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The short version

Scienter is self-hosted. Your data does not leave your machine except when you call a third-party provider, and the list of those calls is enumerable.

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What is stored, and where

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What is deliberately not stored

API keys, in any recoverable form

Hashed, never encrypted. A design that can recover your key is a design that can leak it. There is no recovery path — reissue instead.

MCP tool arguments and responses

The call log hashes arguments and measures responses. It stores neither. You get auditability of what was called without a copy of what was asked.
That second one is the design decision most worth noting. An audit log that captures full arguments is a second copy of every address, token, and query a user ever looked at — a data-protection liability created in the name of observability.

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Third-party data flows

The engine reads public market and chain data. Provider calls are the only egress:
The intelligence layer never fetches paid providers on a read path. Benchmarking calls are made by the nightly runner, not by a user request, so a burst of API traffic cannot run up a provider bill through the read surface.

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Personal data

Scienter processes wallet addresses and on-chain activity, which are public by construction. It does not require or collect names, emails, or payment details for its core function — there is no account system. Where an operator adds a workspace, member email addresses enter the workspace store. That store is on the operator’s infrastructure, and the operator is the controller for it.

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Retention

Retention is the operator’s decision, because the operator holds the disk. Nothing here expires state automatically. For a regulated deployment, set a retention policy on state/ and the workspace store explicitly — the defaults keep everything.

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Data subject requests

Since there is no vendor-held data pool, a data subject request lands entirely on the operator. See Compliance for the shape of the responsibility split.
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