Privacy, taken to the limit.
Our clients use Parnassus Terminal to study the people and institutions they may one day face across the table. So the rule we have always followed is to know as little about them as possible, and to say plainly what we do keep.
Searches leave no trace.
Standard search is carried out entirely on your own device. Smart search runs on our own servers and sends the results back to your device; the words you type are never logged, stored or shown to anyone. We record only that a search took place and how many results it returned, to keep use fair, never what it was.
Every file is accounted for.
Every file is checked by our server before it reaches you, and every account has a fair-use limit, so no one can carry the database away. To make that hold, we record which files and relationship graphs each account opens, and when. The record is kept permanently. Only two people can see it, our Operations Director and our Managing Director, and it is used only to keep use fair and to look into misuse.
No one else in the room.
No advertising, no analytics, no tracking pixels, no third-party code or fonts. Parnassus talks only to our own servers, so no third party learns that you signed in or what you looked at. We keep no log of IP addresses.
Your notes are yours alone.
Notes, comments and open tabs are kept in your account, so they follow you from device to device. No other user can open them, and our own administration tools see only how much space they take up. They are never merged into our database, and they are deleted when your account is closed.
AI that stays in-house.
Smart search uses an open model, Microsoft’s multilingual-e5, running on our own servers. What you search for is never sent to an AI company, and we do not use models released by companies or institutions in the People’s Republic of China.
Encrypted in transit and at rest.
Every connection is encrypted (TLS 1.2 or later), and so is everything we store (AES-256). Passwords are kept only as one-way hashes. Parnassus runs on Amazon Web Services in Tokyo.
What was never written down cannot be handed over.
We never sell, rent or share your information. The words you search for were never recorded, so whoever asks and whatever the grounds, it is not only that we would not hand them over: we could not.
What we do keep
- Your account: your name, your e-mail, your role, a one-way hash of your password, and when you last signed in.
- What you create: notes, comments, tabs and keyboard settings, kept for you and encrypted when stored. Our administration tools cannot read them, and we do not read them either. Deleted with your account, and gone from our backups within 35 days.
- The access record: which files and relationship graphs each account opened, and when. Kept permanently; seen only by our Operations Director and Managing Director.
- Searches: that a search took place, when, and how many results it returned, never what was searched. Deleted after 14 days.
- Daily usage: how many files each account opened each day, and the last one, for the fair-use limit. Deleted after nine days.
- Error reports: the kind of error only, never its content.
Your security or compliance team is welcome to send us questions at contact@bleichrodersmessage.com. A full technical specification is available on request. The notice below covers this website and its contact form.