CHANY VENTURES PRIVACY POLICY

Revised and Effective December 20, 2023

Chany Ventures S.A. de C.V. together with its affiliated entities (“Chany Ventures”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, process, and share Personal Data, your Rights and Choices, and other important information about how we handle your Personal Data.

NAVIGATION

APPLICABILITY OF THE PRIVACY POLICY

CATEGORIES AND SOURCES OF PERSONAL DATA

DATA PROCESSING CONTEXTS / NOTICE AT COLLECTION

PROCESSING PURPOSES

DISCLOSURE/SHARING OF PERSONAL DATA

YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

SECURITY

THIRD PARTY SITES AND SERVICES

USER GENERATED CONTENT

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

RETENTION

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

CONTACT US

REGIONAL SUPPLEMENTS

APPLICABILITY OF THE PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy applies to our “Services” where link to or post this Privacy Policy, including our other services, offerings, and other interactions (e.g., customer service inquiries, or your participation in user conferences, community events, etc.)

If you do not agree with the data practices described in this Privacy Policy, you should not use our Services.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to any third party applications or software that integrate with the Services through our Site (“Third Party Services”), or any other third party products, services or businesses.

CATEGORIES AND SOURCES OF PERSONAL DATA

The following describes how we process data relating to identified or identifiable individuals and households (“Personal Data”).

Categories of Personal Data We Process

The categories of Personal Data we process may include:

Audio/Visual Data: Recordings such as audio files and records (e.g., voice mails, call recordings, and the like).

Biographical Data: Data relating to professional and employment history, qualifications, and similar biographic information.

Contact Data: Identity Data that includes personal and business contact information, such as postal address, email address, telephone number, or other identifiers used for communication.

Content: Unstructured or free-form content that you post on our Site or Platform that may include Personal Data (e.g., text, images, photographs, messages, comments, feedback, and correspondence).

Commercial Data: Information relating to transactions and purchases, registrations through our Site, and related information (e.g. pricing, ticket quantity, etc.)

Device/Network Data: Information regarding your interaction with a website, application, or advertisement (e.g., IP Address, MAC Address, SSIDs, etc.), online user ID, device characteristics (such as browser/OS version), web server logs, application logs, cookie data, web beacons, clear GIFs, pixel tags, and information about how you use our Site and interact with us.

Identity Data: Information such as your name; address; email address; telephone number; gender; date of birth, age and/or age range; photo/avatar; account login details (e.g., username and password); and information such as unique IDs and online identifiers.

Inference Data: Data such as preferences, characteristics, predispositions, behavior, demographics, household characteristics, market segments, likes, favorites, and other data (e.g. preferences for marketing communications and details about how you engage with them).

Sensitive Data: -Personal Data deemed “sensitive” or “special categories of Personal Data”. We collect the following categories of Sensitive Personal Data:

  • “Government ID Data” Data relating to official government identification, such as driver’s license or passport numbers, including similar Identity Data protected as Sensitive Data under applicable law.

  • “Health” data relating to your health.

  • “Payment Data” Information such as bank account details, payment card information, including similar data protected as Sensitive Data under applicable law, and relevant from a Payment transaction.

  • “Race or Ethnic Origin” data relating to your race, ethnicity, or national origin.

  • “Sexual Orientation” data relating to your sexual orientation or identity.

  • “Religion” data relating to your religious or philosophical beliefs.

Sources of Personal Data We Process

We collect Personal Data from various sources, which include:

Data you provide us: We receive Personal Data when you provide them to us when you purchase our products or services, complete a transaction via our Services, or when you otherwise use our Services.

Service Providers: We receive Personal Data from service providers performing services on our behalf.

Event partners: We receive Personal Data from Event partners when you direct them to disclose Personal Data to us or interact with us through the Event partner.

Aggregators and advertisers: We receive Personal Data from ad networks, data brokers, market research, or similar companies who provide us with additional Personal Data, e.g. Inference Data.

