This Privacy Policy explains how inquisflow ("InquisFlow", "we", "us") handles personal data when you visit inquisflow.com, create an account, or use the InquisFlow application and APIs (the "Service"). Capitalized terms not defined here have the meaning given in our Terms of Service.
1. Who We Are and Our Role
For your account, billing, usage and technical data, inquisflow is the controller (the party that decides why and how the data is processed). Address: Rruga C, 10000 Prishtinë, Kosovo. Privacy contact: contact@inquisflow.com.
For personal data contained in the documents and questions you submit (Customer Content), you decide what is uploaded and why. In that case we act as your processor, and process it only to provide the Service to you, on your instructions.
Paddle, our merchant of record, is an independent controller of the payment and tax data it collects when you purchase (see Section 4).
2. Information We Collect
| Category | What it includes | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Account and profile | Email address, first and last name, password (stored only as a salted one-way hash, never in readable form), profile picture URL, email-verified status, account status, last sign-in time. | You; Google if you use Google sign-in |
| Authentication data | Google account identifier and email when you sign in with Google; email-verification and password-reset tokens; session tokens held in secure cookies (Section 8). | You; Google; generated by us |
| Customer Content | Uploaded documents and files; text extracted from them; text segments and their numerical embeddings; project names and descriptions; the questions you ask; AI-generated answers and their source citations; conversation history. | You |
| Billing data | Paddle customer ID, Plan and subscription status, invoices, payment status, amounts and currency, and limited payment-method details supplied by Paddle (type, card brand, last four digits, expiry). We do not receive or store full card numbers. | Paddle; you |
| Usage and cost data | Number of documents, pages and queries; token counts and processing costs per request; timestamps; used to enforce Plan limits, bill overage and operate the Service. | Generated by the Service |
| Technical and log data | IP address, browser and device type, request times, error and security logs. | Your device |
| Communications | Messages you send to our support or legal addresses, and our replies. | You |
We do not knowingly collect special categories of personal data and ask you not to upload them (see Terms, Section 5.5). We do not use advertising trackers, analytics scripts or social-media pixels on our website or application.
3. How We Use Information and Our Legal Bases
| Purpose | Legal basis (GDPR / UK GDPR) |
|---|---|
| Create and manage your account; authenticate you; provide the Service, including indexing your documents and generating answers | Performance of a contract |
| Process subscriptions and enforce Plan limits; send transactional emails (verification, password reset, billing and service notices) | Performance of a contract |
| Secure the Service; detect and prevent fraud, abuse and unauthorized access; debug and maintain reliability | Legitimate interests (keeping the Service safe and working) |
| Respond to support and legal requests; establish, exercise or defend legal claims | Legitimate interests; legal obligation |
| Comply with tax, accounting, sanctions and other legal obligations | Legal obligation |
| Send optional communications, if we ever do | Consent, which you can withdraw at any time |
No model training, no selling. We do not use Customer Content to train AI models, we do not sell personal data, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.
No automated decisions with legal effect. Output is generated by AI to help you search your own documents. We do not make decisions about you with legal or similarly significant effects based solely on automated processing.
5. International Transfers
Production data is hosted in the United States (US East, Virginia). Some providers, including our AI provider and payment processor, process data in other countries, including the United States.
Where personal data from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom or Switzerland is transferred to a country without an adequacy decision, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses (and the UK Addendum or IDTA), or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where the recipient is certified. You can request a copy of the relevant safeguards at contact@inquisflow.com.
6. Data Retention
| Data | How long we keep it |
|---|---|
| Account and profile data | While your account is open. Deleted or anonymized within 30 days after account closure or a verified deletion request, except data we must keep by law. |
| Customer Content (documents, extracted text, segments, embeddings) | Until you delete it or close your account. Deleted content is removed from the Service promptly and purged from our systems within 30 days; residual copies in backups are overwritten in the ordinary backup cycle. |
| Conversations and messages | Until you delete the conversation or project, or close your account. |
| Billing, invoice and tax records | As long as tax, accounting and other laws require, then deleted. Paddle keeps its own records under its privacy notice. |
| Usage and cost data | While your account is open, and afterwards in aggregated or anonymized form. |
| Technical and security logs | Up to 90 days, unless needed longer to investigate a security incident. |
| Support and legal correspondence | While needed to resolve the matter and for up to 24 months afterwards. |
7. Security
We use technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal data, including:
- encryption in transit: traffic between your browser and the Service is protected with HTTPS/TLS;
- encryption of document content at rest: extracted document text is protected by application-level AES-256-GCM envelope encryption, with separate keys per tenant;
- tenant isolation: each project's documents are held under a separate tenant identifier and are only retrieved for that project;
- authentication security: passwords are stored only as salted one-way hashes; sessions use short-lived tokens in HttpOnly, Secure cookies;
- service-to-service protection: our application server and AI processing service authenticate each other with shared secrets, and the processing service is not called directly by browsers;
- least privilege: separate database roles are used for schema changes, for the processing service's runtime, and for the application server; secrets are kept in environment configuration, not in source code; and
- rate limiting and monitoring to reduce abuse.
We do not currently claim any third-party security certification (such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001). No system is completely secure. If a breach affects your data we will notify you and the relevant authorities where the law requires.
9. Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to: access your personal data; correct it; delete it; restrict or object to its processing; receive it in a portable format; withdraw consent you gave; and lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
To exercise a right, email contact@inquisflow.com from your account address. We may need to verify your identity. We respond within one month (or the period your law sets) and do not charge a fee unless requests are manifestly excessive. You can also delete documents, conversations and projects yourself in the application.
If we process Customer Content for a business customer, we will forward rights requests about that content to the customer and help them respond.
10. Additional Information for US Residents
In the past 12 months we have collected the categories of information listed in Section 2 for the purposes in Section 3. We do not sell personal information and do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, and we do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes beyond providing the Service.
Residents of California and other US states with privacy laws may request to know, access, correct or delete their personal information, and may appoint an authorized agent, by emailing contact@inquisflow.com. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.
11. Children
The Service is intended for business and professional use by adults. It is not directed to anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has given us personal data, contact contact@inquisflow.com and we will delete it.
12. Business Customers and Data Processing Addendum
If you use the Service for your organization and need a data processing addendum, email contact@inquisflow.com. As processor we will process Customer Content only on your documented instructions, keep it confidential, apply the security measures in Section 7, use the sub-processors listed in Section 4, help you respond to rights requests, notify you of personal data breaches without undue delay, and delete or return Customer Content when the agreement ends.
13. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Policy. For material changes we will notify you by email or in the application at least 30 days before they take effect. The version number and effective date at the top of this page show when it was last revised.
14. Contact
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Controller | inquisflow |
| Address | Rruga C, 10000 Prishtinë, Kosovo |
| Privacy requests | contact@inquisflow.com |
| General enquiries | contact@inquisflow.com |
| Legal notices | contact@inquisflow.com |
Privacy questions or requests? Contact contact@inquisflow.com. See also our Terms of Service and Refund Policy.