Ansys Product Improvement Program

This product is covered by the Ansys Product Improvement Program, which enables ANSYS, Inc., to collect and analyze anonymous usage data reported by our software without affecting your work or product performance. Analyzing product usage data helps us to understand customer usage trends and patterns, interests, and quality or performance issues. The data enable us to develop or enhance product features that better address your needs.

How to Participate

The program is voluntary. To participate, select Yes when the Product Improvement Program dialog box appears. Only then will collection of data for this product begin.

How the Program Works

After you agree to participate, the product collects anonymous usage data during each session. When you end the session, the collected data is sent to a secure server accessible only to authorized Ansys employees. After Ansys receives the data, various statistical measures such as distributions, counts, means, medians, modes, etc., are used to understand and analyze the data.

Data We Collect

For all products that offer the Ansys Product Improvement Program, we only collect anonymous data such as session statistics, hardware information, types of loading, solution types, solution statistics, and similar data. The specific data collected varies from product to product.

For Ansys Electronics, we collect the following information:

Data We Do Not Collect

The Product Improvement Program does not collect any information that can identify you personally, your company, or your intellectual property. This includes but is not limited to names, addresses, file names, part names, geometry- or design-specific inputs, material property values, etc. We make no record of where we collect data from.

Opting Out of the Program

You may stop your participation in the program any time you wish. To do so, select menu item Help > Ansys Product Improvement Program or ribbon item Help > Ansys > Ansys Product Improvement Program. This activates the Ansys Product Improvement Program dialog box. On this dialog select the No I am not willing to participate radio button to opt out of the program. Select the Yes, I am willing to participate in the Ansys Product Improvement Program radio button to opt in to the program. Click the OK button to accept the radio button selection. Data is no longer collected or sent if you opt out.

Note:

You can disable the Ansys Product Improvement Program for all users so that each user is not prompted to enable the Program when they first start Electronics Desktop. After installing the software, run the following command as a user with permissions to modify the installed file set:

UpdateRegistry.exe -set -ProductName ElectronicsDesktop2024.2 -RegistryKey Desktop/Settings/ProjectOptions/ProductImprovementOptStatus -RegistryLevel install -RegistryValue 1

The ANSYS, Inc., Privacy Policy

All Ansys products are covered by the ANSYS, Inc., Privacy Policy, which you can read here.

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. Am I required to participate in this program?

    2. No, your participation is voluntary. We encourage you to participate, however, as it helps us create products that will better meet your future needs.

  2. Am I automatically enrolled in this program?

    3. No. You are not enrolled unless you explicitly agree to participate.

  3. Does participating in this program put my intellectual property at risk of being collected or discovered by ANSYS?

    4. No. We do not collect any project-specific, company-specific, or model-specific information.

  4. Can I stop participating even after I agree to participate?

    1. Select the menu item Help > Ansys Product Improvement Program or ribbon item Help > Ansys > Ansys Product Improvement Program. This will activate the Ansys Product Improvement Program dialog box.

    2. Select the No I am not willing to participate radio button to opt out of the program.

    3. Click the OK button to accept the radio button selection.

    4. Data will no longer be collected or sent.

  5. Will participation in the program slow the performance of the product?

    6. No, the data collection does not affect the product performance in any significant way. The amount of data collected is very small.

  6. How frequently is data collected and sent to Ansys servers?

    7. The data is collected during each use session of the product. The collected data is sent to a secure server once per session, when you exit the product.

  7. Is this program available in all Ansys products?

    8. Not at this time, although we are adding it to more of our products at each release. The program is available in a product only if this Ansys Product Improvement Program description appears in the product documentation, as it does here for this product.

  8. If I enroll in the program for this product, am I automatically enrolled in the program for the other Ansys products I use on the same machine?

    9. Yes. Your enrollment choice applies to all Ansys products you use on the same machine. Similarly, if you end your enrollment in the program for one product, you end your enrollment for all Ansys products on that machine.

  9. How is enrollment in the Product Improvement Program determined if I use Ansys products in a cluster?

    10. In a cluster configuration, the Product Improvement Program enrollment is determined by the host machine setting.