Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 4, 2024

Alpha Tech Partners LLC and its subsidiaries (“ATP,” “we,” or “our”) care about your privacy and the security of your information. This policy details our practices in connection with our website, http://alphatechpartners.vc (the “Site”) newsletters, articles or other information we provide (collectively, our “Content”) as they relate to your data. It describes the kinds of personal information we may gather about you in connection with the Content, how we use that information, to whom we disclose it, and how you can manage it.

By using our Content, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy, including our use of cookies and similar online tools. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Content.

Our Content is constantly under development, which may cause our data practices to change from time to time. We will update this policy with any changes we make, so please visit this page often to stay current. Any changes to this policy will become effective as of the date “last updated” noted above. Your continued use of our Content following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

This Site is controlled, operated, and administered by ATP from its offices within the United States. If you are accessing this Site from a location outside the United States, you acknowledge and consent to the collection, storage, processing, and transfer of your personal information to our facilities in the United States and to those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Policy. Please note that privacy laws in the United States may not offer the same protections as the laws of other countries.

If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, please see the Additional Information for Users in Europe and the United Kingdom section of this policy.

If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, or Virginia, please see the Additional Information for Users in Certain U.S. Jurisdictions section of this policy.

Collection of Personal Information

Through your use of the Site, we may collect personal information, which is information that identifies an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. Personal information may include, but is not limited to, your first and last name, physical address, email address, date of birth, and payment information. We collect the following types of information:

Information Provided by You

We collect the personal information that you provide to us. If you choose to contact us to learn more about our Content or services, we may collect information such as your full name, telephone number, and email address. We will also collect any other information that you provide to us or through the Site, such as your questions, comments, or feedback.

We may also collect personal information in connection with any subscriptions, newsletters, news feeds and similar content on the Site. This includes your contact information, information you choose to include in your profile, information you share on forums or the content of messages you send to us.

If you have a professional relationship with ATP, we may collect information such as your job title, employer’s name and contact information, and your business email address, physical address, and telephone number.

Information Automatically Collected

We may automatically collect the following types of information when you use the Site or its Content:

Usage Information: We collect certain information automatically through your use of the Site, such as which pages of the Site that you access and which features you use, the frequency of access or use, what you click on while on the Site, and how you interact with others on the Site.
Device Information: We may collect information about the device you are using to access the Site, such as IP address, hardware model, mobile network information, operating system, application version number, browser information, connection type, and other device attributes.
Location Information: We may collect information about your location which may be inferred from your IP address.
Inferred Information: In order to better understand our user base, we may infer some information about you, such as your age, gender, education level, and household composition, based on your survey responses.
Aggregate Information: We may collect statistical or aggregated information that does not directly identify a specific person but is derived from your personal information. For example, we may aggregate personal information to calculate the percentage of Site visitors in a particular ZIP code.

Use and Disclosure of Personal Information

We use the personal information that we collect in the following ways:

To communicate with you, such as providing newsletters, surveys or notifying you about updates to the Site or your account.
To provide services that you request or fulfill our contractual obligations to you.
To provide and personalize your use of the Site, such as authenticating you when you log in and providing tailored features that personalize your experience.
For marketing or promotional purposes, such as informing you of additional products or services that may be of interest to you.
For specific purposes for which you provide consent, such as if you consent to fill out surveys regarding services provided by us, our affiliates, or partners.
To provide customer service or technical support, such as contacting you in response to your inquiries, comments, and suggestions or when otherwise necessary.
To maintain and improve our Site or services, such as to troubleshoot or to identify trends, usage, activity patterns, and areas for improvement of the Site.
For analytics, research, and development purposes to learn more about who uses our content and how they use it.

