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Privacy Policy

Date Last Updated: April 24, 2024

Fin Venture Capital Management LLC and its subsidiaries (referred to throughout this policy as “Fin Capital,” “we,” and “our”) cares about your privacy and the security of your information. This policy details our practices in connection with our website, newsletters, and any other content we provide (collectively, the “Content”) as they relate to your data. It describes the kinds of personal information we may gather about you in connection with the Content, how we use that information, to whom we disclose it, and how you can manage it.

By using our Content, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy, including our use of cookies and similar online tools. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Content.

Our Content is constantly under development, which may cause our data practices to change from time to time. We will update this policy with any changes we make, so please visit this page often to stay current. Any changes to this policy will become effective as of the date “last updated” noted above. Your continued use of our Content following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

If you are located in the European Economic Area , United Kingdom, or Switzerland, please see the Additional Information for Users in Europe and the United Kingdom section of this policy.

If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, or Virginia  please see the Additional Information for Users in Certain U.S. Jurisdictions section of this policy.

Table of Contents

  • Information Collected
  • How We Use Your Information
  • How We Share Your Information
  • How Long Your Information Is Stored
  • Privacy Choices Regarding Personalized Advertisements
  • Statement on No Children’s Data
  • Additional Information for Users in Europe and the United Kingdom
  • Additional Information for Users in Certain U.S. Jurisdictions

1. Information Collected

Information You May Provide
When you use our Content, you may voluntarily provide us with certain pieces of information about yourself, including the following.

Contact Information – When you create an account on our website or mobile app, subscribe to the magazine, register for one of our live events, or participate in one of surveys or contests we ask you for your contact information, which may include your name, email address, phone number, and physical address.

Communication Information – We collect information about you when you communicate with us, such as by contacting our Customer Care team, including the content of the communication and any contact information you provide.

Business Information – If you have a professional relationship with Fin Capital we may collect information such as your job title, employer’s name and contact information, and your business email address, physical address, and telephone number.

Information Collected Automatically
We may automatically collect certain pieces of information about you when you use our Content, including the following. Much of this information is collected via cookies. Please review Section 5 of this policy to learn more about how they function and how to turn them off.

Device Information – This lets us know how you are accessing our Content and may include information such as the kind of device you are using, your operating system, your browser, your mobile carrier, certain device settings, referral URLs, your IP address and other unique device identifiers.

Usage Information – This lets us know how you are interacting with our Content and may include information such as which parts of Service visit, how long you visit, your search history within our Content, and how you interacted with advertisements and emails.

Location Information – As previously mentioned, we collect your device’s IP address when you use our Content. Your IP address may disclose or allow us to infer the general location of your device at the time you access the Content.

Inferred Information – In order to better understand our user base, we may infer some information about you, such as your age, gender, education level, and household composition, based on your survey responses.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use your information for the purposes described below.

Communicating with You – Your personal information, such as your contact details, allows us to communicate with you in a variety of ways. We may send you Fin Capital newsletters and updates.

Analytics, Research, and Development – We may use your personal information to learn more about who uses our Content and how they use it. 

Maintenance & Security –  We may use your personal information to assist us in maintaining and securing our Content, including evaluating our security systems, debugging, detecting security incidents, preventing malicious, fraudulent, and illegal activity, and protecting the rights and safety of Fin Capital and others.

Compliance with Law – We may use your personal information when we believe it is necessary to comply with laws and regulations.

3. How We Share Your Information

We may share your personal information with third parties. In general, the reasons we may share your information falls into one or more of the following categories.

Affiliates – We may share your personal information with our corporate parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates, for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Service Providers – We may share some of your personal information with service providers who perform functions on our behalf to help us to offer our Content and manage our business. 

For Legal Compliance or Public Interest – We may share your personal information when we believe it is necessary to comply with the law or legal process; to protect and defend our rights or to prevent misuse of our Content; or to protect the personal safety of our employees, agents, partners, the users of the Content, or the public.

At Your Direction – We may also share your personal information with third parties when you instruct us to do so.

