The Growthvistas Website Platform
The Growthvistas website platform facilitates entrepreneurs to showcase their funding proposal
to Investors who can use the platform for online assessment of the proposal. Growthvistas
website licenses the Growthvistas Website Platform to Investors of any constitution, for
the assessing investment opportunities presented by entrepreneurs.
Scope
This Privacy Policy applies only to your relationship with Growthvistas website. It
does not apply to the interactions and sharing of information that you have with
any other User / registered member of the website on any information that you may
or may not have also submitted to the Growthvistas Website platform. Or the subsequent dissemination
of such information by such other User/ Registered User either within his organizational
constitution which may be venture capital fund/ client portfolio management/ investor
group/ another registered on this website both as entrepreneur and investor etc.
or outside to any other party. Growthvistas Website has no control over this disclosure or
sharing, and is not responsible for it. The protection of your personal
data when you interact with an investors or users registered on the Growthvistas Website
platform is governed solely by any agreements that you may have with that user/
investor/ entity and is beyond the scope of this Privacy Policy.
By applying and agreeing to the user terms for the Growthvistas website you will be automatically
governed by this Privacy Policy.
Definitions
This Privacy Policy is a part of the Terms of Service for the Growthvistas Website platform.
The terms ‘Growthvistas Platform’, ‘Growthvistas Website Services’ and ‘ Growthvistas Website’ have the same
meaning as set forth in the Terms of Service which includes Strugence Business Platforms
Pvt. Ltd. and the parent company Strugence Holdings Pvt. Ltd.
What is 'personal data'?
“Personal data " is any data that (1) is recorded in any form, (2) is about or pertains
to a specific individual and (3) can be linked to that individual. For example,
your name, contact information, and the deals in which you have participated are
“personal data.”
Personal data does not include website data, aggregated data
or uploaded documents.
What kind of personal data is collected?
We collect personal data at different stages of your use of the Growthvistas Website site.
- When you visit Growthvistas website
- If you visit www.growthvistas.com, whether or not you sign-in as a registered
user, we collect your IP address, the location of your Internet Service Provider,
the type and version of Internet browser that you are using, and the website from
which you came. We also collect information regarding your site usage, such as the
time spent on a page, or number of pages viewed.
When you set up an account
When you set up your account, you will be required to provide certain personal data
including your name and email address. You may also be invited to provide optional
personal data, such as biography, photograph, postal address or phone number.
- When you are in touch with the Growthvistas Website platform
- We also collect personal data that you provide when you interact with the Growthvistas Website
platform, for example, by sending a message or uploading documents, or when exchanging
correspondence with us, such as through support emails.
- When you use your account
- Based on the information that you provide or create when you use your account:
- If you want to invest for any Client/ investor ,
- Your information in your profile e.g. your organization, about yourself, such as
your contact information, picture, biography, experience, or other groups to which
you belong or relate to.
- If you are an entrepreneur ,
- The company that you represent and is seeking investors, then you may record information
about yourself, your company, and its management team. You may also include a video
recording or picture, images which could include images of verification documents
etc.
- If you are a student entrepreneur , And are using our site as part of our partnership
with business schools, you may record in your account information about yourself,
your company, and its management team. You may also include a video recording or
picture.
- If you are an investor
- The Growthvistas Website Platform
allows the user who may be registering on behalf of an investor organization/ group,
the ability to set certain parameter settings in the profile for receiving of investment
opportunities. We use these parameters to match the respective investment opportunities
for you.
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In case you want to provide information about third party,
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By providing the
personal data of another individual, you represent that you have all necessary authority
and/or have obtained all necessary consents from this individual to enable us to
collect, use and disclose his or her personal data as set forth in this Privacy
Policy.
How is personal data collected?
We collect personal data directly from you when you provide it through your use
of the Growthvistas Website platform, such as in emails or when you fill out forms that are
displayed on our website.
Purpose of usage of personal data
Growthvistas Website uses your personal data to maintain your account and to provide you
with the facilities of the website incidental to the Growthvistas Platform described above
to investors for investor/ investor group and deal-flow management services that
serve as the core of the Growthvistas Website platform. We also use your personal data to
respond to requests that you make of us, and to contact you and to provide you with
information that we believe may be of interest to you.
We may also use your name and contact information to make queries against social
networking sites, such as LinkedIn, to show you how you are linked or connected
to other individuals who are also Growthvistas Website users.
Sharing of personal data?
- If you are an investor
- If and when you seek to meet the entrepreneur of a particular investment opportunity
we share your personal contact details with the respective entrepreneur you show
interest in.
With whom may we share personal data?
Under certain business or legal conditions, Growthvistas Website may have to disclose your
personal data to others as follows:
- Service Providers
- Growthvistas Website may engage other companies and individuals to perform necessary business
functions on behalf of Growthvistas Website (e.g. outside contractors or service providers).
If it is necessary to perform these functions, these persons may have access to
personal data of our users. These service providers have agreed not to use the personal
data for any other purpose other than providing the required services. We take that
in these circumstances you also will have no objection to share the data.
- Legally Required Disclosure
- Growthvistas website disclosure of your personal data may be required by law. Growthvistas Website
may disclose your personal data (1) if, in its own best judgment, it is required
to do so in order to comply with a facially valid judicial or governmental notice,
warrant, or other order, or (2) to a government institution that has asserted its
lawful authority to obtain the information, or (3) in connection with the exercise
or defense of its rights.
- Change of Ownership
- If ownership of Growthvistas Website changes as a result of a merger, acquisition, or transfer
to another company, you’re personal data may be transferred to the successor entity.
