We work to earn and keep your trust, and we adhere to this Privacy Policy to protect your privacy.
Notice of all changes that materially affect ways in which your personally identifiable data may be used or shared will be posted in updates to our Privacy Policy. If you continue to use the Venture Hacks service after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on our site, you hereby provide your consent to the changed practices.
Please read this Privacy Policy to learn more about:
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, please contact Venture Hacks by email at privacy@venturehacks.com.
We collect personally identifiable information to provide you with the product and services made available through the Venture Hacks, to communicate with you, and to manage your registered user account.
Registration:
If you desire to have access to certain restricted sections of Venture Hacks, you must create an account which may
require you to provide the following contact information: first name, last name, email, and password.
Profile Information:
Once a user, you may provide additional information in the profile section
describing your track record, links to your work online, and other information. Providing additional information
beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional, but enables you to better identify yourself and find
new opportunities in the Venture Hacks service.
Information about your Contacts
In order to invite others to join Venture Hacks, you will enter their
names and email addresses. This information will be used by Venture Hacks to send an invitation that we compose or,
at our discretion, allow you to compose. The names and email addresses of people that you invite will be used only
to send your invitation and reminders.
Information from Other Users
Venture Hacks may collect information about you from other users of the
Venture Hacks service through the operation of the service (e.g., relationships to companies) in order to provide
you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.
Cookies & Log Files:
Like most web sites, Venture Hacks uses cookies and web log files to track site
usage. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer which allows Venture Hacks to recognize you as a
user when you return to our site using the same computer and web browser. Unfortunately, if your browser settings do
not allow cookies, you may not be able to use our service. Like the information you enter at registration or in your
profile, cookie and log file data is used to customize your experience on the site.
One type of cookie, known as a “persistent” cookie, may be set once you’ve logged in to your Venture Hacks account. The next time you visit the Venture Hacks site, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing user so you will not need to login before using the service. If you logout of the Venture Hacks site you will need to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to login to your account. Another type of cookie, called a “session” cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to the Venture Hacks site. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser.
Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the Venture Hacks site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave Venture Hacks. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your ISP. We may also receive other information such as search terms you use or advertisements you have clicked. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the Venture Hacks service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is never shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.
Children:
Children are not eligible to use our service and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do
not submit any personal information to us or use the service.
Venture Hacks is an online service dedicated to helping all types of professionals more effectively connect with one another. The personally identifiable information you choose to provide on this site is used to help you describe yourself to other users. Other information, that does not personally identify you as an individual, is collected by Venture Hacks Inc. from the site (such as, by way of example, patterns of utilization) and is exclusively owned by Venture Hacks. This information can be utilized by Venture Hacks in such manner as Venture Hacks, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate. By using Venture Hacks, you are also consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.
Venture Hacks Communications:
Venture Hacks may communicate with you through email and notices posted on this site.
Customized Content:
Information you provide at registration or in your Profile section may be used to customize your experience on the
site. For example, when you login to your account we may display the names of new users who have recently followed
you.
Sharing Information With Third Parties:
Venture Hacks takes the privacy of our users very seriously. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your
personally identifiable information to any third parties for marketing purposes, without your consent. We will only
share your personally identifiable with third parties to carry out your instructions and to provide specific
services. For instance, we may use a credit card processing company to bill users for subscription fees. These third
parties do not retain, share, or store any personally identifiable information except to provide these services and
are bound by agreements which limit their use of such information.
Venture Hacks profiles including, but not limited to, your full name, are publicly available on the Internet. Venture Hacks does not warrant how third-party search engines will update their caches.
We may provide aggregated data about the usage of our services to third-parties for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate. For example, we may segment our users by role (i.e. product managers, vice presidents), industry, geographic location, company.
Partnering with Other Organizations to Offer Combined Services:
Venture Hacks may partner with other online services to give you the combined results of both services. Whenever we offer such combined services it will be your choice to make use of the combined services or not. In these cases, your personally identifiable information will only be passed from Venture Hacks to the partner if you choose to use the combined service.
Communications Between Users:
Emails you initiate through Venture Hacks, such as an invitation sent to a non-user, may list your email address and
any information in your profile in the message. In some cases, other users may be able to supplement your profile,
e.g. comments.
Service Providers:
We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us, including, without
limitation, hosting and maintenance, customer relationship, database storage and management, and direct marketing
campaigns. When we share your personally identifiable information with these third parties, we implement reasonable
contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the Venture Hacks-specified purposes.
Business Transfers
Venture Hacks may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including your personally
identifiable information, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event
of bankruptcy. You will have the opportunity to opt out of any such transfer if the new entity’s planned
processing of your information differs materially from that set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Legal Disclaimer:
It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law. We will disclose such
information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial
proceeding; investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving
potential threats to the physical safety of any person; violations
of Terms of service; or other legal process served on our company or to
exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired changes to the information, or to the settings for your Venture Hacks account, at any time by logging in to your account on the Venture Hacks site and editing the information on your Profile page. You can also close your account through the Venture Hacks site. If you close your Venture Hacks account, we will remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our publicly viewable data. We may retain certain data contributed by you if it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. All retained data will continue to be subject to the terms of the Venture Hacks Privacy Policy that you have previously agree to. To request that we close your account and remove your information from the Venture Hacks service, you may also send your request to help@venturehacks.com. Please send your request using an email account that you have registered with Venture Hacks under your name.
Venture Hacks contains links to other sites. The fact that we link to a site is not an endorsement, authorization or representation of our affiliation with that third party. We do not exercise control over third party sites. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personally identifiable information from you. Other sites follow different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the personally identifiable information you submit to them. We encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit.
No data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make efforts to ensure security on our systems.
In order to secure your personal information, access to your data on Venture Hacks is password-protected. We employ procedural, physical, and electronic measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access.
In certain areas, we may use industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of such firewalls and secure server software.
Venture Hacks may update this Privacy Policy. In the event there are significant changes in the way we treat your personally identifiable information, we will display a notice on this site. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please email us at privacy@venturehacks.com or contact us at:
Venture Hacks Inc.
Attn: Privacy Policy Issues
25 Stillman St., Suite 200
San Francisco CA 94107