Pygame.org Privacy Policy

[SarafanUnin]

Does pygame.org have a privacy policy in place? I've used pygame in my classroom for over a decade, but recent changes to state statutes (Florida) have cause my district to block student access to pygame's website. I can totally understand blocking the main page due to occasionally inappropriate/adult spam posts popping up on recent releases, but it's the documentation pages of all things that are ending up blocked. After submitting a ticket to my IT department, they responded that Florida law requires districts to block access to any website that does not have a privacy policy with sufficient protections for student data. Since this site does not have a privacy policy readily available, it triggers that clause in the new law.

Is there a privacy policy in place that I can point to in order to get my students access to documentation? I know there's a devdocs mirror out there, and if I have to I suppose I can export the docs to searchable pdf, but I'm kind of of shocked I can't find a privacy policy for a tool I've been using forever.

If there is no privacy policy, Is the pdf of the docs included in the pygame 4000 book searchable? Does it cover pygame 2? Could I purchased a class set of the ebook, or would I need per-student licenses?

[illume]

Hello!

There's docs included with pygame so you can open them locally. That might be the best way to go.

python -m pygame.docs

That command opens the local copy of the docs included in pygame in the browser. In there you can find some html which you could also serve locally by copying the folder.

Note, in some days there's almost complete Spanish documentation going up.

The pygame 4000 book is almost pay what you feel, but it's also available on github. Additionally there's dozens of other pygame books, many of them free. Send an email to [email protected] and you can get the 4000 book for free to give to your students.

Other places like Russia, and Iran also block pygame periodically. Cloudflare is serving the website as it provides protection against constant attacks and also provides better performance, there's no analytics or advertising from anyone like google or so, server logs are rotated frequently.

I'll move this issue to the pygameweb repo. Thanks for the report!