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Jalview Privacy Statement
Privacy for Jalview Users
The Jalview Desktop application which is available from the
www.jalview.org site does not contain code designed collect personal or
private information without your consent. However, we do collect usage
statistics to work out who is using Jalview, so we can apply for funding
to support Jalview development, and make it better for our users.
Usage data is collected from the logs of various web services that the Jalview Desktop contacts through its normal operation.
These are described below:
- HTTP logs on the Jalview website
We record IP addresses of machines which access the web site, either
via the browser when downloading the application, or when the Jalview
Desktop user interface is launched.
- The JNLP file at www.jalview.org/webstart/jalview.jnlp
is retrieved to determine if you are running the latest version of
Jalview.
- The questionnaire web service at
www.jalview.org/cgi-bin/questionnaire.pl is checked and a unique
cookie for the current questionnaire is stored in the Jalview
properties file.
- The Jalview web services stack is contacted to
retrieve the currently available web services. All interactions with
the public jalview web services are logged, but we delete all job data
(input data and results) after about two weeks.
- Google Analytics
Since jalview 2.4.0b2, the Jalview Desktop records usage data with
Google Analytics via the JGoogleAnalytics
class.
The Google Analytics logs for Jalview version 2.4 only record the fact
that the application was started, but in the future, we will use this
mechanism to improve the Desktop user interface, by tracking which
parts of the user interface are being used most often.
Stopping Jalview from calling home
If you run Jalview in 'headless mode' via the command line, then the
program shouldn't try to contact any of the web servers mentioned above
(if it does, then it's a bug!). You can also specify some command line options to disable
the questionnaire and usage statistics check. Finally, the Connections Tab of the
jalview preferences contains options for controlling the submission of
usage statistics.
Other Web Clients in Jalview
The Jalview desktop is intended to make it easier to interact with
web-based bioinformatics resources. However, we can't take any
responsibility for the integrity of any external services you might
access via the program. Sorry!