4. How Long Your Information Is Stored

There is no singular retention period for personal information we may hold about you. In general, we store your information for as long as needed to fulfill the purpose(s) for which we collected it. We may also keep information for longer when it is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation.

5. Privacy Choices Regarding Personalized Advertisements

When you visit our website, we and our third-party partners may use online tracking technology such cookies, web beacons, SDKs, and other similar technologies to analyze your use of our Content. The following explains cookies in greater detail and provides you with information on how to opt out of them.

Types of Online Tracking Technologies

  • Cookies – Cookies are small text files stored in your device’s browser when you visit a website. They make it possible to recognize you as the same user across one or more browsing sessions, and across one or more websites  We and our partners use cookies for a variety of purposes, including remembering your sign-in credentials and preferences so that you do not have to input them each time you use the Content; allowing us and third parties to customize your experience using the Content; and allowing us and third parties to monitor site traffic and performance. For more information on cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
  • Web Beacons – Web beacons (also called “web tags” or “pixels”) are tiny graphics or scripts that communicate information from your device to a server  Beacons can be embedded in online or mobile content, videos, advertisements, or emails  They allow a server to read certain types of information from your device, such as when you viewed content that contains a beacon and the IP address of the device on which you viewed it. We and third parties use beacons for a variety of purposes, including to analyze the use of our Content.

How to Opt Out

There are a number of ways to opt out of having your online activity and device data collected by third parties, which we have summarized below. We hope you find this information to be a helpful reference. Please note that using these tools to opt out of tracking and targeting does not mean that you will receive no advertising while using our Content. Instead, you will cease receiving advertisements tailored to your interests.

  • On Your Browser
    • Changing your browser settings – Most web browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but typically allow you to change your settings to disable or reject them. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser; links to instructions provided by several of the most common browsers are below. You can also learn more at www.allaboutcookies.org. Note, however, that if you reject or disable cookies, some features of our Content may not work or may not work as designed.
    • Using Privacy Plug-ins or Browsers – You can block our websites from setting cookies used for interest-based ads by using a browser with default privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins like Privacy Badger, Ghostery or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.

6. Statement on No Children’s Data

The Content are not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13 (under 16 for those located in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland) and we do not target the Content to such children. If you are under 13 years of age, or if you are under 16 years of age and are located in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, do not provide personal information to Fin Capital without providing us with consent from your parents. If we discover that any child under the age of 13 or a child from the EEA, UK, or Switzerland under the age of 16 has provided us with personal information and we do not have parental consent, we will delete that child’s information as soon as reasonably practicable. If you believe that we have been provided with the personal information of a child from the EEA, UK, or Switzerland under the age of 16 without parental consent, or have been provided with the personal information of any child under the age of 13 without parental consent, please notify us immediately.

7. Additional Information for Users in Europe and the United Kingdom

The following information is provided for and applies to those located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and other similar laws.

Legal Bases for Processing

We process your personal data consistent with the ways described previously in this policy. When we do, we rely on one or more “legal bases” to do so. The legal bases we rely on are:

  • With your consent, such as when you accept cookies;
  • To perform our agreement to provide you with Content, such as to maintain your account or to fulfill your subscription; or
  • For our “legitimate interests,” such as maintaining the security of Content, preventing fraud, or marketing. We only engage in legitimate interest-based processing where it has little to no impact on your data privacy-related fundamental rights and freedoms.

International Data Transfers

We may store your personal information on servers located outside of Europe or the United Kingdom, including on servers based in the United States. When you access our Content from Europe or the United Kingdom, your personal data may be subject to an “international data transfer” as defined in the European Data Privacy Laws. In order to protect the security of your information when making such transfers, we rely on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses and/or the United Kingdom’s International Data Transfer Agreement/Addendum depending on the source of the data and the specific circumstances of the transfer.

Your Rights and How to Exercise Them

You have certain rights related to our processing and retention of your personal information, which are described below. 

Access – This Privacy Policy describes the personal information we collect and how we use and disclose it. If you would also like to know the specific pieces of personal information we hold about you, we will provide you with a copy upon your request.

