Privacy

This website

There is no analytics, no tag manager, no tracking pixel, no advertising network and no A/B testing. No cookies are set. Nothing on this site tries to work out who you are or whether you have been here before.

Your browser makes no third-party requests while reading this page. The two typefaces are served from this domain rather than from Google, so visiting does not tell Google you were here.

The one thing stored on your device

If you use the light/dark control in the header, your choice is written to localStorage under the key lancescope-theme. It stays in your browser, is never transmitted, and choosing “Follow the system” deletes it. Clearing site data removes it. That is the only thing this site stores.

What the server unavoidably sees

The site is hosted on Vercel, which keeps ordinary request logs — the sort every web server keeps, including IP address, user agent, and the page requested. Those logs are Vercel’s, retained under their policy, and they are not read, exported, joined to anything, or used to build a profile. See Vercel’s privacy policy.

To show the current version, this site asks GitHub’s public API for the latest release. That request is made by the server, once an hour, not by your browser. Clicking a download or GitHub link does take you to GitHub, at which point their policies apply.

The app

LanceScope runs on your machine and reads your data. It has no account, no sign-in, no licence check and no telemetry — nothing reports back to anyone, including us. It makes network requests in exactly three cases, all of which you initiate:

• A dataset you point it at over hf://, which it reads from huggingface.co.
• A language model, if you configure one — either a local model, or an API you supply a key for. Nothing is sent to a model unless you turn that layer on.
• Downloading the app itself, from GitHub.

Your database contents, file paths, queries and settings stay on your machine. The only file the app writes for itself is its own settings file, in your user config directory.

Contact

Questions, or something here that looks wrong: open an issue.