Privacy
We take very little from you on this site: your email address, the city you would come to, and what you want to hear about, and only when you fill them in. Here is what happens to them.
Last updated 18 September 2026
Who we are
Innov8 Global Advisory (21701 Stevens Creek Blvd #1022, Cupertino, California 95015, USA) runs Innov8 Global Labs, which runs Startup Grind in Russia and this site. It is the controller for everything described here.
For people in Russia, the operator under Federal Law No. 152-FZ is our Russian company. Its name, address and registration numbers are on the Russian version of this page.
To see what we hold about you, correct it or have it deleted, write to info@i8gl.com.
What we collect
When you join the waiting list.
Your email address, your city, what you ticked (the firesides, pitching, the delegation), and the moment you ticked the box agreeing to hear from us. We use them to send you the date and the place of the next event in your city, and news of the things you ticked. Nothing else.
When you sign up for the dispatch.
Your email address and the moment you agreed. The dispatch is the occasional letter from The Yellow Door: cohort openings, party invitations, the odd confession.
When a page opens.
Our hosting provider records what every website receives, such as your IP address and browser, in order to deliver the page and keep the site up.
Visits.
The page viewed, the site you came from, your browser, device type, screen size, language and approximate location (country, region and city). We count visits with Umami, which runs on our own server. It sets no cookie and does not store your IP address, and a visit is not linked to your name or to anything you send us.
There are no cookies and no advertising pixels. The fonts come from our own server, so opening a page tells nobody else you were here.
Why, and on what basis
For your address: your consent, which you give by ticking the box next to the form. You can take it back whenever you like, and we stop.
For counting visits: our legitimate interest in learning which pages are read and how people find the site (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
We do not sell your address, share it with advertisers, add it to any list you did not ask for, or train anything on it.
Who else touches it
Netlify hosts the site and keeps the form entries. Before an entry reaches us, Netlify runs it past Akismet, a spam filter. Google carries our email, including the note that tells us someone joined. Our visit statistics sit with the provider that hosts that server. Their servers are in the United States and elsewhere.
How long we keep it
- Waiting list
- Twelve months after the last event you signed up for, then deleted.
- The dispatch
- Until you ask us to stop, then deleted.
- Visit records
- Two years, then deleted. A visit record holds no name, contact detail or IP address.
- Hosting records
- As long as the hosting provider keeps them under its own terms.
Your rights
You can ask to see what we hold about you, to correct it, to delete it, to take a copy, or to withdraw your consent. One email to info@i8gl.com is enough. No form, no fee, no reason needed.
If you are unhappy with the answer, you can complain to your data protection authority. We would rather hear it first.
Security, and the honest limit of it
The site is served over HTTPS. Email itself is not end-to-end encrypted, so a letter from us is as private as any other letter in your inbox, and no more.
Children
This site is for founders, operators and the startup-curious. We do not knowingly collect anything from anyone under sixteen.
Changes
If this page changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes with it. If the change affects an address you have already given us, we will write to you.