cholarometer
When you use the Scholarometer extension or visit the Scholarometer Web site, certain information is collected on our Web server, and some information is shared with other sites and services, as described in detail below. Scholarometer does not require registration of user accounts, and does not use cookies. We rely on Google Groups for communication between users and developers, and the use of the Scholarometer Google Group is subject to the terms of use and privacy policy of Google Groups. When you download or update the Scholarometer add-on from the Mozilla Firefox Add-ons site or the Scholarometer extension from the Google Chrome Extensions site, you are subject to the terms of use and privacy policies of the host repositories. We rely on Google Analytics to keep statistics about visitors to the Scholarometer Web site, including use of the server-side scripts that compute impact factors and present results to the users. For debugging purposes, our Web server also logs access information (including client IP addresses) for up to nine weeks. No such personal information will be disclosed to any third parties except if reasonably necessary to satisfy any applicable law and regulation, or to detect and prevent abuse such as spam and vandalism. We automatically post digest information sampled from the latest queries on Twitter, and may make such posts available on the Scholarometer Web site via a Twitter widget. The information posted is subject to the terms of use and privacy policy of Twitter. We may rely on Facebook and Twitter share buttons to allow users to share information about Scholarometer with those third-party services. Usage of those services is subject to the their respective terms of use and privacy policies. We collect query information such as author name(s), keywords, search criteria, and discipline tag annotations. None of the information collected is connected to personal identifying information about the user submitting the query, such as the IP address. The extension passes this bibliographic metadata (tag annotations, query information, and other statistics) to our server. We store this information in the Scholarometer database for the purpose of computing citation based impact measures. Aggregate crowdsourced data is made publicly available via an API. If you do not agree with the privacy policy as detailed above, you should not use the Scholarometer service. This privacy policy was updated in November 2018. Any future changes will be posted here. You may contact us with any questions about this privacy policy as described in the FAQ page.
