Privacy policy

yRAK Lab (“Lab”) is a private, invitation-only workspace run by yRAK at lab.yrak.co.uk. It is where the studio and the partners it invites develop, evaluate and discuss early-stage business ideas. This policy explains what personal information Lab handles and why.

What we collect

• Account details: your email address and name. If you sign in with Google or LinkedIn, we receive your name, email address and profile photo from that service. We do not ask for anything else, such as your contacts, connections, calendar or files.
• What you add: ideas, documents, comments, scores, notes and votes you submit in Lab.
• Activity: a record of who did what and when, such as an invitation accepted, an idea viewed or a comment posted.
• Technical data: the cookies needed to keep you signed in, and standard server logs.

How we use it

• To let you sign in and to keep Lab invitation-only.
• To show you the ideas shared with you, and to show the studio who has contributed.
• To send you email about your account, such as invitations and access approvals.
• To evaluate the ideas you submit. Evaluation is done by AI tools operated by the studio, which read your submission and write the assessments stored in Lab.

We do not sell your information, use it for advertising, or share it with anyone for their own purposes.

Who processes it for us

We use these services to run Lab. They handle data only on our behalf:

• Supabase, for the database and sign-in.
• Vercel, for hosting.
• Resend, for sending email.
• Google or LinkedIn, if you choose to sign in with them.
• AI service providers that power the evaluation tools mentioned above.

Who can see what you submit

An idea you submit is visible to you and to the Lab administrators. Other partners can see it only if an administrator shares it with them, and then only the parts that are shared. Ideas in Lab are confidential.

How long we keep it

We keep your information while your account is active and for as long as the ideas and records it relates to are needed. When you ask us to delete your account, we delete or anonymise your personal information, except where we must keep a record.

Your rights

You can ask to see the personal information we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted, and you can object to how we use it. You can also ask for your account to be closed. Contact us at asim@yrak.co.uk. If you are in the UK and are not happy with our answer, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.

Google user data

Lab's use of information received from Google is limited to signing you in and identifying your account, using your name and email address. We do not transfer it to others except to run Lab as described above, and we do not use it for advertising.

Changes

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top. Material changes will be notified to Lab users by email.