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Suggest a <a href="https://greenshot.atlassian.net/browse/FEATURE">feature</a> &middot;
Ask a <a href="https://greenshot.atlassian.net/browse/SUPPORT">support question</a> &middot;
<a href="/sitemap/">sitemap</a> &middot;
<a href="/privacy-policy/">privacy policy</a> &middot;
<a href="/impressum/">impressum</a>
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The contents and works on these websites prepared by the operator of the websites shall be subject to German copyright law. Copying, processing, distributing and any kind of use outside the limits of copyright law require the written approval of the particular author, respectively compiler. Downloads and copies of this side are permitted only for private use, not for commercial use. As far as the content of this page was not created by the publisher and/or operator of this website, the third party copyrights are respected. In particular the content of third parties is identified as such. Nevertheless if you should become aware of a copyright violation we request that you notify us accordingly. As soon as we become aware of a legal violation we will remove such contents immediately.</p>
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<strong>Privacy</strong><br><br><br />
Using this web site is usually possible without specifying personal information. Insofar as personal data are collected on our site (e.g. name, address or e-mail addresses), then this will be on a preferably voluntary basis as much as possible. We point out explicitly that data transfer over the Internet (such as communication by e-mail) can be subject to security vulnerabilities. Data protection against access through third parties is not possible without security gaps.<br><br />
We hereby explicitly prohibit the use of the contact data published as part of our duty to publish an imprint for the purpose of sending us any advertising or informational material. The operators of this website reserve the express right to take legal action in the case of the unsolicited receipt of advertising, for example through spam e-mails.</p>
<p><strong>Google Analytics</strong><br><br><br />
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer, to analyze the use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other with website and internet related services. Google may also transfer this information to third parties unless required by law, or where such third parties process these data on behalf of Google. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all features of this website. By using this website you agree to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described and for the aforementioned purpose.</p>
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<strong>Google AdSense</strong><br><br><br />
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., USA ("Google"). Google Adsense uses "cookies" (text files) that are stored on your computer, to analyze the use of the website. Google Adsense also uses so-called "web beacons" (small invisible images) to collect information. Through the use of Web beacons simple actions such as the traffic on the website will be recorded and collected. The information generated by the cookie and / or web beacon information about your use of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the site in terms of ads, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other with website and internet related services. Google may also transfer this information to third parties unless required by law, or where such third parties process these data on behalf of Google. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You can prevent the saving of cookies on your hard drive and the display of web beacons by selecting "block all cookies" in your browser settings (select in MS Internet Explorer under "Tools > Internet Options > Privacy > Settings" , in Firefox under "Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies"), we would point out, however, that in this case you may not be able to use all features of this website. By using this website you agree to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described and for the aforementioned purpose.</p>
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<strong>Amazon</strong><br><br><br />
getgreenshot.org is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com / Amazon.de.</p>
Please refer to our <a href="../privacy-policy/">privacy policy</a>.

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First of all: We, the Greenshot development team, are not interested in your data. We do neither collect, store, process nor sell any personal data from our users.
That said: as a small group of developers who are running this free software project in their spare time, of course we depend on third party services e.g. to run this website, manage our codebase or receive donations. Depending on your usage of these services (like anything else you visit or use on the internet), those parties can collect data about you.
## Our Website:
### Hosting
Our website is hosted by **Github** using Github Pages. Like any other website hosting service, it can access and store data when you visit a site on their servers, e.g. which specific pages you visited on their server, your IP address or the browser you are using.\
More details in [Github's Privacy Statement]
We are using **Cloudflare** as a content delivery network to make our website faster and safer. The service improves page load times by hosting cached pages of our websites on servers all over the world. Furthermore, it protects our website hosting service (and thus, our visitors) from malicious attacks, e.g. DDoS attacks. Cloudflare works as an intermediate between you browser and the servers hosting the actual website, and thus, can access and store data in a similar way as the website hosting provider.\
Find our more in [Cloudflare's Privacy Policy]
The stylish fonts on our website are hosted by **Google Fonts**. Like any website hosting service, it has access to the data sent by your browser when you visit websites or download files (see above).\
See [Google's Privacy Policy] and [Google Fonts: What does using the Google Fonts API mean for the privacy of my users?]
