FoundryBase Privacy Policy
This policy explains how the FoundryBase app ("FoundryBase" or "the app") handles information. FoundryBase is published by Global Intelligence Laboratory LLC ("GIL", "we", "us"). It applies to the macOS app and to this website.
1. Information stored on your Mac
FoundryBase stores what you enter: company profile details, projects, invoices, time entries, expenses and transactions, contacts and communications, compliance deadlines, contract records, and documents you attach. It is kept in a local database and file vault on your Mac, with automatic local backups. GIL has no access to it.
API keys you add (for AI providers or SAM.gov) are stored in the macOS Keychain.
2. Optional features that connect to other services
These are off until you turn them on. When you use one, the information described goes directly from your Mac to that service, under that service's own privacy policy. It does not pass through GIL.
- AI suggestions: if you add your own key for an AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, xAI or OpenRouter), the text needed for a suggestion, such as a transaction description, is sent to the provider you chose.
- SAM.gov: if you add your SAM.gov API key, your search criteria are sent to the U.S. government's SAM.gov API to import contract opportunities.
- Bank sync: if you configure a bank-sync endpoint in Settings, account identifiers are sent to the endpoint you specify. Bank statement imports (OFX, QFX, CSV) are read locally.
- Shared companies: if you share a company with someone, the shared records sync through your own iCloud account using Apple's CloudKit, under Apple's privacy policy.
- Exports and email: invoices, reports and accountant packages are created on your Mac and leave it only when you send or share them.
3. Purchases
If FoundryBase offers a paid upgrade, purchases are made through the Mac App Store, which processes payment under Apple's privacy policy. To check whether an upgrade is active, FoundryBase uses RevenueCat, which receives an anonymous app user ID, your purchase status and store receipts, basic device and app information, and your IP address. This is used only to validate and restore purchases and prevent fraud. GIL never receives your payment details.
4. What we do not do
- No FoundryBase account or FoundryBase server for your business data.
- No analytics, advertising or tracking tools.
- No selling, renting or "sharing" of personal information as those terms are used in privacy laws.
- No tax, legal or accounting advice. Estimates are for organization only.
5. Beta program and this website
If you ask to join the FoundryBase beta, by email or with the form on this site, we receive your name, email address, the device you plan to test on, and anything you choose to write. We use it only to run the beta: to send you an invite, follow up about your testing, and reply to your feedback. We do not add you to a marketing list or share it with anyone except as needed to send a TestFlight or test-build invitation through Apple or Google.
Form submissions are processed by Cloudflare, which hosts this website, and delivered to our inbox. We delete beta details when the beta ends or when you ask, whichever comes first. This website does not use cookies, analytics or tracking scripts. Cloudflare, as our hosting provider, processes standard request data such as IP addresses to deliver and protect the site.
6. Keeping and deleting your data
Your data stays on your Mac until you delete it, including its local backups. Deleting the app's data or the app removes it from your Mac. Data you shared through iCloud or sent to another service is governed by that service. Because we never have a copy, we cannot recover deleted data.
7. Security
FoundryBase keeps API keys in the macOS Keychain, makes automatic local backups, and warns you if its data folder is inside a cloud-synced folder. This website is served over HTTPS. Protect your Mac with a strong password and FileVault.
8. Children
FoundryBase is a business tool intended for adults and is not directed at children under 13.
9. Your privacy rights
Wherever you live, you can ask what information we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete it, by emailing support@gil.consulting. We will respond within 30 days, or sooner if the law requires, and we will not treat you differently for exercising your rights.
EEA, UK and Switzerland: GIL is the controller of the limited personal data described here. We rely on performance of a contract (providing purchases you make), legitimate interests (preventing fraud, running the beta, replying to you) and legal obligation (keeping required transaction records). You have the rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object and port your data, and to complain to your local data protection authority. GIL is based in the United States; transfers there are protected by the safeguards the law requires, such as Standard Contractual Clauses.
California and other US states: we do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, and we do not use or disclose sensitive personal information. You can request to know, correct or delete your personal information by emailing us. Because FoundryBase does not track you across sites or apps, Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals do not change how it behaves; we would honor them in any case.
10. Future features
If we add features that send data off your Mac in new ways, this policy will be updated before they are released, and they will be optional.
11. Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will post the new version on this page and update the date above. If a change significantly affects how your information is handled, we will also tell you in the app before it takes effect.
12. Contact
Global Intelligence Laboratory LLC
Email: support@gil.consulting