Terms of Use
Welcome to www.capitalwe.co.uk (the “Site”), owned and operated by CapitalWe Sub-Management Corporation (“CapitalWe,” “we,” or “us”). By using the Site, you agree to the following terms and conditions of use (the “Terms”). Any lack of agreement will directly result in you being prohibited to access the Site.
CapitalWe may modify the Site and/or the Terms from time to time, without providing with any prior notice. Nevertheless, if CapitalWe makes any material changes to the Terms, we will post the revised Terms and corresponding date of enforcement on the Site and/or provide notice through an alternative method of communication. By accessing and utilising the Site following any modifications to the Terms, you expressly agree to be bound by the modified Terms.
Privacy Policy.
PRIVACY POLICY
Effective date: 11th March 2022.
Thank you for visiting http://www.capitalwe.co.uk (the “Site”), owned and operated by Capital (“we,” or “us”). We respect your privacy and, whether you are visiting the Site as an investor, founder, or a member of the general public, you are entitled to the protection of your personal information. Please read this Privacy Policy to learn how we treat your personal information.
By using or accessing our Site in any manner, you acknowledge and accept the practices and policies outlined below, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Remember that your use of our Site is, at all times, subject to our Terms of Use, which we have incorporated in this Privacy Policy. Any terms that we utilise in this Privacy Policy, shall have the definitions provided to you in the Terms of Use.
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This Privacy Policy covers important information and disclosure relating to how we treat the Personal Data that we gather when you access or use our Site. However, it does not cover the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or the content of people who are not our Effective date employees, nor the privacy practices of any entity with which we have an investment relationship, regardless of whether you are able to access such entity’s website or service through a link on the Site. It also does not apply to information obtained or disclosed in offline correspondence or in connection with an investment in one of our affiliated investment funds.
Please note, you may have additional rights to control the use and disclosure of your Personal Data. Residents of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”) should refer to the relevant subsections below. You may print a copy of this Privacy Policy by clicking here. If you have a disability, you may access this Privacy Policy in an alternative format by contacting contact@capitalwe.co.uk.
The use of the term “Personal Data” herein means any information that identifies or relates to a particular individual. This includes information referred to as “personally identifiable information” or “personal information” under applicable data privacy laws, rules, or regulations.
This section outlines the categories of Personal Data that we collect and have collected over a period of 12 months, and that we share with service providers, business partners, and parties, and hence you authorize, access, or authenticate:
All additional data that arises in connection to one of the categories mentioned above will consequentially be treated as Personal Data and thus subject to the same Terms.
Categories of Sources of Personal Data
We collect Personal Data from the following categories of sources:
Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data
We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data, other than data that would fall within the natural definition of the terms or use the Personal Data we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you with prior notice.
We disclose your Personal Data to the categories of service providers and other parties listed in this section. Depending on specific applicable law, under the jurisdiction of the UK courts, some of the disclosure of this information may constitute a “sale” of your Personal Data. For more information, please refer to the specific sections below.
Legal Obligations
We may share any Personal Data that we collect with third parties, in conjunction with any of the activities set forth under “Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms” in the “Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data” section above.
Business Transfers
All the Personal Data that we collect may be transferred to a third party if we undergo a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other transaction in which another third party assumes control of our business (in whole or in part). Should one of these events occur, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you prior to your information becoming subject to different privacy and security policies and practices.
Data That Is Not Personal Data
We may create aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data from the Personal Data that we collect, including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to a particular user. We may use such aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyse, build and improve the Site and the services we provide or promote our business, provided that we will not share such data in a manner that could identify you.
The Site uses cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, and JavaScript (collectively, “Cookies”) to enable servers to recognize your web browser and tell us when and how you visit and use our Site, and therefore analyse trends, learn about our user base, and operate and improve our Site. Cookies are small pieces of data – usually text files – placed on your computer, tablet, phone, or similar device when you use that device to access our Site. We may also supplement the information we collect from you with information received from third parties, including third parties that have placed their own Cookies on your device(s). Please note that because of our use of Cookies, the Site does not support “Do Not Track” requests sent from a browser at this time.
We use the following types of Cookies:
You can decide whether to accept Cookies through your internet browser’s settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide whether to accept new Cookies in a variety of ways. You can also delete all Cookies that are already on your device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our website and some of the Site and functionalities may not work.
We seek to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, and administrative security measures and storage and processing practices based on the type of Personal Data. For example, the Site uses industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to allow for the encryption of Personal Data you have provided to us. We retain Personal Data about you for as long as necessary to provide our Site and/or services to you, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule, or regulation. We may further retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form, if that information does not identify you personally.
Although we work to protect the security of your account and the data that we hold in our records, please be aware that no method of transmitting data or storing data over the Internet is completely secure. We cannot guarantee the complete security or protection of any data that you share with us, and except as expressly required by law, we are not responsible for the theft, destruction, misuse, loss or inadvertent disclosure of your information or content.
