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The Apache Software Foundation discourages the use of Google Analytics.
Google Analytics can only be used if:
Court decision around Google Analytics have changed various times in the past years and made it's use uncertain.
For this reason, ASF projects shall not use Google Analytics at all.
You can use Google Fonts, but please host the fonts on ASF servers.
ASF projects don't have any reasons to load Google Fonts from Google servers. Even performance wise there is no reason to use Google CDNs.
To prevent any data being transmitted to a third party, please download the fonts and host them with your project website.
Yes, you can use Google Maps, but they should only be activated after the user actively wants to use them. This can be done by showing a placeholder first and load the map when the user clicks on it. Please make it transparent that users will load a Google Map with their click.
Yes, you can embed videos on the website, but they should be loaded only after the user actively wants them to load. This can be done by showing a placeholder first and load the video, when the user clicks on the placeholder. Please make it transparent that users will load video embeds from a third party.
If you don't want placeholders please consider self-hosted videos and using an open source player like Plyr on GitHub.
Yes, but you can only load them when users actively want them to load. There is multiple open source solutions helping with that problem, like Shariff on GitHub.
No.
You cannot run an official ASF Facebook page.
The german Datenschutzkonferenz decided on 2019-04-01 that you cannot fulfill Art. 5 ยง2. Also, it is not compatible with Art. 26.
No, not without approval from your user.