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<p class="important">
This document is a draft, this policy has not been finalized yet!
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<h1>SeaMonkey Privacy Policy</h1>
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<h1>SeaMonkey Privacy Policy</h1>
<p>
We're working hard to protect your privacy while delivering products and
services that bring you the performance and protection you desire in your
personal computing. This privacy policy explains how Mozilla Foundation
("Mozilla"), collects and uses information about users of the official SeaMonkey
Internet suite ("SeaMonkey"). It does not apply to other Mozilla websites,
products or services.
We care about your privacy. When SeaMonkey sends information to Mozilla,
their <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/privacy/">privacy policy</a> describes how
they handle that information.
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<h2 id="info-types">Types of Information</h2>
<h2>Things you should know</h2>
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<p>
As with most Internet products, SeaMonkey sends certain information to the
websites that you visit. This information falls into the following categories:
SeaMonkey automatically connects to Mozilla and their service providers to provide
updates, security and other features.
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<ul>
<li><i>"Personal Information"</i> is information that you provide to us that
personally identifies you, such as your name, phone number or email address.
Except as described below, Mozilla does not collect or require end-users of
SeaMonkey to furnish Personal Information.</li>
<li><i>"Non-Personal Information"</i> is information that cannot be directly
associated with a specific person or entity. Non-Personal Information
includes but is not limited to your computer's configuration and the version
of SeaMonkey you use.</li>
<li><i>"Potentially Personal Information"</i> is information that is
Non-Personal Information in and of itself but that could be used in
conjunction with other information to personally identify you. For example,
Uniform Resource Locators ("URLs") (the addresses of web pages) and Internet
Protocol ("IP") addresses (the addresses of computers on the internet),
which are Non-Personal Information in and of themselves, could be Personal
Information when combined with internet service provider ("ISP") records.</li>
<li><i>"Aggregate Data"</i> is information that is recorded about users and
collected into groups so that it no longer reflects or references an
individually identifiable user.</li>
<li>
<p id="auto-updates">Suite and add-ons updates</p>
<p>Suite Updates: Once per day, SeaMonkey sends the following info to
Mozilla when it checks for suite updates: Your SeaMonkey version
information, language preference, operating system and version.
You can turn off updates by following the instructions you will
find at Help > Customize SeaMonkey > Advanced Preferences > Software
installation, but it may leave you open to security vulnerabilities.</p>
<p>Add-ons Blocklist: SeaMonkey contacts Mozilla once per day to check for
add-on information to check for malicious add-ons. This includes, for
example: Suite version, OS and version, locale, total number of
requests, time of last request, time of day, IP address, and the list of
add-ons you have installed. You can turn off meta data updates at any time
by following the instructions you find at Help > Customize SeaMonkey
> Advanced Preferences > Software installation, but it may leave you open
to security vulnerabilities.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p id="security">Security</p>
<p>SeaMonkey automatically checks for malicious or forged web pages, broken
add-ons, and third-party issued SSL certificates.</p>
<p>Secure Website Certificates: When you visit a secure website (i.e.
"https"), SeaMonkey will validate the website's certificate. This may
involve communicating with a third-party status provider specified by
the certificate. SeaMonkey sends to this third-party information
identifying the site's certificate. You can
change your preferences by following the instructions you find at
Help > Internet Privacy > Privacy &amp; Security Preferences > SSL,
but if you disable the online verification feature, SeaMonkey cannot
confirm the identity of the website you are visiting. Turning off this
feature may increase the risk of your private information being
intercepted. If you encounter an
<a href="https://support.mozilla.org/kb/connection-untrusted-error-message">untrusted connection</a>,
you can also choose to send Mozilla the associated certificates.</p>
<p>SeaMonkey Safe Browsing: About twice per hour, SeaMonkey
downloads Google's SafeBrowsing lists to help block access to sites and
downloads that are malicious or forged (Google's privacy policy is at
<a href="https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/">https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/</a>).
