XScreensaver For Android Privacy Policy

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Zema Bus
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XScreensaver For Android Privacy Policy

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Google required XScreensaver to create a privacy policy before they would accept their Android port in the Google Play store. So here's some of what they created:
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver collects no user data.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver uses no user data, having collected no user data.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver shares no user data, having collected no user data.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver has no need to process requests for deletion of that user data, having collected no user data.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will honor deletion requests if you email us asking to delete all none of your user data that does not exist.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never share user data with anyone, as it has no user data to share.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never build an un-auditable personal profile of you.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never use cookies.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never track your location.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never track your location even if you asked them not to.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never track your location and lie about it.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never prevent you from running an ad blocker.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never restrict your ability to extend the software to protect your own privacy and security.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never pay your distro to install it by default.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never share your name and other information with advertisers.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never be the largest advertising and surveillance entity on the planet.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never destroy the federated nature of email.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never destroy everyone's ability to forward email.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never silently track users and then settle a $5,000,000,000 lawsuit for pennies.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never try to make WebP a thing.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never tell you to put glue on pizza, eat rocks, or smoke while pregnant.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never offer you advice, as it cannot talk. In the event that XScreenSaver does talk, we ask you to ignore its advice. As we do with Google.
Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never prompt you to call your dead father on Father's Day.
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Re: XScreensaver For Android Privacy Policy

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Google doesn't get that Free Software projects have never had any reason to violate your privacy in the first place.

Aptly written (and with references for each one lol)
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