# RigorLoop Privacy Policy Effective August 2, 2026. RigorLoop collects account and profile data, private expert-verification evidence, Research Bounty content, marketplace activity, messages, deliverables, reviews, disputes, call and support records, payment status, and service logs to operate, secure, support, and improve the marketplace. ## Public and private information Public Research Bounty fields and published expert profiles are visible and indexable. Private questions, protected files, messages, verification evidence, payment records, dispute evidence, and accepted deliverables are not public. RigorLoop does not sell or license private research as a standalone dataset, publish it, or use it to train models. ## Providers RigorLoop uses providers for hosting, database and file storage, Google authentication, Stripe payments and payouts, transactional email, Daily video calls, monitoring, analytics, and support. Only information reasonably needed to provide those services is shared. ## Retention - Drafts and cancelled work: at least 90 days. - Funded assignment records and dispute evidence: at least 180 days after completion, cancellation, or final Platform Dispute Review, whichever is later. - Accepted expert deliverables: retained indefinitely in RigorLoop's private research archive, subject to applicable law. - Expert verification evidence: while the account is active and afterward when reasonably necessary for fraud prevention, appeals, safety, and legal obligations. Users may request access, correction, or deletion through support, subject to transaction, dispute, fraud-prevention, safety, and legal retention requirements. Canonical HTML: Support: