This Privacy Policy describes how Metayage Private Limited ("Company", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, stores, and protects your personal data when you use the IDPD — Invention Disclosure Platform ("Software"). By accessing or using the Software, you agree to the practices described in this policy.
All AI-assisted features are entirely optional. If you do not wish to use AI generation, simply leave AI disabled or turn it off at any time via Settings → AI Preferences. The platform's core disclosure workflow — submitting inventions, tracking status, collaborating — continues to work without AI enabled. If AI is turned off, no invention data is sent to any external AI provider.
How to opt out: Go to Settings → AI Preferences and turn off "AI Provider Features". Your preference is saved instantly. You may re-enable AI at any time.
When you request an AI-assisted output (e.g. patent claims draft, invention summary), the following happens:
Depending on the generation mode selected, the following models may be used:
| Mode | Provider | Primary Model | Fallback Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fast | Groq | llama-3.3-70b-versatile | llama-3.1-8b-instant |
| Balanced | Google Gemini | gemma-4-31b-it | gemma-4-26b-a4b-it |
| Enhanced | NVIDIA NIM | mistralai/mistral-large-3-675b-instruct | meta/llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct |
| Ultra | Gemini + Groq (combined) | Both primary models run in parallel; responses are merged | |
| Local (ML enrichment) | On-premise (our VPS) | BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5, KeyBERT, YAKE | N/A — always runs locally |
IDPD is hosted on a DigitalOcean Virtual Private Server (VPS) located in Bangalore, India. All invention data, database records, and ML model files reside on this server. DigitalOcean does not have access to your application data.
The on-premise ML pipeline (BGE, KeyBERT, YAKE, FAISS similarity search) runs entirely on this same VPS. No data is sent to an external service for local ML processing.
DigitalOcean privacy policy: digitalocean.com/legal/privacy-policy
When AI features are enabled and used, your invention disclosure content is transmitted to the selected AI provider's API over HTTPS. Each provider below acts as a data processor and is contractually obliged to process your data only for the purpose of returning the AI response.
Important: If you disable AI Provider Features in Settings → AI Preferences, no data is sent to any of the providers below.
Operator: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Models used: gemma-4-31b-it gemma-4-26b-a4b-it
Data sent: Your invention disclosure text and questionnaire responses, structured as a prompt.
Data retention & training: Google's API terms state that prompts and responses are not used to train Google's models without explicit opt-in. Operational logs may be retained for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring.
Privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy
Operator: Groq, Inc., 101 University Ave, Suite 1400, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA
Models used: llama-3.3-70b-versatile llama-3.1-8b-instant
Data sent: Invention disclosure content structured as a prompt.
Data retention & training: Groq does not use API request data to train or fine-tune models. API data may be retained in operational logs for up to 30 days, then deleted.
Privacy policy: groq.com/privacy-policy
Operator: NVIDIA Corporation, 2788 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051, USA
Models used: mistralai/mistral-large-3-675b-instruct meta/llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct
Data sent: Invention disclosure content structured as a prompt.
Data retention & training: API input data is not used to train NVIDIA's models. Request metadata may be retained for up to 30 days.
Privacy policy: nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/privacy-policy
Operator: Sendinblue SAS, 55 rue d'Amsterdam, 75008 Paris, France
Data sent: Recipient email address, sender name, email subject and body (notification content only).
Privacy policy: brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy
| Data Type | Retained By | Retention Period |
|---|---|---|
| Account & invention data | IDPD (our VPS) | Until account deletion; active patent prosecution files retained for the duration of the engagement |
| Session data | IDPD (our VPS) | 2 hours idle / browser close |
| AI prompt & response (Google Gemini) | Google LLC | Operational logs up to 30 days |
| AI prompt & response (Groq) | Groq, Inc. | Operational logs up to 30 days, then deleted |
| AI prompt & response (NVIDIA NIM) | NVIDIA Corporation | Processed transiently; metadata up to 30 days |
| Email delivery logs | Brevo (Sendinblue SAS) | Per Brevo's standard policy |
Upon account deletion request, we will delete or anonymise your personal data and invention disclosures within 30 days, except where retention is required for active patent prosecution or legal compliance.
IDPD runs its own machine learning models on our private VPS: BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5 (semantic embeddings), KeyBERT (keyphrase extraction), and YAKE (statistical keyword extraction). These models currently serve only to enrich AI prompts — they do not generate final output.
In the future, we may wish to fine-tune these local models using patterns from anonymised invention disclosures to improve their domain-specific performance for patent-related language. We will only use your data for this purpose if you explicitly give consent.
How to give or withdraw consent: Go to Settings → AI Preferences → ML Model Training Consent and toggle the switch. You can change your choice at any time.
You have the right to:
Contact us to exercise any right: ip@myipstrategy.com. We will respond within 30 days.
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We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be communicated by updating the "Last Updated" date below and, where appropriate, by email to active users.
Metayage Private Limited
Email: ip@myipstrategy.com
Last Updated: June 02, 2026