Discretion by design.

What we collect, and why.

• Executive members and applicants: the professional information you choose to provide for matching — roles, experience, rates, availability, preferences, and contact details. Used to evaluate fit and, with your approval, to make specific introductions.
• Companies: mandate details shared in discovery — role, scope, stage, budget, and contact details. Used to shape candidate slates and the engagement conversation.
• Form submissions: the fields shown on the form you submit, used to respond to your inquiry. Our forms are deliberately data-minimal and do not request sensitive personal information.
• THE SIGNAL^™ subscribers: your email address, used to send the newsletter you subscribed to. Unsubscribing is one click in any issue.
• Site visitors: this is a static site and we aim to keep tracking minimal. Standard technical information (such as browser type and pages visited) may be processed by our hosting infrastructure to serve and secure the site.

How we use it.

We use the information above only to: respond to your inquiries and communicate with you about them; evaluate fit and, with consent, make specific introductions; deliver THE SIGNAL^™ to its subscribers; operate, secure, and improve this website and our services; and meet our legal obligations. We don’t use it for purposes unrelated to these.

How information is shared.

We do not sell personal information. We share information only in these circumstances:

• With your consent. A member’s details reach a client only after that member approves the specific introduction — this is the founding rule of The Collective.
• With service providers. Vendors that help us operate — hosting, scheduling, email delivery, and form processing — receive only what they need to perform their function on our behalf, under obligations to keep it confidential.
• When the law requires it. We may disclose information to comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, or to protect the rights, safety, or property of Seat & Signal, our members, our clients, or others.
• In a business transition. If Seat & Signal is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to this policy’s commitments.

Retention and security.

We keep information only as long as needed for the purposes above, or as required or permitted by law, and we hold the minimum data required to match well. We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards appropriate to a business of our kind to protect the information we hold against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security — but data minimalism is itself our first protection: what we don’t collect can’t be exposed.

Third-party tools, links, and cookies.

• We aim to keep tracking minimal and do not run advertising trackers on this site. Where cookies are used by the site or the services it links to, you can set your browser to refuse them or alert you when they are sent — though some features, like scheduling, may not work properly without them.
• Services you use directly. When you book time on our scheduling calendars, subscribe on the THE SIGNAL^™ platform, or reach us through third-party platforms, you provide information directly to those providers under their own privacy policies and terms. We don’t control those services and are not responsible for their privacy or security practices — review their policies before using them.
• Tools we use for matching and operations. The tools that support our matching and operations are built and operated by independent companies under their own privacy and security policies. We choose them with care, share only the minimum information needed, and require confidentiality — but we do not control their systems, and we are not responsible for a security incident that occurs on a third-party provider’s systems. If we learn of an incident affecting your information, we will respond as required by applicable law.

Not for children.

This website and our services are intended for business audiences and are not directed to anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Your choices, updates, and contact.

You may ask us what information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, and we will respond. Executives and members: [email protected]. Everyone else: [email protected].

We may update this policy from time to time as the business evolves. Changes take effect when posted on this page, with the effective date above revised to match. Continued use of the site after an update means the current version applies, and we encourage you to review this page periodically.