Privacy Policy

What this policy covers

This policy explains what information BidFederal collects when you use the service, why we collect it, and how it's stored. We've kept this deliberately short and straightforward, because that's genuinely all there is to say — we don't collect anything beyond what's described below.

Information we collect

• Email address, when you create an account (via Google Sign-In or email/password authentication).
• Business descriptions and messages you type into the chat interface, so we can match you to relevant contract opportunities and let you continue a conversation across messages.
• Your saved chat history within BidFederal, including the contracts you were matched to, so you can return to previous searches.

That's the complete list. We do not collect payment information, physical addresses, phone numbers, analytics cookies for advertising, or any data beyond what's listed above.

How we use this information

Your email is used solely for authentication — signing you into your account. Your business descriptions and messages are sent to Google's Gemini AI models (via Google Cloud Vertex AI) to generate contract matches and conversational responses, and are stored in our database (Google Firebase/Firestore) so your chat history persists between sessions.

We do not sell, rent, or share your information with advertisers or third-party marketers. We do not use your data to train AI models beyond the individual request being processed.

Where your data is stored

All data is stored on Google Cloud infrastructure (Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore), in the United States. Google Cloud maintains its own security and compliance standards, which you can review on Google Cloud's security page.

Government contract data

The contract opportunities shown to you come from SAM.gov, the official U.S. government contracting database, which is public information. We do not add, alter, or editorialize this data beyond matching and summarizing it for you.

Deleting your data

You can delete individual chat sessions at any time from within the app. If you'd like your account and all associated data fully deleted, email us at jaydev.raval@bidfederal.com and we'll take care of it.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in any meaningful way, we'll update the date at the top of this page. We don't expect frequent changes, since our data collection is intentionally minimal.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you have a question about your data, reach out directly at jaydev.raval@bidfederal.com.