TrustStone Pilot Privacy Notice

TrustStone is currently operating as an early pilot program. This Pilot Privacy Notice explains how information is collected, used, shared, and handled during the pilot phase only. It is not the final privacy policy for any future production platform.

The purpose of this pilot is to test and improve the TrustStone experience, evaluate relationship-building and matching processes, and better understand how the platform functions in real-world use before a broader launch.

If TrustStone transitions to a production platform in the future, participants will be presented with a separate production privacy policy and asked for explicit consent before any pilot profile or participant information is carried forward.

By participating in the pilot, you consent to the collection, use, and limited sharing of information as described in this notice.

During the pilot, TrustStone may collect several categories of information.

Profile Information

This includes information such as:

• Name
• Professional role
• Organization
• Geographic location
• Professional background
• Areas of interest
• Responses provided during onboarding or diagnostic activities

Some profile information may be sourced from publicly available professional materials, such as company websites, LinkedIn profiles, speaker biographies, or related public sources. Any pre-populated information is presented for participant review and correction before being saved within the pilot.

Session and Participation Information

TrustStone may collect records associated with participation in the pilot, including:

• Meeting participation records
• Session scheduling information
• Notes voluntarily entered by participants
• Feedback, ratings, or reflections submitted after sessions
• Interaction and engagement activity within the platform

Derived and Inferred Information

TrustStone uses experimental matching and recommendation systems during the pilot. These systems may generate inferred classifications, compatibility indicators, participation patterns, suggested connections, or related recommendations based on onboarding responses, participation activity, and interaction patterns within the pilot.

These systems are experimental and intended to support human relationship-building and pilot learning. They may not always be accurate and should not be interpreted as definitive evaluations of any participant.

Participants may request correction of inaccurate profile information or inferred classifications.

Information collected during the pilot may be used to:

• Operate and administer the pilot
• Facilitate participant matching and introductions
• Improve onboarding and user experience
• Evaluate pilot engagement and outcomes
• Test and improve experimental recommendation systems
• Identify operational or product improvements
• Generate aggregated pilot insights and learnings
• Support internal research and development activities related to the TrustStone platform

TrustStone does not sell participant data.

TrustStone may analyze aggregated or reasonably de-identified pilot information to better understand patterns, outcomes, and platform behavior across the pilot cohort.

Participant Visibility

Participants you are matched or connected with through the pilot may have access to portions of your profile and information that are necessary to support participation in the program.

Pilot Administrators

Authorized TrustStone pilot administrators may access participant information as reasonably necessary to:

• Operate the pilot
• Provide support
• Moderate participation
• Evaluate pilot outcomes
• Investigate technical or safety issues
• Improve the platform

Community or Program Partners

If your participation occurs through a partner organization, accelerator, university, sponsor, community, or related program, that organization may receive aggregated outcome information and any additional information you explicitly agree to share as part of the program.

Legal or Safety Requirements

TrustStone may disclose information if reasonably necessary to:

• Comply with applicable law or legal process
• Protect participant safety
• Investigate misuse of the platform
• Protect the integrity or security of the pilot

TrustStone participants, administrators, technology providers, and pilot partners may be located in both the United States and Canada.

Information collected during the pilot may therefore be processed, stored, or accessed in either country and may be subject to the laws and lawful access requirements of those jurisdictions.

The TrustStone pilot is not intended for the collection or sharing of highly sensitive personal information.

Participants should avoid submitting or sharing:

• Medical or health information
• Government identification numbers
• Financial account information
• Highly sensitive personal details
• Protected employment records
• Sensitive legal information
• Other sensitive personal data unless specifically requested by an authorized pilot administrator

Participants are responsible for exercising judgment regarding what information they choose to share during pilot participation.

TrustStone uses commercially reasonable administrative and technical safeguards appropriate for an early-stage pilot environment.

However, no platform, system, transmission method, or electronic storage process can be guaranteed completely secure. Participation in the pilot involves some inherent risk associated with online systems and communications.

The TrustStone pilot is intended to be temporary.

At the conclusion of the pilot, TrustStone intends to remove or reasonably de-identify participant information from active pilot systems within a commercially reasonable timeframe.

Certain limited information may be retained where reasonably necessary for:

• Shared participation records
• Security and fraud prevention
• Legal compliance
• Internal pilot analysis
• Platform improvement
• Dispute resolution
• Protection of pilot integrity

Aggregated or reasonably de-identified pilot learnings may continue to be retained and used to inform future platform development.

Pilot information will not automatically transfer into any future production platform.

Before any migration occurs, participants will be asked for explicit consent to carry their profile or participation history forward into a production system governed by a separate production privacy policy.

During the pilot, participants may:

• Request access to the information TrustStone holds about them
• Request correction of inaccurate information
• Request correction of inferred classifications where reasonably feasible
• Withdraw from the pilot at any time

If you withdraw from the pilot, TrustStone will remove or reasonably de-identify your profile from active pilot systems within a commercially reasonable timeframe, except where limited retention is necessary for shared records, security, legal compliance, dispute resolution, or pilot integrity.

Shared session records involving other participants may continue to exist as part of the historical record of those interactions, although identifying profile information may be removed or minimized where reasonably feasible.

The pilot is intended for participants who are at least 18 years old unless participation occurs through an authorized educational, accelerator, or community program operating with appropriate permissions and supervision.

Because TrustStone is operating in an early pilot phase, this Pilot Privacy Notice may evolve as the platform, pilot processes, technology, and legal requirements develop.

Material changes to this notice will be communicated to participants before they take effect.

Questions, requests, or concerns regarding this Pilot Privacy Notice may be directed to:

info@truststone.io

TrustStone Pilot Team