Social media companies: We receive Personal Data from Social Media sites (e.g. LinkedIn) when you use social media sign-on, or interact with that social media company on or in connection with our Services, or link to your social media accounts.

Data we create or infer: We, certain partners, social media companies, and third parties operating on our behalf, create and infer Personal Data such as Inference Data or aggregate data based on our observations or analysis of other Personal Data, and we may correlate this data with other data we process about you.

DATA PROCESSING CONTEXTS / NOTICE AT COLLECTION

Events, Programs, and Our Platform

You may give us Personal Data when you apply for a Chany Ventures program or otherwise submit information to us through the Services or other communications with us. For example:

  • We may collect Commercial Data, Contact Data, Identity Data, and Payment Data when you register for an Event or enter into a commercial transaction (“Transaction Data”).

  • We may collect Identity Data, Contact Data, Biographical Data, Content, Government ID, Protected Class Data, or Sensitive Data when you submit an application to one of our programs (“Application Data”).

In certain cases (such as in connection with our Diversity and inclusion efforts), we may collect and share with parties you authorize, Sensitive Data such as Race or Ethnic Origin, Religion, Health, or Sexual Orientation. Additional information regarding these programs, how your Personal Data will be shared, and the parties that may receive it, are available within the program descriptions we provided at the time you agreed to participate in the program.

We process this Personal Data to create and maintain your account, to operate our Events and programs, to provide the products and services you request, or to perform or initiate a transaction with you. Our Platform, Events, and programs are designed to connect you with founders, investors, and the broader community, and we will disclose the Personal Data we collect in these contexts (other than Government ID Data or Payment Data) with partners, mentors, and user groups with which you interact or direct us to disclose data through our Services. Some posts may be public. Unless posted publicly, we disclose Sensitive Data only with your consent and allow you to limit use or disclosure as required by law. You may revoke your consent to the processing of Sensitive Data at any time.

We also process this data for our Business Purposes. We process Sensitive Data only for the Business Purposes expressly permitted under applicable law. We may process Identity Data, Biographical Data, Contact Data, Content, and Commercial Data for Commercial Purposes. We do not sell or “share” Personal Data collected in this context.

Linking to Social Networking Sites

We process Identity Data, Contact Data, Biographical Data, Content, and other Personal Data you agree to share when you connect with social networking service (“SNS”) through our Site or Platform. You may authorize the SNS to provide this information via your settings on that SNS. You can revoke our access to the information you provide in this way at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.

We process this data in order to add information to your account on our Site or Platform, populate your bio for Events, and build your Profile. We also process this data for our Business Purposes. We may process Identity Data, Biographical Data, and Content for Commercial Purposes. We process Sensitive Data (if any) only for the Business Purposes expressly permitted under applicable law. We do not sell or “share” Personal Data collected in this context.

Event Recordings

As part of our Services, we host, coordinate, and operate community events, Demo Days, mentor sessions, and other public or private events (“Events”) where you may engage with Chany Ventures, founders, teams, sponsors, investors, and other community members. We may create audio or visual recordings of these events, take photographs, conduct interviews or surveys, or conduct similar activities at these Events (“Event Recordings”), and we will collect and process, Audio/Visual Data comprising these Event Recordings.

We or our event sponsors or participants may use those Event Recordings and related Audio/Visual Data as part of our marketing and promotional activities. Further, we may also publish the Event Records, including Audio/Visual Data or Identity Data, in connection with our documentation of or publicity relating to those Events, for example, on the Chany Ventures website or a relevant Event-specific page. We also process this data for our Business Purposes. We do not sell or “share” Personal Data collected in this context.

Releases and Your Rights: We may seek your consent or a release from you in the event the nature of our processing requires such consent or release. However, in certain circumstances, we may process or publish certain videos, images, etc. without your consent, such as when we publish on an Event page certain Event Recordings that include images of groups or crowds in attendance at an Event. You may object to the processing of your Personal Data in connection with Event Recordings during the Event by speaking with organizers of the Event, or afterwards, by contacting us using the information below. The processing of Personal Data in connection with Event Recordings may be subject to additional terms and conditions to which you are a party (e.g. a release or consent) that will supersede the nature of processing or individual rights described in this Privacy Policy to the extent in conflict.

