Privacy Policy

Premno is a desktop app for exploring your own genome. It is built so that your genetic data stays on your computer. This policy explains what we do handle, why, and the choices you have. It covers the Premno desktop app, your Premno account and this website.

The short version

• Your genome files never leave your device. Analysis packages run on your computer, in isolated containers with no network access.
• Results and chats are stored only on your computer.
• Your account holds only what is needed to run it: your name, email address, profile picture, any reviews or comments you post, and a daily count of assistant requests.
• If you choose Premno Cloud for the assistant, package reports you ask about are sent to Anthropic to generate a reply, and only after you agree. They are not stored.
• We do not sell your data or use it for advertising.

Data that stays on your device

Genome files you open in Premno (for example 23andMe or AncestryDNA exports, VCF or FASTQ files), the results of analysis packages, and your assistant chat history are stored only on your computer. We cannot see or access them. Analysis packages read your files inside containers that have no network access, so they cannot send your data anywhere either.

The built-in local assistant, which is the default, runs entirely on your computer. When you use it, nothing you type and none of your results are sent anywhere.

Your account

You need an account for the marketplace and for Premno Cloud. You sign in with Google or GitHub. When you do, the provider shares with us your name, email address and profile picture. We also store:

• your display name and account settings (for example, whether you are a researcher);
• packages you have added from the marketplace;
• reviews and comments you post, which are public;
• packages you submit as a researcher, which become public once approved;
• if you use Premno Cloud, a daily count of your assistant requests and tokens. We use it to enforce fair-use limits. It never includes message content.

We do not receive your Google or GitHub password, and we do not ask for access to your contacts, files, repositories or any other data in those accounts.

Google user data

We use the information Google shares with us (name, email address and profile picture) only to create and identify your Premno account. We do not use it for advertising, we do not sell it, and we do not share it with anyone except the service providers listed below that host our service. Premno’s use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Premno Cloud (optional)

Premno Cloud is an optional assistant powered by Anthropic’s Claude. If you choose it, Premno asks for your consent before it first sends anything. After that, when you chat, your messages and the package reports and outputs needed to answer you are sent through our server to Anthropic. Your raw genome files are never sent.

Our server passes these requests through in memory and does not log or store their content. Anthropic processes them to generate a response under its commercial terms, which do not allow it to train models on this data. You can withdraw consent at any time in Settings, or switch back to the local assistant.

The waitlist

If you join the waitlist on this website, we store your email address and which form you used. We use it only to tell you about Premno’s launch and major updates. You can ask us to remove it at any time.

Other connections the app makes

To work, the app downloads things from the internet. These requests reveal your IP address to the server involved, but never include your genetic data:

• marketplace listings, from Premno’s servers;
• analysis packages you add, from the container registry where their author published them;
• local assistant model files, from Hugging Face;
• Podman, the open-source tool Premno uses to run packages, and checks for its latest version, from GitHub.

The app contains no analytics, tracking or advertising code. This website does not use cookies for tracking or advertising.

Who processes data for us

• Supabase hosts our database, sign-in and server functions (accounts, marketplace, reviews, waitlist).
• Google and GitHub provide sign-in.
• Anthropic generates Premno Cloud replies, only if you choose Premno Cloud.
• Our website hosting provider serves this website.

These providers may process data outside your country, including in the United States. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.

Why we process your data

We process account data to provide the service you asked for (our contract with you). We send data to Premno Cloud only with your consent. We keep usage counts and prevent abuse based on our legitimate interest in keeping the service fair and secure. We contact waitlist members with their consent.

How long we keep it

We keep your account data until you delete your account. Usage counts are deleted with your account. Public reviews and comments stay until you or we remove them, or until your account is deleted. Waitlist emails are kept until you ask us to remove them or Premno launches and the waitlist is closed. Data on your own computer stays until you delete it; uninstalling Premno and removing its folders deletes it.

Your rights

You can ask to access, correct, export or delete your personal data, object to or restrict how we process it, and withdraw consent at any time. To do any of this, including deleting your account, email easy.bioinf@gmail.com from the email address on your account. If you are in the EU or UK, you can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

Premno is not intended for anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect data from children.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit, and access to our database is restricted per user. Because your genetic data is never sent to us, it cannot be exposed by a breach of our systems.

Changes to this policy

If we make significant changes, we will update the date above and tell you in the app or by email before they take effect.

Contact

Questions about privacy: easy.bioinf@gmail.com