The following principles apply to the personally identifying information we ask for and that you provide. "Personally identifying information" is information that individually identifies you, such as your name, physical address or email address. The following policies are only in effect for the BitKeeper configuration management system, the BK/DB database system, the web pages, and opt-in discussion and/or announcement lists owned and operated by BitMover, Inc.

What don't you do with the information you collect?

We do not, and have not, and will not, gift, rent, sell or resell your private information to other companies or individuals for any purpose. That has been our policy since 1997 and it has never changed.

What information are you collecting and how are you collecting it?

We may collect information from users when they use our products. This information may include your email address, host/domain name, user name, and/or other information which uniquely identifies you to us. What we may collect varies across our products and/or services:

• BitKeeper: When you install BitKeeper we may send an installation log message.
  When you use BitKeeper to create changes we may send a log message to bitkeeper.com. The log message contains only enough information to record that you have used BitKeeper to make a change. It does not contain any checkin comments, pathnames, or anything else which could be used to determine what you are doing with BitKeeper.
• BK/DB: Any information collection is identical to that collected by the BitKeeper configuration management system.

What do you do with the information you collect?

What we may do with your information varies across our products and/or services:

• BitKeeper: We use the installation log messages to determine which platforms are popular and which may be safely obsoleted.
  The log messages sent back are used to count seats for billing purposes. Because BitKeeper is a distributed system and because we never want licensing to get in the way of your productivity, we use this method to centralize the seat counting process. This process ensures that you are billed for what you use and no more, resulting in lower costs to you. While some people have concerns about this system, all of our customers, including many Fortune 50 companies, use this model and have verified that it does not include any intellectual property leak.
• BK/DB: Any information collection is identical to that collected by the BitKeeper configuration management system.

Policy changes

Please note this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We expect most such changes to be minor. Regardless, we will post those changes here and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a more prominent notice to the bitkeeper-announce discussion list.