Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

We collect information in several ways: directly from you, automatically when you use the website, and from third parties.

A. Information You Provide to Us

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide, including:

• Name
• Email address
• Username or account login details
• Company or startup name
• Website URL
• Project description
• Category, tags, launch details, and promotional materials
• Images, logos, screenshots, or other uploaded content
• Guest post or advertising inquiry information
• Billing-related information
• Customer support messages
• Marketing preferences
• Any other information you choose to submit

If you submit a startup, product, guest post, advertisement, or sponsor listing, some of the information you provide may be displayed publicly on Pro Launch.

B. Account Information

If you create an account, we may collect:

• Your name or display name
• Email address
• Password or authentication credentials
• Profile details
• Submitted projects
• Saved preferences
• Account activity

Passwords are stored using appropriate security measures, such as hashing, where applicable.

C. Payment Information

If you purchase a paid listing, sponsorship, advertisement, or other paid service, payment information may be processed by third-party payment providers.

We may receive limited payment-related information, such as:

• Payment status
• Transaction ID
• Billing name
• Billing email
• Purchase amount
• Subscription or order details

We do not intentionally store full credit card numbers on our own servers unless explicitly stated at the point of payment. Payment card details are typically handled by secure third-party payment processors.

D. Information Collected Automatically

When you visit Pro Launch, we may automatically collect information about your device and how you use the website, including:

• IP address
• Browser type and version
• Device type
• Operating system
• Referring website
• Pages viewed
• Links clicked
• Time spent on pages
• Search queries on the website
• Date and time of visits
• Approximate location based on IP address
• Browsing history on Pro Launch
• Cookie identifiers
• Analytics and performance data

This information helps us understand how visitors use Pro Launch and improve the website.

E. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We may use cookies, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies to collect information and improve your experience.

Cookies may be used to:

• Keep you signed in
• Remember preferences
• Measure website traffic
• Understand user behavior
• Improve website performance
• Personalize content
• Support advertising and sponsorship measurement
• Prevent fraud and abuse

You can usually control cookies through your browser settings. Some features of the website may not work properly if cookies are disabled.

F. Information From Third Parties

We may receive information from third parties, such as:

• Analytics providers
• Advertising partners
• Payment processors
• Authentication providers
• Social media platforms
• Public databases
• Referral partners
• Anti-fraud and security providers

For example, if you sign in using a third-party login provider, we may receive basic profile information such as your name and email address, depending on your settings with that provider.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use personal information for the purposes described below.

A. To Provide and Operate Pro Launch

We use your information to:

• Create and manage user accounts
• Process project submissions
• Publish startup or product listings
• Display project pages
• Provide paid listings, sponsorships, advertising, or promotional placements
• Process purchases and orders
• Respond to inquiries
• Provide customer support
• Maintain website functionality

B. To Personalize Your Experience

We may use your information to:

• Show relevant content
• Remember your preferences
• Recommend projects, categories, or content
• Customize the website experience
• Improve search and discovery features

C. To Send Communications

We may use your contact information to send:

• Account-related messages
• Submission confirmations
• Purchase confirmations
• Service updates
• Administrative notices
• Customer support replies
• Marketing emails
• Newsletter updates
• Promotional offers
• Advertising or sponsorship information

You can opt out of marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the email or contacting us. Even if you opt out of marketing emails, we may still send important service-related messages.

D. To Improve the Website

We use information to:

• Analyze website traffic
• Understand user behavior
• Test new features
• Improve design and usability
• Fix bugs
• Monitor performance
• Develop new services
• Measure the effectiveness of listings, promotions, and advertisements

E. For Marketing and Advertising

We may use information to:

• Promote Pro Launch
• Measure advertising performance
• Show sponsored content
• Understand which content or listings are popular
• Support advertisers and sponsors
• Conduct audience analysis

Where required by law, we will obtain your consent before using cookies or similar technologies for targeted advertising.

F. For Security and Fraud Prevention

We use information to:

• Protect user accounts
• Detect fraud, spam, bots, or abuse
• Prevent unauthorized access
• Enforce our terms and policies
• Investigate suspicious activity
• Maintain the safety and integrity of Pro Launch

G. To Comply With Legal Obligations

We may use your information to:

• Comply with applicable laws and regulations
• Respond to lawful requests from authorities
• Maintain tax, accounting, and business records
• Enforce legal rights
• Resolve disputes

3. Legal Bases for Processing Personal Information

If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or another region with similar privacy laws, we process your personal information based on one or more of the following legal bases:

A. Performance of a Contract

We process information when necessary to provide services you request, such as creating an account, submitting a project, purchasing a listing, or receiving support.

B. Consent

We may rely on your consent for certain activities, such as sending marketing emails or using non-essential cookies, where required by law.

You may withdraw consent at any time.

C. Legitimate Interests

We may process information for our legitimate business interests, such as improving Pro Launch, preventing fraud, analyzing website performance, and promoting our services, provided those interests are not overridden by your privacy rights.

