InReach Ventures LLP (partnership number: OC401211), registered office: c/o Rees Pollock, 16 Great Queen Street, Covent Garden, London WC2B 5AH United Kingdom (us or we) is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected, and all data collected by us through your use of this website at www.inreachventures.com (Website) will be processed in accordance with this Privacy and Cookies policy. Please read this policy carefully to ensure you understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/769) (GDPR), the data controller is InReach Ventures LLP. We can be contacted at info@inreachventures.com or on telephone number +44 (0) 20 3808 9951.
We have also registered as a data controller with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office and our registration number is ZA167867.
By visiting our Site you acknowledge that you have read and understood the way in which we process your personal data. You also agree to our use of cookies and other similar technologies as described in this Privacy and Cookies Policy.
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
1.1 We may collect and process the following information from you:
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
We have set out below a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
| Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
|---|---|---|
| To administer and respond to queries | Contact | Necessary for our legitimate interests to respond to queries received from prospective investors and target companies |
| Administer, host, update, and protect the Website |
Usage Technical |
Necessary for our legitimate interests to make the website accessible to visitors and protect it from unauthorised access |
| Use web analytics to measure the relevance and impact of our Website |
Usage Technical |
Necessary for our legitimate interests to ensure that the information on our Website is relevant, accurate, and up to date |
4.1 We will only supply your personal information to a third party:
4.2 We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
5.1 The data that we collect from you may be transferred to and stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers for the purposes set out above only. In order to ensure that any third party treats your personal data in a way which is consistent with the UK and EU’s laws on data protection, we have put in place agreements with those third parties which contain provisions approved by the EU for protecting personal data.
5.2 We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data according to our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
5.3 We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
5.4 We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
6.1 We may obtain information about your computer and general Internet usage, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type, for system administration and web analytics purposes.
6.2 A Cookie is a piece of data that is transferred between a website and your browser.
6.3 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, usually when the web browser is closed.
6.4 Once set, cookies are sent as part of every subsequent request made by your browser to the same website, either until they expire or are deleted. This means that cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.
6.5 In particular, we use cookies that enable us:
6.6 Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of our Website or accessing certain parts. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you access our Website.
6.7 The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
| Example cookies | Owner | Purpose for the cookie |
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Google Analytics |
This is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc which uses cookies to show us how visitors found and explore our site. It provides us with information about the behaviour of our visitors (e.g. how long they stayed on the site, the pages viewed) and also tells us how many visitors we have had. These cookies are set by Google and are outside of our control. You can manage these cookies here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout |
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Medium | This is a blogging platform that InReach Ventures uses to host content that members of the team have written. These are embedded within https://www.inreachventures.com using Medium’s embedding technology, which uses cookies to track interactions with its service (e.g. when a user reads some content). This cookie is set by Medium and is outside of our control. More information can be found here: https://medium.com/policy/medium-privacy-policy-f03bf92035c9 |
6.8 If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this Website. For further information about cookies and how to disable them, please visit the Information Commissioner’s webpage on cookies: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.
7.1 This policy extends only to our Website and does not cover your use of, provision of data to and collection of your data on any other website.
7.2 Our Website may from time to time contain links to and from other websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. You should always check these policies before you submit any personal data to any third-party website.
The GDPR gives you a number of rights in respect of your data, including:
8.1 Right to access
8.2 Right to rectify your personal data
8.1 Right to be forgotten
8.1 Other rights
9.1 If you have any questions, want to exercise any of your rights or make a complaint, please contact us using the details at the beginning of this policy.
9.3 If we are unable to resolve your complaint you may contact the Information Commissioner's Office at the Exchange Tower, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Tel: 0303 123 1113.
9.3 It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
This policy may be reviewed and amended from time to time. If any update is made, it will be published on our Website. As a result of improvements we make to our services, changes in the law or developments in technology, we may change the information we hold about you, the method we use to collect information, and purposes for which we process such information. If we make any substantial change in the way in which we use your personal information we will notify you, where possible, by email.
Your use of the Website and the policy is subject to the laws of England and Wales and the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts regarding any disputes that may arise under it.