Privacy Policy

Last updated: 04.04.2025

We appreciate your interest in our platform. The protection of your privacy is very important to us. Below, we provide detailed information about how we handle your data.

1. Responsible Entity

The entity responsible for data processing on this website is:

RiTZELMUt Ventures GmbH
Mariahilfstr. 18
81541 Munich
Germany

Email: privacy@co-founder.wtf

2. Collection and Processing of Personal Data

We collect and process personal data only if you provide it to us as part of your use of our platform. This occurs particularly in the following cases:

When registering a user account
When creating and editing your profile
When publishing ideas and projects
When applying to projects of other users
When communicating with other users
When contacting our support

The processed data includes:

Master data (name, username, email address)
Contact data (address, phone number)
Content data (texts, images, videos)
Usage data (visited websites, interest in content, access times)
Meta/communication data (device information, IP addresses)

3. Purpose of Data Processing

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

To provide and improve our platform
To enable communication between users
To connect founders and co-founders
To process inquiries and communicate with you
To prevent misuse and ensure security

4. Legal Basis for Processing

The processing of your personal data is based on the following legal grounds:

Your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR)
For the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR)
For compliance with legal obligations (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR)
For the protection of legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR)

5. Storage Duration

We store your personal data only for as long as necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes for which it was collected or as long as statutory retention periods exist. After that, the data is deleted or anonymized.

6. Data Sharing

Your personal data will only be shared with third parties if:

You have given your explicit consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR)
The sharing is necessary for the performance of a contract (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR)
There is a legal obligation to share (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR)
The sharing is necessary to protect legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR)

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to improve user-friendliness and enable certain functions. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device.

We use both session cookies, which are deleted after you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which remain stored on your device for a longer period.

You can set your browser to inform you about the placement of cookies and to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. When cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.

8. Your Rights

You have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Right to information (Art. 15 GDPR)
Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
Right to object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR)
Right to revoke given consent (Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR)
Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR)

To exercise your rights, please contact us using the contact details provided above.

9. Data Security

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures in accordance with Art. 32 GDPR, taking into account the state of the art, the implementation costs, and the nature, scope, context, and purposes of processing, as well as the varying likelihood and severity of the risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk.

The measures include, in particular, safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data by controlling physical access to the data, as well as access, input, disclosure, securing availability, and separation. We have also established procedures to ensure the exercise of data subjects' rights, the deletion of data, and response to data compromise.

10. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy to ensure that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g., when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your subsequent visits.