What data is shared with SBT
What a device data bundle contains and how SBT handles your data
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What a device data bundle contains and how SBT handles your data
When you send us a device data bundle (DDB), you may wonder exactly what we can see. This page explains it in plain terms.
A DDB collects system logs together with your measurement data. All of that measurement data lives in one place on your BactoBox®: the program executions database (PEDB). The DDB includes a copy of it.
The PEDB holds two kinds of things:
The measurement results your BactoBox® computed for each program execution. For example, the electrical measurement metrics and derived values such as Cells/mL.
Whatever metadata and labels you entered yourself. For example, the Label, Dilution, Sampled at, CFU/mL, Measurement group, and notes.
So the data is your measurement results plus the text you chose to type in.
As the manufacturer, we can in principle access the data on your device. In practice, though, we can only interpret what your labels reveal.
The labels are free text that you write. If you label a measurement E. coli, then we can read E. coli. If you label it with an internal code name such as Strain A7 or Project Falcon, then the label reveals nothing to us. We see the code name and nothing more.
If your work is sensitive, use internal code names in your labels. The raw measurement stays just as useful to you, while the label keeps your context private.
For each measurement, the PEDB records an electrical signature, not a biological identity. The signature describes how particles in your sample respond to an electric field. It is not a sequence, a species name, or anything that can be traced back to a specific organism.
We cannot reverse-engineer an electrical signature into a biological identity. Without your labels, a measurement is just a set of electrical numbers.
We treat your data as confidential. We only look at a DDB when you share it with us to get help, and we use it to support you. We protect the data and we do not repurpose it behind your back.
A DDB contains a copy of your PEDB: your measurement results plus the labels you typed. We can read your labels, but we cannot turn an electrical signature into a biological identity. Use code names if you want extra privacy, and we keep everything you share confidential.
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