Privacy Notice

The data fiduciary responsible for the personal data described in this notice is [[ENTITY NAME — TO BE CONFIRMED]], with its registered office at [[REGISTERED ADDRESS — TO BE CONFIRMED]]. FundNest is the name of the platform operated by that entity.

When you create an account and apply, we collect:

• Founder name, email address and any other contact details you provide.
• Company details: name, website, sector, stage, city and team size.
• Everything you submit in the nine-step application, including founder bios and backgrounds, problem and solution descriptions, market estimates, traction figures, revenue band and active customers, business model and pricing, unit economics, financials, monthly burn, runway, capital raised, your funding ask and intended use of funds.
• Any files or links you upload or provide, including your pitch deck, financial model, product links, LinkedIn profile and demo video.
• Messages you exchange with us through the platform.

The purpose of processing is to evaluate your application against the published Nest Score rubric, to operate your account and dashboard, and to communicate with you about your application. We also use it to run and maintain the platform itself.

Your application is shared with an investor for the purpose of a funding decision only where you have given the separate, optional consent for investor sharing in the application wizard. That consent is not bundled with the mandatory consent to collect your data, is not required to submit an application, and can be withdrawn at any time.

We may also share data with service providers who host or operate the platform on our behalf, and where we are required to do so by law.

We do not sell your personal data. We do not use it for advertising, ad targeting or profiling for marketing purposes.

We retain application and account data for [[RETENTION PERIOD — TO BE CONFIRMED]], after which it is deleted or anonymised, unless a longer period is required by law.

• Access: obtain a summary of the personal data we hold about you.
• Correction: have inaccurate or incomplete data corrected or completed.
• Erasure: request deletion of your personal data where it is no longer needed.
• Withdrawal of consent: withdraw any consent you have given, including the optional investor-sharing consent.
• Grievance redressal: raise a complaint with our grievance officer, and escalate to the Data Protection Board of India if you are not satisfied.

To exercise any of these, contact the grievance officer below.

Name: [[GRIEVANCE OFFICER NAME — TO BE CONFIRMED]]
Email: [[GRIEVANCE OFFICER EMAIL — TO BE CONFIRMED]]
Address: [[REGISTERED ADDRESS — TO BE CONFIRMED]]

You can withdraw consent by writing to the grievance officer, or by untoggling the optional investor-sharing consent on your application while it is still a draft. Withdrawing consent does not affect any processing already carried out on the basis of that consent before it was withdrawn. If you withdraw the mandatory consent to process your application data, we can no longer evaluate your application and will close it.

When this notice changes materially, the policy version is updated and we record the version you agreed to alongside your application.