The "Web-tools" hosted on this website are presented by the Elenius Lab ("we," "us," or "our") to our users ("user," or "you"). We respect the privacy of our users as well as the confidentiality of their data. Therefore, through this Privacy policy we define how we collect, use, disclose, and store your personal information.

How do we handle your data?

Fundamentally, using our web-tool does require user input of a DNA sequence and a list of mutations for our web-tool to design primer sequences. However, we would like re-iterate that we are committed to protecting your data. To ensure this a user's input data is only temporarily stored on our server while their browsing session is active. The files are permanently deleted immediately after the browsing session ends (i.e. the user closes their browser tab or there is loss of internet connectivity between the user's browser and our server).

Collection and Use of Personal Information

Personal information is any data that can be used to identify or contact a single person. We do not collect any personally identifiable information from our users, in fact, using our web-tools does not require any kind of registration or entering any personal information.
We do not use any third party analytics software, scripts, advertising cookies on our website as well as on our server.

What personal information do we collect and how do we receive it?

As mentioned earlier, using our web-tools do not require entering any personal information from the user. That being said, we may however, through your explicit actions, receive your email address, your gitlab username or your twitter handle in the event you chose to contact us via these or other media channels to report any bugs / issues / suggestions or while sending us your valued  feedback.
When a user request our servers for the web-tool the firewall logs their IP address and initiates a new instance of the requested web-tool exclusively for the user's current browsing session.

How do we use your personal information?

We might have to use your personal information (voluntarily provided by you) to respond to your email, tweets or any other forms of communication which you initiate with us. We are always happy to hear from our users, but we take the stance to never pester our respected users by sending feedback requests or surveys of any kind.
As, mentioned earlier we log the IP address of our users, this is essential in order to prevent abuse of our limited resources. We will use this information to block IP addresses sending unexpectedly large number of traffic our way (results in inefficient use of our resources by spawning several concurrent instances of our web-tool). We reserve the right to block an abusive IP address in order to continue serving our other users.

Last updated on August 17, 2020.