Last updated: July 3, 2026
Consigliere, a DBA of Distinguished Automations, Inc. (“Company,” “Consigliere,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, apply to or hold a membership, connect your LinkedIn account, or otherwise use the Consigliere network, marketplace, and services (collectively, the “Services”).
Consigliere operates a private network and marketplace for founders and advisors. We publish startup “dossier” pages, power warm-introduction recommendations, and offer paid memberships. This policy covers all of that. It is governed by the laws of the State of California.
Information you provide directly:
LinkedIn account data (via OAuth connection):
Payment information:
Information collected automatically:
Information about companies (dossier pages). We also collect and compile factual, business information about startups from publicly available sources and from members of our network in order to create redacted dossier pages, including for companies whose founders are not (yet) members. See Section 6.
We use the information we collect to:
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not “share” it for cross-context behavioral advertising as those terms are defined under the CCPA/CPRA. We disclose information in the following limited circumstances:
We use a matching capability (branded and provided in part through HiveSight) to recommend potential warm connections and introductions across the network. To do this, limited connection and relationship-graph signals derived from your authorized LinkedIn connection and from network activity may be processed to compute relevance and suggest nominations. HiveSight is engaged as a data processor/sub-processor through an adapter and is bound to process the data only to provide the recommendation service to us. Recommendations are suggestions only; an introduction is never made without the applicable consent (yours and, where relevant, the other party’s).
Paid memberships ($20/month or $199/year) are billed through Stripe and auto-renew until cancelled. Consistent with California’s Automatic Renewal Law and applicable federal rules, we disclose the recurring charge, amount, and frequency before you pay, obtain your affirmative consent to the auto-renewal, send an acknowledgment with cancellation instructions, and provide an easy online way to cancel. Billing terms, refunds, and cancellation are described in the Founder Membership Terms and our Terms of Service. We receive only limited billing metadata from Stripe and never store full card numbers.
Consigliere may create and publish a factual, redacted dossier page for a startup based on publicly available information and information provided by our network — whether or not the founder is a member (a Yelp-style listing). Such a page is redacted by default, does not state or imply that the founder endorses or is affiliated with Consigliere, is not promoted, and has its “Get Introduced” function disabled.
If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA):
Categories of personal information we collect (CCPA categories): identifiers (name, email, IP); commercial/business information; professional or employment-related information (role, company, LinkedIn profile data); internet/network activity (usage data); geolocation (approximate); and inferences used for recommendations. Sources: you, your authorized LinkedIn connection, publicly available information, and network members. Purposes: as described in Section 2. Disclosed to: the sub-processors in Section 3 and, in redacted form, the network. We retain each category as described in Section 11.
To exercise these rights, email info@consigliere.so. We will verify and respond within 45 days (extendable by another 45 with notice). You may use an authorized agent.
If you are in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict, and object to processing, and to data portability. Our legal bases are: performance of a contract (providing membership and the network), your consent (e.g., connecting LinkedIn, receiving marketing, revealing your identity for an introduction), our legitimate interests (operating and securing the network, generating recommendations, publishing factual business listings), and compliance with legal obligations. You may withdraw consent at any time, and you may lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. Where we transfer data internationally, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses. To exercise these rights, email info@consigliere.so.
We implement commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your information, including access controls and use of reputable processors. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies:
You can control cookies through your browser settings; disabling some may affect functionality. Where required, a consent banner lets you accept or manage cookie preferences. Our site does not currently respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals.
We retain personal information for as long as necessary to provide the Services and for the purposes described here, then delete or de-identify it. In general: account and membership records are kept for the life of the account plus up to seven (7) years for tax, accounting, and legal purposes; recommendation outputs and network activity are kept while your account is active and for a reasonable period thereafter; LinkedIn-derived profile data is refreshed while connected and removed on disconnection except where needed for records; and dossier content follows Section 6 (including minimal opt-out records). We may retain limited information longer where required by law or to resolve disputes.
You may request deletion of your personal information at any time by emailing info@consigliere.so or, for a dossier page, using the removal link on the page. On a verified request we will delete or de-identify your personal information, subject to the retention exceptions in Section 11 and the persistence limits in Section 6.4. Disconnecting LinkedIn stops further profile refresh and removes stored LinkedIn-derived profile data except minimal records we must keep.
Our website and dossier pages may link to third-party sites (e.g., LinkedIn, company websites). We are not responsible for their privacy practices and encourage you to review their policies.
Our Services are intended for business use and are not directed to individuals under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we learn we have, we will delete it promptly.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the “Last updated” date above. Continued use of the Services after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us at:
Consigliere (Distinguished Automations, Inc.)
2261 Market St, STE 46146
San Francisco, CA 94114
info@consigliere.so