Privacy Policy

1. Scope and Users

Fonda is an AI-powered web application accessible worldwide. Our services are intended for individuals aged 16 years or older. By using Fonda, you confirm that you meet this age requirement.

2. Data We Collect

We collect only the data needed to provide, personalize, secure, and improve the Fonda service. This may include:

• Identification data: name and email address
• Account data: encrypted or hashed password and authentication information
• Professional information: skills, experience, interests, goals, constraints, CV content, LinkedIn profile information, or other information you choose to provide
• User-generated content: business ideas, project descriptions, answers, notes, choices, generated outputs, and related inputs
• Payment data: processed securely by Stripe. We do not store payment card details
• Usage and analytics data: pages visited, features used, and interactions with the platform
• Technical data: IP address, device type, browser information, and security logs

3. Why We Collect and Use Data

Fonda uses user data to make the platform useful and personalized. In particular, we use your inputs so that the model can understand your profile, remember your journey, and suggest the most relevant next steps, ideas, validation paths, and business choices for you.

We process personal data for the following purposes:

• Account creation, authentication, and user management
• Generating personalized business ideas, business plans, recommendations, and related outputs
• Helping you compare options and choose the most relevant direction based on your own skills, background, constraints, and goals
• Remembering your previous answers and decisions so you do not have to repeat the same information
• Improving and optimizing our services, security, reliability, and user experience
• Providing customer support and responding to inquiries
• Sending product updates or newsletters where permitted. You may opt out at any time

4. Confidentiality of User Content

Your business ideas, project inputs, generated content, CV information, LinkedIn profile information, and similar user content remain private. They are used to provide and personalize the Fonda service for you.

Fonda team members do not have routine access to your private user content, including business ideas, generated business plans, LinkedIn profile information, or CV data. Access is restricted by technical and organizational measures.

In limited cases, authorized personnel may access specific account or technical information only when necessary to provide support, investigate security issues, comply with legal obligations, or maintain the service. Where possible, such access is limited, logged, and proportionate to the purpose.

Your LinkedIn profile, CV, professional background, and business ideas are not shared with other users, partners, incubators, investors, advertisers, or the public.

5. Third-Party Services

We rely on trusted third-party service providers to operate Fonda. These providers process data on our behalf and only for the purposes needed to deliver the service, subject to contractual and legal safeguards.

• Hosting and infrastructure: Microsoft Azure
• Domain provider: IONOS
• Analytics: Google Analytics
• Email communications: Mailchimp
• Payments: Stripe
• Authentication and user management: Clerk
• AI and data processing: OpenAI and Google Gemini

We do not authorize these providers to sell your personal data. Where AI providers process your data, they do so to generate or support the outputs requested through Fonda and not to make your private business ideas public.

6. Cookies

Fonda uses cookies that are strictly necessary for the proper functioning of the service. We do not use marketing or advertising cookies.

7. Data Retention

Personal data is retained for as long as your account is active and as needed to provide the service. After account deletion, your data is retained for a maximum of 30 days before being permanently deleted, unless a longer retention period is required by law, security, dispute resolution, or legitimate operational needs.

8. User Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights under applicable data protection laws, including:

• The right to access your personal data
• The right to rectify inaccurate data
• The right to request deletion of your data
• The right to restrict or object to processing
• The right to data portability, where applicable

To exercise these rights, please contact us at hello@fonda.co.

9. International Data Transfers

Fonda is accessible worldwide and relies on technology providers that may process data in different jurisdictions. When data is transferred internationally, we take appropriate measures designed to protect it in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

10. Use of AI and Automated Processing

Fonda uses AI technologies and proprietary algorithms to generate business ideas, recommendations, business plans, and related content based on user inputs. The purpose of this processing is to personalize your entrepreneurial journey and help you evaluate the choices available to you.

Outputs are generated automatically and should be considered informational only. You remain responsible for reviewing, validating, and deciding whether to use any recommendation or output.

11. Data Sharing

We do not sell personal data.

We do not share your private user content, business ideas, LinkedIn profile information, CV data, or generated business outputs with partners, incubators, investors, advertisers, or other third parties, unless you explicitly ask us to do so or it is required by law.

We may use aggregated or anonymized information to understand product usage and improve the service, provided it does not identify you or disclose your private business ideas.

12. Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. These measures include restricted access, secure infrastructure, authentication controls, and operational safeguards.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Users will be notified of material changes via email or through the Fonda platform.

14. Contact

For any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or data protection, please contact: hello@fonda.co