Privacy policy
Labspie is a map and directory of companies. Most of what it shows is about businesses, not people. This page explains the personal data we do handle and what you can ask us to do with it.
Who we are
Labspie (labspie.com) is run by Labspie, the controller of the personal data described here. Write to hello@labspie.com about anything on this page.
What we collect and why
- Company listings. Profiles are compiled from public sources such as company websites, Y Combinator, Wikidata, Hugging Face, OpenAlex and Companies House. Where a profile names people, usually founders, it uses what the company or a public source already publishes. Our lawful basis is legitimate interests: helping people find AI labs and startups.
- Forms you send us. When you add a company, claim a profile, list an event or book an ad, we keep what you enter, including your email address, so we can review it, reply and publish it. Your email is never shown on the site. Lawful basis: legitimate interests, and contract where you pay for something.
- The weekly email list. Your email address and, if you choose one, your city. Lawful basis: your consent. Every email will include a link to unsubscribe, and you can also ask us at any time.
- Profile owners. When you verify that you run a company, we record which profile you control, how you verified it and your edits. A secure sign-in cookie keeps you signed in (see the cookie policy).
- Payments. Paid ads and featured profiles are paid through Stripe. We receive the payment reference and email address, never your card details.
- Abuse protection. To limit spam, each form stores a one-way scrambled code made from your connection's IP address. We cannot turn it back into the address.
- Visits. We may use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views without cookies and without building a profile of you. Cloudflare also keeps short-lived security logs to protect the site.
Who processes it for us
- Cloudflare: hosting, database, security and visit counts.
- Resend: sending emails, such as confirmations and replies.
- Stripe: payments.
- GitHub: hosting the code and running the daily data build.
- Anthropic: an AI model that can read public startup news to spot funding rounds. It receives news text, not your personal data.
- Microsoft: our email inbox.
Some of these providers process data outside the UK, including in the United States, under the UK's approved safeguards such as the International Data Transfer Addendum or the UK-US data bridge.
How long we keep it
Form submissions are kept while the listing or event is relevant and for up to two years after, then deleted. List sign-ups are kept until you unsubscribe. Payment records are kept for six years for tax. Spam-protection codes are only checked against the last hour of entries.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of your data, to correct it, to delete it, to restrict or object to its use, and to withdraw consent. Email hello@labspie.com and we will reply within one month. To remove a listing, a founder name or photo, or anything else about you, send the page link and we will act within a few days and keep it out of future refreshes. If you are unhappy with our answer, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too. Big changes will be noted on the home page.