Entrepreneurs House
Identity Verification & Background Check Consent
Version 1.0 · Effective 1 September 2026 · Applies to every applicant for membership, in every country.
This page is the full legal text behind the "I agree" box on the acceptance form. It is written to be read. If anything here is unclear, email thomas@entrehouse.com before you sign.
1. Who we are
Entrepreneurs House LLC, 713 Concord Drive, Lawton, Michigan 49065, United States ("we", "us"). We are the data controller (Mexico: responsable; Colombia: responsable del tratamiento) for the information described on this page. Privacy contact: thomas@entrehouse.com.
2. Disclosure
As part of your application for membership in Entrepreneurs House, we may obtain a background report about you from identity-verification and screening providers acting on our behalf. If you live in the United States and a report is obtained from a consumer reporting agency, it is a "consumer report" and/or "investigative consumer report" under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The report may contain information about your identity, criminal record where lawfully available, civil court records, sanctions and watchlist status, regulatory actions, bankruptcies and public adverse media. It is used only to decide on your membership.
This section is a stand-alone disclosure. It contains nothing else on purpose: US law requires the disclosure to be clear, conspicuous and in a document that consists solely of the disclosure.
3. What we check, and how
| Check | How | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your passport is real and yours | Photo you upload, checked for authenticity by an identity-verification provider, plus the physical passport shown on a live video call | Every other check depends on knowing who you are |
| Global sanctions, watchlists, politically-exposed persons | OFAC, UN, EU, UK, INTERPOL and equivalent lists, via a screening provider or OpenSanctions | Legal obligation and community safety |
| Civil litigation, judgments, liens | Public court records in countries where you have lived | Pattern of conduct toward business partners |
| Regulatory and financial-conduct actions | SEC, FINRA, CNBV, CONDUSEF, FCA and equivalents | Members raise, invest and advise inside the room |
| Bankruptcy, insolvency, adverse media | Public registers and news | Context, not disqualification by itself |
| Criminal records | Only where lawfully available to a private organisation in the relevant country, and only through a licensed provider | Member safety |
We also verify that you meet the membership bar (revenue, exit or net worth). That happens on a live video call where you show us your own logged-in screens. Nothing from that call is recorded, downloaded, screenshotted or stored. How that works is explained in plain words at entrehouse.com/verify.
4. What we collect
- From the form: name, email, phone, city and country of residence, a photo of your passport photo page (which shows your full name, date of birth, nationality, passport number and expiry), a photo of a company registration document, your qualification path and the platforms you will open on the call, your typed signature, and the time you submitted.
- From the call: nothing is stored. We note only "verified" or "not verified", the date, and which path you qualified under.
- From our providers: a passport-authenticity result and the screening report described in section 2.
- What we never collect: tax identification numbers, social-security numbers, bank or card account numbers, statements, downloads, credentials, or any information about your customers, employees or suppliers.
If the law of your country requires a national identification number (for example CURP, cédula, SSN or NIN) to run a lawful records check, the provider will ask you directly, on its own secure portal, with its own notice and your separate consent at that time. We do not collect or store that number.
5. Legal basis, by where you live
- United States. The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and state law. Where a consumer report is obtained, we do so only with your written authorization (section 10) and for a permissible purpose: a legitimate business need in connection with a transaction you initiated. Before any decision based in whole or in part on such a report, we follow the adverse-action process in section 8.
- European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland. Your explicit consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a) and, for passport data, Art. 9 where applicable). Information about criminal convictions and offences (Art. 10) is processed only where the law of your country of residence permits a private organisation to do so; where it does not, that part of the check is not run. You may withdraw consent at any time (section 9). International transfer to the United States is covered by Standard Contractual Clauses.
- Mexico. This page is our Aviso de Privacidad for the purposes of the Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de los Particulares. The purposes are those in sections 2 and 3, all of them necessary for the membership relationship. Passport data and any criminal-record information are treated as sensitive data and are processed only with your express consent, given by ticking "I agree" and typing your name. You may exercise your ARCO rights (access, rectification, cancellation, opposition) and revoke consent by emailing thomas@entrehouse.com. Changes to this notice are published at this address.
