Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

StartupDevKit, Inc.

Website: https://startupdevkit.com/

Effective Date: May 18, 2026

StartupDevKit, Inc. values your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how StartupDevKit collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects information when you visit StartupDevKit.com, create an account, purchase or use a membership, use the AI Startup OS, access our courses and resources, submit forms, interact with our emails, or otherwise use our website and platform.

By using StartupDevKit, you agree to the collection and use of information as described in this Privacy Policy.

StartupDevKit does not sell personal information.

1. Who We Are

StartupDevKit is an online startup platform for founders. Our website address is:

https://startupdevkit.com/

StartupDevKit provides online incubator and accelerator programs, the AI Startup OS, startup courses, startup kits, templates, resource libraries, tools directories, membership features, digital resources, and related educational services.

For privacy-related questions, you can contact us at:

Email: [email protected]

2. Information We Collect

StartupDevKit may collect different types of information depending on how you use the website and platform.

This may include:

We collect this information when you provide it directly, use the platform, create an account, make a purchase, submit a form, interact with emails, use AI-powered features, or browse the website.

3. Account and Membership Information

When you create an account, start a free trial, purchase a membership, or use member-only features, StartupDevKit may collect and store information needed to manage your account and provide access to the platform.

This may include:

StartupDevKit uses Paid Memberships Pro and related membership add-ons to manage accounts, access levels, subscriptions, trials, group accounts, checkout flows, cancellations, member homepages, gated content, and related membership functionality.

4. Payments and Billing

StartupDevKit currently accepts payments through Stripe.

When you make a payment, Stripe may collect and process payment information necessary to complete the transaction, such as your name, billing details, payment method, transaction amount, and related payment information.

StartupDevKit does not intentionally store full payment card numbers or full payment account credentials on its own servers.

We may store or access transaction records, order history, membership status, payment status, subscription details, and related billing information for account management, tax, accounting, legal, fraud prevention, customer support, and business operations.

Stripe’s handling of your information is governed by Stripe’s own privacy policy and terms.

5. AI Startup OS and OpenAI Processing

StartupDevKit offers the AI Startup OS and related AI-powered planning features.

When you use the AI Startup OS, you may submit information about your startup, business idea, target audience, market, strategy, business model, validation assumptions, growth plans, funding plans, team, stage, goals, and related venture details.

StartupDevKit may collect and store:

Inputs submitted to the AI Startup OS are sent to OpenAI to generate AI-powered outputs.

StartupDevKit uses this information to:

You retain ownership of your business ideas and venture inputs. StartupDevKit does not claim ownership of your startup idea merely because you enter it into the AI Startup OS.

You should not submit confidential, highly sensitive, regulated, legally privileged, or proprietary information into the AI Startup OS unless you are comfortable with that information being processed as described in this Privacy Policy and any applicable OpenAI processing terms.

AI-generated outputs may be inaccurate, incomplete, or based on assumptions. You are responsible for reviewing and validating any AI-generated output before relying on it.

6. Courses and Learning Activity

StartupDevKit uses Tutor LMS and related course tools to provide online courses, learning tracks, lessons, and educational content.

When you use StartupDevKit courses, we may collect and store:

We use this information to provide access to courses, track learning progress, personalize your member experience, support users, manage memberships, and improve our educational content.

7. Forms, Surveys, Referrals, and User Submissions

StartupDevKit may collect information when you submit forms, surveys, comments, feedback, or other user-generated content.

This may include information submitted through:

Depending on the form, we may collect:

If you use an invite or referral feature, we may collect information such as your account information, referral link, invite status, and invitee email address. You should only submit another person’s email address if you have permission or another appropriate basis to do so.

We use form, survey, and referral data to respond to inquiries, provide support, send requested resources, manage referrals, improve the platform, understand user needs, and communicate with users.

8. Email Marketing, CRM, and Communications

StartupDevKit uses ActiveCampaign for email marketing, customer relationship management, onboarding emails, product updates, educational emails, and membership-related communications.

When you create an account, join a membership, start a trial, submit a form, download a resource, or subscribe to communications, information may be added to ActiveCampaign.

This may include:

StartupDevKit uses this information to send relevant onboarding sequences, educational content, product updates, membership notices, promotional messages, and customer communications.

You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link included in those emails. Transactional or account-related emails may still be sent when necessary to provide services, manage billing, maintain security, or communicate important account information.

StartupDevKit also uses WP Mail SMTP for email delivery. Depending on configuration, email delivery tools may process recipient email addresses, sender information, subject lines, message content, delivery metadata, or related email logs.

9. Website Analytics and User Behavior Tracking

StartupDevKit uses analytics and tracking tools to understand how users interact with the website and platform.

This includes Google Analytics and StartupDevKit’s own custom SDK User Tracking plugin.

We may collect information such as:

For logged-in users, some activity may be associated with your account so we can provide onboarding, support, membership access, product improvement, and personalized platform experiences.

For visitors who are not logged in, analytics data may be collected in a more general or pseudonymous form.

StartupDevKit currently uses Google Analytics. Google Ads and retargeting are not currently active, but StartupDevKit may use advertising or retargeting tools in the future. If advertising or retargeting tools are enabled, this Privacy Policy may be updated as appropriate.

10. Cookies and Similar Technologies

StartupDevKit uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, provide account login functionality, remember preferences, manage memberships, analyze site usage, support embedded content, improve performance, and maintain security.

Cookies may include:

StartupDevKit uses CookieYes to help manage cookie consent and cookie preferences where applicable.

Stripe may use cookies or similar technologies as needed to process payments, prevent fraud, secure transactions, and provide checkout functionality.

