Privacy Policy
Kollab Ventures and its affiliates (together, Kollab or we) take your right to privacy seriously. We appreciate that you trust us with your personal information and respecting your privacy is at the core of our interactions with you.
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Effective Date: April 5th 2024
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Kollab Ventures Privacy Policy (Privacy Policy) describes the personal information that Kollab Ventures collects from or about users of the websites, mobile applications (Apps), widgets and other online and offline services that Kollab Ventures operates (together, the Services) and how we use and protect that personal information. This Privacy Policy also explains how users can make choices about their personal information.
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When we refer to personal information (sometimes referred to as personal data under some laws) in this Privacy Policy, we mean information that identifies or can be used to identify an individual human being. This means that personal information includes direct identifiers (such as name) and indirect identifiers (such as computer or mobile device ID and IP address). When we refer to you or user, we mean someone who uses any of the Services. When we refer to controller, we mean the person or entity that determines what personal information is collected from or about you and how that personal information is used and protected.
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How we collect, use and protect your personal information is subject to the laws in the places in which we operate. This means that we may have different practices in different places. For more information, please see Privacy Rights and Choices, which includes additional descriptions of your rights and our obligations in certain key jurisdictions and who to contact.
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IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW KOLLAB VENTURES PROCESSES YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT PRIVACY@KOLLABVENTURES.COM.
WHAT’S IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY?
This Privacy Policy is divided into the following sections:
1. WHEN DOES THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLY?
This Privacy Policy was posted and is effective for new users on [public posting date], 2024.
The prior versions of Kollab Venture’s privacy policies apply until [public posting date + 10 days] and are available upon request to privacy@kollabventures.com.
2. WHERE DOES THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLY?
The Privacy Policy applies to the personal information collected from users of the Services in which the Privacy Policy is posted or linked, when the Privacy Policy is specifically referenced in the Services or when Kollab Ventures asks you to acknowledge it. This Privacy Policy also covers personal information that we collect from consumers who contact us by email, telephone and offline, such as during an in-person event.
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This Privacy Policy also may apply to personal information provided to us by consumers who engage with us through social media. Please contact us at Privacy@kollabventures.com if you have questions about whether this Privacy Policy applies to specific personal information connected with social media.
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This Privacy Policy does not apply to websites and other online services operated by other organizations. Those other websites and services follow their own privacy policies, not this Privacy Policy. Please make sure to check those privacy policies so you know how your information is handled.
3. WHAT TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION DOES KOLLAB VENTURES COLLECT AND WHY?
a. Information you choose to give us
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We collect the personal information you choose to share with us.
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The personal information that you choose to give to us typically includes the following types of personal information. Please review below to learn more about the categories of personal information that Kollab Ventures collects and why it is collected:
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Contact information
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Kollab Ventures requests your first and last name, email address or mobile telephone number to create an account on the Services. We also may collect mailing address, government-issued identifier and similar contact information.
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To customize your experience of the Services
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To send information that we think will interest you, which is sometimes personalized based on the information associated with your account
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To request your feedback, such as through a survey about our services
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To respond to your questions and provide customer service
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For research and innovation
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User Generated Content (UGC)
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Kollab Ventures collects the posts, comments, opinions, voice recordings, photos and videos that you choose to submit through the Services
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To monitor online communities
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To record and act on your comments and opinions, such as in surveys, customer service inquiries and other free-form text boxes
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Photos, voice recordings and videos that you choose to share may constitute biometric data under some laws. Kollab Ventures collects biometric data only with your specific consent.
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b. Information automatically collected during use of the Services
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We automatically collect certain information from and about use of the Services from users’ computers and mobile devices. Some automatically-collected information is personal information under certain laws. This information is automatically collected using cookies, pixel, web beacons and similar data collection technology (collectively, data collection technology).
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The information that we automatically collect includes:
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information about your computer or mobile device, such as device type and identification number, browser type, internet service provider, mobile network and operating system
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IP address and broad geographic location (e.g., country or city-level location)
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how a computer or mobile device interacts with the Services, including the date and time the Services are accessed, search requests and results, mouse clicks and movements, specific webpages accessed, links clicked and videos watched
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traffic and usage measurements
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data about the third-party sites or services accessed before interacting with the Services, which is used to make advertising more relevant for users
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interactions with our marketing communications, such as whether and when a Kollab Ventures email is opened
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d. Information collected from third parties
From time to time, we receive personal information from third parties that we use to learn more about our users, personalize user experience and more effectively promote and improve the Services.
