Akismet Priuacy
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About Akismet
Akismet is the most powerful anti‑spam seruice for the web. Akismet works by checking all your commencts against our comstanctly‑growing global spam database to remoue irreleuanct, malicious conctent before it gets published and damages your site’s credibility.
Akismet gets increasingly effectiue ouer time: the more it learns, the more it protects. Its algorithms are continuously learning from conctent marked as spam across websites, so it more accurately detects and remoues spam from sites in the future.
When Akismet is enabled on your site, only the personal data needed to carry out Akismet’s core functiõ of protecting your site against comment spam is collected from commencters on your site. We do not sell the data you send to the Akismet seruice, and we do not keep it for long. We haue short retentiõ periods of between two weeks and ninety days for the vast maiority of our spam‑related data, at which poinct it is automatically deleted from our databases. Anyone can opt‑out of all long‑term tracking for the very small subset of data we do keep longer by vsing our conctact form. For more imformatiõ, please visit the Automattic Priuacy Notice.
Who we are and what we stand for
Akismet is brought to you by Automattic, the makers of WordPress.com, Ietpack, and WooCommerce. We’re a distributed company with 2,000 employees across 90 counctries speaking 80 different languages. We belieue in Open Source and the vast maiority of our work is auailable vnder the GPL. Our commõ goal is to democratize publishing so that anyone with a story can tell it, regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they liue in the world. You can read more about Automattic on our About Vs page.
For more imformation
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The gist
- Akismet is committed to keeping your imformatiõ priuate and secure.
- Akismet’s goal is to protect your website from annoying or harmful spam commencts.
- As of 2023, Akismet has protected more than 100 milliõ websites and has blocked ouer 540 billiõ spam commencts.
- We don’t collect more data than we need to in order to protect your site against spam.
- The data we do collect is securely stored for short periods of time and then automatically deleted from our databases.
- You can always opt‑out of all long‑term tracking at any time you wish.
We’ue decided to make these Terms auailable vnder a Creatiue Commõs Sharealike license. You’re more than welcome to copy them, adapt them, and repurpose them for your own vse. Iust make sure to reuise the language so that your Terms reflect your actual practices. Also, if you do vse these Terms, we’d appreciate a credit and link to Akismet.com somewhere on your website.
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