# Data and security: limits and conditions

> Which data can be accepted, what agreed reuse may involve, and which records fall under other providers’ terms.

Data and security: limits and conditions.

## Data that cannot be accepted

- **Identifiable or clinical data.** Data that identify or could re-identify individuals, clinical data, data whose rights are unclear, and data whose terms forbid external services are refused.
- **No anonymization guarantee.** SciGround does not anonymize data or guarantee anonymity.

## Reuse, only when agreed

- **What may be used.** If your organization agrees to it, limited derived fields—such as workflow steps, method and checker versions, reason categories, and check status before and after a fix—may be used to build research tasks for evaluating and training research AI.
- **What is excluded.** Free text, conversations, original files, measured values, study names, direct identifiers, and traceable IDs are excluded by default. There is no transfer to third parties, a parent company, or a successor by default, and no automatic model training.
- **Stopping and deletion.** Stops and deletion requests are applied going forward, and their reach into tasks or copies already created is tracked; complete erasure of copies already provided is not guaranteed. Past uploads are never used retroactively.

## Other providers and guarantees

- **Infrastructure logs.** Cloud and sign-in providers keep their own management logs under their own terms. SciGround’s retention periods apply to the records SciGround collects, and are extended—for example, for a legal hold—only with explicit approval.
- **Uploads outside the card.** Command-line hosts upload through the helper. If your AI has already read a local file, that happened outside SciGround.
- **Verification is not a privacy guarantee.** Mathematical verification describes results and their conditions. It does not establish privacy, local-only processing, or data residency.

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