Privacy policy.

Last Updated: August, 2025

FounderNest know FounderNest's Licensees care about how their personal information is used and shared, and FounderNest take their privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about FounderNest’s Privacy Policy.

By using or accessing the Services in any manner, Licensee acknowledges that Licensee accepts the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy, and Licensee hereby consents that Licensee will collect, use, and share Licensee's information in the following ways.

Remember that the use of FounderNest’s Services is at all times subject to the Terms of Service, which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms Licensee uses in this Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms of Service. In addition, if Licensee is a resident of the European Union, United Kingdom, Lichtenstein, Norway, or Iceland, Licensee may have additional rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation as outlined in our GDPR Privacy Policy.

What does this Privacy Policy cover?

This Privacy Policy covers FounderNest’s processing of personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) that FounderNest gather when Licensee is accessing or using FounderNest’s Services, but not to the practices of companies FounderNest don’t own or control, or people that FounderNest don’t manage. FounderNest gather various types of Personal Information from FounderNest’s Licensees, as explained in more detail below, and FounderNest use this Personal Information internally in connection with FounderNest’s Services, including to personalize, provide, and improve FounderNest’s services, to allow Licensee to set up a Licensee account and profile, to fulfill Licensee's requests for certain products and services, and to analyze how Licensee uses the Services. In certain cases, FounderNest may also share some Personal Information with third parties, but only as described below.

As noted in the Terms of Service, FounderNest do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 16. If Licensee is under 16, please do not attempt to register for the Services or send any personal information about yourself to FounderNest. If FounderNest learn that FounderNest have collected personal information from a child under age 16, FounderNest will delete that information as quickly as possible. If Licensee believes that a child under 16 may have provided FounderNest with personal information, please contact FounderNest at legal@foundernest.com.

Will FounderNest ever change this Privacy Policy?

We’re constantly trying to improve FounderNest’s Services, so FounderNest may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time as well, but FounderNest will alert Licensee to changes by placing a notice on the FounderNest’s website, by sending Licensee an email, and/or by some other means. If Licensee has opted not to receive legal notice emails from FounderNest (or Licensee hasn’t provided FounderNest with Licensee’s email address), those legal notices will still govern Licensee’s use of the Services, and Licensee is still responsible for reading and understanding them. If Licensee uses the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means Licensee agrees to all of the changes. Use of information FounderNest collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected.

What Information does FounderNest Collect?

Information Licensee Provides to FounderNest:

FounderNest receive and store any information Licensee knowingly provides to us. For example, through the registration process and/or through Licensee’s account settings, FounderNest may collect Personal Information such as Licensee’s name, email address, phone number, and third-party account credentials. If Licensee provides third-party account credentials to FounderNest or otherwise sign in to the Services through a third party site or service (such as Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, or Google), Licensee understands some content and/or information in those accounts (“Third Party Account Information”) may be transmitted into Licensee’s account with us, and that Third Party Account Information transmitted to FounderNest’s Services is covered by this Privacy Policy. Certain information may be required to register with us or to take advantage of some of FounderNest features. In addition, FounderNest may process Licensee’s bank account data in those cases where the use of the Service requires the payment of any fee; these data will be processed for the sole purpose of managing such payment.

FounderNest may communicate with Licensee if Licensee has provided FounderNest the means to do so. For example, if Licensee has given us Licensee’s email address, FounderNest may send Licensee promotional email offers on behalf of other businesses, or email Licensee about Licensee’s use of the Services. Also, FounderNest may receive a confirmation when Licensee opens an email from us. This confirmation helps FounderNest make FounderNest’s communications with Licensee more interesting and improve our services. If Licensee does not want to receive communications from us, please contact us at legal@foundernest.com.

Information Collected Automatically.

Whenever Licensee interacts with FounderNest’s Services, FounderNest automatically receive and record information on FounderNest’s server logs from Licensee’s browser, device or any medium across all communication channels with Licensee, which may include Licensee’s IP address, geolocation data, device identification,"cookie" information, the type of browser and/or device Licensee is using to access FounderNest’ Services, and the page or feature Licensee requested. "Cookies" are identifiers FounderNest transfer to Licensee’s browser or device that allow FounderNest to recognize Licensee’s browser or device and tell FounderNest how and when pages and features in FounderNest’ Services are visited and by how many people. You may be able to change the preferences on Licensee’s browser or device to prevent or limit Licensee’s device’s acceptance of cookies, but this may prevent Licensee from taking advantage of some of FounderNest’ features.

What types of cookies do FounderNest use?

Below FounderNest provide information about the types of cookies used in the Service and their purpose.

How can I manage the cookies?

