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Sub-processor List
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Nodes-IP uses the following third-party sub-processors to provide our platform. Customers are notified by email at least 30 days before a sub-processor is added or replaced, and can object under the Data Processing Agreement.
Application data and hosting
Involves invention disclosuresEverything stored in your account: projects, claims, application text, sources, and conversation history live in our database; uploaded figures and drawings live in file storage.
Railway
EU- Purpose
- Application and Postgres database hosting
- Data categories
- All service data
Cloudflare R2
EU- Purpose
- Figure/drawing storage
- Data categories
- User-uploaded images
AI processing
Involves invention disclosuresThe AI assistant and the AI-backed drafting features: assistant conversations, claims drafting, application section composition, drawing descriptions, and figure generation. Prompts sent for processing can include your invention content and project text.
Anthropic
US- Purpose
- LLM inference
- Data categories
- User prompts, generated content
Under Anthropic's commercial terms, data submitted through the API is not used to train Anthropic's models.
Tavily
US- Purpose
- Web search for the AI assistant
- Data categories
- Search queries
OpenAI
US- Purpose
- LLM inference when you choose a GPT model, and figure generation and editing
- Data categories
- User prompts, generated content, figures sent for editing
Under OpenAI's API terms, data submitted through the API is not used to train OpenAI's models by default.
Patent search queries
Involves invention disclosuresThe prior art search area, and patent lookups made on your behalf by the AI assistant. Search terms and the numbers of patents you view are sent to these providers to retrieve patent data.
EPO (OPS)
EU- Purpose
- Patent data lookup
- Data categories
- Search queries, patent numbers
Google Cloud (BigQuery)
US- Purpose
- Patent claims lookup for non-EP patents
- Data categories
- Patent numbers
Account and authentication
Signing in and account management. An OAuth provider is involved only when you choose to sign in with it; Resend delivers the sign-in email when you use email sign-in.
Google (OAuth)
US- Purpose
- OAuth sign-in provider
- Data categories
- Email, profile basics
Microsoft
US- Purpose
- OAuth sign-in provider (Entra ID)
- Data categories
- Email, profile basics
Resend
US- Purpose
- Transactional email (sign-in codes)
- Data categories
- Email address
Changes to this list
- Added OpenAI.
- Removed Termly.
- Changed Resend (purpose).
- List published with 10 sub-processors.