{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "id": "privacy",
  "title": "Privacy & Data Use",
  "summary": "How submitted data is handled.",
  "sections": {
    "local_processing": "The public converter processes supported text formats on the device. Original files are not sent by conversion, preview, or export.",
    "transmission": "Remote validation sends normalized structured JSON only when explicitly requested. Starting an investigation is a separate authenticated submission.",
    "persistence": {
      "customer_content": "Final SnoobScout report only.",
      "not_persisted": [
        "original documents",
        "raw extraction",
        "normalized document JSON",
        "intermediate analysis payloads"
      ],
      "operational_metadata": [
        "identity and job/report identifiers",
        "billing, usage, receipt, security, abuse-prevention, and audit metadata"
      ]
    },
    "retention": {
      "reports": "90 days by default with approved shorter/longer modes and early deletion",
      "financial": "4 years",
      "security_audit": "2 years baseline"
    },
    "providers": "Configured model and infrastructure providers may process bounded submitted structured content under their applicable terms; consult the subprocessor policy.",
    "private_data": "Submit only material you are authorized to process.",
    "policy": "/v1/policies/privacy",
    "document_terms": "/v1/policies/document-processing"
  },
  "version": "2026-08-v6",
  "effective_at": "2026-08-10T00:00:00Z",
  "content_hash": "sha256:464b2f5e0a8dc6f59e1b3fd42a83ba432e3d35a5818d4f1050b0986c33207dad"
}