Privacy Policy

1. About

Ventureport International and its affiliates’ (“Ventureport,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) goal is to foster a community for startup companies. This Privacy Policy will help you understand how we collect, use and disclose your personal information and assist you in exercising the privacy rights available to you.

2. Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to personal information processed by us, including on our websites (e.g., ventureport.net) and our related online and offline offerings (collectively, the “Services”).

3. Collection of Information

The personal information we collect depends on how you interact with our Services.

Information You Provide to Us

Communication Information. We collect personal information from you such as email address, phone number, mailing address, and marketing preferences when you request information about the Services, register for our newsletter, or otherwise communicate with us.

Usage Data. We collect and analyze data and other information relating to the access, use, and performance of the Services (“Usage Data”). Examples of Usage Data include technical logs, metadata, telemetry data, Technical Data, as defined below, and usage information about Customer Content, such as how many times it is accessed. For clarity, Usage Data excludes Customer Content itself. Usage Data may include personal information such as information about your interactions with other users.

Information Collected Automatically (Technical information)

Automatic Data Collection. We collect certain information automatically when you use the Services. This information may include your Internet protocol (IP) address, user settings, MAC address, cookie identifiers, mobile advertising and other unique identifiers, details about your browser, operating system or device, location information (inferred from your IP address), internet service provider, pages that you visit, information about the links you click, and information about how you interact with and use the Services.

With your permission, we may also collect information about your operating system’s installed fonts in connection with providing the Services to you.

Cookies, Pixel Tags/Web Beacons, and Analytics Information. We, as well as third parties that may provide content, advertising, or other functionality on or in connection with the Services, may use cookies, pixel tags, local storage, and other technologies (“Technologies”) to automatically collect information through the Services. Technologies are essentially small data files placed on your device that allow us and our partners to record certain pieces of information whenever you visit or interact with our Services.

  • Cookies. Cookies are small text files placed in device browsers to store their preferences. For more information about how to control what data are collected by cookies, see below in the “Your Choices” section.
  • Pixel Tags/Web Beacons. A pixel tag (also known as a web beacon) is a piece of code embedded in the Services that collects information about engagement on the Services. The use of a pixel tag allows us to record, for example, that a user has visited a particular web page or clicked on a particular advertisement. We may also include web beacons in e-mails to understand whether messages have been opened, acted on, or forwarded.

Analytics. We use Google Analytics and other service providers to collect and process analytics information on our Services. For more information about how Google uses data, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can opt out of Google Analytics’ collection and processing of data generated by your use of our website by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

4. How We Use Your Information

In this section we describe all the ways we use your personal information, and the legal bases we rely on to do so.

In certain situations, we require your data to pursue our legitimate interests in a way which is reasonable for you to expect as part of running our business and which does not materially affect your rights and freedoms.

When we process your information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on such consent before it is withdrawn.

We use your personal information for a variety of business purposes, including: as enumerated below. Each section starts by describing how we use the data, followed by which of your data we may use for such purpose, and ending with the legal basis for such data use.