Privacy Policy

Personal Information We Collect

Information you provide to us. Personal information you may provide to us through the Service or otherwise includes:

• Contact data, such as your first and last name, email address, mailing addresses, professional title and company name, phone number and other contact details.
• Company data, such as any information about you, your colleagues or your company that you share with us in relation to investments or potential investments in your company by the funds we manage, such as your and colleagues’ professional and educational backgrounds. 
• Communications data, such as information you provide when you contact us with questions, feedback, or otherwise correspond with us.
• Marketing information, such as your preferences for receiving communications about our activities, events, and publications, and details about how you engage with our communications
• Event registration data. Information you provide when you register for or attend in-person or online events that we host or co-host.
• Job candidacy data, such as any information about your candidacy for a job at one of our portfolio companies, such as your professional and educational background.
• Other information that we may collect which is not specifically listed here, but which we will use in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.
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Third-party sources. We may combine personal information we receive from you with personal information we obtain from other sources, such as:

• Business contacts who send us information about entrepreneurs or candidates for jobs with our portfolio companies. 
• Publicly available sources, such as social media platforms and other publicly available sources.

Automatic data collection. We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and activity occurring on or through the Service, including but not limited to:  

• Device data, such as your computer or mobile device’s operating system type and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, RAM and disk size, CPU usage, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), IP address, unique identifiers (including identifiers used for advertising purposes), language settings, mobile device carrier, radio/network information (e.g., Wi-Fi, LTE, 5G), and general location information such as city, state or geographic area.
• Online activity data, such as pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, the website you visited before browsing to the Service, navigation paths between pages, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times and duration of access, and whether you have opened our emails or clicked links within them.
• Communication interaction data such as your interactions with our email, text or other communications (e.g., whether you open and/or forward emails) – we may do this through use of pixel tags (which are also known as clear GIFs), which may be embedded invisibly in our emails. 
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Cookies and similar technologies. Some of the automatic collection described above is facilitated by the following technologies:

• Cookies, which are small text files that websites store on a visitor‘s device and that allow the web server to record users’ web browsing activities and remember their submissions, preferences, and login status as they navigate a site. Cookies used on our sites include both “session cookies” that are deleted when a session ends, “persistent cookies” that remain longer, “first party” cookies that we place and “third party” cookies that our third-party business partners and service providers place.
• Local storage technologies, like HTML5 and Flash, that provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data, including on your device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications. 
• Web beacons, also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs, which are used to demonstrate that a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was viewed or clicked.
  

‍Referrals

Users of the Service may have the opportunity to refer friends or other contacts to us. Please do not refer someone to us or share their contact details with us unless you have their permission to do so.

‍How We Use Your Personal Information

We may use your personal information for the following purposes and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection:

To operate the Service. We use your personal information to:

• provide, operate and improve the Service and our business;
• personalizing the service, including remembering the devices from which you have previously logged in and remembering your selections and preferences as you navigate the Service;
• provide information about our products and services;
• establish and maintain your user profile on the Service;
• communicate with you about the Service, including by sending you announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
• communicate with you about events or contests in which you participate;
• understand your needs and interests, and personalize your experience with the Service and our communications;
• provide support and maintenance for the Service; and 
• to respond to your requests, questions and feedback

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For research and development. We may use your personal information for research and development purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and to develop new products and services, including by studying user demographics and use of the Service.

To send you marketing and promotional communications. We may send you Felicis-related marketing communications as permitted by law. You will have the ability to opt-out of our marketing and promotional communications as described in the Opt out of marketing section below.

To comply with law. We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.

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Service improvement and analytics. We may use your personal information to analyze your usage of the Service, improve the Service, improve the rest of our business, help us understand user activity on the Service, including which pages are most and least visited and how visitors move around the Service, as well as user interactions with our emails, and to develop new products and services.

For compliance, fraud prevention, and safety. We may use your personal information to: 

• comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas, investigations or requests from government authorities;
• protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims); 
• audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements or our internal policies; 
• enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Service; and 
• prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.  

With your consent. In some cases, we may specifically ask for your consent to collect, use or share your personal information, such as when required by law.  

To create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data. We may create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you.

