Privacy Policy
Foundry is a workspace for entrepreneurs. This page explains what we collect when you use the Foundry website or iPhone app, why, and how to delete it. The short version: we keep what you put into Foundry so the app works, we don’t sell it, and we don’t track you for advertising.
What we collect
- Account details: your name, email address, handle and bio. Your password is stored only as a one-way hash, so nobody, including us, can read it.
- What you create: projects, sections, goals, links, notebook ideas, validation reports, community posts, replies, votes, and any reports you file about other people’s posts.
- GitHub, if you connect it: your GitHub username and an access token, stored encrypted. We use the token only to list your repositories so you can link one to a project.
- A sign-in cookie that keeps you logged in. We don’t use advertising or analytics cookies.
- Basic technical logs kept by our hosting provider, such as IP addresses and error messages, used to keep the service running and secure.
In the iPhone app, daily reminders are scheduled on your phone. Turning them on or off doesn’t send anything to us.
How we use it
- To run Foundry: show your projects and ideas, keep your work in sync, and sign you in.
- To keep the community safe: review reports, remove content that breaks the rules, and stop abuse.
- To answer you when you contact support.
We don’t sell your information, show ads, or share your information with advertisers or data brokers.
AI features
When you use an AI feature, such as validating an idea or suggesting goals, the text needed for that request (for example the idea’s title and notes) is sent to Anthropic, the company that makes Claude, to produce the result. It’s only sent when you ask for an AI feature. Anthropic’s commercial terms don’t allow it to train its models on this data.
Who can see what
- Your projects, goals and notebook ideas are private to you.
- Community posts and replies are public, along with your name, handle and bio.
- Service providers who run parts of Foundry for us (hosting, database, Anthropic for AI features, and GitHub if you connect it) process data only to provide their service.
- We may share information if the law requires it, or to protect people from harm.
Keeping and deleting your data
We keep your data while you have an account. You can delete your account at any time in Settings → Delete account, on the web or in the app. That immediately and permanently deletes your account and everything in it: projects, ideas, posts, replies, votes and reports. Copies in our providers’ backups are erased within 30 days.
Your choices
You can see and edit your information in Foundry at any time. To ask for a copy of your data, or for help correcting or deleting it, email areybusiness23@gmail.com.
Children
Foundry isn’t meant for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect information from them.
Changes
If we change this policy, we’ll update the date at the top. For important changes we’ll let you know in the app.
Contact
Questions about privacy: areybusiness23@gmail.com.