Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 9, 2025
1. Introduction
At VibeStartup.pro ("we," "our," or "us"), we value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains in detail how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our website, platform, and related services (collectively, the "Services"). It also describes your rights and choices regarding your personal data and how you can contact us with questions or concerns.
2. Information We Collect
- Personal Information: Information that identifies you as an individual, such as your name, email address, phone number, postal address, company name, job title, profile photo, and any other information you provide when creating an account, subscribing to our newsletter, contacting support, or using our Services.
- Account Credentials: Username, password, authentication tokens, and other security information used for account access.
- Payment and Billing Information: Payment card details, billing address, transaction history, and other financial information if you make purchases or subscribe to paid features.
- Usage Data: Information about how you interact with our platform, including features used, pages viewed, time spent, actions taken, referring/exit pages, clickstream data, and search queries.
- Startup Information: Content, data, and information you provide about your startup projects, business plans, intellectual property, team members, and related materials.
- Technical Information: Browser type and version, device type, operating system, IP address, device identifiers, screen resolution, language preferences, and other technical data automatically collected when you access our Services.
- Cookies and Tracking Data: Data collected through cookies, web beacons, pixels, local storage, and similar tracking technologies, including session information, preferences, and analytics.
- Location Data: Approximate or precise location information derived from your IP address, device settings, or with your consent.
- Communications: Records of your communications with us, including support requests, feedback, survey responses, and correspondence.
- Third-Party Data: Information we receive from third-party sources, such as social media platforms, integration partners, or public databases, in accordance with their privacy policies and your settings.
3. How We Use Your Information
- Providing, operating, maintaining, and improving our Services
- Personalizing your experience and delivering tailored content and recommendations
- Training, testing, and improving our AI models and algorithms to better assist you
- Processing transactions, managing subscriptions, and providing customer support
- Communicating with you about your account, updates, security alerts, and administrative matters
- Sending you marketing communications, newsletters, and promotional offers (with your consent, where required)
- Analyzing usage patterns, user behavior, and trends to enhance our platform and develop new features
- Detecting, preventing, and addressing technical issues, fraud, abuse, and security threats
- Complying with legal obligations, enforcing our terms, and protecting our rights and the rights of others
- Aggregating and anonymizing data for research, analytics, and business purposes
4. Data Sharing and Disclosure
- Service Providers: We share your information with trusted third-party vendors and contractors who perform services on our behalf, such as hosting, payment processing, analytics, customer support, email delivery, and marketing. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your data and use it only for specified purposes.
- Business Transfers: Your information may be transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or other business transaction. We will notify you of any such change in ownership or control.
- Legal Requirements and Protection: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of VibeStartup.pro, our users, or others.
- Affiliates and Partners: We may share information with our affiliates, subsidiaries, and business partners for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
- With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties when you have explicitly agreed to the sharing, such as when you use integrations or participate in joint offerings.
- Aggregated or Anonymized Data: We may share aggregated or anonymized information that does not identify you personally for research, analytics, marketing, or other lawful purposes.
5. AI and Data Processing
- You agree that we may process your content and data through our AI systems to provide, improve, and personalize our Services.
- AI processing may include automated analysis, content generation, recommendations, and other forms of machine learning.
- We take reasonable steps to ensure the confidentiality and security of your data during AI processing, but you acknowledge that automated systems may have inherent risks.
- We use anonymized and aggregated data to train, validate, and enhance our AI models and algorithms.
- We do not use your personal data for AI training in a way that would identify you without your explicit consent.
- Some AI features may involve third-party providers or APIs, in which case your data will be handled in accordance with their privacy policies and applicable agreements.
6. Your Privacy Rights
- The right to access your personal data and obtain a copy of the information we hold about you
- The right to correct or update inaccurate or incomplete information
- The right to request deletion or erasure of your data, subject to legal and contractual obligations
- The right to object to or restrict the processing of your data in certain circumstances
- The right to data portability, allowing you to receive your data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format
- The right to withdraw consent at any time, where processing is based on your consent
- The right to opt out of marketing communications and certain types of data processing
- The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe your rights have been violated
To exercise these rights, please contact us at privacy@vibestartup.pro. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request. Please note that some rights may be subject to limitations under applicable law.
7. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. These measures include encryption, access controls, secure data storage, regular security assessments, employee training, and incident response procedures. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials.
8. Data Retention
We retain your personal data only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and for legitimate business needs. The retention period may vary depending on the type of data and applicable laws. When your data is no longer required, we will securely delete or anonymize it.
9. International Data Transfers
Your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in countries other than your own, including the United States, where our servers and service providers are located. We take steps to ensure that your data receives an adequate level of protection, including through contractual safeguards and compliance with applicable data protection laws.
10. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as web beacons, pixels, and local storage) to collect information about your browsing activities, preferences, and device. Cookies help us recognize you, remember your settings, analyze usage, and deliver personalized content and advertising. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, disabling cookies may affect the functionality of our Services. For more information, please see our Cookie Policy.
11. Third-Party Services and Links
Our Services may contain links to third-party websites, applications, or services that are not operated or controlled by VibeStartup.pro. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such third parties. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing any information.
12. Children's Privacy
Our Services are not intended for children under 16 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 16, we will take steps to delete such information promptly. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new policy on this page, updating the "last updated" date, and, where appropriate, providing additional notice (such as email or in-app notification). Your continued use of our Services after such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.
14. Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
privacy@vibestartup.proVibeStartup, Inc.123 Innovation WaySan Francisco, CA 94103You may also have the right to contact your local data protection authority with any concerns.