We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data from or about children under 18 years old, except in circumstances where parental consent is given. If we learn that we have collected personal information from an individual under the 16 years of age without parental consent, we will delete such information as soon as we are made aware. If you believe that a child under 18 years of age may have provided Personal Data to us, please contact us at privacy@meritechcapital.com.
If you have any questions about this section or whether any of the following rights apply to you, please contact us at contact@capitalwe.co.uk.
Access
You have the right to request certain information about the way we have collected and used your Personal Data for a period of maximum 12 months. This information may be in regards to the:
Deletion
You have the right to request that we delete Personal Data that we have collected about you, subject to certain exceptions under the which the Data has already been shared or is utilised for a business purpose. For example, we may need to retain your Personal Data to provide you with the Site specifications, certain services, or complete a transaction or other action that you have previously requested. If your request is subject to one of these exceptions, we are authorised to deny your deletion request.
Exercising Your Rights
To exercise the rights described above, you must send us a request which: (1) provides sufficient information to allow us to verify that you are either the person whom we have collected Personal Data on, or are an agent authorized by that person, and (2) describes the nature of your request and rights in sufficient detail to allow us to understand, evaluate and respond accordingly. Only requests that meets both criteria previously mentioned will be considered as “Valid Requests”, and thus be treated as such. We may choose not to respond to requests that do not meet these criteria. We will only use Personal Data provided in a Valid Request to verify your identity and complete your request. You may submit a Valid Request by emailing us at contact@capitalwe.co.uk.
We will work to respond to your ‘Valid Request’ within 45 days of receipt. We will not charge you a fee for making a Valid Request, unless your Valid Request(s) is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that your Valid Request warrants a fee, we will notify you of the fee and explain that decision prior to completing the request.
You may also authorize an agent (an “Authorized Agent”) to exercise your rights on your behalf. To do so, you must provide your Authorized Agent with written permission to exercise rights on your behalf, and we may request a copy of this written permission to be provided by your Authorized Agent when they make the request.
We Do Not Sell Your Personal Data
We will not “sell” your Personal Data, as far as the term is defined in the Privacy Policy. We also do not sell Personal Data of minors, under the age of 18 years old.
The Site is hosted and operated in the United Kingdom. If you are a resident of the EEA or UK, you may have additional rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), the United Kingdom Data Protection Act 2018, and the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (collectively, the “GDPR”), as applicable, with respect to your Personal Data, as outlined below. By using the Site, you acknowledge and accept that any Personal Data, regardless of whether it has been provided by you or obtained from a third party, is being delivered to us in the UK and will be hosted on UK servers, and you authorize us to transfer, store and process your information in the UK and to other countries to. You hereby consent to the transfer of your data to the UK.
For this section, we use the terms “Personal Data” and “processing” as they are defined in the GDPR. Please note that, “Personal Data” generally means information that can be used to individually identify a person, and “processing” generally covers actions that can be performed in connection with data, including and not limited to collection, use, storage, and disclosure. We are fully in control of your Personal Data, and any data processed in connection with your use of the Site.
If there are any conflicts between this section and any other provision of this Privacy Policy, the policy or provision that is more protective of your Personal Data shall have authority over the following. If you have any questions about this section or whether any of the following matters apply to you, please contact us at contact@capitalwe.co.uk.
Personal Data Collection, Use and Disclosure
The subsection relating to the “Categories of Personal Data We Collect” details the Personal Data that we collect from you. Whereas, the subsection “How We Share Your Personal Data” details how we may use or disclose your Personal Data.
Legal Basis for Processing
We will only process your Personal Data if we have a lawful basis or reason to do so. Lawful reasons for processing such data include, yet are not limited to: matters you have provided us with consent for, contractual necessities and our “legitimate interests” or the legitimate interest of others, as further described below.
EU Data Subject Rights
You have certain rights with respect to your Personal Data, including those set forth below.
For more information about these rights, or to submit a request regarding any matter mentioned, please email us at privacy@capitalwe.co.uk. Please note that in some circumstances, we may not be able to fully comply with your request, such as if it is frivolous or impractical, it jeopardizes the rights of others, or if it is not required by law. In those circumstances, we will aim to respond to notify you of our decision. In some cases, we may also need to you to provide us with additional information, which may include Personal Data, which may be necessary to verify your identity and the nature of your request.
We are constantly trying to improve our Site and services, so we may need to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any changes by placing a notice on our website, sending you an email and/or by other relevant means. Please note that if you have opted not to receive legal notice emails from us (or you haven’t provided us with your email address), you are consenting that you may not receive important updates about the Site and our Privacy Policy. Nevertheless, those legal notices will still govern your use of the Site and/or services, and you are still responsible to read and check them on a regular basis. If you use the Site and/or services after any changes have been made to the Privacy Policy, this will automatically mean that you have given consent to all the changes and alterations made. The use of the information that we collect is subject to the most up-to-date Privacy Policy that is in effect at the time.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Data, or your rights regarding such matters, please do not hesitate to contact us at: privacy@capitalwe.co.uk.