Grade A- — Mostly protective (score 85/100)
FreeBSD maintains a highly protective privacy policy, explicitly pledging never to sell user data and limiting log retention to 30 days.
Strong privacy protections with explicit no-sale pledge and data retention limits.
We will never sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to any third parties except as stated in this document.
The company makes an explicit, binding pledge not to monetize your personal data through sales or rentals.
No personal data is kept in logs for more than 30 days.
The company commits to a specific, short-term retention period for technical logs, which is a strong privacy practice.
The FreeBSD Project may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary
The company reserves the right to share your data with government or law enforcement at their own discretion without explicit legal process requirements.
We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. ... Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.
The company can modify the terms at any time without providing direct notice to you, relying on your continued use as consent.
In the unlikely event that The FreeBSD Project or substantially all of its assets are acquired, your information may be one of the transferred assets.
Your personal data is treated as a business asset that can be sold or transferred to another entity during a merger or acquisition.
Last reviewed 2026-08-01 under rubric v3.5.