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Collecting Usage Statistics for Scipion
If activate by the user, Scipion will collect information on the usage of the different protocols and send the information to the developer's team. We collect and analyze this information to better understand the usage of the different protocols and prioritize maintenance and support. You can choose to enable or disable the collection of information at any time.
- Enabling or Disabling the Collection of Information
- Information Collected
- Mechanism Used to Send Information
- Usage Statistics
We understand, of course, that some people do not wish to have any information collected from them. You can enable or disable the collection of information at any time, and set other preferences.
If you wish to modify the default preference editing the file $HOME/.config/scipion/scipion.conf and set the variable SCIPION_NOTIFY to True/False is you wish to activate/deactive the collection of information.
The information we collect is anonymous and cannot be used to identify you, your machine or your data. If allowed Scipion will transmit just the name of the protocols used without including the parameters. The following line is an example of the data transmitted.
["ProtImportVolumes", "XmippProtConvertPdb", "XmippProtCropResizeVolumes", "XmippProtConvertPdb", "ProtImportVolumes", "XmippProtCreateMask3D", "XmippProtMaskVolumes"]
##Mechanism Used to Send Information
If allowed, Scipion will try to connect once per day with one of our webservice (at present installed at URL: http://calm-shelf-73264.herokuapp.com/report_protocols/) and report all the protocols used since the last connection. The process is run in the background and will not try to reconnect if it fails.
At URL http://calm-shelf-73264.herokuapp.com/report_protocols/protocolTable/ you may see the usage statistic that has been collected since this service has been activated. Protocols at the top of this table will receive prioritized support