3 <title>Jalview Privacy Statement</title>
6 <p><strong>Privacy for Jalview Users</strong><br>
7 <p>The Jalview Desktop application which is available from the
8 www.jalview.org site does not contain code designed collect personal or
9 private information without your consent. However, we do collect usage
10 statistics to work out who is using Jalview, so we can apply for funding
11 to support Jalview development, and make it better for our users.</p>
12 <p>Usage data is collected from the logs of various web services that the Jalview Desktop contacts through its normal operation.
13 These are described below:</p>
15 <li><em>HTTP logs on the Jalview website</em><br>
16 We record IP addresses of machines which access the web site, either
17 via the browser when downloading the application, or when the Jalview
18 Desktop user interface is launched.<br><br>
20 <li><i>The JNLP file at www.jalview.org/webstart/jalview.jnlp
21 is retrieved to determine if you are running the latest version of
23 <li><i>The questionnaire web service at
24 www.jalview.org/cgi-bin/questionnaire.pl is checked and a unique
25 cookie for the current questionnaire is stored in the Jalview
26 properties file.</i></li>
27 <li><i>The Jalview web services stack is contacted to
28 retrieve the currently available web services. All interactions with
29 the public jalview web services are logged, but we delete all job data
30 (input data and results) after about two weeks.</i></li>
33 <li><em>Google Analytics</em><br>
34 Since jalview 2.4.0b2, the Jalview Desktop records usage data with
35 Google Analytics via the <a
36 href="http://code.google.com/p/jgoogleanalytics/">JGoogleAnalytics</a>
38 The Google Analytics logs for Jalview version 2.4 only record the fact
39 that the application was started, but in the future, we will use this
40 mechanism to improve the Desktop user interface, by tracking which
41 parts of the user interface are being used most often.</li>
44 <p><strong>Stopping Jalview from calling home</strong><br>
45 If you run Jalview in 'headless mode' via the command line, then the
46 program shouldn't try to contact any of the web servers mentioned above
47 (if it does, then it's a bug!). You can also specify some <a
48 href="features/commandline.html">command line options</a> to disable
49 the questionnaire and usage statistics check. Finally, the <a
50 href="features/preferences.html#connections">Connections Tab</a> of the
51 jalview preferences contains options for controlling the submission of
53 <p><strong>Other Web Clients in Jalview</strong><br>
54 The Jalview desktop is intended to make it easier to interact with
55 web-based bioinformatics resources. However, we can't take any
56 responsibility for the integrity of any external services you might
57 access via the program. Sorry!</p>