How we handle your data.

Only what you type into our forms, plus a CV if you choose to attach one. We buy no data, we enrich from no third party, and we build no profile of you from anywhere else.

Once you have an account, our authentication provider also holds the sign-in record for it: your email address and your password, stored hashed. Nobody here can read your password. And by standing rule, none of the data above is ever written into our application logs.

To vet you, and to curate the pool. Curation is the whole product: every operator profile is read by a person before it goes live, and every founder has a call with us before they see a single candidate. That reading and that call are what your details are for.

After vetting, an operator’s profile is used to make introductions — a founder finds you in the directory, asks us for an intro, and a person makes it by hand. A founder’s details and project are used to judge whether to grant access, and to understand what they are hiring for. That is the entire list of purposes. We do not use your data to train models, to sell advertising, or to market unrelated products at you.

An operator’s profile is visible, in full, to our admin and to vetted, approved founders — the ones who have had the call and been given access. There is no partial or anonymised view: a founder who can see you sees everything listed above, including your CV. That is deliberate, and it is what the consent checkbox at signup is asking you to agree to.

Nobody else. Your profile is not public, is not indexed by search engines, and is never sold, rented or handed to advertisers or data brokers. A founder’s own details and project are seen by our admin only — never by candidates, never by other founders.

The processors we rely on to run the service see the data only as infrastructure: our hosting and database provider, and the provider that sends transactional email. They act on our instructions and for no purpose of their own.

In the European Union. The database, the private CV storage and the application that serves this site all run in EU regions — the database and file storage in Ireland (eu-west-1), the application in Frankfurt (fra1). No part of the platform is provisioned outside the EU.

Only while it is in active use — while your application is being reviewed, or while your profile or founder account is live. There is no retention window beyond that: we keep no archive copy, no anonymised shadow record and no tombstone row noting that you were once here.

That is the direct consequence of how deletion works. When data goes, it is removed outright — a hard delete of your account, your profile, your founder project and your CV file. It is irreversible: once done it cannot be restored, by us or by you, and coming back means applying again from scratch.

If you have an account — an operator with a profile, or an active founder — it is self-serve. Sign in, open your account settings, and choose Delete my account. Everything above goes with it, including your CV, and no admin is in the loop.

If you have no account yet, there is nothing to sign into, so ask us instead. That covers two cases: a pending application you submitted that has not been accepted yet, and a founder invite that was sent to you and never accepted. In either case, email our admin — reply to any message we have sent you, or write to the address that contacted you about your application — and we delete the record, the same irreversible way.

You can also correct your data yourself at any time: an operator’s profile and a founder’s project are both editable from your account. If something here worries you, or you want to know exactly what we hold on you, ask us the same way and a person will answer.