For downloaded executables that do not appear in these lists, SeaMonkey
may send metadata, including URLs associated with the downloaded file,
to the SafeBrowsing service. Visit <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-does-phishing-and-malware-protection-work">https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-does-phishing-and-malware-protection-work</a>
to learn more about or disable Safe Browsing. If you disable these
features, SeaMonkey cannot warn you of potentially illegitimate or
malicious websites or downloaded files.</p>
<p>Do Not Track Protection: About twice per hour, SeaMonkey
downloads tracking protection lists from Disconnect.me to help block
access to sites and resources that are known to track visitors
browsing habits (Disconnect.me privacy policy is at
<a href="https://disconnect.me/privacy">https://disconnect.me/privacy</a>).
Visit <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/kb/tracking-protection-firefox">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-firefox</a>
to learn more about Tracking Protection feature. If you disable this
feature, SeaMonkey cannot protect you from being tracked by those
known sites.</p>
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<h2 id="websites">Information SeaMonkey Sends to Websites</h2>
<p>
Like most web browsers, SeaMonkey sends information to the websites you visit,
including (1) Non-Personal Information of the type that web browsers typically
make available, such as the type of browser you are using, your language
preference, the referring site, and the date and time of your visit; and
(2) Potentially Personal Information such as your IP address. This information
may be logged on the websites you visit. What information is logged and how that
information is used depends on the policies of each of the websites you visit.
</p>
<p>
Each website determines its own privacy policy for the distribution and use of
this Non-Personal Information and Potentially Personal Information. If you are
concerned about how a website will use this information, check out its privacy
policy. To find out more about how Mozilla uses this information on its own
websites, see the
<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/about/policies/privacy-policy.html">Mozilla
Privacy Policy</a>.
</p>
<h3 id="features">Interactive Product Features</h3>
<p>
<i>Crash-Reporting Feature</i>. SeaMonkey has a crash-reporting feature that
sends a report to Mozilla when SeaMonkey crashes. Mozilla uses the information
in the crash reports to diagnose and correct the problems in SeaMonkey that
caused the crash. Though this feature starts automatically after SeaMonkey
crashes, it does not send information to Mozilla until you explicitly authorize
it to do so. By default, this feature sends a variety of Non-Personal
Information to Mozilla, including the stack trace (a detailed description of
which parts of the SeaMonkey code were active at the time of the crash) and the
type of computer you are using. Additional information is collected by the crash
reporting feature. Which crash reporting feature is used and what additional
information collected by SeaMonkey depends on which version of SeaMonkey you're
using.
</p>
<dl>
<dt style="text-decoration: underline;">SeaMonkey 1.x.</dt>
<dd>
<p>These earlier versions of SeaMonkey don't include a crash reporting feature
at all, no information about crashes is sent to Mozilla at any time.
</p>
</dd>
<dt style="text-decoration: underline;">SeaMonkey 2.x.</dt>
<dd>
<p>For the current versions of SeaMonkey, "SeaMonkey Crash Reporter" is
SeaMonkey's crash reporting feature. With this feature, you have the option
to include the URL of the site you were visiting when SeaMonkey crashed, a
comment, and your email address in the report. SeaMonkey Crash Reporter also
sends a list of all add-ons that you were using at the time of the crash,
the time since (i) the last crash, (ii) the last install, and (iii) the
start-up of the program. Mozilla only makes Non-Personal Information (i.e.,
generic information about your computer, the stack trace, and any comment
given by the user) in the public reports available online at
<a href="http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/">http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/</a>.
</p>
</dd>
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To safeguard your privacy, Mozilla makes the Personal Information, such as your
name and email address, and Potentially Personal Information, such are the URL
of the site you last visited, only available to its employees, contractors, and
selected contributors who signed confidentiality agreements that prohibit them
from using or disclosing such information other than for internal Mozilla purposes.
</p>
<p>
<i>Report Broken Web Site Feature</i>. SeaMonkey's Report Broken Web Site
feature lets you notify Mozilla when a website you visit improperly displays or
incorrectly functions. The feature sends the URL of the broken website to
Mozilla. You may also choose to send your email address and a description of the
problem. This feature also sends a variety of Non-Personal Information to
Mozilla, including but not limited to the version of SeaMonkey you are using and
your language preference. Except for your email address, Mozilla makes all of
this information public. This feature does not send information to Mozilla until
you explicitly authorize SeaMonkey to do so. To prevent this public release of
Personal and Potentially Personal Information, don't report a website if the
website's URL contains your Personal and Potentially Personal Information, and
don't include Personal Information in your description of the problem. To
prevent the release of any information, don't use this feature to report a
broken website.
