Privacy Policy

1 Who We Are

SwornIn LLC ("SwornIn," "we," "our," or "us") is a Colorado limited liability company operating an online platform at swornin.io that connects law firms and attorneys ("Firms") with independent expert witnesses ("Experts"). SwornIn LLC is responsible for the personal information processed through the Platform.

Our privacy contact is hello@swornin.io. We are a small company and do not maintain a separate Data Protection Officer; privacy inquiries are reviewed and answered directly by SwornIn's principals.

2 Scope & Applicability

This Privacy Policy applies to personal information collected by SwornIn LLC through:

• The SwornIn website and web application at swornin.io and any subdomains — including our free tools (such as the Judge Lookup and the State of Expert Witness Testimony report);
• Email communications sent to or from SwornIn;
• Customer support interactions; and
• Any other services, products, or features we offer (collectively, the "Platform" or "Services").

This policy also covers information we gather about Experts from public court records, which is described in Section 4 — including where that information comes from and how to dispute it.

This policy does not apply to third-party websites or services that may be linked to or accessible through our Platform. Those third parties have their own privacy practices and we encourage you to review them independently.

By creating an account, using the Platform or our free tools, or submitting information through any SwornIn interface, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, you should not use our Services.

3 Information We Collect

We collect information in three ways: information you give us directly, information generated automatically by your use of the Platform, and information we gather from public sources (described separately in Section 4).

3.1 Free Tools & Waitlist (Lead Capture)

Some of our free resources — such as the Judge Lookup tool and the State of Expert Witness Testimony report — ask for your name, email address, and role (attorney/firm staff, expert witness, or other) before unlocking. When you submit that form:

• Your name, email, and selected role are stored in our database (hosted on Supabase);
• Your email is also stored in your own browser (localStorage) so you are not asked again on a return visit; and
• You are subscribed to the email communications described in Section 8, which you can unsubscribe from at any time.

Judge names you search in the free Judge Lookup are used to run the search (see Section 4) and are logged as anonymous usage events; they are not tied to a marketing profile about you.

3.2 Account & Registration Information

When you register for a SwornIn account, we collect your name, email address, the account type you select (Expert or Firm), and a password. Passwords are handled by our authentication provider (Supabase Auth) and stored only as salted hashes — we never store or see plaintext passwords.

3.3 Expert Application & Profile Data

Experts who apply to join SwornIn provide detailed professional information as part of the application and profile-building process. Depending on what you choose to submit, this includes:

• Curriculum vitae (CV) and resume documents;
• Academic credentials: degrees, institutions, graduation years;
• Professional certifications, licenses, board certifications, and memberships;
• Testimony history: deposition and trial counts, prior engagements, and self-reported Daubert/exclusion history and disclosures;
• Publications and presentations;
• Specialty areas, fee rates (including hourly, deposition, and file-review rates), geographic availability, and references;
• Links you provide (LinkedIn, professional website, Google Scholar) and an optional professional photograph.

Approved Expert profile information is displayed to authenticated Firm users and used in our matching and scoring features (Sections 4 and 5). Applications under review are visible to SwornIn administrators, who record review status and notes as part of our vetting workflow.

3.4 Law Firm Data

Firm users provide firm name, attorney or staff names, contact details, and information about the firm's practice areas. When a Firm submits a case inquiry, the firm's identity is disclosed to the Expert receiving the inquiry.

3.5 Case Inquiries & Messages

When a Firm submits a case inquiry or communicates with an Expert through the Platform, we collect and store the case type, jurisdiction, matter description, timestamps, inquiry status, and the messages exchanged. Case descriptions and, where you use those features, message threads are also processed by our AI service provider as described in Section 5.4.

3.6 Usage Data, Analytics & Server Logs

When you access the Platform, we and our hosting and analytics providers automatically collect:

• Log data: IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URL, pages requested, and timestamps — generated by our hosting provider (Vercel) as part of serving the site;
• Analytics events: pages viewed, features used (e.g., a free-tool form submission or judge lookup), device type, and approximate location, collected via Google Analytics 4 (see Section 7); and
• Error and performance data used for debugging.

3.7 Communications with Us

We retain emails you send to hello@swornin.io, support messages you submit through the Platform, and feedback or survey responses.

3.8 Payment Information (Planned)

SwornIn does not currently process payments through the website. When paid billing launches, we plan to process payments through Stripe, Inc. Payment card details will be entered directly with Stripe and will not be stored on SwornIn's own systems; SwornIn would retain only subscription status, billing history, and a payment token. We will update this policy when billing goes live.

4 Information from Public Court Records

Part of what makes SwornIn useful is that we analyze the public court record. We believe Experts deserve to know exactly what that means, so here it is in plain language.

4.1 What We Collect, and From Where

We search published judicial opinions and public docket information through CourtListener, a free public archive operated by the nonprofit Free Law Project. Specifically:

• About Experts: we search for published opinions and dockets that mention an Expert's name in an expert-testimony context (e.g., Daubert or Rule 702 rulings). For matching records we store the case name, court, date, a link to the public opinion, and a note about the apparent outcome (e.g., testimony admitted, limited, or excluded).
• About Judges: for our judge-intelligence features, we retrieve judges' published opinions touching expert-admissibility questions and generate summaries of their tendencies, always with citations to the underlying public opinions.

