Piriform does not reveal why it added the new privacy page to the application the date suggests that it has something to do with the GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation, that comes into effect tomorrow. Note, all free users and paid customers can choose to turn of this feature.Īccording to the privacy policy, users may disable the sharing of analytics data with third-parties. Third party analytics â€“ when we share your data with a third party for analytics, such as purchase optimization, crash reporting, and trend analytics. A quick check of CCleaner's privacy policy suggests that a bug is more likely as it states under 'choice': It is unclear at this point in time whether that is a bug or on purpose. Free users of the program can uncheck 'allow usage data to be shared with 3rd parties for analytics purposes' in the software. The new page contains only one option that is checked by default.

Piriform released an update that changed the privacy page of CCleaner. Privacy settings are unavailable for Free users as we do not collect any personal identifiable information, so Free users are essentially anonymous. Update: Piriform informed me that it does not collect any personal identifiable information from free users and that this is the reason why the privacy settings are unavailable to free users. While you find checkboxes next to each option, clicking on them does nothing right now. Allow usage data to be shared with 3rd parties for analytics purposes.īoth options are checked in the free version by default.The menu lists the following two options right now: You can access the new privacy with a click on Options > Privacy in the CCleaner program interface. The new version includes three changes according to the release notes it removes font cache cleaning temporarily because of a compatibility issue with Windows 10 version 1803, added a new preference to select the level of detail on the results screen that is displayed after cleanup operations, and it adds a new privacy menu to the application. CCleaner build was released on May 23, 2018.

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