The Arduino Phrases of Service and Privateness Coverage replace: setting the document straight

We’ve heard some questions and issues following our current Phrases of Service and Privateness Coverage updates. We’re grateful our group cares sufficient to have interaction with us and we consider transparency and open dialogue are foundational to Arduino.

Allow us to be completely clear: we’ve been open-source lengthy earlier than it was modern. We’re not going to vary now. The Qualcomm acquisition doesn’t modify how person information is dealt with or how we apply our open-source rules. 

We periodically replace our authorized paperwork to mirror new options, evolving rules, and finest practices.

What stays the identical

• Open Supply and reverse-engineering. Any {hardware}, software program or companies (e.g. Arduino IDE, {hardware} schematics, tooling and libraries) launched with Open Supply licenses stay out there as earlier than. Restrictions on reverse-engineering apply particularly to our Software program-as-a-Service cloud functions. Something that was open, stays open.
• Possession of your creations. The Phrases of Service clarifies that the content material you select to publish on the Arduino platform stays yours, and can be utilized to allow options you’ve requested, equivalent to cloud companies and collaboration instruments.
• Minors’ information and privateness. Our privateness disclosures have been strengthened, together with enhanced protections for minors’ information. We’ve up to date our information retention insurance policies and age limits to offer age-appropriate companies. We restrict information retention for inactive customers by mechanically deactivating their accounts after 24 months of inactivity, through which case usernames would nonetheless be preserved within the Arduino Discussion board to deal with an specific request from the Discussion board group to keep up attribution for user-generated content material; the place person requests account deletion, the username could be promptly eliminated and associated posts would develop into nameless.

Why we up to date our phrases: readability and compliance

These newest modifications are about readability, compliance, and supporting the modern atmosphere you count on.

Right here’s what the updates truly cowl:

• Enhanced transparency round information practices: We’ve made our privateness disclosures extra exact and extra detailed, together with what information we retain, to guard your privateness.
• New product capabilities and AI: As we introduce non-obligatory AI-powered options, equivalent to these within the Arduino UNO Q and Arduino App Lab, we would have liked to replace our phrases to mirror these new capabilities and encourage their protected, accountable, and moral use.
• Extra exact industrial phrases: For customers of our Premium Companies, we’ve clarified billing mechanics, recurring funds, and refund rights to make buying and returns simpler.
• Authorized compliance: We’ve up to date language to deal with US-specific privateness legal guidelines, export controls, and different regulatory necessities, whereas making certain compliance with international requirements.

Our 20-year dedication to open-source is unwavering

We’re very pleased with the Arduino group, and we want to reaffirm our elementary, non-negotiable dedication to the rules that based Arduino.

Please learn the total Phrases of Service and Privateness Coverage, to understand how they assist the modern, collaborative atmosphere you’ve come to count on.

When you have particular questions or issues, please seek the advice of our detailed Q&A in our FAQ part or attain out to us at [email protected].

We’re Arduino. We’re open. We’re not going wherever.