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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 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>
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