Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 25, 2026

Zen.net ("Zen", "we", "us") is a link-in-bio and professional identity service operated by Radial Ventures. This policy explains what personal information we collect, why we collect it, who we share it with, and the choices you have. It covers zen.net, the pages our members publish on zen.net, and the emails we send.

The short version

  • We collect the minimum we need to run the service: your email address, your handle, and whatever you choose to publish.
  • A Zen page is public by design. Anything you put on it is visible to anyone.
  • We use only strictly necessary cookies. There are no advertising cookies and no third-party trackers on our site.
  • We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for advertising.
  • Card payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your full card number.
  • You can ask us to show you your data, correct it, or delete it. Email support@zen.net.

What we collect

If you visit zen.net or view someone's Zen page

Our servers and our content delivery network log ordinary technical information with each request, including your IP address, the page requested, the referring page, your browser's user-agent string, and a timestamp. Our content delivery network also derives an approximate location from your IP address, specifically country, region, and city. This is never your precise location, and we do not use GPS or device location.

When you interact with a member's Zen page, for example by opening it or clicking one of its links, we record that interaction so the member can see how their page is performing. That record includes the type of interaction, which link was involved, the referring page, your user-agent string, and the country derived from your IP address. We do not store your IP address in these interaction records, and we do not use them to build a profile of you across different members' pages.

If you join the waitlist

We collect the name and email address you give us and the handle you asked for. From the request itself we also record your IP address, the approximate location derived from it (country, region, and city), your user-agent string, and any campaign tags (UTM parameters) present on the link you arrived from. We use this to hold your place, to invite people in the order they joined, to detect duplicate or automated signups, and to understand which channels bring people to Zen.

If you create an account

We collect your email address and a securely hashed version of your password. We never store your password in a readable form. We also store your handle, your display name if you provide one, your language and time zone preferences, and your onboarding progress.

If you choose "Continue with Google" instead of a password, Google tells us your email address, your name, and your profile picture URL. We do not receive your Google password, and we do not get access to your Gmail, Drive, contacts, or any other Google data.

If you ask us to add a verified badge to your page, we keep the evidence you submit, such as links or email addresses, along with our review notes, so we have a record of why the badge was granted.

What you publish

Your Zen page and everything on it is public. That includes your handle, bio, avatar and cover images, links, social accounts, and any other blocks you add. Search engines can index it. Please do not put anything on your page that you would not want the world to see.

If you subscribe to a paid plan

Payments are processed by Stripe. You enter your card details on Stripe's own payment page, not ours. Your full card number never reaches our servers and we cannot see it.

Stripe sends us back the information we need to run your subscription: a customer and subscription identifier, which plan you are on, your billing interval, your invoice and payment history, the billing email you used, and limited card details such as the brand and last four digits. We use this to give you the features you paid for, to show you your billing history, and to keep the tax and accounting records the law requires.

Security and administrative records

We keep a log of security-relevant account events, such as sign-ins and handle changes, together with the IP address they came from. We use these records to investigate abuse, fraud, and account takeovers.

Cookies

We use a small number of strictly necessary cookies and no others:

  • A session cookie that keeps you signed in.
  • A security token that protects forms against cross-site request forgery.
  • A cookie that remembers your language preference, if you set one.

We do not use advertising cookies, and we do not run third-party analytics or advertising trackers on our site. Because we only use cookies that are essential to providing the service you asked for, we do not show a cookie consent banner. You can clear or block these cookies in your browser, but you will not be able to stay signed in.

We do not track you across other websites, so there is nothing for a "Do Not Track" or Global Privacy Control signal to turn off.

Who we share information with

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for advertising or cross-context behavioural advertising. We share it only with the service providers that make Zen work, and only so they can perform that work for us:

ProviderWhat it doesWhat it handles
Amazon Web Services Hosting, database, file storage, content delivery, and outbound email Effectively all service data, including request logs and the email we send you
Stripe Payment processing and the billing portal Your card details, billing email, and payment history
Google "Continue with Google" sign-in, only if you use it Your email address, name, and profile picture URL

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, for example in response to a valid legal request, or where we need to in order to protect our rights, our users, or the public. If Zen is ever involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, and we will say so before it takes effect.

Content loaded from other companies

Some parts of our pages load directly from other companies' servers. When that happens, your browser contacts them, and they can see your IP address and which page you were on, even though we do not send them any account information. Specifically:

  • Google Fonts serves the typefaces our pages use.
  • Cloudflare serves some of the code libraries our pages use.
  • Gravatar, operated by Automattic, supplies a default profile picture for members who have not uploaded one. To do that, your browser requests an image identified by a one-way hash of the member's email address. Uploading your own avatar stops this request.

Why we are allowed to use your information

If you are in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, the legal bases we rely on are:

  • Performance of a contract, for creating and running your account, hosting your page, and taking payment.
  • Our legitimate interests, for operating the waitlist, keeping the service secure, preventing fraud and abuse, giving members statistics about their own pages, and understanding in aggregate how Zen is used.
  • Legal obligation, for keeping tax and accounting records of payments.
  • Consent, where we ask for it, which you can withdraw at any time.

How long we keep it

We keep personal information only as long as we need it for the purposes described above.

  • Waitlist entries are kept until you become a member or ask us to remove you.
  • Account and page content is kept while your account is open. If you close it or ask us to delete it, we remove it from our live systems, and it then disappears from routine backups in the ordinary course.
  • Page interaction records are kept so members can see trends over time, and are deleted when the member's page or account is deleted.
  • Security logs are kept for a limited period for investigation.
  • Payment and invoice records are kept for as long as tax and accounting law requires, which is longer than the life of your account. Stripe keeps its own copy under its own policy.

Your rights and choices

Wherever you live, you can ask us to show you the personal information we hold about you, correct it if it is wrong, or delete it. You can also ask us to stop using it for a particular purpose, or to send you a copy in a portable format. Email support@zen.net and we will respond as required by the law that applies to you.

Depending on where you live you may also have the right to object to or restrict certain uses, to withdraw consent, to be free from discrimination for exercising these rights, and to complain to a regulator. If you are in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area you can complain to your national supervisory authority. If you are in California, we confirm that we have not sold or shared your personal information, and we do not use or disclose sensitive personal information beyond what is needed to provide the service.

You can delete your Zen page or close your account at any time. Some records, such as payment history, must be kept for legal reasons even after your account is gone.

Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your information. Traffic to zen.net is encrypted in transit, passwords are stored only as salted hashes, card details are handled entirely by Stripe, and access to production systems is limited to the people who need it. No service can promise perfect security, but if a breach affects your personal information we will notify you and the relevant regulators where the law requires it.

Where your information is held

Zen is hosted in the United States. If you use Zen from outside the United States, your information is transferred there and to the service providers listed above. Where those transfers involve personal information protected by United Kingdom or European Economic Area law, we rely on the safeguards our providers offer for international transfers, such as standard contractual clauses.

Children

Zen is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has given us personal information, email support@zen.net and we will delete it.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top. If the change materially affects how we handle your personal information, we will tell you directly, for example by email or a notice in the product, before it takes effect.

Contact us

Zen.net is operated by Radial Ventures. For any privacy question, or to exercise any of the rights above, email support@zen.net.