Privacy Policy

SearchCouncil.ai is built to help people compare answers from multiple AI engines. We know users may ask personal, business, technical, or sensitive questions. This Privacy Policy explains what we collect, how we use it, and what we do not do with it.

Our Simple Privacy Promise

We do not sell your data.

• We do not sell your prompts.
• We do not sell your AI responses.
• We do not sell your uploaded files.
• We do not sell your API keys.
• We do not sell your account information.

We treat your prompts, answers, uploaded files, API keys, and Council results as private user content. We do not sell them.

SearchCouncil exists to help you ask better questions across multiple AI systems — not to turn your private work into a data product.

Information We Collect

When you use SearchCouncil, we may collect the following types of information:

Account Information

This may include your name, email address, login information, subscription status, billing status, and account settings.

Search and Prompt Data

When you ask a question, SearchCouncil may store your prompt, selected council engines, model responses, judge synthesis, Council Verdict, agreement scores, follow-up questions, and related thread history.

This allows us to show your history, continue inquiries, improve the product experience, and provide the service.

API Key Information

If you use Bring Your Own Keys, you may choose to store API keys for supported AI providers in your account settings.

We store those keys on our servers, associated with your account, and use them only to run the searches and council requests you initiate. We do not display full keys after you save them, sell them, publish them, or use them for unrelated requests.

Billing Information

Payments may be processed by third-party payment providers such as Stripe. We do not directly store full credit card numbers unless specifically stated by our payment processor.

Usage and Technical Data

We may collect basic technical and usage information such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, actions taken, error logs, credit usage, and performance data.

This helps us maintain the service, detect abuse, troubleshoot issues, and improve reliability.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We may use cookies, local storage, and similar technologies to keep you signed in, remember preferences, measure product usage, improve performance, and protect the service.

These technologies may also support authentication, billing, analytics, and error monitoring through service providers that help us operate SearchCouncil.

Sensitive Information

SearchCouncil may be used for business, technical, research, and personal questions, but you should not submit highly sensitive information unless you understand that Council searches may be routed to third-party AI providers.

This includes, for example:

• Regulated health information
• Financial account numbers
• Government IDs
• Passwords or authentication secrets
• Trade secrets
• Confidential client data

You are responsible for deciding what information is appropriate to include in a Council search.

How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

• Provide SearchCouncil services
• Run your prompts through selected AI engines
• Generate Council Verdicts and agreement scores
• Save your threads and search history
• Manage your account
• Process payments and credits
• Provide customer support
• Monitor performance and security
• Prevent fraud, spam, abuse, or unauthorized access
• Improve the product experience

We Do Not Sell Your Data

SearchCouncil does not sell user data to advertisers, data brokers, AI training companies, or third parties.

We do not sell your prompts, answers, account data, files, API keys, or search history.

SearchCouncil does not sell personal information.

Do We Use Your Data to Train AI Models?

SearchCouncil does not use your private prompts, answers, files, or threads to train public AI models.

We may analyze aggregated, de-identified usage patterns to improve product performance, reliability, pricing, and user experience.

We may also review specific user content when necessary to provide support, investigate abuse, debug technical issues, comply with law, or protect the service.

Data Sharing

We may share limited information with service providers that help us operate SearchCouncil, including:

• Cloud hosting providers
• Payment processors
• Authentication providers
• Analytics and error monitoring tools
• Email and customer support tools
• AI model providers selected for council searches

These providers are only used to operate, secure, and improve the service.

We may also disclose information if required by law, legal process, security investigation, or to protect the rights, safety, and integrity of SearchCouncil, our users, or others.

Data Retention

We keep user data only as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, and enforce our agreements.

You may request deletion of your account or certain data by contacting us at hello@searchcouncil.ai.

Some information may remain in backups, logs, payment records, or security records for a limited period where legally or operationally necessary.

Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or a copy of certain personal information we maintain about you. You may also have the right to object to or opt out of certain uses of your information.

To make a privacy request, contact us at hello@searchcouncil.ai.

SearchCouncil does not sell personal information.

Your Choices

You may:

• Delete or edit saved searches where supported
• Disconnect API keys
• Cancel your subscription
• Request account deletion
• Contact us about privacy questions
• Choose which AI engines are used in your council
• Use Bring Your Own Keys where available

API Key Security

If you store API keys in SearchCouncil, you are responsible for ensuring you have the right to use those keys.

We recommend using provider-side spending limits, usage alerts, and restricted keys where available.

If you believe your API key has been compromised, revoke it immediately with the provider and remove it from SearchCouncil.

Children’s Privacy

SearchCouncil is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

International Users

If you access SearchCouncil from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect user information. However, no internet service is completely secure. You use SearchCouncil at your own risk.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the effective date and may notify users through the service or by email.

Contact

For privacy questions, contact us at:

hello@searchcouncil.ai