We do not store what you search for or submit. Uploads are processed in memory and never
written to disk; results are deleted as soon as you retrieve them, or within an hour if you
don't. We keep no IP addresses and set no tracking cookies.
To know how much the tool is used, we count visits and analyses. Each is filed under a code
derived from your network address and browser using a secret key that is destroyed every
night, so yesterday's counts can no longer be traced to anyone, not even by us. We record
which feature was used, when, whether it produced a result and how long that took, but we
never permanently store the name, text or file you sent. Your browser also keeps a note
that it has been here before, so we can tell new visitors from returning ones without
personally identifying anyone.
Alongside that count we note two things about each visit, as a plain yes or no: whether it
came from an automated crawler rather than a person — most of our traffic does — and
whether the network address is a Danish one, which tells us roughly how much of our
audience is here at home. Both are worked out and then discarded: we keep the yes or no
and never the address or the browser identifier behind it, we do not record which
country a visit came from beyond Denmark or not, and nothing about your visit is sent to
any outside service to determine either.
KUnnect – Innovation, the SUND research stories and landscape at /stories/, counts its use
the same way, in records of its own: visits to its pages, whether a search found anything
and how long it took, which filters it used, and that a side panel was opened.
It never stores the topic you type, or which research area or researcher you looked at. It keeps its own note in your browser, and reads whether
KUnnect's is there. Because both use the same nightly key, we can see how many visitors
used both on the same day, never across days.
Text submitted to SUND collaborates or the Describe research box, and the text read from an
uploaded PDF, is screened by a small language model before the analysis runs. Whether it
accepted or declined, and the one-line reason it gave, are kept alongside that count so we
can tell how well the screening works; your description or paper itself is not. Server
logs, which contain no search or upload content, are deleted after 14 days. Contact form
submissions are kept for six months so we can reply, then deleted automatically.