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23 <title>Jalview Privacy Statement</title>
27 <strong>Privacy for Jalview Users</strong><br>
28 <p>The Jalview Desktop application which is available from the
29 www.jalview.org site does not contain code designed to collect
30 personal or private information without your consent. However, we do
31 collect usage statistics to work out who is using Jalview, so we can
32 apply for funding to support Jalview development, and make it better
34 <p>Usage data is collected from the logs of various web services
35 that the Jalview Desktop contacts through its normal operation.
36 These are described below:</p>
38 <li><em>HTTP logs on the Jalview website</em><br> We record
39 IP addresses of machines which access the web site, either via the
40 browser when downloading the application, or when the Jalview Desktop
41 user interface is launched.<br> <br>
43 <li><i>The Jalview Getdown Launcher</i> (Since 2.11.0) examines
44 release channels every time Jalview launches to determine if a new
45 release is available.</li>
46 <li><i>The questionnaire web service at
47 www.jalview.org/cgi-bin/questionnaire.pl is checked and a unique
48 cookie for the current questionnaire is stored in the Jalview
49 properties file.</i></li>
50 <li><i>The Jalview web services stack is contacted to
51 retrieve the currently available web services. All interactions
52 with the public Jalview web services are logged, but we delete all
53 job data (input data and results) after about two weeks.</i></li>
55 <li><em>Usage Analytics</em><br> Since Jalview 2.11.2.7, the
56 Jalview Desktop records usage data with a self-hosted instance of the
57 analytics stack <a href="https://plausible.io">Plausible.io</a> via a
58 custom GPLv3 client developed by Ben Soares. Prior to this, Jalview
59 versions as far back as 2.4 recorded application launches via <a
60 href="http://code.google.com/p/jgoogleanalytics/">JGoogleAnalytics</a>
61 .<br> Usage logs for Jalview record the fact that the
62 application was started, and details about the OS, installed Jalview
63 launcher (if any) and java version used. In the future, we will use
64 this mechanism to improve the Desktop user interface, by tracking
65 which parts of the user interface are being used most often.</li>
68 <strong>Stopping Jalview from calling home</strong><br> If you
69 run Jalview in 'headless mode' via the command line, then the
70 program shouldn't try to contact any of the web servers mentioned
71 above (if it does, then it's a bug!). You can also specify some <a
72 href="features/commandline.html">command line options</a> to
73 disable the questionnaire and usage statistics check. Finally, the <a
74 href="features/preferences.html#connections">Connections
75 Tab</a> of the Jalview preferences contains options for controlling
76 the submission of usage statistics.
78 <strong>Other Web Clients in Jalview</strong><br> The Jalview
79 desktop is intended to make it easier to interact with web-based
80 bioinformatics resources. However, we can't take any responsibility
81 for the integrity of any external services you might access via the