Privacy
Founders Loop only works if you tell us honestly what you are building and what you need. Here is exactly what happens to that.
Your name, business name, email address, town or region, your chosen Loop and subheadings, your answers to the five founder questions, your stage, your capability tags, and anything you later post in the Lounge Room or on the Collaboration Board.
Once your application is approved, your founder profile — name, business, Loop, region, headline, the five answers and your capability tags — is published in the Gallery and shown as a dot on the map. Anyone can see it, signed in or not. Your email address is never published.
The chat room, the Collaboration Board and member events are visible only to signed-in members with an active membership. Your email address, your password and your payment details are never shown to other members.
To match you with other founders. Hermes reads your written answers and your capability tags to work out who you should already know.
Our hosting and database provider stores the data on our behalf. We do not sell it, and we do not pass it to advertisers or data brokers. Sponsors and partners get no access to member records.
For as long as your membership is active, and for twelve months afterwards so a lapsed member can rejoin without starting again.
You can edit your application answers at any time from the Join page while signed in. To have your profile unpublished or your record deleted entirely, email us and we will action it — deletion removes your profile, your map dot and your posts.
If you make a payment, it is handled by a payment provider. Card numbers never reach Founders Loop and are never stored by us.
Questions about anything on this page? Ask in the Lounge Room, or write to us and we'll answer plainly.