Use of our Sites and Platform

Generally

We may collect Content, e.g. in the form of messages or content that you submit through our Sites.

We use this Personal Data as necessary to operate our Site, such as keeping you logged in, delivering pages, etc., for our Business Purposes, and our other legitimate interests, such as:

  • ensuring the security of our website and other technology systems;

  • analyzing the use of our Services, including navigation patterns, clicks, etc. to help understand and make improvements to the Services; and

  • to deliver messages and Content to partners, mentors and user groups at your request.

Except as described in the Cookies and Similar Technology section below, we do not sell or “share” Personal Data collected in this context.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We process Identity Data, Contact Data, and Inference Data, in connection with our use of cookies and similar technologies on our Sites. We may collect this data automatically.

We and authorized third parties may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

  • For “Essential” purposes - these cookies and similar technologies are essential to provide you with services available through our Site and to enable you to use some of its features (e.g. to keep you logged in as you navigate between web pages).

  • For “Functional” purposes – these cookies and similar technologies enable certain features or functionality on our Service, such as to enable certain features of our (e.g. to allow a customer to maintain an online shopping cart.)

  • For “Analytics” purposes – these cookies and similar technologies help us operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Site. For example, we use Google Analytics to improve how our Site works, so that we can understand usage patterns on the Site, and similar purposes. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here and about how Google protects your data here. You can prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our Site by downloading and installing the browser plugin available here. See the “Your Rights and Choices” section below for more information.

  • For “Advertising” purposes - These cookies and similar technologies enable “retargeting” and other forms of Targeted Advertising.

  • For “Social Media” purposes - These cookies and similar technologies allow you to share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our Site, link your SNS account to our Services, or engage with our content on or through a SNS such as Facebook or LinkedIn. The SNS may record that you have done this and may collect additional Personal Data about you, or link it to other Personal Data they hold about you, as described further by the SNS. Please see the applicable SNS privacy policy for more detail.

Personal Data processed for purposes of Targeted Advertising and Social Media may involve a sale or "sharing" of Personal Data.

Marketing Communications

We or our third party partners, mentors, and members of the Techstars network process Identity Data Contact Data, Device/Network Data, Biographical, and Inference Data to send you updates, newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials. You may receive marketing communications if you request information from us, register on our Site, or participate in our surveys, promotions or events, where allowed by law, or with your consent.

We process this Personal Data to contact you about relevant products or services and for our Business Purposes. We may tailor marketing communications based on your Profile, publicly available information, or information obtained through the Techstars network, Events you have attended, or your participation in Techstars Services. You will have the ability to opt out of such communications. We do not sell or “share” Personal Data collected in this context; however, you may receive marketing communications from third parties that received your Personal Data from us at your direction or through your interactions with them through our Services.

Contact us; support

We process Identity Data, Contact Data, and Content when you contact us, e.g. through a contact us form, or for support. If you call us via phone, we may collect Audio/Visual data from the call recording (subject to any required consents).

We process this Personal Data to respond to your request, and communicate with you, as appropriate, and for our Business Purposes. If you consent or if permitted by law, we may use Identity Data and Contact Data to send you marketing communications and for our Commercial Purposes. We do not sell or “share” Personal Data collected in this context.

Feedback and surveys

We process Identity Data, Contact Data, Preference Data, and Content collected in connection with Event or partner surveys or questionnaires. We process this Personal Data as necessary to respond to guest requests/concerns, for our Business Purposes, and other legitimate interests, such as:

analyzing participants experiences satisfaction; and

to allow our corporate partners to communicate with participants.

We may share Feedback/Survey data relating to third party partners with those partners, who may use it for their own purposes. We do not sell or “share” Personal Data collected in this context.