Privacy Policy

1. Overview
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All personal information processed in connection with this Privacy Notice (the “Privacy Notice”) is controlled by Vennre Ventures Advisors (VVA) Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 14190415 (from now on "we", "our" or "us"). Our registered office is at Nova North, 11 Bressenden Place, London, United Kingdom, SW1E 5BY. We are a "data controller" for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018 ("DPA") ("GDPR"). This means that we are responsible for and control the processing of your personal information. By “personal information” we mean all information that identifies or may identify you.

2. Purpose

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We collect, store, and use personal information in accordance with all laws in any relevant jurisdiction that relate to data protection, privacy, the use of information relating to individuals, and/or the information rights of individuals, including, without limitation, the DPA and any other laws in force from time to time which implement the GDPR, and the equivalent in any other relevant jurisdictions, all as amended or replaced from time to time. This Privacy Notice applies to all personal information we gather or use in connection with your relationship with us as a user of our services (from now on referred to as our “Services”) and when you interact with us. We will only use your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice. Please review this Privacy Notice carefully as it contains important information on:
- The personal information we collect about you;
- What we do with your information; and
- Who your information might be shared with. By using our Services and by providing any personal information to us, you acknowledge our use of your personal information as set out in this Privacy Notice. Please do not provide us with any personal information if you do not want that information to be used by us in this manner.

3.Your Privacy Rights
‍You have various rights in respect of the personal information we hold about you – these are set out in more detail below. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at operations@vennre.com. The following rights apply:
a) Access to your personal information: You have the right to request access to a copy of the personal information that we hold about you, along with information on what personal information we use, why we use it, who we share it with, how long we keep it for, and whether it has been used for any automated decision-making. Please make all requests for access in writing and provide us with evidence of your identity.
b) Right to object: You can object to our processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes. Please contact us as noted above, providing details of your objection.
c) Consent: If you have given us your consent to use personal information, you can withdraw your consent at any time.
d) Rectification: You can ask us to change or complete any inaccurate or incomplete personal information held about you.
e) Erasure: You can ask us to delete your personal information where it is no longer necessary for us to use it, you have withdrawn consent, or where we have no lawful basis for keeping it.
f) Portability: You can ask us to provide you or a third party with some of the personal information that we hold about you in a structured, commonly used, electronic form, so it can be easily transferred.
g) Restriction: You can ask us to restrict the personal information we use about you where you have asked for it to be erased or where you have objected to our use of it.
h) No automated decision-making: Automated decision-making takes place when an electronic system uses personal information to make a decision without human intervention. You have the right not to be subject to automated decisions that will create legal effects or have a similar significant impact on you unless you have given us your consent, it is necessary for a contract between you and us, or is otherwise permitted by law. You also have certain rights to challenge decisions made about you. Please note, some of these rights only apply in certain circumstances, and we may not be able to fulfill every request. You can make a complaint to us by contacting the Data Protection Officer or the data protection supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner's Office, https://ico.org.uk/.

4. How We Collect and Receive Personal Information
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‍We may collect and/or receive personal information from you when you:
- Fill in forms on our website or other platforms;
- Communicate with us, such as by e-mail, telephone, or through our website;
- Access our services, including where you perform actions such as expressing an interest in an investment opportunity; or
- Respond to surveys or questionnaires we ask you to complete. We may also collect your personal information from publicly available information, such as information on third-party websites or from our business partners. Such examples may include details of any criminal convictions or court orders that we identify via our anti-money laundering checks.

5. Types of Personal Information
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‍The types of personal information we receive, store, and use may include:
- Your title, name, address, telephone numbers, and email address;
- Your account information (including your username and password);
- Information about your investment preferences;
- Information about interactions you may have with us and our staff, including interactions via e-mail, telephone, or through our website; andInformation regarding your experiences with our services and contact preferences to provide you with support in your use of our services. Additionally, we automatically collect the following information when you visit our website:
- Technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform; and
- Information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), clickstream to, through, and from our website (including date and time), page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page. We use this automatically collected information to maintain and improve our services and our website.

6. Use of Personal Information and Legal Bases
We use personal information to help us understand your needs, provide you with access to our services, and meet our legal and regulatory obligations. In particular, we collect, store, and process your personal information for the following reasons and legal bases set out below:
Purpose: To provide access to our services and for purposes related to providing you with access to our services; Legal Basis: Performance of a contract with you.
Purpose: To improve and tailor our services; Legal Basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests (administration). Purpose: For our own internal record-keeping requirements; Legal Basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests (administration).
Purpose: To protect your account and prevent unauthorized access; Legal Basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests (security and fraud prevention).
Purpose: To contact you, for example, to send service communications such as informing you of modifications in service functionality; and Legal Basis: Necessary for our legitimate interests (to help you use our services).
Purpose: To meet our legal and regulatory obligations. Legal Basis: Necessary to comply with a legal obligation. Sometimes, where we ask for personal information necessary to enter into a contract with you (e.g., your name) or to meet a legal obligation, we will not be able to provide our products or services without that personal information.

7. Sharing Personal Information
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When providing you with our services, we may disclose personal information we collect or receive:
- To you or those acting on your behalf; and
- To third parties to provide a service to, or perform a function for, us or you or who are otherwise appointed by us in connection with the services we offer you, including those who are acting as our agent or subcontractor, including, without limitation, data processing service providers and our legal and professional advisors. We may also disclose personal information occasionally, for example:
- To third parties in connection with a proposed or actual financing, insuring, merger, restructure, sale, acquisition, assignment, or other disposal of all or part of our business or to anyone whom we may transfer our rights and/or obligations for the purposes of evaluating and performing the proposed transaction; and
- To third parties, including law enforcement officials, law courts, and government and regulatory authorities: (a) if we believe disclosure is required by any applicable law, regulation, or legal process (such as to respond to subpoenas or judicial orders); or (b) to protect and defend our rights or the rights or safety of third parties, including to defend against legal claims.

8. Statistical Information
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‍We may aggregate information about you with information about other users to create statistical data about users.

9. Data Storage
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‍We will take all steps reasonably necessary to keep your data secure. You should be aware that the transmission of information via the internet is not entirely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of any data you transmit to our website via the internet. We will generally retain your personal information for seven years unless we are required by law to retain your personal information for a longer period.

10. Transfers of Your Personal Information Out of the EEA

Any transfer of your data outside the European Economic Area will be subject to a European Commission-approved contract that will safeguard your privacy rights and provide you with remedies in the unlikely event of a security breach.

11. Cookies

Cookies are small files placed on your device when you visit our website. Our website registers information, for example, regarding visited pages, clicks, browsing behavior, and search actions. This information can be generated by means of cookies or other similar technologies; however, all information is anonymized and not directly traceable to any individual user. We alert you to our use of cookies. If you use our website after this alert, we will assume that you consent to our use of cookies for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice.

12. Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to enable you to visit third-party websites. Please note that we do not have any control over these third-party websites. Therefore, we are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. Such sites are governed by their own privacy policies and not this Privacy Notice.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments on this policy or if you would like to request a copy of your personal information, you can contact us at operations@vennre.com

‍14. Changes to This Privacy Notice

We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. You should check this Privacy Notice occasionally to ensure that you are aware of the most recent version that will apply each time you access our website. Where we have made any changes to this Privacy Notice that affect the manner in which we use your personal information, we will notify you of this change.