Waitlist
Privacy notice.
This is the whole story of what happens to your email address when you join the Foluka waitlist: what we collect, why, who helps us handle it, how long we keep it and what you can do about it. It covers this waitlist site only.
What we collect
- Your email address, when you type it into the form.
- Whether you confirmed it, and when you joined, confirmed or unsubscribed.
- Your answer to the optional question (“What are you building?”), only if you choose to give one.
- A short-lived code made from your network (IP) address. We use it only to slow down anyone who submits the form over and over. It is scrambled with a secret key and the date, so it comes out different every day, it can’t be turned back into your address, and it is removed from our live database within two days. We never keep the address itself in our database.
We don’t ask for your name, phone number or location, and we don’t use advertising or tracking cookies. This site doesn’t set cookies of its own.
What we use it for
- To email you a link so you can confirm the address is yours.
- To send occasional updates about Foluka to people who confirmed.
- To keep the list free of mistyped and fake addresses.
- To understand what kinds of things founders are building, from the optional answer.
We don’t use your information for advertising, and we don’t build profiles of you.
Who else handles it
Two companies handle your information for us, only to provide their service:
- Cloudflare hosts this site and stores the waitlist in its database. It also runs the bot check on the sign-up form (Cloudflare Turnstile), which looks at signals from your browser to tell people from automated scripts. And it forwards mail sent to hello@foluka.com to our own inbox. Like any web host, it also sees technical details of each visit, such as your network address. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.
- Resend sends our emails. It sees your email address and the emails we send. See Resend’s privacy policy.
We never sell your information or share it with anyone else for their own purposes. We would hand it over only if the law required us to.
How long we keep it
- If you don’t confirm within about a week, we delete your address.
- If you confirm, we keep your information until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it.
- If you unsubscribe, we erase your answer and keep only your address and the date, on a do-not-email list, so we don’t email you again, even if someone types your address into the form. Write to us if you’d like it deleted too, or put back on the list.
When we delete something, it leaves our live database at once. Cloudflare keeps a history of the database so it can be restored after a mistake, and a deleted entry stays in that history for up to 7 days (up to 30 days if we move to a paid plan). It can’t be switched off.
Your choices
Every email we send has an unsubscribe link: open it and press the button on the page that opens. You can also write to hello@foluka.com to ask what we hold about you, to have it corrected or to have it deleted. Please write from the address you joined with, so we know it’s you.
If you live in California or another state with a privacy law, these are your rights, and we won’t treat you differently for using them. We don’t sell or share personal information for advertising.
Do Not Track
Some browsers send a “Do Not Track” signal. We don’t track you across other websites, so what we do is the same whether the signal is on or off.
Children
The waitlist is for adults. We don’t knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.
Changes
If we change this notice, we’ll post the new version here with a new date.
Contact
Questions about this notice: hello@foluka.com.