What we collect, in plain English.

When you sign up for the Vault Catalyst Summer 2026 Analyst Cohort, we collect:

• Email address (for login and communication)
• Password (stored encrypted; we never see it in plain text)
• Full name, college, graduation year, major (so we know who you are)
• Country, phone number, LinkedIn URL (optional, for admin communication)
• Your thesis, market map, memo, and other task submissions
• Founder call logs you submit (founder names, companies, your debrief notes)
• Outreach logs you track (founder names, emails sent, replies)
• Squad membership and referral activity
• Video URL (if you submit one)

• We don't run analytics or tracking pixels on your dashboard
• We don't sell your data. Ever.
• We don't share your personal info with third parties except the GP network for the purposes of distributing your memo (and only with your approval)
• We don't store your founder-call recordings (we don't ask for them)

• You, see everything in your own account.
• Other analysts, see your public handle, college, sector, and rank on the leaderboard. They don't see your full name, email, memos, or founder calls.
• Vault Catalyst team, sees everything, so we can review memos, pick the top 3, and spot-check founder calls.
• GPs in our partner network, see only the memos that pass advisor-panel review at Week 8, and only with your prior approval.

Your data is stored in Supabase (Postgres, hosted on AWS us-east-1). We use row-level security to isolate your account from other users at the database level. Passwords are hashed using Argon2id (industry standard).

• Correct your data: sign in and edit your profile any time.

We use a single essential cookie (vc_session) to keep you logged in. No analytics cookies, no tracking, no third-party cookies.