Forum: MateCat support
Topic: your thoughts on Matecat
Poster: Patrick Porter
Post title: confidentiality
[quote]MateCat Support wrote:
[quote]Alejandra Reznik wrote:
I found Matecat useful, but I'm not too sure yet about confidentiality issues.
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If you use private TMs, you're files are kept private and you're the only one allowed to read and use them, and it also written in our Terms of service.
[Edited at 2015-09-09 13:40 GMT] [/quote]
I've read your terms of service and wanted to comment that your stated philosophy of giving translators control over their data makes sense. From what I can see it looks like your terms are as good as or better than the privacy terms of other cloud-based service providers. The terms also make an interesting and valid point that from the perspective of a work provider, managing translations in a central place actually enhances privacy. That's one reason why I think a TMS like MateCat can be good for enterprise users.
But from the freelance perspective, things can be a bit different. In my case, for example (a purely anecdotal one of course), much of my work deals with confidential corporate information. Part of the value I offer to many clients is a promise to keep all of their data in my custody and not transmit it to any third parties, including cloud providers, except for backup in encrypted format. Some clients look for this and I can gladly provide it.
For my part, therefore, a locally-based solution is better. So that brings me to a question that I hope the MateCat support will answer here: If I were to run MateCat locally on my own Linux box or VM, when I upload private TMs to the server running on localhost, what happens to those TMs?...i.e. are they managed locally in a database or are they sent over the network to MyMemory?