If such transfer takes place, you will be notified of any material changes to the
Privacy Policy and provided with the ability to opt-out of the transfer of your
personal data to the third party.
How to access and changes or delete
All registered users of the Growthvistas Website can have access to the personal data that
Growthvistas Website holds about them and is listed in their profiles. They can correct,
amend, or delete this data at their convenience and on their own time.
Can I have my personal data deleted?
You can delete any personal data that is recorded in the profile that you create
for yourself as an investor or for your company, or as an entrepreneur (or student
entrepreneur).
Aggregated Data, and Its usage
This is a process in which information is gathered and expressed concise or detailed
in a summary form for purposes such as statistical analysis, in order to obtain
information about a particular group based on specific variables. Data used for
aggregation purposes are collected in a form that removes all identifiers, and may
be combined with other data for which all identifiers have also been removed. Growthvistas
Website may use data to generate accurate metrics about the early stage private
equity industry.
Aggregated data may be packaged and licensed to third parties such as governments,
economic development agencies, and financial institutions. Examples of aggregated
data may include:
- Data about the early equity space, such as number of deals in a month-to-month or
quarter-to-quarter basis at various generic stages of the funding process (e.g.
New Deals, In Progress Deals, Inactive Deals, and Invested Deals).
- Data about industries and geographies related to companies seeking investors and
those successfully obtaining investments.
Display of successful deals:
We may use your information such as your logo or the names of parties concluding
successful deals through the use of the Growthvistas Portal, for online display to showcase
the successful deals concluded on the website.
Website Data and its usage?
Website data is aggregated data about the overall traffic to, and usage of our website.
Examples include the number of visitors to the web site and the number of registered
users of the Growthvistas Website platform. Growthvistas Website may extract and use website data
for internal purposes, in order to analyze the performance of its website and applications.
For example, we may use these data for traffic analysis and business decision making,
in order to determine how we can improve our site or its functionalities.
The statistics generated in this manner contain no personal data and cannot be used
to gather any information about individual visitors to the site.
Security measures are in place to protect personal data
Growthvistas Website uses technical, physical and administrative procedures in order to safeguard
and protect personal data from loss, authorized access, misuse, alteration, disclosure
and destruction. However, while we do our best to implement reasonable security
measures, we do not guarantee that our safeguards will always work.
Growthvistas Website uses industry-standard technological means to protect your personal
data while in transit through the Internet. However, please remember that no security
system on the Internet is 'perfect'.
Uploaded Documents
Documents that are uploaded to the Growthvistas Website platform for sharing are stored at
a third-party data-storage service. All uploads and downloads are transmitted through
the Internet between users and the data storage service using the same encryption
techniques as those that are used with personal data. However, Uploaded Documents
are neither stored redundantly, nor backed up. Therefore, it is advisable to keep
back-up copies of their documents even if they are uploading to the website.
Growthvistas website How to contact Growthvistas website
Growthvistas Website will communicate with you in response to your requests for service or
customer support. We will contact you by phone or by email.
Growthvistas Website will send you service-related emails if it becomes necessary to do so.
Growthvistas Website may also send you an email in order to notify you of new products, services
or features, or updates to our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, or other agreement
that you have with Growthvistas Website
Links to other websites
Growthvistas Website may provide links to other websites. We are not responsible for the
privacy practices or content of these sites. In order to safeguard your privacy,
please review the privacy policies of any sites that you may visit before providing
any personal data to these third party sites.
Limitation of Liability
Growthvistas Website exercises reasonable efforts to safeguard the security and confidentiality
of your personal data; however, transmissions protected by industry standard technology
and administered by humans cannot be guaranteed to be secure. Growthvistas Website will not
be liable for unauthorized disclosure of personal data that occurs through no fault
of Growthvistas Website including, but not limited to, errors in transmission, access to
your account by anyone who uses your user ID and password, your failure to comply
with your security obligations, and the unauthorized acts of Growthvistas Website employees.
Children below the age of 18
Growthvistas Website does not provide products or services for individuals under the age
of 18. We do not intentionally collect nor maintain information from users actually
known to be under the age of 18, and we will not use that information if we learn
that it has been provided by someone under 18.
Choice
If at any time Growthvistas Website wishes to disclose, or use your personal data in a way,
or for a purpose other than as described in this Privacy Policy, Growthvistas Website will
give you the opportunity to choose (opt out) whether your personal data (1) may
be disclosed to a third party and (2) may be used for a purpose other than the purposes
that are set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
From time to time, Growthvistas Website may update this Privacy Policy in order to reflect
changes in its practices. Whenever such changes are made, Growthvistas Website will post
an updated Privacy Policy on its website, and may email registered users.
All changes will apply to the personal data that are already collected, and to personal
data that are collected after the effective date of the revised Privacy Policy.
If any proposed change is unacceptable to you, you will have the right to terminate
your account.
If we decide to change this Privacy Policy in a material way, we will obtain the
necessary consents required under applicable laws if we seek to collect, use or,
disclose personal data for purposes other than those for which consent has been
obtained, unless this change is otherwise required or permitted by law.
Dispute
If you have any concerns or claims with respect to our Privacy Policy, please Contact
Us as indicated in contacting the website. We will investigate and attempt to resolve
any complaints and disputes regarding our use and disclosure of personal data.
Contacting Growthvistas Website : Growthvistas Website owns and operates the web site and the platform.
Our mailing address is admin@growthvistas.net If you have any questions about
this Privacy Policy, or believe that its terms have not been complied with, please
email us.
Any dispute will be subject to the courts in Mumbai India to the exclusion of all
other courts.