3 * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.7)
4 * Copyright (C) 2011 J Procter, AM Waterhouse, J Engelhardt, LM Lui, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
6 * This file is part of Jalview.
8 * Jalview is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
9 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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20 <title>Jalview Privacy Statement</title>
23 <p><strong>Privacy for Jalview Users</strong><br>
24 <p>The Jalview Desktop application which is available from the
25 www.jalview.org site does not contain code designed collect personal or
26 private information without your consent. However, we do collect usage
27 statistics to work out who is using Jalview, so we can apply for funding
28 to support Jalview development, and make it better for our users.</p>
29 <p>Usage data is collected from the logs of various web services that the Jalview Desktop contacts through its normal operation.
30 These are described below:</p>
32 <li><em>HTTP logs on the Jalview website</em><br>
33 We record IP addresses of machines which access the web site, either
34 via the browser when downloading the application, or when the Jalview
35 Desktop user interface is launched.<br><br>
37 <li><i>The JNLP file at www.jalview.org/webstart/jalview.jnlp
38 is retrieved to determine if you are running the latest version of
40 <li><i>The questionnaire web service at
41 www.jalview.org/cgi-bin/questionnaire.pl is checked and a unique
42 cookie for the current questionnaire is stored in the Jalview
43 properties file.</i></li>
44 <li><i>The Jalview web services stack is contacted to
45 retrieve the currently available web services. All interactions with
46 the public jalview web services are logged, but we delete all job data
47 (input data and results) after about two weeks.</i></li>
50 <li><em>Google Analytics</em><br>
51 Since jalview 2.4.0b2, the Jalview Desktop records usage data with
52 Google Analytics via the <a
53 href="http://code.google.com/p/jgoogleanalytics/">JGoogleAnalytics</a>
55 The Google Analytics logs for Jalview version 2.4 only record the fact
56 that the application was started, but in the future, we will use this
57 mechanism to improve the Desktop user interface, by tracking which
58 parts of the user interface are being used most often.</li>
61 <p><strong>Stopping Jalview from calling home</strong><br>
62 If you run Jalview in 'headless mode' via the command line, then the
63 program shouldn't try to contact any of the web servers mentioned above
64 (if it does, then it's a bug!). You can also specify some <a
65 href="features/commandline.html">command line options</a> to disable
66 the questionnaire and usage statistics check. Finally, the <a
67 href="features/preferences.html#connections">Connections Tab</a> of the
68 jalview preferences contains options for controlling the submission of
70 <p><strong>Other Web Clients in Jalview</strong><br>
71 The Jalview desktop is intended to make it easier to interact with
72 web-based bioinformatics resources. However, we can't take any
73 responsibility for the integrity of any external services you might
74 access via the program. Sorry!</p>