simon-git: putty-website (main): Simon Tatham

[Commits to Tartarus hosted VCS]

TL;DR:
  88b7f71 Add a Privacy Considerations web page.

Repository:     https://git.tartarus.org/simon/putty-website.git
On the web:     https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty-website.git
Branch updated: main
Committer:      Simon Tatham <anakin at pobox.com>
Date:           2024-04-18 18:19:18

commit 88b7f71bed86d7f15786790cde20987c0206157d
web diff https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty-website.git;a=commitdiff;h=88b7f71bed86d7f15786790cde20987c0206157d;hp=8eb22bcff42320e4c85e8c0066c3a44f2fbcc50a
Author: Simon Tatham <anakin at pobox.com>
Date:   Thu Apr 18 18:10:42 2024 +0100

    Add a Privacy Considerations web page.
    
    My submission of PuTTY 0.81 to the Windows store was rejected on the
    grounds that we have no privacy policy. This is puzzling to me, since
    we've never been told we needed one before, and 0.81 changes
    essentially nothing. And the rejection notice was very confusing,
    since it said "Personal information the product accesses include:
    Desktop Bridge or Win32 product", which doesn't seem to be a list of
    personal information at all - it's a list of two Microsoft products!
    
    So I don't really know what _they_ were expecting us to put in a
    privacy page. But I thought I could at least write a short one
    mentioning that PuTTY doesn't phone home, and the only network
    connections it makes and log files it saves are the ones the
    configuring user actually told it to. And then it turned out there was
    a fair amount of detail we could add, especially once Jacob
    contributed suggestions too.
    
    I don't know if this will satisfy the Windows Store, but it seems to
    me to have some useful information on it even if not.

 build.pl              |   2 +-
 components/Base.mc    |   1 +
 components/privacy.mc | 162 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 164 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)