- Colombia. This page is the prior, express and informed autorización required by Ley 1581 de 2012 and Decreto 1377 de 2013. Providing sensitive data is optional; not providing it means we cannot complete verification. You may know, update, rectify and delete your data, and revoke this authorisation, by emailing thomas@entrehouse.com. Complaints may be made to the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio.
- Canada. Your consent under PIPEDA (or the applicable provincial law).
- Everywhere else. Your consent, and the equivalent local data-protection law.
6. Who sees your information
- Inside Entrepreneurs House: the founder and, where needed, one designated operations person. Not other members. Not chapter leads.
- Identity-verification and screening providers: a passport-authenticity and liveness provider, and a sanctions, watchlist and adverse-media screening provider, each bound by contract to use your data only to produce its result. We will tell you which providers before the check is run.
- Service providers that host the process: Typeform (the form and uploaded photos), Calendly (booking), Google (video call). Each is a processor under written terms. None of them see the call content.
- Nobody else. We do not sell, rent, or share your information for marketing, and we do not share it with other members, sponsors or partners.
Data is stored in the United States and, for our providers, in the country where the check is performed.
7. How long we keep it
| Item | Kept for |
|---|---|
| Passport photo, company document photo | Deleted within 90 days of the membership decision, whatever the decision |
| Background report | Deleted within 90 days of the membership decision, unless a dispute is open, in which case until it is resolved |
| Verification outcome (verified / not verified, date, path) | For the life of your membership plus 2 years, then deleted |
| Your signed consent | For the life of your membership plus 5 years, as evidence that consent was given |
| If you withdraw consent or abandon the process | Everything above deleted within 30 days |
8. If something comes up
We aim to be fair, and the law in several countries requires this sequence. Before any decision based in whole or in part on a background report we will:
- Tell you what was found, in writing.
- Give you a copy of the report and, where you live in the United States, the CFPB's Summary of Your Rights Under the FCRA; where you live in the EEA/UK, Mexico or Colombia, a summary of your rights under GDPR, the LFPDPPP or Ley 1581 respectively.
- Give you at least five business days to explain the circumstances or dispute an inaccuracy with the provider that produced it before we decide.
- If we then decline, tell you in writing, with the provider's contact details and a note that the provider did not make the decision.
We may decline or revoke membership based on confirmed findings that are inconsistent with our standards. We will never share the reason with other members.
9. Your rights
Subject to the law that applies to you, you may at any time: access the information we hold about you; correct it; ask us to delete it; restrict or object to its processing; receive a copy in a portable format; and withdraw your consent, which stops the process without affecting anything done before withdrawal. Email thomas@entrehouse.com; we respond within 30 days (Mexico: 20 business days; Colombia: 10 business days for queries, 15 for claims).
You may also complain to your data-protection authority: INAI (Mexico), Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (Colombia), your national supervisory authority (EEA), the ICO (UK), the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (Canada), or the CFPB and FTC (United States).
10. What you agree to
By ticking "I agree" on the acceptance form and typing your full name, you:
- Authorize Entrepreneurs House LLC and its identity-verification and screening providers to verify your identity using the passport and details you provide, and to obtain the background report described in sections 2 and 3, to the extent lawful in each relevant country. This authorization covers the initial check only; we will ask again before any future check.
- Consent to the collection, processing, cross-border transfer to the United States and secure storage of your personal data, including passport data and any lawfully obtained criminal-record information, for the purposes on this page.
- Confirm that the information you have given is true and complete, and understand that materially false information may result in denial or termination of membership.
- Acknowledge that you have read this page, and that your typed name has the same effect as a handwritten signature (US ESIGN Act and UETA; EU eIDAS; Mexico Código de Comercio Art. 89 et seq.; Colombia Ley 527 de 1999).
11. Security
Uploaded documents are encrypted in transit and at rest, accessible only to the people named in section 6, and removed from the form platform into encrypted storage after the call. Nothing from the video call exists after the call ends.
12. Changes and contact
We will publish any change to this page here with a new version number and date. Material changes will not apply to consent you have already given without asking you again. Questions: thomas@entrehouse.com, or by post to Entrepreneurs House LLC, 713 Concord Drive, Lawton, Michigan 49065, USA. This page supplements, and does not replace, our Privacy Policy.