Privacy Policy
Weaverbird LLC (“Weaverbird,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect personal information when you use our websites, forms, programs, networks, events, and other services (collectively, the “Services”).
1. Information We Collect
The information we collect depends on how you interact with Weaverbird and may include:
Contact and Organization Information
We may collect your name, email address, organization, job title or role, and other contact or professional information you provide to us.
Project and Request Information
If you submit a project, challenge, or request for support, we may collect information about your company or organization, technology, project needs, commercialization stage, technical requirements, desired services or capabilities, location preferences, timelines, and other information you choose to provide.
Provider Information
If you participate as a service provider, research institution, laboratory, manufacturer, technical expert, ecosystem organization, or other potential partner, we may collect information about your organization, contacts, capabilities, facilities, equipment, expertise, services, project interests, preferences, and other information you provide to help us evaluate potential matches.
Communications and Other Information You Provide
We may collect information you provide when you communicate with Weaverbird, participate in a program or event, respond to a survey, request support, provide feedback, or otherwise interact with the Services.
Website and Usage Information
When you visit our website or use certain Services, we or our service providers may automatically collect limited technical information, such as your IP address, browser or device type, pages visited, referring pages, and interactions with the website.
We may also use cookies or similar technologies to operate the website, understand how it is used, and improve the Services. Additional information or choices regarding cookies may be provided where required by applicable law.
Payment Information
If you purchase a paid Service or offering, payments may be processed by third-party payment providers. Weaverbird does not store full payment card numbers.
2. How We Use Information
We may use the information we collect to:
- Provide, operate, and improve the Services.
- Review project submissions and requests for support.
- Understand a company’s technical, commercialization, testing, manufacturing, or other needs.
- Understand Provider capabilities, services, facilities, expertise, and project interests.
- Identify and evaluate potential matches between companies and Providers.
- Facilitate introductions and communications between potential matches.
- Respond to questions, requests, and feedback.
- Administer programs, events, partnerships, and other Weaverbird activities.
- Send service-related communications, including updates about project submissions, potential matches, introductions, or programs in which you participate.
- Send newsletters, ecosystem updates, event announcements, or other communications where permitted by applicable law.
- Maintain the security and integrity of the Services and prevent misuse.
- Comply with legal obligations and protect Weaverbird’s rights and the rights of others.
- Process payments for paid Services or offerings, if applicable.
Aggregated and De-Identified Insights
Weaverbird may use information collected through the Services to understand trends and needs across the innovation ecosystem and to create aggregated or de-identified insights.
For example, we may analyze trends in the types of technical capabilities, facilities, testing resources, manufacturing support, or commercialization assistance companies are seeking.
We may use or share aggregated or de-identified insights for research, reporting, ecosystem development, partnerships, or other business purposes. These insights will not be presented in a way that is intended to identify an individual company, Provider, or person.
Weaverbird does not sell your personal information.
3. How We Share Information
Weaverbird may share information in the following circumstances:
Potential Matches and Introductions
To facilitate matchmaking, Weaverbird may share selected information about a project, request, company, or organization with Providers or other potential partners when reasonably necessary to evaluate whether there may be a fit.
During the initial matching process, Weaverbird may limit or summarize the information shared where appropriate. We do not treat project submissions as public listings or routinely distribute complete submissions across the Weaverbird network.
If there is mutual interest in an introduction, Weaverbird may share relevant contact information and other information reasonably necessary to facilitate the connection.
Once an introduction is made, the parties are responsible for deciding what additional information to exchange and whether a nondisclosure agreement or other confidentiality protections are appropriate.
Service Providers
We may share information with third-party vendors and service providers that help us operate Weaverbird, such as providers of website hosting, forms, databases, communications, automation, analytics, payment processing, and other business or technology services.
These providers may access information only as necessary to perform services for Weaverbird and are subject to their own contractual and legal obligations regarding the information they process.
Partners and Programs
We may share information with organizations involved in a specific Weaverbird program, partnership, or initiative when reasonably necessary to administer that activity and where the nature of the information sharing has been disclosed or is reasonably expected in connection with your participation.
We may also share aggregated or de-identified insights as described in Section 2.
With Your Direction or Permission
We may share information when you ask us to do so, authorize the sharing, or otherwise direct us to facilitate a connection or disclosure.
