sourmash-bio / branchwater

Searching large collections of sequencing data with genome-scale queries
https://branchwater.sourmash.bio
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add information about data privacy to branchwater web site #17

Open ctb opened 5 months ago

ctb commented 5 months ago

from an e-mail conversation, author luiz:


I'm enjoying the branchwater metagenome query tool. However, are the submitted queries stored or used within your servers? I want to submit a couple of genomes that are not published yet, and I want to make sure they are only available
after our manuscript is published.

They are stored only in memory while the search is happening, they are never
stored on disk [0].

I do check the server access logs from time to time to have an idea of how many unique visitors we have, but this is only data that the HTTP server logs
regularly (time, IP), and doesn't include the HTTP request content (where the
query data actually lives).

ctb commented 5 months ago

cc @luizirber, sorry