Privacy Policy

At VAI Capital we value your privacy

VAI Capital S.A. takes the privacy of your personal data very seriously. We handle your personal data confidentially and in accordance with any applicable Data Protection Laws. This Privacy Policy explains how we may collect, use, share, and safeguard information provided through this website.

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy as we may deem necessary from time to time or as may be required by law. Any changes will be immediately posted on the website and you are deemed to have accepted the terms of the privacy policy on your first use of the website following the alterations.

Collection of Personal Data

We may collect information online that identifies you (“Personally Identifiable Information“).

We collect information through this website:

  • Personally Identifiable Information collected via this website includes your name, organisation, job title and email address, if provided voluntarily via our newsletter subscription form or the contact us form.
  • We generally only collect Personal Identifiable Information from this website when it is provided voluntarily by you – for example, when you fill in a form on the contact us webpage or subscribe to our newsletter publications.
  • We do not collect cookies on this website.

In the course of our activities, we may also collect Personally Identifiable Information. This includes:

  • Professional contact data of representatives of clients (investors), prospects, investees (and some of their clients) and service providers (such as name, given name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, mobile number, company name, function, out-of-office information, gender, civil status);
  • Private contact and identification data of employees and applicants (such as name, given name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, mobile number, birth date, nationality, social security number, passport, ID);
  • Personal and professional data of employees and applicants;
  • Personal and identification data of employees of an investees (such as passports, ID’s, CV’s or other documents related to personal data).

Use of Personal Data

We will only use your personal data within the scope of our activities and/or the fulfilment of our contractual or statutory obligations. Personal data may be used by us for the following reasons:

  • To communicate with you in relation to your current or planned investment, project or other interest in our business (these communications may take place in various forms, including telephone, SMS, email and mail);
  • To provide continuous service to you (such as the transmission of information or marketing materials that may be of interest for you);
  • To meet regulatory or internal record keeping requirements.

Please note that at any time you may opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us. In this case, please contact us by using either the contact details below or the opt-out facilities provided in the marketing communications.

Sharing of Personal Data

We may on occasion be required to share your information with third parties who provide services on our behalf. Such third parties may include:

  • External service providers (such as IT services companies etc.);
  • External advisors (such as accountants, lawyers, consultants, auditors);
  • Other third parties where required,  under law, or in connection with legal proceedings.

In relation to any other third parties we will disclose your information where you have given your consent or where we are required to do so by law, or where it is necessary for the purpose of, or in connection with, legal proceedings or in order to exercise or defend legal rights.

We may however share e-mail addresses with third parties as necessary for them to perform certain services on our behalf, such as packaging, mailing and processing event registrations and to respond to your service requests.

We implement commercially reasonable security measures to help protect against unauthorised access to or unauthorised alteration, disclosure, or destruction of data. As our website is linked to the internet, and the internet is inherently insecure, we cannot provide any assurance regarding the security of transmission of information or data you communicate to us online. We also cannot guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the internet. Accordingly, any Personal Data or other information which you transmit to us online is transmitted at your own risk.

Retention of Personal Data

We retain information for as long as may be necessary to provide continuous service to you or to meet any of our contractual obligations, and longer where required by law. When Personal Data is no longer required by us, it is destroyed or de-identified.

Correction of Personal Data

We endeavor to keep your Personal Data accurate, complete, up to date and relevant. For this purpose we kindly ask you to let us know if any of your details change. If you believe that Personal Data we store about you is incorrect, incomplete, inaccurate or misleading, you may ask us to amend it.

Your rights

You can manage e-mail preferences, including opting out of e-mail by contacting us at www.vai.capital/contact-us.

You have a right to access most personal information we hold about you and to seek its correction or removal. Please contact us to ask for access to your information, or if you have a complaint concerning your information privacy. You also have the right to have any inaccurate information about you corrected.

However, please note that before providing you with access to information about you we will have to verify your identity. Furthermore, please note that at time there may be a legal reason why we must deny such access, in particular where granting access would interfere with the privacy of others or would result in a breach of confidentiality. Should such access be denied we would provide you with the reasons for any refusal in writing and the mechanisms available to complain about the refusal. There may be some charge to you to access such information. However, there is no charge for making a request or for making any corrections to your Personal Data.

You may contact us using the contact information below request access to your Personal Data. 

Contact Information

If you would like more information concerning this privacy policy and how it affects you, please contact the team at www.vai.capital/contact-us.