Privacy Policy

Introduction

Folklore is a first cheque to forever investment firm investing in the great success stories of our time. To do this, we raise venture capital funds, invest in start ups and help them achieve success. We also run leading programs, events and platforms, including our website (Services) for internal and external community members and employees. In all these occasions of interaction, we understand that protecting personal information is important and we handle information with the utmost confidentiality.

This Privacy Policy details our commitment to protecting the privacy of personal information provided to us, or otherwise collected by us, when providing our Services. In this Privacy Policy, 'us' 'we' or 'our' means Folklore Ventures Pty Ltd (ACN 614 351 058). We are committed to respecting your privacy. Our Privacy Policy sets outs out how we collect, use, store and disclose your personal information.

By providing personal information to us, you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and any other arrangements that apply between us. We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time by publishing changes to it on our website. We encourage you to check our website periodically to ensure that you are aware of our current Privacy Policy.

Personal information: Personal information includes information, and in Australia includes opinion, about an individual that is reasonably identifiable, whether true or not and whether recorded in a material form or not.

We may collect the following types of personal information:

When you pitch your company to us or send your pitch to us for investment and/or we invest in your company

Your name.
Your contact details including email address, street address and/or telephone number.
Your career history.
Links to your website/LinkedIn profile and/or other social media profiles.
Data and documents you provide to us and which are required for Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing checks.
Your passport and other identification documents.
Information you provide to us, including through feedback, founder surveys, questionnaires or otherwise.
Your preferences and/or opinions.
Any other personal information requested by us and/or provided by you or a third party.

When you invest or apply to invest in one of our funds

Name.
Your contact details including email address, street address and/or telephone number.
Age or date of birth.
Bank and financial information.
Information, data and documents provided to us required for Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing checks.
Professional advisors.
Your passport and other identification documents.
Details of the products and services we have provided to you or that you have enquired about, including any additional information necessary to deliver those products and services and respond to your enquiries.
Any additional information relating to you that you provide to us via email, your investment application or directly through our website from which you permit us to collect information.

We may collect these types of personal information either directly from you, or from third parties. We may collect this information when you:

Communicate with us through correspondence, conversations, email or your investment application.
Invest in our business or enquire as to a potential purchase in our business.

Personal Information means information (and in Australia includes an opinion), whether true or not and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual who is identified or reasonably identifiable.

When you participate in, or apply for, one of our programs

Your name.
Your contact details including email address, street address and/or telephone number.
Your gender.
Your employer and job title.
Your career history.
Links to social media or websites.
Information you provide to us, including through feedback, customer surveys, questionnaires or otherwise.
Your preferences and/or opinions.
Details of programs or events we have provided to you and/or that you have enquired about, and our response to you.
Any other personal information requested by us and/or provided by you or a third party.

When you apply for or send us your details in relation to employment, volunteer, intern or mentor with us, are part of our network of talent or provide us with services as a contractor

Your name.
Your contact details, including email address and/or telephone number.
Your financial details (if required).
Your employment history and qualifications.
Your visa and/or employment status.
Any information we need to collect to onboard you, including background checks or any other information we are required to collect by law.

In addition, when you apply for a job or position with us we may collect certain information from you (including your name, contact details, working history and relevant records checks) from any recruitment consultant, your previous employers and others, who may be able to provide information to us to assist in our decision on whether or not to make you an offer of employment or engage you under a contract.

When you visit our website

Your browser session and geo-location data, device and network information, statistics on page views and sessions, acquisition sources, search queries and/or browsing behaviour.
Information about your access and use of our Services, including through the use of internet cookies, your communications with our online Services, the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using and the domain name of your internet service provider.
Additional personal information that you provide to us, directly or indirectly, through your use of our Services, associated applications, associated social media platforms and/or accounts from which you permit us to collect information.
Any other personal information requested by us and/or provided by you or a third party.

Sensitive Information. It may be necessary in some circumstances for us to collect some forms of sensitive information about you in order to provide specific services to you. Sensitive information includes information about a person’s race, gender diversity, sexual orientation, disability, ethnic origin, political opinions, health information, religious or philosophical beliefs and criminal records. Unless otherwise permitted by law, we will not collect sensitive information about you without first obtaining your consent.

Collecting and holding of your personal information

We may collect (directly, indirectly or from third parties), hold, use and disclose your personal information in a number of ways, including:

Directly: We may collect personal information which you directly provide to us for any of the above mentioned reasons and including when a person reaches out to us via our website, email or phone.

Indirectly: We may collect personal information which you indirectly provide to us for any of the above mentioned reasons and including when a person reaches out to us via our website, email or phone.

From third parties: We collect information from third parties, such as:

Third parties we engage to help us conduct background checks.
Recruiters or other businesses in our network.
Details of your use of our website from our analytics and cookie providers and marketing providers.

We only collect, hold, use and disclose sensitive information for the following purposes:

Any purposes you consent to.
The primary purpose for which it is collected, including to comply with any regulatory requirements.
Secondary purposes that are directly related to the primary purpose for which it was collected, including disclosure to the below listed third parties as reasonably necessary to provide our Services to you.
To contact emergency services, or to speak with your emergency contact where we reasonably believe there is a serious risk to the life, health or safety of you or another person and it is impracticable for us to obtain your consent.
If otherwise required or authorised by law (including in relation toCovid-19 vaccination statuses).

