job vacancy, attend an interview, assessment, or meeting;
register for, and update an online account with us (including if you access through Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, or an open IP provider);
you participate in surveys and evaluations;
'follow', 'like', post to, or interact with, our social media accounts, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and Google+;
you submit questions or comments to us.
This policy applies to the Foundation's general operations, supporter program, websites and events.
The information you provide to us will include (depending on the circumstances):

Identity and contact data: title, names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers or your signature.
Account profile data: a username/display name, password, user preferences and, if you sign up through a social media account, certain information about that account.
Conference registration details: the company/organization you work for, job title/position, language preferences, your name, your email, your age, your gender, your job function, your experience, your opinions and why you are attending the conference and what you hope to learn, your accessibility needs.
Financial data: payment details, which may include billing addresses, credit/debit card details and bank account details.
Employment and background data: if you apply for employment on our sites, your academic and work history, qualifications, skills, projects and research that you are involved in, references, proof of your entitlement to work in the relevant country, your national security number, your passport or other identity document details, your current level of remuneration (including benefits), and any other such similar information that you may provide to us.
Visual and audio information about yourself: e.g. a photo or video footage, or sound recording.
Sensitive information: information about your race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, health and whether or not you have any disability. You can find out more about how we use the sensitive information below in the "Special Categories of Data" section.
Any other information that you choose to share with us: for example, any information that you provide via correspondence, when you fill out our survey(s), that you share via our website or social media accounts linked to our website, or any information that you choose to provide in person at events, meetings, or over the phone.
In certain circumstances, we will receive information about you from other sources, including third parties. For example, we may receive personal information from any of the following, who may be based inside and/or outside the EU:

Other website or service users.
Event attendees.
Your agents or representatives who are acting on your instructions.
Organizations with whom we provide co-branded events, websites, products, and services.
Fraud detection agencies.
Your current and former employers, recruitment agencies, and referees.
Service providers including our website developers, IT support providers, cloud services providers, payment services providers, billing service providers, contractors, consultants, advertising agencies and platforms, digital performance monitoring and management providers, advertising analytics providers, recruitment agencies, survey tool providers, event ticket retailers, event management platform service providers, HR service providers, couriers, instant messaging service providers.
Social media plugins. By providing your social media account details you are authorizing that third-party provider to share with us certain information about you.
Publicly available sources such as LinkedIn.
We might also receive information about you from other third parties if you have indicated to such third parties that you would like to hear from us.

[H4] Special Categories of Data
Special categories of particularly sensitive personal information require higher levels of protection. These so-called "special categories of data" include details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. Depending on the circumstances, we will also collect information about criminal convictions and offenses.
We need to have further justification for collecting, storing and using this type of personal information. We process special categories of personal information in the following circumstances:

in limited circumstances, with your explicit written consent
where it is necessary to carry out our legal obligations or exercise rights in connection with employment
where it is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest, such as for equal opportunities monitoring
where it is necessary in relation to legal claims
where it is necessary to protect your interests (or someone else's interests) and you are not capable of giving your consent
where you have already made the information public.
For example, we may collect special categories of information:

when you apply to work for us (for diversity and equal opportunities records, to support your needs and facilitate access to our premises, and to carry out background checks);
when you attend our events, visit our premises, or apply for a scholarship or funding from us (to make any necessary arrangements for your attendance, monitor diversity, and to investigate claims about breaches of our Conference Code of Conduct).
In limited circumstances, we may request your written consent to allow us to use certain particularly sensitive data. If we do so, we will provide you with full details of the information that we would like and the reason we need it, so that you can carefully consider whether you wish to consent.

[H2] Using (Processing) Your Personal Data
The Foundation uses the personal data you provide to:

