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What Data Does Jetpack Sync?

As part of the required connection to WordPress.com, Jetpack caches your site’s data to WordPress.com servers (which power all of Jetpack’s functionality).

To take advantage of the valuable features of Jetpack, certain information about the content, settings, and configuration of your site must be synced with our servers. This data begins to sync when Jetpack is installed and connected to WordPress.com.

It is important to note that Jetpack syncs all the data required by all of its features, whether they are activated or not, to Automattic’s servers.

We handle synced data under the terms of our Privacy Policy.

Content and Settings

In order to display accurate information about your site in places such as notification emails and the WordPress.com Reader, Jetpack syncs the following information:

  • Site name.
  • Site tagline.
  • Site timezone.
  • Site locale.
  • Permalink structure.

In order to allow the creation and management of content from different locations and devices (e.g. from the WordPress.com desktop or mobile apps), information about the following is also synced:

  • Posts, including WordPress.com user ID of author.
  • Pages, including WordPress.com user ID of author.
  • Custom post types.
  • Any related metadata, including:
    • Whether or not the post is public.
    • Whether or note the post is excluded from search.
    • The permalink of the post.
    • The excerpt of the post, if available.
    • The WP.me shortlink of the post, if available.
    • External ID (specific to the site in question) of the post author.
    • The featured image of the post, if available.

This index of your content helps to reduce the load on your site’s servers and also allows related content and an optimized search index to be generated and displayed where appropriate.

Jetpack syncs miscellaneous bits of user information, such as:

  • The user IDs, usernames, email addresses, roles, and capabilities of registered users. This does not include passwords.
  • The user ID of any users that make changes to the site and the time that changes are made (e.g. ID of the user that added a new user, modified the site icon, or trashed a comment).
  • Twitter username, if configured with Jetpack.
  • Jetpack Social connection data, which includes email addresses and usernames associated with connected services.
  • For WordAds customers, we also sync the account’s email address and physical address. Review the complete terms of service for the program here.
  • Successful and failed login attempts (this includes the IP address and user agent of the individual performing the login action).

This user-related data is utilized by Jetpack in a variety of ways, including:

Themes and Plugins

The following information related to themes and plugins is synced:

  • The name of any themes or plugins currently in use.
  • The version and capabilities (e.g. featured image, menu locations, and pending updates).
  • Plugin installation path.

This enables Jetpack to provide services such as:

Additional Data

We also sync the following data to further enable and improve the functionality of Jetpack:

  • Comments and their associated metadata, including:
    • Comment author name.
    • Comment author email address.
    • Comment author URL.
    • Comment author IP address.
    • Comment author Wordress.com user ID, if known.
    • Comment author external (specific to the site in question) user ID, if known.
  • Taxonomies (including categories and tags).
  • Custom taxonomies (if used on the site).
  • Menus.
  • All allowlisted options, constants, and function outputs (e.g. whether the site is a multi-site install).
  • All core WordPress and Jetpack options.
  • Some WooCommerce options and data.

Syncing these pieces of information enables a number of features, including comment spam defense (if using Akismet), displaying notifications, including categorized content in the WordPress.com Reader, as well as adding the ability to edit your menus and post data directly from WordPress.com (including through the desktop and mobile apps).

Data Synced by Feature

To explore the type of data synced by individual Jetpack features, you can click on any of the following links to review more in-depth privacy information. Note that some features are automatically activated; you can find deactivation instructions at the following links, as well.

Feature Auto-activated?
Activity Log in the Jetpack Backup Plugin
Activity Log in the Jetpack Plugin Checkmark Circle
Ad Block
Backups via the Jetpack Plugin
Beautiful Math with LaTeX
Brute Force Attack Protection (formerly Protect) Checkmark Circle
Business Hours Block
Calendly Block Checkmark Circle
Carousel
Classic: Tiled Galleries
Cloning/Migrating a Site
Comment Likes
Contact Form (Classic Editor)
Contact Info Block
Copy Post
Custom Content Types
Custom CSS
Donations Block
Downtime Monitoring
Enhanced Distribution Checkmark Circle
Eventbrite Block Checkmark Circle
Extra Sidebar Widgets
Form Block Checkmark Circle
Getting Started with Backups in the Jetpack Plugin
Getting Started with the Jetpack Backup Plugin
GIF Block Checkmark Circle
Google Analytics
Google Calendar Block
Google Fonts
Gravatar Hovercards
Image Compare Block
Infinite Scroll
Jetpack Boost
Jetpack Comments
Jetpack Firewall
Jetpack Protect
Jetpack Scan
Jetpack Search
Jetpack Search Record Meter
Jetpack Social
Latest Instagram Posts Block Checkmark Circle
Lazy Images
Legacy Search
Likes
Loom Block
Mailchimp Block
Map Block Checkmark Circle
Markdown (Classic Editor)
Newsletter Sign-up form Checkmark Circle
Notifications Checkmark Circle
OpenTable Block
Pay with PayPal
Pay with PayPal block
Payments Block
Pinterest Block Checkmark Circle
Plugin Management Checkmark Circle
Podcast Player Block
Post by Email
QR Post Checkmark Circle
Related Posts
Related Posts (Classic Editor)
Security
Security Features Checkmark Circle
SEO Tools
Sharing
Shortcode Embeds
Site Accelerator
Site Verification Tools Checkmark Circle
Sitemaps
Slideshow Block
Star Rating Block
Story Block
Subscribe Block
Subscriptions
The Jetpack Backup Plugin
Tiled Gallery Block
Video Hosting (Classic Editor)
What to Do If Your Site is Down
Widget Visibility
WooCommerce Analytics Checkmark Circle
WordAds
WordPress.com Secure Sign On
WordPress.com Stats Checkmark Circle
WordPress.com Toolbar
WP.me Shortlinks

Have any questions about a specific feature’s privacy or sync-related documentation? Get in touch.