4. HOW DOES KOLLAB VENTURES USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Kollab Ventures uses personal information to provide and improve the Services, manage our business, protect users and enforce our legal rights.
5. DOES KOLLAB VENTURES USE COOKIES AND OTHER DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGY?
We use cookies and other data collection technology to recognize you and/or your device(s) when you use the Services and collect personal information about you.
6. HOW DOES KOLLAB VENTURES SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Kollab Ventures shares personal information with people and businesses that help operate the Services and carry out our business and when we are legally permitted or required to do so. We also share personal information when a user requests that we share it. We require that recipients of personal information from us comply with this Privacy Policy unless and until users are made aware that a different privacy policy or notice will apply.
7. HOW DOES KOLLAB VENTURES PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Kollab Ventures takes care to secure and safeguard the personal information entrusted to us. We use a variety of measures to help us protect personal information from unauthorized access and use.
8. HOW LONG DOES KOLLAB VENTURES RETAIN PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We retain personal information about a user for as long as user’s account is active and otherwise as long as necessary for the purposes described above. We also retain personal information as long as necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
9. WHAT CHOICES ARE AVAILABLE FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
You can make choices about Kollab Venture’s handling of your personal information. You can exercise your privacy rights by contacting Kollab Ventures by email at privacy@kollabventures.com or using various tools available through your browser or that Kollab Ventures makes available. In some cases, your ability to access or control your personal information is limited by applicable law.
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Opting out of Kollab Venture's Emails
To stop receiving promotional emails from Kollab Ventures, please click the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email. After you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as receipts for purchases or administrative information about your account.
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IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN A JURISDICTION WITH PRIVACY LAWS THAT OFFER YOU PRIVACY RIGHTS NOT DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE CONTACT US AT PRIVACY@KOLLABVENTURES.COM. We respect your privacy rights and will do our best to accommodate your requests.
10. WHEN IS THIS PRIVACY POLICY CHANGED?
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. The most current version always is available through the Services.
11. PRIVACY RIGHTS AND CHOICES FOR CA, CO, CT, UT, VA
Residents of the United States (CA, CO, CT, UT, VA)
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Residents of California. (https://www.kollabventures.com/contact). This California Privacy Notice (California Privacy Notice) applies to Kollab Venture’s processing of personal information of residents of the U.S. State of California (California Consumers) as required by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended (CCPA).
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If you are a California Consumer, this California Privacy Notice is designed to help you understand the categories of personal information that we collect about you, where we get that personal information, why we process it, who we share it with, and the rights you have to know and control your personal information. If this California Privacy Notice and any provision in the rest of our Privacy Policy conflict, then this California Privacy Notice controls for the processing of personal information of California Consumers. This California Privacy Notice does not apply to Kollab Venture’s employees, contractors, contingent workers, or job applicants.
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Notice at Collection
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For CCPA purposes, Kollab Ventures generally acts as a “Business” with respect to your personal information. A Business is similar to a Data Controller, which means that Kollab Ventures determines how and why the personal information that Kollab Ventures collects from or about you is handled.
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This Notice at Collection of personal information describes our personal information collection practices when we are acting as the Business, including a list of the categories of personal information we collect, the purposes for which we collect personal information and the sources from which we collect personal information.
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Although we already explain what personal information we collect and why above in this Privacy Policy, the CCPA requires that we make certain disclosures using the categories of personal information used in the definition of personal information in the CCPA.
