
Privacy Policy
Last Updated: December 01, 2021
Gaingels Management LLC and our affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively, "Gaingels," "we," "us," or "our") welcome you. Our collection and use of information from visitors to our website located at https://gaingels.com (the "Website") is subject to the following privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy"), which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you. By accessing or using the Website, and/or submitting an application for membership in the Gaingels Network, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.
The information we collect and how we use it
Gaingels Network
You are welcome to visit our Website to learn about the Gaingels Network, its mission and community activities. If you apply to join the Gaingels Network, you must complete the Membership Application (the "Application") which is accessible via the Website. The Application collects your contact information (typically name, email address, postal address, phone numbers), information regarding your qualifications as an investor, and optional demographic information. We process this information to evaluate your application to join the Gaingels Network, open your account, respond to your inquiries, enhance our understanding of network members, and provide relevant information on our Website. Gaingels may accept or reject your application to join the Gaingels Network at its discretion.
Cookies; Third-Party Analytics Providers
We may collect information using "cookie" and other similar technologies. Cookies are small packets of data that a website stores on your computer's or mobile device's hard drive (or other storage medium) so that your computer will "remember" information about your use. We use both first and third party session cookies and persistent cookies.
We use Google Analytics and may use more third–party analytics services to evaluate your use of the Website, as the case may be, by compiling reports on activity (based on their collection of IP addresses, Internet service provider, browser type, operating system and language, referring and exit pages and URLs, data and time, amount of time spent on particular pages, what sections of the Website you visit, number of links clicked, search terms and other similar usage data) and analyzing performance metrics. These third parties use cookies and other technologies to help collect, analyze, and provide us reports or other data. By accessing and using the Website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google Analytics and these analytics providers in the manner and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Please be advised that if you opt out of any service, you may not be able to use the full functionality of the Website.
Third Party Advertisers/Remarketers
We may share or receive information about you with/from third parties, including, but not limited to, advertising and remarketing providers, or similar partners, for purposes of personalizing or otherwise understanding how you engage with ads or other content. These third parties may use cookies, pixel tags, or other technologies to collect information in furtherance of such purposes, including to tailor, target (i.e., behavioral, contextual, retargeting, and remarketing), analyze, report on, and/or manage advertising campaigns or other initiatives. For example, when a browser visits a site, pixel tags enable us and these third-parties to recognize certain cookies stored within the browser to learn which ads or other content bring a user to a given site. Information that we may receive from these third parties, including through their service providers, may include advertising identifiers, IP addresses, reports, and campaign data.
By accessing and using the Website, you consent to the processing of data about you by these advertisers/remarketing providers in the manner and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. For more information on these third parties, including how to opt out from certain data collection, please visit the sites below. Please note that this list may be subject to change based on the campaigns that we run.
Onward Transfer to Third Parties
Like many businesses, we hire other companies to perform certain business-related services. We may disclose personal information to certain types of third party companies but only to the extent needed to enable them to provide such services.
In the event of a merger, dissolution, reorganization or similar corporate event, or the sale of all or substantially all of our assets, we expect that the information that we have collected, including personal information, would be transferred to the surviving entity in a merger or the acquiring entity. All such transfers shall be subject to our commitments with respect to the privacy and confidentiality of such personal information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. This policy shall be binding upon Gaingels and its legal successors in interest.
Disclosure to Public Authorities
We are required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including for the purpose of meeting national security or law enforcement requirements. We may also disclose personal information to other third parties when compelled to do so by government authorities or required by law or regulation including, but not limited to, in response to court orders and subpoenas.
Opt-out of direct marketing; email management
You may opt out at any time from the use of your personal information for direct marketing purposes by emailing the instructions to privacy@gaingels.com or by clicking on the "Unsubscribe" link located on the bottom of any Gaingels marketing email and following the instructions found on the page to which the link takes you. Please allow us a reasonable time to process your request. You cannot opt out of receiving transactional e-mails related to the Website.
How we protect your information
Gaingels takes very seriously the security and privacy of the personal information that it collects pursuant to this Privacy Policy. Accordingly, we implement reasonable security measures designed to protect your personal information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the risks involved in processing and the nature of such data, and to comply with applicable laws and regulations. Please understand, however, that no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases or the databases of the third parties with which we may share your information (as permitted herein), nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the Internet.
Children
The Website is intended for users 13 years or older; you are not permitted to access or use the Website if you are younger than 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 through the Website. If you are under 13, please do not give us any personal information. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided personal information to us, please contact us at privacy@gaingels.com and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.
Important notice to all no-us residents
Our servers are located in the US and elsewhere. Please be aware that your information may be transferred to, processed, maintained, and used on computers, servers, and systems located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your country of origin so you choose to use the Website at your own risk.
California privacy rights
Gaingels does not disclose personal information with third parties for direct marketing purposes.
Do not track
Gaingels does not respond to "Do Not Track" settings or other related mechanisms at this time.
Links to external websites
The Website contains links to third-party websites ("External Sites"). Gaingels does not endorse or recommend the External Sites, and has no control over the privacy practices or the content of any such External Sites. You should review the applicable privacy policies and terms of use when visiting External Sites and especially before providing your personal information. Gaingels is not responsible for the services, content or privacy practices of External Sites.
Changes to this privacy policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of the last updated date stated at the top of this Privacy Policy. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time with or without notice to you. By accessing the Website after we make any such changes to this Privacy Policy, you are deemed to have accepted such changes. Please be aware that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, our use of the information collected is governed by the Privacy Policy in effect at the time we collect the information. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy on a regular basis.