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Data used
Submitter names and emails, project submissions, board posts, feedback notes, feedback-round entries, reports, notices, appeals, moderation records, email delivery records and Launch Review contact details are processed to operate the service. Short-lived salted hashes support abuse prevention. Long-term raw IP histories are not part of the product.
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Listings, board posts and feedback notes
When you list a project, post to the Builders Board or leave a feedback note, we store what you submit plus your name and email so we can check the submission, contact you about it, and let you update or remove it. Your email is never shown unless you choose to show it on a board post. You can ask us to remove a listing, post or note at any time.
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Information from public sources
Some project pages and board leads are summarised from public pages, such as a product website or a public post by the maker. We record the product or team name, the public description, any named makers, the source link and the dates the source was published and checked. We use it to show the project and help people find it. These pages are labelled as research-sourced, and anyone concerned can correct, remove or report them from the page itself, without an account. Removed records are suppressed so they are not re-imported.
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Feedback rounds and emails
If you join a feedback round we store your name, email, project details, test instructions, assignments and notes to run the round. Round notes are private: only the person who wrote a note, the maker receiving it and the organiser can see it. They are not added to your public listing; any public excerpt or update is a separate choice. Service emails (confirmations, assignments, approved notes) are separate from the optional weekly digest, which is unticked by default and can be stopped from any digest email or your preferences link. Declining the digest never affects claiming a listing or taking part in a round.
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Purposes
Data is used for publication, moderation, security, service communication, audit, corrections, legal notices, appeals, service measurement with consent, and responding to Launch Review interest. We don’t send marketing email.
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Contacting makers about feedback rounds
When a listed project looks like a good fit for a feedback round, we may contact its maker once, individually, through a contact route they publish themselves (such as a contact form, a published team address or a public post asking for feedback). We never guess email addresses, don’t send follow-ups if there’s no reply, and stop straight away if asked. If you ask us to remove a listing or not to contact you, we record that so it isn’t re-imported or repeated.
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Public information
Published project/team names, product content, source links, feedback notes left publicly on a project page (with the name the author chose to show), maker updates and listing labels are public. Email, relationship disclosures, test credentials, report contact details, and moderation-only evidence are not public.
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Retention and deletion
Email action links are single-use and expire after 15 minutes. Failed temporary uploads expire within 24 hours. Records may be retained where needed for moderation integrity, legal obligations or security; hidden records are kept out of public view rather than silently rewritten.
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Your choices
You may request access, correction, withdrawal, restriction, objection, portability where applicable, or deletion by emailing info@builtinireland.ie. You may also complain to the relevant data protection authority.
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Analytics
Analytics is optional and does not load before an affirmative choice. Rejecting analytics does not block the service. Contact details and private account data are not sent to analytics.