Scribus is a desktop application that does not make contact with external machines during normal operation. If the user choses, they can optionally request an update of various non-executable resources from a remote server. This update does not send any information from the users machine to the server. It requests a list of the most recent version of each resource, and then presents this information to the user. The user can then choose to do nothing, or instruct Scribus to update any or all of the resources. However, in requesting the list, as well as when the further resources are downloaded, the IP address (and only the IP address) of the users machine is availible to the server, and can be logged. Howeever, the data in these logs is not availible to third parties. When Scribus is initally installed using SourceForge, SourceForge is able to see the user's IP address, as well as certain other information. Please see SourceForge's privacy policy for details on their practices. Additonally, the user can manually set metadata (such as the name of the author) on a per-document basis. Additionally, certain metadata such as the version of scribus used to create a file as well as the date it was created, is automatically included in each document. This metadata is saved in the .sla files saved by Scribus, and some of it is included in other exported files, including .pdf files. As such, if the user chooses to send files produced by Scribus, they will also send this information.