Privacy Policy

Effective 9 November 2026.

Foidry is the service at https://www.foidry.tech. Questions, corrections, and deletion requests go to support@foidry.tech. A seller legal name and a business address are not published here. If a law that applies to a paid sale requires them, they need the operator’s approval before public paid checkout is offered. This page does not claim a privacy certification.

What Foidry collects and why

An account collects the name and email you submit. Email sign-up and sign-in go through Neon Auth. The password is sent to Neon Auth and is not stored by Foidry. Foidry stores the plan, profile unlocks, contact reveals, a promo redemption when you redeem a code, and PayPal subscription status when you subscribe. A reveal record notes that the account revealed a contact. It does not copy the founder email.

Verification mail is sent from support@foidry.tech through Titan Email. An email account cannot use the signed-in directory until that code is verified. A password reset link expires in one hour, works once, and ends the account’s other sessions.

How account information is protected

Neon Auth holds the login over an encrypted connection. Foidry checks the session with Neon Auth’s published keys and does not keep the password. Founder contact addresses are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM. The key stays in the server environment.

Who else processes information

Foidry uses Neon for the database and authentication, Titan Email for account messages, Vercel for hosting, Google when you choose Google sign-in, and PayPal when you subscribe. Continue with Google asks for the openid, email, and profile scopes. Foidry does not receive the Google password. PayPal checkout sends PayPal the account email and an internal account id. Foidry does not receive or store your card number. Foidry does not sell personal information. The account database is in the United States.

A separate private administration site can read the same account, billing, startup, and contact records. Access is limited to allowlisted operator accounts, and changes are written to an audit log.

Startup profiles and founder contacts

Startup profiles come from public company pages. A record can include the company, description, location, batch, team, hiring notes, and public founder names and links. Founder business contacts are stored so a signed-in member can reveal an address. The list sent to the browser omits the email until that reveal. Foidry does not claim an address is current. To correct or remove a directory address, email support@foidry.tech.

Cookies, counts, and retention

Neon Auth sets a session cookie on its own host. The browser may keep a local sign-in marker. Foidry does not set an advertising cookie. It records first-party counts for pages, searches, startup profile views, and contact reveals. Each count stores a daily hash of the network address and browser, not the address itself. A page count also stores where the visit came from: the domain of the referring site (for example google.com or chatgpt.com, never the full address), any utm campaign tags in the link, and the first page of the visit. The same count in the same hour is stored once. Rows older than 90 days are deleted. A browser that sends Global Privacy Control, or has Do Not Track set to 1, is left out. Setting the local storage key foidry_metrics to off also stops the counts.

The sign-up form has an optional question, how did you hear about Foidry? A new account stores that answer once, with the same first-visit details when counts are on, so Foidry can tell which channels bring members. It is deleted with the account.

Your choices and account deletion

The profile shows the name, email, and plan. A signed-in member can delete the account from Profile. The page asks for the account email and the word DELETE, and for the current password on an email-and-password account. You can also email support@foidry.tech. Eligible support requests are targeted for completion within 30 days. Removing the login waits until a charging PayPal subscription is confirmed cancelled. When deletion finishes, the login, name, email, sessions, and usage records are removed. A payment record can be kept for accounting, fraud prevention, and a dispute about that payment. It does not keep unrelated account data. Deleting the Foidry account does not close Google or PayPal.