Neither Pengwin or Whitewater Foundtry, Ltd. Co. collects any personal or machine-identifying information with the exception of the following:
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If you submit logs or errors to GitHub they may contain personal or machine-identifying information. Please check and remove any personal or machine-identifying information you do not wish to be shared publicly before submitting to GitHub. See a link to the GitHub Privacy Policy below.
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Whitewater Foundtry, Ltd. Co. sees very general country-of-purchase statistics, age, and gender demographics supplied by the Microsoft Store on the Microsoft Partner Dashboard. Whitewater Foundry, Ltd. Co. may use this information to improve international support, target advertising, and for other promotional purposes.
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Whitewater Foundtry, Ltd. Co. sees Pengwin crash data from the Pengwin launcher, including a stack trace, memory dump, version/build information, device name and type, running processes, and other potentially personally-identifying and machine-identifying information, but only when Windows is configured to provide Full diagnostic data. We investigate these crashes and forward to Microsoft InfoSec Ops Center and the WSL team at Microsoft for further analysis. You may disable Full diagnostic data collection by following the instructions here: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-feedback-diagnostics-and-privacy, via Group Policy, or with a third-party tool such as: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10.
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Whitewater Foundtry, Ltd. Co. does not see crash data from Linux applications or applications running inside the Pengwin environment, unless they happen to be running when the Pengwin launcher crashes (see above).
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We log our apt repository data usage in the abstract. Machine-identifying information may be temporarily cached but is not written to disk.
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We log and write suspected security breaches to disk.
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We also use web services and they collect information. You may see their privacy policies here:
GitHub Privacy Policy https://help.github.com/articles/github-privacy-statement/
Microsoft Privacy Policy https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
Debian Privacy Policy https://www.debian.org/legal/privacy
Vultr Privacy Policy https://www.vultr.com/legal/privacy/
CloudFlare Privacy Policy https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
wslutilities https://github.com/wslutilities/wslu/