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PrivacyPolicy

Represents the privacy policy of the instance.

    • Example
    • Attributes
      • updated_at
      • content
    • See also

Example

{
  "updated_at": "2022-10-07T00:00:00+00:00",
  "content": "<p>This privacy policy describes how example.com (&quot;example.com&quot;, &quot;we&quot;, &quot;us&quot;) collects,\nprotects and uses the personally identifiable information you may provide\nthrough the example.com website or its API.</p>\n\n<h1>What information do we collect?</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Basic account information</strong>: If you register on this server, you may be\nasked to enter a username, an e-mail address and a password.</li>\n<li><strong>Posts, following and other public information</strong>: The list of people you\nfollow is listed publicly, the same is true for your followers.</li>\n<li><strong>Direct and followers-only posts</strong>: All posts are stored and processed on the\nserver. You may\ntoggle an option to approve and reject new followers manually in the settings.\n<strong>Please keep in mind that the operators of the server and any receiving\nserver may view such messages</strong>, and that recipients may screenshot, copy or\notherwise re-share them. <strong>Do not share any sensitive information over\nMastodon.</strong></li>\n<li><strong>IPs and other metadata</strong>: When you log in, we record the IP address you log\nin from, as well as the name of your browser application.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<hr>\n\n<p>This document is CC-BY-SA. Originally adapted from the <a href=\"https://github.com/discourse/discourse\">Discourse privacy\npolicy</a>.</p>\n"
}

Attributes

updated_at

Description: A timestamp of when the privacy policy was last updated.
Type: String (Datetime)
Version history:
4.0.0 - added

content

Description: The rendered HTML content of the privacy policy.
Type: String (HTML)
Version history:
4.0.0 - added

See also

GET /api/v1/instance/privacy_policy
app/serializers/rest/privacy_policy_serializer.rb

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