Updated November 4, 2026
Co-author Constellation Privacy Notice
This notice applies to Co-author Constellation at coauthorconstellation.genomicepi.com. GenomicEpi.com and its other services have separate policies.
You can explore public research data without an account. Please search only for public researcher names, ORCIDs or OpenAlex IDs. Don’t enter private or sensitive information.
Krisandra Allen operates this tool from Seattle, Washington, US. Questions or privacy requests: contact@genomicepi.com.
What we use and keep
| Information | Why we use it | How long it stays |
|---|---|---|
| Your searches | We send names or researcher IDs to OpenAlex when needed to find results. | We don’t keep a separate search history. Searches can still appear in browser history, shared links and server logs. |
| Researcher profiles and publications | We keep temporary copies in server memory to make repeat searches faster. | OpenAlex data: 1 hour. Profiles: 1 hour. Copies are automatically cleared after expiry. Older copies may remain in backups until those backups expire. |
| Abuse prevention | We briefly count requests from your connection to prevent overload. This counter uses a temporary code instead of storing your IP address. | About 1 minute. Server logs may keep your IP address longer, as described below. |
| Server logs | Vercel processes connection and request details to host and protect this service. Provider logs may include IP addresses, URLs and diagnostic information. | Retention depends on the hosting provider’s account settings and policies. |
| This notice | Your browser remembers that you acknowledged it. This record is not sent to us or used to track you. | Used for 180 days, then removed when you next visit. You can clear it sooner in your browser settings. |
| Backups | Historical DigitalOcean backups may contain logs, research data and other server files. | 28 days after each backup is made. Deleting a live file does not immediately remove its backup copy. |
| Emails to us | We keep your message and contact details to handle your request. | We have not yet set a fixed deletion period for correspondence. |
Other services
The app is hosted by Vercel, with Upstash storing temporary abuse-prevention counters and lookup slots. Searches go through our server to OpenAlex; we don’t pass your IP address to OpenAlex with them.
Opening the institution map connects your browser to OpenStreetMap and GitHub. They receive your IP address and map requests. These providers have their own privacy and retention policies.
If you use the tool outside the US, your information is sent to US hosting. Other providers may also process information outside your country.
Provider policies: DigitalOcean, Vercel, Upstash, OpenAlex, OpenStreetMap, and GitHub.
Cookie-free analytics
Analytics is currently disabled. Earlier Plausible statistics may remain for the Business plan’s five-year retention period.
See Plausible’s data policy. This tool does not use advertising trackers.
Your choices and rights
Contact us to ask about information we hold about you, or to request access, correction or deletion. Depending on the law that applies, you may also have rights to a copy you can reuse, to limit or object to use of your information, to withdraw consent where it applies, or to complain to a privacy regulator. Agreeing to our terms does not waive these rights.
Include the relevant profile or link in your email. We may need to verify your request, but please don’t send identity documents unless we arrange a secure way to do so.
Research data comes from OpenAlex. We’ll address requests about our own copies; source corrections may also be needed at OpenAlex so errors don’t return.
Updates
We update this page when our practices change and show the notice again for material changes. See our Terms of Use for acceptable use and the limits of the data.