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Cookies and similar technologies. In addition to the other uses included in this section, we may use the Cookies and similar technologies described above for the following purposes:

• Technical operation. To allow the technical operation of the Service.
• Functionality. To enhance the performance and functionality of our services.
• Analytics. To help us understand user activity on the Service, including which pages are most and least visited and how visitors move around the Service, as well as user interactions with our emails. For example, we use Google Analytics for this purpose. You can learn more about Google Analytics and how to prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our sites here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

How We Share your Personal Information

We may share your personal information with the following parties and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, in other applicable notices, or at the time of collection.

Affiliates. We may share your personal information with our corporate parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates.

Service providers. We may share your personal information with third party companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Service (such as customer support, hosting, analytics, email delivery, marketing, and database management services). 

Professional advisors. We may disclose your personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

Authorities and others. Law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate for the Compliance and protection purposes described above. 

Portfolio companies. We may share personal information about job candidates and other business contacts with portfolio companies with whom we are collaborating to assist those companies with their business and recruiting activities.

Investors. We may share with investors and prospective investors in our funds the biographies and other information about the founders and key personnel of our portfolio companies. 

For compliance, fraud prevention and safety. We may share your personal information for the compliance, fraud prevention and safety purposes described above.  

Business transfers. We may disclose personal information in the context of actual or prospective business transactions (e.g., investments in Felicis, financing of Felicis, public stock offerings, or the sale, transfer or merger of all or part of our business, assets or shares), for example, we may need to share certain personal information with prospective counterparties and their advisers. We may also disclose your personal information to an acquirer, successor, or assignee of Felicis as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or similar transaction, and/or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which personal information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets.

Your Choices

In this section, we describe the rights and choices available to all users. Users who are residents of California can find additional information about their rights below.

Access or Update Your Information. If you have registered for an account with us, you may review and update certain personal information in your account profile by logging into the account.

Opt out of marketing communications. You may opt out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email, or by contacting us at privacy@felicis.com. You may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.  

Cookies & Browser Web Storage. We may allow service providers and other third parties to use cookies and similar technologies to track your browsing activity over time and across the Service and third party websites. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, the Sites may not work properly. Similarly, your browser settings may allow you to clear your browser web storage. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your browser and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. You can also configure your device to prevent images from loading to prevent web beacons from functioning.  

Blocking images/clear gifs: Most browsers and devices allow you to configure your device to prevent images from loading. To do this, follow the instructions in your particular browser or device settings.

Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Choosing not to share your personal information. Where we are required by law to collect your personal information, or where we need your personal information in order to provide the Service to you, if you do not provide this information when requested (or you later ask to delete it), we may not be able to provide you with our services. We will tell you what information you must provide to receive the Service by designating it as required at the time of collection or through other appropriate means.

‍Other sites, mobile applications and services

The Service may contain links to other websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties. These links are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. In addition, our content may be included on web pages or in mobile applications or online services that are not associated with us. We do not control third party websites, mobile applications or online services, and we are not responsible for their actions. Other websites, mobile applications and services follow different rules regarding the collection, use and sharing of your personal information. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites, mobile applications and online services you use.

‍Security practices

The security of your personal information is important to us. We employ a number of organizational, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

‍International data transfers

We are headquartered in the United States and have service providers in other countries, and your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other locations outside of your state, province, or country where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your state, province, or country.  

‍Children  

As a general rule, children are not allowed to use the Service, and we do not collect personal information from them. We define "children" as anyone under 13 years old. If we learn that we have collected personal information of a child without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian, we will delete it. We encourage parents with concerns to contact us.

‍Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Service. We may, and if required by law will, also provide notification of changes in another way that we believe is reasonably likely to reach you, such as via e-mail (if you have an account where we have your contact information) or another manner through the Service.

‍How to Contact Us

Please direct any questions or comments about this Policy or privacy practices, the easiest way to contact us is to email privacy@felicis.com. You may also write to us via postal mail at:
Felicis Ventures
Attn: Privacy
2460 Sand Hill Rd
Suite 100
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Notice to California residents

This notice describes our collection, use and disclosure of personal information of California residents in our capacity as a “business” under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and their rights with respect to their personal information. For purposes of this notice, “personal information” has the meaning given in the CCPA but does not include information exempted from the scope of the CCPA.

