Privacy Policy & Cookie Disclosure
At OMICS.CO.IN (“Omics Portal”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), we are dedicated to maintaining the highest ethical standards of open science, academic privacy, and user data protection. This Privacy Policy details how we collect, handle, protect, and disclose information when you visit our website, utilize our interactive bio-calculators, or explore our computational genomics curricula.
1. Open Science & Privacy First Principles
Zero Paywalls • Zero Invasive TrackingOMICS.CO.IN operates as a free, publicly accessible knowledge portal. We do not require account registration, subscriptions, or credit card information to view any of our 24 curricula tracks, 70+ bioinformatics workflow guides, downloadable datasets, or command cheat sheets. All user interactions with our interactive client-side calculators (such as SAM flag decoders, flow cell run calculators, and sequence reverse-complement tools) run 100% locally in your browser and do not transmit biological sequences to our servers.
2. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising Disclosures
Authorized Digital Seller • Publisher ID: pub-4565030474667645To support our open-access server infrastructure, maintain free biological database hosting, and compensate computational biology editors without charging subscription fees, OMICS.CO.IN works with third-party advertising partners, notably Google AdSense.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve advertisements based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites across the Internet.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visits to our site and/or other sites on the World Wide Web.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings (https://www.google.com/settings/ads).
- Alternatively, users can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance WebChoices Tool (www.aboutads.info) or the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI).
DoubleClick DART Cookie: Google, as a third-party vendor, uses DART cookies to serve ads on OMICS.CO.IN. When users visit our site, Google may place a cookie on the user’s browser or read cookies already present. Users may opt out of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
Authorized Digital Sellers (ads.txt): In strict compliance with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) OpenRTB specifications, our domain serves an authorized digital sellers record directly at https://omics.co.in/ads.txt confirming authorized sellers for Google publisher account pub-4565030474667645.
3. Information We Collect & How It Is Used
Like virtually all standard web platforms, OMICS.CO.IN records standard server log entries generated by our LiteSpeed web server. These logs include IP addresses, browser user-agent strings, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamps, and request paths. This information is strictly used for cybersecurity monitoring, diagnosing server anomalies, defending against DDoS attacks, and calculating aggregated Core Web Vitals performance metrics. Log files are not linked to personally identifiable information.
We utilize HTML5 LocalStorage solely to improve your user experience across browsing sessions:
omics_theme: Remembers your preferred visual mode (Dark Theme vs. Light Theme).omics_progress_*: Stores client-side chapter completion checkmarks so you can track your progress through self-paced bioinformatics curricula without creating an account.omics_hide_scroll_top: Remembers when you dismiss sticky navigation helpers during an active session.
None of these keys transmit data to external telemetry endpoints or third parties.
If you contact our editorial office via email (admin@omics.co.in) or submit feedback/errata on our GitHub documentation pathways, we collect your email address and communication text exclusively to respond to your inquiry, correct scientific documentation, or process scientific contribution acknowledgments.
4. Controlling Cookies in Your Web Browser
You have the right to accept or refuse cookies. Most desktop and mobile web browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but you can typically modify your browser settings to decline cookies or notify you whenever a cookie is set. If you choose to decline cookies, you may still navigate and read all educational tutorials on OMICS.CO.IN without limitation.
5. International Privacy Rights (GDPR & CCPA/CPRA)
Depending on your location, you hold statutory rights regarding your digital information under regulations including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA):
- Right to Know / Access: You may request confirmation of whether we process any personal information concerning you.
- Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You may request the deletion of any personal data submitted via editorial correspondence.
- Right to Non-Discrimination: OMICS.CO.IN never denies services, discounts, or varies open educational content quality based on the exercise of statutory privacy rights.
- Do Not Sell My Personal Information: We do not sell, rent, or trade user personal data or academic contact emails to commercial data brokers.
To exercise any statutory rights, simply transmit your request to admin@omics.co.in. We respond to all verified inquiries within 30 calendar days.
6. Children’s Privacy (COPPA Compliance)
OMICS.CO.IN is intended for university researchers, postdocs, biostatisticians, and adult students of computational biology. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal identifiable information from individuals under the age of 13. If you believe a child under 13 has transmitted personal data through our editorial channels, please contact our administrative team at admin@omics.co.in, and we will promptly remove the correspondence from our records.
7. Information Security & Encryption Standards
All connections to OMICS.CO.IN are strictly secured via 256-bit Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3 encryption) with active HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) headers. This ensures that any data transmitted between your browser and our web infrastructure remains private, tamper-proof, and shielded from eavesdropping or man-in-the-middle attacks.
8. Contacting Our Data & Privacy Desk
Questions, clarifications, or privacy policy inquiries should be directed to our editorial office: