What we collect, what we do with it, and what you can ask us to delete.

SlingIP is patent harvesting for technical founders. To do that, we ingest documents, source code, and other technical material you share with us. This page describes what we collect, what we do with it, who else sees it, and what choices you have. It applies to slingip.ai and all SlingIP services unless a separate notice says otherwise.

Effective date: April 27, 2026. Last updated: April 27, 2026.

Account information you provide: name, email address, company name, role, sector, and stage. Required to set up an engagement.

Content you upload: pitch decks, architecture diagrams, source-code repositories, prior-art references, internal memos, and anything else you drop into a workspace. We treat all of this as confidential.

Engagement metadata generated by SlingIP on your behalf: extracted invention candidates, prior-art search results, claim sketches, scoring rubric outputs, and the audit trail of every pipeline run.

Operational data: log lines, error reports, request timing, and similar telemetry needed to keep the service running and detect abuse. We do not sell or rent this data.

To deliver the IVAP and Patent Readiness Packages you asked for, including searching prior art via USPTO, EPO OPS, Lens.org, and Google Patents BigQuery on your behalf.

To improve the SlingIP service in aggregate: which steps take longest, which dimensions of the rubric most often need a second look, etc. Improvements are derived from operational metrics, not from the substance of your inventions.

To communicate with you about your engagement, billing, and service notices.

We do not use your inventions, source code, or any uploaded material to train AI models — ours or any third party's. This is contractual, not aspirational. Our model providers (Anthropic for production agents) operate under zero-data-retention agreements where available, and customer content is never sent to providers we have not vetted under that constraint.

Your patent agent or attorney of record, when you authorize a session or filing handoff. They sign the same confidentiality terms you do.

Sub-processors strictly necessary to operate the service: Supabase (storage and Postgres in the United States), Railway (compute), Anthropic (LLM inference), and our payment processor. Each operates under contract terms requiring confidentiality and limiting use to providing the service we asked for.

Government and law enforcement only when compelled by valid legal process. We do not provide voluntary access, and we will notify you unless legally prohibited from doing so.

We do not sell your data. We do not share it with advertisers. We do not use it for behavioral targeting on this site or anywhere else.

Engagement outputs (IVAPs, PRPs, audit trails) are retained for the life of your account so you can return to them. Delete them on request.

Raw uploaded documents (decks, code, memos) are retained 90 days after the last engagement closes, then permanently destroyed unless you opt in to longer retention for resumed work.

Operational logs and telemetry are retained 30 days then aggregated; the aggregates contain no customer-identifying material.

Account records (name, email, billing) are retained for the duration of your account plus the period required by tax and corporate-records law (typically seven years).

You can request a copy of every piece of personal information we hold about you, in a machine-readable format.

You can correct inaccurate information by editing your profile or by emailing us.

You can delete your account, which deletes your engagements, raw uploads, and personal data subject to the retention obligations described above.

Residents of the EEA, UK, California, and other jurisdictions with applicable privacy law have the rights described in those laws (data portability, restriction, objection). Email us to exercise them; we respond within 30 days, faster when feasible.

SlingIP is incorporated in Delaware and operates primarily from the United States. Our infrastructure providers store data in the US. If you are based outside the US, your data is transferred to and processed in the US under standard contractual terms.

SlingIP is intended for use by founders and patent professionals over the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact us and we will delete it.

We update this policy when our practices change materially. The effective date at the top reflects the most recent change. Existing customers receive a notice 30 days before any material change takes effect, with enough detail to decide whether to keep using the service or to leave with their data intact.

Privacy questions go to hello@slingip.ai. Security disclosures go to hello@slingip.ai. Mailing address: SlingIP, Inc., 2261 Market Street #4596, San Francisco, CA 94114.