This is the privacy policy for venturelegalhub.com, operated by Venture Legal Hub LLC. It covers what information we collect when you visit the site, what we do with it, how long we keep it, who else ever sees it, and the rights you have over it. We wrote it ourselves, in plain English, because a site that asks founders to read legal documents carefully should hold its own documents to the same standard. If anything here is unclear, the remedy is simple: email us and ask. This policy is effective as of the date posted at the bottom of this page and applies to every page on this site.
The Short Version
If you read nothing else, read this list. It is accurate, and the longer sections below only add detail — they never take anything back.
- We collect almost nothing. There are no analytics trackers on this site, no advertising networks, and no third-party tracking cookies.
- We receive personal information in exactly two situations: when you send us a message through the contact form, and when you buy a premium guide and give us an email address for delivery.
- Your cookie-consent choice is stored in your own browser's local storage, on your own device. It is never transmitted to us or to anyone else.
- We never sell, rent, or trade your personal information. Not to data brokers, not to advertisers, not to anyone.
- You can ask us to show you, correct, or delete what we hold about you at any time, and we will.
What We Collect and Why
Contact form submissions
When you write to us through the contact form, we receive whatever you type into it: your name, your email address, and the body of your message. That message is delivered to our editorial inbox as an ordinary email. We use it for one purpose — to read what you sent and to reply. We do not add contact-form senders to a marketing list, because we do not operate a marketing list. If your message raises a topic worth covering, the topic may influence what we research next; your identity plays no role in that decision.
Premium guide orders
When you purchase one of our premium guides — digital downloads priced between $29 and $49 — we receive the email address you provide at checkout and an order reference. The email address is used to deliver your download link, to send a receipt, and to locate your order if you later write to us, including for a refund under our refund policy. We never see or store your full payment card number; the checkout process hands us only what we need to deliver the file and honor the guarantee.
Your cookie-consent choice
When you click Accept or Decline on the consent bar at the bottom of the site, your choice is saved in your browser's local storage under a single key. Local storage lives on your device, inside your browser profile. It is not a cookie, it is not sent to our server with your requests, and we have no record of which visitors accepted or declined. The stored choice does exactly one thing: it tells the site not to show you the consent bar again. The mechanics are described in full on our cookie controls page.
Hosting server logs
Like virtually every website, ours is served by a hosting provider whose servers generate standard technical logs: the IP address that requested a page, the time of the request, the page requested, and the browser identifier sent with it. These logs exist so the host can keep the servers running and defend them from abuse. We do not run analytics on them, we do not build visitor profiles from them, and we do not combine them with anything else. They are retained by the hosting provider for a short operational period and then discarded according to the provider's own schedule.
What We Deliberately Do Not Collect
This section exists because the honest answer to "what do you track?" is "nothing," and that answer is unusual enough to deserve spelling out. This site does not use Google Analytics or any other analytics platform. It does not load advertising networks, retargeting pixels, or social media trackers. It does not set third-party cookies of any kind. It does not fingerprint your device, record your mouse movements, or time how long you spend on a paragraph.
When the consent bar says we use cookies to see which legal topics founders research most, here is what that means in practice: the only "seeing" we do is reading the messages founders choose to send us and noting which guides they choose to buy. That is research by correspondence, not by surveillance. Declining the consent bar costs you nothing, because there is no tracking machinery for it to switch off. We keep the bar anyway because you deserve to be asked, and because the honest version of a consent notice is one where Accept and Decline produce the same respect.
How We Use the Information We Do Have
The complete list of uses is short. We use contact-form messages to answer your questions, consider your corrections, and evaluate which topics deserve a guide. We use order email addresses to deliver premium guides, send receipts, process refunds, and respond to support requests about a purchase. We use order records in aggregate — counts and totals, not identities — to understand which guides founders find worth paying for, which tells us where to invest research time. And we retain what tax and accounting law requires us to retain, for as long as it requires.
That is the entire list. We do not use your information to advertise to you, to profile you, to infer things about you, or to enrich databases operated by anyone else.
How Long We Keep It
Contact-form correspondence is kept for up to twenty-four months, because founder questions often develop into multi-message conversations and because corrections sometimes arrive long after a guide is published. If you ask us to delete the conversation sooner, we delete it sooner. Order records — the email address, the order reference, the date, and the amount — are kept for the period required for tax and accounting purposes, which under ordinary U.S. practice means up to seven years. Your cookie-consent choice persists in your browser's local storage until you clear it yourself; we have no ability to reach into your browser and remove it, which is rather the point.
Who Else Sees Your Information
Beyond the two of us reading the inbox, your information is handled by exactly two categories of service providers: the hosting company that serves these static pages (and generates the server logs described above), and the email provider whose servers carry contact-form messages and order correspondence to our inbox. Both are bound by their own contractual and legal obligations to handle data appropriately. There is no third category. We do not share, sell, rent, license, or disclose your personal information to advertisers, data brokers, analytics firms, recruiters, lead-generation services, or anyone else. If a court ever validly compelled disclosure, we would disclose only what the compulsion required and, where the law permits, tell you it happened.
Your Rights and How to Use Them
Whatever jurisdiction you read this from, we extend the same core rights to every visitor: the right to know what personal information we hold about you, the right to receive a copy of it, the right to have it corrected if it is wrong, and the right to have it deleted, subject only to the narrow legal-retention obligations described above. Because the only personal information we typically hold is an email thread and, for buyers, an order record, exercising these rights is fast and undramatic.
To make a request, email research@venturelegalhub.com from the address in question, with a subject line like "Privacy request." Tell us whether you want access, correction, or deletion. We will confirm that the request came from someone who controls the email address involved — that is the entire verification process — and respond within thirty days, usually far sooner. Residents of California, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Japan, and other jurisdictions with formal privacy statutes will find that this voluntary policy meets or exceeds what those statutes would have required of us anyway.
Security, in Proportion to the Risk
The best security architecture is not collecting the data in the first place, and we have followed that principle as far as it goes. What little we hold is protected by ordinary, sensible measures: the site is served over encrypted connections, the inbox is access-controlled, and the number of people who can read order records can be counted without taking off a shoe. No system is invulnerable and we will not pretend otherwise, but the blast radius of a breach here is an inbox, not a database of your behavior.
Children
This site is written for adults building companies. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under sixteen. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
Changes to This Policy
If we change this policy, the new version will be posted at this same address with an updated effective date, and any material change — one that expands what we collect or who sees it — will be flagged plainly at the top of the page for a reasonable period. We will not quietly convert this into a tracking site. If that day ever comes, the honest notice and the consent choice will come first, and the trackers would come only after you opted in.
How to Reach Us
Questions, requests, and complaints about this policy or your information go to research@venturelegalhub.com. You can also write to us on paper: Venture Legal Hub LLC, 101 Hudson Street Suite 2100, Jersey City, NJ 07302. Full company details, including our Tokyo office and phone numbers, are on the business information page. We answer privacy requests personally, and we take them as seriously as the guides.