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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andreamiddleton/) [Andrea Middleton](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andreamiddleton/)
12:35 pm _on_ May 22, 2018     
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# 󠀁[Privacy Policy Changes for WordCamp.org](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2018/05/22/privacy-policy-changes-for-wordcamp-org/)󠁿

We’ll be making some changes to the WordCamp.org privacy policy this month. This
post outlines the changes we’ll be making, including information on WordCamp.org
data retention and erasure in what I hope is easy-to-understand language. Read on
for details and if you have any feedback, questions, or suggestions, please comment
on this post! 🙂

## What data we collect and who can access it

The majority of what’s collected and stored on WordCamp.org is WordCampWordCamp 
WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related 
to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together
to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy.
[Learn more](https://central.wordcamp.org/about/). attendee data, through our registration
pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that
can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features
to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming
language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.
org Plugin Directory [https://wordpress.org/plugins/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/)
or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. called CampTix. Currently we require
the following information: name, email address, agreement to follow the code of 
conductCode of Conduct “A code of conduct is a set of rules outlining the norms,
rules, and responsibilities or proper practices of an individual party.” - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_conduct),
whether the attendee has a life-threatening allergy, and whether the attendee needs
special accommodations to participate in the WordCamp.

Local WordCamp organizing teams can (and do) collect more information than that,
when they set up registration. This data can vary widely, but the reason questions
are added is to help our volunteers organize an event that’s better for attendees,
and to assist the growth of the WordPress community and, by extension, the WordPress
open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source
code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source**
must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project.

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