This Privacy Policy explains what we do with your personal data. It describes how we collect, use and process your personal data, and how, in doing so, we comply with our legal obligations. This Privacy Policy applies to the personal data of investors, directors (or, to the extent relevant, employees, officers or similar), agents, service providers, website users, and other people whose personal data we may process.

For the purpose of applicable data protection legislation (including but not limited to The Data Protection (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2017 and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (the "GDPR"), the company responsible for the personal data you provide to us is HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited of BNP Paribas House, St Julian’s Avenue, St Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 1WA ("HVPE", "we", "us" or "our").

It is important to point out that we may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please visit this page if you want to stay up to date, as we will post any changes here. If you are dissatisfied with any aspect of our Privacy Policy, you may have legal rights. We have described these in the document as well where relevant.

How do we collect personal data?

We collect personal data in a number of ways. This will usually be collected by service providers to HVPE, such as the registrar or receiving agent, for example when you become a shareholder in HVPE or where you provide personal data on request from us. We may also receive personal data when you contact us or the company secretary, registrar or administrator (or other service provider) directly by phone, email or by other means. Personal data may also be provided to us by service providers for the purposes of marketing to prospective investors.

What personal data do we collect?

We describe below the types of personal data we may collect:

  • We may collect personal data including your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, job title and identification documents, or any other information which you provide to us.
  • To the extent that you access our website we will also collect certain data from you, as described below in our Cookies Policy.

How do we use personal data?

We, or service providers acting on our behalf, use personal data in the following ways:

  • If you are a shareholder (whether the registered or beneficial holder) we use your personal information in the following ways:
    • to comply with legal and/or regulatory requirements;
    • to carry out anti-money laundering and "Know Your Customer" checks in accordance with our legal and regulatory obligations;
    • storing your details (and updating them when necessary) on the shareholder register;
    • contacting you in relation to your shareholding;
    • where you are a current or former shareholder, contacting you by email or telephone to promote the Company's shares or send you literature relating to the Company; and
    • keeping records of conversations and correspondence.

We may use your personal data for such purposes if we deem this to be necessary for our legitimate interests provided these interests are not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights or freedoms of the individuals concerned.

If you are not happy about this, in certain circumstances you have the right to object and can find out more about how and when to do this in this policy.

  • If you are a prospective shareholder we use your personal information in the following ways:
    • to carry out anti-money laundering and "Know Your Customer" checks in accordance with our legal and regulatory obligations; and
    • keeping records of conversations and correspondence.

We may use your personal data for such purposes if we deem this to be necessary for our legitimate interests provided these interests are not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights or freedoms of the individuals concerned.

If you are not happy about this, in certain circumstances you have the right to object and can find out more about how and when to do this in this policy.

  • For marketing activities to non-shareholders:
    • We may use your personal data to contact you by email or telephone to promote the Company's shares or send you literature relating to the Company (except where you have asked us not to).
    • Subject to any applicable local laws and requirements, we will only send non-shareholders marketing information when you have an existing relationship with the Company and/or have confirmed, by opting-in, that you wish to be contacted by us.
    • You have the right to opt out of receiving marketing materials from us at any time.
  • For legal reasons: In some circumstances, we may use your personal data to help us to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
  • Service provider data: We will use information about individuals at our service providers in the following ways:
    • to store (and update when necessary) details, either ourselves or at another service provider, so that we can contact individuals in relation to our agreements with service providers;
    • to obtain support and services from the service providers; and
    • facilitating our invoicing processes.

We may use personal data from our service providers for such purposes if we deem this to be necessary for our legitimate interests provided these interests are not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights or freedoms of the individuals concerned.

  • Directors' data: We will use information about our directors in the following ways:
    • to comply with legal and/or regulatory requirements;
    • contacting them in relation to their directorships; and
    • keeping records of conversations and correspondence.

We, or our service providers on our behalf, may provide personal data to our other service providers, provided that the data is used for the purposes described above. We may also share personal data with our group companies, but again, only for the purposes described above.

How do we store and transfer your data internationally?

In order to carry out the activities described in this Privacy Policy, your data may be transferred between and within entities within our corporate group, to third parties (such as regulatory authorities, advisers or other service providers to HVPE (or their group companies)), to a cloud-based storage provider, and to other third parties, as referred to here.

