Product Usage Controls

Praxist includes optional, pseudonymized product-usage reporting. Collection is off until the current operating-system user explicitly consents, and declining or withdrawing does not affect installation or research. Accepting the Praxist User Agreement or the Fair Source License does not enable collection.

Read the Privacy Notice for the complete privacy policy, purposes, retention rules, and user rights. The Praxist User Data Collection Notice is the exact versioned text presented when consent is requested. The Product Usage Technical Documentation describes the implementation, endpoint, schema, storage, and failure isolation.

Review and Choose¶

Review the current in-product notice and record a choice:

praxist product-usage notice
praxist product-usage consent

Inspect or withdraw the choice at any time:

praxist product-usage status --json
praxist product-usage withdraw

A plain pip installation and every non-interactive path leave consent unset. Interactive setup presents the notice in a scrollable local terminal view. Withdrawal stops future capture and removes unsent local events. See the Privacy Notice for the treatment of events already delivered.

Collector Development¶

Install server dependencies only on a collector development or deployment host:

uv sync --group dev --extra product-usage-server
export DATABASE_URL='postgresql+psycopg://user:password@host/database'
export COLLECTOR_INGESTION_ENABLED=true
export COLLECTOR_MAX_TABLE_BYTES=$((2 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024))
uv run alembic -c services/product_usage/alembic.ini upgrade head
uv run praxist-collector

Run retention in a separate process or container:

uv run praxist-retention

Collector ingestion is disabled until explicitly enabled. Deployment assets and their operational controls are under services/product_usage/; implementation details and audit entry points are owned by the technical documentation.