3 * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.8.2)
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23 <title>Jalview Privacy Statement</title>
26 <p><strong>Privacy for Jalview Users</strong><br>
27 <p>The Jalview Desktop application which is available from the
28 www.jalview.org site does not contain code designed collect personal or
29 private information without your consent. However, we do collect usage
30 statistics to work out who is using Jalview, so we can apply for funding
31 to support Jalview development, and make it better for our users.</p>
32 <p>Usage data is collected from the logs of various web services that the Jalview Desktop contacts through its normal operation.
33 These are described below:</p>
35 <li><em>HTTP logs on the Jalview website</em><br>
36 We record IP addresses of machines which access the web site, either
37 via the browser when downloading the application, or when the Jalview
38 Desktop user interface is launched.<br><br>
40 <li><i>The JNLP file at www.jalview.org/webstart/jalview.jnlp
41 is retrieved to determine if you are running the latest version of
43 <li><i>The questionnaire web service at
44 www.jalview.org/cgi-bin/questionnaire.pl is checked and a unique
45 cookie for the current questionnaire is stored in the Jalview
46 properties file.</i></li>
47 <li><i>The Jalview web services stack is contacted to
48 retrieve the currently available web services. All interactions with
49 the public jalview web services are logged, but we delete all job data
50 (input data and results) after about two weeks.</i></li>
53 <li><em>Google Analytics</em><br>
54 Since jalview 2.4.0b2, the Jalview Desktop records usage data with
55 Google Analytics via the <a
56 href="http://code.google.com/p/jgoogleanalytics/">JGoogleAnalytics</a>
58 The Google Analytics logs for Jalview version 2.4 only record the fact
59 that the application was started, but in the future, we will use this
60 mechanism to improve the Desktop user interface, by tracking which
61 parts of the user interface are being used most often.</li>
64 <p><strong>Stopping Jalview from calling home</strong><br>
65 If you run Jalview in 'headless mode' via the command line, then the
66 program shouldn't try to contact any of the web servers mentioned above
67 (if it does, then it's a bug!). You can also specify some <a
68 href="features/commandline.html">command line options</a> to disable
69 the questionnaire and usage statistics check. Finally, the <a
70 href="features/preferences.html#connections">Connections Tab</a> of the
71 jalview preferences contains options for controlling the submission of
73 <p><strong>Other Web Clients in Jalview</strong><br>
74 The Jalview desktop is intended to make it easier to interact with
75 web-based bioinformatics resources. However, we can't take any
76 responsibility for the integrity of any external services you might
77 access via the program. Sorry!</p>