What we store, and what we refuse to.

The short version

Creators use accounts so they can securely manage work across devices and organizations. Standard poll and LiveLink respondents ordinarily participate without an account, and those response records are kept separate from creator identity. Alignment workspaces are different: every participant uses a verified account so an organizer can distinguish people, save their drafts across devices, and compare submitted profiles and solutions. We collect the data needed to operate, protect, bill, and improve each service.

What we store

• Account and enrollment data. Email address, display name, authentication and multi-factor status, organization memberships, roles, plan, account-security events, and Alignment workspace enrollment and approval status.
• Poll content. Titles, descriptions, questions, answer options, LiveLink event details, sponsor disclosures, and publication settings supplied by the creator.
• Responses. The answers respondents submit, including free-text answers, with submission timestamps. Anonymous responses are not attached to a creator account or an email address.
• Alignment profiles and availability. Participant role and professional profile, preferred languages, work mode, weekly capacity, collaboration preferences, recurring availability, city, region, country, GeoNames place identifier, normal, browser-reported, and effective IANA timezones, and any temporary timezone end date. We do not infer a city from an IP address or store GPS coordinates for this feature.
• Alignment business and collaboration data.Ventures and solutions; formats such as apps, SaaS, APIs, or services; customers, markets, competitors, milestones, traction, team roles, assets, skills, needs, blockers, and project status; business-financial estimates such as funding, runway, MRR, ARR, projections, compensation, and ownership expectations; and collaboration preferences, hard constraints, matching, link, and participant decisions. Free-text answers may contain confidential or third-party information that a participant chooses to submit.
• Operational records. Publication history, policy evaluations, abuse reports, audit events, export requests, consent versions and decisions, immutable response revisions, result revisions, and security or rate-limit records needed to run the platform.

Published material may remain in our audit history after it is unpublished. Copies downloaded or shared outside Elegant Polls are beyond our control.

Alignment drafts, submissions, and visibility

Joining an Alignment workspace reveals your display name, verified account email, and enrollment status to its creator and explicitly authorized workspace admins or reviewers. Those collaborators may be outside the creator's organization. A server-saved draft is available only to you until you submit it. On submission, those authorized reviewers can review your named response, including its business, location, availability, and free-text fields. The organizer is responsible for using that information only for the disclosed workspace purpose and protecting copies or exports they make.

Participant-facing live insight uses separate projections. Group distributions are withheld until the workspace's minimum privacy threshold is reached, and small cells remain suppressed. Other participants do not receive your full response. They may see only solution fields you mark for participant visibility, their own private match suggestions, and contact or location details released under the applicable visibility setting after mutual acceptance and permission. Suppression reduces disclosure risk but cannot make a small, known cohort mathematically anonymous.

Alignment comparison and matching

When a participant permits personal matching, Elegant Polls can compare structured skills and needs, solution attributes, collaboration preferences, availability, and daylight-saving-aware timezone overlap. The service produces explainable similarity and complementarity suggestions. Participant-defined free-text hard conditions are held for organizer review instead of being silently treated as satisfied. A suggestion does not guarantee compatibility, employment, funding, investment, or a business outcome, and Elegant Polls does not use it to make a solely automated decision with legal or similarly significant effect.

Alignment consent and withdrawal

Questionnaire processing and named workspace review are required to participate in an Alignment workspace. Aggregate inclusion, personal matching, location use in permitted insights, and contact release after mutual acceptance are separate choices that can be changed after submission. Revoking either required permission means withdrawing from that workspace.

Withdrawal removes the participant from future and live result projections and matching, cancels current needs and pending link activity, and archives solution records created through that participation. The participant cannot resume through the same workspace link. Immutable submissions, consent and withdrawal evidence, location snapshots associated with those revisions, security and audit records, and protected backup copies may remain when reasonably necessary for integrity, dispute handling, legal obligations, security, or documented retention requirements. Withdrawal cannot recall an organizer's prior export or a contact detail that was already released by mutual permission.

Respondent privacy and integrity

Elegant Polls does not ask anonymous respondents for a name or email address. Creators can still include questions that request personal information, so review a poll before responding and do not submit information you do not want the creator to receive. We use browser/session tokens and one-way connection fingerprints to enforce response limits, detect abuse, and protect LiveLink vote integrity. LiveLink results can update continuously while an event is running, including when participants join from a displayed QR code. The application does not persist raw IP addresses in response records, although infrastructure providers may process connection data in short-lived security logs.

