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Legal · Updated 2026-05-02

Privacy Policy

This policy describes how Deep Node Studios ('we', 'us') handles personal data on the diligence platform at deepnodestudios.com/diligence and deepnodestudios.com/tr/diligence. Plain language. Read it before you take the assessment.

1. What we collect

  • Assessment answers, including the option you picked, your confidence rating, and how long you spent on each question.
  • Setup answers (what you are building, who pays, raise stage) and wrap answers (your 90-day goal and current blocker).
  • Email address, only if you choose to enter it on the email-capture step or sign in.
  • Account information for investors who sign up: display name, organization, slug, branding, custom message.
  • Usage analytics: page views, completion events, the assessment id and view-token, and basic browser metadata. We do not use third-party advertising trackers.

2. How we use it

  • To deliver your gap report and verdict.
  • To send the emails you opted into (sign-in link, results, share notifications, compare reports, weekly summaries).
  • To compute aggregate insights using anonymized, ID-stripped data so we can publish patterns without identifying any single founder.
  • To run the platform: error monitoring, performance, abuse prevention.

3. Who we share it with

  • No one, unless you explicitly opt in by sharing.
  • When you arrive via an investor's link, sharing with that investor is on by default. You can revoke this from your account at any time. The default is opt-in shaped, not silent.
  • Co-founder compare reports are only visible to the two participants who took the assessments.
  • We do not sell data. We do not share data with third parties for advertising.

4. How long we keep it

  • Until you delete it. Account deletion is one click in your account settings; we hard-delete after a 7-day grace period.
  • Abandoned in-progress assessments are auto-deleted 60 days after the last activity.
  • Audit log entries (sensitive admin actions, share toggles) are kept for 180 days then auto-deleted.
  • Aggregate insights, once computed, no longer reference any individual.

5. Your rights

  • You can export every assessment you have completed as JSON from your account settings.
  • You can delete your account and all associated data at any time.
  • You can revoke an investor's access to a previously shared report at any time.
  • You can withdraw consent for marketing emails (insights, weekly summary) at any time. Critical emails (sign-in, share notifications) cannot be turned off.
  • If you are in the EU/UK, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

6. Retake transparency

  • If you took an assessment via an investor's link, that investor can see metadata about every retake you do of the same test: the date, the attempt number, and pattern signals (multiple retakes in a short period, large score jumps, share revocations, retakes you did not re-share).
  • They cannot see the score or answers of a retake unless you choose to share that specific assessment.
  • We surface this rule clearly before you initiate any retake. You always have the choice not to retake.

7. Data residency and security

  • Data is stored in MongoDB Atlas, currently hosted in AWS US-East. We will document any data-residency change in this policy.
  • All connections use HTTPS. Authentication uses single-use email magic links with a 24-hour expiry.
  • Sensitive admin actions are written to an audit log.

8. Cookies

  • Strictly necessary cookies: session id, active-assessment id, sign-in token. These are required for the platform to function and are not opt-in.
  • Analytics cookies (Google Analytics): used to count page views and completion events. Opt-in via the cookie banner. We do not load Google Analytics until you accept.

9. Contact

  • Privacy questions: privacy@deepnodestudios.com.
  • We respond within 30 days.

We use Google Analytics to count page views and completion events. No advertising trackers, no third-party data sharing. You can change this any time. Read the privacy policy.