Privacy policy
In short. Pactu.ai is in alpha. We collect what is needed to sign you in and to save your work: your name, email address, the company profile you set up, and the opportunities you track. We do not sell your information, show ads, or use tracking or analytics cookies. You can ask us to delete your account at any time.
Who we are
Pactu.ai (“Pactu”, “we”) is a federal capture intelligence service that helps government contractors identify and research potential contract opportunities. This policy covers the Pactu.ai website at pactu.ai and the application at alpha.pactu.ai.
Questions or requests: mychow@gmail.com.
Using Pactu without an account
You can use Pactu without signing in. If you do, what you enter — a company profile, opportunities you track, decisions — is held only temporarily in our server’s memory, is never written to our database, and is discarded when you close your browser, after 12 hours without use, or when the service restarts. A cookie that expires with your browser session keeps it separate from other visitors. If you then create an account in the same browser, that work is moved into your account.
What we collect
When you sign in. Your email address. If you sign in with Google or LinkedIn, we also receive the name and profile picture on that account. We do not receive your Google or LinkedIn password, contacts, posts or connections.
What you give us while using Pactu.
- Your company profile: organization name, the kinds of work you do, certifications, contract size and agency history you enter or confirm.
- If you ask Pactu to read your company website, the text of the public pages we fetch from it, and the capabilities we propose from them.
- If you look up your company’s contract history, the company name or UEI you search for. The results come from USAspending.gov, a public federal database.
- Your work in the product: opportunities you watch, pursue or dismiss, research steps and notes, feedback on recommendations, and generated opportunity briefs.
Automatically. A sign-in session cookie (or, without an account, a guest cookie that expires with your browser session), and the IP address and browser details that accompany any web request, which our hosting provider records in routine server logs. The application also remembers display preferences, such as which table columns you chose, in your browser’s local storage; that stays on your device.
Pactu’s market data is public U.S. government procurement information from sources such as USAspending.gov, SAM.gov and published agency forecasts. It is not personal information about you.
How we use it
- To sign you in and keep your work private to your account.
- To rank and explain opportunities against your company profile.
- To send the sign-in links you request. We do not send marketing email.
- To keep the service secure and working, and to understand whether its recommendations are useful. Feedback you give on recommendations is used to improve how they are ranked.
Who processes it for us
We use a small number of service providers, each only for the purpose listed:
| Provider | What it does | What it handles |
|---|---|---|
| Render | Hosts the application and its database | Everything stored in your account; server logs |
| Resend | Sends sign-in emails | Your email address and the sign-in link |
| Google, LinkedIn | Sign-in, only if you choose it | The sign-in itself, under their own privacy policies |
| OpenAI | Reads your company website when you ask Pactu to import a profile | The text of the public pages we fetch |
| Anthropic | Writes an opportunity brief when you ask for one | The opportunity and company-fit details needed for that brief |
| Cloudflare | Stores Pactu’s public government dataset | No personal information |
| DreamHost, Google Fonts | Serve this website and its typeface | Standard web request details, such as IP address |
Each processes what we send only to return a response to us, under its commercial API terms. We do not sell or rent personal information, and we do not share it for advertising.
We may disclose information if required by law, or to protect the rights and safety of Pactu or its users.
How long we keep it
We keep your account and saved work while your account is active. If you ask us to delete your account, we delete it and the work saved in it within 30 days. Routine server logs are kept for a limited period by our hosting provider and then discarded.
Your choices and rights
- Access, correct or delete. You can edit or remove your company profile in the product at any time. To get a copy of your data or delete your account, email mychow@gmail.com from the address you sign in with.
- Sign-in providers. You can remove Pactu’s access from your Google or LinkedIn account settings at any time. You can still sign in by email.
- Depending on where you live, you may have further rights under local law, such as the right to object to or restrict processing. Email us and we will respond within 30 days.
Security
Connections to Pactu are encrypted. Sign-in links work once and expire after 15 minutes, and your saved work is stored in a workspace only your account can reach. No system is perfectly secure; if we learn of a breach affecting your information, we will tell you.
Children
Pactu is a business service and is not directed to anyone under 16. We do not knowingly collect information from children.
Changes
If we change this policy, we will update the date above, and for significant changes we will tell signed-in users before they take effect.