To comply with GPDR, Avast’s Piriform has updated their privacy policy and provided new privacy settings in CCleaner 5.43 free version letting you know they collect usage data and share with third-parties. But initially when they released this version with privacy changes, they allowed only Professional users to uncheck the privacy preferences, by doing so, CCleaner Profressional users can able to opt-out of data usage sharing with 3rd parties for analytics purposes. But no control has been given to free users (the options have been grayed out) and company cited this reason: CCleaner Free users are anonymous to them as they don’t collect any personal identifiable information from them.
READ: CCleaner 5.41: Disable Cleaning Summary Screen
But CCleaner must at least take consent from users in EU as per law, they didn’t do that, after getting criticism from users, they finally allowed to disable data sharing in version 5.43 by pushing a hotifx, so update CCleaner to get this minor update and make the below change by visiting CCleaner Privacy settings.
Set CCleaner to notify you when New Version is Available
Opt out of usage data sharing with third parties in CCleaner Free
Ensure you’re using CCleaner Free 5.43.6522 or later
- Launch CCleaner
- Click Options> Privacy
- Uncheck’ Allow usage data to be shared with 3rd parties for analytics purposes’.
- Done
Similarly, Avast, starting from 2016 version, allows to opt out of data sharing in their free antivirus, the same applies to current version also. Read this for more details Avast 2016: Opt-out of Data Sharing with Avast and Third-Parties.