Effective date: March 16, 2026
This policy covers all browser extensions and web tools built by Oric Labs, including BioGist, BioPeek, BioKhoj, and the web applications at lang.bio.
All Oric Labs tools process data entirely in your browser. We do not operate servers that receive, store, or process your data. Your files, page content, and browsing activity never leave your device.
Oric Labs tools do not collect, transmit, or store any personal data. Specifically:
BioGist scans webpages for biological entities (genes, variants, drugs, species, etc.) using pattern matching that runs entirely in your browser.
Local storage used for:
External API calls: BioGist contacts public bioinformatics APIs only when you click an entity to view details or find related papers. These APIs are:
These are public, free APIs operated by government and academic institutions. No authentication tokens or user identifiers are sent. Only the entity ID (e.g., a gene symbol or DOI) is included in the request.
Page content: BioGist reads the visible text of webpages to detect biological entities. This text is processed locally and is never transmitted to any server. The content script runs on all URLs because scientific papers appear across many publisher websites.
BioPeek is a bioinformatics file viewer that parses FASTA, FASTQ, VCF, BED, GFF, and other formats entirely in your browser using JavaScript and WebAssembly.
Local storage used for:
Your files never leave your device. No data is uploaded, cached on a server, or shared with any third party.
BioKhoj is a literature monitoring tool that checks PubMed and bioRxiv for papers matching your watchlist of genes, drugs, variants, and other biological entities. All scoring and data storage runs in your browser.
Local storage used for:
External API calls: BioKhoj contacts public APIs to search for papers and fetch metadata. These calls happen on a user-configured schedule (default every hour when the app is open) or when manually triggered. The APIs are:
These are public, free APIs. No authentication tokens or user identifiers are sent. Only search terms from your watchlist (e.g., gene symbols) are included in requests.
No page content is read. BioKhoj does not use content scripts or read webpage content. The extension only reads selected text when you use the right-click context menu.
The BioLang website at lang.bio hosts documentation, a code playground, and web versions of the tools above. The playground runs BioLang code in WebAssembly entirely in your browser. No code or data is sent to a server for execution.
Oric Labs tools do not integrate with any advertising networks, analytics platforms, or data brokers. The only external requests are to the public bioinformatics APIs listed above, and only when explicitly triggered by user action.
All locally stored data (preferences, pinned entities, history, cache) can be cleared at any time through your browser's extension settings or by using the Clear/Reset options within each tool.
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this URL with a new effective date.
Questions about this policy can be sent to oriclabsau@gmail.com.
Report issues: github.com/oriclabs/biolang/issues