Privacy

• Your account: email address, first and last name, a photo if you add one, a mobile number, a zip code, an Instagram link if you add one, and your answers to the five pilot questions when you join.
• Your participation: the funds you belong to, your contribution level and payment history, any optional support you add for Kleros, the ideas you share or nonprofits you nominate, how you voted when drawn, and your agreement to the code of conduct. If you sign in and start joining a fund without finishing, we keep a note of how far you got so we can send up to three reminders; it is dropped when you join.
• What you write to us: feedback from the Feedback button, messages from the contact page, and the pilot survey answers. An invitation sent to you can carry the mobile number you gave the person who invited you, so the same sign-in link can reach you by text.
• From Google, if you sign in with it: your name, email and profile picture. Nothing else, and never your contacts or calendar.
• From Stripe: we never see or store your card number. Stripe handles the payment and tells us that it happened, the amount, and the fees.
• Technical: a sign-in session in a browser cookie, and server logs that Vercel keeps for a short time.

• To run the fund: record your contributions on the fund’s ledger, draw voters, send the call to vote, pay grants, and keep a record the fiscal sponsor can audit.
• To reach you: ballots, winner announcements, a note before your yearly renewal, and the reminders above, by email; and texts only as described under Text messages below.
• Your zip code is never shown publicly. In the future, isolated circles may be created so your contribution can stay in your local community.
• Your Instagram link, if you add one, says you are okay with being included when the fund shares member participation on Instagram. Remove it from your account page at any time. It is not shown publicly.
• Your survey answers and what you write to us are read only by the fund’s organizers and the platform operator, to shape how the pilot runs and to reply to you.

• Each fund’s ledger is public: every dollar in and out, with dates and amounts only. No ledger entry names a member.
• A fund’s page shows its stewards by first name and photo, and a community fund’s member wall shows founding members the same way. A fund may also link to its own Instagram account.
• A funded idea shows its title, summary, amount and the member’s first name, and, once the winner posts them, a picture, a short description and a link the winner chooses and can change. A nominated nonprofit shows its name and EIN, and the picture the member who nominated it posts.
• Nothing else about you is public: not your email, phone, zip code, last name, Instagram link, how you voted, your survey answers, or anything you write to us.

• The fund’s fiscal sponsor, which holds the money and needs contributor names and amounts for its own books and tax records.
• Service providers that run the site for us: Vercel (hosting), Neon (database), Stripe (payments), Resend (email), Zapier (some emails about funding cycles), Twilio (texts), Google (sign-in, if you use it). Each sees only what it needs to do its job.
• Nobody else. We do not sell or rent your information, and we do not run advertising.

Texts about your giving circle come from Kleros only if you answer yes to the question beside the mobile number field: a confirmation when you say yes, a text when applications and nominations open and a last call before they close, a text when you are drawn to vote, with a reminder or two if you have not answered, and one on the last day of voting. Never more than 7 texts per cycle. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to any text to opt out, or choose No on your account page; reply HELP, or write to hello@theklerosfund.com, for help.

One other text is possible: if you asked the person inviting you to text you the invitation, a single text carries the same sign-in link as the email. It comes only when they recorded that you asked, and nothing else is sent to that number until you say yes above.

We do not sell or share your SMS opt-in data or personal information with third parties for marketing purposes. Your number is used for these texts and nothing else.

Ledger entries are kept for as long as the fund exists, because the fund’s books have to balance and the fiscal sponsor keeps records for tax purposes. Everything else about your account is deleted when you leave Kleros from your account page, or on request; we remove your profile, number, zip code, Instagram link and answers, leaving the ledger entries, which carry no name.

• See and change your name, photo, number, Instagram link and text preference on your account page, and leave Kleros from there.
• Ask for a copy of what we hold about you, or for it to be deleted, at hello@theklerosfund.com or through the contact page.
• Opt out of texts with STOP. The emails are about your membership and the cycles you are part of; cancelling your membership or leaving Kleros stops them, and you can write to us to stop any of them sooner.

When this page changes in a way that matters, the date above changes and members are told by email. Questions go to hello@theklerosfund.com. See also the terms and the code of conduct.