Privacy Policy (original) (raw)

Last Updated: March 19, 2026 (view archived versions)

At Gradle, Inc. (“Gradle Technologies” “Gradle” or the “Company”), we take your privacy seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy to learn how we treat your personal data. By using or accessing our Services (as defined in our Terms of Use) or any Gradle software, including the Develocity software, in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined below, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use and share your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Remember that your use of Gradle’s Services is at all times subject to our Terms of Use, which incorporates this Privacy Policy, and your use of Develocity is at all times subject to a separate Software License Agreement, which is available at https://gradle.com/legal/gradle-software-license-agreement. We have identified below which of your Personal Data we collect from use of our Services and which of your Personal Data we may collect from use of Develocity. Any terms we use in this Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms of Use.

What this Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy covers how we treat Personal Data that we gather when you access or use our Services or through your use of the Develocity software. “Personal Data” means any information that identifies or relates to a particular individual and also includes information referred to as “personally identifiable information” or “personal information” under applicable data privacy laws, rules or regulations. This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of companies we don’t own or control or people we don’t manage.

Personal Data

Categories of Personal Data We May Collect

This chart details the categories of Personal Data that we may collect or that we have collected over the past 12 months through the Services:

Category of Personal Data Examples of Personal Data We May Collect
Profile or Contact Data First and last name Email Phone number Organization Role within your organization Who is responsible at your organization for build and test quality
Device/IP Data IP address Device ID Local hostname Public hostname Domain server Type of device/operating system/browser used to access the Services Build java virtual machine Operating System Hardware
Web Analytics Web page interactions Referring webpage/source through which you accessed the Services Non-identifiable request IDs Statistics associated with the interaction between device or browser and the Services
Consumer Demographic Data Address Zip code
Geolocation Data IP-address-based location information GPS data
Inferences Drawn From Other Personal Data Collected Profiles reflecting user attributes Profiles reflecting user behavior
Other Identifying Information that You Voluntarily Choose to Provide Identifying information in emails or letters you send us

This chart details the categories of Personal Data that we may collect and have collected over the past 12 months in connection with acquiring a license for Develocity or if you reach out to us for Develocity technical support:

Category of Personal Data Examples of Personal Data We Collect
Profile or Contact Data First and last name Email Phone number Business mailing address
Device/IP Data IP address Device ID Domain server

Data protection laws vary in how they define a “sale” of Personal Data. Based on our current understanding of the CCPA, we believe we do not knowingly sell your Personal Data. We may share your personal data with the following service providers:

Third Parties With Whom We May Share Your Personal Data Examples
Service Providers Hosting, technology and communication providers Security and fraud prevention consultants Support and customer service vendors Product fulfillment and delivery providers
Advertising Partners Ad networks Data brokers Marketing providers
Analytics Partners Companies that track how users found or were referred to the Services Companies that track how users interact with the Services
Business Partners Businesses that you have a relationship with Companies that we partner with to offer joint promotional offers or opportunities
Parties You Authorize, Access or Authenticate Third parties you access through the services Social media services Other users

Categories of Sources of Personal Data

We collect Personal Data about you from the following categories of sources:

Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for materially different, unrelated or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

How We Share Your Personal Data

We may disclose your Personal Data to the categories of service providers and other parties listed in this section. Depending on state laws that may be applicable to you, some of these disclosures may constitute a “sale” of your Personal Data. For more information, please refer to the state-specific sections below.

We may share any Personal Data that we collect with third parties in conjunction with any of the activities set forth under “Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms” in the “Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data” section above.

Please note that mobile telephone information will not be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All other categories of Personal Data shared with third parties exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties for marketing or promotional purposes.

Business Transfers

All of your Personal Data that we collect may be transferred to a third party if we undergo a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other transaction in which that third party assumes control of our business (in whole or in part). Should one of these events occur, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you before your information becomes subject to different privacy and security policies and practices.

Data that is Not Personal Data

We may create aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data from the Personal Data we collect, including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to a particular user. We may use such aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze, build and improve the Services and promote our business, provided that we will not share such data in a manner that could identify you.

