Privacy Policy

Last Modified: Tue Feb 21, 2017 (View all changes)

Information we collect

We collect information to provide better services to all of our users. We collect information in two ways:

• Account and profile information. When you sign up for a WakaTime account, we store information such as your email address. This will never be shared publicly without your consent.
• Billing information. We collect billing address and credit card information if you purchase a premium version of WakaTime. Billing address and credit card information is securely passed to our payment processing partner and is not stored at WakaTime.
• Logged time content. We collect and store the timestamps, file names, domain names, machine host names, project names, branch names, syntax languages, and detected dependencies from your usage of our downloadable plugins. We display the syntax languages and detected dependencies on your public profile. This information, excluding syntax language data and detected dependency data, will never be shared publicly without your consent.
• Service integrations. If you integrate with a service on WakaTime we will connect that service to ours. We do not receive or store your passwords or source code for any of these services. You can remove an integration at any time which unbinds that integration on a go-forward basis. That does not, however, delete the content that was received from them and indexed within WakaTime. That content must be deleted manually.
• Usage information. We may collect information about the services you use and how you use them, like which pages you visit and which features you use. We use cookies with unique identifiers to authenticate your login session. Third parties, including but not limited to Google Analytics, may also use cookies to track your return visits to the website.

How we use information we collect

We use the information we collect to provide, maintain, and protect services for our users. We may also use this information to improve your user-experience with our services. We will ask for your consent before using any of your information for a purpose other than set out in this Privacy Policy.

When you contact WakaTime, we may keep a record of your name and email address to better solve any customer issues. We may use your name and email address to inform you about our services, such as letting you know about upcoming changes or improvements.

Information we share

We do not share your personal information with organizations, companies, or individuals outside of WakaTime unless one of the following circumstances apply:

• With your consent. We will share information with organizations, companies, or individuals outside of WakaTime when we have your permission to do so.
• For legal reasons. We will share information with organizations, companies, or individuals outside of WakaTime if necessary to:
  • Meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or government request.
  • Enforce applicable Terms of Service
  • Detect, prevent, or address fraud, abuse, security, or technical issues.

Information security

We work hard to protect your private information. We enforce SSL when our users communicate with WakaTime. We use a one-way hash algorithm with random salt to store your password.

We use a third party, Stripe, to store your credit card information and process payments. Your credit card information is never stored or transmitted using our servers. We only store the last 4 digits, expiration date, and card type of your credit card on our servers for reference. Your credit card information is governed by Stripe's Privacy Policy.

Changes

We reserve the right, in our sole and absolute discretion, to make changes to this Policy from time to time. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically to check for updates. If the changes are significant, we may notify you or provide an additional opportunity to "opt-in", as appropriate.