Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 13, 2026

Venture Grade is an AI-assisted research platform for evaluating business ventures. This policy explains what information we collect, why we collect it, and the choices you have.

What we collect

• Account data: your name, email address, and profile photo when you sign in.
• Workspace data: the content you create — ventures, evaluations, dashboards, notes, and records.
• Public business data: information about businesses you research, such as business names, public reviews, and location data. We do not target or profile private individuals.
• Billing data: payments are handled by Stripe. We store only your customer and subscription identifiers — never full card numbers.
• Operational telemetry: error reports, and — only with your consent — product analytics.

Google user data

When you connect a Google service — Calendar, Gmail, Drive, Sheets, Contacts, Docs, or Google Ads — you grant Venture Grade permission to access that service through Google's APIs. This section describes how we handle that data. It complies with Google's API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

• What we access: only the parts of the Google services you explicitly connect, limited to the permissions shown to you on Google's consent screen.
• Why we access it: solely to provide the features you asked for — for example, listing your calendars, creating an event, writing a row to a spreadsheet you selected, or managing and reporting on your Google Ads campaigns.
• Google Ads accounts: when you authorize Ads access, we access your Google Ads accounts (campaigns, ad groups, keywords, and performance metrics) only to provide the advertising research and management features you requested.
• How it is stored: access credentials are encrypted at rest in our database and are used only when you (or an automation you created) request an action. They are never logged.
• What we never do: we do not sell your Google user data, share it with third parties except as needed to operate the service, use it for advertising, or use it to train AI or machine learning models.
• Human eyes: your Google user data is not read by our employees except with your consent, for security purposes, or to comply with law.
• Disconnecting: you can remove a connection at any time in the app's Connected apps panel, and you can revoke Venture Grade's access entirely through your Google account permissions page. Deleting a connection erases its stored credentials.

Service providers

We use these providers to operate the service: Clerk (sign-in), Stripe (billing), Resend (email), Sentry (error monitoring), PostHog (product analytics, consent-gated), Neon (database), Qdrant Cloud (vector storage), Neo4j Aura (graph storage), Cloudflare (network and security), and AI providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google for model inference. Each processes data only on our instructions.

Your rights

You can export or delete your account data from Settings. You can request access, correction, or deletion of your personal data at any time by emailing davey@venturegrader.ai. We respond to every request.

Children

The service is not intended for users under 16.

Changes to this policy

We will notify you by email before any material change takes effect.

Contact

Privacy questions: davey@venturegrader.ai