Correction – If you believe that any of the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate you may request that we correct it. You can update some information, like your contact details, yourself by visiting your account page. For other corrections, please contact  us as described above.

Deletion – You may request that we delete the personal information we hold about you. Please note that we may need to retain limited amounts of personal information after completing your request for legal compliance purposes.

Objection/Restriction/Withdrawal of Consent – You may object to, restrict, and/or withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information if you believe our processing (i) uses inaccurate information; (ii) is unlawful; or (iii) when our processing is on your consent or our legitimate interests. You may also opt out of receiving marketing communications from us. You may do so by (i) following the unsubscribe link in the footer of any email you receive from us; (ii) altering your communication settings on your account page; or (iii) emailing us as described above.

Right to Lodge a Complaint

If you believe that we have processed your personal information in violation of a European Data Privacy Law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in your country of residence. You can find a list of supervisory authorities and their contact information on this website.

8. Additional Information for Users in Certain U.S. Jurisdictions

This section only applies to residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia. Residents of these U.S. states are afforded additional rights in accordance with their respective state data privacy laws. It describes how we collect, use, and share personal information in operating our business as well as your individual rights with respect to your personal information.

How We Collect, Use, and Share your Personal Information  

We may collect the following categories of personal information about you:

  • Identifiers (e.g., device identifier, IP address, unique browser ID, cookies, beacons, pixel tags, account login, other unique identifiers, name, site log-in, email address, mailing address (or state / province and country of residence), phone number, images of yourself you provide us for your account page you are creating and completing in order to attend an event we are hosting.
  • Commercial information (e.g., site engagement).
  • Geolocation data (e.g., location derived from GPS-enabled Content).
  • Inferences (e.g., information about your interests, preferences, and favorites).

The sources from which we collect information and additional details on the information we collect are described in Section 1 of this policy; the business and commercial purposes for which we collect this information are described in Section 2 of this policy; and the ways in which we may share this information are described in Section 3 of this policy.

Your Privacy Rights and How to Exercise Them As a California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, or Virginia resident, you have certain rights related to your personal information, which are detailed below. We encourage you to invoke these rights if you wish. Rest assured that we will not discriminate or retaliate against you for doing so.

Upon receiving certain types of requests, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can move forward. Typically this will involve asking you to confirm information we already have on file about you. We will never ask you for sensitive information such as your credit card, driver’s license, or social security numbers for verification purposes.

You may also allow an “authorized agent” to submit a request on your behalf through the same means outlined above. Unless your agent has been given power of attorney, we will additionally need the following items to honor your request:  (1) written authorization, signed by you, allowing them to act on your behalf; (2) proof of your identity; and (3) direct confirmation sent from you to us (without the authorized agent as an intermediary) affirming that the agent is authorized to act on your behalf.

Types of Rights

  • Access This policy describes the categories of personal information we may collect about you, and how that information is collected, used, and disclosed. We will also provide you with the specific pieces of personal information we hold about you upon your request.
  • Correction If you believe that any of the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate you may request that we correct it. You can update some information, like your contact details, yourself by visiting your account page. For other corrections, please contact  us as described above.
  • Deletion You may request that we delete the personal information we hold about you. We fulfill these requests by erasing the data or by anonymizing it such that you can no longer be identified. We will not attempt to re-identify anonymized data. Please note that we may need to retain limited amounts of personal information after completing your request for legal compliance purposes. Additionally, we may postpone completion of your request when your personal information is necessary to fulfill our obligations to you. For example, if you are an active subscriber we may wait until your subscription expires before fulfilling your request.

Other Information for California Residents

The following information applies to California residents only.

Notice Regarding California Residents We Know to Be Under the Age of 16 – California residents we know to be younger than 16 years of age will by default be treated as though they have exercised a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of their personal information with respect to information provided directly to us (as opposed to information automatically collected from them through technical means). We do not permit such users to opt-in to the sale or sharing of their Personal Information, unless they provide proof that they are no longer under the age of 16. To do so, please email us at [email protected].