Legal & Privacy

Because STEMKit runs 100% locally in your browser, our policies are simple: your data is your business.

Privacy Policy

1. Zero Data Collection Architecture

STEMKit operates strictly on a client-side execution model. Whether you are processing CSV datasets, resolving computational chemistry coordinates, running statistical ANOVA tests, or standardizing BibTeX citations, all algorithms run locally via JavaScript and WebAssembly within your browser's RAM. We do not upload, transmit, read, or store any of your scientific data, files, or inputs.

2. Local Storage & Cookies

We do not use tracking cookies, analytics pixels, or third-party marketing scripts. STEMKit utilizes your browser's native `localStorage` strictly for functional UI preferences (e.g., persisting your Dark Mode preference across sessions). This preference data never leaves your device and is never shared.

3. Third-Party Infrastructure & CDNs

To deliver our tools globally, STEMKit is hosted on standard web infrastructure. When you visit the site, our hosting providers and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), used to securely serve open-source libraries like KaTeX, Chart.js, and PapaParse, may log standard, anonymized connection data (such as IP addresses, timestamps, and browser user-agents) required for basic security, DDoS protection, and routing. This is an internet standard and cannot be linked to the data you process inside our tools.

4. GDPR & CCPA Compliance

Because STEMKit does not collect, store, or process Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or user accounts, we are inherently compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and similar global privacy frameworks. You have total sovereignty over your data.

Terms of Service

1. Research & Educational Use Only

While our statistical tools, curve fitters, and mathematical utilities are built upon rigorous, peer-reviewed logic and standard libraries (e.g., using robust Modified Z-Scores or Student's t-distributions), STEMKit is provided for educational, exploratory, and basic research purposes only.

Disclaimer: STEMKit must not be used for clinical diagnostics, medical decision-making, structural engineering of load-bearing architecture, or any scenario where computational failure could result in physical harm, loss of life, or severe financial damage.

2. Academic Integrity & Verification

Users are solely responsible for independently verifying their results before submitting them to peer-reviewed journals, utilizing them in grant proposals, or deploying them in engineering projects. We do not guarantee that the tools will perfectly handle all mathematical edge-cases, extreme floating-point numbers, or uniquely formatted trajectory files.

3. "AS-IS" Software Warranty

The STEMKit web platform and its associated utilities are provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by law, STEMKit disclaims all warranties, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

4. Limitation of Liability

In no event shall STEMKit, its developers, contributors, or affiliates be held legally or financially liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising from the use of (or inability to use) our tools. This explicitly includes, but is not limited to, damages for loss of research data, corrupted simulation trajectories, academic penalties, retracted manuscripts, or halted professional pipelines.

5. Intellectual Property

You retain full 100% ownership and copyright of any data, CSVs, code, or images you generate, clean, or process using STEMKit. The underlying UI, web design, tool architecture, and branding remain the intellectual property of STEMKit.