On the basis of the information provided in this Cookies Policy, FounderNest would now like to give Licensee details about how to manage the cookies used in the Services via the options offered by the most common browsers (Edge, Firefox and Chrome). If Licensee reject the installation of all cookies of the Service, some features and contents may be affected.

• Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
• Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox
• Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09

Will FounderNest Share Any of the Personal Information it Receives?

FounderNest may share Licensee’s Personal Information with third parties as described in this section:

Information that’s been de-identified. FounderNest may de-identify Licensee’s Personal Information so that Licensee are not identified as an individual, and provide that information to FounderNest’ partners. FounderNest may also provide aggregate usage information to FounderNest’ partners (or allow partners to collect that information from Licensee), who may use such information to understand how often and in what ways people use FounderNest’ Services, so that they, too, can provide Licensee with an optimal online experience. However, FounderNest never disclose aggregate usage or de-identified information to a partner (or allow a partner to collect such information) in a manner that would identify Licensee as an individual person.

Affiliated Businesses: In certain situations, businesses or third party websites we’re affiliated with may sell or provide products or services to Licensee through or in connection with the Services (either alone or jointly with us). Licensee can recognize when an affiliated business is associated with such a transaction or service, and FounderNest will share Licensee’s Personal Information with that affiliated business only to the extent that it is related to such transaction or service. One such service may include the ability for Licensee to automatically transmit Third Party Account Information to Licensee’s Services profile or to automatically transmit information in Licensee’s Services profile to Licensee’s third party account; for example, results of searches Licensee run on the Services. FounderNest have no control over the policies and practices of third party websites or businesses as to privacy or anything else, so if Licensee choose to take part in any transaction or service relating to an affiliated website or business, please review all such business’ or websites’ policies.

FounderNest may choose to buy or sell assets, and may share and/or transfer customer information in connection with the evaluation of and entry into such transactions. Also, if FounderNest (or FounderNest’s assets) are acquired, or if FounderNest go out of business, enter bankruptcy, or go through some other change of control, Personal Information could be one of the assets transferred to or acquired by a third party.

Is Personal Information about me secure?

Licensee’s account is protected by a password for Licensee’s privacy and security. If Licensee accesses Licensee’s account via a third party site or service, Licensee may have additional or different sign-on protections via that third party site or service. Licensee must prevent unauthorized access to Licensee’s account and Personal Information by selecting and protecting Licensee’s password and/or other sign-on mechanism appropriately and limiting access to Licensee’s computer or device and browser by signing off after Licensee has finished accessing Licensee’s account.

What Personal Information can I access?

Through Licensee’s account settings, Licensee may access, and, in some cases, edit or delete the following information Licensee provided to us:

• Name and password
• Email address
• Licensee information (role, company) and Licensee preferences (including email preferences)
• Scouting campaign information (brief, sample companies, keywords, criteria) if Licensee are a corporate user
• Decisions on companies and decision information

What rights does Licensee have regarding Licensee’ Personal Data?

Licensee has certain rights with respect to Licensee’s Personal Data, including those set forth below. For more information about these rights, or to submit a request, please email legal@foundernest.com.

• Access: Licensee can request more information about the Personal Data FounderNest hold about Licensee and request a copy of such Personal Data by emailing legal@foundernest.com
• Rectification: If Licensee believe that any Personal Data FounderNest are holding about Licensee is incorrect or incomplete, Licensee can request that FounderNest correct or supplement such data.
• Erasure: Licensee can request that FounderNest erase some or all of Licensee’s Personal Data from FounderNest’ systems.
• Withdrawal of Consent: If FounderNest are processing Licensee’s Personal Data based on Licensee’s consent, Licensee has the right to withdraw Licensee’s consent at any time.
• Portability: Licensee can ask for a copy of Licensee’s Personal Data in a machine-readable format. Licensee can also request that FounderNest transmit the data to another controller where technically feasible.
• Objection: Licensee can contact FounderNest to let FounderNest know that Licensee object to the further use or disclosure of Licensee’s Personal Data for certain purposes, such as for direct marketing purposes.
• Restriction of Processing: Licensee can ask FounderNest to restrict further processing of Licensee’s Personal Data.
• Right to File Complaint: Licensee have the right to lodge a complaint about Company’s practices with respect to Licensee’s Personal Data with the supervisory authority of Licensee’s country or EU Member State.

What If Licensee Have Questions Regarding Licensee’s Personal Data?

If Licensee has any questions about this GDPR Privacy Notice or FounderNest’s data practices generally, Licensee should contact FounderNest using the following information:

Name: Legal at FounderNest
Physical address: 440 N Barranca Ave #6979 Covina, CA 91723
Email address for contact: legal@foundernest.com