Source
Privacy policy — WooCommerce
Checked for WooCommerce on 16 Sep 2026
- Page
- https://automattic.com/privacy/
- Checked
- 16 Sep 2026, 03:45 UTC
- How we may use it
- Public page, crawling permitted
Technical details
- type
- page
- http status
- 200
- content hash
- sha256:d9a5b5d70d4bc60d3be4e025970ae2dc69af14f7f76e15bf5c35abbd1db2c38d
- permission
- robots_ok
- screenshot
- Screenshot on file (internal exhibit, not published)
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Facts read from this source
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GDPR covered rights Report an error
“Request access to your personal data; Request correction or deletion of your personal data; Object to our use and processing of your personal data; Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and Request portability of your personal data.”
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Controller EU Report an error
“If you reside in the Designated Countries: Aut O’Mattic A8C Ireland Ltd. Grand Canal Dock, 25 Herbert Pl Dublin, D02 AY86 Ireland”
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Controller US Report an error
“If you reside outside of the Designated Countries: Automattic Inc. 60 29th Street #343 San Francisco, CA 94110”
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Controller woo EU Report an error
“If you reside in the Designated Countries: WooCommerce Ireland Ltd. Grand Canal Dock, 25 Herbert Pl Dublin, D02 AY86 Ireland”
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Woo services entities Report an error
“Woo services include WooCommerce, WooPayments, WooCommerce Shipping, WooCommerce Tax, MailPoet, and other products and services available at woocommerce.com.”
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Retention server logs Report an error
“we keep web server logs that record information about a visitor to one of Automattic’s websites, like the visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system, for approximately 30 days.”
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Retention trash Report an error
“when you delete a post, page, or comment from your WordPress.com site, it stays in your Trash folder for thirty days in case you change your mind and would like to restore that content”
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GDPR transfer mechanism Report an error
“These measures include entering into European Commission or UK government approved standard contractual arrangements with entities based in countries outside the EEA or the UK.”
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Do not sell optout Report an error
“You can learn more about this sharing and how to opt out by clicking the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link in the footer of our websites, or from the settings page within our apps.”
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Gpc respected Report an error
“We also respect the GPC browser signal and will treat it as a valid means of communicating your desire to opt out.”
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Sensitive data processing Report an error
“We do not collect or process your sensitive (and potentially sensitive) personal information except where it is strictly necessary to provide you with our service, where the processing is not for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you, or for other purposes that do not require an option to limit under California law. We don’t knowingly sell or share personal information of those under 16.”
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Sale of data Report an error
“We never directly sell your personal information in the conventional sense (i.e., for money).”
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Appeals process Report an error
“You may appeal our decision by responding in writing to our denial email and stating that you would like to appeal. All appeals will be reviewed by an internal expert who was not involved in your original request.”
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Dnt signals Report an error
“At this time, Automattic does not respond to “do not track” signals across all of our Services.”
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Deletion account closure Report an error
“you can close your account if you no longer want to use our Services.”
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Opt out analytics Report an error
“Opt out of our internal analytics program: You can do this through your user settings.”
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Policy license Report an error
“We’ve decided to make this Privacy Policy available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license.”
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Entities covered Report an error
“Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to any of our products or services, like Tumblr, that have a separate privacy policy.”
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Services covered Report an error
“Our other Automattic products, services, and features that are available on or through our websites (for example, WordPress.com plans, the Payments feature, the Pay with PayPal block, WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce Shipping, WooCommerce Tax, Gravatar, the IntenseDebate comment management system, Akismet plans, Simplenote, Simperium, Cloudup, Longreads, MailPoet, AutomateWoo, Jetpack CRM, Happy Tools, WordPress.com Courses, WPScan, Newspack, and WP Cloud);”
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Marketing opt out Report an error
“You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us. Just follow the instructions in those communications or let us know.”
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Retention principle Report an error
“We generally discard information about you when it’s no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it — described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information — and we’re not legally required to keep it.”
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Rights denial possible Report an error
“In some circumstances we may deny your request to exercise one of these rights. For example, if we cannot verify that you are the account owner we may deny your request to access the personal information associated with your account.”