To provide access to our website in a manner convenient and optimal (on the basis of our legitimate interest to ensure our website is presented in an effective and optimal manner, or where we have a legal obligation to prevent unauthorised access).
To process and fulfill your donation to the Foundation (on the basis of performing our contract with you).
To process and facilitate transactions and payments, and recover money owed to us (on the basis of performing our contract with you, and on the basis of our legitimate interest to recover debts due).
To monitor your account and use of services to prevent and identify unlawful content use and violations of our policies (on the basis of our legitimate interests to operate a safe and lawful business, or where we have a legal obligation to do so).
To identify and authenticate you (on the basis of your consent where we have requested it, or on the basis of our legitimate interest to ensure that users are verifiable)
To enable you to communicate with other users (on the basis of your consent where we have requested it, or on the basis of performing our contract with you).
To attribute data and content you produce directly and indirectly in our public-facing services (on the basis our legitimate interests to create a public record of the data and content produced by the Foundation's services; and to maintain the integrity of that data and content for historical, scientific, and research purposes.)
To manage our relationship with you, which will include notifying you about changes to our terms of service or privacy policy, and asking you to leave a review or take a survey (on the basis of performing our contract with you, to comply with our legal obligations, and our legitimate interest in keeping our records updated and study how our website and services are used).
To conduct business with you or your employer, including to contact you and manage and facilitate our business relationship with you and your employer (on the basis of performing our contract with you, and our legitimate interest in running our business).
To work with you and undertake projects with you, including to process any proposals that you submit to us (on the basis of our contract with you, and our legitimate interest in running our business).
To provide access to, and administer scholarship and funding programs (on the basis of your consent where we have requested it, on the basis of performing our contract with you, and our legitimate interest in making our products and services accessible to a range of individuals with diverse backgrounds).
For recruitment, including to process any job applications you submit to us, whether directly or via an agent or recruiter including sharing your information with our third-party recruitment agencies (on the basis of our legitimate interest to recruit new employees or contractors).
To carry out marketing and let you know about our news, events, products or services that we believe may interest you, including sharing your information with our marketing services providers (either on the basis of your consent where we have requested it, or our legitimate interests to provide you with marketing communications where we may lawfully do so).
For research activities, including the production of statistical reports (on the basis of our legitimate interest in making our products and services accessible to a range of individuals with diverse backgrounds).
To answer your questions (on the basis of consent)
To maintain our servers (on the basis of our legitimate interest in maintaining an efficient business operation)
To interact with users on social media platforms (on the basis of our legitimate interest in promoting our brand and communicating with interested individuals).
To protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity (on the basis of our legitimate interests to operate a safe and lawful business, or where we have a legal obligation to do so).
To enable us to comply with our policies and procedures and enforce our legal rights, and to protect the rights, property or safety of our employees and volunteers and share your information with our technical and legal advisors (on the basis of our legitimate interests to operate a safe and lawful business, or where we have a legal obligation to do so).
As outlined above, in certain circumstances we may use your personal information to pursue legitimate interests of our own or those of third parties. Where we refer to our "legitimate interests", we mean our legitimate business interests in conducting and managing our business and our relationship with you, including the legitimate interests we have specified in the section above. Where we use your information for our legitimate interests, we make sure that we take into account any potential impact that such use may have on you. Our legitimate interests don't automatically override yours and we won't use your information if we believe your interests should override ours unless we have other grounds to do so (such as your consent or a legal obligation). If you have any concerns about our processing please refer to details of "Your Rights" below.

[H2] Sharing Your Personal Data
Unless you consent, the Foundation will never process or share the personal data you provide to us except as described below.

To attribute your contributions to mailing lists, source repositories, Etherpads, wikis, forums, and IRC channels.
As required to provide service (as a consequence of uses already described in this Privacy Statement)
Sponsors, partners and collaborators, such as those organizations with whom we host co-branded events.
Our service providers who are acting as processors and who assist us with our administrative or business functions, or in the provision of any of our products/services to you.
For research activities, including the production of statistical reports (such aggregated information is used to describe our services and is not used to contact the subjects of the report).
Regulators and governmental bodies like the IRS, HMRC, and other authorities and regulators acting as processors or joint controllers who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
Other third parties including legal, professional or other advisors, regulatory authorities, courts, law enforcement agencies and government agencies) where necessary to enable us to enforce our legal rights or to protect the rights, property or safety of our employees or where such disclosure may be permitted or required by law
[H2] Donations
We receive personal information from third-party services when you donate to us via online payment mechanisms. We do not sell or distribute this information to third parties. The Foundation uses this information to acknowledge your donation and send you occasional solicitations and newsletters. Donors can opt out of all contact or specify only print or e-mail contact by emailing info@gnome.org. Donor names are posted on our Sponsors and Supporters page as a recognition of their support, as well as listed in our annual report. At the time of the donation, the donor can ask to be anonymous, so that their name will not be publicly recognized.

[H2] Receiving E-Mail
The Foundation may send you e-mail to authorize accounts you create on our si