Guidelines for Mozilla Product Management

Mozilla Product Management is responsible for release management, which includes making sure we don't miss any community, development, QA, Build, Product team, or partner deliverables as we release a new version. To do so, we handle contact information for employees, contributors, vendors, partners and affiliates. We also manage the plug in vendor process.

Mozilla Privacy Principles

No Surprises

At Mozilla, we only use and share information about our users for their benefit and as disclosed in our notices. For Product Management, we manage checklists and distributions lists to minimize surprises when we contact users as part of our release process.

Real Choices

At Mozilla, we give our users actionable and informed choices by informing and educating at the point of collection and providing a choice to opt-out whenever possible.

Sensible Settings

At Mozilla, we establish default settings in our products and services that balance safety and user experience as appropriate for the context of the transaction. In Product Management, we apply these principles to our list management process. For the first beta release, we use broader, General Availability distributions lists, because these are major events with broader appeal.

Limited Data

At Mozilla, we collect and retain the least amount of information necessary for the feature or task. We try to share anonymous aggregate data whenever possible, and then only when it benefits the web, users, or developers

User Control

At Mozilla, we do not disclose personal user information without the user’s consent. We advocate, develop and innovate for privacy enhancements that put people in control over their information and online experiences. In Product Management, we keep a list of parties that need to get notified as part of a Firefox release. For maintenance releases (2.0.0.x), these lists are used to notify various parties. Users are able to add and remove themselves, thus preserving user control.

Trusted Third Parties

At Mozilla, we make privacy a key factor in selecting and interacting with partners. In Product Management, we manage the plug in vendor process, including communicating vendor requirements. We could examine this process to determine where privacy factors could come into play, such as making sure plug ins do not compromise user privacy.