Privacy Policy

MDAnalysis is a fiscally sponsored project of NumFOCUS, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the open source scientific computing community. Like NumFOCUS, we value the privacy of our users. We comply with the NumFOCUS Privacy Policy, which can be found at https://numfocus.org/privacy-policy.

The sections below explain additional processes and data collection policies specific to MDAnalysis.

What information does MDAnalysis collect?

We only collect anonymous per-page usage statistics using GoatCounter with details explained in the GoatCounter privacy policy. These statistics are publicly visible at https://mdanalysis.goatcounter.com. You can disable statistics collection by blocking the JavaScript coming from gc.zgo.at.

Online payments (donations) are processed through NumFOCUS; upon clicking on a “donate” button or link, you will be transferred to a NumFOCUS site. Please see the NumFOCUS Privacy Policy regarding data collected during payment processing.

Who will your information be shared with?

We only share information with the following third parties:

Cloud computing services: Cloudflare. Requests are routed through Cloudflare’s caches and DNS resolvers; please see https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy for how Cloudflare collects information.
Search: algolia provides search functionality. Your search terms are transmitted to algolia to provide the search functionality on our site. Please see https://www.algolia.com/policies/privacy under Section 9. Subscriber Data submitted to our Services or collected through our Services (on behalf of our subscribers) to learn how algolia uses your data.
Usage statistics: GoatCounter collects anonymous page visit statistics, as explained in https://www.goatcounter.com/privacy. The most recent 2.4 million pageviews are stored on GoatCounter’s servers. As we receive new pageviews, the older ones are removed from the servers. This means that we do not know exactly when data is or will be discarded. These statistics are publicly visible at https://mdanalysis.goatcounter.com.
Website hosting: GitHub hosts the web pages as GitHub Pages; please see GitHub’s privacy policy https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-privacy-statement#additional-services regarding accessing GitHub Pages.