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Category: Identifiers
Source: Directly from you
Purpose: Performing the Services of Advertising and Marketing
Third parties: Service providers, including marketing vendors, Affiliates and partners, Other third parties
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Category: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))
Source: Directly from you
Purpose: Performing the Services of Advertising and Marketing
Third parties: Service providers, including marketing vendors, Affiliates and partners, Other third parties
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Category: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law
Source: Directly from you
Purpose: Performing the Services of Advertising and Marketing
Third parties: Service providers, including marketing vendors, Affiliates and partners, Other third parties
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Category: Commercial information
Source: Directly from you
Purpose: Performing the Services
Third parties: Service providers, including marketing vendors, Affiliates and partners, Other third parties
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Category: Biometric information, which is information about your physiological, biological or behavioral characteristics
Source: Kollab Ventures does not collect this information as of the Effective Date
Purpose: Kollab Ventures does not collect this information as of the Effective Date
Third parties: Kollab Ventures does not collect this information as of the Effective Date
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Category: Internet or other electronic network activity
Source: Directly from you, Automatically collected during use of the Services
Purpose: Performing the Services
Third parties: Service providers, including marketing vendors, Affiliates and partners, Other third parties
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Category: Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information
Source: Directly from you
Purpose: Performing the Services
Third parties: Service providers
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Category: Professional or employment-related information
Source: Directly from you, From third parties
Purpose: Performing the Services, Advertising and Marketing
Third parties: Service providers, including marketing vendors, Affiliates and partners
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Category: Inferences drawn from other categories to create a profile about a California Consumer
Source: Kollab Ventures
Purpose: Advertising and Marketing
Third parties: Service providers, including marketing vendors, Affiliates and partners, Other third parties
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When we collect precise geolocation information for purposes of performing a Service you have requested, we are deemed to be collecting data that is “sensitive” under California law. Our use of this data for performing a Service you have requested is consistent with the permitted business purposes in California Civil Code § 1798.100 et seq. and implementing regulations.
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While we have disclosed personal information to third parties, we have no actual knowledge that we have sold or shared such information on anyone under 16 years old.
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Your California Consumer Privacy Rights
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CCPA offers California Consumers the following key privacy rights:
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Right to Access Information: You have the right to request access to personal information collected about you and information regarding the source of that information, the purposes for which we collect it and the third parties and service providers with whom we share it.
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Right to Request Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information that we have collected from you.
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Right to Correct: You have the right to correct inaccurate personal information about you. Note that correction requests are subject to certain limitations, and we may choose to delete rather than correct your personal information in some circumstances.
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Right to Opt-Out of Sale of Personal Information to Third Parties: Our disclosure of your personal information to third party advertising and analytics providers may constitute a sale under certain state laws and, in California, may also constitute “sharing” (which is a term used to address the sharing of information for advertising purposes). To the extent that our use constitutes a sale or sharing of your personal information, you have the right to opt-out by (a) enabling an opt-out preference signal or Global Privacy Control on your browser which is recognized by our U.S.-facing websites, (b) opting-out of cookies in our U.S.-facing websites’ cookie preference center, or (c) submitting an opt-out request at (https://www.kollabventures.com/contact).
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Right Against Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA. We will not deny you goods or services for exercising your rights; charge you a different price or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties, because you exercised your rights; provide you a different level or quality of goods or services because you exercised your rights; or suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services as a result of exercising your rights.
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To submit a request to exercise your California privacy rights, please:
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call us at: (+1) 770-294-2001
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email us at: www.kollabventures.com/contact
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To submit your request, please be prepared with your name, email address and place of residence. You may authorize another person (your agent) to submit a request on your behalf.
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We aim to complete requests as soon as reasonably practicable and consistent with any applicable laws. Please note that it may take additional time to verify and fulfill agent-submitted requests.
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Please note:
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We may (and in some cases are required to) verify your identity before we can act on your request to exercise your California privacy rights. After we receive and process your request, we will contact you using the email address provided in your request with instructions on how to verify your identify, after which we will check our records for matching information.
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We may not honor part or all your request – for example, certain information we collect may be exempt from this California Privacy Notice, such as public information made available by a government entity or information covered by a different privacy law. In these situations, we will explain why we do not honor your request when we respond to you.
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Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia.Privacy laws in these states give consumers certain rights with respect to their personal data. Kollab Ventures will honor these rights for any U.S. resident. They include:
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Right to Access Information: You have the right to access and obtain a copy of your personal data.
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Right to Request Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete personal data provided by or obtained about you.
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Right to Correct: You have the right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data.
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Right to Opt-Out: Our disclosure of your personal information to third party advertising and analytics providers may constitute a sale under certain state laws. In addition, we use cookies to serve targeted ads. You have the right to opt-out of these activities by (a) enabling an opt-out preference signal or Global Privacy Control on your browser which is recognized by our U.S.-facing websites, (b) opting-out of cookies in our U.S.-facing websites’ cookie preference center, or (c) submitting an opt-out request at https://www.kollabventures.com/contact.
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In addition, residents of Colorado, Connecticut and Virginia can appeal a decision with regard to their consumer privacy requests by contacting us by email at https://www.kollabventures.com/contact.
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