No easily accessible Privacy Policy

[SorryAward04]

We were looking into darktable for our student organization, but while looking for a privacy policy, we could not find one - neither on the website at darktable.org nor in this repo.
We would like to hope this is just an error on our part, considering it's a requirement under GDPR to have one.
Until this is clear, we unfortunately cannot use darktable (yes, we are German).

I know that this has been at least partially addressed here - however, other software in tangential fields offer at least a short statement that their services do not collect personal data (e.g. paint.net, Krita, GIMP).
I hope that this topic is not a major issue (and also that the repo is the correct place for this).

[parafin]

Where does it say in GDPR that every peace of software must have a privacy policy? Does ls command have one?

If you're talking about website, then it's the wrong repo indeed - the right one is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/dtorg/issues

[MStraeten]

We would like to hope this is just an error on our part, considering it's a requirement under GDPR to have one.

please be more precise on that by citing the relevant legal text.
There’s much bullshit around arguing spurious GDPR requirements especially in Germany ;)

To help: first identify who is providing services to you - the darktable team isn‘t.
Then identify, who is handling privacy relevant data in your local darktable installation - the darktable team isn‘t.

You can take the source and compile it yourself or use a precompiled software to provide a kind of service yourself (that’s importing images, tagging them)
If you use personal data to tag images, then that’s not a GDPR relevant service of the darktable team, but your own responsibility you need to care of following GDPR (if you’re in a country where GDPR is relevant)
So you need to write your own data privacy policy if you feel you need one when using darktable ;)