Privacy, written for the work.

• The documents you upload, only when you choose to run a tool on one.
• Your email, if you enter it for a result, a waitlist, or an account.
• Basic visit metadata, standard request data (IP address, user agent, timestamps) used to operate the site and stop abuse.

We send the file to Google Gemini, which reads it and returns structured output. We render that into the result the tool produces and hand it back to you.

On any anonymous run, your uploaded file is permanently deleted within 60 seconds of producing the result. Persistence exists only inside an authenticated paid account, where you have chosen to save your work.

• We don’t link an anonymous upload to your identity. This is built into the architecture, not just stated in a policy. Identity (your email, the link you clicked) is stored separately from the file you process, with no key joining one to the other.
• We don’t profile contractors or build a dossier on your bidding.
• We don’t sell competitive intelligence. We will never sell, rent, or hand another contractor information about what you are bidding.
• We don’t share your uploaded content with anyone except Google Gemini, for the seconds it takes to analyze the file.

Google, and no one else. Your file passes to Google’s Gemini API for the brief processing window. We do not use your file to train any model, and we ask Google not to either. See Google’s data policy for the Gemini API. Beyond Google, no third party receives your documents.

You can ask us to delete the record tied to your email at any time. Email privacy@bidshelf.com and we will remove it and confirm.

If a document is under NDA or a confidential bidder list, please don’t upload it on an anonymous run. Use the sample to see how a tool works.