Privacy Policy

EarlyStageHub LLC ("Company," "we", "us," "our,") provides online and mobile services, including but not limited to, the Company website located at https://www.angelinvestboston.com/ the "Site"), computer programs and mobile applications hosted by or on behalf of Company (collectively, the "Service") intended to enhance your general knowledge in regards to angel investing and entrepreneurship. The Company may also offer products (the "Company Products") from time to time. The Company is committed to maintaining the privacy, integrity and security of any personal information about our users. This Privacy Policy ("Policy") explains how we protect personal information we collect in connection with your use of the Service and how we use and in some cases disclose that information. "Personal information" for purposes of this Policy means information that identifies you, such as your name, address, phone number, fax number or email address.

This Privacy Policy (this "Policy") is subject to the provisions our User Terms of Service (the “Terms of Use”), which are incorporated by reference. To see the Terms of Use click www.angelinvestboston.com/terms-of-service.

 

What Personal Information We Collect

Your use of the Services requires you to set up a user account on the Site (a "User Account").

  • When you sign up for a User Account, you are required to provide your name and an email address (collectively the "Registration Information").
  • The Company may use third-party vendors to manage and store the Registration Information.
  • Information that you add manually to the Service is stored in your Company User Account.

 

How We Use Your Personal Information

Company uses your personal information to:

  • Provide you with the Service;
  • Analyze Site usage and improve the Service;
  • Deliver to you any administrative notices and communications relevant to your use of the Company Products and Service;
  • Provide you with updates regarding Company Products and Services;
  • Perform internal market research, project planning, troubleshooting problems, and to detect and protect against error, fraud or other criminal activity.

 

Disclosure to Third Parties

At times Company may make certain personal information available to strategic partners that work with Company to provide services to you.  In such cases, your account with such third party will continue to be subject to that third party's privacy policy and your Company User Account will continue to be governed by this Policy.

Company may also share your personal information with companies who provide services such as information processing, order fulfillment, product delivery, customer data management, customer research and the like. These companies are obligated to protect your information and may be located wherever Company does business.

We may also disclose information about you if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our Terms of Use or protect our operations or users or if we are required to do so by any applicable law, rule, regulation, subpoena or other legal process. Additionally, in the event of a reorganization, merger, or sale we may transfer any and all personal information we collect to the relevant third party.

 

Use of Aggregated Anonymous User Data

Company may disclose non-personally identifiable aggregated user data, such as aggregated usage data gathered from Services (without the inclusion of a user's name or other identifying information) to:

  • Organizations approved by Company that conduct consumer research; and
  • Advertisers and other third parties for their marketing and promotional purposes.

 

Cookies and Other Technology

The Company Site and Service may use "cookies" and other technologies such as pixel tags and web beacons.

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers in the form of text files that are inserted and stored by your Web browser on your computer's hard drive. These technologies tell us which parts of our website you have visited, limit the number of times you see a Company offer, or help us better determine which Company offers you may like to see or to alert you to software compatibility issues. They are also used to analyze and improve our Service's design and functionality.

If you choose to delete cookies from your device or block them from being stored on your device, please note that the full functionality of the Service may not be available to you.

"Web beacons" are images embedded in a Web page or email for the purpose of measuring and analyzing Site usage and activity. Company, or third party service providers acting on our behalf, may use Web beacons to help us analyze Site usage and improve the Service.

We may use third party service providers to help us analyze certain online activities and improve our products and the Service. For example, these service providers may help us measure the performance of our online campaigns or analyze visitor activity on Company.com. We may permit these service providers to use cookies and other technologies to perform these services for Company. We do not share any personal information about our customers with these third party service providers, and these service providers do not collect such information on our behalf. Our third party service providers are required to comply fully with this Policy.

 

Information You Elect to Share With Others

If you use a message board, blog, journal or any other method of posting user-generated content on our Site or through the Service, you should be aware that such information can be read, collected or used by others and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in these areas.

 

Surveys

Company may ask you to participate in surveys designed to help Company improve the Service. Any personal information provided to Company in connection with any survey will be used only in relation to that survey and as elsewhere set forth in this Policy.

 

Children

We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under 13. If we discover that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personally identifying information, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.

 

Your Right to Delete Your Data

If you would like to cancel your Company account you may do so by mailing us at EarlyStageHub LLC, 1770 Massachusetts Avenue, Unit 593, Cambridge, MA 02140When you request cancellation of your account, your personally identifiable information will be deleted, including but not limited your email address, name, and photo(s). Archival copies of your account information that exist within our back-up system will be deleted in accordance with our normal back-up expiration schedule. Following cancellation or termination of your account, Company may continue to utilize de-identified and anonymized historical data associated with your use of the Company Products.

 

Email Communications From Us

We may provide our registered customers with summaries of their User Account data and email alerts. We also allow users to subscribe to email newsletters and from time to time may transmit emails promoting Company or third-party goods or services.

Company subscribers have the ability to opt-out of receiving our weekly summaries and promotional emails and to terminate their newsletter subscriptions by following the instructions provided in such emails.

Opting out in this manner will not end transmission of service-related emails, such as email alerts.

 

Data Security

We use a combination of firewall barriers, encryption techniques and authentication procedures, among others, to maintain the security of your data and to protect Company accounts and systems from unauthorized access.

It is important to understand that these precautions apply only to our Site and systems. We exercise no control over how your information is stored, maintained or displayed by third parties or on third-party sites.

 

International Users

Company's Services are hosted and operated entirely in the United States and are subject to United States law. Any personal information that you provide to Company is being provided to Company solely in the United States and will be hosted on United States servers. You consent to the transfer of your personal information to the United States. If you are accessing the Company Services from outside the United States, please be advised that United States law may not offer the same privacy protections as the law of your jurisdiction.

If you have a security related concern, please contact us at EarlyStageHub LLC, 1770 Massachusetts Avenue, Unit 593, Cambridge, MA 02140.

 

Updates to this Policy

We may update this Policy periodically. The date last revised appears at the bottom of the Policy. Changes take effect immediately upon posting.

 

Contact us if you have any questions or concerns

If you have questions, comments, concerns or feedback regarding this Policy or any other privacy or security concern, send an e-mail to our support.

This policy was last updated on March 17, 2017.