Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 07 August 2026

1. Introduction

At Helix Council ("Helix Council," "we," "us," or "our"), we recognize that trust, discretion, and the responsible handling of information are fundamental to building meaningful relationships with founders, investors, and business partners.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit our website, contact us, submit an investment opportunity, upload a pitch deck, or otherwise interact with us.

This Privacy Policy applies to the website located at:

https://helixcouncil.com

It covers information processed in connection with our website and related communications. Separate agreements or privacy notices may apply to specific investments, transactions, or business relationships.

2. Information We Collect

Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following categories of information.

Information you provide directly

Your full name and email address.
Your company name, professional role, and business affiliation.
Details about your startup, including its development stage, sector, and business activities.
Messages, questions, business proposals, and information submitted through our contact form.
Pitch decks, presentations, and supporting documents voluntarily uploaded through our website.
Correspondence and other information you provide when communicating with our team.

Information contained in investment submissions

Pitch decks and business proposals may contain founder biographies, professional contact details, company ownership information, financial projections, business strategies, and other information relating to identifiable individuals.

We ask that you submit only information reasonably necessary for your inquiry or investment proposal. Please avoid including sensitive personal information about yourself or others unless it is necessary and you have an appropriate legal basis to share it.

Information collected automatically

When you visit our website, Wix and any enabled website services may process certain technical information, such as your internet protocol (IP) address, browser and device information, operating system, approximate location derived from technical data, pages visited, visit times, referring websites, and information relating to website performance and security.

Some of this information may be collected through cookies and similar technologies, as described below.

3. How We Use Your Information

We process information for purposes connected with our business operations, including:

Responding to inquiries and maintaining communication with founders, investors, and business partners.
Receiving, reviewing, and assessing startup pitches and potential investment opportunities.
Evaluating business models, market opportunities, founder profiles, and proposed partnerships.
Arranging meetings, conducting follow-up discussions, and managing prospective business relationships.
Carrying out appropriate business, compliance, legal, and investment due diligence where relevant.
Maintaining website functionality, improving user experience, and protecting our systems against misuse.
Keeping necessary business records and complying with applicable legal or regulatory obligations.
Sending business updates or promotional communications where permitted by applicable law and, where required, with your consent.

Submitting an investment inquiry does not guarantee that Helix Council will review, respond to, accept, or fund any proposal.

4. Investment Proposals and Pitch Decks

Helix Council's website allows founders and businesses to submit information about potential investment opportunities, including supporting documents and pitch decks.

Such submissions may be reviewed by authorized personnel involved in assessing opportunities. Where relevant and appropriately authorized, information may also be disclosed to professional advisers or prospective investment participants for a legitimate investment-related purpose, subject to applicable legal obligations and appropriate safeguards.

We recognize that investment proposals may contain commercially sensitive information and seek to restrict access to individuals who have a legitimate business need to review them.

However, submission through our website does not, by itself, establish a contractual confidentiality or non-disclosure agreement. If information requires contractual confidentiality protections, please arrange those protections with Helix Council before submitting it.

Please do not upload unnecessary personal identification documents, financial account credentials, passwords, or highly sensitive personal records through the general contact form.

5. Legal Bases for Processing

Where applicable data protection law requires a legal basis for processing personal information, we may rely on one or more of the following:

Legitimate interests: responding to business inquiries, reviewing potential investment opportunities, maintaining business relationships, and securing our website, where those interests are not overridden by applicable individual rights.
Steps prior to entering a contract or contractual necessity: processing information needed to consider or manage a potential business relationship.
Consent: where consent is required, including for certain marketing communications or non-essential cookies.
Legal obligations: maintaining records or disclosing information where required under applicable laws or lawful requests.

The appropriate basis depends on the information involved and the specific purpose of processing.

6. Sharing and Disclosure of Information

We may share information with trusted recipients where reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including:

Website hosting, storage, form-processing, and technical service providers, including Wix.
Authorized employees, representatives, and personnel who require access for legitimate business purposes.
Legal, accounting, compliance, technology, or other professional advisers.
Potential co-investors, transaction participants, or investment partners, where appropriate for an investment-related discussion and consistent with applicable confidentiality and privacy obligations.
Courts, regulators, government authorities, or law enforcement bodies where disclosure is legally required or otherwise permitted by applicable law.