Your privacy rights. As a California resident, you have the following rights under the CCPA:

• Right to know. You can request information about the categories of personal information that we have collected; the categories of sources from which we collected personal information; the business or commercial purpose for collecting, sharing and/or selling personal information; the categories of any personal information that we sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and the categories of any third parties with whom personal information was sold, shared or disclosed for a business purpose.

• Right to access. You can request a copy of certain personal information that we have collected about you.
• Right to deletion. You can request that we delete personal information that we collected from you.
• Right to correction. You can request that we correct inaccurate personal information that we have collected about you.
• Nondiscrimination. You are entitled to exercise the rights described above free from discrimination as prohibited by the CCPA.
  

Identity verification. You may submit requests to exercise your right to know, access, deletion and correction via email to compliance@felicis.com or by calling us toll free at 1-888-391-6035. The rights described above are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law. We cannot process your request if you do not provide us with sufficient detail to allow us to understand and respond to it.  

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Authorized agents. We need to verify your identity to process your requests to exercise your rights to know, access, delete, and correct, and we reserve the right to confirm your California residency. To verify your identity, we may require you to log into an online account if you have one, provide identifiers we can match against information we may have collected from you previously, confirm your request using the email or telephone account stated in the request, provide government identification, or provide a declaration under penalty of perjury, where permitted by law. 

Your authorized agent may make a request on your behalf upon our verification of the agent’s identity and our receipt of a copy of a valid power of attorney given to your authorized agent pursuant to applicable state law. If you have not provided your agent with such a power of attorney, we may ask you and/or your agent to take additional steps permitted by law to verify that your request is authorized, such as information required to verify your identity and that you have given the authorized agent permission to submit the request. 

Information practices. The following describes our practices currently and during the past 12 months:

• Sources and purposes. We collect all categories of personal information from the sources and use them for the business/commercial purposes described above in the Privacy Policy. 
• Sales and sharing of personal information. We do not “sell” or “share” personal information as those terms are defined in the CCPA and have no actual knowledge that we have sold or shared the personal information of California residents under 16 years of age.
• Sensitive personal information. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes that California residents have a right to limit under the CCPA.
• Retention. The criteria for deciding how long to retain personal information is generally based on whether such period is sufficient to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it as described in this notice, including complying with our legal obligations.  
• Deidentification. We do not to attempt to reidentify deidentified information derived from personal information, except that we may do so to test whether our deidentification processes comply with applicable law.  
• Collection and disclosure. The chart below describes the personal information we collect by reference to the categories of personal information specified in the CCPA (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.140), and the categories of third parties to whom we disclose it. The terms in the chart refer to the categories of information and third parties described above in this Privacy Policy in more detail. Information you voluntarily provide to us, such as in free-form webforms, may contain other categories of personal information not described below. We may also disclose personal information to professional advisors, law enforcement and government authorities, and business transferees as described above in the How We Share your Personal Information section of this Privacy Policy.  

Statutory category/personal information we collect 

Categories of third parties to whom we disclose the personal information for a business purpose

Identifiers

• Contact data
• Company data
• Job candidacy data 
• Communications data 
• Marketing information
• Event registration data 
• Affiliates
• Service providers
• Portfolio companies
• Investors
  

Identifiers (online)

• Device data
• Affiliates
• Service providers
  

California Customer Records (as defined in California Civil Code §1798.80)

• Contact data
• Company data
• Job candidacy data 
• Communications data 
• Marketing information
• Event registration data 
• Affiliates
• Service providers
• Portfolio companies
• Investors

Commercial Information

• Contact data
• Company data
• Job candidacy data 
• Communications data 
• Marketing information
• Event registration data 
• Online activity data
• Affiliates
• Service providers
• Portfolio companies
• Investors

Internet or Network Information 

• Device data
• Online activity data
• Affiliates
• Service providers
  

Professional or Employment Information

• Company data
• Job candidacy data 
• Affiliates
• Service providers
• Portfolio companies
  

Education Information

• Company data
• Job candidacy data 
• Affiliates
• Service providers
• Portfolio companies
  

Inferences

May be derived from:

• Contact data
• Company data
• Event registration data
• Online activity data
• Affiliates
• Service providers
• Portfolio companies
• Investors
  

Protected Classification Characteristics

May be included or revealed in:

• Contact data
• Company data
• Job candidacy data 
• Affiliates
• Service providers
• Portfolio companies
• Investors