These are records that are already public. SwornIn does not access sealed records, and we cannot alter the underlying court record — only the courts can do that.

4.2 Verification Before Scoring

Names are not unique, and search results can be wrong. So every court record our system suggests for an Expert starts in an unverified state. A SwornIn administrator reviews each suggested record against the underlying public document before marking it verified. Only administrator-verified records influence an Expert's Reliability Index (ERI) score or appear in Firm-facing views. Unverified suggestions are never shown to Firms and never affect scoring.

4.3 Disputing a Record

If you are an Expert and believe a court record associated with your profile is not about you, or is inaccurate as summarized, email hello@swornin.io with "Court Record Dispute" in the subject line and a link to or description of the record. We review disputed records against the underlying public document. If we cannot confirm that a record refers to you and is accurately summarized, we remove it from your profile and scoring. Note that removal from SwornIn does not remove the record from the public court system or from CourtListener itself.

5 How We Use Your Information

5.1 To Operate the Platform

• Create, authenticate, and maintain your account;
• Review and approve Expert applications (our vetting workflow);
• Display approved Expert profiles to Firm users;
• Match case inquiries to relevant Experts and facilitate Firm–Expert communication;
• Compute Expert Reliability Index (ERI) scores from profile data and administrator-verified court records (Section 4); and
• Provide the free Judge Lookup and related litigation-intelligence tools.

5.2 To Communicate with You

We send service emails (account confirmations, password resets, inquiry notifications) and, if you opted in through a free tool or signup, the marketing emails described in Section 8.

5.3 To Improve the Platform

We analyze aggregate usage patterns, debug errors, and use aggregated, de-identified data derived from platform activity to improve search, matching, and scoring. Aggregated data that does not identify any individual may be used and shared without restriction, including as a business asset.

5.4 AI Processing (Anthropic)

Several SwornIn features use large language models from Anthropic (Claude) via Anthropic's commercial API. When you use these features, the relevant text is sent to Anthropic for processing and the result is returned to us:

• Case descriptions submitted by Firms are analyzed to extract case requirements and suggest matching Experts;
• CVs uploaded by Experts are parsed to pre-fill profile fields;
• Profile and inquiry data may be analyzed as part of scoring and match-rationale features;
• Message threads are summarized when a user requests a summary; and
• Published judicial opinions (public documents) are classified for judge-intelligence summaries.

This processing is handled under Anthropic's commercial API terms. Do not include privileged or confidential client information in case descriptions or messages — see the privilege notice in Section 3.5.

5.5 To Ensure Compliance and Safety

• Investigate reports of policy violations, fraudulent profiles, or misuse;
• Enforce our Terms of Service;
• Comply with legal obligations, court orders, and lawful governmental requests; and
• Protect the rights, property, or safety of SwornIn, our users, and the public.

6 How We Share Your Information & Service Providers

SwornIn does not sell personal information. We do not share personal information with advertising networks or data brokers. We share data only as follows:

6.1 With Other Platform Users (By Design)

• Expert profile data (name, credentials, specialties, testimony history, verified court records, fee information, and photo) is visible to authenticated Firm users. This is the core function of the platform.
• Firm identity (firm name and the inquiring attorney's name) is disclosed to an Expert when a case inquiry is submitted.
• Messages are visible to the sending and receiving parties.

6.2 Service Providers

We use a small number of third-party services to run SwornIn. Each receives only the data needed for its function and handles it under its own published terms and privacy policy. We update this table when providers change.

6.3 For Legal Compliance and Protection

We may disclose personal information if we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request; to enforce our Terms of Service; to detect, prevent, or address fraud, security incidents, or technical issues; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of SwornIn, our users, or the public.

6.4 In Connection with a Business Transfer

If SwornIn LLC is involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, asset sale, or entity conversion, user information held by SwornIn may be transferred to the successor entity as a business asset. In such an event, we will notify registered users by email and/or a prominent notice on the Platform, and the successor will either honor this Privacy Policy or provide notice of material changes with an opportunity to delete your account before they take effect.

6.5 Aggregated and De-Identified Data

We may create and share aggregate, de-identified statistical data derived from platform activity (for example, industry benchmarks on expert fees or Daubert outcomes). Aggregated data does not identify any individual user.

6.6 With Your Consent

We may share your information with third parties not described above if we have your express consent to do so.

7 Analytics & Cookies

7.1 Google Analytics 4

We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to understand aggregate site traffic and feature usage. GA4 sets cookies (such as _ga and _ga_*) and records events like page views and free-tool submissions. We review this data in aggregate; we do not use it for advertising.

You can opt out of Google Analytics measurement entirely by installing the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on, or by blocking analytics cookies in your browser settings.

7.2 Cookies & Local Storage We Use

7.3 Do Not Track

Our Platform does not currently respond to "Do Not Track" (DNT) browser signals, because there is no universally accepted standard for interpreting them. We will reassess this position if a consensus standard emerges.

