Updating the Privacy Policy

The Thunderbird Privacy Policy is automatically generated and should not be edited by hand.

Here is the workflow for updating it.

Pull the latest and create a new branch

git checkout master
git pull
git checkout -b chore/update-legal

Download the latest legal documents

Run the following:

python build-site.py  --downloadlegal

This automatically downloads the Privacy Policy and generates the corresponding HTML file.

Commit and push

You do not have to include the date of the update, but you can find it at the top of the generated file (sites/www.thunderbird.net/includes/privacy/privacy-desktop.html).

git commit -am 'updated legal docs to 2024-12-09'
git push -u origin chore/update-legal

Create a Pull Request

Make sure to tag another member of the Services Team for review.