Why we collect this<ul> <li> <p>We need your User Personal Information to create your account, and to provide the services you request, or to respond to support requests.</p> </li> <li> <p>We use your User Personal Information, specifically your user name, to identify you on GitBook.</p> </li> <li> <p>We use it to fill out your profile and share that profile with other users if you ask us to.</p> </li> <li> <p>We will use your email address to communicate with you, if you've said that's okay, <strong>and only for the reasons you’ve said that’s okay</strong>. Please see our section on email communication for more information.</p> </li> <li> <p>We use your User Personal Information for internal purposes, such as to maintain logs for security reasons, for training purposes, and for legal documentation.</p> </li> <li> <p>We limit our use of your User Personal Information to the purposes listed in this Privacy Statement. If we need to use your User Personal Information for other purposes, we will ask your permission first. You can always see what information we have, how we're using it, and what permissions you have given us in your user profile.</p> </li> </ul>Our legal basis for processing information<p>Under certain international laws (including GDPR), GitBook is required to notify you about the legal basis on which we process User Personal Information. GitBook processes User Personal Information on the following legal bases:</p> <ul> <li> <p>