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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!
+
+