PatternProof
PatternProof, operated by G. BURNS COMPANY LLC ("PatternProof," "we," "us," or "our"), is committed to protecting the privacy and safety of our users. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your information when you use our platform and associated services (collectively, the "Services").
Given the sensitive nature of our platform — designed to support people experiencing domestic violence, coercive control, and post-separation abuse — we apply privacy-by-design principles that exceed minimum legal requirements.
By using our Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
PatternProof is a documentation and pattern analysis platform built for people who have experienced domestic violence, coercive control, and post-separation abuse, and the attorneys and advocates who support them.
If you connect PatternProof to a third-party service (for example, legal practice management software), we may receive information from that service as authorized by you. We only request access to the data necessary for the integration to function.
We use the information we collect to:
We do not sell your personal information. We do not use your documentation content to train AI models.
PatternProof uses AI to group and summarize your documentation. AI outputs — pattern analyses, summaries, and voice-note or recording transcripts — are stored by PatternProof in our database as part of your case record, and are retained on the same terms as the rest of your documentation (see Section 8). They are visible to you and to anyone you choose to share them with.
What is not retained is the raw inference call at the third-party model provider: the content sent for a given request is processed to return that result and is not used to train their models. We do not independently control those providers' internal handling or retention beyond the terms of the gateway agreement described in Section 5.
We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties for their marketing purposes. We may share information in the following limited circumstances:
If you choose to share your case file or export materials to an attorney through the platform, that attorney will receive the information you designate. You control what is shared.
If you authorize integration with a third-party legal platform, we will share only the information necessary for that integration to function, as directed by you.
We work with trusted third-party service providers who help us operate the platform, including hosting, database, and AI processing providers. These providers are bound by terms that restrict use of your data to providing services to us. Current sub-processors include:
We may disclose information if required by law, court order, or to protect the safety of our users or others. We will notify you of any such request if legally permitted to do so.
Several features rely on third-party AI providers reached through the Lovable AI Gateway: Google (Gemini models) and OpenAI (transcription and scanned-document reading). Features that use them include Recurline pattern grouping, the Co-Pilot assistant, evidence content-type suggestions, voice/recording transcription, and reading text from the screenshots and call log photos you add on the Message threads page. Each of those screens tells you this and asks you to agree before anything is sent. A screen recording uploaded on that page is stored unchanged and is not read or sent to an AI provider. The on-device import (Import Messages) reads screenshots and recordings in your own browser and sends nothing to an AI provider.
When you use those features, the content involved — your entry text, message text, file names and extracted text, or audio — is transmitted to and processed by those providers. PatternProof does not independently contract with Google or OpenAI; processing is governed by Lovable's agreements with those providers and by each provider's own published API terms, which are the authoritative source for how that content is retained and handled. Their own published policies are the authoritative source (Google and OpenAI). If you would prefer not to have content processed this way, avoid the AI features listed above; the rest of PatternProof works without them.
You may optionally connect an external AI assistant or client application to your PatternProof account using OAuth (the Model Context Protocol, or MCP). This is entirely your choice — nothing is connected unless you approve it on the consent screen.
A connected app acts as you. With your approval it can read your documented incidents and evidence records, search your case, and log new incidents on your behalf. Access is scoped strictly to your own data — a connected app can never see another user's records, and it cannot see anything you could not see yourself.
Once connected, the external app and its provider handle the data they retrieve under their own privacy terms, which we do not control. You can review your connected apps and revoke access at any time from Settings → Connected apps. Revoking takes effect immediately for new requests.
We take the security of your data seriously. Measures we have implemented include:
What we do not currently offer: end-to-end (zero-knowledge) encryption where PatternProof staff cannot technically read your data. We will clearly announce this capability if and when we ship it. Until then, please assume authorized PatternProof engineers can technically access account contents in order to operate and support the service.
No system is 100% secure. If you believe your account has been compromised, contact us immediately at grace@gburnscompany.com.
You may access and update your account information at any time through the platform.
Automated in-app account deletion is not yet available. To request deletion of your account and associated data, email grace@gburnscompany.com with the subject line "Data Deletion Request." We aim to process requests within a reasonable time and will confirm when the deletion is complete. Until we can offer an automated deletion flow, this manual request process is the only supported method.
You can export your documentation at any time using the platform's built-in export feature. Your data belongs to you.
California residents have the right to know what personal information we collect, request deletion of their data, and opt out of the sale of personal information. We do not sell personal information. To exercise your rights, contact grace@gburnscompany.com.
You may opt out of non-essential communications at any time by contacting us or using the unsubscribe link in any email.
We retain your account and documentation data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide the Services. When you email us a deletion request (see "Deletion" above), we will remove your data as promptly as our current manual process allows, except where retention is required by law.
PatternProof is intended for adults aged 18 and older. The platform is a legal documentation tool designed to support adults navigating family court, custody, and domestic violence proceedings. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18. If we learn we have collected information from a minor, we will delete it immediately. If you believe we may have inadvertently collected information from someone under 18, please contact us at grace@gburnscompany.com.
Our Services may contain links to third-party websites or services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those third parties and encourage you to review their privacy policies.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page and notify active users by email for material changes. Continued use of the Services after any update constitutes your acceptance of the updated Policy.
Grace Burns, Founder
PatternProof
grace@gburnscompany.com
Burlington County, New Jersey, United States
The truth is in the pattern.