Security & privacy
You’re telling us about an unfiled invention. We act like it.
The whole product depends on you describing something you haven’t filed yet. Here is exactly what happens to that description — written to be checked, not to reassure.
01Your invention descriptions are the sensitive asset
We treat descriptions the way you'd want a searcher under NDA to: stored as your saved searches in our database, scoped to your account, never used to train models, never shown to other users, never sold.
02What leaves our systems
Running a search sends your description to our AI provider to plan queries and read references, and sends the derived search queries (not the raw description) to the public patent corpus. Both are transient processing, not publication.
03Searching does not disclose your invention
Corpus queries are keyword and classification searches like any other visitor's. They do not create prior art against you and are not a public disclosure of your invention in the patent-law sense.
04Transport and storage
TLS on every connection. Data at rest lives in our managed Postgres (Supabase) with row-level security scoping every row to its owner. API keys are stored hashed; a key is shown once and cannot be retrieved.
05Payments
Card details never touch our servers. Stripe handles checkout and billing; we store only the subscription state needed to enforce quotas.
06Deletion
Deleting your account deletes your searches, reports, monitors and keys. Backups age out on a fixed schedule. Email us and we'll confirm when the purge is complete.
One timing note that matters
Searching here doesn’t start any patent clock — but publicly disclosing your invention elsewhere (a launch, a pitch deck, a forum post) can. If you’re close to filing, read our guide to patenting an idea and talk to a registered attorney or agent.
The formal versions: privacy policy and terms of service. Security questions or disclosures: support@patent77.com.