Tracking Tools, Advertising and Opt-Out

The Services use cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs and JavaScript (collectively, “Cookies”) to enable our servers to recognize your web browser, tell us how and when you visit and use our Services, analyze trends, learn about our user base and operate and improve our Services. Cookies are small pieces of data– usually text files – placed on your computer, tablet, phone or similar device when you use that device to access our Services. We may also supplement the information we collect from you with information received from third parties, including third parties that have placed their own Cookies on your device(s). Please note that because of our use of Cookies, the Services do not support “Do Not Track” requests sent from a browser at this time.

We use the following types of Cookies:

You can decide whether or not to accept Cookies through your internet browser’s settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new Cookie in a variety of ways. You can also delete all Cookies that are already on your device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our website and some of the Services and functionalities may not work.

To explore what Cookie settings are available to you, look in the “preferences” or “options” section of your browser’s menu. To find out more information about Cookies, including information about how to manage and delete Cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

Data Security and Retention

We seek to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures based on the type of Personal Data and how we are processing that data. You should also help protect your data by appropriately limiting access to your computer or device and browser. Although we work to protect the security of your account and other data that we hold in our records, please be aware that no method of transmitting data over the internet or storing data is completely secure.

We retain Personal Data about you as necessary to provide you with our Services. In some cases we retain Personal Data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule or regulation. We may further retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form where that information would not identify you personally.

Personal Data of Children

We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data about children under 16 years of age; if you are a child under the age of 16, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use the Services or send us any Personal Data. If we learn we have collected Personal Data from a child under 16 years of age, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 16 years of age may have provided Personal Data to us, please contact us at privacy@gradle.com.

CALIFORNIA RESIDENT RIGHTS

If you are a California resident, you have the rights set forth in this section. Please see the “Exercising Your Rights” section below for instructions regarding how to exercise these rights.

If there are any conflicts between this section and any other provision of this Privacy Policy and you are a California resident, the portion that is more protective of Personal Data shall control to the extent of such conflict. If you have any questions about this section or whether any of the following rights apply to you, please contact us at privacy@gradle.com.

Access

You have the right to request certain information about our collection and use of your Personal Data over the past 12 months. In response, we will provide you with the following information:

If we have disclosed your Personal Data to any third parties for a business purpose over the past 12 months, we will identify the categories of Personal Data shared with each category of third party recipient. If we have sold your Personal Data over the past 12 months, we will identify the categories of Personal Data sold to each category of third party recipient.

Deletion

You have the right to request that we delete the Personal Data that we have collected about you. Under the CCPA, this right is subject to certain exceptions: for example, we may need to retain your Personal Data to provide you with the Services or complete a transaction or other action you have requested. If your deletion request is subject to one of these exceptions, we may deny your deletion request.

Exercising Your Rights

To exercise the rights described above, you or your Authorized Agent (defined below) must send us a request that (1) provides sufficient information to allow us to verify that you are the person about whom we have collected Personal Data (such as your name, email address and/or IP address), and (2) describes your request in sufficient detail to allow us to understand, evaluate and respond to it. Each request that meets both of these criteria will be considered a “Valid Request.” We may not respond to requests that do not meet these criteria. We will only use Personal Data provided in a Valid Request to verify your identity and complete your request. You do not need an account to submit a Valid Request. We take the security and privacy of your Personal Data seriously, and we will not provide access to certain types of Personal Data such as social security numbers, driver’s license number or other government-issued identification number, financial account number, any health insurance or medical identification number, an account password, security questions and answers, or unique biometric data. We may require a notarized affidavit to verify your identity.

We will work to respond to your Valid Request within 45 days of receipt. We will not charge you a fee for making a Valid Request unless your Valid Request(s) is excessive, repetitive or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that your Valid Request warrants a fee, we will notify you of the fee and explain that decision before completing your request.

You may submit a Valid Request using the following methods:

You may also authorize an agent (an “Authorized Agent”) to exercise your rights on your behalf. To do this, you must provide your Authorized Agent with written permission to exercise your rights on your behalf, and we may request a copy of this written permission from your Authorized Agent when they make a request on your behalf.

