As data controller, The Family is strongly committed to protecting your personal data (hereinafter referred to as "Personal Data" or "Data"), as defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter referred to as "Regulations").

 

This Privacy Policy transparently outlines the manner in which The Family collects, stores, uses and discloses your Personal Data when you visit the Website, accessible on https://www.thefamily.co/ (the "Website") and/or when you request services or information offered on the Website (in the “Services" section).

When appropriate, this Policy is supplemented by our General Terms and Conditions of Services, as well as by the required information provided in our Data Collection Forms.

 

By using the Website, you accept this Privacy Policy.

 

Personal Data You Provide

If you wish to benefit from the Services offered by The Family on certain pages of the Website, The Family is required to collect, directly or indirectly, the following Data which are strictly necessary to use the Services:

 

“Apply now”: company’s name, information about the activity, the target and/or the project website, email, revenue information, country, introduction video, message.

 

“Attend Demo Day”: email, first name, last name, title, company, LinkedIn profile, AngelList profile, number of startup investments per year, average check size, preferences (stage, sector, geographies).

 

“The Family’s Newsletter”: email.

 

If such information is not provided, The Family will not be able to perform the Services you have requested. However, it is not required to provide Personal Data to visit and navigate the Website.

 

In addition, when consulting the Website, The Family may collect certain Data through cookies placed on your device. The terms and conditions of collection are provided in the provisions dedicated to Cookies.

 

Use and processing of your Data

Legal basis for the collection and processing of Data

In general, The Family processes your Personal Data only on the basis of the following legal purposes:

• Processing that is necessary to perform the Services offered on its Website;

• Processing that is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation;

• Processing that is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by The Family or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your own interests, freedoms and fundamental rights.

 

Purposes of Data Collection

The Personal Data we collect is necessary for the performance of the Services offered by The Family on the Website and, more precisely, to achieve the following goals and purposes:

• management of the company's communications;

• management of registrations for events organized by the company;

• management of applications

• processing of your requests via the Website

• improvement of the content and navigability of the Website.

 

Who Receives Your Data

The Data collected is intended for The Family only. The recipients of the Data are The Family employees/members authorized to process such Data due to the position they hold (persons in charge of communications, recruitment and Data Protection Officer).

 

The Personal Data collected may, however, be communicated to third parties contracted by The Family, for the performance of subcontracted services and/or services necessary for the performance of the Services (e.g. service providers in charge of The Family's external communications). Before any transfer of information, we verify whether the purpose of each request is compliant and guarantee the transfer of the information strictly necessary for the execution of the Services by the service provider.

 

To date, the identified service providers are:

• the Website’s webmaster;

• the host of the Website, Wix.com;

• Microsoft Clarity

• Google Analytics (if access was accepted when requesting consent to cookies)

 

As such, it is specified that these third parties will only have limited access to the Data necessary for the performance of their services and will be required to use them in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations.

 

The Family does not, under any circumstances, transfer, sell or lease the collected Data to third parties, whether it be for a fee or free of charge.

 

Furthermore, in cases where the law requires or authorizes it to do so, in particular because of a court decision or any other legal request or requirement, The Family may disclose such Data to third parties.

 

Transfer of your Data

The Website is hosted on servers located in the United States of America, Ireland, South Korea, Taiwan and Israel.

 

The Family stores Personal Data on secure servers located in the European Union.

 

In the case where the collected Data is transferred to companies located in the United States or in countries that do not provide an adequate level of protection, The Family commits to entering into agreements with the recipients concerned to ensure that the Personal Data transferred is adequately protected. In particular, these transfers may be governed by standard contractual clauses validated by the European Commission in accordance with the regulations in force.

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Data storage

The Family retains Personal Data for no longer than necessary for the performance of the Services and, more generally, for the aforementioned purposes for which it was collected, subject to The Family’s legal obligations to retain specific data or to the legal boundaries for archiving and anonymizing data.

The necessary retention period of Personal Data is defined according to the quantity, nature and sensitivity of the Data, the potential risk of damage in the event of fraudulent use or disclosure, the purpose assigned to processing the Data, and whether it is possible to achieve this purpose by other means, as well as the applicable legal requirements.

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You will find below an informative list of the time limits for storing the Data. For more information on how long your Personal Data is kept for a specific purpose, please contact us at the following address: gdpr@thefamily.co.