Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Founderi by Gold Hearts Business Network LLC (“Founderi,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, retains, and shares information when you use the Founderi website and related services.

Founderi is located in Warrington, Pennsylvania, United States. The website and services are primarily intended for U.S.-based business users.

Information we collect

Depending on how you use Founderi, we may collect:

• Contact information, such as your name and email address
• Business information, such as your business name, location, industry, website, social media profiles, business size, offerings, customers, and business description
• Goals, challenges, needs, preferences, and interests you provide through forms, emails, meetings, or other conversations
• Information about the businesses, services, or people you may be interested in meeting
• Messages, responses, feedback, and other communications you send to us
• Information provided by others through referrals, recommendations, or suggested business connections
• Form-submission details, consent records, communication preferences, and acknowledgment records
• Technical and usage data, such as browser type, device information, IP address, pages visited, referral information, and approximate location derived from technical data
• Analytics data used to understand how the website is accessed and used
• Cookie, local-storage, session, security, and authentication-related data used to operate the website

Please do not provide sensitive personal information that Founderi has not specifically requested.

How we use information

We may use information to:

• Receive, organize, and manually review submissions
• Understand your business, goals, challenges, preferences, and requested connections
• Evaluate whether a possible business introduction or other connection opportunity may be useful
• Compare submissions and identify possible business relationships
• Contact you about potential introductions, connection opportunities, or other service-related next steps
• Send submission confirmations, follow-up questions, scheduling messages, and administrative communications
• Schedule and conduct get-to-know-you conversations
• Ask whether you know other business owners who may be interested in relevant introductions
• Facilitate specific introductions or contact-sharing arrangements that participants have agreed to
• Maintain records of submissions, communications, consent, participation, and introductions
• Detect, investigate, and prevent spam, fraud, misuse, security incidents, or violations of our Terms of Use
• Restrict or remove businesses or individuals from the connection review process when appropriate
• Improve, maintain, analyze, and secure the website and services
• Develop or modify Founderi’s services, matching criteria, workflows, and areas of focus
• Send optional updates, marketing messages, surveys, or offers when you have opted in to receive them
• Comply with legal obligations, enforce our agreements, and protect the rights and safety of Founderi and others

Marketing and update communications

Optional marketing, update, survey, and promotional communications are opt-in only.

If you choose to receive these communications, you may unsubscribe later by using the unsubscribe method provided in the message or by contacting us at brianfrister@founderi.co.

Unsubscribing from marketing communications does not automatically remove your information from Founderi’s connection review pool or request deletion of your information.

Service-related communications

Even if you do not opt in to marketing communications, Founderi may still send service-related communications reasonably necessary to respond to your submission, follow up on your request, discuss a possible introduction, schedule a conversation, administer the service, address a security or legal issue, or provide another service-related next step.

How we share information

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share information with service providers that help us operate the website and services, including providers of hosting, databases, email, authentication, analytics, scheduling, communications, security, software, and related technical services.

We share information with these providers only as reasonably necessary for them to perform services for Founderi. Their handling of information may also be governed by their applicable agreements and privacy policies.

We may disclose information:

• When you direct or authorize us to do so
• As reasonably necessary to facilitate a specific introduction or contact-sharing arrangement
• To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or governmental requests
• To investigate or prevent fraud, misuse, security threats, illegal activity, or technical problems
• To enforce our Terms of Use or protect the rights, property, safety, or reputation of Founderi or others
• To professional advisers, such as attorneys, accountants, insurers, or consultants, where reasonably necessary
• In connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar business transaction involving Founderi or Gold Hearts Business Network LLC

Information used for possible introductions

Before arranging an introduction, Founderi may share limited business information with another potential participant to determine whether that participant may be interested in the proposed connection.

This limited information may include a general description of the business, industry, location, offerings, customers, goals, needs, or potential connection opportunity.

Founderi will not share your direct contact information with another business unless you agree to the specific introduction or contact-sharing arrangement.

