Privacy Policy
North Venture Partners LLC (“North Venture Partners”) operates several websites including northventurepartners.com, dontgosouth.com, and venture360report.com as well as other websites and applications that may not be listed here. It is North Venture Partner’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, North Venture Partners collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. North Venture Partner’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how North Venture Partner’s visitors use its website. From time to time, North Venture Partners may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. North Venture Partners also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. North Venture Partners does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to North Venture Partner’s websites choose to interact with North Venture Partners in ways that require North Venture Partners to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that North Venture Partners gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for our blog to provide an email address. In each case, North Venture Partners collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with North Venture Partners. North Venture Partners does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
North Venture Partners may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, North Venture Partners may monitor the most popular postings on dontgosouth.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. North Venture Partners may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, North Venture Partners does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
North Venture Partners discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on North Venture Partner’s behalf or to provide services available at North Venture Partner’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using North Venture Partner’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. North Venture Partners will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, North Venture Partners discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when North Venture Partners believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of North Venture Partners, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an North Venture Partners website and have supplied your email address, North Venture Partners may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with North Venture Partners and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. North Venture Partners takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. North Venture Partners uses cookies to help North Venture Partners identify and track visitors, their usage of North Venture Partners website, and their website access preferences. North Venture Partners visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using North Venture Partner’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of North Venture Partner’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, North Venture Partners may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in North Venture Partner’s sole discretion. North Venture Partners encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