D. Legal Obligations

We may process information when required to comply with laws, regulations, tax obligations, court orders, or other legal requirements.

4. How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information in the traditional sense of exchanging it for money. However, certain privacy laws define “sale” or “sharing” broadly, especially when data is used for targeted advertising. Depending on how we use advertising or analytics technologies, some sharing may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act.

We may share information as described below.

A. Public Listings and User-Submitted Content

If you submit a project, startup, guest post, comment, profile, advertisement, or other content intended for publication, that information may be visible to the public.

Public information may include:

• Project name
• Company name
• Website link
• Description
• Images or logos
• Category and tags
• Launch date
• Founder or submitter name, if provided
• Public profile information
• Guest post author information

Please do not submit information you do not want made public.

B. Service Providers

We may share information with trusted service providers that help us operate Pro Launch, including providers of:

• Website hosting
• Cloud storage
• Database management
• Email delivery
• Analytics
• Payment processing
• Customer support
• Security monitoring
• Spam prevention
• Advertising technology
• Content delivery networks
• Business operations tools

These service providers are authorized to use personal information only as needed to provide services to us or as otherwise permitted by law.

C. Payment Processors

When you make a purchase, your payment information is handled by third-party payment processors. Their use of your information is governed by their own privacy policies.

D. Analytics Providers

We may share usage information with analytics providers to understand website traffic, user behavior, and performance.

Analytics providers may collect information such as:

• IP address
• Device information
• Browser information
• Pages visited
• Referring URLs
• Interaction data

E. Advertisers and Sponsors

If Pro Launch offers advertising, sponsorships, or promoted listings, we may share limited information with advertisers or sponsors, such as:

• Aggregate campaign performance
• Click counts
• View counts
• Referral information
• General audience insights

We do not intentionally share sensitive personal information with advertisers without your consent.

F. Business Transfers

If Pro Launch is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, reorganization, bankruptcy, or similar business transaction, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

G. Legal and Safety Reasons

We may disclose information if we believe it is necessary to:

• Comply with law
• Respond to legal process
• Protect our rights or property
• Enforce our terms
• Prevent fraud or abuse
• Protect users or the public
• Investigate security issues

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Pro Launch may use cookies and similar technologies for essential, functional, analytics, and advertising purposes.

Types of Cookies We May Use

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to work. They may support login, security, checkout, and basic functionality.

Functional Cookies

These cookies remember preferences, such as theme settings, language choices, or account preferences.

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how people use Pro Launch so we can improve the website.

Advertising Cookies

These cookies may be used to measure advertising performance, support sponsored placements, or deliver more relevant promotional content.

Managing Cookies

You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Depending on your location, we may also provide a cookie banner or preference center that allows you to accept or reject certain categories of cookies.

If you block cookies, some parts of Pro Launch may not function properly.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” or “Global Privacy Control” signals. Where legally required, we will honor recognized opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, for applicable users.

6. How We Protect Your Information

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect personal information.

These safeguards may include:

• Encryption in transit using HTTPS/TLS
• Access controls
• Password protection
• Authentication safeguards
• Secure hosting infrastructure
• Limited access to personal information
• Monitoring for suspicious activity
• Regular security reviews
• Data minimization practices
• Vendor security assessments where appropriate

However, no website, internet transmission, or storage system is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your information.

You are responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential and for notifying us if you believe your account has been compromised.

7. How Long We Keep Information

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

Retention periods may depend on:

• Whether you have an active account
• Whether your project or content remains published
• Legal, tax, or accounting obligations
• Dispute resolution needs
• Security and fraud prevention
• Backup and archival processes
• Your privacy requests

Public listings or submitted content may remain available unless removed by us or deleted in response to an applicable request.

8. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.

These rights may include:

A. Right to Access

You may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.

B. Right to Correction

You may request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information.

C. Right to Deletion

You may request that we delete personal information we hold about you, subject to legal exceptions.

D. Right to Data Portability

You may request a copy of your personal information in a portable format, where legally required.

E. Right to Object

You may object to certain processing activities, including processing based on legitimate interests.

F. Right to Restrict Processing

You may ask us to limit how we process your information in certain circumstances.

G. Right to Withdraw Consent

If we process your information based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.

H. Right to Opt Out of Marketing

You may opt out of marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link in our emails or contacting us.

I. Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing

If applicable, you may have the right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information, including sharing for targeted advertising.

J. Right Not to Be Discriminated Against

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

9. GDPR and UK GDPR Rights

If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you may have rights under the General Data Protection Regulation or similar laws.

These rights may include:

• Accessing your personal data
• Correcting inaccurate data
• Deleting your data
• Restricting processing
• Objecting to processing
• Requesting data portability
• Withdrawing consent
• Filing a complaint with your local data protection authority

Where applicable, Pro Launch acts as the “data controller” for personal information collected through the website.

