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<title>Help/Privacy/Desktop - XOWA</title>
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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading"><span>Help/Privacy/Desktop</span></h1>
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<div id="siteSub">From XOWA: the free, open-source, offline wiki application</div>
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XOWA is commited to user privacy. As a user of the XOWA desktop app, you can be assured of the following:
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<b>User data is never uploaded</b>: No data is ever uploaded. All data remains on your machine unless you choose to do something with it. The most you will ever see is a button that allows you to send log files to the developer.
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<b>User data is collected for application usage only</b>:
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Features like "Page History" and "Bookmarks" depend on user data. As a result, these features are enabled by default. They can be disabled at the user's discretion.
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XOWA also has a log that records actions and errors.
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This data is for diagnosing defects whenever you want to report them.
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It can be reviewed under Help -> System Data -> System Log
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It can be deleted under <code>/xowa/user/anonymous/app/tmp</code>. XOWA only keeps the last 8 sessions around.
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<b>User data collection can be disabled or cleared</b>: Individual features can either be cleared or disabled. The rest of the page details the process for each feature.
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<div id="toc" class="toc">
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Contents
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<a href="#Mozilla_browser_data"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Mozilla browser data</span></a>
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<a href="#Application_logs"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Application logs</span></a>
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<a href="#Page_history"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Page history</span></a>
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<a href="#Temporary_HTML_files"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Temporary HTML files</span></a>
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<a href="#Bookmarks"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Bookmarks</span></a>
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<a href="#File_download"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">File download</span></a>
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<a href="#Math_images_.28LaTEX_only.29"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Math images (LaTEX only)</span></a>
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<a href="#Content_applications"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Content applications</span></a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Mozilla_browser_data">Mozilla browser data</span>
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The embedded Mozilla browser generates its own history data and stores them in sqlite files in a user's profile directory. This includes names of clicked links (so the browser can highlight them).
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On Linux, the folder would be <span class='path'>/home/your_user_name/.mozilla/eclipse</span>
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On Windows XP, the folder would be <span class='path'>C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_name\Application Data\Mozilla\eclipse</span>
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On Windows 7, the folder would be <span class='path'>C:\Users\your_user_name\Application Data\Mozilla\eclipse</span>
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Note that this functionality is not directly controllable, so there is no way to circumvent it. However, if you want to, you can try either of the following:
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Mark the .sqlite files in the directory read-only. This will slow down each page-load by 1/2 a second (presumably b/c Mozilla fails when trying to update) but will not save your history data
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Delete the .sqlite files after XOWA is done. This is not a perfect solution as it still writes the data first to disk.
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Application_logs">Application logs</span>
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Application logs are enabled by default. They are saved to files in the following directory: <code>/xowa/user/anonymous/app/tmp</code>.
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Application logs can be disabled at <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Options/Security.html" id="xolnki_2" title="Options/Security" class="xowa-visited">Options/Security</a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Page_history">Page history</span>
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Page history is enabled by default. The data is saved to the following file: <code>/xowa/user/anonymous/app/data/history/page_history.csv</code>.
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Page history can be disabled at <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Options/Security.html" id="xolnki_3" title="Options/Security" class="xowa-visited">Options/Security</a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Temporary_HTML_files">Temporary HTML files</span>
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All HTML for pages will be saved to and loaded from a temp directory on disk. The files are saved to the following directory: <code>/xowa/user/anonymous/app/tmp/html</code>. This is done for performance reasons related to SWT / XULRunner. See <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Options/Security.html" id="xolnki_4" title="Options/Security" class="xowa-visited">Options/Security</a>
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HTML can be changed to load directly from memory at <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Options/Security.html" id="xolnki_5" title="Options/Security" class="xowa-visited">Options/Security</a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Bookmarks">Bookmarks</span>
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Bookmarks are enabled by default. Note that no data is ever written automatically to the Bookmarks page, so one can simply not use the <code><span style="color:blue;">add</span></code> feature.
