Privacy Policy

FounderHQ LLC is a Wyoming limited liability company providing startup advisory, investor-readiness, fundraising preparation, financial modeling, strategic consulting, assessments, educational resources, and related professional services.

For purposes of applicable privacy laws, FounderHQ LLC may act as the controller or business responsible for determining how and why personal information is processed.

Website: thefounderhq.com
Privacy Contact: jehanzeb@thefounderhq.com

The information we collect depends on how you interact with FounderHQ.

Information You Provide to Us

You may provide information such as:

• Your name
• Email address
• Company or startup name
• Job title or role
• Country or location
• Phone number
• Meeting or scheduling information
• Information submitted through contact forms
• Newsletter or resource subscription information
• Responses submitted through the FounderHQ Startup Fundability Assessment
• Information relating to your startup, fundraising plans, business model, traction, financial position, market, team, or investment strategy
• Communications you send to us by email, messaging platforms, social media, forms, or other channels
• Billing details and transaction-related information
• Other information you voluntarily provide when working with FounderHQ

Startup and Client Materials

When you engage FounderHQ for professional services, you may provide business materials such as:

• Pitch decks
• Financial models
• Business plans
• Investor memoranda
• Fundraising materials
• Cap table information
• Market research
• Go-to-market plans
• Investor communications
• Due diligence materials
• Data room documents
• Operational or strategic information
• Other business records required to perform the engagement

We recognize that these materials may contain commercially sensitive or confidential information.

FounderHQ uses such materials for legitimate service-delivery purposes and does not sell confidential client or startup materials to third parties.

Where a separate service agreement, confidentiality agreement, or non-disclosure agreement applies, additional confidentiality obligations will be governed by that agreement.

Information Collected Automatically

When you access our website, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including:

• IP address
• Browser type
• Device type
• Operating system
• Approximate geographic location
• Referring website or source
• Pages viewed
• Time spent on pages
• Links or buttons clicked
• Website interactions
• Date and time of visits
• Cookie and similar technology identifiers
• General website usage and performance information

We may collect this information through cookies, analytics tools, pixels, tags, server logs, and similar technologies.

Information From Third Parties

We may receive limited information through service providers and platforms we use to operate FounderHQ, including:

• Payment processors
• Scheduling providers
• Email and communication providers
• Analytics providers
• Social media platforms
• Customer relationship management tools
• Website hosting and infrastructure providers
• Professional productivity and document-processing services
• Referral partners or other sources through which you choose to interact with FounderHQ

We may use personal information to:

• Operate and maintain our website
• Provide FounderHQ services
• Process and respond to inquiries
• Deliver the FounderHQ Startup Fundability Assessment
• Generate assessment results, recommendations, or related communications
• Prepare startup advisory and investor-readiness deliverables
• Schedule consultations or meetings
• Communicate with clients, prospects, subscribers, and website visitors
• Deliver requested resources or materials
• Process transactions and maintain billing records
• Manage client relationships and engagements
• Improve our website, services, resources, and user experience
• Understand how visitors discover and use our website
• Measure website and marketing performance
• Detect fraud, abuse, security incidents, or technical problems
• Maintain business and accounting records
• Enforce our agreements and protect our legal rights
• Comply with applicable legal, tax, regulatory, and reporting requirements
• Send relevant business or marketing communications where permitted by law
• Carry out other purposes disclosed to you at the time information is collected

We do not use confidential startup materials for unrelated third-party advertising.

When you complete the FounderHQ Startup Fundability Assessment, we may collect the information you submit to evaluate aspects of your startup's fundraising readiness and generate a score, result, recommendation, or related communication.

The assessment may use automated rules or scoring logic to generate these outputs.

Assessment results are provided for informational and advisory purposes. They do not constitute an investment decision, credit decision, underwriting decision, guarantee of funding, or other decision that produces legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.

Information submitted through the assessment may also be used to communicate with you about your results, FounderHQ resources, or services relevant to your startup, subject to applicable law and your communication preferences.

