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<title>Privacy Policy</title>
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This product may submit certain information to Wingware, as follows:

**License Activation**

In products that require a license, such as Wing Pro, a license activation process takes
place before you can use the software. This is true both for trial licenses and when
activating a purchased license. The information passed to our servers includes:

(1) License number

(2) For trial licenses only, an SHA hash of machine identity metrics that include 
    hardware serial number, ethernet number, and file system IDs

(3) The request code, which is an SHA hash of the license number, date, 
    and the same machine identity metrics listed above

(4) Your IP address

(5) Any user information that you entered into the license activation dialog
    for the purpose of license recovery

License activation is a requirement and cannot be disabled.  However, it can
be done manually via `https://wingware.com/activate <https://wingware.com/activate>`__ 
if you don't want Wing to connect directly to wingware.com.

**Update Check**

Wing periodically checks for updates by contacting ``wingware.com``. This check will send
the following information:

(1) License number

(2) Current version and patch level

(3) Your IP address

Update checks can be disabled with the `User Interface > Other > Auto-check for Product
Updates <script:show_preferences_gui(prefname="main.auto-check-updates")>`__ preference
and by not using ``Check for Updates`` in the ``Help`` menu.

**Bug Reports and Feedback**

Wing provides a mechanism for submitting bug reports and feedback, which may send the
following information to our servers:

(1) Any text entered into the bug report and feedback dialogs

(2) License number

(3) Your IP address

(4) Basic host and installation data including product version and patch level,
    installation location, settings directory, cache directory, OS type and version, CPU
    type, memory size, local IP addresses, currently open project, and active Python
    installation location and version

(5) In bug reports, you may optionally include a log of recent IDE activity, the 
    filename of which is given in the bug submission dialog

To avoid submitting this information to Wingware, simply refrain from submitting any 
bug reports or feedback from the ``Help`` menu.

**Usage Statistics**

Wing periodically submits usage statistics to help us understand which features are most
used and to help provide support. The data sent consists of:

(1) Product type, version, and patch level

(2) License number

(3) Your IP address

(3) Usage statistics consisting of (name, value) pairs where name is a code identifying
    an IDE feature, such as 'debug.start', 'testing.run', and 'minutes-used', and value
    is an integer count
    
To avoid submitting usage statistics, disable the `User Interface > Other > Submit Usage
Stats <script:show_preferences_gui(prefname="main.submit-usage-stats")>`__ preference.