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If you wish to disable the feature completely (to prevent accidental clicks), then you can disable it at <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Options/Security.html" id="xolnki_6" title="Options/Security" class="xowa-visited">Options/Security</a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="File_download">File download</span>
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File download is disabled by default. All files are downloaded to the following directory: <code>/xowa/file</code>.
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If you've enabled it, you can disable it at <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Options/Files.html" id="xolnki_7" title="Options/Files">Options/Files</a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Math_images_.28LaTEX_only.29">Math images (LaT<sub>E</sub>X only)</span>
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Math images use MathJax by default, which does not generate temporary files.
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If you choose to use LaT<sub>E</sub>X then temporary files will be generated. All files are created in the following directory: <code>/xowa/file/name_of_wiki/math</code>.
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You can always disable LaT<sub>E</sub>X again at <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Options/Math.html" id="xolnki_8" title="Options/Math">Options/Math</a>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Content_applications">Content applications</span>
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Content applications are enabled by default. These applications may or may not generate their own temp files.
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These third-party viewer applications can be disabled at <a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Options/Apps.html" id="xolnki_9" title="Options/Apps">Options/Apps</a> by setting all values to blank.
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<h3>Namespaces</h3>
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<li id="ca-nstab-main" class="selected"><span><a id="ca-nstab-main-href" href="index.html">Page</a></span></li>
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<a style="background-image: url(https://gnosygnu.github.io/xowa/xowa_logo.png);" href="http://xowa.org/" title="Visit the main page"></a>
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<div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-home'>
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<h3>XOWA</h3>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/index.html" title='Visit the main page'>Main page</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/screenshots.html" title='See screenshots of XOWA'>Screenshots</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Download_XOWA.html" title='Download the XOWA application'>Download XOWA</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Dashboard/Image_databases.html" title='Download offline wikis and image databases'>Download wikis</a></li>
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</ul>
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<div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-started'>
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<h3>Getting started</h3>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Setup/System_requirements.html" title='Get XOWA's system requirements'>Requirements</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Setup/Installation.html" title='Get instructions for installing XOWA'>Installation</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Import/Simple_Wikipedia.html" title='Learn how to set up Simple Wikipedia'>Simple Wikipedia</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Import/English_Wikipedia.html" title='Learn how to set up English Wikipedia'>English Wikipedia</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Import/Other_wikis.html" title='Learn how to set up other Wikipedias'>Other Wikipedias</a></li>
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<div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-android'>
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<h3>Android</h3>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Android/Setup.html" title='Setup XOWA on your Android device'>Setup</a></li>
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<div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-help'>
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<h3>Help</h3>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/About.html" title='Get more information about XOWA'>About</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Contents.html" title='View a list of help topics'>Contents</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Media.html" title='Read what others have written about XOWA'>Media</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Help/Feedback.html" title='Questions? Comments? Leave feedback for XOWA'>Feedback</a></li>
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<div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-blog'>
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<h3>Blog</h3>
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<li><a href="http://xowa.org/home/wiki/Blog.html" title='Follow XOWA''s development process'>Current</a></li>
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<div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-links'>
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<h3>Links</h3>
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<li><a href="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html" title="Get wiki datababase dumps directly from Wikimedia">Wikimedia dumps</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=xowa" title="Search archive.org for XOWA files">XOWA @ archive.org</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org" title="Visit Wikipedia (and compare to XOWA!)">English Wikipedia</a></li>
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</ul>
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<div class="portal" id='xowa-portal-donate'>
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<h3>Donate</h3>
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<li><a href="https://archive.org/donate/index.php" title="Support archive.org!">archive.org</a></li><!-- listed first due to recent fire damages: http://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-please-help-rebuild/ -->
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<li><a href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector" title="Support Wikipedia!">Wikipedia</a></li>
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<!-- <li><a href="" title="Support XOWA! (but only after you've supported archive.org and Wikipedia)">XOWA</a></li> -->
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