Where FounderHQ accepts online payments, payment information may be processed through third-party payment providers.

FounderHQ does not intentionally store complete payment card numbers, card security codes, or online banking credentials on its own systems.

Payment providers may collect and process financial information according to their own privacy policies and security practices.

FounderHQ may receive transaction-related information such as:

• Customer name
• Billing information
• Transaction amount
• Payment status
• Transaction identifier
• Payment method category
• Invoice or receipt information

We may retain these records where reasonably necessary for accounting, tax, compliance, dispute resolution, and business administration purposes.

FounderHQ may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, understand website activity, improve performance, measure marketing effectiveness, and provide a better user experience.

These technologies may include services provided by analytics, advertising, website-performance, and social media technology providers, including providers such as Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and similar platforms where enabled.

These services may receive information such as your IP address, device characteristics, browser information, website activity, referring source, and cookie or device identifiers.

Some cookies are necessary for website operation. Others may support analytics, functionality, performance measurement, or marketing.

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Certain website functionality may not operate as intended if cookies are disabled.

Where applicable law provides additional rights regarding cookies, advertising technologies, or similar tracking, we will process applicable requests as required by law.

We do not sell confidential startup materials or client work product.

We may share personal information with third parties when reasonably necessary to operate FounderHQ, provide our services, or meet legal obligations.

These parties may include:

Service Providers

Companies that support services such as:

• Website hosting
• Cloud infrastructure
• Email
• Scheduling
• Payment processing
• Analytics
• Communications
• Document management
• Productivity tools
• Customer relationship management
• Accounting
• Security
• Professional service delivery

These providers may process information on our behalf or according to their own applicable terms and privacy obligations.

Professional Advisers

We may disclose information to accountants, attorneys, consultants, insurers, compliance professionals, or other professional advisers where reasonably necessary.

Legal and Regulatory Requirements

We may disclose information where we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

• Comply with applicable law
• Respond to a lawful request, court order, subpoena, or regulatory process
• Protect FounderHQ's legal rights
• Protect the rights or safety of users or others
• Investigate suspected fraud, abuse, or security incidents
• Enforce contracts or policies

Business Transactions

If FounderHQ becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, restructuring, financing, sale of assets, or similar corporate transaction, relevant information may be transferred as part of that transaction subject to appropriate confidentiality and legal requirements.

With Your Direction or Consent

We may share information with another party when you specifically request, authorize, or consent to that disclosure.

FounderHQ does not sell personal information in exchange for money.

Certain analytics, social media, advertising, or measurement technologies may involve disclosures of online identifiers or website activity to third-party platforms. Depending on the jurisdiction and the technology involved, some privacy laws may characterize certain disclosures as "sharing," targeted advertising, or similar processing.

Where applicable law provides a right to opt out of such processing, you may submit a request using the contact information provided in this Privacy Policy.

We do not sell confidential startup documents, financial models, pitch decks, business plans, or other client deliverables to advertisers or data brokers.

If you subscribe to FounderHQ communications, request a resource, complete an assessment, or otherwise choose to hear from us, we may send information relating to FounderHQ content, services, resources, or opportunities that may be relevant to you.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe option included in applicable messages or by contacting us.

Unsubscribing from marketing communications does not prevent us from sending transactional, administrative, contractual, security, or service-related communications where appropriate.

Where laws such as the UK GDPR or EU GDPR apply, we process personal information under one or more appropriate legal bases depending on the circumstances.

These may include:

Contract: Processing required to provide services you have requested or to take steps at your request before entering into an agreement.

Legitimate Interests: Processing reasonably necessary for operating and improving FounderHQ, managing business relationships, protecting our services, communicating with users, and pursuing legitimate commercial interests where those interests are not overridden by your applicable privacy rights.

Consent: Processing based on permission you have provided, where consent is the appropriate legal basis.

Legal Obligation: Processing necessary to meet applicable tax, accounting, regulatory, legal, or compliance requirements.

