Cookie Policy

Last Updated: August 24, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Foundly ("Foundly," "we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or use our website, platform, and related services (collectively, the "Service").

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

By using Foundly, cookies and similar technologies may be placed or accessed on your device as described below, subject to any consent requirements that apply in your jurisdiction.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites place on your browser or device.

They allow websites and online services to remember certain information about your visit, maintain sessions, understand how users interact with a service, improve functionality, and perform analytics.

Some cookies are necessary for a website or application to function properly, while others are used for analytics or similar purposes.

2. How Foundly Uses Cookies

Foundly uses cookies and similar technologies for a limited number of purposes.

These include maintaining the security and functionality of the Service, supporting authentication and user sessions, remembering certain user preferences, understanding how visitors interact with Foundly, measuring website and product performance, diagnosing technical issues, and improving the overall user experience.

We do not use cookies to sell your business ideas or validation results.

3. Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are required for Foundly to operate correctly.

These cookies may be used to maintain authentication sessions, preserve account security, prevent unauthorized access, enable navigation, remember necessary settings, and provide core Service functionality.

Because these cookies are necessary to provide the Service, they generally cannot be disabled through Foundly's cookie preferences where applicable.

Disabling essential cookies through your browser may prevent certain parts of Foundly from functioning correctly.

4. Authentication Cookies

Foundly allows users to authenticate through supported third-party providers such as Google and GitHub.

Authentication-related cookies or similar technologies may be used by Foundly, our infrastructure providers, Google, GitHub, or other relevant authentication services to securely sign you in and maintain your authenticated session.

These technologies help verify that requests made through your account are legitimate and help reduce unauthorized access.

Your interaction with Google and GitHub may also be subject to their respective privacy and cookie practices.

5. Analytics Cookies

Foundly uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors and users interact with the Service.

Google Analytics may use cookies or similar technologies to collect information such as pages visited, approximate geographic information, browser type, device type, referral source, session duration, interactions with pages or features, and other usage information.

We use this information to understand how Foundly is used, identify areas that can be improved, measure performance, detect usability issues, and understand general traffic patterns.

Analytics information is not intended to be used to identify or analyze the contents of your private business ideas or validation reports.

6. Google Analytics

Google Analytics is provided by Google.

Depending on how Google Analytics is configured and the laws applicable to a user, Google may receive technical and usage information associated with the user's visit to Foundly.

Foundly uses Google Analytics for product and website measurement purposes.

Where applicable law requires consent before analytics cookies are used, Foundly will request that consent before activating non-essential analytics cookies.

Users may also be able to restrict Google Analytics through browser settings, privacy tools, or other mechanisms made available by Google.

7. Functional Cookies

Foundly may use functional cookies to remember certain preferences or settings that improve your experience.

For example, these technologies may help remember interface preferences, authentication state, or other settings associated with the use of Foundly.

Some functional cookies may be necessary for core features, while others may be optional depending on their purpose.

8. Third-Party Cookies

Certain third-party services integrated with Foundly may use their own cookies or similar technologies.

These may include authentication providers such as Google and GitHub, analytics providers such as Google Analytics, or other infrastructure necessary to operate parts of the Service.

Foundly does not directly control cookies independently placed by third-party providers.

Those providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and cookie practices.

9. Payment Processing

Payments for Foundly credits are processed by Dodo Payments.

When you proceed to payment or interact with payment functionality, Dodo Payments or its associated payment infrastructure may use cookies or similar technologies for payment processing, fraud prevention, authentication, security, and transaction functionality.

Foundly does not use payment cookies to directly store your full payment card number or card security code.

Payment-related technologies may be governed by Dodo Payments' own policies.

10. Cookie Consent

Where required by applicable law, Foundly may display a cookie consent banner or preference interface before activating non-essential cookies.

Users may be given options such as accepting analytics cookies, rejecting non-essential cookies, or managing cookie preferences.

Essential cookies required for Foundly to function may remain active regardless of analytics preferences.

Your consent preferences may themselves be stored so that Foundly can remember your choices.

11. Managing Cookie Preferences

You may be able to manage cookies through Foundly's cookie preference interface where available.

You can also control cookies through your browser settings.

Most modern browsers allow users to view existing cookies, delete cookies, block certain cookies, block third-party cookies, or prevent websites from storing new cookies.

The specific controls available depend on your browser and device.

Blocking or deleting essential cookies may cause certain Foundly features to stop working correctly.

12. Browser Controls

Your browser may provide options for controlling cookies and site data.

These settings may allow you to:

The availability and behavior of these features depend on the browser you use.

13. Do Not Track

Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" setting.

Because there is currently no single universally adopted technical standard governing how all websites should respond to Do Not Track signals, Foundly may not respond to every such signal.

Where applicable law requires recognition of a legally recognized browser-based privacy preference or opt-out mechanism, Foundly will handle such signals as required.

14. Global Privacy Controls

Certain browsers or browser extensions may transmit privacy preference signals such as Global Privacy Control.

Where applicable law requires Foundly to recognize such signals for a particular type of processing, we will process the signal as required by applicable law.

Because Foundly does not operate a business model based on selling users' personal information, these signals may have limited applicability to certain Foundly activities.

15. How Long Cookies Last

Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies.

Session cookies generally remain active only while your browser session is open and are removed after the session ends.

Persistent cookies remain on your device for a defined period or until deleted.

The duration of individual cookies depends on their purpose and the provider that sets them.

Authentication cookies, preference cookies, analytics cookies, and third-party cookies may therefore have different retention periods.

16. Changes to the Cookies We Use

The specific cookies and technologies used by Foundly may change as we improve the Service, change providers, introduce new functionality, or modify analytics and security systems.

If we introduce new categories of non-essential cookies that require user consent, we will update our cookie controls or disclosures where required.

17. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our technology, Service, legal requirements, or cookie practices.

When we update this policy, we will revise the Last Updated date at the top of the page.

We encourage users to review this Cookie Policy periodically.

18. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or Foundly's use of cookies, contact us at:

Foundly
Email: hello@foundly.pro