WooCommerce Shipping & Tax

WooCommerce Shipping & Tax use Automattic’s servers and a connection to our partners in order to enable useful features for your store. Some of these features (such as those relating to tax calculations and shipping) require data from your site to work.

Payments

If you choose to accept payments with Stripe or PayPal, we may share the email address you provide us with whichever service you’ve chosen in order to determine whether or not there’s an existing account and, if one doesn’t exist, automatically create one. Please note that if you use Stripe, they provide us with access to your payments data and account activity. We do not store this data.

When processing payments, some of your — and your customer’s — data will be passed to the respective third party, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and your customer’s billing information.

Please see the respective third party’s privacy policy (Stripe’s Privacy Policy and PayPal’s Privacy Policy) for more details.

Tax Calculations

Tax Calculations are provided by TaxJar. If you use the tax calculations feature, TaxJar receives information related to your customer’s purchase, including the value of goods in your customer’s cart, the value of shipping, your address, and the destination address. All data that flows between your site and Automattic, and between Automattic and TaxJar, is encrypted, end to end, via HTTPS. Please see TaxJar’s Privacy Policy for details about how they handle this information.

Shipping Rates and Labels

To take advantage of the real-time shipping rates and shipping label features of WooCommerce Shipping & Tax, certain information about you and your customer (as it relates to shipping), shopping carts, orders, and the configuration of your site are passed to our partners, EasyPost, and the respective mailing service, such as USPS or Canada Post, via Automattic’s servers. In terms of data handling, we validate (but do not store) data you send to us and then pass that data on to our partners. Our partners process the data under the terms of their agreements with Automattic and their own privacy policies. All data that flows between your site and Automattic, and between Automattic and our partners, is encrypted, end to end, via HTTPS.

In order to display real-time carrier shipping rates (such as for USPS and Canada Post), WooCommerce Shipping & Tax sends information related to a shipment from your site to our servers, including:

  • Shipping zone settings for validation, when you (the merchant) make changes and when fetching the rates for the customer, including origin postcode, list of enabled delivery services, and list of custom packages you add to the packaging manager.
  • Purchased products’ dimensions, weight, product IDs, and quantity.
  • Package destination address (street, postcode, city, country, state).

Additionally, once each day, WooCommerce Shipping & Tax asks our servers for any updates to the settings for each shipping service. This allows us to add new services and shipping options without you having to explicitly update. We store certain portions of this data (such as user ID, site ID, store location, currency, package/product dimensions, and software versions). This data is not shared with our partners.

To provide shipping labels, WooCommerce Shipping & Tax sends shipping information from your site to our servers, including:

  • Merchant and customer names, addresses, and phone numbers.
  • Label packaging settings (dimensions and weight of the packages).
  • Your selected WordPress.com payment method.

To purchase shipping labels, you are required to have a payment method (credit card) saved on file with WordPress.com. We keep a copy of each shipping label on our servers, and our partners also keep a copy of shipping labels on their servers. This makes it easier for you to reprint labels and receive help with any support requests.

Orders

We sync any data related to your site’s orders, with the following exceptions:

  • Purchaser’s billing and shipping street address.
  • Purchasing billing and shipping company’s name.
  • Purchaser’s email address.
  • Purchaser’s phone number.
  • Transaction ID.
  • Purchaser’s IP address.
  • Purchaser’s user agent.

Usage Data Collection

To help improve WooCommerce Shipping & Tax, our server automatically logs each request from your site. Each request is tagged with a unique ID that your site randomly generates when WooCommerce Shipping & Tax is activated for the first time. This unique ID is an anonymous identifier that is not mapped back to you. To protect the anonymity of you and your customers, we strip merchant and customer identifying details (the merchant name, street address, phone number, and customer name, street address, and phone number) from each request before it’s logged.

Additional Data

We also sync the following data with each request:

  • Shipping zone settings, used for validation.
  • Fetching payment methods, as configured on WordPress.com.

Syncing this data enables a number of useful features, including showing appropriate shipping methods and making sure we return correctly translated text and units of measurement for your store.

We also collect information about what happens when you use our services (e.g., page views, button clicks, etc.) along with information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the browser type and operating system. We use this information to, for example, provide our services to you, as well as gain insights on how people use our services and how we can improve those services.

Please refer to our public code repository for all WooCommerce-related data points synced via Jetpack.

More Information

If you’d like to read in more detail about what we sync, why, and what we do with it, please refer to these additional resources:

Still Have Questions?

If you still have questions or require clarification on the information presented in this document, please feel free to contact us at any time.

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