Last Updated: September 27, 2026
Seedr ("we", "our", or "us") respects your privacy. This policy outlines how personal and technical information is collected, processed, and safeguarded across the Seedr mobile application, waitlists, and pre-release beta builds.
1. Categories of Data Collected
- Account Credentials: Legal name, email address, password hashes, and unique authentication identifiers managed via secure session tokens.
- Waitlist & Beta Queue Data: Professional contact details (including Work Email addresses, LinkedIn profile URLs, and founder identities) voluntarily submitted to obtain access to the platform or to queue ventures for review.
- Founder & Venture Details: Voluntarily submitted startup information, pitch briefs, bios, project theses, and associated media assets.
- Direct Messages & UGC: Communications transmitted across platform messaging interfaces to facilitate networking and enforce community standards.
- Diagnostic Telemetry: Unhandled stack traces, device hardware models, operating system versions, and anonymized user funnel telemetry collected to diagnose technical regressions.
2. Age Restriction & Protection of Minors (DPDP Act, 2023)
Seedr is strictly an enterprise and professional networking platform intended solely for individuals aged 18 years or older. We do not knowingly collect, track, or process personal data belonging to minors. If we discover that personal data of an individual under 18 has been submitted without verifiable parental consent, that data will be purged immediately.
3. Legal Grounds for Processing (DPDP Act, 2023)
Personal data is processed strictly in accordance with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, under the following grounds:
- Consent: Explicitly provided by you during onboarding, waitlist registration, or profile creation.
- Contractual Necessity: Required to maintain services, route communications, and preserve session security.
- Legitimate System Optimization: Required to identify crashes, patch security vulnerabilities, and ensure infrastructure uptime.
4. Third-Party Sub-Processors & Infrastructure