World Community Grid is secure and unobtrusive - and it always respects your privacy. Our software is designed to keep a low profile. It doesn't change the things you can do with your device or the way it behaves – it gives priority to your own work and play. When you shut down for the day, your device simply saves its work, then picks up where it left off next time. Your own data is protected and untouched. Our software never even comes into contact with it. World Community Grid is built on BOINC, a popular and well-respected open-source platform developed by the University of California. Our software is audited and protected with high levels of security. All communications between your device and World Community Grid are encrypted and authenticated. Fortune 100 companies, top academic institutions and government agencies contribute to World Community Grid because they trust our application to achieve great things without impacting their own day-to-day work.