Privacy Policy

SeqBench (https://seqbench.com) provides bioinformatics sequence-analysis tools through a website, a JSON REST API, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This page describes what data is processed when you use any of these surfaces.

No accounts, no authentication

SeqBench does not require sign-up, login, or any credentials to use its tools, REST API, or MCP server. There are no user accounts and nothing is tied to a personal identity.

Sequence data is not stored

Every tool is a stateless, pure function of its input. Sequences and files you submit — whether pasted into the website, sent to the REST API, or passed as arguments to an MCP tool call — are processed in-memory to compute a result and are not written to a database, logged, or retained afterward. Tools that look up public records (such as accession lookup) send only the public identifier needed to fetch that record from the upstream database.

What is logged

To monitor reliability, each API/MCP call records anonymous usage metadata: which tool was called, whether it succeeded, how long it took, the size of the input/output in bytes, and a client identifier string (such as an MCP client or user-agent name). This metadata never includes the sequence, file contents, or any other submitted data. Our hosting and network infrastructure providers may keep standard connection-level logs (such as IP address and request timestamp) for a limited time for security and abuse prevention, consistent with normal web server operation.

Cookies and analytics

SeqBench does not use cookies, session storage, or third-party analytics or advertising trackers.

Third parties

SeqBench is hosted on Vercel and uses Supabase solely to store the anonymous usage metadata described above. Tools that fetch public sequence records (for example from NCBI) contact that upstream provider directly with only the identifier you supplied. No submitted sequence data is shared with, or sold to, any other third party.

Changes

This policy may be updated as SeqBench adds features. Material changes will update the date above.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to seqbench.bio@gmail.com.