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Privacy & Security

Your data belongs to you. Here's how we protect it.

What we collect

  • Your research profile (fields, keywords, preferred journals)
  • Your email address for digest delivery
  • Reading activity (which articles you open, save, or dismiss) to improve scoring

What we never do

  • We never sell or share your data with third parties
  • We never use your profile to train models for other users
  • We never track you outside of Skophos

Infrastructure

  • Hosted in the European Union (Hetzner, Germany — ISO 27001 certified)
  • Database: Supabase (EU region, SOC 2 Type II)
  • All data encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256)
  • Authentication via Supabase Auth with Google OAuth (PKCE flow)

GDPR compliance

  • Right of access: request a full export of your data at any time
  • Right to erasure: delete your account and all associated data permanently
  • Right to portability: export your article history and preferences
  • Data Processing Agreement available on request for institutions

Not a medical device

Skophos is a literature monitoring and research discovery tool. It is not a clinical decision support system, not a medical device, and does not provide medical advice. All research findings should be independently verified.

Contact

For privacy inquiries: contact@skophos.com

For institutional security reviews: contact@skophos.com