Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to StartupDeals. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you:

• Identity Data: First name, last name, username or similar identifier
• Contact Data: Email address, telephone numbers, billing address
• Financial Data: Bank account and payment card details (processed securely by Stripe)
• Transaction Data: Details about payments to and from you, and other details of products and services you have purchased
• Technical Data: IP address, browser type, time zone setting, browser plug-in types
• Profile Data: Your username, purchases, preferences, feedback, and survey responses
• Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products, and services

3. How We Use Your Information

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

• To register you as a new customer and manage your account
• To process and deliver your orders, including managing payments and collecting money owed
• To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
• To enable you to participate in features on our website
• To deliver relevant content and advertisements to you
• To use data analytics to improve our website, products, services, and customer experience
• To protect our website and prevent fraud

4. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. All payment processing is handled by Stripe, a PCI-DSS compliant payment processor.

5. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, and the applicable legal requirements.

6. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:

• Request access to your personal data
• Request correction of your personal data
• Request erasure of your personal data
• Object to processing of your personal data
• Request restriction of processing your personal data
• Request transfer of your personal data
• Right to withdraw consent

7. Third-Party Services

We use third-party services to help us operate our business:

• Stripe: Payment processing and financial transactions
• Supabase: Database and authentication services
• Resend: Email delivery services
• Vercel: Website hosting and deployment

These third parties have access to your personal data only to perform specific tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

8. Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and store certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through our contact page.