SNPlytics privacy policy

Applies to SNPlytics for macOS (direct download and Mac App Store) · Effective 19 August 2026

The short version

SNPlytics collects no personal data, no usage data, and no analytics. It has no account, no login, and makes no network connections of its own. Everything you open, analyze, or export stays on your Mac.

What the app does with your files

• Instrument exports (Roche LightCycler, Bio-Rad CFX, Thermo/ABI EDS), sample sheets, and .snplytics project files are read only when you open them, and only from locations you choose. The app runs in the macOS App Sandbox, so it cannot read anything else.
• Results, figures, statistics, methods text and reproducibility bundles are written only where you choose to save them.
• Nothing is uploaded, synced, cached remotely, or shared with the developer or any third party.

Network

The app does not contact any server. The only outbound links are ordinary web links you can click deliberately (for example the developer's GitHub Sponsors page in the direct-download edition, or citation DOIs), which open in your browser and are governed by those sites' own policies.

Crash reports and diagnostics

SNPlytics has no built-in crash reporter or telemetry. If you install it from the Mac App Store and have opted in to sharing analytics with developers in macOS System Settings, Apple may share anonymised crash logs with the developer under Apple's terms; the developer receives no other information.

Children

SNPlytics is a research tool intended for adults; it does not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children.

Changes and contact

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be published at this address with a new effective date. Questions: oktar.guloglu@gmail.com.