Privacy Policy

Who we are

Publicus is a Canadian government-procurement intelligence platform operated by iicontent Inc.(“Publicus”, “we”, “us”). We are the organization accountable for personal information under our control. Privacy questions or requests can be directed to joe@publicus.ai.

What we collect and why

We limit collection to what is needed to deliver the Service. We collect account data (such as your email address and organization when you sign up), configuration data (your company profile, capability tags, and opportunity preferences, used to match you to relevant opportunities), and usage data (to operate, secure, and improve the platform). The core procurement data in the product (RFPs, tenders, and awards) is aggregated from public government sources and is not personal information about you.

Where your data is stored

All customer and platform data is stored on Canadian cloud infrastructure. Your procurement data never leaves Canada. Data is encrypted with 256-bit encryption in transit and at rest.

How we use AI, and what we never do with your data

We use AI to classify opportunities, match them to your capabilities, and generate summaries. There is an important distinction we hold ourselves to:

• When we process your query or profileto produce a match or a summary, the underlying models are read-only. Nothing you send changes a model's future behaviour for anyone else.
• We do not use your data (prompts, uploaded files, configuration, generated outputs, query logs, or embeddings) to train, fine-tune, or reinforce anymachine-learning model. This covers both Publicus's own models and any third-party foundation-model or embedding provider our systems rely on.

Your data is tenant-isolated: it is never pooled, cross-retrieved, or commingled with another customer's data to produce results. The third-party subprocessors that may process data on our behalf are named on our subprocessors page.

Sharing and disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or rent personal information. We disclose personal information only to subprocessors that operate the platform on our behalf under confidentiality and no-training obligations, where required by law, or with your consent. Where your account is sponsored by an organization (for example, through a partner program), that organization may have visibility into your account activity; the specifics are described in a supplemental notice provided to you at sign-up.

Retention

We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purposes above and to meet legal and security obligations. By default we do not persistently store the content of your interactive queries beyond what is reasonably necessary to deliver the Service and maintain security. On termination, customer data is deleted or returned on request, and we will provide written certification of destruction on request.

Your rights

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information by emailing joe@publicus.ai. Residents of Quebec have additional rights under Quebec's Law 25, including data portability and the right to be informed of automated decision-making; contact us to exercise these.

Security

Publicus maintains a security program aligned with the SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria for security and confidentiality, with Protected B–ready infrastructure and mandatory multi-factor authentication. For full security details, visit our security page. In the event of a privacy breach that creates a real risk of significant harm, we will notify affected parties and the relevant authorities as required by law.

Changes and contact

We may update this policy; if a change materially reduces your rights we will provide reasonable advance notice. For privacy questions, contact us at joe@publicus.ai.