We want to make sure that your data are stored and transferred in a way that is secure. We will therefore only transfer data outside of Guernsey, the European Economic Area ("EEA") (i.e. the Member States of the European Union, together with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) where it is compliant with data protection legislation and the means of transfer provides adequate safeguards in relation to your data, for example:

  • by way of data transfer agreement, incorporating the current standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission for the transfer of personal data by data controllers in the EEA to data controllers and processors in jurisdictions without adequate data protection laws; or
  • in the case of transfer to the US, the transfer is made to an entity certified under the EU – US Privacy Shield or equivalent; or
  • transferring your data to a country where there has been a finding of adequacy by the European Commission in respect of that country's levels of data protection via its legislation; or
  • where it is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between ourselves and a third party and the transfer is in your interests; or
  • where you have consented to the data transfer.

To ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection, we have put in place appropriate procedures with the third parties we share your personal data with to ensure that your personal information is treated by those third parties in a way that is consistent with and which respects the law on data protection.

How do we keep personal data secure?

We are committed to taking all reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the personal data that we (or third parties on our behalf) hold from misuse, loss, or unauthorised access. We do this by having in place a range of contractual standards (relating to, amongst other matters, appropriate technical and organisational measures) in agreements with our service providers. These include measures to deal with any suspected data breach. If you suspect any misuse or loss of or unauthorised access to your personal data please let us know immediately. Details of how to contact us can be found below.

How long do we keep personal data?

We, or our service providers on our behalf, will ordinarily process your data throughout the course of our interactions and will then generally retain it for an appropriate period afterwards. The precise length of time will depend on the type of data, our legitimate business needs and other legal or regulatory rules that may require us to retain it for certain minimum periods. In other instances, there may be legal, regulatory or risk-management reasons for retaining data, including where certain data might be relevant to any potential litigation (bearing in mind relevant limitation periods).

In determining the appropriate retention period for different types of personal data, we always consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data in question, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of that personal data, the purposes for which we need to process it and whether we can achieve those purposes by other means (in addition to ensuring that we comply with our legal, regulatory and risk-management obligations, as described above).

Once we have determined that we no longer need to hold your personal data, we will delete it from our systems.

Your legal rights in respect of your personal data

You have the right to ask for a copy of the personal data which we, or service providers on our behalf, hold about you, subject to certain exceptions. If any of the personal data which we hold about you is incorrect or out of date, please let us know and we will correct it.

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data if it is being used because we deem it necessary for our legitimate interests. Where we have obtained your consent to process personal data for certain activities, you may withdraw this consent at any time and we will cease to carry out that particular activity unless we consider there to be an alternative reason to justify our continuing to do so, in which case we will inform you of the reason.

You also have the right to erase any personal data we hold about you and/or request that it be transferred to another data controller (again, subject to certain exceptions).

Please note that if you exercise any of the rights listed above, we may no longer have the personal data (e.g. contact details, financial information, etc.) necessary to comply with our obligations to you following such request.

Contacting us

If you would like to exercise any of your rights, or learn more about your rights, please contact the company secretary and administrator: BNP Paribas Securities Services BNP Paribas House St Julian’s Avenue St Peter Port Guernsey GY1 1WA, or email: [email protected].

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, including in Guernsey or the EU member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement. The UK regulator for data protection is the Information Commissioner and its contact details are: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF; telephone: 0303 123 1113; email: [email protected]. The Guernsey regulator for data protection is the Office of the Data Protection Authority and its contact details are: Office of the Data Protection Authority, St Martin’s House, Le Bordage, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 1BR; telephone: +44 (0) 1481742074; email: [email protected].

Cookies Policy

When you visit HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited’s website, Investis uses cookies, which are small pieces of information that allow them to maintain your connection to the website. This website may use cookies for detecting what kind of device you have in order to present content in the best way, for a language switch and/or for other purposes. These cookies do not collect or store any personally identifiable information. You can refuse the use of cookies.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (‘Google’). Google Analytics uses cookies (text files placed on your computer) to help the website operators analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Data collected

We may automatically process some technical data such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address to identify what companies have interacted with the website. This processing only identifies a company name and will not be used to identify an individual.

How Do We Use Your IP address?

We use your IP address to track traffic flows and to make our websites easier for you to use and to better understand how our websites are used.

