On Nov 16, 2010, at 19:50:07, [email protected] wrote:
> Does Growl collect any personal information? Input data?
The closest we come to this is our website, which uses Google Analytics. This
mostly tells us what pages are getting hit most and from what origins (e.g.,
other sites linking to them). Nothing that would identify you.
I'm not sure where you could find a full list of what Google Analytics reports
back to webmasters. A lot of websites use it, so it's not just Growl's website
this would affect. Plus, you probably don't visit our website very often
anyway—there isn't much reason to.
Growl software doesn't send any of your data back to us.
> Trends / Actions of user?
Nope.
As above, the closest we come is Google Analytics recording hits to pages on
our site. Growl software doesn't tell us what you're doing in any way.
> Does it communicate any type of information back to a central server?
Your browser contacts our server when you hit our website; that's how it
retrieves the pages.
Growl software doesn't yet communicate anything back, but as Chris told you,
Growl probably will start reporting some anonymous information about your
system in a future version. It'll be the same machinery Adium uses, so you can
get a preview of that on the Adium website:
http://adium.im/sparkle
If you don't like that, turn off Growl's updater, since that reportage will be
part of the update check.
> I like the app, am just concerned about this.
That's fine. There are applications, even well-known and ordinarily upstanding
ones, that abuse your trust, so you're justified in worrying about this.
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