Title: cron task
Last modified: March 21, 2017

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# cron task

 *  Resolved [numero7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numero7/)
 * (@numero7)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cron-task/)
 * Hi there, would you please explain what is this cron task triggered by your plugin:
   inpsyde_phone-home_checkin
 * and if it’s not necessary, how to disable it.
 * Thanks a lot by the way for your excellent work.

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 *  [Giuseppe Mazzapica](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giuseppemazzapica-1/)
 * (@giuseppemazzapica-1)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cron-task/#post-8939963)
 * Hi,
 * In plugin version 3.3.6 we asked our users the consent to **anonimously** send
   to our servers some site data: WordPress and PHP version.
 * If you gave that consent, the cron job will send to our server those data, once
   every 14 days.
 * If you did not gave the consent, the cron should not be there at all.
 * The cron is very fast, do nothing on the server where the plugin runs, and just
   do non-blocking HTTP request, that runs 2 times in a month… so from a performance
   point of view, this has pretty much zero effect.
 * We will remove the cron job once we had collected a good data base (that we will
   share publicly).
 * Still, if you want the cron to be removed right now, you need to write the following
   line of code in a plugin or a MU plugin:
 * `add_action('plugins_loaded', array('Inpsyde_PhoneHome_CronController', 'unschedule'),
   20)`
 * Let me know if you need further information or assistance.
 *  Thread Starter [numero7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numero7/)
 * (@numero7)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cron-task/#post-8940088)
 * ah okay so this is good 🙂 i just wanted to know if it has any reason… thanks
 *  [karl peschel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karl_peschel/)
 * (@karl_peschel)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cron-task/#post-9491030)
 * I have a site that twice this year exceeded CPU resources since this Cron job
   continued to run – thousands of times over and over. Totally out of control.
 * What is the exact function I can add to my theme to force this off??
    Better 
   yet, why don’t you have an op[tion in the plugin to Opt Out of data collection
   and kill this Cron job?

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