GitLab makes changes for users of cloud and commercial products

This morning I received a letter from GitLab about changes to the service agreement. Translation of this letter will be under the cut.



Transfer:

Important Updates to our Service and Telemetry Services Agreement



Dear GitLab User!



We have updated our Service Agreement regarding our use of telemetry services.



Existing customers using our proprietary products (Gitlab.com and Enterprise Edition services on their equipment) can, starting with version 12.4, see additional js script inserts that interact with GitLab and / or a third-party telemetry service (for example, Pendo).



For Gitlab.com users: after the upgrade, you should accept our new Service Agreement. Access to the web-interface and API will be blocked until the acceptance of new conditions.

This can lead to a pause in service through our API for those customers who use integration with our API until the conditions are accepted after logging in via the web interface.



For users with their hardware: GitLab Core remains free software. GitLab Community Edition (CE) remains a great option if you want to install GitLab without using proprietary software. It is released under the MIT license , and will not contain proprietary software. Many open source projects use GitLab CE for their SCM and CI needs. Again, there will be no changes to GitLab CE.



Key changes:



Gitlab.com (SaaS version of GitLab) and proprietary packages for self-installation (Starter, Premium and Ultimate) will now include additional inserts in JavaScript scripts (both open source and proprietary) to interact with both GitLab and, possibly , with third-party telemetry services (we will use SaaS Pendo ).



We will disclose all options for such use in our privacy policy, including the purpose of applying the collected data. We will also make sure that any third-party telemetry service we use has data protection standards, at least not worse than those already used in GitLab, and we will strive to comply with SOC2. Pendo complies with SOC2.



If you have any questions, please contact us at support@gitlab.com



Thanks,



Gitlab team

What do you think about this?



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UPD .: GitLab postponed the introduction of telemetry in its products: Enterprise Edition - will not be added (yet?), But in the SaaS service Gitlab.com - it will be necessary to explicitly refuse it (by installing Do-Not-Track in the browser for this service). In addition to Pendo, Snowplow will be used.