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As a university-based project intended to foster scholarship and intellectual collaboration, Zotero takes privacy very seriously. We collect some data in order to provide optimal service to you:

  • Voluntary communications: We store information regarding voluntary contact you have with us, including forum messages and correspondence involving zotero.org email addresses.
  • Error feedback: Zotero transmits an anonymous error report if a site translator fails to save from a web page. This report only contains URL, translator, and basic system information to help us quickly diagnose and fix problems and ensure continued functionality for users. It contains no user IP address or other personal information.

We also push data to you:

  • Updates: Similar to other applications, Zotero checks periodically for software updates. In particular, we are constantly refining our support for online resources, and we deliver these changes to Zotero users on a daily basis.

Your choices

You can opt out of these automatic processes at any time:

  • Translator update checks and error reports can both be disabled from the Zotero Preferences.
  • Update checks for Firefox add-ons in general (which, in Zotero’s case, will contact either zotero.org or addons.mozilla.org, depending on where you originally download Zotero) can be disabled in Firefox preferences.
general_privacy_policy.1215466153.txt.gz · Last modified: 2008/07/07 17:29 by sean