Privacy Policy

ScienceToStartup provides research intelligence software that helps users evaluate scientific and technical work for startup potential. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you use our sites, applications, APIs, and related services.

This Privacy Policy applies when you use our public website, legal pages, product experiences, enterprise features, and support channels. It does not apply to third-party services that integrate with ScienceToStartup and have their own privacy notices.

If you interact with a customer-managed deployment, integration, or workspace, that customer is responsible for its own privacy disclosures and compliance obligations for data it controls.

We collect information based on how you interact with our services and the choices you make. Categories may include account details, usage activity, technical identifiers, support communications, transaction information, and legal/compliance records.

Information you provide directly may include your name, email address, account credentials, billing details, organization details, bookmarked papers, submitted forms, support requests, and any content you choose to send through our services.

We may receive information from partners, payment processors, analytics providers, authentication providers, and integrations you authorize. We use this information only for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise permitted by law.

When you use our services, we automatically collect device and usage information such as IP address, browser and OS data, referral URLs, page interactions, session timestamps, and diagnostics data. We may use cookies and similar technologies to operate, secure, and improve the service.

ScienceToStartup may be accessed by both people and software agents. We may process prompts, requests, output preferences, and telemetry needed to operate AI-assisted experiences, improve product quality, detect abuse, and enforce rate limits.

Where we publish agent-readable surfaces (for example, legal APIs and llms.txt resources), those surfaces are provided for transparency and interoperability and are subject to our legal terms.

We use information to provide and maintain services, personalize experiences, process transactions, support users, improve models and product quality, communicate updates, secure the platform, prevent abuse, and comply with legal obligations.

We retain information for the minimum period necessary for service delivery, security, legal compliance, dispute resolution, and legitimate business records. When no longer required, we delete or de-identify information, except where retention is required by law.

We may disclose information to service providers, infrastructure partners, payment processors, customer support tools, legal advisors, and authorities where required by law. We may also disclose information in connection with corporate transactions such as mergers, financing, or asset transfers.

We do not sell personal information in exchange for monetary compensation.

We use administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information from unauthorized access, loss, alteration, or misuse. No system is perfectly secure, and you are responsible for protecting your credentials and securing your own systems and integrations.

Our services may link to or integrate with third-party websites, APIs, and tools. Their data practices are governed by their own policies. We recommend reviewing third-party privacy notices before sharing data with those services.

ScienceToStartup operates primarily in the United States. By using our services, you understand that your information may be processed and stored in the United States and other jurisdictions where our vendors operate.

This section applies to U.S.-based users and supplements this Privacy Policy where required by U.S. privacy laws. Depending on your state of residence, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, portability, and to appeal certain privacy decisions.

To exercise applicable rights, contact us at privacy@sciencetostartup.com. We may request information needed to verify your request before processing it.

Our services are not directed to children under 16. If we become aware that personal information from a child under 16 was collected without appropriate authorization, we will take steps to delete that information.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect service, legal, or operational changes. The latest version is posted on this page with an updated effective date.

For privacy questions, requests, or complaints, contact privacy@sciencetostartup.com.

Version history entries will be listed here starting with the next revision to this Privacy Policy.