You may withdraw consent where consent is the legal basis for processing. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred lawfully before consent was withdrawn.

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or where retention is required for legitimate business, contractual, tax, accounting, legal, security, dispute-resolution, or compliance purposes.

Retention periods may vary based on:

• The nature of the information
• The nature and duration of our relationship with you
• Contractual requirements
• Legal or regulatory obligations
• Security and fraud-prevention requirements
• The need to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

When information is no longer reasonably required, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it.

FounderHQ takes reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, misuse, loss, or destruction.

Access to information is limited according to legitimate business needs, and we seek to use reputable technology and service providers appropriate to our operations.

However, no website, electronic communication, cloud platform, or information-storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should therefore exercise appropriate care when transmitting sensitive information electronically.

Please do not send passwords, payment-card security codes, banking credentials, or other highly sensitive credentials through ordinary email or website forms unless specifically requested through an appropriate secure process.

FounderHQ serves clients and website visitors internationally and may use service providers located in different countries.

As a result, information may be processed or stored in the United States, Pakistan, or other countries in which FounderHQ or its service providers operate.

Privacy and data-protection laws may differ between jurisdictions.

Where applicable law requires specific safeguards for international transfers of personal information, we will use legally appropriate mechanisms or safeguards as required.

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights relating to your personal information.

These may include the right to:

• Request access to personal information we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate information
• Request deletion of certain information
• Request restriction of certain processing
• Object to certain processing
• Request portability of certain information
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
• Opt out of certain marketing communications
• Opt out of certain forms of sale, sharing, or targeted advertising where applicable
• Lodge a complaint with an applicable data-protection authority

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions.

To submit a privacy request, contact: jehanzeb@thefounderhq.com

Please include enough information for us to understand your request. We may request reasonable information to verify your identity before processing certain requests.

Where permitted by applicable law, an authorized agent may submit a request on your behalf. We may require appropriate evidence of authorization.

FounderHQ will not unlawfully discriminate against individuals for exercising privacy rights provided by applicable law.

Residents of California and certain other U.S. states may have additional privacy rights if the applicable state privacy law applies to FounderHQ or the relevant processing activity.

Depending on applicable law, these rights may include:

• Knowing what categories of personal information are collected
• Accessing specific personal information
• Correcting inaccurate information
• Requesting deletion
• Obtaining information about categories of recipients
• Opting out of qualifying sales or sharing
• Opting out of targeted advertising
• Limiting certain uses of sensitive personal information where applicable
• Appealing certain privacy-request decisions where required
• Exercising privacy rights without unlawful discrimination

Requests may be submitted through the contact information provided in this Privacy Policy.

Nothing in this section is intended to provide rights beyond those required by applicable law.

Our website may contain links to websites, social media platforms, payment providers, scheduling tools, or services operated by third parties.

FounderHQ does not control the privacy or security practices of independent third parties.

When you interact directly with another service, that provider's privacy policy and terms may apply to the information it collects.

We encourage you to review the applicable privacy information before providing personal data to third-party services.

FounderHQ's website and professional services are intended for founders, professionals, businesses, and other adult users.

Our services are not directed toward children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children through our professional services.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to FounderHQ inappropriately, please contact us so that we can review the situation and take appropriate action.

Privacy and confidentiality are related but distinct obligations.

This Privacy Policy describes our treatment of personal information. Confidential business information provided during a professional engagement may also be governed by the applicable proposal, statement of work, service agreement, confidentiality agreement, or non-disclosure agreement between FounderHQ and the client.

FounderHQ may use trusted technology and professional service providers where reasonably necessary to perform services, operate the business, maintain records, communicate, store files, or prepare deliverables.

We do not intentionally disclose confidential client materials publicly without authorization unless disclosure is required by law.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services, technology, business practices, legal requirements, or privacy practices.

When we make changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.

Material changes may also be communicated through the website or another appropriate method where required.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or information associated with you, please contact:

For privacy-related requests, please include "Privacy Request" in the subject line so that your request can be identified appropriately.