You can take the Entrepreneur Wellbeing Check without creating an account. Your individual results are never sold, never advertised against, and never shown to an investor, an employer or anyone else. Identifiable results are shared with no one outside Econa except where you ask us to send them, or where the law requires it.
Research access is the one exception, it is always de-identified, and it is limited to qualified university-affiliated academic researchers.
1Who this policy covers
This policy applies to personal data Econa collects through econa.net and founderscreen.org, the Entrepreneur Wellbeing Check, the FounderScreen Initiative, the Econa Labs, the Econa Village and our related business operations.
Econa is the data controller for everything described here — we decide what is collected and why, and we are answerable for it. FounderScreen is built around strict data privacy practices: individual responses are never shared, and ecosystem reporting uses only de-identified, aggregated data.
Where this policy says “the Check” it means the Entrepreneur Wellbeing Check, a seven-question screening instrument. The Check is a screening instrument, not a diagnostic tool, and nothing in it is a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
2Taking the Check without an account
An account is optional. You can complete the Check, receive your score and your personalized action plan, and — if you are referred onward — receive your Connected Mind report, all without registering.
There is one consequence you need to know before you start, because it cannot be undone afterwards:
- If you do not create an account, we do not retain your results. You must request your report at the time you take the Check. Once you leave, there is nothing left for us to send you, and we cannot recover it.
- If you do create an account, your results are retained so you can track change over time, and you can delete them at any point.
We will prompt you before results are discarded. Choosing not to register does not reduce your access to the Check, the action plan or any Econa Lab — those are free to every entrepreneur, always.
3What we collect
When you take the Check
- Your responses to the screening questions, and the score derived from them.
- Background details you choose to give — the kind of business you run, how long you have been running it, and similar context that lets us interpret a score sensibly.
When you use the site or hold an account
- Identifiers: name, email address, and IP address.
- Device and usage information: browser, operating system, pages visited, and approximate location no more precise than city, state and postcode.
- Anything you send us directly — a message, a question, an application, a piece of feedback.
When money is involved
- Donations and Econa Village membership are handled by our payment processors. Econa does not receive or store your full card number.
De-identified and aggregated information — data from which you cannot reasonably be identified — is not personal data under this policy, and we may use it for any lawful purpose, including the research described below.
4Where it comes from
- From you, when you take the Check, write to us, apply to something, donate or join the Village.
- From our service providers — hosting, email delivery, payment processing and analytics — acting on our instructions.
- From an organization that sponsored your access, where a firm or program has funded screening for the entrepreneurs it works with. Sponsorship pays for access; it does not buy the sponsor any sight of your individual results.
5How we use it
- To score the Check and give you your result and action plan.
- To route you to further support, including the Econa Labs and, where indicated, Connected Mind.
- To operate accounts, track progress over time where you have asked us to, and provide Village membership.
- To answer you when you get in touch, and to send you what you asked for.
- To keep the platform working, secure and free of fraud and abuse.
- To improve the instruments and the program, and to advance the science — see the next section.
- To meet legal, regulatory and tax obligations.
Scoring runs behind the scenes. We administer, score and interpret for you; we do not ask you to do arithmetic on your own mental health.
6Research, and what we will never do
Advancing entrepreneur mental health research is why Econa exists. It is also the place where a privacy policy earns or loses your trust, so here is the commitment in Dr. Freeman's own words:
“Data is not for sale; it is only shared with qualified university-affiliated academic researchers who aim to accelerate entrepreneur resilience, wellbeing and mental health.”
In practice that means:
- Research datasets are de-identified before they are shared.
- Access goes only to qualified researchers affiliated with a university or academic center, for the purpose above.
- We do not sell personal data. We do not rent or trade it. We do not use it for advertising or profiling.
- Where we ask you to contribute your data to research, that ask is separate, explicit and optional. Declining changes nothing about your access.
Population-level reporting for a sponsoring organization is aggregated and requires a pool large enough that no individual can be picked out of it. A sponsor never sees an individual entrepreneur's score.
The Entrepreneur Wellbeing Check instrument itself is in the public domain — it is not proprietary, and anyone may use it.
7When you are referred to Connected Mind
Some results indicate that a clinical assessment would help. In that case we offer a referral to Connected Mind, a behavioural health screening platform.
- We tell you before anything moves, and what will happen next.
- Information passes to Connected Mind so it can produce your report and, where relevant, a combined report covering both screens.
- Once your data is with Connected Mind, Connected Mind's own privacy policy governs it.
- A referral is a route to support. It is not a diagnosis, and it is not shared with anyone who funds or sponsors your access.
8How long we keep it
- No account: we do not retain your results at all — which is why the report has to be requested while you are taking the Check.
- With an account: for as long as your account is open, so progress tracking works. Delete your results or your account and we remove them from our active systems.
- De-identified research data may be retained indefinitely. Once it is de-identified it can no longer be traced back to you, which also means it cannot be pulled back out on request.
- Records we are required to keep — donations, tax and accounting — are retained for the period the law requires.
9Who we disclose to
- Service providers — hosting, email, payments, analytics — bound to act only on our instructions.
- Connected Mind, on referral, as described above.
- Qualified academic researchers, de-identified, as described above.
- Professional advisers — auditors, accountants and lawyers — under a duty of confidence.
- Authorities, where the law compels it, or where there is a genuine risk to someone's life.
- Anyone you ask us to, including a clinician you choose to share a report with.
Free access to the FounderScreen Initiative is fiscally sponsored. A fiscal sponsor administers charitable funds; it receives no personal data about anyone who takes the Check.
11Your rights
Wherever you live, you can ask us to give you a copy of the personal data we hold about you, correct it, delete it, or stop using it in a particular way. You can withdraw consent at any time, and you can close your account whenever you like.
If you are in the UK, the EU or the EEA
You additionally have the right to data portability, to object to processing, to restrict it, and to complain to your national data protection authority. Our lawful bases are your consent (for the Check and for research contribution), the performance of a contract (accounts, Village membership, donations), and our legitimate interests in operating and securing the platform.
If you are in California
You have the right to know what personal data we collect and how it is used and shared, to request deletion and correction, and not to be discriminated against for exercising those rights. Econa does not sell personal data and does not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.
To make any request, use the contact page. We will not charge you for it, and we will not treat you differently for asking.
12Security
We use commercially reasonable technical and organizational safeguards — encryption in transit, access controls, and limiting who inside Econa can see what — to protect personal data. No system is perfectly secure, and no one can promise otherwise.
Call 911, or call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Do not wait for a screening result, and do not use this page to report an emergency.
13Children
Econa's services are for adults. They are not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal data. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we will delete it.
14Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. When we do, we will change the effective date at the top of the page, and we will say so prominently if the change is significant. Continuing to use Econa after a change means you accept the updated policy.
15Contact us
For any question about this policy, or to make a request about your personal data, use the contact page. Tell us what you would like us to do and we will come back to you.
See also the Terms of Use.