This is the privacy policy for information collected by CapitalG Management Company LLC and its subsidiaries (“CapitalG”), including through its website at https://www.capitalg.com/ (“Site”). This policy does not apply to personal data we collect about our employees and job applicants, which is covered under a separate privacy policy.
Our Privacy Policy explains:
what information we collect and why we collect it
how we use that information; and
the choices we offer, including how to access and update information.
We collect information in the following ways:
For example, information that you provide to us when contacting us for inquiries about potential investment or commercial opportunities, registering for events, or submitting a general inquiry regarding our operations. When you do, you may provide us with your name, email address, telephone number and other information you choose to provide about yourself.
The Site is operated by or on behalf of CapitalG. We may collect information about when and how you use the Site. This information includes:
We may collect device-specific information (such as your hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information including phone number).
When you use our Site, we may automatically collect and store certain information in server logs. This may include:
details of how you used our Site
Internet protocol address
device event information, such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL
cookies that may uniquely identify your browser
We may use technologies to determine your approximate location, including based on your IP address.
We may collect and store information (including personal information) locally on your device using mechanisms such as browser web storage (including HTML 5) and application data caches.
We may use various technologies to collect and store information when you visit our Site, and this may include using cookies or similar technologies to identify your browser or device. You may set your browser to block all cookies, including cookies associated with this Site or to indicate when a cookie is being set by us. However, some website features or services may not function properly without cookies.
A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. When you visit the website again, the cookie allows that site to recognize your browser. Cookies may store user preferences and other information. Other technologies are used for similar purposes as a cookie on other platforms where cookies are not available or applicable. Our Site sets cookies that last for varying times. Some last only for the duration of your web session and expire when you close your browser or exit the Site. Other cookies are used to remember you when you return to the Site and will last longer.
Some of the cookies used by the Site are set by us, and some are set by third parties who are delivering services on our behalf. For example, we use the tracking technologies of Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies to help website owners measure how users interact with website content. Detailed information regarding how Google Analytics uses cookies can be found here.
We may also get third party information such as market or industry data to help us evaluate investment opportunities; or other commercial data to facilitate normal course of business operations and which may include information about individual founders, board directors, executives or investors.
Additionally, we obtain information from and about business contacts and prospects for the purposes of evaluating and making investment decisions, managing current and potential portfolio relationships, and supporting portfolio companies.
We use the information we collect to carry out due diligence for our business purposes; evaluate and monitor investments; help our portfolio companies grow their businesses; comply with our legal obligations; send you communications about news, events or other information we think may be of interest to you; provide and improve our events and services, and to provide, maintain, protect and improve our Site.
If you are a California resident and contact us using our Privacy Contact Form, we keep a record of your communication to help track and resolve your inquiry.
We may also use information collected from cookies and/or other technologies to:
facilitate your use of and improve overall quality of our Site and your user experience;
remember that you have visited us before. This means we can identify the number of unique visitors we receive;
customize elements of the promotional layout and/or content of the pages of the Site; and
collect statistical information about how you use the Site, so that we can improve the Site.
Your personal information may be processed on servers located outside the country where you live, including outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or United Kingdom (UK). Where personal information is transferred outside the EEA or the UK, we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that it is subject to appropriate safeguards and that it is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
CapitalG adheres to the Data Privacy Framework. We comply with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom to the United States. CapitalG✳ has certified to the Department of Commerce that we adhere to the Data Privacy Framework with respect to such information. If there is any conflict between the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Data Privacy Framework, the Data Privacy Framework shall govern. To learn more about the Data Privacy Framework, please visit https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/.
We are responsible and remain liable for the processing of personal information we receive and subsequently transfer to a third party acting as an agent on our behalf.
With respect to personal information covered by our certification to the Data Privacy Framework, we are subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
✳ The other entities also adhering to the Data Privacy Framework, which were identified in CapitalG’s certification under “Other Covered Entities” are:
CapitalG 2013 GP LLC, CapitalG 2013 LP, CapitalG 2014 GP LLC, CapitalG 2014 LP, CapitalG 2015 GP LLC, CapitalG 2015 LP, CapitalG GP LLC, CapitalG LP, CapitalG II GP LLC, CapitalG II LP, CapitalG III GP LLC, CapitalG III LP, CapitalG III SPV LP, CapitalG III SPV-C Holdings LLC, CapitalG III SPV-C I LLC, CapitalG IV GP LLC, CapitalG IV LP, CapitalG International LLC (f.k.a. GC Asia L.L.C.) and CapitalG Rise LLC
We do not disclose personal information with companies, organisations and individuals outside of CapitalG unless one of the following circumstances applies:
With your consent
We may disclose personal information with companies, organisations or individuals outside CapitalG when we have your consent to do so.
