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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
39 record IP addresses of machines which access the web site, either
40 via the browser when downloading the application, or when the
41 Jalview Desktop user interface is launched.<br> <br>
43 <li><i>The Jalview Getdown Launcher</i> (Since 2.11.0) examines release
44 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
48 unique cookie for the current questionnaire is stored in the
49 Jalview properties file.</i></li>
50 <li><i>The Jalview web services stack is contacted to
51 retrieve the currently available web services. All
52 interactions with the public Jalview web services are
53 logged, but we delete all job data (input data and results)
54 after about two weeks.</i></li>
56 <li><em>Google Analytics</em><br> Since Jalview 2.4.0b2,
57 the Jalview Desktop records usage data with Google Analytics via
58 the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/jgoogleanalytics/">JGoogleAnalytics</a>
59 class.<br> The Google Analytics logs for Jalview version 2.4
60 only record the fact that the application was started, but in the
61 future, we will use this mechanism to improve the Desktop user
62 interface, by tracking which parts of the user interface are being
67 <strong>Stopping Jalview from calling home</strong><br> If you
68 run Jalview in 'headless mode' via the command line, then the
69 program shouldn't try to contact any of the web servers mentioned
70 above (if it does, then it's a bug!). You can also specify some <a
71 href="features/commandline.html">command line options</a> to
72 disable the questionnaire and usage statistics check. Finally, the <a
73 href="features/preferences.html#connections">Connections
74 Tab</a> of the Jalview preferences contains options for controlling
75 the submission of usage statistics.
77 <strong>Other Web Clients in Jalview</strong><br> The Jalview
78 desktop is intended to make it easier to interact with web-based
79 bioinformatics resources. However, we can't take any responsibility
80 for the integrity of any external services you might access via the