Privacy

Dictum is made by Sciscribe Solutions OPC Pvt Ltd, a company incorporated in India (“Sciscribe”, “we”). This notice covers two things: this website, and what the Dictum software sends to us. How the software keeps a lab’s patient data is set out in detail on How data is handled.

The short version

• This website has no analytics, no cookies, no advertising, and no tracking. One exception to “no scripts but our own”: Cloudflare, which serves the site, shields our email addresses from scrapers by rewriting them behind a small script it injects. It identifies no one.
• The Dictum software sends us nothing. It has no telemetry and no usage reports, and we hold no copy of any lab’s data and no key to it.
• Patient data belongs to the lab. Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“DPDP Act”), the lab is the Data Fiduciary for its patients’ data; Sciscribe does not process it.

This website

What we collect. Nothing that we store. The pages are static files; there are no forms, accounts, or tracking.

Our host. The site is served by Cloudflare. Like any web server, Cloudflare processes the technical details every request carries — your IP address, browser, and the time — to deliver the pages and protect them from abuse. Cloudflare also obfuscates the email addresses printed on these pages, which adds one small script of its own to each page that shows one; it sets no cookie and tracks nothing for us. We do not use any of this to identify anyone, and we have not turned on any visitor analytics.

Downloads. The Download button takes you to GitHub, which hosts the installer. GitHub’s own privacy statement applies there.

If you email us. We keep your message and address to reply and for our records of the conversation, and we share them with no one except where the law requires. Please never send patient information by email.

The Dictum software

No telemetry. Dictum does not report usage, errors, or any content to Sciscribe. A record of who did what is kept on the lab’s PC, for the lab.

Update checks. The desktop app asks GitHub Releases whether a newer version exists, as any download does. That request carries no patient data and no lab data.

Google Drive. If the lab turns on backup and the iPad companion, Dictum writes to a Google account the lab owns, using a Google sign-in client registered by Sciscribe and limited to the files Dictum itself creates. Everything is encrypted on the lab’s PC before it leaves; Google stores only what it cannot read, and so do we — we have no access to the lab’s Google account at all.

When we install or support Dictum. We work on the lab’s own PC, at the lab’s request, alongside its staff. We do not take copies of patient data. If patient data ever reaches us by mistake, we delete it and tell the lab.

Your rights

Under the DPDP Act you may ask us what personal data we hold about you, ask us to correct or erase it, and nominate someone to act for you. For patient data in a lab’s reports, contact the lab — it is the Data Fiduciary and we cannot see that data.

Write to [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with our answer, you may contact our Grievance Officer at [email protected], and you may then complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

Changes

If this notice changes, the new version will be published here with its date. If we ever add analytics to this site, this page will say so before it happens.