Privacy Policy

Summary

The interactive tools on this site run entirely inside your web browser. Your sequence files, text documents and other uploads are processed on your own device using WebAssembly. They are never transmitted to a server, never written to my storage, and never seen by me. The only data this site collects is the standard, aggregate analytics described below.

1. Data you upload to the tools

Each bioinformatics tool on this site is a client-side application. When you select a file, the browser reads it into memory and hands it to a WebAssembly build of the underlying open-source command line program. Processing happens on your machine.

I have deliberately designed the tools this way. Genome data, clinical results and unpublished manuscripts are frequently confidential or embargoed, and sending them to a third-party web server is a poor default. Because nothing is uploaded, there is nothing for me to collect, retain, breach or hand over.

• Uploaded files are not transmitted over the network.
• Uploaded files are not written to disk on any server.
• Uploaded files are not logged, cached or shared with any third party.
• Closing or reloading the page discards the data permanently.

If your browser caches the WebAssembly binaries or application assets, that is ordinary browser caching of the program itself. It does not contain your data.

2. Analytics and advertising

To understand which pages are useful, this site uses Google Analytics, Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools and Ahrefs Web Analytics. These measure aggregate traffic patterns such as page views, referrer and approximate region. They do not record the contents of files you upload.

This site is supported by Google AdSense. Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to serve ads and measure their performance. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this and other sites. You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of third-party vendor cookies at aboutads.info. Advertising partners are responsible for their own data handling under their own privacy policies.

3. Cookies set by this site

The site itself sets no tracking cookies of its own. A single first-party preference is stored in your browser's local storage to remember whether you chose the light or dark colour theme. This value never leaves your device and is not linked to any identifier. Analytics and advertising scripts set their own cookies as described in the previous section.

4. Account and server-side data

The site includes a demonstration dashboard and user area. If you choose to create an account, the credentials you supply are stored in a database so the area can function. Passwords are hashed before storage and are never readable, including by me. Deleting your account removes the associated records.

Administrative actions you take in the dashboard, such as publishing a blog post, are recorded so the site remains operable. This operational data is not used for marketing or profiling.

5. Third-party resources

Pages load font stylesheets from Google Fonts, icon fonts from a public CDN, and map tiles from OpenStreetMap. Loading these resources necessarily reveals your IP address and browser user agent to those providers, and their own privacy policies govern what they do with that information. Everything else runs from this site.

6. Scientific and medical disclaimer

The tools here are provided for research, education and exploratory analysis. They are not validated clinical software, are not intended for diagnostic or patient care use, and must not be the basis of clinical decisions. Outputs, including variant calls, mutation reports and quality-control verdicts, should be independently verified before use in any formal or clinical context. Consult a qualified professional where appropriate.

7. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export or erase personal data held about you, and to object to processing or lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Because uploaded files are never collected, there is nothing to retrieve or erase for them. For anything relating to an account, contact me and I will respond.

8. Children

This site is intended for adults in a professional and academic context. I do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

9. Changes and contact

If this policy changes I will update the date at the top of this page. Questions, requests or corrections are welcome through the contact page or directly at ashifraza4142@gmail.com.

10. Underlying software

The tools wrap open-source projects including samtools, bcftools, bedtools, seqtk, fastp and minimap2, which are distributed under permissive or copyleft licences. The plagiarism and AI-content checker and the sequencing verification report are original works published under the MIT licence. Source code for the original components is available on request.