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title: Privacy Policy
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    <h1 class="d-1">Selenium Privacy Policy</h1>
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        <h2 class="alert-heading pb-3">Selenium's Commitment to Privacy</h2>
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            <p>
                Selenium is committed to protecting user privacy and ensuring transparency in how we collect and use
                data.
                This policy explains what data we collect, why we collect it, and how users can control their privacy
                preferences.
            </p>
            <p>
                The Selenium project collects anonymous data from visitors to our website
                as well as usage data through <a href="https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/selenium_manager">Selenium
                Manager</a>.
                Selenium uses <a href="https://plausible.io/privacy-focused-web-analytics">Plausible Analytics</a>
                to manage this data due to its focus on privacy.
            </p>
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        <h2 class="alert-heading pb-3">Website Analytics (selenium.dev)</h2>
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            <p>
                Selenium uses <a href="https://plausible.io">Plausible's</a> hosted solution to track information
                about visitors to our website (<a href="https://www.selenium.dev">selenium.dev</a>).
                The following information is collected:
            </p>
            <ul>
                <li>Number of visitors to the site</li>
                <li>Most viewed pages</li>
                <li>General geographic distribution (country-level)</li>
                <li>Referral sources (e.g., search engines, social media, direct visits)</li>
            </ul>
            <p>
                Plausible does not use cookies, does not track users across sites, and does not collect personal
                information.
            </p>
            <p>
                All information we collect is publicly available on the
                <a href="https://plausible.io/selenium.dev">Selenium Website Plausible Dashboard</a>
            </p>
            <p>
                This data helps us understand how users engage with the Selenium website to improve our
                documentation and content.
            </p>
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        <h2 class="alert-heading pb-3">Selenium Manager Telemetry</h2>
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            <p>
                Selenium Manager, a tool for managing browser drivers, collects anonymous usage data to
                help us understand which platforms and configurations need the most support.
            </p>
            <p>
                Data Collected:
            </p>
            <ul>
                <li>Selenium version</li>
                <li>Programming language (Java, Python, JavaScript, .NET)</li>
                <li>Operating system and CPU architecture</li>
                <li>Browser and version (managed by Selenium Manager)</li>
                <li>Approximate geolocation (city-level), derived temporarily from the IP address (IP is discarded after
                    processing)
                </li>
            </ul>
            <p>
                What is NOT collected:
            </p>
            <ul>
                <li>Personal information (e.g., usernames, emails)</li>
                <li>Browser history or test execution details</li>
                <li>Full IP addresses (only used temporarily for location inference, then discarded)</li>
                <li>Cookies or persistent tracking identifiers</li>
            </ul>
            <p>
                All information we collect is publicly available on the
                <a href="https://plausible.io/manager.selenium.dev">Selenium Manager Plausible Dashboard</a>
            </p>
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        <h2 class="alert-heading pb-3">GDPR & CCPA Compliance</h2>
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            <p>
                Selenium Manager’s telemetry is designed to comply with GDPR and CCPA by collecting only anonymized,
                non-personal data and providing users full control over their participation.
                Below is a detailed breakdown of compliance with key GDPR provisions.
            </p>

            <h4>Lawfulness & Transparency (Articles 5, 6, 12)</h4>
            <ul>
                <li>Selenium Manager processes anonymized, non-personal data under legitimate interest
                    (Article 6(1)(f)), allowing data collection for product improvement while respecting user privacy.
                </li>
                <li>Users are informed about telemetry collection through:
                    <ul>
                        <li>Change logs and documentation updates</li>
                        <li>Blog posts</li>
                        <li>A one-time console message when telemetry is first sent</li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
            </ul>

            <h4>Data Minimization & Purpose Limitation (Articles 5, 25)</h4>
            <ul>
                <li>Only essential, anonymous usage data is collected to guide project improvements.</li>
                <li>IP addresses are not stored; they are used temporarily to derive city-level geolocation before being
                    discarded.
                </li>
                <li>Data is not used for advertising, profiling, or tracking individual users.</li>
            </ul>

            <h4>User Rights (Articles 12-23)</h4>
            <ul>
                <li>Right to Object (Article 21): Users have the right to object to the processing of
                    their data under legitimate interest. Selenium Manager respects this right by providing:
                    <ul>
                        <li>clear and accessible opt-out mechanisms, allowing users to disable telemetry at any time.
                        </li>
                        <li>information regarding the user's right to opt out via the measures detailed in the
                            Lawfulness & Transparency section above.
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
                <li>Right to Access, Rectification, and Erasure (Articles 15-17): These rights apply when personal data
                    is collected and stored. Since Selenium Manager only processes anonymous, non-personal data and does
                    not retain user information, these rights are not applicable.
                </li>
            </ul>

            <h4>Storage & Security (Articles 5, 32)</h4>
            <ul>
                <li>Data is aggregated and anonymized, ensuring no link to individual users.</li>
                <li>No long-term storage of raw data; all processing is done within GDPR-compliant
                    <a href="https://plausible.io/privacy-focused-web-analytics#hosted-in-the-eu-powered-by-european-owned-cloud-infrastructure">EU infrastructure</a>
                </li>
                Everything Selenium Manager collects is publicly accessible in the
                <a href="https://plausible.io/manager.selenium.dev">Selenium Manager Plausible Dashboard</a> for full
                transparency.
                </li>
            </ul>
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        <h2 class="alert-heading pb-3">Selenium Manager Telemetry is Opt-Out</h2>
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            <p>
                While some open-source projects use opt-in telemetry, Selenium requires a representative dataset to
                accurately assess project usage and prioritize improvements. With multiple language implementations and
                distribution methods, opt-in telemetry would not provide meaningful insights, particularly for
                cross-language comparisons.
            </p>
            <p>
                Many well-known open-source projects, such as <a
                    href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetry">.NET CLI</a>, <a
                    href="https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics">Homebrew</a>, <a
                    href="https://nextjs.org/telemetry">Next.js</a>, and <a
                    href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/admin_area/usage_statistics.html">GitLab</a>, use opt-out
                telemetry for similar reasons. </p>
            <p>Additionally, Selenium faces unique challenges in even providing an
                opt-in mechanism — there is no universal way to prompt users across all language bindings and package
                distribution methods. An unrepresentative dataset would prevent us from accurately assessing project
                usage and making informed improvements. For Selenium, the real choice is not
                between opt-in and opt-out, but between opt-out and no telemetry at all.
            </p>
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        <h2 id="opt-out" class="alert-heading pb-3">How to Opt Out of Selenium Manager Telemetry</h2>
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            <p>
                If you prefer not to share anonymous usage data, you can disable telemetry, the detailed instructions
                can be found in the <a href="../documentation/selenium_manager">Selenium Manager Documentation</a>,
                but broadly consists of
                methods:
            </p>
            <h4>Option 1: Use an Environment Variable</h4>
            <pre><code>SE_AVOID_STATS=true</code></pre>

            <h4>Option 2: Use a Configuration File</h4>
            <pre><code>avoid-stats = true</code></pre>

            <p>
                Once disabled, Selenium Manager will not send any telemetry data.
            </p>
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        <h2 id="feedback" class="alert-heading pb-3">Feedback</h2>
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            <p>
                If you have suggestions for how we can improve out implementations, please reach out to the Selenium
                team:
            </p>
            <ul>
                <li><a href="/support">Selenium Support</a></li>
                <li><a href="mailto:plc@seleniumhq.org">plc@seleniumhq.org</a></li>
            </ul>
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