Privacy & cookies
This website provides educational reading. The advertising integration used on eligible reviewed articles is described below.
Information we receive
The hosting server may record IP addresses, requested pages, browser information and access times for security and operation. WordPress uses cookies for administrator and reviewer sign-in. Public reading does not require an account.
If you use the contact form, the editorial team receives your message and any name, email address or other optional details you choose to submit. An email address and verification are required only if you request an email reply. Do not send genetic reports, patient identifiers, medical records or other sensitive health information. Messages are stored in private Gravity Forms records and the private editorial inbox. There is currently no automatic deletion deadline: records, including spam, remain until an administrator deletes them. An editorial notification may also copy the submitted fields to the publisher’s email inbox. Deletion requests should cover both site records and that notification; backups may retain earlier copies under the hosting backup policy.
External sources
Links to source material lead to independent websites with their own privacy practices. We do not share your contact messages with the article-generation service.
Your choices
You can restrict cookies through your browser. To request access to or deletion of a contact message, use the contact form and identify the original message without including medical information.
Google AdSense
This website includes Google AdSense code for site verification and advertising. When you visit an eligible reviewed article with advertising enabled, your browser may connect to Google. Google and its partners may use cookies, device information and online identifiers to deliver, measure and personalize advertising, depending on your settings and the services in use. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services and Google advertising controls. Private draft previews, forms, directories and research-tool pages do not load this advertising integration.
Learning resources
The current learning worksheets and research workspaces are available without completing an advertisement. No advertisement click or purchase is required. If access terms change in the future, the offer and privacy choices will be explained before you choose.
PCR primer designer
The PCR primer designer is intended for public or synthetic research sequences, without patient information. Selecting Design sends the template and settings over HTTPS to our server for calculation. The tool does not save the full submitted template or project label to its database or application logs. Project labels stay in your browser.
The optional human specificity check runs automatically after design when enabled, or when you select Check all pairs. Primer sequences and the expected product are sent to the same server. The expected product is immediately converted to a one-way fingerprint for comparison; its full sequence is not stored. Primer sequences, fingerprints, settings and checking results are temporarily held in private server storage and automatically deleted after 15 minutes, including while other checks are running. No sequences are submitted to external checking providers. Save results you want to keep using the export buttons; downloaded files are under your control.
The primer-designer page and its isolated sequence-entry workspace do not load the site’s AdSense advertising script. Rate-limit counters use a keyed hash derived from the request IP address. Design counters expire after two minutes and specificity counters after eleven minutes. Ordinary hosting and security logs may record request metadata under the general practices described in this notice; the tool does not log submitted DNA or primer sequences. External reference links open without automatically submitting your sequence. Information you later enter on another service is governed by its policies.
Audience measurement
We do not send contact messages, genetic inputs or tool results to advertising systems or audience lists. The current research worksheets run in your browser; opening an external search sends the query you choose to that provider. No visitor-level analytics or return-visitor identifier has been added as part of this publication update. Hosting request logs still operate as described above.