Personal Data Sales

In this section, we use the term ‘sell’ as it is defined in the CCPA. Based on our current understanding of the CCPA, we do not believe we sell your Personal Data. However, as described in this Privacy Policy, we have incorporated Cookies from certain third parties into our Services. These Cookies allow those third parties to receive information about your activity on our Services that is associated with your browser or device. Those third parties may use that data to serve you relevant ads on our Services or on other websites you visit. You can opt out of such cookies by following the opt-out method described in the Personal Data section of this policy.

We Will Not Discriminate Against You for Exercising Your Rights Under the CCPA

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA. We will not deny you our goods or services, charge you different prices or rates, or provide you a lower quality of goods and services if you exercise your rights under the CCPA. However, we may offer different tiers of our Services as allowed by applicable data privacy laws (including the CCPA) with varying levels of services you receive related to the value of Personal Data that we receive from you.

State Law Privacy Rights

California Resident Rights

Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to contact us to prevent disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes; in order to submit such a request, please contact us at privacy@gradle.com.

Nevada Resident Rights

If you are a resident of Nevada, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of certain Personal Data to third parties who intend to license or sell that Personal Data. You can exercise this right by contacting us at privacy@gradle.com with the subject line “Nevada Do Not Sell Request” and providing us with your name and the email address associated with your account. Please note that we do not currently sell your Personal Data as sales are defined in Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A.

European Union Data Subject Rights

EU Residents

If you are a resident of the European Union (“EU”), United Kingdom, Lichtenstein, Norway or Iceland, you may have additional rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) with respect to your Personal Data, as outlined below.

For this section, we use the terms “Personal Data” and “processing” as they are defined in the GDPR, but “Personal Data” generally means information that can be used to individually identify a person, and “processing” generally covers actions that can be performed in connection with data such as collection, use, storage and disclosure. Gradle will be the controller of your Personal Data processed in connection with the Services or in the event you provide us with any Personal Data in connection with Develocity.

If there are any conflicts between this this section and any other provision of this Privacy Policy, the policy or portion that is more protective of Personal Data shall control to the extent of such conflict. If you have any questions about this section or whether any of the following applies to you, please contact us at privacy@gradle.com.

Personal Data We Collect

The “Categories of Personal Data We Collect” section above details the Personal Data that we collect from you.

Personal Data Use and Processing Grounds

The “Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data” section above explains how we use your Personal Data.

We will only process your Personal Data if we have a lawful basis for doing so. Lawful bases for processing include consent, contractual necessity and our “legitimate interests” or the legitimate interest of others, as further described below.

Sharing Personal Data

The “How We Share Your Personal Data” section above details how we share your Personal Data with third parties.

EU Data Subject Rights

You have certain rights with respect to your Personal Data, including those set forth below. For more information about these rights, or to submit a request, please email us at privacy@gradle.com. Please note that in some circumstances, we may not be able to fully comply with your request, such as if it is frivolous or extremely impractical, if it jeopardizes the rights of others, or if it is not required by law, but in those circumstances, we will still respond to notify you of such a decision. In some cases, we may also need you to provide us with additional information, which may include Personal Data, if necessary to verify your identity and the nature of your request.

Swiss Data Subject Rights

Under the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection, Swiss Data Subjects have certain rights with respect to their Personal Data, including those set forth below.
You have a right to access and to obtain information regarding your Personal Data that we process. If you believe that any information we hold about you is incorrect or incomplete, you may also request the correction of your Personal Data.

You also have the right to:

Gradle will honor such requests, withdrawal or objection as required under applicable data protection rules but these rights are not absolute: they do not always apply and exemptions may be engaged. We will usually, in response to a request, ask you to verify your identity and/or provide information that helps us to better understand your request. If we do not comply with your request, we will explain why

For more information about these rights, or to submit a request, please email us at privacy@gradle.com.

If you are not satisfied with Gradle’s response, you have the right to make a complaint to the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (see https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/de/home/der-edoeb/kontakt.html).

