This icon will appear
on the Firefox toolbar. The icon reminds you that you are a part
of Pioneer. You can reach your Pioneer settings at any time by
clicking this icon.
We’ll change a Firefox preference, too. This will tell us you are
willing to participate in Pioneer studies. Continue using Firefox
as you normally would.
The Pioneer program will not actually collect any data until
you decide to join a study.
Periodically, we will offer you opportunities to join studies. The
purpose of these studies will vary, but might focus on aspects of
Firefox or what you experience on the web.
Studies will collect different types of information about your
online behavior, possibly including what web pages you visit and
how you interact with them. Before you enroll in a study, you will
have access to information explaining the data being collected,
who will have access to use it, and the study’s purpose.
Leaving a Study or Leaving Pioneer
You are welcome to leave any individual study or the Firefox Pioneer
program entirely at any time.
To leave the Firefox Pioneer program entirely:
Return to this page by clicking the Pioneer toolbar icon in Firefox
or typing about:pioneer into the location bar and pressing Enter.
Click the “Leave" button above.
Leaving the Pioneer program will immediately unenroll you from any
in-progress studies that you had already joined. When you leave
Pioneer, you will no longer receive offers to join new studies.
To leave individual studies:
Return to this page by clicking the Pioneer toolbar icon in Firefox
or typing about:pioneer into the location bar and pressing Enter.
All the studies that you have joined will be listed. To leave a
specific study, click on the toggle button next to the study.
Leaving a study will immediately stop collection of data associated
with that study and remove any changes made to the browser as part
of the study.
Leaving an individual study will not affect opportunities to join future
studies.
Your Privacy
Mozilla is sensitive to the nature of the data it may collect in some
Pioneer studies. We are always working hard to keep your data private
and secure:
We will not collect any data without first telling you what we
intend to collect and getting your permission to do so.
The data you submit is encrypted by Firefox and not
decrypted until it is in a secure datastore that is not connected to
the wider internet.
This data will be linked to a randomly generated ID we only use for
Pioneer. It is used to keep a specific user's data together on the
server and helps us improve our analysis. No data will be collected
from inside Private Browsing windows.
All proposed studies will be reviewed by a panel consisting of
privacy experts, internet researchers and security engineers to
ensure that the data being collected is appropriate and respects
participant privacy.
Individual level raw data will never be shared publicly or sold.
Only a small number of researchers will have access to a study’s raw
data. If Mozilla shares aggregate information from studies, we will
disclose it in a way that minimizes the risk of participants being
identified.
In the future, Mozilla may pursue commercial opportunities that
advance our mission or create more opportunities for competition on
the internet using aggregated, non-personally identifiable data
collected during the Pioneer program studies. We will disclose our
commercial intent ahead of data collection. Mozilla will never sell
your personally identifiable information.