Privacy policy

• Your account. Your name, email address and sign-in details, through our sign-in provider, Clerk. If you sign in with Google, we receive your name, email and profile picture from Google.
• Your resume and profile. The PDF you upload, and the profile we read from it: skills, education, experience, projects, the level and kind of role you want, and any edits you make.
• What you do in the app. Your matches, the roles you track and their status, and your conversations with the chat assistant.
• Payments. When you subscribe: the plan, each payment's amount, currency and date, and the period it covers. Card and UPI details, and your billing country, are handled by our payment provider, Dodo Payments; we never see or store your card details.
• Your country. Our host tells us which country a visit comes from (from your IP address), so we can show prices in rupees or US dollars. We don't store it with your account.
• Startups you suggest. The company name, its links and the email you give in the “Add a startup” form.
• How the site is used. Steps like opening the map, opening a company, signing up or clicking through to apply, tied to a random visitor ID stored in a cookie, and the link you arrived through. We also use Vercel Analytics, which counts page views without cookies.

• To run your account and give you what your plan includes.
• To read your resume, fill in your profile and match you with open roles, with a short note on why each fits.
• To answer you in the chat assistant, using your profile and the roles on the map.
• To show prices in your currency, take subscription payments, and keep a record of what you've paid.
• To understand which parts of the site help people and fix what doesn't, from usage counts.
• To reply when you contact us.

We use these services to run the site. Each gets only what it needs for its part, under its own privacy terms:

• Clerk: sign-in and account management.
• Neon: our database, where your profile, matches, tracked roles, chats and resume are stored. Some resumes uploaded before November 2026 are stored with Supabase.
• Vercel: hosting and privacy-friendly analytics.
• OpenAI: reading your resume, matching you with roles and the chat assistant. OpenAI processes this text through its API and doesn't use it to train its models.
• Dodo Payments: checkout, subscriptions and payments, as our merchant of record.
• Map tiles (CARTO or Esri): the map's background, loaded by your browser.

Some of these services store data outside India. We don't sell or rent your personal data to anyone, and we don't share your resume or profile with employers.

We use cookies to keep you signed in (Clerk), remember your theme and layout, remember the city you chose, and keep a random visitor ID and the link you arrived through (for 30 days) so we can count how people use the site. We don't use advertising cookies.

We keep your account, profile and resume while your account is open. Payment records are kept as long as tax and accounting rules require. Usage events are kept in aggregate to understand the site over time.

• You can see and edit your profile on your profile page, and replace or remove your resume there.
• You can delete your account from Settings.
• You can ask us for a copy of your data, to correct it, or to delete it, by emailing realhardik18@gmail.com. We'll do it within 30 days.

These rights apply under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and wherever else the law gives them to you.

Your resume is stored privately and served only to you. Connections to the site are encrypted, and access to the database is limited to the people who run the service. No system is perfectly secure, but we take care to protect what you give us.

blrstartuparena is for people looking for work and isn't meant for anyone under 18.

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. If a change affects how we use data you've already given us, we'll tell you on the site or by email first.

Questions about your data, or a request to see or delete it: realhardik18@gmail.com. See also our terms of service.