Privacy & Cookie Policy

How Amigos Venture Capital (“we”, “our”, “Amigos Venture Capital” “us”) use your information

I. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

Amigos Venture Capital will collect and process data about our customers, their authorised users and visitors to our website for legal, regulatory, services fulfilment and development, systems analysis, administrative, contractual and legal compliance and governance and management purposes and to enable us to meet our legal and contractual obligations.

Amigos Venture Capital may process personal data for the purposes of developing our services, responding to enquiries, dealing with any issues, fault reporting, services provision, website development and website usage data and contract administration, invoicing, billing issues and legal claims.

We also process personal data in order to comply with legal requirements and obligations to third parties including with contracts and including any usage data, which by sending it to us you represent you have the full authority and rights to do so.

More detailed information about the data Amigos Venture Capital processes and the purposes we use it for are set out below. We reserve the right to update this policy from time to time and the latest version will be available on our website.

If you do not provide this data, we may be unable in some circumstances to comply with our obligations including the provision of products or services and in such circumstances we shall not be deemed in breach of any agreement as a consequence of that.

II. WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT AND PROCESS?

We collect the visitor or customer's authorised users' name, company name, business address, contact telephone number(s), email address and (if applicable), domain details, billing address and other information concerning any device used by you when accessing our website and the identity of that device and social media details (if applicable).

When a visitor contacts us and/or requests information about Amigos Venture Capital, we will collect the visitor's email address and all other contact and relevant information so that we may fulfil the visitor's request.

Some information provided to us may, either alone or when connected with other information to which we may have access, individually identify or otherwise comprise of personal data of that visitor, customer or authorised user.

III. FOR WHAT PURPOSES DO WE COLLECT AND USE THIS DATA?

We collect and use your data for the following purposes:

  • Administering our systems and website
  • Providing and marketing our products and services
  • Operating and keeping records for billing, account management, sales and product and service availability and performance
  • Informing our customers and prospects
  • Dealing with enquiries, faults and other issues
  • Complying with the law, our contracts and obligations

IV. HOW LONG WE WILL KEEP THIS INFORMATION

We will hold your personal data for as long as we have a lawful basis to do so including to ensure we meet our legal and regulatory obligations and to defend or pursue any legal claims and for our legitimate business.

V. OUR APPROACH TO INFORMATION SECURITY

To protect your information, Amigos Venture Capital has policies, standards and procedures in place to make sure that only authorised personnel can access the information, that information is handled and stored in a secure and sensible manner and all systems that can access the information have the necessary security measures in place.

In addition to these operational measures Amigos Venture Capital also use a range of technologies and security systems to reinforce the policies.

To make sure that these measures are suitable, Amigos Venture Capital perform audits to identify the areas of weaknesses and non-compliance. Additionally, all areas of the organisation are constantly monitored and measured to identify problems and issues before they arise.

VI. YOUR RIGHTS

When exercising any of the rights listed below, in order to process your request, we may need to verify your identity for your security. In such cases your response will be necessary before you can exercise these rights.

THE RIGHT TO ACCESS INFORMATION WE HOLD ON YOU

At any point, you can contact us to request the information we hold on you as well as why we have that information, who has access to the information and where we obtained the information from. Once we have received your request we will typically respond within 30 days.

There are no fees or charges for the first request but additional requests for the same data may be subject to an administrative fee.

THE RIGHT TO CORRECT AND UPDATE INFORMATION

If the data we hold on you is out of date, incomplete or incorrect, you have to inform us and your data will be updated.

THE RIGHT TO HAVE YOUR INFORMATION ERASED

If you feel that we should no longer be using your data or that we are illegally using your data, you can request the erasure of the data we hold on you.

THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA

You have the right to request that Amigos Venture Capital stop processing your personal data. Upon receiving the request, Amigos Venture Capital will contact you and let you know if we are able to comply or if we have legitimate grounds to continue to process your data. Even after you exercise your right to object, we may continue to hold your data if we have a lawful basis to do so and also to comply with our other rights or obligations or to bring or defend legal claims.

THE RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY

You have the right to request that we transfer your data to another controller. We will comply with your request, where it is feasible to do so, within one month of receiving your request but we may retain copies of personal data where required.

VII. CONSENT

Where we need your consent to hold your personal data, we will obtain your consent through your acceptance of this privacy policy or otherwise through our agreement with the customer or you as applicable unless we otherwise have another legitimate basis to process it.

VIII. SHARING YOUR INFORMATION

Where necessary to fulfil our obligations to you or to fulfil our obligations to our customers, and to administer the services, understand your use of our website or services and any billing and collections, and compliance with the law, regulation and any contractual obligations we have (including where we may be acting as a broker or intermediary for anyone else), Amigos Venture Capital may pass your details to third parties and anyone else that we are legally obliged to share that personal data with.

These third parties include our customers, our sub-processors, shareholders, other contractors and support services providers which support our services provision or otherwise provide our hosting facilities and our professional advisers, credit reference and debt collection agencies, regulators, licensed regulated entities with whom we have arrangements, banks and other third parties engaged with our business.

COOKIE POLICY

We use a number of different cookies on our site. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance. Currently we operate an 'implied consent' policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage.

FIRST PARTY COOKIES

These are cookies that are set by this website directly.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site and is not tied to personally identifiable information.

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

These are cookies set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on this site. Cookies of this type are the sharing buttons across the site allowing visitors to share content onto social networks. You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Please contact us at info@amigosvc.com if you require further information about cookies stored on any of our websites.