We reserve the right to share information, including personal information, with third parties, including:

For Legitimate Business Purposes: We may share information with our service providers, strategic partners, affiliate organizations or other third parties that help us manage our business or provide services to us in connection with our business operations.
Within Our Corporate Family: We may share information with our affiliates, joint ventures, or other companies under common control with us, to the extent permitted by law.
With Other Investors: We share contact information in an investor directory with other authenticated investors.
If There Is A Change In Corporate Structure: We may share information in connection with a proposed or actual merger, acquisition, consolidation, change of control, or sale of all or a portion of our business or property or if we undergo bankruptcy or liquidation.
To Prevent Harm: We may share information if we believe it is necessary in order to detect, investigate, prevent, or take action against illegal activities, fraud, or situations involving potential threats to the rights, property, or personal safety of any person.
For Legal Purposes: We will share information where we are legally required to do so, such as in response to court orders or legal process; to establish, protect, or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims or demands; or to comply with applicable legal requirements.
With Your Consent: We may request your permission to share your personal information for a specific purpose. We will notify you and request consent before you provide the personal information or before the personal information you have already provided is shared for such purpose.
Without Identifying You: We may share information in a manner that does not identify you. For example, we may share anonymous, aggregate information about your use of our Site and services with our service providers.

Protection of Personal Information

The security of your personal information is important to us. We maintain reasonable physical, technical, and administrative security measures to protect and limit access to your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially-acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

There is no singular retention period for personal information we may hold about you. In general, we store your information for as long as needed to fulfill the purpose(s) for which we collected it. We may also keep information for longer when it is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation.

Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We may directly or through our third-party service providers collect information through “cookies” or other tracking technologies (e.g., web beacons, device identifiers, and pixels). Cookies are small strings of text sent by our Site to your browser and then stored by your browser on your device’s hard drive. Cookies help us understand how you use our Site and other linked websites so that we can personalize and improve your experience on our Site. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may change your browser settings so it won’t accept cookies or you may use privacy plug-ins or browsers. For more information on cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Third-Party Information Collection

Some content or applications on the Site may be provided by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, analytics companies, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Site. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different sites and other online services. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

Links to Third-Party Websites

Our Site may include links to websites that are not owned or operated by ATP. We do not control, and this Policy does not govern, the privacy, security, or other practices of any third-party website. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of such third-party website before you disclose your personal information.

How to Opt Out

The Site may not respond to “Do Not Track” signals sent by Internet browsers, however, there are a number of ways to opt out of having your online activity and device data collected by third parties, which we have summarized below. We hope you find this information to be a helpful reference. Please note that using these tools to opt out of tracking and targeting does not mean that you will receive no advertising while using our content. Instead, you will cease receiving advertisements tailored to your interests.

On Your Browser
- Changing your browser settings – Most web browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but typically allow you to change your settings to disable or reject them. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser; links to instructions provided by several of the most common browsers are below. You can also learn more at www.allaboutcookies.org. Note, however, that if you reject or disable cookies, some features of our Content may not work or may not work as designed.
- Using Privacy Plug-ins or Browsers – You can block our websites from setting cookies used for interest-based ads by using a browser with default privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins like Privacy Badger, Ghostery or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.

Children

The Site and related Content are not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13 (under 16 for those located in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland) and we do not target the Content to such children. If you are under 13 years of age, or if you are under 16 years of age and are located in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, do not provide personal information to ATP without providing us with consent from your parents. If we discover that any child under the age of 13 or a child from the EEA, UK, or Switzerland under the age of 16 has provided us with personal information and we do not have parental consent, we will delete that child’s information as soon as reasonably practicable. If you believe that we have been provided with the personal information of a child from the EEA, UK, or Switzerland under the age of 16 without parental consent or have been provided with the personal information of any child under the age of 13 without parental consent, please notify us immediately.

Additional Information for Users in Europe and the United Kingdom

The following information is provided for and applies to those located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and other similar laws.

Legal Bases for Processing

We process your personal data consistent with the ways described previously in this policy. When we do, we rely on one or more “legal bases” to do so. The legal bases we rely on are:

With your consent, such as when you accept cookies;
To perform our agreement to provide you with Content, such as to maintain your account or to fulfill your subscription or information requests; or
For our “legitimate interests,” such as maintaining the security of Content, preventing fraud, or marketing. We only engage in legitimate interest-based processing where it has little to no impact on your data privacy-related fundamental rights and freedoms.

International Data Transfers: We may store your personal information on servers located outside of Europe or the United Kingdom, including on servers based in the United States. When you access our Content from Europe or the United Kingdom, your personal data may be subject to an “international data transfer” as defined in the European Data Privacy Laws. In order to protect the security of your information when making such transfers, we rely on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses and/or the United Kingdom’s International Data Transfer Agreement/Addendum depending on the source of the data and the specific circumstances of the transfer.

