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+<head>
+<title>Jalview Privacy Statement</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Privacy for Jalview Users</strong><br>
+ <p>The Jalview Desktop application which is available from the
+ www.jalview.org site does not contain code designed to 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.</p>
+ <p>Usage data is collected from the logs of various web services
+ that the Jalview Desktop contacts through its normal operation.
+ These are described below:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><em>HTTP logs on the Jalview website</em><br> 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.<br> <br>
+ <ul>
+ <li><i>The JNLP file at
+ www.jalview.org/webstart/jalview.jnlp is retrieved to
+ determine if you are running the latest version of Jalview.</i></li>
+ <li><i>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.</i></li>
+ <li><i>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.</i></li>
+ </ul> <br></li>
+ <li><em>Google Analytics</em><br> Since Jalview 2.4.0b2,
+ the Jalview Desktop records usage data with Google Analytics via
+ the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/jgoogleanalytics/">JGoogleAnalytics</a>
+ class.<br> 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.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Stopping Jalview from calling home</strong><br> 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 <a
+ href="features/commandline.html">command line options</a> to
+ disable the questionnaire and usage statistics check. Finally, the <a
+ href="features/preferences.html#connections">Connections
+ Tab</a> of the Jalview preferences contains options for controlling
+ the submission of usage statistics.
+ <p>
+ <strong>Other Web Clients in Jalview</strong><br> 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!
+ </p>
+</body>
+</html>
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