Legal
Privacy policy
This document is not final. The text below describes what the finished document will cover. It is not the agreement itself, it creates no obligations on either side, and it should not be relied on. The approved text will replace it in full before launch.
Labtera is a desktop application. Your research is stored on your own computer, and the application contains no analytics, no telemetry and no tracking. The sections below are the structure of the full policy, which is pending final review.
1. The short version
What is collected, what is not, and the distinction between your research — which stays on your device — and the narrow account and licensing information that does not.
2. Offline-first, by construction
The structural separation between the half of the application that holds your notebook and the half that can make network requests, and how each of the resulting claims can be checked independently.
3. What is stored on your computer
The notebook database, attachments, backups, preferences, records of legal acceptance, licence details, any sign-in token, and diagnostic logs — and where each of them lives.
4. What is transmitted, and when
The three purposes for which the application contacts the network: signing in, checking a licence, and sending a diagnostic report at your request. What each transmission contains, and what it does not.
5. Service providers
The infrastructure used for authentication, licensing and payment, and what each provider receives.
6. Your rights and choices
Access, correction, export and deletion — including the fact that deleting your notebook is a matter of deleting a folder you already control.
7. Retention
How long account and licensing records are kept, and why.
8. Changes to this policy
How revisions are versioned and re-presented for acceptance, and the commitment that a change to what is transmitted must change this document in the same release.
9. Contact
Privacy enquiries: privacy@labtera.app