</p>
<p>
<i>Automated Update Service</i>. SeaMonkey's automatic update feature (only
included in SeaMonkey 2.x) periodically checks to see if an updated version of
SeaMonkey and installed add-ons are available from Mozilla.
</p>
<dl>
<dt style="text-decoration: underline;">SeaMonkey</dt>
<dd>
<p>This feature sends Non-Personal Information to Mozilla, including the
version of SeaMonkey you are using, build ID and target, update channel,
your operating system, and your language preference. This feature also sends
Potentially Personal Information to Mozilla in the form of a cookie named
"aus" that contains a unique numeric value to distinguish individual
SeaMonkey installs. Mozilla uses this information to provide you with
updated versions of SeaMonkey and to understand the usage patterns of
SeaMonkey users. We use this information to improve our products and
services and to support decision making regarding feature and capacity
planning.
</p>
</dd>
<dt style="text-decoration: underline;">Add-Ons</dt>
<dd>
<p>The add-ons update version check sends Non-Personal Information to Mozilla,
including the version of SeaMonkey you are using, version of the add-ons you
have installed, build ID and target, update channel, your operating system,
and your language preference with each check of an add-on that uses
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/ as its update host. If any of
your add-ons use a third party update URL, SeaMonkey will check that URL for
updates to those add-ons.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
We do not collect or track any Personal Information or any information about
the Web sites you visit, and we do not release the raw information we obtain
from these features to the public. We may release reports containing Aggregate
Data so that our global community can make better product and design decisions.
To prevent Mozilla from obtaining this information, you can turn this feature
off in SeaMonkey's preferences (in the Advanced > Software Installation panel).
</p>
<p>
SeaMonkey 1.x includes an update notification instead of the Automated Update
Service used in SeaMonkey 2.x. The notification only requests a web document
from the SeaMonkey website (the usual Non-Personal Information listed in the
<a href="#websites">Websites topic</a> of this page is sent, but nothing else).
SeaMonkey then determines if the installed version is older than the one offered
on the website, and if so, displays an update notification.
</p>
<p>
<i>Add-ons Features.</i> One thing that makes SeaMonkey so flexible is the
ability for you to add various add-ons, extensions, and themes to SeaMonkey,
thereby creating a custom browser that fits your needs. The following features
show how SeaMonkey 2.x provides both the ability to obtain additional add-ons
easily and to protect against potentially harmful add-ons.
When you ask it to, SeaMonkey also connects to Mozilla to provide you with
features such as Sync, location services, crash reporting, and add-ons.
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<dt style="text-decoration: underline;">Get Add-ons Feature</dt>
<dd>
<p>SeaMonkey 2.x offers a Get Add-ons Feature. This feature creates a list of
recommended add-ons and extensions to try. You access this recommended list
by clicking on the "Get Add-ons" tab from the SeaMonkey Add-ons Manager. We
do not collect any Personal Information. To display the recommended list,
SeaMonkey sends Non-Personal Information to Mozilla, including the type of
computer and version of SeaMonkey you are using as well as any cookies set
by https://addons.mozilla.org.
</p>
</dd>
<dt style="text-decoration: underline;">Blocklist Feature</dt>
<dd>
<p>SeaMonkey 2.x also offers a Blocklist feature. With this feature, once a
day SeaMonkey does a regularly scheduled, automatic check to see if you have
any harmful add-ons or plug-ins installed. If so, this feature disables
add-ons or plug-ins that Mozilla has determined contain known
vulnerabilities or major user facing issues or fatal bugs (e.g., client
crashes on startup or something causing an endless loop of unusability).
