Options: Privacy
When you start memoQ 8.4 (or newer) for the first time, you see the Help us make memoQ better window. In that window, you decide if you want to share anonymous usage data with memoQ's designers and developers. That window appears only once. If you change your mind later, or want to learn again about our privacy policy or the Customer Insight Program, open the Privacy tab of Options. For memoQ server, see Help about Server Administrator's Configuration and logging pane.
How to get here
- Open the Options window: At the very top of the memoQ window - in the Quick Access toolbar
-, click the Options (cogwheels) 
icon. The Options window opens. - Under Category, click Privacy. The Privacy pane appears.
What can you do?
Learn about what data you would share with us and how we use those data:
- To read memoQ's general privacy policy: Click the privacy policy link.
- To learn more about the Customer Insights Program: Click the Learn more about analytics and privacy link.
Allow or forbid sending us anonymous data about how you use memoQ.
- To share anonymous usage data with memoQ's designers and developers: Choose the Enable anonymous usage data sharing radio button.
- To not share any usage data: Choose the Disable anonymous usage data sharing radio button.
When you finish
To save the settings and return to memoQ: Click OK.
To save the settings and remain in the Options window: Click Apply.
To return to memoQ without making changes: Click Cancel.
Or, choose another category:
- Default resources: Choose default resources (segmentation rules, QA settings, ignore lists etc.) for new projects. Do not mix these with resources in project templates. If you create a project from a template, memoQ will use the settings from the template, and not from these options.
- Appearance: Font and color settings for the translation editor and the Translation results pane. Use this to make the translation editor more readable.
- Spelling and grammar: Open this to set up the spell checker. Choose to use Word or Hunspell. If you choose Hunspell, you can download and install new dictionaries. Set up the spell checker for every target language you work with.
- Advanced lookup settings: Choose how memoQ should offer automatic concordance results, and how it should put together suggestions from fragments (shorter translation memory units and terms). Do not change the defaults unless you are entirely certain that you will get better suggestions as a result. If you just tamper with these settings, you may lose productivity. To learn more about these types of suggestions, see Help about the Translation results pane.
- Keyboard shortcuts: Choose or edit keyboard shortcuts for frequent commands in memoQ. Do not change these before you learn to use memoQ thoroughly. After you change keyboard shortcuts, the Help pages may not help you find them.
- Locations: Check or change the locations of memoQ folders. These are the folders memoQ places local projects and checkouts, translation memories, term bases, and others. You may need to change these if you are running low on disk space on your default drive. Do not change them unless it is absolutely necessary. Do not place them on network drives. If you place these folders in synchronized locations (local copies of Dropbox, Onedrive etc.), memoQ may become slower.
- Updates and news: Choose how memoQ should check for updates, and opt out of receiving news if necessary.
- Terminology plugins: Set up external terminology resources. memoQ can connect to various external terminology providers.
- TM plugins: Set up access to external translation memory services.
- External preview tools: Manage preview tools that are not built into memoQ, but installed separately.
- Miscellaneous: Configure various settings that control the behavior of the editing interface of memoQ.
- Privacy: Learn about memoQ's privacy policy, and enable or disable anonymous usage data sharing with memoQ's designers and developers.