Privacy Policy

01Who we are (Data Fiduciary)

WIPB Research and Technologies Private Limited (IP Bank), the provider of ARTHAKRAM, is the Data Fiduciary for the personal data described here. Our registered office and contact details are set out in the Grievance Officer section below.

02What personal data we collect

Account data (name, email, organisation), billing data (GSTIN, billing address, payment references), and the invention-disclosure (IDF) content you submit for drafting.

03Purpose of processing

We process this data to provide the drafting service, to operate your prepaid wallet and issue tax invoices, to secure the service against abuse, and to meet our legal obligations.

04Retention, purge and erasure

Your draft content — the invention-disclosure (IDF) text you submit and the finished specification drafted from it — is retained after completion only long enough for you to take delivery and to re-view the completed draft (read-only). Everything is then permanently deleted together: 24 hours after your first download, or after 30 days of inactivity if you never download. Transient processing caches expire automatically within 30 days of the draft run. Your content is never used to train any model. The one exception: if you mark an invention for a separate application, that short note (one line each for the problem and its solution) stays on your dashboard's to-do list until you dismiss it.

On an erasure request, we anonymise your personal data (name, email) and purge your content. Financial records (the credit-ledger entries and tax invoices) are retained as required by Indian tax law (approximately eight years) — these retained records are content-free and carry no invention details.

05Third-party processing and cross-border transfer

Invention-disclosure content you submit is processed on our behalf by Anthropic PBC, acting as our sub-processor, using its Claude models. That processing takes place on infrastructure located in the United States, so submitting an invention disclosure involves a cross-border transfer of your personal data outside India. We make this transfer only to generate the draft you have requested, under our data-processing agreement with Anthropic; your content is not used to train any model, and it is retained and then purged as set out in the Retention section. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 permits the transfer of personal data outside India except to any territory the Central Government may restrict by notification.

06Your rights as a Data Principal

Under the DPDP Act you may request access to, correction of, and erasure of your personal data, nominate another person to exercise your rights, and raise a grievance. You can request erasure of your personal data from your Wallet page, or contact the Grievance Officer below.

07Consent and its withdrawal

We process your personal data on the basis of the consent you give when you create an account and submit content, and, where applicable, to perform our contract with you and to meet our legal obligations. For invention-disclosure content, that consent includes the cross-border processing described above.

You may withdraw your consent at any time — by using the erasure request on your Wallet page or by contacting the Grievance Officer. Withdrawing consent for processing that is essential to the service (such as processing an invention disclosure to generate a draft) means we can no longer provide that part of the service and may require us to close your account. Withdrawal does not affect processing already carried out before you withdrew, or records we are required to keep by law.

08Security safeguards

We apply reasonable technical and organisational measures — encryption in transit, access controls, tenant isolation, and content minimisation — to protect personal data.

09Children's data

ARTHAKRAM is a professional tool intended for use by registered patent agents, attorneys, and inventors, and is not directed at children. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 18, and we do not carry out tracking, behavioural monitoring, or targeted advertising directed at children. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child, we will delete it.

10Grievance Officer

For any grievance about the processing of your personal data, contact our Grievance Officer:

Ashok Doppalapudi
[email protected]
1st Floor, H.No. 8-3-224/11/A/4, G-9, Ameerpet, Sanjeev Reddy Nagar, Madhura Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana — 500038

Full details are on the Grievance Officer page.

11Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our processing, our sub-processors, or the law. When we do, we revise the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, where a change is material, take reasonable steps to notify you within the service or by email. The current version always governs our processing of your personal data.