Astrophyzix Science Network Privacy Policy for Astrophyzix com/org
Document classification: Network Governance Document
Scope: All Astrophyzix Science Network websites, research consoles, dashboards, and tools
The Astrophyzix Science Network is an evidence-based scientific publishing and research-access platform. The network is intentionally engineered to operate under a minimal-data architecture. This means personal information collection is deliberately restricted to only what is required for technical operation, infrastructure security, and user-initiated interaction.
1. Core Privacy Design Principles
The Astrophyzix platform is built around the following operational rules:
- No mandatory user account system
- No commercial user-profiling databases
- No behavioural advertising infrastructure
- No sale of visitor information
- No identity tracking for content access
Scientific information, research tools, and analysis dashboards are publicly accessible without registration wherever technically possible.
2. Operational Technical Metrics
Like all modern scientific publishing platforms, Astrophyzix processes limited technical website metrics necessary for stability and reliability.
This may include:
- anonymous traffic volume measurements
- page performance diagnostics
- device/browser compatibility data
- aggregated engagement indicators
These measurements exist solely for infrastructure reliability, publication performance optimisation, and technical debugging. They are not used for behavioural profiling or advertising targeting.
3. Voluntary User Submissions
If visitors voluntarily submit information through comment systems or feedback fields, that content is processed as publicly submitted material.
Users should avoid submitting:
- private personal identity data
- financial details
- confidential documentation
Public comments may remain visible unless moderation, technical removal, or legal request requires deletion.
4. External Scientific Database Connections
Some Astrophyzix research tools act as interface gateways to institutional scientific databases. When users choose to activate those tools, requests may be transmitted directly to external governmental or academic infrastructure.
Examples include:
- Academic literature searches routed to Google Scholar indexing systems
- Orbital object lookups routed to NASA planetary defence or small-body databases
These institutions operate independently under their own governmental or corporate privacy frameworks. Astrophyzix does not receive, control, or store institutional server logs generated after the user connects to those systems.
5. Automated Security and Integrity Monitoring
To maintain scientific publishing integrity and protect infrastructure reliability, Astrophyzix operates automated technical monitoring systems.
These may include:
- malware detection scanners
- copyright-infringement monitoring systems
- anti-scraping protection tools
- bot activity detection
- traffic anomaly monitoring
- infrastructure diagnostic logging
These protections exist solely to safeguard scientific content, prevent automated theft of datasets, and ensure platform stability. They are not used for commercial behavioural profiling.
6. Cookies and Technical Storage
Astrophyzix intentionally avoids deploying proprietary behavioural advertising cookies. However, platform infrastructure providers, hosting services, or scientific institution software may use technical cookies required for:
- secure page delivery
- temporary session validation
- spam prevention
- load balancing
7. External Links and Institutional Sources
Astrophyzix frequently links to peer-reviewed journals, research agencies, space mission archives, and scientific databases.
When users leave the Astrophyzix domain, the privacy policies of the destination institution apply immediately.
8. Data Retention Model
The Astrophyzix network maintains a minimal retention structure:
- technical metrics retained only as operationally required
- no central personal identity database maintained
- public submissions retained unless removal is necessary
9. Children’s Data
Astrophyzix is an educational science platform and does not knowingly collect personal data from minors. Removal requests from guardians will be handled where technically feasible.
10. Infrastructure Security Commitment
Reasonable technical safeguards are maintained appropriate for a public scientific publishing network. However, no internet transmission system can be guaranteed fully secure.
11. Policy Updates
This document may be revised periodically to reflect infrastructure upgrades, legal developments, or integration of new research tools. The most recent version published on this page supersedes previous editions.
Astrophyzix Science Network
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