Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 08/08/2025
Visionet Ventures, including its affiliates ("Visionet Ventures," "we," "us," or "our"), is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your Personal Data. This Privacy Notice outlines how we collect, use, process, disclose, and safeguard your information when you interact with us through our websites, communications, services, events, or investment-related activities.
Who does this Notice apply to?
This Notice applies to individuals who:
Visit the Visionet Ventures website (www.visionetventures.com)
Subscribe to updates or marketing communications
Interact with us as potential investees, collaborators, or service providers
Communicate with us online, by phone, or in person
What is Personal Data?
Personal Data refers to information that can identify or be linked to an individual, including but not limited to:
Name, email, phone number
Company affiliation and job title
Internet Protocol (IP) address
Location data
What privacy regulations does Visionet Ventures comply with?
As a global venture development firm, Visionet Ventures complies with:
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – EU
UK Data Protection Act 2018 (UK DPA) – UK
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) / CPRA – US
Other applicable US state privacy laws (e.g., Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut)
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) – Canada
We are committed to upholding your privacy rights in accordance with the law of your location
Our Responsibility to your Personal Data
Visionet Ventures may act as a Data Controller when we determine the purposes and means of processing your Personal Data, such as for recruitment, due diligence, or marketing. We may also act as a Data Processor when processing Personal Data on behalf of our portfolio companies or affiliates.
What Personal Data do we collect and process?
Data Collected Directly from You:
Contact or inquiry forms: Name, email, phone number, organization, and message content
Business communications: Names, titles, emails, and meeting records
Investment discussions: Information regarding your company, pitch decks, or related business materials
Data Collected from Third Parties:
Affiliates and strategic partners: Business contact details shared for collaboration and evaluation
Publicly available sources and platforms: LinkedIn and similar platforms used to enrich our records
Automatically Collected Data (Cookies and Analytics):
Browser and device information, IP address, page navigation data, and usage patterns
Technologies used: Cookies, web beacons, session monitoring, Google Analytics, and similar tools
Cookie Management: You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings or via our cookie consent banner, which allows you to control which categories of cookies you accept (e.g., strictly necessary, performance, targeting).
Our legal basis for processing your Personal Data
To comply with different privacy laws worldwide, specifically with the GDPR in the EU and the UK DPA, we are required to provide a legal basis for the processing of your Personal Data. We will not process your Personal Data unless we have legal justification to do so. We will only process your Personal Data if:
We have obtained your explicit consent prior to processing your Personal Data.
We need your Personal Data to fulfil a contractual obligation.
We need your Personal Data to fulfill our legal and regulatory obligations.
We have a legitimate interest that will not put your rights and freedoms at risk.
Who has access to your Personal Data?
We do not disclose your Personal Data to any party that is not authorized to process it. Access to your data is granted strictly on a need-to-know basis and is limited to internal personnel such as members of our management team, business units, and technical support staff, for the purpose of managing our relationship with you.
We disclose your Personal Data to the following categories of third parties under clearly defined and limited circumstances:
Visionet Ventures Parent Organisation and Affiliates: We share Personal Data with affiliated entities, including its parent organization Visionet Inc. and other Visionet Subsidiaries, where such sharing is necessary or appropriate to fulfill our legitimate data processing purposes, such as service delivery, internal administration, or coordinated support.
Service Providers: We engage third-party service providers to support essential business functions. These may include providers of hosting and IT infrastructure, cloud storage, customer relationship management tools, marketing automation, and analytics services. All service providers are contractually bound to handle data securely and in accordance with our instructions.
Professional Advisors: We share your data with trusted professional service providers, such as legal counsel, auditors, accountants, and insurers, in the context of business operations, regulatory compliance, and legal proceedings.
Legal and Regulatory Compliance: We will disclose Personal Data when required to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or enforceable governmental requests. This may include disclosures to law enforcement, courts, tax authorities, or data protection regulators.
Business Transfers: In the event of a contemplated or actual merger, acquisition, reorganization, joint venture, asset sale, or other strategic transaction, your Personal Data may be disclosed or transferred to relevant third parties involved in the transaction, subject to confidentiality obligations.
How do we keep your Personal Data safe?
Visionet Ventures is committed to protecting the Personal Data we collect, process and disclose about you. We maintain appropriate safeguards and take reasonable steps to protect your Personal Data. Some of the security measures we have implemented includes physical security, access controls, IT security, SSL encryption and authentication protocols. We also restrict access to Personal Data to employees and third parties that have a legitimate reason to have access to it.
We ensure that all the parties that we disclose your Personal Data to, both internal and external to Visionet Ventures, have contractual obligations to protect the security and the confidentiality of your Personal Data.
Where is your Personal Data stored?
The Personal Data we collect from you may be transferred to or accessed by our partners, subsidiaries and affiliates across different locations globally. We will take appropriate steps to ensure that transfers of Personal Data across borders comply with applicable laws. We only transfer Personal Data to partners and other third-party organizations when we are satisfied that adequate levels of protection are in place to safeguard your data.
For Personal Data transferred out of the EU or the UK to countries that are not considered to have an adequate level of data protection, we obtain contractual commitments from third-party organizations to protect your Personal Data. These commitments include the use of standard contractual clauses and the International Data Transfer Agreement approved by the EU Commission and the UK Information Commissioner's Office, respectively, to ensure that a valid data transfer mechanism is in place.
How long do we retain your Personal Data?
We are expected to retain your Personal Data for an established period for regulatory, legal, tax or business requirements.
We retain your Personal Data for no longer than reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, to comply with the law, to prevent fraud, to facilitate an investigation, to defend against legal claims or to exercise our legal rights.
What rights do you have regarding your Personal Data?
Your Rights Depending on applicable law, you may have the right to:
Access your Personal Data
Rectify inaccurate data
Request deletion of your data
Restrict or object to processing
Withdraw consent
Receive your data in a portable format
To exercise your rights, please contact us at dpo@visionet.com.
U.S. Residents – Additional Rights
If you reside in California or other states with privacy laws, you may have specific rights including:
Right to know what Personal Data we collect and share
Right to delete your data
Right to opt out of sharing for targeted advertising
Right to correct inaccurate Personal Data
Right to limit use of sensitive data
Right to appeal denied requests
Visionet Ventures does not sell your Personal Data for monetary gain. However, some data may be shared with analytics and advertising partners under conditions that may be considered "sharing" or "targeted advertising" under certain U.S. laws. You may opt out using our cookie settings or by contacting us.
Addressing Your Concerns
If you encounter any issues or have concerns regarding the way Visionet Ventures processes your Personal Data, it is your right to make a complaint with the regulator in your jurisdiction.
EU/UK residents: Contact your local Data Protection Authority (DPA)
U.S. residents: Contact your State Attorney General’s Office
How to contact our Data Protection Officer
If you have any further questions regarding the Personal Data that Visionet Ventures collects and processes or if you have feedback regarding this Notice, you may contact us at dpo@visionet.com.
Changes and Updates to this Notice
This Notice may be updated from time to time to reflect changes in our Personal Data processing practices. We will make a reasonable effort to notify you of any significant changes and indicate the date of the latest revision using the “Last Updated” legend at the top of the Notice.