8 Email Communications

8.1 What You Are Signing Up For

When you enter your email in one of our free-tool gates (such as the Judge Lookup or the State of Expert Witness Testimony report), you are subscribing to receive the 2026 State of Expert Witness Testimony report and occasional litigation-intelligence briefs from SwornIn. We say "occasional" and mean it — this is not a high-volume list.

8.2 Unsubscribing

Every marketing email we send identifies SwornIn as the sender and includes an unsubscribe link. You can also unsubscribe at any time by emailing hello@swornin.io with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. We honor opt-out requests promptly. We do not sell, rent, or share our email list.

8.3 Service (Transactional) Emails

If you hold a SwornIn account, we send transactional emails necessary to operate it — account confirmations, password resets, inquiry notifications, and important legal or security notices. These are not marketing and are sent for as long as your account is active.

9 Data Retention

We are an early-stage company and keep our retention practices simple and honest:

• Account and profile data is retained while your account is active. If you delete your account or ask us to (Section 11), we delete or de-identify your personal information, except where we need to retain specific records for legal, security, or dispute-resolution purposes.
• Waitlist and free-tool signups are retained until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them.
• Server logs are retained by our hosting provider for its standard, limited log windows.
• Google Analytics data is retained according to our GA4 retention settings and Google's policies.
• Court-record data (Section 4) is derived from documents that remain public at their source regardless of what SwornIn stores.
• Billing records, once billing launches, will be retained as required for tax and accounting purposes.

We do not yet operate formal fixed-schedule purges beyond the above; if that changes, we will update this section.

10 Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures appropriate to our size and the sensitivity of the data we handle:

• Encryption in transit: Traffic between your browser and our servers is encrypted over HTTPS (TLS).
• Encryption at rest: Platform data is stored with Supabase, which encrypts data at rest on managed cloud infrastructure.
• Authentication: Passwords are handled by Supabase Auth and stored only as salted hashes.
• Access controls: Platform data is accessible to users according to their account type; administrative access to production data is limited to SwornIn principals.
• Incident response: In the event of a data breach affecting your personal information, we will notify affected users and applicable regulators as required by law.

11 Your Choices & Privacy Rights

11.1 What You Can Ask Us to Do

Whatever your jurisdiction, you can email hello@swornin.io with "Privacy Request" in the subject line to:

• Access: ask what personal information we hold about you and receive a copy;
• Correct: fix inaccurate information — account holders can also edit most profile information directly in account settings;
• Delete: request deletion of your account, waitlist entry, or other personal information we hold (subject to the retention limits in Section 9);
• Opt out of marketing: unsubscribe as described in Section 8; and
• Dispute a court record: as described in Section 4.3.

We verify requests using the email address we have on file. We aim to acknowledge privacy requests within five business days and to resolve them within thirty days. We do not charge for reasonable requests and we will not retaliate against you for making one.

11.2 Colorado Residents (Colorado Privacy Act)

SwornIn LLC is a Colorado company. The Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) imposes formal obligations on businesses that process personal data of at least 100,000 Colorado consumers in a year, or at least 25,000 consumers while deriving revenue from selling personal data. SwornIn does not currently meet those thresholds, so the CPA's formal requirements do not yet apply to us — but we have built our practices in its direction: we honor access, correction, and deletion requests as described above, we do not sell personal data, and we do not process personal data for targeted advertising. If we grow to meet the CPA thresholds, we will update this policy with the CPA's formal request-and-appeal process.

11.3 California and Other State Residents

State privacy laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA) apply to businesses above certain size and revenue thresholds that SwornIn does not currently meet. Regardless, we extend the same courtesies to all users: you may request access, correction, or deletion as described in Section 11.1, and we do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

12 Users Outside the United States

SwornIn operates from the United States and is designed for U.S. legal practice. Our servers and service providers process data in the United States. If you access the Platform from outside the U.S., your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. If you are located in a jurisdiction with additional data-protection rights (such as the EEA or UK) and have a question about your data, contact us at hello@swornin.io.

13 Children's Privacy

The SwornIn Platform is intended exclusively for professional use by adults aged 18 and older — licensed attorneys, law firm staff, and professional expert witnesses.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 18. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a minor, we will delete it promptly. If you believe a minor has provided personal information through our Platform, contact us at hello@swornin.io.

14 Third-Party Links

Our Platform contains links to third-party websites — for example, links to public court opinions on CourtListener, LinkedIn profiles on Expert pages, or external publications. These sites are not operated by SwornIn and are not covered by this Privacy Policy.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party site or service. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of every website you visit.

15 Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices, features, or applicable law. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last Updated" and "Effective" dates at the top of this page and post the revised policy here; for material changes affecting registered users, we will also make reasonable efforts to notify you by email or a prominent notice on the Platform.

Your continued use of the Platform after the effective date of a revised policy constitutes your acceptance of the updated terms. If you do not agree with any changes, you should stop using the Platform and may request deletion of your account.

16 Contact Us

Questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices: