Legal and Security Statements
Red Hat Network Terms and Conditions
Uses of Data from Red Hat Network
Under confidentiality agreements, Red Hat may match user information with third-party data. Also, Red Hat discloses aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties. Please note that, unless required by applicable law, none of your personal information will ever be sold or shared with outside parties.
Cookies and Other Browser Information
Our site automatically captures IP addresses. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our website, and to help ensure the security of your interaction with the website. Your IP address is used to help identify you and your shopping cart.
To provide customizable and personalized services, Red Hat uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer\\'s hard drive. All sections of redhat.com where you are prompted to sign in or that are customizable require your web browser to accept cookies.
Generally, we use cookies to:
- Remind us of who you are and to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to provide a better and more personalized service. This cookie is set when you register or "sign in" and is modified when you "sign out" of our services.
- Estimate audience size. Each browser accessing Red Hat is given a unique cookie that is used to determine the extent of repeat usage and usage by a registered user versus by an unregistered user.
- Assist the redhat.com store to track visits and to process the items in your shopping baskets.
- Track your progress and number of entries in some of our promotions, sweepstakes, and contests. When a Red Hat hosted promotion uses cookies, the information written to the cookie indicates the person's progress through the promotion, and may be used to track entries, submissions, and status in prize drawings.
- Measure certain traffic patterns, which areas of Red Hat's network of websites you have visited, and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We use this research to understand how our user's habits are similar or different from one another so that we can make each new experience on redhat.com a better one. We may use this information to better personalize the content, banners, and promotions you and other users will see on our sites.
Red Hat Network Security
Red Hat Network utilizes the following security mechanisms to protect the integrity of customer information and systems:
- Your System Profile available at http://rhn.redhat.com is only accessible with the correct user name and password.
- A Digital System ID is stored on the registered system and is used to authenticate each transaction between Red Hat Network and the client system.
- All data transfer between Red Hat internal systems is across private, non-advertised, non-accessible networks.
- All Red Hat Network servers operate with Red Hat products with all security updates applied.
- All transactions are encrypted using a 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection.
- All notifications and update packages are signed by Red Hat with an electronic signature, GNU Privacy Guard, to ensure authenticity.
- All communications between Red Hat Network and registered systems are initiated by the registered systems to avoid violating firewall policies.
Red Hat takes security of customer information and systems very seriously. Please report any instances of security vulnerability with any Red Hat product or service to security@redhat.com.
Links to Other Sites
This site contains links to other sites. Red Hat does not control the information collection of sites that can be reached through links from www.redhat.com or from rhn.redhat.com. If you have questions about the data collection practices of linked sites, please contact those companies directly.
