## Privacy

When you download signatures into Guardian from BEA Support, BEA collects high level statistics about your signature usage, including the number of times each signature was evaluated and detected. No customer data is included in the usage statistics. This information is used only in aggregate to assess the effectiveness of each signature. This data is crucial to the continuous improvement of BEA Guardian.

The signature usage statistics contain the following information:

- `signature id` — This is the unique identifier for the signature.
- `type` — This is the category of the signature.
- `fired` — This is the number of times the signature was considered for use. This also includes the number of times the signature was disqualified before evaluation due to targeting products not present on the domain.
- `evaluated` — This is the number of times the signature was actually compared against the target domain.
- `detected` — This is the number of times the signature was actually found on the target domain

The following is a sample signature usage statistic:

`<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<usage>
<signature id="123456.sig" type="Evaluation" fired="30" evaluated="18" detected="2" />
<signature id="234567.sig" type="Evaluation" fired="30" evaluated="20" detected="1" />
</usage>`