privacy-policy

[B]Kodi Privacy Policy[/B]
[I]2016 Oct 23[/I]
Your privacy is an important factor that the XBMC Foundation and Team
Kodi considers in the development of all of our software and services. We
are committed to being transparent and open. This Privacy Policy explains
generally how we receive information about you, and what we do with that
information once we have it.
[B]What do we mean by “personal information?”[/B]
For us, “personal information” means information which identifies you,
like your name or email address.
Any information that falls outside of this is “non-personal information.”
If we store your personal information with information that is non-
personal, we will consider the combination as personal information. If we
remove all personal information from a set of data then the remaining is
non-personal information.
[B]How do we learn information about you?[/B]
We learn information about you when:
• you give it to us directly (e.g., when you choose to send us logs
in the forums);
• we collect it automatically through our software and services
(e.g., when your Kodi connects with our servers to update add-ons, or in
download statistics provided by Google Play);
• when we try and understand more about you based on information
you’ve given to us (e.g., when we use your platform information provided
to the add-on server to figure out which platforms use Kodi the most, to
better understand where we should focus our efforts).
[B]What do we do with your information once we have it?[/B]
Generally, we use your information to help us provide and improve our
software and services for you (e.g., we use a log you send us to figure
out why Kodi isn’t playing a video right or why it might have crashed, or
we determine how many active users are using each platform in order to
determine how to allocate resources per platform).
[B]When do we share your information with others?[/B]
• When we have asked and received your permission to share it.
• When we are fulfilling our educational purpose. We sometimes
publicly release information to make our software better and foster an
open web, but when we do so, we will remove your personal information and
try to disclose it in a way that minimizes the risk of you being re-
identified. For example, in a blog post we might attempt to analyze from
available data how many active users of Kodi existed at the time and
share that info with the community.
• When the law requires it. To date, this has never happened, and we
do not anticipate it happening in the future, as the majority of the
information we collect is already almost entirely anonymous and never

shows unique user behavior, except in voluntarily submitted logs on our
forum.
• If our organizational structure or status changes (if we undergo a
restructuring, are acquired, or go bankrupt) we may pass your information
to a successor or affiliate.
[B]How do we store and protect your personal information?[/B]
We are committed to protecting your personal information once we have it.
We implement physical, business and technical security measures. Despite
our efforts, if we learn of a security breach, we’ll notify you so that
you can take appropriate protective steps.
We also don’t want your personal information for any longer than we need
it, so we only keep it long enough to do what we collected it for. Once
we don’t need it, we take steps to destroy it unless we are required by
law to keep it longer. In the case of logs provided to us in the forums,
our servers do not store those logs, and we rely on the users submitting
those logs to remove the links when they deem appropriate.
[B]What else should you know?[/B]
We’re a global organization and our computers are in several different
places around the world. We also use service providers whose computers
may also be in various countries. This means that your information might
end up on one of those computers in another country, and that country may
have a different level of data protection regulation than yours. By
giving us information, you consent to this kind of transfer of your
information. No matter what country your information is in, we comply
with applicable law and will also abide by the commitments we make in
this privacy policy.
If you are under 13, we don’t want your personal information, and you
must not provide it to us. If you are a parent and believe that your
child who is under 13 has provided us with personal information, please
contact us to have your child’s information removed.
[B]What if we change this privacy policy or any of our privacy
notices?[/B]
We may need to change this policy and our notices. The updates will be
posted online. If the changes are substantive, we will announce the
update through Kodi’s usual channels for such announcements such as blog
posts and forums. Your continued use of the product or service after the
effective date of such changes constitutes your acceptance of such
changes. To make your review more convenient, we will post an effective
date at the top of the page.