Privacy Policy & Sovereign IP Confidentiality

1. Institutional Scope & Data Controller

This platform is operated by GIALeverage OÜ (Registry code 17584933, Tallinn, Estonia), providing the ExinnTech commercial venture factory and execution layer connected with the ThinkBank Albania intellectual property intelligence layer (thinkbankalbania.org) and GIA Leverage commercialization marketplace (gialeverage.com).

2. Categories of Data Processed

• Account & Identity Data: Email address, full name, institutional role (Inventor, Researcher, or Institution), workspace memberships, and authentication audit timestamps.
• Invention & Patent Draft Disclosures: Problem statements, technical solutions, specifications, claims, uploaded manuscripts (PDF, DOCX, TXT, MD, images), and human-inventor attestation records.
• Pipeline Telemetry & Audit Events: Stage transitions across the 7-stage pipeline (Submitted through Market Ready), cryptographic SHA-256 source digests, and API bridge receipts.

3. Sovereign Isolation of Invention Disclosures

Submitted invention disclosures and patent drafts are isolated within workspace-scoped storage and bound to immutable SHA-256 digests (`08_Source_Grounding/patent_source.md` and `idea_submission.json`). Your unpublished invention disclosures are never sold to third parties or published to public marketplaces without explicit owner authorization and human-inventor attestation.

4. GDPR Rights & Data Retention

Under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and Estonian data protection law, you retain the right to access, export, rectify, restrict, or erase your personal data and workspace records, subject to statutory audit and intellectual property chain-of-custody obligations.