Privacy & Cookie Policy

• Account & profile: email, password (stored hashed by our auth provider), name, and any firm, title, bio, or avatar you add.
• Sign-in: if you use Google or LinkedIn single sign-on, we receive your name, email, and profile picture from them.
• Newsletter / waitlist: the email address you submit.
• Learning activity: courses and lessons viewed, progress, time spent, and points/levels (gamification).
• AI assistant: the questions you ask and your conversation history, which we store to provide and improve the assistant.
• Subscriptions & payments: your subscription status. Card details are collected and processed by Stripe — we never see or store full card numbers.
• Technical & usage: IP address, approximate location, browser/device, pages visited, and performance metrics, collected (only with your consent) via Vercel’s privacy-friendly analytics.
• How you found us (only with your consent): the ad or source that brought you to the site (for example a Google Ads click ID, campaign, keyword, or a link’s utm tags), saved with your sign-up, account, or purchase.

• To provide the service — accounts, courses, the AI assistant, and subscriptions (performance of a contract).
• Security, fraud prevention, and improving the product (legitimate interests).
• Optional analytics, advertising measurement and remarketing, and marketing emails (consent, which you can withdraw at any time).
• Tax, accounting, and other legal obligations for payments (legal obligation).

We load non-essential analytics and the Google Ads tag only after you click “Accept” in our cookie banner. You can change your choice anytime via Cookie Preferences. With your consent, the Google Ads tag records which ad brought you here, measures the sign-ups and purchases that follow, and adds your browser to remarketing audiences so our ads can reach you on other sites. You can stop remarketing at any time without declining cookies: Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Separately, our pages measure their own speed (how long a page, a quiz result or a chat answer takes to appear) and send those timings to us anonymously: no cookies, and nothing personal is stored with them (no account, no IP address, no exact page address). Our pages also count visits anonymously, for everyone: how the visit arrived (an ad, a search engine, an email from us, a social network or another site’s domain, and the link’s tags), the page you landed on, your country and device type, and whether you saw or used a sign-up form. No cookies, no IP address, nothing that links one visit to another or to you.

We do not sell your personal information for money. If you accept advertising cookies and have not opted out, we share limited data with Google Ads for advertising: cookie and ad-click identifiers, the pages you visit, and, when you sign up or buy, a hashed (scrambled) copy of your email so Google can match the conversion to an ad. California law treats this as “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising; you can opt out below (section 7) or with Global Privacy Control. We also use the service providers (“processors”) below to operate the site; each processes data only on our instructions:

We may also disclose data where required by law or to protect our rights.

Our providers process data in the United States and other countries. Where we transfer personal data out of the EEA/UK, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses through our processors’ data-processing terms.

We keep personal data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide the service, then delete or anonymize it, except where longer retention is required for legal, tax, or security reasons. You can delete your account or unsubscribe at any time.

If you are in the EU/UK (GDPR): you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction, or portability of your data; object to processing; and withdraw consent. You may also lodge a complaint with your data protection authority.

If you are in California (CCPA/CPRA): you may request to know, access, delete, or correct your personal information, and opt out of the sharing described in section 4 (we do not sell it for money). We honor Global Privacy Control signals as an opt-out. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.

To exercise any right, email patentlawjoellc@gmail.com. You can manage your profile and email subscriptions from your account page.

We use industry-standard measures (encryption in transit, access controls, hashed passwords) to protect your data. No method is perfectly secure.

The service is not directed to children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect their data.

We may update this policy; we will revise the effective date above and, for material changes, provide notice.

Questions or requests: patentlawjoellc@gmail.com — Patent Law Joe LLC, [POSTAL ADDRESS].