You may view <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/blocklist/">Firefox's current
list of Blocklisted items</a>, SeaMonkey's list is a subset of those,
blocking only those that affect SeaMonkey in any way. This feature sends
Non-Personal Information to Mozilla, including the version of SeaMonkey you
are using, operating system version, build ID and target, update channel,
and your language preference. In addition, Mozilla also uses this feature to
count the number of active SeaMonkey users. Currently there is no basic user
interface to disable the Blocklist feature. An
<a href="http://www.support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+makes+unrequested+connections#Extensions_blocklist_updating">article
in the Firefox Knowledge Base</a> explains how you may disable the Blocklist
feature, this explanation holds true for SeaMonkey as well. Disabling the
Blocklist feature is not recommended as it may result in using extensions
know to be untrustworthy. More information about the Blocklist feature may
be found at <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Extension_Blocklisting">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Extension_Blocklisting</a>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt style="text-decoration: underline;">Location-aware Feature</dt>
<dd>
<p>SeaMonkey 2.x offers a <a href="../doc/2.0/geolocation">Location-Aware
Feature</a>, parts of which may be provided by <a href="third-party">third
party service providers</a>.
</p>
<dl>
<dt style="text-decoration: underline;">You Elect to Use the
Location-Aware Feature</dt>
<dd>
<p>This feature remains inoperative until you visit a website that
requests your location and you choose to opt in to the feature. If you
elect not to, nothing happens. Each time you visit such a website,
SeaMonkey asks you if you want it to provide the site with your current
location. Additionally, you may elect to have SeaMonkey remember your
choice to allow or not allow the feature for each site. Any such
election is domain specific. You are able to
<a href="../doc/2.0/geolocation#undo-permission">opt out</a> at any time
of having SeaMonkey remember your choice, just like any other preference
setting.
</p>
</dd>
<dt style="text-decoration: underline;">What Information SeaMonkey Collects</dt>
<dd>
<p>If you choose to allow it, the SeaMonkey Location-Aware Feature first
collects one or more of the following relevant location markers:
(i) location provided by a GPS device built into or attached to your
computer or device and/or geolocation services provided by the operating
system; (ii) the wifi routers closest to you; (iii) cell ids of the cell
towers closest to you; (iv) the signal strength of nearby wireless
access points and/or cellular phone towers; and/or (v) your computer or
device’s IP address. Next, it attempts to determine your location using
these location markers. Any information SeaMonkey uses, receives or
sends as part of this Location-aware Feature is not received by any
Mozilla servers or by Mozilla. SeaMonkey does not track or remember your
location. SeaMonkey does remember a random client identifier, the
temporary ID assigned by our third party provider to process your
request, for two weeks.
</p>
</dd>
<dt style="text-decoration: underline;">What Information Third Parties
Receive &amp; Provide</dt>
<dd>
<p>If necessary, SeaMonkey sends the information above, except any GPS
information and/or geolocation data provided by the operating system,
plus you user agent information (e.g, version of SeaMonkey you're using),
along with a temporary client identifier, to its third party service
provider(s) capable of deriving a physical location from the information
SeaMonkey has collected (e.g., convert a set of WiFi signal strengths
into latitude and longitude). This information is sent over an encrypted
connection. The connection between SeaMonkey and the service provider
does not use any cookies. Neither the domain name nor the URL of the
site you’re visiting are sent to our service providers. Our providers
estimate your location and return it to SeaMonkey. SeaMonkey provides
your location information to the webpage that made the request. For any
information the webpage sends back to the website, please see that
website's privacy policy.
</p>
</dd>
<dt style="text-decoration: underline;">Third Party Websites</dt>
<dd>
<p>Please carefully consider any website's privacy practices before
agreeing to share your location with that website.
</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Requesting Websites</em>. For any information the webpage sends
back to the website, please see that website's privacy policy.</li>
<li><em>Location-aware Service Providers</em>. In addition, our service
providers have their own <a href="third-party">privacy policy</a>.</li>
<li><em>ISP and Mobile Carrier</em>. All requests must be sent through
your internet service provider or mobile carrier network and your
service provider or carrier may have access to the request. For
information regarding your service provider's or carrier's treatment
of your information, please consult their privacy policies.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>For more information, please see <a href="../doc/2.0/geolocation">Learn
More</a> for this feature.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<h2 id="security">Security Features</h2>
<p>
<i>Secure Website Certificate Verification</i>. When you visit a secure website,
SeaMonkey will check with the certificate provider to validate that website's
certificate. SeaMonkey sends only the certificate identification to the
certificate provider, not the exact URL you are visiting. If the certificate is
not valid, you will receive an error page that states the certificate was
revoked and you will not be able to access that website. The technical name for
this process is OCSP or On-line Certificate Status Protocol. You may completely
turn off the secure website certificate verification feature in SeaMonkey's
preferences under the Validation panel in the Privacy &amp; Security category.
