founder contact International ltd. is a London UK based company that offers online and traditional networking services to entrepreneurs worldwide. Your privacy is very important to us. For this reason business profiles of member entrepreneurs are only visible behind secured intranet ànd we will never sell your email address to third parties. Before you can join founder contact, we will ask you to register and provide us a short business profile. As our database works with full text search, a basic rule is that the more you publish about your business and capabilities, the better you will be found by other entrepreneurs. You will get your own webmail box on our server, which means that we will not publish your personal or business email address. Below you can read in detail our privacy policy statement. This privacy statement covers the site www.foundercontact.com and all related web domains of founder contact international ltd.  Please contact founder contact with questions regarding this statement. If the website has not responded to your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, please contact us at info@foundercontact.com and we will try to solve your problem if possible. 

 

Privacy Policy in detail 

1. About founder contact and the information we collect
founder contact is an online community for entrepreneurs only that offers networking services to entrepreneurs and where entrepreneurs can publish a business profile at the marketplace of founder contact. To accomplish this, member entrepreneurs create their own profiles which are shown to all registered entrepreneurs at founder contact. To fulfill the purpose of this networking site, the information we asked for will be displayed to people with a subscription to founder contact excluded for your address and email address. 

 

2. Information collected/tracked by founder contact
Information submitted to founder contact
founder contact collects user-submitted account information such as name and email address to identify users and send notifications related to the use of the service. founder contact also collects user-submitted profile information such as gender, age, location, personal profile, experience, networks, email addresses, companies etc.

Information not directly submitted by users to founder contact
This is information we collect that is not personally identifiable, such as browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all users to the site. 

 

3. Use of information obtained by founder contact
Information users submit to founder contact
Profile information as well as first name and photos are displayed to people who get a subscription to founder contact, to support the function of the site as networking community for entrepreneurs where users can meet new people through subscribers. Email address and full name are used when a user invites another entrepreneur via email to join the service, when an user requests to add another user to their networking list, and when we send notifications to a user related to their use of the service. Users within a personal network communicate on founder contact with each other through the founder contact service, without disclosing email addresses. We may also use a user's email address to send weekly updates or news regarding our site, but the user may choose not to receive email of this type by accessing their Account Info.

Information that users do not submit to us
We use your server, IP address, and browser-type related information in the general administration of our website. 

 

4. Sharing of the information this site gathers/tracks
As a matter of policy, except where you are expressly informed otherwise, we do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal information unless required by law or for the protection of your membership. However, founder contact may share profile information and aggregate usage information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties in order to present to members more targeted advertising, products and services. In such situations we will never disclose information that will be used to personally identify you. 

 

5. Links
This site may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that founder contact is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website. 

 

6. Use of cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user's hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions. Cookies are used to manage sessions on our site. Users must enable cookies to use our site. Also, users may optionally use a cookie to remember their password in order to automatically log in to our site. We do not and will not use cookies to collect private information from any user which they did not intentionally submit to us. 

 

7. Correcting/updating or removing Information
founder contact users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as Edit Profile and Account Info. 

 

8. Changes in our privacy policy
If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our web site so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users via email or by placing a prominent notice on our site. 

 

9. Invite another entrepreneur
If a user elects to use our invite a friend feature to invite another entrepreneur to our website, we ask them for the friend's email address. founder contact will automatically send the friend an email inviting them to join the site. founder contact stores this email address for the purpose of automatically adding the respondent to the friends list of the user sending the invitation, and also to send reminders of the invitation. founder contact does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders. The friend may contact founder contact to request the removal of this information from our database. 

 

10. Chat rooms, message boards, and public forums
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example on message boards, through e-mail, or in chat areas - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, by posting personal information online that is publicly accessible, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. 

 

11. Security
Your founder contact account is password-protected. This web site takes every precaution to protect our users' information. We use industry standard measures to protect your information that is stored within our database. We limit the access to your information to those employees who need access to perform their job function such as our customer service personnel. If you have any questions about the security at our website, please contact us. 

 

12. eMail Choice/Opt-out
Users who no longer wish to receive our email updates or news may opt-out of receiving these communications by following the instructions contained in the email. 

 

13. Third Party Advertising
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. Doing this allows the ad network to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad networks may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. founder contact does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad servers or ad networks.

 

14. Other
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by founder contact and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact us by info@foundercontact.com