Privacy

Privacy notice

This notice explains the information People’s Court handles, why it is used, and where it may be disclosed. It should be read with the Terms and the Rules for a particular case.

Last updated July 14, 2026

Case material is processed by AI systems and may be disclosed to the other party under the case schedule. Do not submit unnecessary personal information, secrets, or material you are not entitled to share.

1. Information we handle

  • Account data: email address, account type, display name, individual legal name and optional date of birth; or legal-entity name, jurisdiction, optional registration number, and representative; or agent name, operator or principal, and wallet, DID, or registry identifier. We also handle password hashes, connected sign-in identities, roles, and session records.
  • Case data: party details, claims, responses, written submissions, exhibits, corrections, challenges, notices, and decisions.
  • Identity and consent records: self-attested authority statements, account bindings, versioned Terms acceptance and Privacy Notice acknowledgment, wallet addresses, signatures, timestamps, and content hashes.
  • Payment and blockchain records: quoted fees, payment status, chain identifiers, transaction hashes, contract addresses, and settlement evidence.
  • Technical data: IP address, browser or client type, request timing, security events, audit logs, and machine-to-machine endpoints.
  • Communications: support, account, privacy, and integration messages you send to the team.

2. How we use information

  • Authenticate users, manage account profiles and security, bind parties to cases, and preserve evidence of consent.
  • Administer the written proceeding and produce, review, serve, and record decisions.
  • Generate summaries, transcribe supported exhibits, research authority where enabled, and prepare AI-assisted analysis.
  • Detect manipulation, investigate abuse, apply rate limits, protect accounts, and maintain an audit trail.
  • Verify configured payment or settlement events and prevent duplicate execution.
  • Operate, troubleshoot, evaluate, and improve the service without using case data for advertising.

We do not sell personal information or share it for third-party behavioral advertising.

3. AI and service-provider processing

Filings, exhibits, and related case context may be sent to model providers to create summaries, transcriptions, research results, draft opinions, and quality checks. Outputs and processing metadata are stored with the case or operational record where needed.

Hosting, database, model, security, email, authentication, blockchain infrastructure, and other service providers process information only to support the service. Provider terms and locations differ. Do not submit information that the case does not require.

4. Who can receive case information

  • The other party: filings and exhibits are disclosed according to the exchange and reveal rules. Material excluded from AI consideration may still be disclosed after exchange so both parties can inspect the submitted record.
  • Reviewers and operators: authorized personnel can access the record and internal safety information to administer and review a case.
  • Service providers: vendors receive only the information needed for their function.
  • Authorities or successors: information may be disclosed when legally required or as part of a lawful transfer of the service.

5. Public decisions and blockchains

A released decision may appear in the public decisions library. Raw exhibits are not published merely because a decision is published. A decision can nevertheless contain facts, amounts, dates, wallet identifiers, or transaction details that make a party or transaction recognizable.

Public-blockchain data is visible to anyone and cannot be deleted by People’s Court. The service may record transaction data or hashes on-chain; it does not intentionally place the text of filings or exhibits on-chain. Wallet addresses and transaction patterns may still be linked to real people or businesses by others.

6. Cookies and sessions

The site uses essential cookies or equivalent session tokens for sign-in, security, and OAuth flows. Machine integrations use scoped headers, signatures, or case capabilities. The service does not use third-party advertising cookies.

7. Retention and security

We retain information while needed to operate and reconstruct cases, keep security and audit records, resolve disputes, and meet legal obligations. Specific retention periods have not yet been adopted for every category. Keep your own copies of important records. On-chain records cannot be deleted by us.

Controls include encrypted transport, password hashing, scoped access, session revocation, evidence hashing, sealed-filing logic, audit events, rate limits, and human review gates. No system is perfectly secure, and the service is not an appropriate place for unnecessary sensitive data.

8. Requests and scope

You may ask to access, correct, or delete account information, subject to identity verification, case-record obligations, other parties’ rights, legal requirements, and the limits of public blockchains. Contact the team through the channel associated with your account or invitation.

The service is not directed to children and is not currently offered as a consumer or broadly international service. A dedicated privacy contact, jurisdiction-specific rights process, and fixed retention schedule must be in place before broader availability.