Privacy Policy
Pathfinder Partners (trading as Pathfinder Venture Partners LLP and hereafter referred to as Pathfinder Partners) collects certain information or data about you when you browse or register with us for the purposes of using our services. We take the privacy and security of our users and their data very seriously, and only collect, store and use your information for defined purposes. Pathfinder Partners does not sell your personal information, and only shares the data we collect from you with your consent.
What We Collect
The data Pathfinder Partners collects includes:
Questions, queries or feedback you leave, including your email address if you send an email to hello@pathfinder.partners,
Names and email addresses if you sign up for our newsletter;
Names, email addresses, postcodes, business and fundraise information, presentation materials, self-evaluation information, and assessment submissions if you register with us as a client using our website or as an affiliate.
Names, email addresses, postcodes, business information and information about you or your business if you register with us as a potential investor or wish to become a partner using our website,
Your IP address, and details of which web browser you used;
Information on how you use the site, using cookies and page tagging techniques to help us improve the website.
Data Protection
Occasionally, Pathfinder Partners may contact visitors to our website and users who have registered with our website to survey opinions and to provide updates on our own products and services. If you wish to be removed from such mailings, please e-mail hello@pathfinder.partners. We will delete your records from our lists and notify you to confirm that we have done so.
All confidential personal and business information (“Confidential Information”) you provide is held securely through our database, hosted by Mailchimp, as well as through our internal cloud storage (Google Drive). This data is stored internally and only disclosed when and to whom it is necessary. Please visit the Squarespace website to review their policies on data security and privacy
Specifically:
we keep Confidential Information confidential, and only share it on a ‘need to know’ basis with members of the team involved in assessment and client relations, and with partners and potential investors on your instructions and/or who are registered with us via https://pathfinder.partners (we store records of who accessed this data and when); and
we do not use the Confidential Information in any way except in connection with the purpose for which it was provided;
If required to do so by a relevant court or competent judicial, governmental or regulatory body, we will disclose the minimum Confidential Information which we are required to disclose.
Information is not Confidential Information in certain circumstances as follows:
if it is or becomes generally available to the public (other than by a breach of confidentiality by us);
if we were lawfully in possession of it before it was disclosed; or
if we received it from a third party who was not bound by confidentiality undertakings.
In these circumstances, the confidentiality obligations set out above will not apply but we will still do our best to look after your information with due care.
Transmitting information over the internet is generally not completely secure, and we can’t guarantee the security of your data. Any data you transmit is at your own risk. We have procedures and security features in place to try and keep your data secure once we receive it. We won’t share your information with any other organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes, and we don’t pass on your details to other websites.
If at any time you wish to request a copy of any personal data held by Pathfinder Venture Partners LLP, you can exercise your right to do so by emailing us (hello@pathfinder.partners) or writing to us at:
Pathfinder Venture Partners LLP
Brightwell Grange Britwell Road Burnham Bucks SL1 8DF