Unless otherwise agreed, Founderi will not provide another business with your complete submission merely because Founderi is considering a possible introduction.

If an introduction is approved, Founderi may share the contact and business information reasonably necessary to facilitate that introduction.

Founderi cannot control how another person or business handles information after it has been shared with your authorization. Participants should use their own judgment before agreeing to an introduction or providing additional information directly to another participant.

Cookies, storage, and analytics

Founderi may use cookies, local storage, session storage, and similar technologies for:

• Basic website functionality
• Security and fraud prevention
• Authentication and login-session support
• Remembering preferences
• Analytics and performance measurement
• Diagnosing technical issues
• Understanding how visitors use the website

You may be able to control cookies and similar technologies through your browser settings. Disabling certain technologies may affect website functionality.

Third-party tools used by the website may also collect technical or usage information according to their own terms and privacy policies.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, to understand how visitors find and interact with our website. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies and may collect information such as pages visited, referring sources, browser and device information, approximate geographic location, and interactions with website features. When providing this service, Google may receive information including the page URL and IP address.

We use this information to evaluate website traffic, understand how visitors move through the website and the business-introduction request process, measure form progression and completion in aggregate, and improve the website and services.

We do not intentionally send Google Analytics information entered into Founderi forms, including names, email addresses, business names, website or social-profile links, free-text responses, or database identifiers.

Google processes information collected through Google Analytics as described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

Data retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to:

• Review submissions
• Operate the connection review process
• Communicate with participants
• Facilitate and document introductions
• Maintain consent and preference records
• Improve and secure our services
• Prevent fraud, spam, abuse, or repeated violations
• Resolve disputes
• Enforce our agreements
• Meet legal, operational, accounting, security, or recordkeeping requirements

The applicable retention period may depend on the type of information, the nature of our relationship with you, whether you remain in the connection review pool, whether an introduction has occurred, and whether Founderi has an ongoing legitimate need to retain the information.

When information is no longer reasonably needed, we may delete, de-identify, or aggregate it.

Deletion requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis and may be limited when Founderi has a legitimate or legal need to retain certain records. For example, we may retain limited records needed to document consent, honor an opt-out request, prevent fraud or repeated abuse, resolve disputes, enforce our Terms of Use, or comply with legal obligations.

Your choices

You may:

• Opt out of optional marketing and update communications
• Request removal from Founderi’s connection review pool
• Request access to or correction of your information where applicable
• Request deletion of your information where applicable
• Withdraw previously provided permission for future contact sharing, provided the information has not already been shared as part of an authorized introduction

Requests may be sent to brianfrister@founderi.co.

We may need to verify your identity or authority before completing certain requests.

Removal from the connection review pool is separate from unsubscribing from optional marketing communications or requesting deletion of your information.

Removal from the connection review pool means Founderi will no longer actively consider the removed submission for future business introductions. It does not necessarily require the deletion of every record associated with the submission.

Security

Founderi uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to help protect information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

No method of transmission, storage, or security is completely secure. Founderi cannot guarantee absolute security or that unauthorized third parties will never defeat our safeguards.

You are responsible for using appropriate caution when sending information electronically and when communicating or conducting business with another participant.

Children

Founderi is intended for business users and is not directed to children under 18.

We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information to Founderi, contact us at brianfrister@founderi.co.

Third-party links and services

The website may link to, integrate with, or embed third-party websites, platforms, or services.

Founderi does not control the privacy, security, content, or business practices of third parties. Their handling of information is governed by their own policies and agreements, not this Privacy Policy.

A link to or integration with a third-party service does not constitute an endorsement or guarantee of that service.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

When we do, we will update the effective date above. Updated versions will apply after they are posted unless otherwise stated.

Where required by law, or where a change materially affects how we use previously collected information, we may provide additional notice or request consent.

Contact

Privacy questions, requests, or concerns may be sent to:

brianfrister@founderi.co

Founderi by Gold Hearts Business Network LLC
Warrington, Pennsylvania, United States