Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 25, 2026
1. Information We Collect
To provide a comprehensive research workspace and AI mentorship experience, we collect:
- Account Credentials: Email, displayName, and profile role during enrollment or login.
- Research Parameters: Lab notebook logs, manuscript drafts, inquiry sparks, and experimental protocols.
- Conversational Data: Full message transcripts, timestamps, and prompt interactions within Aura specialist chat drawers.
- Session Cookies: LocalStorage and session cookies used purely to protect authentication state and persist your workspace configuration.
2. Research Confidentiality
STRICT PRIVACY GUARANTEE: iResearch is built for competitive student researchers preparing fair submissions (ISEF, STS, JSHS, MIT PRIMES) and academic publications. Your hypotheses, experimental data, lab notebooks, research calculations, and AI mentorship sessions remain 100% strictly private, confidential, and encrypted. We never share, expose, train public models on, or disclose your unpublished scientific work.
AI Safety & Guardrails: While direct user research interactions and research findings are never monitored directly, model behavioral boundaries, conversational scope, and response alignment may be monitored solely for AI safety and platform integrity.
3. How We Use Your Data
The data collected is used strictly to:
- Power AI research mentorship and generative experimental recommendations.
- Conduct secure credit usage auditing and administrative quota management.
- Enhance model safety guarding and filter out inappropriate or harmful responses.
- We never sell, rent, or monetize student data or unpublished findings.
4. Data Retention & Security
We implement industry-standard administrative, physical, and technological security controls to guard your scientific profile details. Chat history transcripts and research logs are securely retained to support session persistence and administrative safety audits, protected by Cloud Firestore security rules and SSL/TLS encryption.
5. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding student privacy, data protection, or safety audits, please submit an inquiry through our iResearch Support Contact Form.