You may be able to control certain cookies through the CookieYes banner or preferences tool on the website. You can also manage cookies through your browser settings.

Disabling cookies may affect website functionality, login sessions, membership access, checkout, embedded content, analytics, or other features.

11. WordPress, Comments, and Media

StartupDevKit is built on WordPress.

If you leave comments on the site, we may collect the data shown in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection and moderation.

Visitor comments may be checked through Akismet or other automated spam detection services.

If you upload images or media to the website, you should avoid uploading images that include embedded location data, such as EXIF GPS data. Other visitors may be able to download and extract location data from publicly accessible images.

If you submit or upload media that you do not own, you are responsible for ensuring you have the legal right to use and share that media.

12. Embedded Content and Third-Party Media

StartupDevKit may include embedded content from other websites, such as videos, images, documents, social media posts, forms, articles, or other external media.

Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you visited the third-party website directly.

These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, especially if you are logged into an account with that third party.

StartupDevKit uses tools such as Elementor, Elementor Pro, EmbedPress, and related website-building plugins that may help display embedded or third-party content.

Third-party platforms that may appear in embedded content or social media features include YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, and other external services.

13. Security, Spam Prevention, and Activity Logs

StartupDevKit uses security, spam prevention, infrastructure, and logging tools to protect the website and platform.

These tools may include:

These tools may collect or process:

StartupDevKit uses this information to detect spam, prevent abuse, protect accounts, monitor suspicious activity, secure the platform, troubleshoot technical issues, and comply with legal or security obligations.

14. Hosting, CDN, Backups, and Infrastructure

StartupDevKit uses third-party infrastructure and operational tools to host, secure, back up, cache, optimize, and deliver the website.

These may include:

Backups may contain copies of account data, membership data, order data, form submissions, course progress, AIOS data, and other website data. Backups are used for recovery, continuity, security, and operational purposes.

Cloudflare may process IP addresses, traffic data, security events, and performance-related data to help protect and deliver the website.

15. Third-Party Services and Processors

StartupDevKit uses third-party services and plugins to operate the website and platform.

These may include services or tools for:

Current or relevant tools may include WordPress, Paid Memberships Pro, Tutor LMS, ActiveCampaign, Stripe, OpenAI, Google Analytics, CookieYes, Contact Form 7, Poptin, HollerBox, Wordfence, Akismet, Activity Log, WP Mail SMTP, Cloudflare, InMotion Hosting, Elementor, EmbedPress, Total Upkeep, W3 Total Cache, and StartupDevKit’s custom plugins.

StartupDevKit only shares information with third-party services as needed to operate the platform, provide services, process payments, deliver emails, secure the website, analyze usage, provide AI functionality, comply with law, or support business operations.

16. How We Use Information

StartupDevKit uses collected information to:

17. Legal Bases for Processing

Where applicable, StartupDevKit may process personal information based on one or more legal bases, including:

For example, we may process account and membership data to provide services you requested, payment records to comply with accounting obligations, analytics data to improve the platform, and security logs to protect the website and users.

Where consent is required, you may withdraw consent where legally permitted. Withdrawal of consent may affect your ability to use certain features.

18. How We Share Information

StartupDevKit does not sell personal information.

We may share information with:

We may also disclose information if necessary to:

19. Data Retention

StartupDevKit keeps personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.

Retention may vary by data type:

20. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights regarding your personal information.

These may include the right to:

To make a privacy request, contact:

Email: [email protected]

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.

We may decline or limit requests where permitted or required by law, including where retention is necessary for security, legal compliance, accounting, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, contractual obligations, or legitimate business purposes.

21. California Privacy Notice

StartupDevKit does not sell personal information.

California residents may have specific privacy rights under California privacy laws, depending on whether those laws apply to StartupDevKit at the time of the request. California privacy rights can include rights to know, access, correct, delete, and opt out of certain uses of personal information.

StartupDevKit may collect the following categories of information:

StartupDevKit uses this information for the purposes described throughout this Privacy Policy.

To submit a California privacy request, contact:

Email: [email protected]

22. International Users

StartupDevKit is operated from the United States.

If you access StartupDevKit from outside the United States, your information may be processed and stored in the United States or in other countries where our service providers operate.

Privacy laws in these countries may differ from the laws in your jurisdiction.

Where applicable, StartupDevKit will process personal information according to this Privacy Policy and applicable legal requirements.

23. Children’s Privacy

StartupDevKit is intended for adults and business users.

StartupDevKit is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Users must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in their jurisdiction, to create an account, purchase a membership, or use paid services.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

24. Security

StartupDevKit uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect personal information.

These may include access controls, security plugins, firewalls, spam prevention tools, SSL, account authentication, backups, monitoring, and other security practices.

However, no website, platform, server, database, transmission, or storage system is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for notifying us if you believe your account has been accessed without authorization.

25. Data Breach Notification

If StartupDevKit becomes aware of a data breach that affects personal information, we will investigate and take appropriate steps.

Where legally required, we will notify affected users, regulators, or other appropriate parties within the required time period.

26. Links to Other Websites

StartupDevKit may link to third-party websites, tools, services, communities, software platforms, partner offers, or resources.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, terms, security, or content of third-party websites or services.

You should review the privacy policies of third-party websites before submitting information to them.

27. Changes to This Privacy Policy

StartupDevKit may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

If we make material changes, we may notify users by posting the updated policy on the website, sending an email, displaying a notice, or using another reasonable method.

Your continued use of StartupDevKit after an updated Privacy Policy is posted means you accept the updated policy.

28. Contact Information

For questions about this Privacy Policy or to make a privacy request, contact:

StartupDevKit, Inc.
Website: https://startupdevkit.com/
Email: [email protected]