International Transfers of Personal Data

Gradle complies with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF), the U.K. Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. DPF) for transfers of Personal Data from the European Union (“EU”), European Economic Area (“EEA”), the United Kingdom (“U.K.”)(and Gibraltar), and Switzerland to the U.S.

When we transfer Personal Data out of EU, EEA, U.K.(and Gibraltar), and Switzerland to countries that do not benefit from an adequacy decision, we may rely on Standard Contractual Clauses, or other legal transfer mechanisms with appropriate safeguards in place to protect Personal Data.

The Services are hosted and operated in the United States (“U.S.”) through Gradle and its service providers, and if you do not reside in the U.S., laws in the U.S. may differ from the laws where you reside.

By using the Services, you acknowledge that any Personal Data about you, regardless of whether provided by you or obtained from a third party, is being provided to Gradle in the U.S. and will be hosted on U.S. servers, and you authorize Gradle to transfer, store and process your information to and in the U.S., and possibly other countries.

Data Privacy Framework (DPF)

This policy applies to Personal Data processed in the course of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, to which Gradle has committed. Gradle complies with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF), the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. DPF) as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal data transferred from the European Union, the United Kingdom (including Gibraltar) and Switzerland to the United States.

Gradle has certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce that it adheres to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Principles (EU-U.S. DPF Principles) with regard to the processing of Personal Data received from the European Union in reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF and from the United Kingdom (and Gibraltar) in reliance on the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF.

Gradle has also certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Principles (Swiss-U.S. DPF Principles) with regard to the processing of Personal Data received from Switzerland in reliance on the Swiss-U.S. DPF.

Under the EU-U.S. DPF, including the UK Extension of the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. DPF DPF, Gradle shall be subject to liability in cases of onward transfers of personal information to third parties, however Gradle is required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the EU-U.S. DPF Principles including the UK Extension of the EU-U.S. DPF Principles and/or the Swiss-U.S. DPF Principles, the Principles shall govern.

To learn more about the EU-U.S. DPF program, and to view our certification, please visit https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/

EU, UK, and Swiss individuals have rights, under certain circumstances, to access Personal Data about them, request that Personal Data be corrected, amended, or deleted and to limit use and disclosure of their Personal Data. With our Data Privacy Framework self-certification, Gradle has committed to respecting those rights. To exercise your rights under the DPF Principles, please contact Gradle at: privacy@gradle.com.

In compliance with the EU-U.S. DPF, the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF and the Swiss-U.S. DPF, Gradle commits to resolve DPF Principles-related complaints about our collection and use of your Personal Data. EU, UK and Swiss individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our handling of Personal Data received in reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF, the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF and the Swiss-U.S. DPF should first contact Gradle’s privacy team at privacy@gradle.com

Gradle has further committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the DPF Principles to an independent dispute resolution mechanism Data Privacy Framework Services, operated by BBB National Programs. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, please visit https://bbbprograms.org/programs/all-programs/dpf-consumers for more information and to file a complaint. This service is provided free of charge to you.

If your DPF complaint cannot be resolved through the above channels, under certain conditions, you may invoke binding arbitration for some residual claims not resolved by other redress mechanisms. See https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/framework-article/ANNEX-I-introduction for more information. Please note that Gradle is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We’re constantly trying to improve our Services, so we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time, but we will alert you to any such changes by placing a notice on the Gradle website, by sending you an email and/or by some other means. Please note that if you’ve opted not to receive legal notice emails from us (or you haven’t provided us with your email address), those legal notices will still govern your use of the Services, and you are still responsible for reading and understanding them. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to all of the changes. Use of information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Data or your choices and rights regarding such collection and use, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Name: Gradle Privacy
Phone: + 353 01 223 9654
Website: www.gradle.com
Email: privacy@gradle.com
Address: 2261 Market Street #4081, San Francisco, CA 94114, United States | Danckelmannstr. 21, 14059, Berlin, Germany

If you are located in the United Kingdom, you may use the following information to contact our United Kingdom-Based Member Representative:

Name of United Kingdom Member Representative: Ethidata, Ltd.

Email: gradle@ethidata.co.uk