Curator · Legal

Privacy Policy

Effective 2026-09-16
The short version

Curator is a private register for tax documents. We collect the minimum we need to run that register for you, we store it encrypted, we do not sell it, we do not use it to train AI models, and we delete it on request. The rest of this page is the long version of those sentences.

Who is responsible

“Curator,” “we,” and “us” refer to the operator of curatorrecord.com. We are the data controller for the personal information described in this policy. You can reach us at privacy@curatorrecord.com.

This policy covers the Curator web application at curatorrecord.com, Curator’s shared intake address for forwarded tax documents, and our marketing pages.

What we collect

We collect three things, and only the third is your tax documents themselves.

1. Account information. When you create a Curator account, we collect your email address, a hashed second factor (a TOTP secret bound to your authenticator app), and a record of sign-ins for security purposes. If you invite household or entity members, we record the email addresses you invited and when they accepted.

2. Usage and operational data. We log basic request metadata (IP address, user-agent, request path, timestamps, success or failure) so we can keep the Service available, debug problems, and detect abuse. These logs are retained for up to 90 days. We do not run third-party analytics, advertising trackers, or session-replay tools on the application surface.

3. Your tax documents. When you forward a document or upload one, we receive the PDF (or image), the filename, a SHA-256 hash of the file content (used for de-duplication), and any tax-year or account-organization choices you make in the register.

What we do not collect
  • We do not collect or store passwords for any third-party service you connect to Curator. The email forwarding flow does not require us to authenticate to your inbox.
  • We do not run advertising trackers, fingerprinting scripts, or cross-site cookies. The only cookies we set are the ones needed to keep you signed in.
  • We do not collect information about your activity on websites outside Curator.
  • We do not require government identifiers. We do not ask for SSN, EIN, or any other tax identifier as part of account creation; those values may appear inside documents you upload, and they stay where you put them.
How we use what we collect
  • To run the Service for you. Storing your documents, organizing them by tax year and account, generating the share links you request, and delivering forwarded email to your private register.
  • To keep the Service secure. Detecting account compromise, blocking abuse of forwarded-email endpoints, and investigating incidents.
  • To support you. Replying when you write to us about your account, an extraction error, or a deletion request.
  • To file tax documents. We pass each PDF through an AI pipeline to read routing fields (tax year, recipient entity, issuer, form type) so the document can be organized in your register. See the AI processing section below.
  • To meet legal obligations. Where the law requires us to retain or disclose information.

We do not sell your personal information. We do not use your documents, or anything inside them, for advertising or for training AI models.

How your documents are stored

Your documents live in a private encrypted Supabase Storage bucket backed by AWS S3, with server-side encryption at rest and TLS in transit. Database records describing those documents are stored in the same Supabase project, with row-level security enforced at the database level so that no row from your register is readable by another user.

Two-factor authentication is offered on every account and strongly recommended; you can enable it from Settings whenever you choose. Internal access by Curator personnel is limited to the narrow operational access required to run the Service, is logged, and is granted on a need-to-know basis.

Sharing with third parties

We share information with three categories of recipients, and only three:

  • Subprocessors who run the Service for us. A short list of trusted vendors who host the application, store data, deliver email, and process AI extraction requests. As of the effective date above, these are: Vercel (hosting), Supabase (database, storage, authentication), Resend (email delivery and inbound processing), Cloudflare (DNS and edge networking), and the Vercel AI Gateway with Anthropic Claude under zero-data-retention terms (routing fields so documents can be filed). We update this list when it changes.
  • People you explicitly share with. When you create a share link for a tax year and send it to your accountant, the documents covered by that link become accessible to whoever holds the link until you revoke it or it expires. That’s the entire purpose of the link; we mention it here so the flow is unambiguous.
  • Legal recipients. If we are compelled by valid legal process (a subpoena, court order, or equivalent), we will disclose the narrowest set of information required, push back on overbroad requests, and where lawful, notify you so you have a chance to contest the request yourself.
AI processing

To file a tax document, we send the PDF to an AI provider for the sole purpose of reading routing fields: tax year, recipient entity, issuer, and form type. That step runs on every plan. We do not extract K-1 box amounts or other line-item tax figures. The provider operates under zero-data-retention terms, meaning it does not log or store the request payload after the response is returned, and it is contractually prohibited from using your data to train or improve its models.

Deleting a document deletes both the file and any routing fields derived from it.

Retention and deletion

We keep your account information and documents for as long as your account is active. When you delete a document inside the Service, it is removed from active storage immediately and purged from backups on a rolling basis (typically within 30 days).

You can delete your account from Settings → Delete account, or write to privacy@curatorrecord.com from the email address on the account. That erases your login, your memberships, and other personal account records. Documents and investments belong to the investing entity; they are not deleted just because you leave. If you are the last owner, we revoke active share links for those books so existing CPA links stop working. If other members remain, their book stays. If you are the only member and you want that entity’s documents deleted too, say so in the request. We confirm in writing when it’s done. Operational logs that contain no document content age out within 90 days regardless.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export, restrict, or delete the personal information we hold about you, and to object to certain kinds of processing. You can exercise all of these rights, including under the GDPR (for EU/UK users) and the CCPA/CPRA (for California users), by writing to privacy@curatorrecord.com.

We will respond within 30 days. We do not charge for these requests, and we do not require you to create a separate account or use any third-party tool to make them.

International transfers

Curator is operated from the United States, and our infrastructure providers may store data in data centers in the United States and elsewhere. If you use the Service from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be transferred to and processed in jurisdictions whose data-protection rules differ from yours. Where required by law, we rely on Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent mechanisms with our subprocessors.

Children

Curator is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has created an account, write to us and we will delete it.

Changes to this policy

If this policy materially changes, we will update the effective date above and notify account holders by email, by a banner inside the Service, or both. Continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact

Privacy questions, access requests, or deletion requests: privacy@curatorrecord.com.