According to at least one aspect, a system for collecting computer usage information is provided. The system includes a hardware processor, a display coupled to the hardware processor to display a user interface, and a computer-readable storage medium storing processor-executable instructions that cause the hardware processor to receive an indication of an action being performed by a user on the system, gather contextual information associated with the action responsive to the action performed by the user, store information indicative of the action and the contextual information in a volatile memory as an event, determine whether at least one event stored in the volatile memory includes personal information of the user, and write the at least one event stored in the volatile memory to an event log in a non-volatile memory responsive to a determination that the at least one event does not include personal information of the user.