Privacy Policy
Garage Technology Ventures Canada Internet Privacy Policy
Garage Technology Ventures Canada (“Garage Canada”) is committed to ensuring that the information you have entrusted with us will be handled in a responsible manner.
The information below outlines our policy on how we use the information that you provide to us, or that we may collect through the use of our website.
Collection of Personal Information
Garage Canada uses its website primarily as a tool for identifying investment opportunities and as a recruiting tool. Users of the website may therefore send investment proposals or résumés containing personal information.
Garage Canada collects and stores the information that it receives. This may include personal contact information such as name, address, e-mail address, demographic data, telephone and fax numbers.
Additionally, we may also collect personal information through the website by using cookies and clicktrails. All information collected by means of cookies or clicktrails will be aggregated and only used by Garage Canada to develop and track traffic patterns and the volume of use of its website. If you do not want to receive a cookie from the website, you may set your browser to refuse cookies or to notify you when you receive a cookie, which you may then refuse upon such notice.
Use and Disclosure of Personal Information
Garage Canada may use personal information submitted by its users for specific purposes, including:
Following up on business plans, comments and other messages that users submit to Garage Canada;
Contacting and recruiting individuals who submit résumés through its or a third party's website;
Compiling aggregate statistics of the use of its website;
Maintenance and administration of the Garage Canada website.
For parties seeking investment, Garage Canada may provide contact information, including names and addresses submitted to us through our website or otherwise, to investors we deem reputable. Furthermore, with the consent of parties seeking investment interest, we may share their business plans and selected information submitted to us through our website or otherwise with investors we deem reputable.
In addition we may share all of the non-public personal information we collect with:
Third parties as may be necessary to service or process a service or investment requested or authorized by you, or to effect, administer, or enforce a transaction requested or authorized by you. Third parties may include financial providers, such as other broker-dealers, other investment firms and investors, and non-financial providers, such as data processing companies, compliance support organizations, and marketing organizations.
Service providers, including those providing marketing services (such as mailing, events management, marketing analysis, and similar services), compliance services, legal services, accounting, institutional brokerage services, and systems support.
Affiliates and partners, including Garage Technology Ventures (located in Silicon Valley) and providers of general business support, capital and services to startup companies.
We may be required by law, court order, governmental agency, or law enforcement authority to disclose your personally identifiable information. We may also disclose your information to law enforcement authorities investigating suspected illegal activity.
Correcting, Updating and Removing Personal Information
Additionally, in the event that a user of the Garage Canada website does provide personal information and later wishes to have Garage Canada remove the personal information, please contact information@garagecanada.com in order to do so.
Data Security and Integrity
Garage Canada will use reasonable efforts to remove a user's personal information when it is no longer required for the purposes set forth above. However, Garage Canada cannot guarantee that the loss, misuse, alteration, destruction or retention of personal information will never occur, and makes no representations to this effect.
The public portions of our website are not encrypted or password-protected.
Third Party Websites
The Garage Canada website may provide links to third party websites. Garage Canada does not make any representations or warranties with respect to such third party websites. Users of the Garage Canada website should be aware the owners and operators of such third party websites might collect, use or transfer personal information under different terms and conditions than Garage Canada. Upon linking to a third party website, users of the Garage Canada should inform themselves of the privacy policies of such third party websites.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Internet Privacy Policy, please contact us at information@garagecanada.com.
Garage Canada reserves the right to amend this Internet Privacy Policy at its sole discretion at any time.