Privacy

Your microscope and your photos stay yours

The engine that drives the hardware runs on your own computer, and your pictures never pass through anything we run. Here is exactly what travels where.

Cameras, stage, lights⇄Your computer

Cameras, the stage board, the relay and the lens are driven by the engine inside the app, over USB and serial on your computer. Nothing about your hardware leaves the computer unless you ask the assistant a question.

Phone→Your Google Drive→Your computer

Photos never travel through the relay. A phone uploads them to your own Google Drive if you switch that on, and Google Drive for Desktop brings them to the computer; on the same Wi-Fi the desktop app copies them directly.

Phone⇄SciCope relay / Cloudflare⇄Your computer

From elsewhere the phone’s control messages and live preview go through our relay, or through Cloudflare when the video needs a hand. The relay forwards traffic only after the phone’s owner has accepted, keeps nothing, and each leg is encrypted. On the same network it is never used.

Your request→Your AI provider

Your request, the microscope’s state in a few lines and — when it needs to look — a downsized copy of one sample photo go to the provider you connected with your own key or account. Nothing goes to us.

You are in charge of the stage

The assistant’s steps that move the stage, change the focus or start a series wait for your Allow. The hands-off switch in Settings is off until you turn it on.

The phone’s owner is in charge of the phone

Nothing works without Allow on the phone, or the unattended-access password you set yourself.

No SciCope account

There is no SciCope cloud and no sign-in. Keys for your AI provider are stored encrypted on your computer.

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