If we transfer personal information outside your region, we will use appropriate safeguards where required, such as standard contractual clauses or other lawful transfer mechanisms.

10. California Privacy Notice

This section applies to California residents and is intended to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act.

A. Categories of Personal Information We May Collect

In the past 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information:

B. Sources of Personal Information

We collect personal information from:

• You directly
• Your device and browser
• Cookies and analytics tools
• Payment processors
• Service providers
• Public sources
• Third-party login or authentication providers, if used

C. Purposes for Collection

We collect personal information to:

• Provide Pro Launch
• Manage accounts
• Publish project listings
• Process payments
• Send communications
• Improve the website
• Prevent fraud
• Analyze performance
• Support advertising and sponsorships
• Comply with legal obligations

D. Categories of Personal Information Shared

We may disclose the categories of information listed above to:

• Service providers
• Payment processors
• Analytics providers
• Advertising or sponsorship partners
• Legal authorities when required
• Business transaction parties

E. Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

We do not sell personal information for money. However, if we use advertising or analytics technologies that involve cross-context behavioral advertising, that activity may be considered “sharing” or “sale” under California law.

California residents may request to opt out of such sale or sharing where applicable.

F. Sensitive Personal Information

We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information unless you provide it voluntarily. Please do not submit sensitive information through Pro Launch unless necessary.

G. California Rights

California residents may have the right to:

• Know what personal information we collect
• Access personal information
• Delete personal information
• Correct inaccurate personal information
• Opt out of sale or sharing
• Limit the use of sensitive personal information, if applicable
• Not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights

To exercise your rights, contact us using the information in the “Contact Us” section.

11. International Users

Pro Launch may be operated from, or use service providers located in, countries other than your country of residence. As a result, your personal information may be transferred to and processed in countries that may not provide the same level of data protection as your home jurisdiction.

Where required by law, we use appropriate safeguards for international data transfers.

12. Children’s Privacy

Pro Launch is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If you are located in a jurisdiction where a higher age threshold applies, such as 16 in certain regions, we do not knowingly collect information from children below that age without appropriate consent.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us and we will take appropriate steps to delete the information.

13. Third-Party Links

Pro Launch may contain links to third-party websites, products, services, startups, advertisers, sponsors, or resources.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites. When you click a third-party link, your information will be handled according to that third party’s privacy policy.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.

14. User-Submitted Public Content

If you submit content to Pro Launch, such as a project listing, startup profile, guest post, advertisement, or comment, that content may become public.

Public content may be:

• Viewed by other users
• Indexed by search engines
• Shared on social media
• Used in promotional materials
• Preserved in cached or archived pages

Please be careful when submitting personal information in public areas of the website.

15. Marketing Communications

If you sign up for updates, create an account, submit a project, or purchase a service, we may send you marketing communications where permitted by law.

You can opt out of marketing emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the email or contacting us.

We may still send non-marketing messages, such as account notices, transaction confirmations, security alerts, or policy updates.

16. Data Accuracy

We rely on you to provide accurate and current information. If your information changes, please update your account or contact us.

We may take reasonable steps to correct or remove inaccurate information when we become aware of it.

17. Automated Decision-Making

We do not use personal information to make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects solely through automated processing.

We may use automated tools for purposes such as spam detection, fraud prevention, analytics, content ranking, or recommendation features.

18. Data Breach Notification

If we become aware of a security incident involving personal information, we will take reasonable steps to investigate and respond.

Where required by law, we will notify affected users and/or regulatory authorities.

19. How to Exercise Your Privacy Rights

To exercise your privacy rights, please contact us using the details below.

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request. Verification may require you to provide information that matches our records, such as your email address or account details.

If you are submitting a request on behalf of someone else, we may require proof that you are authorized to act on their behalf.

We will respond to privacy requests within the time required by applicable law.

20. Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or how Pro Launch handles personal information, you may contact us at:

Pro Launch
Website: https://prolaunch.net
General Contact: https://prolaunch.net/contact
Privacy Contact: [email protected]

If you are located in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, you may also have the right to contact your local data protection authority.

21. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

If we make material changes, we may notify you by:

• Posting the updated Privacy Policy on this page
• Updating the effective date
• Sending an email notice, where appropriate
• Displaying a notice on the website

Your continued use of Pro Launch after an updated Privacy Policy is posted means you accept the updated policy, to the extent permitted by law.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

22. Plain-Language Summary

Here is a simple summary of how Pro Launch handles privacy:

• We collect information you provide, such as your name, email, account details, and project submissions.
• We collect website usage data, such as pages visited, clicks, cookies, IP address, and browser information.
• We use information to run Pro Launch, publish listings, process payments, send updates, improve the website, and prevent abuse.
• We may share information with service providers, payment processors, analytics tools, advertisers, sponsors, or legal authorities when needed.
• Some information you submit, such as project listings, may be public.
• We use reasonable security measures to protect your information.
• You may have rights to access, correct, delete, or control how your data is used.
• You can contact us with privacy questions or requests.