In the ordinary course of business, Social Leverage Advisors, LLC, and all of its affiliates ("Social Leverage") collect, use, and share personal information pertaining to its partners, employees, investors, and others. Obtaining this information is important to our ability to conduct our operations and to deliver the highest level of service, but we also recognize that you expect us to treat this information appropriately.
This policy describes the types of personal information that Social Leverage may collect about you in compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements, the purposes for which we use the information, the circumstances in which we may share the information and the steps that we take to safeguard the information to protect your privacy.
When you visit our website (the "Site"), our web servers collect the details of your operating system, browser version, domain name and IP address and the details of the web site you linked from to the Site. Our web servers may seek to place a "cookie" on your computer's hard drive, which allows the server to recognize your computer when you visit again. If you prefer not to accept cookies, you can set your browser to reject them or to alert you before one is placed. More information on how we use cookies can be found below.
There are parts of this Site where we may need to collect personal information from you for a specific purpose, such as to provide you with certain information you request. If you voluntarily submit information to our Site (for example, in a request for general information or through the submission of a business proposal), we may record and use any personally identifiable information, such as your name, phone number, fax number and e-mail address, for reasonable business purposes including, but not limited to, fulfilling your request and marketing and business communications. You expressly agree with the collection, use, storage and handling of your personal information as set out in these terms. If you do not provide all the information we need, we may not be able to give you the information you request.
When you contact us by email or phone about or in relation to our services or to respond to our communications we may record and use the personal information you provide, such as your name, title, telephone number, email address and content, date and time of your email correspondence and information about your employer or your business.
Please also note we may have responsibilities under certain rules and regulations, to verify the identity of individuals and may need to make certain inquiries and obtain certain information from you for that purpose. You confirm that all information you supply will be accurate and that we may disclose such information as we consider necessary to comply with any reporting or legal and regulatory requirements.
What are cookies? Cookies are small text files that are stored in your computer's memory and hard drive, in your mobile device or tablet when you visit certain web pages. They are used to enable websites to function or to provide information to the owners of a website, or other third parties who receive data obtained from that website.
When you visit any web site, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to. The information does not usually directly identify you, but it can give you a more personalized web experience.
Why do we use cookies? Cookies help us to provide customized services and information. We use cookies on all our Site to tell us, in general terms, how and when pages on our Site are visited, what our users' technology preferences are – such as what type of video player they use – and whether our Site is functioning properly. Depending on their purpose, some cookies will only operate for the length of a single browsing session, while others have a longer life span to ensure that they fulfill their longer-term purposes.
In broad terms, we use cookies on our Site for the following purposes:
Please note that third parties may use cookies. The kind of cookies and the consequent data processing carried out by such third parties are regulated by their privacy policy.
Your cookie preferences: Cookies are necessary in order for you to be able to make full use of our Site. If you chose to disable cookies, some of our Site's functionality might be impaired.
Third party cookies: When you visit our Site, you may receive cookies that are set by third parties. These may include cookies set by Google Analytics or our website provider. These cookies are used for the purposes described in the "Why Do We Use Cookies?" section of this policy. We do not control the setting of these third party cookies, so we suggest you might wish to check the third party websites for more information about their use of cookies and how to manage them. For more information about how Google Analytics collects and processes your data, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners.
Amending cookie preferences: If you wish to remove cookies set by our Site from your browser in the future, you may delete them. The instructions for removing cookies from your computer or mobile device depend on the operating system and web browser you use. Please note, however, that withdrawing your agreement to the use of cookies on our Site will impair the functionality of the Site.
The principal purposes for which we process and store your personal information are, or may in the future be:
However we use personal information we make sure that the usage complies with applicable law and the law allows us and requires us to use personal information for a variety of reasons. These include where:
In order to provide efficient and reliable services and to improve service options available to you, we may share your personal information with our subsidiaries or affiliates. We have taken certain measures outlined below to try to ensure the security of your information.
We may share your personal information with other companies we have hired to provide services for us. These companies – our vendors – are required to maintain the confidentiality of such information to the extent they receive it and to use your personal information only in the course of providing such services and only on our behalf for the purposes that Social Leverage has hired them and for which it has instructed them. These service providers may transfer the information you provide outside your country to a contractor in another country that does not have similar data protection legislation and may provide a lower level of protection for your information. By submitting any information you consent to these transfers.
We may also release information about you if you direct us to do so, or if we are required or authorized by law to make disclosures to the government or private parties in connection with a lawsuit, subpoena, investigation or similar proceeding, or to protect against fraud and to otherwise cooperate with law enforcement or regulatory authorities.
Where you have provided personal information to us, you expressly consent to the sharing of such personal information with third parties for the purposes set out in this section.
We use reasonable efforts to maintain physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to protect your personal information from unauthorized or inappropriate access but we note that the Internet is not a secure medium. We restrict access to information about you to those Social Leverage personnel who need to know the information to respond to your inquiry or request.
Although Social Leverage endeavors to take steps to provide a secure environment for users accessing the Site, due to the nature of the Internet, Social Leverage cannot guarantee confidentiality or security of the personal and other information being provided. Social Leverage makes no warranty whatsoever to you, express or implied, regarding the security of the Site, including with respect to the ability of unauthorized persons to intercept or access information transmitted by you through the Internet.
Social Leverage welcomes your e-mail correspondence, but it is possible that information transmitted to Social Leverage may be read or obtained by other parties. Messages sent over the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be completely secure or error free as they are subject to possible interception, corruption, delay, loss or possible alteration. Social Leverage is not responsible for them and will not be liable to you or anyone else for any related damages. If you send e-mail (encrypted or not) to Social Leverage over the Internet, you are accepting the associated risks, including lack of confidentiality.
Further, despite all possible security measures that Social Leverage would take to keep this Site free from hacking and other interference, this Site like any other website is not free from such risks.
Social Leverage disclaims all liability on account of any loss or damage that any user may suffer or incur on account of any alteration or manipulation of any data or information accessed or downloaded from this Site.
Disclosure of your Personal Data outside of the US: If we transfer your Personal Data to another country outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"), we will ensure that it is protected and transferred in a manner consistent with legal requirements.
How long we keep your Personal Data: How long we will hold your Personal Data for will vary and will be determined by the following criteria:
Your rights: If you are an EU-based individual, in all the above cases in which we collect, use or store your Personal Data, you may have the following rights and, in most cases, you can exercise them free of charge. These rights include:
You can exercise your rights by contacting us using the details listed below.
If you have any questions about Social Leverage's handling of your personal information (including Personal Data), or about this policy, or if you wish to access your personal information, request its deletion or make a complaint about the way we have collected, used, held or disclosed your personal information, please contact us at [email protected]
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from us, you may escalate concerns to the applicable privacy regulator in your jurisdiction. Upon request, Social Leverage will provide you with the contact information for that regulator.
We welcome your questions and suggestions about our Privacy and Cookies Policy.