Collect usage statistics

When you install Qt Creator with Qt Online Installer, you can allow it to collect pseudonymous information about your system and Qt Creator use. If you decline, the telemetry plugin is not installed and no usage statistics are collected.

Principles of data collection

No personal data, such as names, IP addresses, MAC addresses, or project and path names are collected. However, QUuid objects are used to identify data records that belong to one user. The objects cannot be converted back to the actual values from which they were generated.

For more information about Qt privacy policy, see Qt Appendix for Privacy and Security.

Qt Creator respects the same privacy rules.

Turn on data collection

To allow the telemetry plugin to collect data, go to Preferences > Telemetry > Usage Statistics, and then select Send pseudonymous usage statistics.

Collected data

Qt Creator collects the following data:

• Your Qt license.
• The selected Qt Creator theme and UI language, and the system locale.
• The modes that you use.
• Information about what you use to build your projects:
  • The Qt version.
  • The Qt and QML modules.
  • The build system (CMake, qmake, and so on).
  • The build and run device types.
  • The compiler and debugger types and versions.
• The Qt examples that you opened.

The code is available at https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/plugin-telemetry.git.