Your Rights and How to Exercise Them

You have certain rights related to our processing and retention of your personal information, which are described below.

Access: This Privacy Policy describes the personal information we collect and how we use and disclose it. If you would also like to know the specific pieces of personal information we hold about you, we will provide you with a copy upon your request.
Correction: If you believe that any of the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate you may request that we correct it. You can update some information, like your contact details, yourself by visiting your account page. For other corrections, please contact us as described above.
Deletion: You may request that we delete the personal information we hold about you. Please note that we may need to retain limited amounts of personal information after completing your request for legal compliance purposes.
Objection/Restriction/Withdrawal of Consent: You may object to, restrict, and/or withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information if you believe our processing (i) uses inaccurate information; (ii) is unlawful; or (iii) when our processing is on your consent or our legitimate interests. You may also opt out of receiving marketing communications from us. You may do so by (i) following the unsubscribe link in the footer of any email you receive from us; (ii) altering your communication settings on your account page; or (iii) emailing us as described above.

Right to Lodge a Complaint

If you believe that we have processed your personal information in violation of a European Data Privacy Law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in your country of residence.

Additional Information for Users in Certain U.S. Jurisdictions

This section only applies to residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia. Residents of these U.S. states are afforded additional rights in accordance with their respective state data privacy laws. It describes how we collect, use, and share personal information in operating our business as well as your individual rights with respect to your personal information.

How We Collect, Use, and Share your Personal Information

We may collect the following categories of personal information about you:

Identifiers (e.g., device identifier, IP address, unique browser ID, cookies, beacons, pixel tags, account login, other unique identifiers, name, site log-in, email address, mailing address (or state / province and country of residence), phone number, images of yourself you provide us for your account page you are creating and completing in order to attend an event we are hosting.
Commercial information (e.g., site engagement).
Geolocation data (e.g., location derived from GPS-enabled Content).
Inferences (e.g., information about your interests, preferences, and favorites).

The sources from which we collect information and additional details on the information we collect are described in the “Collection of Personal Information” section of this policy; the business and commercial purposes for which we collect this information and the ways in which we may share this information are described in “Use and Disclosure of Personal Information” section of this policy.

Your Privacy Rights and How to Exercise Them

As a California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, or Virginia resident, you have certain rights related to your personal information, which are detailed below. We encourage you to invoke these rights if you wish. Rest assured that we will not discriminate or retaliate against you for doing so.

Upon receiving certain types of requests, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can move forward. Typically, this will involve asking you to confirm information we already have on file about you. We will never ask you for sensitive information such as your credit card, driver’s license, or social security numbers for verification purposes.

You may also allow an “authorized agent” to submit a request on your behalf through the same means outlined above. Unless your agent has been given power of attorney, we will additionally need the following items to honor your request: (1) written authorization, signed by you, allowing them to act on your behalf; (2) proof of your identity; and (3) direct confirmation sent from you to us (without the authorized agent as an intermediary) affirming that the agent is authorized to act on your behalf.

Types of Rights

Access. This policy describes the categories of personal information we may collect about you, and how that information is collected, used, and disclosed. We will also provide you with the specific pieces of personal information we hold about you upon your request.
Correction. If you believe that any of the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate, you may request that we correct it. You can update some information, like your contact details, yourself by visiting your account page. For other corrections, please contact us as described above.
Deletion. You may request that we delete the personal information we hold about you. We fulfill these requests by erasing the data or by anonymizing it such that you can no longer be identified. We will not attempt to re-identify anonymized data. Please note that we may need to retain limited amounts of personal information after completing your request for legal compliance purposes. Additionally, we may postpone completion of your request when your personal information is necessary to fulfill our obligations to you. For example, if you are an active subscriber we may wait until your subscription expires before fulfilling your request.

Other Information Applicable to California Residents Only

Notice Regarding California Residents We Know to Be Under the Age of 16 – California residents we know to be younger than 16 years of age will by default be treated as though they have exercised a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of their personal information with respect to information provided directly to us (as opposed to information automatically collected from them through technical means). We do not permit such users to opt-in to the sale or sharing of their Personal Information, unless they provide proof that they are no longer under the age of 16. To do so, please contact us at the email address below.

If you have any questions or concerns about this Policy, please contact us by Nat Clarkson, ATP Managing Partner at nat@alphatechpartners.vc.

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