### Analytics
We are using **Google Analytics** on our website to track page views and gain insight into how people are using our website. Google Analytics is embedded as a script into our website and thus is entitled to place [cookies](#cookeis) on our behalf. In addition to the data described above, it also has access to a few more details of your visit (e.g. how long you stay on a particular page) and the technical capabilities of your system (e.g. screen resolution). We have configured Google Analytics to only store *anonymized* IP addresses, because we have absolutely no interest in tracking the behavior of indiviual visitors.\
More info in [Google's Privacy Policy] and [Google Analytics: IP Anonymization in Analytics]
### Advertisements
Beneath donations, advertisements are one of the few ways to generate at least a small revenue to compensate for the time and effort we have spent over the years (and are still spending) to offer this free piece of software. For that reason, we have integrated **Google Adsense** into our site, carefully choosing positions to make sure the ads do not obstruct your use of our page. We also took care to clearly mark advertisements as such and visually separate them from our page content, to avoid accidental clicks. Google and its partners can access the same basic data as any other website/service you visit or download files from (see above), in addition they use [third party cookies](#third-party-cookies) to make sure the displayed ads fit your interests as good as possible.
### Cookies:
#### Introduction
Cookies are small amounts of data that websites can store in your browser, e.g. to store website-specific settings or a unique identifier to see whether you have visited the website before.
#### First Party Cookies
We use few first-party cookies (i.e. cookies that are placed on behalf of getgreenshot.org) on our website, some are technically necessary in order to safely operate our site, others are important for us to understand how visitors use this website.
The **__cfduid** cookie is used by Cloudflare "to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. (...) This cookie is strictly necessary for Cloudflare's security features and cannot be turned off."\
Read more at [Cloudflare: What does the Cloudflare cfduid cookie do?]
The **__utma**, **__utmb**, **__utmc**, etc. cookies are used by Google analytics to "Determine which domain to measure, Distinguish unique users, Throttle the request rate, Remember the number and time of previous visits, Remember traffic source information, Determine the start and end of a session, Remember the value of visitor-level custom variables".\
Google offers [opt-out plugins for various browsers], providing "website visitors the ability to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics".\
Find out more in [Google's Privacy Policy] and [Google Analytics: Cookie Usage on Websites]
#### Third Party Cookies
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.\
You can opt-out of personalized advertising in [Google's Ad Settings]\
See also [Google's Privacy Policy]
## Our Application
### Greenshot for Windows
Our Windows application does not send any data to our or any other servers as long as you not explicitely initiate it or configure Greenshot to do so, with a single exception:
#### Update Check
By default, Greenshot checks for updates in order to notify you in case a newer version is available. It does so by sending an HTTP request to a specific file hosted with our website, which contains information about the latest version. The request is processed by **Github** as our hosting service and **Cloudflare** as our content delivery network, who can see the IP address the request originates from. See [Hosting](#hosting) section above.
#### Plugins
Several plugins available for Greenshot allow to conveniently upload screenshots third party web applications or to share screenshots with others. Of course, if you configure Greenshot to send data to specific third party services, it will send data to specific third party services :) Please refer to the respective service's data policy, terms of use, etc.
### Greenshot for Mac
Our Mac application does not send any data to our or any other servers.
[Github's Privacy Statement]: https://help.github.com/articles/github-privacy-statement/
[Cloudflare's Privacy Policy]: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
[Google's Privacy Policy]: https://policies.google.com/privacy
[Google Fonts: What does using the Google Fonts API mean for the privacy of my users?]: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_google_fonts_api_mean_for_the_privacy_of_my_users
[Google Analytics: IP Anonymization in Analytics]: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en
[Cloudflare: What does the Cloudflare cfduid cookie do?]: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-What-does-the-CloudFlare-cfduid-cookie-do-
[opt-out plugins for various browsers]: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
[Google Analytics: Cookie Usage on Websites]: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage#gajs
[Google's Ad Settings]: https://www.google.com/settings/ads