Cookies and local storage

We use storage that is necessary to provide the service:

• Authentication cookies keep creators and authenticated Alignment participants signed in and support account and multi-factor security.
• Poll and LiveLink cookies remember a response or event session, enforce voting rules, and preserve integrity challenges.
• Local browser storagetemporarily saves an unfinished poll-builder draft on the device where it was entered. Alignment response drafts are instead saved to the participant's verified account for cross-device resume.
• Legacy management cookies may support older private-link polls until they are claimed into an account.

Rate limiting and IP addresses

To keep polls honest and the service available, we limit how many requests a single connection can make. Application-level controls use a one-way fingerprint made from the connection address and a server-side secret rather than placing the raw address in poll or vote records.

Ads and analytics

Free and eligible public surfaces are designed to be supported by advertising, including Google AdSense. When advertising is enabled, Google and consent-management providers may use cookies or local storage for ad delivery, fraud prevention, frequency control, and measurement. Where law requires it, we will request consent and offer the applicable privacy choices before non-essential advertising storage is used. Creator workspaces, account security, administration, and paid ad-free experiences are not intended as ad inventory.

Who processes the data

The application is hosted on Vercel, and poll data is stored in a Postgres database and authentication service operated by Supabase. Resend processes contact-form messages and delivery metadata so those messages can reach our private operator mailbox and we can reply to the sender. We do not publish that mailbox address. Stripe processes payment and billing information when a paid plan is purchased; Elegant Polls does not store full payment-card details. Google may process advertising data when AdSense is enabled. These providers process information under their own security and privacy programs and our service configuration.

An Alignment workspace creator and explicitly authorized workspace admins or reviewers—including collaborators outside the creator's organization—receive the named information described above and may independently determine how they use lawful copies for the stated cohort purpose. Elegant Polls does not send Alignment answers to a third-party AI provider to calculate the structured matching scores described in this policy.

Contact forms and privacy requests

A support, privacy, or security form collects the topic you select, your name, reply email address, subject, message, and limited anti-abuse information derived from the connection. We use that information to route and answer the request, investigate the issue, protect the service, verify and fulfill an applicable privacy right, and document how the matter was resolved. We do not use contact-form details for advertising or add them to a marketing list.

The application sends the form through Resend as our email-delivery processor. The resulting correspondence is ordinarily retained for up to 24 months after the matter is resolved. We may keep a limited record longer when reasonably necessary for security, abuse prevention, legal obligations, dispute handling, or a documented preservation requirement. Provider logs, backups, and deletion cycles may retain protected residual copies for a limited period.

Before giving access to, correcting, deleting, or exporting account-linked personal data, we may ask for enough information to reasonably verify the requester and connect the request to the relevant account or record. We may also verify an authorized representative's authority. Do not send passwords, multi-factor codes, payment-card details, or government identification through the form unless we specifically provide a secure method and explain why it is necessary.

Retention, access, and deletion

We retain account and workspace data while the account is active and retain security, payment, publication, and moderation records as reasonably required for legal, fraud-prevention, and audit purposes. Alignment participants can update an allowed response, change optional permissions, or withdraw through the workspace; the withdrawal effects and retained integrity evidence are described above. Available account controls may let users correct or delete information; additional access, correction, portability, or deletion requests can be submitted through the contact channel below. Legal rights differ by region.

Virginia privacy rights and appeals

If the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act applies to Elegant Polls and to your request, a Virginia consumer may have the right to confirm whether personal data is processed and access it, correct inaccuracies, delete qualifying personal data, obtain a portable copy, and opt out of targeted advertising, sale of personal data, or qualifying profiling. Submit the request through the privacy form below and select a subject that clearly identifies the right you want to exercise.

We will authenticate and respond to an applicable request within the period required by law, ordinarily 45 days. When reasonably necessary, that period may be extended once by up to 45 additional days with notice and an explanation. If we deny a request, our response will explain why and how to appeal. To appeal, submit a new privacy form with "Virginia privacy appeal" in the subject and explain the decision you want reviewed. We will provide a written appeal decision within the legally required period, currently 60 days, and explain any available path to contact the Virginia Attorney General if the appeal is denied.

This Virginia summary is subject to the law's applicability, exemptions, later amendments, and review by qualified counsel. It is not a representation that every listed right applies to every person, record, or Elegant Polls activity, and it does not limit any right that applies under another law.

Contact

Submit privacy questions and rights requests through the privacy contact form.