ENHANCE Institute conducts structural evaluation using documents submitted by clients and publicly available project records. Submitted materials are handled according to the principles below. ENHANCE does not operate as a data broker, information intermediary, or platform. All materials submitted exist solely within the evaluation relationship.
All documents submitted to ENHANCE — including funding proposals, concept notes, project architectures, financial models, risk registers, institutional records, corporate disclosures, and related materials — are treated as confidential by default.
Submitted materials are not disclosed to third parties, referenced in public research, or used outside the scope of the engagement without explicit written consent from the instructing party.
ENHANCE does not sell, license, transfer, or otherwise make available submitted documents or derived analytical outputs to any third party.
Engagement outputs are delivered exclusively to the instructing party, unless otherwise agreed in writing. Where sub-engagement or technical support arrangements are required, they are governed by confidentiality obligations providing equivalent protection.
Submitted documents are not used to train, fine-tune, calibrate, or improve any machine learning model, language model, AI system, or external platform.
AI-assisted extraction within ENHANCE's evaluation workflow is used solely for the commissioned engagement. It supports structured information extraction from submitted documents and does not create any persistent training dataset.
Where third-party technical infrastructure is used for document processing, ENHANCE applies confidentiality-preserving settings and does not authorize provider-side model training on submitted materials.
ENHANCE applies reasonable administrative, technical, and access-control measures to protect submitted materials. These may include restricted internal handling, role-based access, secure storage procedures, and limited access to engagement materials based on operational necessity.
Submitted materials, structured inputs, evaluation outputs, and engagement records are retained only for the duration of the engagement and, where necessary for auditability, client support, dispute resolution, or institutional recordkeeping, for a post-engagement period of up to 24 months.
After that period, materials are deleted from active systems and scheduled for removal from backups in accordance with ENHANCE's data retention procedures, unless extended retention is requested by the client in writing or required by law, contract, or institutional obligation.
Clients may request deletion of submitted materials at any time, subject to applicable legal, contractual, or recordkeeping requirements.
The instructing party is responsible for ensuring that it has the authority to submit documents to ENHANCE for evaluation, including any personal data, confidential institutional information, third-party materials, or restricted project records contained in those documents.
ENHANCE is willing to execute a mutual non-disclosure agreement before engagement where formal confidentiality protection is required.
Standard NDA terms are available on request. Custom NDA frameworks may be accommodated where institutional requirements differ from ENHANCE's standard terms.
ENHANCE publishes structural benchmark reports, working papers, and methodological studies using publicly available project records only.
No client-submitted document has been or will be used as the basis for any public research output, public case study, benchmark report, or external publication without explicit written consent.
ENHANCE welcomes confidentiality and data handling questions before any document is submitted. Reach us directly to discuss NDA terms, institutional requirements, or specific data handling needs.
contact@enhance-institute.org