Legal, Safety, and Business Requirements
We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request.
- Protect the rights, property, security, or safety of Weaverbird, our users, or others.
- Investigate or prevent fraud, misuse, security incidents, or other unlawful activity.
- Support a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar business transaction, subject to appropriate protections where required by law.
Weaverbird does not sell your personal information.
4. Legal Bases for Processing
Where applicable data protection law requires us to identify a legal basis for processing personal information, Weaverbird may rely on one or more of the following:
- Consent, where you have given us permission to process your information for a specific purpose, such as subscribing to certain marketing communications.
- Performance of a contract, where processing is necessary to provide Services you have requested or to fulfill our obligations to you.
- Legitimate interests, where processing is reasonably necessary to operate and improve Weaverbird, facilitate matches and introductions, communicate with participants, understand how the Services are used, maintain security, or support our business activities, provided those interests are not overridden by your applicable privacy rights.
- Legal obligations, where processing is necessary to comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal processes.
Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred before the withdrawal.
5. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and the laws that apply, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include the right to:
- Access personal information Weaverbird holds about you.
- Correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
- Delete certain personal information.
- Obtain a copy of certain personal information in a portable format.
- Restrict or object to certain uses of your personal information.
- Withdraw consent where Weaverbird relies on your consent to process personal information.
- Opt out of certain uses or disclosures where applicable law provides that right.
To exercise a privacy right or ask a question about your personal information, contact us at kris@weaverbird.network.
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests. We will respond to valid requests within the time required by applicable law.
Depending on your location, you may also have the right to appeal certain decisions regarding a privacy request or submit a complaint to an applicable data protection or privacy authority.
Weaverbird will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights provided by applicable law.
6. Data Retention
Weaverbird retains personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide and operate the Services, maintain relevant business and program records, facilitate current or potential future matches, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and protect our rights.
The length of time we retain information may depend on the type of information, how it is used, whether you continue to participate in the Weaverbird network, and any applicable legal or contractual requirements.
When personal information is no longer reasonably necessary for these purposes, we may delete or de-identify it.
You may request deletion of certain personal information by contacting kris@weaverbird.network, subject to any information we are permitted or required to retain under applicable law.
7. Security
Weaverbird uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
We also rely on third-party service providers to operate portions of the Services, and those providers maintain their own security practices and safeguards.
No method of transmitting or storing information is completely secure, and Weaverbird cannot guarantee the absolute security of personal information.
8. International Data Transfers
Weaverbird is based in the United States, and information collected through the Services may be processed or stored in the United States or other countries where Weaverbird or its service providers operate.
If you access or use the Services from outside the United States, your personal information may be transferred to countries with data protection laws that differ from those in your jurisdiction.
Where required by applicable law, Weaverbird will take appropriate steps to support the lawful transfer and processing of personal information across borders.
9. Third-Party Services and Links
Weaverbird relies on third-party service providers to help operate and deliver the Services. Depending on how you interact with Weaverbird, these providers may process personal information on our behalf.
Our current service providers include:
- Webflow, which we use to host and operate the Weaverbird website.
- Airtable, which we use to organize and manage information, including information submitted through Weaverbird forms and used in connection with project matching and network administration.
- Make, which we use to automate workflows and transfer information between systems used to operate the Services.
We may also use other service providers for functions such as email and communications, analytics, event registration, payment processing, document management, or other business operations.
These providers may process information as necessary to provide their services to Weaverbird and are subject to their own terms, privacy policies, and data protection practices.
The Services may also contain links to websites or services operated by third parties, including Providers, partners, and other organizations. If you follow a link to a third-party service or interact directly with another organization, that organization’s privacy practices will apply to information you provide directly to it. Weaverbird is not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites or services that we do not control.
We may update the service providers we use as our Services and operations evolve.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
Weaverbird may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our Services, practices, technology, or applicable legal requirements.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes, we may provide additional notice where appropriate, such as through the Services or by email.
11. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, Weaverbird’s privacy practices, or personal information we maintain about you, or if you would like to submit a privacy request, please contact us at:
Weaverbird LLC
418 Broadway, Ste N
Albany, NY 12207
Email: kris@weaverbird.network
Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to submit a complaint to an applicable data protection or privacy authority.
