Privacy Policy
SKIN Ventureworks Inc. (“SKIN,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) provides startup intelligence products and services for founders, startup teams, investors, advisors, partners, and business users. Our services may include Fundable, Pulse, SKIN OS, ATLAS, founder diagnostics, investor-readiness reports, company health assessments, startup operating frameworks, educational content, newsletters, and related strategic tools.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect information when you visit skin.global, purchase or subscribe to SKIN products, submit information to us, subscribe to our content, or otherwise interact with our website, products, or services.
Business-use platform. SKIN is intended for business users and is not directed to children or consumers seeking personal, medical, legal, financial, tax, securities, or investment advice.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following categories of information.
Information you provide directly
This may include your name, email address, company name, role, website, startup stage, fundraising status, traction metrics, product information, investor materials, documents, notes, survey responses, assessment responses, diagnostic responses, support requests, and any other information you choose to provide.
Founder and company information
If you use Fundable, Pulse, SKIN OS, ATLAS, or related services, we may collect business and startup-related information, including information about your company, team, product, market, customers, traction, revenue, expenses, burn, runway, fundraising plans, financial assumptions, investor pipeline, pitch materials, and strategic priorities.
Payment and transaction information
Payments are processed by third-party payment processors such as Stripe. We do not store full credit card numbers. We may receive transaction-related information such as your name, email address, billing details, product purchased, subscription status, payment confirmation, and payment history.
Website and usage information
We may automatically collect information about how you access and use our website, including IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, links clicked, time spent on pages, approximate location derived from IP address, and other analytics or diagnostic information.
Cookies and similar technologies
We may use cookies, pixels, local storage, analytics tools, and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, understand usage, improve performance, measure marketing effectiveness, and protect the security of our services.
2. How We Use Information
We may use information to:
- Provide, operate, maintain, and improve SKIN products and services.
- Generate Fundable, Pulse, SKIN OS, ATLAS, and related reports, diagnostics, assessments, scores, recommendations, and outputs.
- Process purchases, subscriptions, trials, invoices, payments, and renewals.
- Communicate with you about purchases, subscriptions, reports, support requests, product updates, and administrative matters.
- Send newsletters, Field Notes, product announcements, founder resources, and relevant marketing communications where permitted.
- Analyze aggregate trends, website usage, product performance, and customer needs.
- Improve SKIN frameworks, diagnostics, templates, workflows, data models, and user experience.
- Detect, prevent, and respond to fraud, abuse, security incidents, unauthorized access, and misuse.
- Comply with legal, tax, accounting, security, and regulatory obligations.
- Protect SKIN, our users, our partners, and the public.
3. AI, Automation, and Startup Intelligence
SKIN may use artificial intelligence, automation, structured frameworks, data models, internal review processes, and third-party technology providers to analyze submitted information and generate diagnostics, reports, recommendations, prioritization frameworks, company health signals, investor-readiness analysis, and other startup intelligence outputs.
SKIN outputs are intended to support founder judgment and internal business decision-making. They are not a substitute for professional legal, financial, tax, accounting, investment, securities, or fundraising advice.
4. How We Share Information
We may share information in the following circumstances.
Service providers
We may share information with vendors and service providers that help us operate the website, process payments, host documents, send email, manage analytics, deliver reports, provide customer support, maintain infrastructure, improve security, and operate our business. These providers may include payment processors, hosting providers, analytics providers, document-sharing tools, email tools, cloud infrastructure providers, contractors, and technical service providers.
Professional advisors
We may share information with lawyers, accountants, consultants, security advisors, insurers, and other professional advisors when reasonably necessary to operate SKIN or comply with obligations.
Business transfers
If SKIN is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, asset sale, bankruptcy, or similar transaction, information may be transferred or disclosed as part of that transaction.
Legal and safety purposes
We may disclose information if required by law, subpoena, court order, regulatory request, legal process, or if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect rights, safety, security, property, or the integrity of our services.
With your direction or consent
We may share information when you ask us to do so, authorize us to do so, or intentionally make information available for a specific purpose.
We do not sell founder-submitted company materials as standalone data products. We do not knowingly sell personal information. If our practices change, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide any legally required rights or notices.
5. Confidentiality of Founder and Company Materials
We understand that founders may submit sensitive business information. We use reasonable safeguards and access controls to protect submitted materials and limit access to people and service providers who need access to provide, operate, improve, or support SKIN products and services.
Unless SKIN has signed a separate written confidentiality agreement or NDA with you, information submitted through our website, intake forms, products, or services is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.
Do not submit information you are not authorized to share.
6. Cookies, Analytics, and Tracking
We may use cookies and similar technologies for essential website operations, analytics, performance measurement, security, preferences, and marketing measurement. You can usually control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect certain website functionality.
If we use analytics or advertising tools, those providers may collect information under their own privacy policies. We will update this Privacy Policy as our use of analytics, advertising, or tracking tools changes.
Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” signals. Because there is no uniform industry standard for responding to these signals, we do not currently respond to Do Not Track browser signals.
7. Data Retention
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide services, operate our business, improve products, comply with legal obligations, maintain records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent fraud, and protect security.
We may retain certain business records, payment records, communications, and legal records for longer where required or permitted by law.
8. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
9. Your Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, objection, or withdrawal of consent related to certain personal information. You may also opt out of marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link in those emails or contacting us.
To make a privacy request, contact us at dom@skin.global. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request. Some requests may be subject to legal, security, fraud-prevention, and operational limitations.
10. California Privacy Notice
If you are a California resident, you may have rights under California privacy laws, depending on how those laws apply to SKIN. These may include the right to know, access, correct, delete, obtain a copy of, and opt out of certain uses or disclosures of personal information.
In the past 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information: identifiers, commercial information, internet or network activity information, professional or employment-related information, approximate location information derived from IP address, and inferences or business insights generated from submitted information.
We collect this information from you, your interactions with our website and services, payment processors, service providers, and tools you use to submit information to us. We use and disclose this information for the business and commercial purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
We do not knowingly sell personal information. If we engage in practices considered “sharing” or “selling” under applicable privacy laws, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide required opt-out mechanisms.
California residents may submit privacy requests by emailing dom@skin.global with the subject line “California Privacy Request.”
11. International Users
If you access SKIN from outside the United States, your information may be processed and stored in the United States or other jurisdictions where we or our service providers operate. By using our services, you understand that your information may be transferred to jurisdictions that may have different data protection laws than your location.
12. Children’s Privacy
SKIN is intended for users who are at least 18 years old. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and we do not direct our services to children. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact us at dom@skin.global.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. Your continued use of SKIN after an update means you acknowledge the updated policy.
14. Contact Us
SKIN Ventureworks Inc.
Email: dom@skin.global
Location: California, United States