We may collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for the following purposes:

To enable you to access and use our website and services.
To operate, protect, improve and optimise our website, services, business and our investor experience, such as to perform analytics, conduct research and for advertising and marketing.
To send you service, support and administrative messages, reminders, notices, updates, security alerts, and information requested by you.
To send you marketing and promotional messages and other information that may be of interest to you, including information sent by, or on behalf of, our business partners that we think you may find interesting.
To comply with our legal obligations, resolve any disputes that we may have with any of our investors, and enforce our agreements with third parties.
To consider your employment application.

How we use your personal information

When you invest or apply to invest in one of our funds we use your information to assess and process your application, for onboarding, to manage relationships and administer investment you have, record keeping and administration, to provide information about finds, to invest, to provide products or services, to obtain feedback and to comply with legal obligations and resolve disputes.
When you pitch your company to us or send your pitch to us for investment and/or we invest in your company we use your information to assess and process your application and complete due diligence, to invest and undertake transactions, to onboard, for compliance record keeping and administration, to contact and communicate with you, to obtain feedback, to provide support and to comply with legal obligations and resolve disputes.
When you participate in, or apply for, one of our programs we use your information to assess your application, onboard, provide services, for record keeping and administration to contact and communicate with you and to provide support, to run benefits and competitions, to obtain feedback, to report on diversity, for market research, to comply with legal obligations and resolve disputes.
When you apply for or send us your details in relation to employment, volunteer, intern or mentor with us, are part of our network of talent or provide us with services as a contractor we use your information to assess and process your application, onboard you, connect you with the community, for internal record keeping, administrative, payroll, billing and invoicing purposes, to contact and communicate with your, to comply with legal obligations and resolve disputes, and/or if otherwise required or authorised by law.
When you visit our website or interact with us we use your information to provide our website or services to you, to communicate with your, for analytics, market research and business purposes, for advertising and marketing purposes, to comply with legal obligations and resolve disputes, and/or if otherwise required or authorised by law.

To whom do we disclose your personal information

Our employees and related entities.
Third party suppliers and service providers (including providers for the operation of our business or in connection with providing our products and services to you).
Third parties to collect and process data, such as Google Analytics.
Professional advisers, dealers and agents.
Our existing or potential agents, business partners or partners.
Our sponsors or promoters of any competition that we conduct via our services.
Anyone to whom our assets or businesses (or any part of them) are transferred.
Specific third parties authorised by you to receive information held by us.
Other persons, including government agencies, regulatory bodies and law enforcement.
Agencies, or as required, authorised or permitted by law.

Disclosure of personal information outside Australia

When you provide your personal information to us, you consent to the disclosure of your information outside of Australia and acknowledge that we are not required to ensure that overseas recipients handle that personal information in compliance with Australian Privacy Law. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that any overseas recipient will deal with such personal information in a way that is consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles.

Using our website and cookies

Security

We may hold your personal information in either electronic or hard copy form. We hold information only for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected or to comply with any application legal reporting or document retention requirements. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place industry standard physical, electronic and managerial procedures and security measures to safeguard and secure personal information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification, and disclosure.

While we are committed to security, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk.

If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.

Links on our website to other websites

Our website may contain links to websites operated by third parties. Those links are provided for convenience and may not remain current or be maintained. Unless expressly stated otherwise, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of, or any content on, those linked websites, and have no control over or rights in those linked websites. The privacy policies that apply to those other websites may differ substantially from our Privacy Policy, so we encourage individuals to read them before using those websites.

Your rights and choice to the personal information provided by you

Please read this Privacy Policy in detail and carefully. In providing personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not it may affect our ability to provide our Services to you and your use of our Services.

Accessing your personal information

You can access the personal information we hold about you by contacting us using the contact us function. Sometimes, we may not be able to provide you with access to all your personal information and, where this is the case, we will tell you why. We may also need to verify your identity when you request your personal information.

Correction of information

If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, please contact us and we will take reasonable steps to ensure that it is corrected. Please note, in some situations, we may be legally permitted to not correct your personal information. If we cannot correct your information, we will advise you as soon as reasonably possible and provide you with the reasons for our refusal and any mechanism available to complain about the refusal.

Making a complaint

If you think we have breached the Privacy Act, or you wish to make a complaint about the way we have handled your personal information you can contact us at info@folklore.vc. Please include your name, email address and/or telephone number and clearly describe your complaint. Where possible, the complaint should include enough information to help us resolve it. We will acknowledge your complaint and respond to you regarding your complaint within a reasonable period of time. If you think that we have failed to resolve the complaint satisfactorily, we will provide you with information about the further steps you can take.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may, at any time and at our discretion amend this Privacy Policy by publishing the amended Privacy Policy on our website. It is recommended you check and review our website on a regular bases to ensure you are aware of our current Privacy Policy and how we collect and use information.

Contact Us

Alister Coleman

Tenancy 4, Level 1, 16 Eveleigh Street, Redfern NSW 2016.

info@folklore.vc

Effective 01.11.2016 and updated 1.11.22