Sharing Tools

This website uses sharing tools. Sharing tools allow you to share content through social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. When you use one of these buttons, the social networking site may place a cookie on your computer. This would be a third-party cookie set by the social networking site. If you have any questions about the use of these third-party cookies, you should check the relevant social networking site's cookie policy.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, if you do this you may lose some useful functionality such as personalisation and ‘keep me signed in’ and ‘remember me’ features.

How to disable cookies in your browser

Cookie namePurpose1st or 3rd PartyEssential or  Non-EssentialDuration (lifespan of the cookie)
__Secure-3PSIDCCThese cookies are used to deliver ads that are more relevant to you and your interestsThirdNon-Essential2 years
__Secure-3PSIDThese cookies are used to deliver ads that are more relevant to you and your interestsThirdNon-Essential2 years
__Secure-3PAPISIDThese cookies are used to deliver ads that are more relevant to you and your interestsThirdNon-Essential2 years
__Secure-1PAPISIDTargeting cookie. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertisingThirdNon-Essential2 years
__Secure-1PSIDTargeting cookie. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertisingThirdNon-Essential2 years
SIDCCThese cookies are intended for storing user’s settings in the search engine, for advertising and for analysing the use of the search engine recorded by Google for its purposesThirdNon-Essential1 year
SAPISIDThey are used by Google to store user preferences and information while viewing pages with Google Maps on themThirdNon-Essential2 years
APISIDThey are used by Google to store user preferences and information while viewing pages with Google Maps on themThirdNon-Essential2 years
SSIDThey are used by Google to store user preferences and information while viewing pages with Google Maps on themThirdNon-Essential2 years
HSIDThey are used by Google to store user preferences and information while viewing pages with Google Maps on themThirdNon-Essential2 years
SIDThey are used by Google to store user preferences and information while viewing pages with Google Maps on themThirdNon-Essential2 years
CookieControlCookie that shows accepted essentials and non-essentials cookiesFirstEssential1 year
disclaimer-cookieCookie for disclaimerFirstEssential1 year
downloads-disclaimer-cookieCookie for downloads disclaimerFirstEssential1 year
downloads-url-referrerCookie for downloads-url-referrerFirstEssential1 year
OptanonConsent,
OptanonAlertBoxClosed
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in formsFirstNon-Essential1 year
ASP.NET_SessionIdGeneral purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the serverFirstEssentialSession
1P_JARThese cookies are intended for storing user’s settings in the search engine, for advertising and for analysing the use of the search engine recorded by Google for its purposesThirdNon-Essential1 month
NIDTo provide ad delivery or retargeting, store user preferencesThirdNon-Essential6 months
OTZThese cookies are intended for storing user’s settings in the search engine, for advertising and for analysing the use of the search engine recorded by Google for its purposesThirdNon-Essential2 months
DVThey are used by Google to store user preferences and information while viewing pages with Google Maps on themThirdNon-Essential1 day
_gaThis cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reportsFirstNon-Essential2 year
p2The cookies is set by ownerIQ for the purpose of providing relevant advertisementThirdNon-Essential1 week
siThe cookies is set by ownerIQ for the purpose of providing relevant advertisementThirdNon-Essential5 years
p_locc_user_id_expiryCookies used to share content and connect with social networksThirdNon-EssentialFrom session to 2 years
vglnk.Agent.pCollects data on visitor behavior from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement. This also allow the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisementThirdNon-Essential1 year
c_idpossibility of sharing content on social media, tracking of social media statistics (e.g., likes and shares of blog posts)ThirdNon-Essential2 years
uidThese cookies are used to track your usage of the site and ensure that the target adverts you see are relevant to you and your interestThirdNon-EssentialFrom 2 days to 3 months
_gidUsed to identify unique usersThirdNon-Essential1 day
OTZThese cookies are intended for storing user’s settings in the search engine, for advertising and for analysing the use of the search engine recorded by Google for its purposesThirdNon-Essential2 months
_mkto_trkTo store and track interactionThirdNon-Essential2 years
_gatUsed by Google Analytics to throttle request rateFirstNon-Essential1 day
UMB_UCONTEXT_C
UMB-XSRF-V
UMB-XSRF-TOKEN
UMB_UCONTEXT

These cookies are essential for our site, but are only seen by site administrators whilst accessing the website content management system (CMS). They are used in maintaining the session state of the logged in userThirdEssential1 year
__cf_bmunknownNon-Essential
AECunknownNon-Essential