We seek to limit disclosures to what is necessary for the relevant purpose and apply appropriate contractual or organizational safeguards where required.

We do not intend to use investment submissions for unrelated purposes without an appropriate legal basis.

7. Website Hosting and Third-Party Services

Our website is built and hosted using Wix.

Wix provides website infrastructure and may support services including hosting, technical security, form submissions, file storage, and website performance functions.

Information submitted through our website may therefore be processed using Wix's systems and relevant service providers.

Wix's handling of information in its own capacity is described in its privacy policy:

https://www.wix.com/about/privacy

If we enable additional services, such as third-party analytics, email-marketing platforms, or business communication tools, the relevant providers may also process information according to their roles, our instructions, applicable agreements, and their privacy policies.

External websites and social media platforms linked from our site operate under their own privacy practices.

8. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website may use cookies and related technologies to support essential site functionality, security, performance, visitor preferences, and, where enabled, analytics.

These technologies may include:

Essential cookies: used for website operation, protection, and security.
Functional cookies: used to support selected website features or preferences.
Analytics cookies: used, where enabled, to understand website usage and improve performance.
Marketing technologies: used only if such integrations are enabled and the relevant legal requirements are met.

You may be able to control optional cookies through a consent banner, where provided, or through your browser settings.

Disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality.

Any non-essential tracking requiring consent under applicable law should be activated only after the necessary consent has been obtained.

9. Data Storage, Security, and Retention

We aim to protect personal information through reasonable technical and organizational measures appropriate to its nature and sensitivity, including measures intended to reduce unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or loss.

Access to investment submissions and uploaded documents should be limited to personnel and service providers with a legitimate need to process them.

No online transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should therefore exercise reasonable care when transmitting confidential documents through the internet.

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including evaluating potential investments, maintaining relevant business correspondence, complying with applicable legal obligations, and establishing or defending legal claims.

Retention periods depend on the nature of the information, whether an investment discussion remains active, and applicable legal requirements.

When information is no longer required, we take appropriate steps to delete, anonymize, or otherwise securely dispose of it, subject to legal and operational requirements.

10. International Data Processing

Helix Council engages with founders, investors, and business partners across multiple geographic markets.

Our website infrastructure, service providers, advisers, and business participants may also operate in different countries.

As a result, personal information may be processed or accessed outside your country of residence.

Where international transfers are subject to legal restrictions, we will seek to use appropriate safeguards required by applicable data protection law.

11. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and the data protection laws applicable to the processing of your information, you may have rights to:

Request access to personal information held about you.
Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
Request deletion of your personal information.
Request restrictions on certain processing activities.
Object to processing carried out on certain legal grounds.
Withdraw consent where processing depends on consent.
Request portability of certain personal information where applicable.
Raise a complaint with an appropriate data protection authority where that right is available.

These rights are subject to legal conditions and exceptions.

To submit a privacy-related request, please contact us at:

founders@helixcouncil.com

Please use the subject line "Privacy Request — Helix Council".

We may request reasonable information to verify your identity before processing your request, and we will respond in accordance with applicable law.

12. Communications and Marketing

When you contact Helix Council or submit an investment inquiry, we may use the contact information you provide to respond, request additional information, arrange discussions, or communicate about your submission.

Where applicable, we may also send investment-related or company updates if you have agreed to receive them or another lawful basis permits us to do so.

You can request that we stop sending optional marketing communications at any time by contacting us or following an unsubscribe option included in such communications.

Communications necessary for an active business relationship or legal compliance may still be sent where permitted by law.

13. Third-Party Websites

Our website may contain links to LinkedIn, Instagram, or other third-party platforms.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of third-party websites that we do not control.

We encourage visitors to review the privacy notices of external platforms before providing personal information.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our website, business activities, information-processing practices, service providers, or applicable legal requirements.

When we make changes, we will publish the revised policy on this page and update the "Last Updated" date.

Where required by law, we will provide additional notice or seek renewed consent.

15. Contact Information

For questions, privacy requests, or concerns about the handling of personal information, contact:

Helix Council

Website: https://helixcouncil.com

Email: founders@helixcouncil.com