Mod Squad Capital (“Mod Squad,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects the privacy of the founders, advisors, operators, investors, business partners, website visitors, and other individuals who interact with us.
This Website Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information in connection with the Mod Squad Capital website at www.modsquadcapital.com, our public-facing webpages, forms, communications, events, and other interactions that link to this Policy.
Use of the private Mod Squad OS platform is governed by a separate Mod Squad OS Privacy Notice and applicable Terms of Use.
Our Commitment Regarding Your Data
Mod Squad Capital does not sell your personal information or member information. We will not sell, rent, license, trade, or provide your information to third parties for their advertising, marketing, lead-generation, data-brokerage, or similar commercial purposes.
We will not use information collected through Mod Squad Capital or Mod Squad OS to build third-party advertising audiences, enable behavioral advertising, market unrelated third-party products or services to you, or monetize your information as a data product.
Information entrusted to Mod Squad is used to operate Mod Squad, provide our services, support our members, facilitate authorized relationships and introductions, secure our systems, and fulfill purposes you have requested or reasonably expect.
Third-party technology providers may process limited information on our behalf solely to operate the website, Mod Squad OS, communications, infrastructure, security, and related services. These providers are not authorized by Mod Squad to use that information for their own marketing purposes.
1. Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with Mod Squad Capital, we may collect:
Information You Provide to Us
This may include:
- Name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Company or organization
- Job title or professional role
- Whether you identify yourself as a founder, advisor, operator, investor, or other participant
- Information submitted through contact, access-request, application, scheduling, or similar forms
- Messages and correspondence you send to us
- Information you voluntarily provide in connection with meetings, events, partnership discussions, or other business interactions
Please do not submit confidential, sensitive, or proprietary company information through a general website contact form unless specifically requested by Mod Squad Capital.
Information Collected Automatically
When you interact with our website, we or our service providers may automatically receive technical information such as:
- IP address
- Browser and device type
- Operating system
- Referring page
- Pages visited
- Date and time of access
- General interaction and diagnostic information
We may use cookies or similar technologies where necessary to operate, secure, understand, or improve the website. We do not use Mod Squad member data or Mod Squad OS data for third-party behavioral advertising.
2. How We Use Information
We may use personal information to:
- Respond to inquiries and requests
- Evaluate requests to join or participate in the Mod Squad network
- Communicate with founders, advisors, investors, partners, and prospective participants
- Schedule meetings and events
- Evaluate business, investment, partnership, advisory, or commercial opportunities
- Operate and improve our website and services
- Protect the security and integrity of our systems
- Detect fraud, misuse, or other inappropriate activity
- Maintain business records
- Comply with applicable law and legal obligations
- Exercise or defend legal rights
We may send operational or relationship-related communications concerning Mod Squad Capital or a person's participation in the Mod Squad network.
We do not use personal information entrusted to us to conduct third-party marketing campaigns or promote unrelated third-party products and services.
3. How We Disclose Information
We Do Not Sell or Provide Your Data for Marketing
Mod Squad Capital does not:
- Sell personal information
- Rent personal information
- License member information
- Trade member information
- Provide member lists to marketers
- Provide Mod Squad OS data to data brokers
- Provide member information for third-party lead generation
- Share information for cross-context behavioral advertising
- Allow third parties to use Mod Squad data to create advertising audiences
- Monetize private member, founder, advisor, or relationship information as a commercial database
Service Providers
We use third-party providers to support functions such as website hosting, database infrastructure, authentication, email, scheduling, communications, security, and business operations.
These providers may process information only as necessary to provide services to Mod Squad Capital and are not authorized by us to use Mod Squad information for their independent marketing purposes.
Authorized Introductions and Network Activity
Where you specifically ask us to make an introduction, pursue an opportunity, arrange a meeting, or otherwise facilitate a relationship, we may provide the limited information reasonably necessary to accomplish that purpose. This is not considered a sale or marketing disclosure.
