Privacy policy
What BuildMingle stores about you, who can see it, and what you can do about it.
What we store
- Your account: name, email address, and either a hashed password or the ID of the Google account you sign in with. We never see or store your Google password.
- What you put on your profile: headline, location, bio, skills, hours a week, the kind of seat you want, preferred stages, links and things you've built.
- What you do here: team cards, seats, requests and their notes, trials, votes, direct messages, and everything in team and trial rooms (chat, docs, boards, tasks, calendar, forum, call notes).
- Sign-in sessions, with the IP address and browser they came from, so you stay logged in. Resetting your password signs out every other session.
- Updates we send you, and whether a copy went out by email.
Who can see it
- Profiles and published team cards are public. Anyone with the link can see them, including people who aren't signed in, and a team card can be embedded on other sites.
- Your email address is never shown on your profile, team cards or requests.
- A request note goes only to the people who run that team. When they decline, the note they write goes to you. The reason they pick stays with them, except "seat filled", which you see.
- Trial rooms are visible only to the two people in the trial. Team rooms are visible only to current team members. Direct messages are visible only to the two people in them.
- Build Month entries and vote counts are public. Who voted for which team is not.
We email you to confirm your address, to reset your password, and for a few updates: new requests and expiry reminders if you run a team, answers to your requests, and trial decision days. At most one update email a day per team, and only to a confirmed address. You can switch update emails off at the bottom of Updates. Emails are sent through an email delivery provider, which receives your address and the message.
Cookies and tracking
We set one kind of cookie: the sign-in session cookie, which keeps you logged in. There are no analytics, advertising or tracking scripts, and no third-party cookies.
What we don't do
We don't sell your data, share it with advertisers, or run it through AI services. Matching is a fixed calculation on four things you enter: skills, hours, the seat you want and the stages you like. Every match shows why it fits.
Where it lives
Your data is stored in our database with our hosting provider. If you sign in with Google, Google tells us your name, email address and profile picture.
Your choices
- Edit or clear your profile at any time from your profile page. Untick "Show me to founders looking for people like me" to stop showing up in founders' suggestions.
- Turn update emails off from Updates.
- To get a copy of your data or have your account deleted, contact us from the address on your account. Messages you sent in shared rooms may stay visible to the team, shown without your name.