For external processing
We may provide personal information to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us (or for similar reasons), based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
For legal reasons
We may disclose personal information with companies, organisations or individuals outside CapitalG if we have a belief in good faith that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:
obtain legal or other professional advice;
meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request;
enforce applicable terms of service, including investigation of potential violations;
detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or
protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of CapitalG, our users or the public, as required or permitted by law
In compliance with the Data Privacy Framework, we commit to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. European Union (including the European Economic Area) and United Kingdom individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Data Privacy Framework policy should first contact us. We have further committed to refer unresolved Data Privacy Framework complaints to JAMS. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint from us, or if we have not resolved your complaint, please contact or visit https://www.jamsadr.com/eu-us-data-privacy-framework. The services of JAMS are provided at no cost to you. As further explained in the Data Privacy Framework, a binding arbitration option may also be made available to you in order to address residual complaints not resolved by any other means.
We aim to provide you with access to your personal information. If that information is wrong, we strive to give you ways to update it quickly or to delete it – unless we have to keep that information for legitimate business or legal purposes. When updating your personal information, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can act on your request.
We may reject requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort (for example, developing a new system or fundamentally changing an existing practice), risk the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup systems).
Where we can provide information access and correction, we will do so for free, except where it would require a disproportionate effort. We aim to maintain our services in a manner that protects information from accidental or malicious destruction. Because of this, after you delete information from our services, we may not immediately delete residual copies from our active servers and may not remove information from our backup systems.
You can also contact us to let us know if you do not want your personal information to be used or disclosed for a particular purpose.
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires specific disclosures for California residents. This privacy policy is designed to help you understand how we handle information about you. In addition to the information we provide in the table below:
We do not “sell” or "share" your personal information as those terms are defined in the CCPA.
We do not generally process “sensitive personal information” (as that term is defined in the CCPA). If you do volunteer it, we will only process this type of information for the permitted purposes specified by the CCPA.
We retain personal information about you for as long as necessary to carry out the purposes for which we originally collected it and for other business purposes explained in this Privacy Policy.
The CCPA also provides the right to request information about how we collect, use, and disclose your information. And it gives you the right to access and correct your information, and to request that we delete that information. Finally, the CCPA provides the right to not be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights.
You can submit a privacy right request by completing this form. We will verify your request by asking you to provide information that matches information we have on file about you. You can also designate an authorized agent to exercise these rights on your behalf, but we will require proof that the person is authorized to act on your behalf and may also still ask you to verify your identity with us directly.
The CCPA also requires a description of data practices using specific categories. This table uses these categories to organize the information in this Privacy Policy.
Identifiers and similar information, such as your name, email address, phone number, IP address and unique device identifiers tied to the device or browser you use to visit the Site.
Professional or employment-related information.
Geolocation information, such as approximate location determined by IP address.
Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as your interactions with our Site and other information collected by cookies and similar technology.
Carry out due diligence as part of our services.
Evaluate and monitor investments.
Help our portfolio companies grow their businesses.
Comply with our legal obligations.
Send you communications about news, events or other information we think may be of interest to you.
Provide and improve our events and services, and to provide, maintain, protect and improve our Site.
Our affiliates, service providers, trusted businesses or persons that process information on our behalf, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
Companies, organizations or individuals outside CapitalG when we have your consent to do so.
Law enforcement, companies, organizations or individuals outside CapitalG for the legal reasons described in "How we disclose information we collect.”
We work hard to protect our Site and any information that we hold from unauthorized access or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction. In particular:
- We review our information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures, to guard against unauthorized access to systems.
- We restrict access to personal information to CapitalG employees, contractors, service providers and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations. They may be disciplined or their contract terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.
Our Privacy Policy applies to all of the services offered and businesses operated by CapitalG. This policy does not apply to information we collect about job applicants or our employees, which is covered under a separate policy. It also does not apply to information practices, services offered or businesses operated by other companies or individuals whose privacy policies do not incorporate this Privacy Policy.
Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and, if deemed necessary, we will provide a more prominent notice.
Last updated: 29th August 2023