For example, if a founder asks Mod Squad to facilitate an introduction to an advisor or potential customer, we may provide appropriate professional information necessary to make that requested introduction.
Professional Advisors
We may disclose information where reasonably necessary to attorneys, accountants, auditors, insurers, consultants, and similar professional advisors who are subject to confidentiality or professional obligations.
Legal and Safety Purposes
We may disclose information if reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or other lawful process
- Protect the rights, property, safety, or security of Mod Squad Capital or others
- Investigate fraud, misuse, security incidents, or unlawful activity
- Enforce our agreements
Corporate Transactions
Information may be transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of substantially all assets, or similar transaction. Any successor would remain subject to applicable privacy obligations regarding information collected under this Policy.
4. No Sale, Advertising, or Third-Party Marketing Use
Mod Squad's business model is not based on selling personal information.
We do not sell, rent, license, or provide personal information or private Mod Squad data to third parties for marketing, advertising, lead generation, or data-brokerage purposes.
We do not use private Mod Squad OS information, advisor activity, founder information, relationship intelligence, communications, contribution data, scoring information, or member profiles for third-party advertising.
If Mod Squad's practices were ever proposed to change materially in this area, we would update our disclosures before implementing such a change and obtain consent where required.
5. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including to:
- Maintain an active relationship with you
- Evaluate or manage network participation
- Maintain business and transaction records
- Preserve appropriate network history
- Resolve disputes
- Protect against fraud or abuse
- Meet legal, tax, accounting, regulatory, or contractual obligations
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
When information is no longer reasonably required, we may delete, anonymize, de-identify, or securely isolate it in accordance with applicable requirements and our retention practices.
6. Security
We use administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
No internet-based system can guarantee absolute security, and individuals should use appropriate care when transmitting confidential information electronically.
7. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, applicable law may provide rights such as:
- Accessing personal information we maintain about you
- Correcting inaccurate personal information
- Requesting deletion of certain personal information
- Obtaining a portable copy of certain information
- Opting out of certain forms of sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or marketing
- Withdrawing consent where applicable
- Appealing certain privacy decisions
- Receiving information about how personal information is used and disclosed
Because Mod Squad does not sell personal information or use it for third-party behavioral advertising, there is ordinarily nothing for a Mod Squad member to opt out of in those categories.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising rights provided by applicable privacy law.
Privacy requests may be submitted to privacy@modsquadcapital.com. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.
8. Information About Other People
If you provide Mod Squad Capital with information about another person for purposes such as an introduction, referral, or business opportunity, you are responsible for ensuring that you are authorized to provide that information.
Provide only information reasonably necessary for the intended business purpose.
Members of Mod Squad OS may recommend a founder, a company, or a prospective advisor to us, or introduce a potential customer to one of our portfolio companies, through the platform. We use what a member tells us about that person only to consider the recommendation or introduction, to contact or invite them, to let the founder concerned prepare and follow up, and to credit the member who made it. An introduction comes with a private link to a short page about the founder; the page shows the person nothing about themselves and records only that it was opened and whether they asked to meet. The member sends the introduction from their own mailbox; we do not email the person and do not add them to any list. If we do not proceed, or the member withdraws the recommendation, we remove that person's contact details and the member's notes about them twelve months after that decision, and keep only the record that a recommendation was made, by whom, and its outcome.
9. Third-Party Websites
Our website may link to websites and services operated by other organizations. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, and Mod Squad Capital is not responsible for those practices.
10. Children's Privacy
Mod Squad Capital's website and services are intended for business and professional users and are not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16 through the website.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our services, practices, technology, or legal obligations. When we make material changes, we will update the effective date and provide additional notice where appropriate or legally required.
We will not silently change this Policy to begin selling member data or using private Mod Squad data for third-party marketing.
12. Contact Us
For privacy questions or requests:
Mod Squad Capital, LLC
Privacy: privacy@modsquadcapital.com
General inquiries: info@modsquadcapital.com