Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 25, 2024.

Collide Capital LLC [“Collide Capital”, “we” and “us”) cares about your privacy. We have developed this Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) to describe the personal information we collect, how that information may be used, with whom it may be shared, and your choices, in connection with your use of our website, and all services provided by us that link to this Policy (collectively, our “Services”).   By using or accessing our Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined below, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use and share your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

I. Categories of Personal Data Collected

  • Contact Information (e.g. first and last name, email address).
  • Device/IP data (e.g. IP address).
  • Usage Analytics (e.g. interactions with our web properties and newsletters).
  • Demographic Data (e.g. race, gender, veteran status).
  • Geolocation Data (e.g. IP-address-based location information).
  • Other Identifying information that You Voluntarily Provide (e.g. identifying information in emails or letters you send us).

Sources of Personal Data: We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

  • Directly from you. E.g. from the forms you complete on our Service, and preferences you express or provide through our Service.
  • Indirectly from you. E.g. from observing your activity on our Service.
  • Automatically from you. For example, through cookies we or our Service Providers set on your Device as you navigate through our Service.
  • From Service Providers. E.g. other third-party vendors that we use to provide the Service to you.

Information Collected Automatically: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. The technologies we use may include:

  • Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your Device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept Cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
  • Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

II. Usage of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To communicate with you about the Services, including Service announcements, updates or offers.
  • To provide support and assistance for the Services.
  • To create and manage your account or other user profiles.
  • To personalize website content and communications based on your preferences.
  • To deliver our newsletters, emails and facilitate events.
  • To protect our proprietary information and intellectual property.
  • To respond to user inquiries and fulfill user requests.
  • To improve and develop the Services, including testing, research, analysis and product development.
  • To protect against or deter fraudulent, illegal or harmful actions and maintain the safety, security and integrity of our Services.
  • To comply with our legal or contractual obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our Terms of Use.
  • To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
  • For any other business purpose stated when collecting your Personal Data or as otherwise set forth in applicable data privacy laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”).

III. Disclosure of Your Personal Data

  • With Service Providers: we may share your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact you.
  • For business transfers: we may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • With affiliates: we may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with Us.
  • With business partners: we may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
  • With your consent: we may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
  • With law enforcement: the Company may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

IV. Data Security and Retention

We seek to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures based on the type of Personal Data and how we are processing that data. Although we work to protect the security of your account and other data that we hold in our records, please be aware that no method of transmitting data over the Internet or storing data is completely secure. We cannot guarantee the complete security of any data you share with us, and except as expressly required by law, we are not responsible for the theft, destruction, loss or inadvertent disclosure of your information or content.

We retain Personal Data about you for as long as we have a business purpose to do so. In some cases, we retain Personal Data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule or regulation. We may further retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form where that information would not identify you personally.

V. Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent's consent before we collect and use that information.

VI. California Residents Rights under the CCPA

This privacy notice section for California residents supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy and it applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California. If you are a resident of California, you have the right to:

  • Be notified which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.
  • Request that we disclose information to you about our collection, use, sale, disclosure for business purposes, and share of personal information. Once we receive and confirm your request, we will disclose to you:

    • The categories of personal information we collected about you
    • The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you
    • Our business or commercial purposes for collecting or selling that personal information
    • The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information
    • The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you
    • If we sold your personal information or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, we will disclose to you: the categories of personal information categories sold, and the categories of personal information categories disclosed.
  • Direct us to not sell your personal information. To submit an opt-out request, please see the "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" section or contact Us.
  • Correct or rectify any inaccurate personal information about you that we collected. Once we receive and confirm your request, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct (and direct our Service Providers to correct) your personal information, unless an exception applies.
  • Request to limit the use or disclosure of certain sensitive personal information we collected about you, unless an exception applies. To submit, please see the "Limit the Use or Disclosure of My Sensitive Personal Information" section or contact Us.
  • Request the deletion of your Personal Data under certain circumstances, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your request, we will delete (and direct our Service Providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies. we may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our Service Providers to:

    • Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
    • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
    • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
    • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
    • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
    • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with Us.
    • Comply with a legal obligation.
    • Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
  • Not to discriminate against for exercising any of your consumer's rights, including by: 

    • Denying services to you
    • Charging different prices or rates for services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties
    • Providing a different level or quality of services to you
    • Suggesting that you will receive a different price or rate for services or a different level or quality of services

Deletion

You have the right to request that we delete the Personal Data that we have collected about you. Under the CCPA, this right is subject to certain exceptions: for example, we may need to retain your Personal Data to provide you with the Services or complete a transaction or other action you have requested. If your deletion request is subject to one of these exceptions, we may deny your deletion request.

Exercising your Rights

Please see the "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" section and "Limit the Use or Disclosure of My Sensitive Personal Information" section for more information on how to opt out and limit the use of sensitive information collected. Additionally, in order to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, and if you are a California resident, you can contact us by email: privacy@collidecap.com

Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable request related to your personal information. Your request to us must:

  • Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
  • Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with the required information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request, or if we cannot confirm that the personal information relates to you.

We will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable request's receipt.

For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily usable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

As defined in the CCPA, "sell" and "sale" mean selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer's personal information by the Business to a third party for valuable consideration.

Over the past 12 months, we have not sold any Personal Data to third parties. We also do not sell the Personal Data of minors under 16 years of age.

Limit the Use or Disclosure of My Sensitive Personal Information

If you are a California resident, you have the right to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information to that use which is necessary to perform the services reasonably expected by an average Consumer who requests such services.

We collect, use and disclose sensitive personal information in ways that are necessary to provide the Service. For more information on how we use your personal information, please see the "Use of your Personal Data" section or contact us.

VII. Other State Law Privacy Rights

  • California Resident Rights - Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to contact us to prevent disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes; in order to submit such a request, please contact us at privacy@collidecap.com.
  • Nevada Resident Rights - If you are a resident of Nevada, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of certain Personal Data to third parties who intend to license or sell that Personal Data. You can exercise this right by contacting us at privacy@collidecap.com with the subject line “Nevada Do Not Sell Request” and providing us with your name and the email address associated with your account. Please note that we do not currently sell your Personal Data as sales are defined in Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A.

VIII. Third-Party Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

IX. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

X. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us by email: privacy@collidecap.com