Privacy Policy

We collect information in a few different ways.

(a) Information you give us. When you use the Site or contact us, you may provide:

• your email address, when you ask us to save a preview or email it to you;
• your personalization choices — the patent number you enter and the frame, size, and quantity you select;
• the contents of any message you send us — for example, a support or order question sent to hello@patently-gifted.com.

(b) Patent information from public records. Our products are made from information that is already part of the public patent record. From public U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) sources and other public patent databases, we use details such as the patent number, the patent title, the grant date, the names of the inventors, the inventor’s city and state, and the assignee. We use this to identify newly issued patents, to decide who to invite, and to personalize a keepsake. Patent records are public, but combining them with the other information described here can still affect your privacy — see Section 2.

(c) Mailing and contact addresses. To send a mailed invitation to an inventor named on a newly issued patent, we need a name and a mailing address. We obtain these addresses from two kinds of sources, and we want to be plain about both:

• Public records — including USPTO records (which, for inventors who filed without an attorney, can list the inventor’s own address), state voter registration files that make a residential address available, and county property records.
• Paid third-party data services — sometimes called “skip-trace” or people-data providers (a type of data broker). Given an inventor’s name and city, these services return a current mailing address. We may use a home address, or a business or correspondence address where a home address is not available.

We may validate a recovered address (for example, against U.S. Postal Service address data) so mail is deliverable. We did not receive this contact information from you, and you did not sign up to hear from us — so we explain in Sections 6 and 7 how to ask us to stop mailing you and to delete your information.

(d) Information collected automatically. When our analytics are enabled, we and our analytics provider automatically collect usage information as you interact with the Site, such as the pages you view, the links and buttons you click, the page that referred you, a general location inferred from your IP address, and details about your device and browser. This is collected using cookies and similar technologies and may include session recordings (a replay of the pages you saw and how you moved and clicked through them). See Section 4 for more, including how to opt out.

We want to be transparent about how the personalized experience works, because it brings together several pieces of information about one person:

• We prepare an invitation addressed to you by name, using public patent information about a patent you are named on, and mail it to an address obtained from the sources in Section 1(c).
• The QR code and the link on the invitation include a unique code that stands for your invitation. When you visit, that code tells us the visit is connected to the invitation we sent you, so we can show your patent and remember your visit.
• When analytics are enabled, we associate your activity on the Site — and any session recording of that visit — with that same code. In other words, your on-site behavior can be tied to you as a specific, named person we mailed, rather than to an anonymous visitor.

If you reach the Site on your own — for example, by typing in a patent number rather than following a personalized link — our analytics treat you as an anonymous visitor and do not tie your activity to a mailed invitation.

Our personalized pages are set not to be indexed by search engines, and we serve the Site over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection. Our direct-mail invitation program is being prepared and may not be active yet; when it launches, this section describes how it works.

We use the information above to:

• identify newly issued patents and the inventors we invite, and prepare and send mailed invitations;
• personalize, generate, and show your preview, and take and fulfill an order;
• send you the transactional email you request (such as your saved preview);
• operate, secure, debug, and improve the Site and our products;
• understand how our campaign and Site perform through analytics, including which steps people complete;
• respond to your questions and provide customer support; and
• comply with law and enforce our Terms.

When analytics are enabled, we use cookies and similar technologies (such as local storage and device identifiers) to run and measure the Site. Our analytics provider automatically captures interactions — including page views and clicks — and may create session recordings that replay a visit. As described in Section 2, when you arrive through a personalized invitation link, this activity can be associated with you as an identified person.

Your options. You can:

• use your browser settings to block or delete cookies (some parts of the Site may not work as well without them);
• use browser privacy controls and opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control (GPC); where required by law, we treat a recognized signal as a request to opt out; and
• email us at hello@patently-gifted.com to ask us to stop associating your activity with you or to opt out of analytics.

Our analytics are turned on only when configured, and are being set up as part of launch. Until then, no analytics cookies or session recordings are collected on the Site.

We do not sell your personal information for money. We share information with service providers who process it on our behalf and under contract, and only as needed to run our business. These providers fall into categories such as:

• Website hosting and infrastructure (for example, Vercel);
• Database and storage for the information you submit (for example, Vercel Postgres, powered by Neon);
• Analytics, including session recording (for example, PostHog);
• Email delivery for the messages you request (for example, Resend);
• Domain, network, and security infrastructure (for example, Cloudflare);
• Error and performance monitoring (for example, Sentry); and
• Address and public-records data providers that help us find and validate mailing addresses, as described in Section 1(c).

This list of providers may change as our tools evolve. We may also share information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to comply with the law or legal process, to protect the rights, safety, or property of people or of Patently Gifted, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, in which case we will seek to have the recipient honor this Policy.

Some privacy laws, including in California, define “sale” and “sharing” broadly enough that certain analytics or data-provider arrangements may be treated as a sale or share even without an exchange of money. See Section 7 for how California residents can opt out.

Stop the mail. You can ask us not to send you mailed invitations and to suppress your details from future mailings. Email us at hello@patently-gifted.com with the name and address on the invitation (or the patent number), and we will add you to our do-not-mail list.

Access, correction, and deletion. You can ask us to tell you what personal information we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it. We honor the privacy rights that apply to you under the law of the place where you live, regardless of where our company is organized. Some information may be retained where the law allows or requires it (see Section 8).

To make any of these requests, email hello@patently-gifted.com. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request, and we will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA/CPRA”), gives you specific rights. This applies to California residents even though our Terms are governed by Delaware law — privacy rights follow where you live.

You have the right to:

• know the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources, and the purposes;
• delete personal information we hold about you;
• correct inaccurate personal information;
• opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information, as those terms are broadly defined under California law; and
• exercise these rights without being discriminated against.

To help you understand what we handle, the categories of personal information we may collect are: identifiers (such as name and email address), postal and contact information (mailing address), commercial information (your personalization choices and any order), and internet or other network activity (analytics and session recordings). The sources are: you; public records (including USPTO, voter, and property records); paid address and people-data providers; and information collected automatically through the Site. We use it for the purposes in Section 3. We do not knowingly collect the categories California treats as “sensitive personal information,” and we do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16.

To exercise any of these rights, including to opt out of a sale or share, email us at hello@patently-gifted.com (you may also use a recognized opt-out preference signal, as described in Section 4). You may use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf.

Depending on where you live, you may have similar rights under other privacy laws. We aim to honor applicable privacy rights wherever you are; contact us at hello@patently-gifted.com and we will help.

We keep personal information for as long as we need it for the purposes described in this Policy — for example, to run our campaign, to fulfill and support an order, and to keep records — and then for as long as the law allows or requires. When we no longer need information, we take reasonable steps to delete or de-identify it. If you ask us to stop mailing you, we may keep the minimum information needed to honor that request (such as a suppression record).

We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards to protect personal information, including serving the Site over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection and restricting access to the information you submit to our systems rather than exposing it in your browser. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, however, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

The Site and our products are intended for adults and are not directed to children under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you believe a child has provided us personal information, contact us at hello@patently-gifted.com and we will delete it.

We may update this Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above, and the updated Policy takes effect when posted. If we make a material change, we will take reasonable steps to make it more prominent. Please check back periodically.

Questions about this Policy, or want to exercise a privacy choice or right? Reach us at hello@patently-gifted.com. This Site is operated from the United States.