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Identity verification Report an error
“When you contact us about one of your rights under this section, we’ll need to verify that you are the right person before we disclose or delete anything. For example, if you are a user, we will need you to contact us from the email address associated with your account.”
Scores citing this record
- The B2B Seller Tax & German legal correctness
- The B2B Seller Order operations & back office
- The B2B Seller Data ownership & exit
- The B2B Seller European sovereignty
- The B2B Seller Tax & German legal correctness
- The B2B Seller Data ownership & exit
- The B2B Seller European sovereignty
- The B2B Seller Tax & German legal correctness
- The B2B Seller Order operations & back office
- The B2B Seller European sovereignty
- The B2B Seller Tax & German legal correctness
- The B2B Seller Order operations & back office
- The B2B Seller Data ownership & exit
- The B2B Seller European sovereignty
- The B2B Seller Tax & German legal correctness
- The B2B Seller Order operations & back office
- The B2B Seller Data ownership & exit
- The B2B Seller European sovereignty
- The Data Protection Officer Tax & German legal correctness
- The Data Protection Officer Order operations & back office
- The Data Protection Officer Data ownership & exit
- The Data Protection Officer European sovereignty
- The Data Protection Officer Tax & German legal correctness
- The Data Protection Officer Order operations & back office
- The Data Protection Officer Data ownership & exit
- The Data Protection Officer European sovereignty
- The Data Protection Officer Tax & German legal correctness
- The Data Protection Officer Order operations & back office
- The Data Protection Officer Data ownership & exit
- The Data Protection Officer European sovereignty
- The Data Protection Officer Tax & German legal correctness
- The Data Protection Officer Order operations & back office
- The Data Protection Officer Data ownership & exit
- The Data Protection Officer European sovereignty
- The Developer Tax & German legal correctness
- The Developer Order operations & back office
- The Developer Data ownership & exit
- The Developer European sovereignty
- The Developer Tax & German legal correctness
- The Developer Order operations & back office
- The Developer Data ownership & exit
- The Developer European sovereignty
- The Developer Tax & German legal correctness
- The Developer Order operations & back office
- The Developer Data ownership & exit
- The Developer European sovereignty
- The Developer Tax & German legal correctness
- The Developer Order operations & back office
- The Developer European sovereignty
- The Merchant Tax & German legal correctness
- The Merchant Order operations & back office
- The Merchant Data ownership & exit
- The Merchant European sovereignty
- The Merchant Tax & German legal correctness
- The Merchant Order operations & back office
- The Merchant European sovereignty
- The Merchant Tax & German legal correctness
- The Merchant Order operations & back office
- The Merchant Data ownership & exit
- The Merchant European sovereignty
- The Merchant Tax & German legal correctness
- The Merchant Order operations & back office
- The Merchant European sovereignty
- The Operations Lead Tax & German legal correctness
- The Operations Lead Order operations & back office
- The Operations Lead Data ownership & exit
- The Operations Lead European sovereignty
- The Operations Lead Tax & German legal correctness
- The Operations Lead Order operations & back office
- The Operations Lead European sovereignty
- The Operations Lead Tax & German legal correctness
- The Operations Lead Order operations & back office
- The Operations Lead Data ownership & exit
- The Operations Lead European sovereignty
- The Operations Lead Tax & German legal correctness
- The Operations Lead Order operations & back office
- The Operations Lead European sovereignty
- The Skeptic Tax & German legal correctness
- The Skeptic Order operations & back office
- The Skeptic European sovereignty
- The Skeptic Tax & German legal correctness
- The Skeptic Order operations & back office
- The Skeptic Data ownership & exit
- The Skeptic European sovereignty
- The Skeptic Tax & German legal correctness
- The Skeptic Order operations & back office
- The Skeptic Data ownership & exit
- The Skeptic European sovereignty
- The Skeptic Tax & German legal correctness
- The Skeptic Order operations & back office
- The Skeptic European sovereignty
- The Skeptic Tax & German legal correctness
- The Skeptic Order operations & back office
- The Skeptic European sovereignty