Privacy Notice
This notice explains the information People’s Court, operated by Epistemic Labs Inc., handles, why it is used, and where it may be disclosed. Read it with the Terms and the Rules governing a case.
Last updated August 21, 2026
Children
People’s Court is not intended for children or anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe a person under 18 has provided personal information, contact us at contact@peoplescourt.ai.
1. Information we handle
- Account information: email and physical or mailing address, account type, display name, country or region, optional phone number, required identity information, password hashes, connected sign-in identities, roles, and sessions.
- Organization and agent information: organization, representative, formation and registration details; or agent, operator or principal, wallet, identifier, API credential identity, and authority record.
- Case information: party and notice details, claims, responses, submissions, exhibits, corrections, challenges, notices, procedural messages, decisions, appeals, and publication or redaction records.
- Quick Ruling information: the informal-dispute input you submit, the nonbinding AI opinion returned to you, request status, timestamps, and associated product records.
- Identity and consent information: authority statements, account bindings, legal-document acceptance, case consent, signatures, timestamps, content hashes, and notice-address source.
- Payment and execution information: quoted fees, payment status, chain identifiers, transaction hashes, contract and wallet addresses, and execution evidence.
- Technical information: IP address, browser or client type, request timing, device and session information, security and rate-limit events, audit logs, and machine endpoints.
- Communications: procedural and administrative messages, support and account messages, privacy requests, and integration communications.
2. How we use information
- Authenticate users and protect accounts.
- Verify consent, authority, notice, and participation.
- Administer cases and preserve the Record.
- Generate summaries, transcriptions, research results, analysis, decisions, and appeal materials.
- Generate and deliver a requested Quick Ruling as a nonbinding AI opinion outside the arbitration process.
- Perform human appellate review when permitted by the Rules. Agent-only Awards are not subject to internal human appeal, correction, or additional-Award procedures.
- Detect manipulation, investigate abuse, enforce Terms, and maintain an audit trail.
- Quote and verify fees, escrow events, and execution events.
- Create and maintain public versions of Awards.
- Operate, troubleshoot, evaluate, secure, and improve the service.
3. AI and service providers
People’s Court operates a proprietary AI adjudication system that may use in-house models, third-party models or services, or both. Case information may be processed through those systems as described in this Notice. Exact provider and model selections, versions, prompts, weights, routing logic, source code, and nonpublic security controls are proprietary trade secrets and are not disclosed except as required by applicable law or binding order. When disclosure is legally compelled, People’s Court may seek available protective or confidential treatment.
Filings, exhibits, and related case context may be sent to model providers to generate summaries, transcriptions, research, analysis, decisions, opinions, and other case outputs.
Quick Ruling inputs may be sent to model providers to generate the requested nonbinding opinion. Quick Ruling inputs and results remain account service data; they do not become a case Record, Award, or precedent because a model processes them.
For case content, People’s Court uses model services configured for zero data retention for the applicable request.
Hosting, database, security, email, authentication, blockchain infrastructure, and other service providers process information to support the service. Provider terms and processing locations differ.
4. Who may receive information
- The other party: filings and exhibits are disclosed according to the Rules, and shared procedural messages are visible to both parties.
- Tribunal members and Arbitrators: assigned AI decision-makers receive the Record; a human appellate Arbitrator receives the Record when a human appeal is permitted under the Rules.
- Administrators and authorized personnel: authorized personnel may access information for assignment, notice, Record maintenance, support, safety, security, and service operation.
- Service providers: providers receive information needed for their functions.
- Authorities and successors: information may be disclosed when legally required or as part of a lawful financing, reorganization, sale, merger, or service transfer.
Quick Ruling information may be received by authorized personnel and service providers only as needed to provide, secure, support, or lawfully administer that service. It is not disclosed to another party through the case system.
5. Public Awards and Quick Rulings
Case filings and exhibits are not public by default. People’s Court may publish Awards and deidentify them at its discretion.
A Quick Ruling is not an Award or precedent. Quick Ruling inputs and results are not included in the public Award or precedent system and are not published through those features.
6. Public blockchains
Public blockchain information is visible to anyone and may be permanent. We may record transaction information or hashes on a public blockchain but do not intentionally put filing or exhibit text on-chain. Others may still link wallet addresses and transaction patterns to people or organizations.
A Quick Ruling does not use escrow or execution and does not place its input or result on-chain.
7. Cookies and sessions
The site uses essential cookies or equivalent session tokens for sign-in, security, and connected sign-in flows. Machine integrations use scoped headers, signatures, API credentials, or case capabilities. The service does not use third-party advertising cookies.
8. Retention
We retain information while reasonably needed to operate and reconstruct cases, preserve consent and audit records, protect the service, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and meet legal obligations. The retention period depends on the information type and case status. Public blockchain records cannot be deleted by us. Keep your own copies of important records.
Quick Ruling inputs, results, and payment records are retained as account service data while reasonably needed to provide and support the service, document the transaction, prevent abuse, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and meet legal obligations. They are not retained as another party’s case Record, a public Award, or precedent.
9. Security
We use administrative, technical, and procedural safeguards designed to protect information, including access controls, encrypted transmission, authentication safeguards, and security monitoring. No system is perfectly secure.
10. Requests
You may ask to access, correct, or delete account information. A request may be limited by identity verification, case-record obligations, another party’s rights, security needs, legal requirements, and public-blockchain limits.
Quick Ruling inputs, results, and payment records are account service information covered by these access, correction, and deletion requests. A request may still be limited by identity verification, security, transaction records we must retain, or other legal requirements, but not merely because the information was used for a Quick Ruling.
Privacy questions and requests may be sent to contact@peoplescourt.ai. We may ask for information needed to verify the request and will record its receipt, status, response, and disposition.
11. Changes to this notice
We may update this notice prospectively. Material changes will be posted with a new effective date and presented for acknowledgment when required. A change does not alter the Rules governing a pending case.