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Privacy policy
Last updated November 13, 2026. Plain English: we collect as little as we can, we never sell it, and you can delete it.
What we collect
- If you don't sign in: nothing is sent to us from the calculators. Numbers you type, grants you add to the tracker, your tax profile and your checklist progress are kept only in your browser's local storage, on your device.
- If you create an account: your email address (and, if you use Google, the name and email Google shares), plus the equity grants you save: company or ticker, grant type, share counts, strike price, vesting terms, share price you enter, and the vesting schedule we calculate from them.
- Salary submissions: role, level, years of experience, company type, region, optional company name and pay details. Submissions are linked to your account only so we can allow one entry per person per year. They are never shown with your name or email. Public pages show rounded numbers, hide company names until at least 3 people from that company submit, and show medians only when at least 5 entries match.
- Waitlist: your email address, the page you signed up from, and the date.
- Technical data: our hosting provider records standard server logs (such as IP address, browser type and pages requested) for security and reliability. We don't use advertising trackers.
Why we use it
- To sign you in and save your grants so they follow you across devices.
- To publish anonymous, aggregated salary data.
- To email waitlist members about BiotechFIRE launches and updates. Every email has an unsubscribe link.
- To keep the service secure and working.
We don't sell or rent your personal information, and we don't share it for advertising.
Who processes it
- Supabase: database and sign-in.
- Vercel: website hosting.
- Google: only if you choose "Continue with Google."
These providers process data on our behalf under their own security and privacy terms. Data may be stored in the United States.
Cookies and local storage
We use a sign-in cookie to keep you signed in. Calculators store your inputs in your browser's local storage so they're there when you come back. You can clear both from your browser settings at any time.
How long we keep it
We keep account data until you delete your account. We keep waitlist emails until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove them. We keep anonymous salary entries indefinitely, unlinked from you once your account is deleted.
Your choices and rights
- Delete your account any time from the account page. This permanently removes your sign-in, saved grants, vesting schedules, reminder settings and waitlist signup.
- Access, correct or export your data, or ask any privacy question, by emailing hello@biotechfire.com. Depending on where you live (for example California or the EU/UK), you may have additional rights, and we'll honor them.
Security
Data is encrypted in transit. Database access rules make sure each account can only read its own grants, and raw salary submissions are never publicly readable. No system is perfectly secure, so please don't enter anything you wouldn't want stored, like account numbers.
Children
BiotechFIRE is for working professionals and isn't directed to anyone under 18.
Changes
If we change this policy, we'll update the date above, and for significant changes we'll notify account holders by email.