If you do this, none of the information discussed here will be sent to any third
party certificate provider.
</p>
<h2 id="cookies">Cookies</h2>
<p>
A cookie is a small string of information that a website stores on your computer
and that web browsers make available to that website each time you return.
SeaMonkey stores cookies on your computer when requested to do so by websites.
A website uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, the use of the
website, and visitors' website access preferences across multiple requests and
visits. It is possible to include Personally-Identifying Information, or
references to such information, in cookies, thereby enabling websites to track
the online movements of particular individuals. To prevent SeaMonkey from
sending cookies to specific websites, configure SeaMonkey to prompt you when a
website wants to set a cookie. To prevent SeaMonkey from sending cookies to any
website, configure it to disable cookies.
</p>
<h2 id="changes">Privacy Policy Changes</h3>
<p>
Mozilla may change the SeaMonkey Privacy Policy from time to time. Any and
all changes will be reflected on this page. When Mozilla changes this policy in
a material way, a notice will be posted on the
<a href="../">www.seamonkey-project.org</a> Web site.
Substantive changes may also be announced through the standard mechanisms by
which Mozilla communicates with its users and community, including Mozilla's
"announce" <a href="https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/announce">mailing list
and newsgroup</a>. It is your responsibility to ensure that you understand the
terms of this Privacy Policy. You should periodically check this page for any
changes to the current policy.
</p>
<h2 id="more-info">For More Information</h2>
<p>
If you have questions about this privacy policy, please contact the SeaMonkey
Council at: <em>seamonkey-council at mozilla dot org</em>.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p id="sync"><strong>Sync</strong>: <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/sync/">Firefox Sync</a>
is the brand name of a service that allows you to sync your SeaMonkey bookmarks,
browsing history, passwords, and settings across all of your devices. If you use
the Sync service, please read the
<a href="https://services.mozilla.com/privacy-policy/">Firefox Sync privacy notice</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p id="location-services"><strong>Location services</strong>: SeaMonkey
has a feature that allows sites to request your location (e.g., to allow
those sites to show your location on a map). If a site requests your
location, SeaMonkey seeks your permission before determining and sharing
your location. In order to determine your location, SeaMonkey may use
several pieces of data to determine your location, including your
operating system&apos;s geolocation features, WiFi networks, cell phone towers
or IP address. Estimating your location involves sending some of this
information to Google's geolocation service, which has its own
<a href="https://www.google.com/privacy/lsf.html">privacy policy</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p class="inproduct-link" id="crash-reporter"><strong>Crash reporting</strong>:
You have the option to send Mozilla a crash report in case SeaMonkey
crashes. This report will contain technical information for us to improve
SeaMonkey including why SeaMonkey crashed, the active URL at time of crash,
and the state of computer memory during the crash. The crash report we
receive may include personal information. We make portions of crash
reports available publicly at <a href="http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/">http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/</a>.
Before publicly posting crash reports, we take steps to automatically
redact personal information. We do not redact anything you may write in
the comments box.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p id="addons"><strong>Add-ons</strong>: SeaMonkey contains a Get Add-ons
page in the Add-ons Manager that features popular add-ons and displays
personalized recommendations based on the add-ons you already have
installed. To display the personalized recommendations, SeaMonkey sends
information to Mozilla, including the list of add-ons you have
installed, SeaMonkey version information, and your IP address. This
communication only happens when the Get Add-ons area is open and can be
turned off by following the instructions you find at
Help > Advanced > Software Installation > Add-ons.
The add-ons manager in SeaMonkey has a search field where you can enter
keywords to perform searches and Mozilla collects these keyword searches,
as well as your SeaMonkey version information, locale, and OS to show you
recommendations.</p>
</li>
</ul>
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