WEBSITE PRIVATE POLICY
OUR COMMITMENT TO PRIVACY
Visitors that are residents of the United Kingdom, the European Union or the European Economic Area should refer to our EU Website Privacy Policy (below).
Visitors that are residents of California should refer to our California Website Privacy Policy (below).
Your privacy is important to ACON Investments, L.L.C. and its affiliates (together, “Adviser,” “our,” “us,” “we” or “company”). To better protect your privacy, we are providing information explaining our online information practices.
This Website Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy”) describes how we gather and use information for visitors of this website. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with any of the terms and conditions contained herein, please do not access or otherwise use this website.
This Privacy Policy constitutes a legally binding agreement between Adviser and you, the user of this website. By entering and using this website, you acknowledge your acceptance of, and agree to be bound by, the Privacy Policy stated herein and all additional terms incorporated by reference herein. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use this website.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
Adviser generally does not collect any personally identifiable information such as names, home addresses or e-mail addresses from users of this website, unless a user submits such information to us via our “Contact” page.
To the extent that you provide us with any personally identifiable information through or in connection with this website, we may use such information for Adviser’s business purposes, but will not disclose any personally identifiable information about you to anyone, except as permitted or required by law or regulation and to service providers. In providing personally identifiable information to Adviser, you consent to Adviser’s use of such personally identifiable information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information and data via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we make an effort to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of any information or data transmitted to or through our website; any transmission of information or data by you to or through this website is at your sole risk.
CAPACITY
You represent to Adviser that you have the authority to visit this website. This website is only intended for individuals who are at least 18 years of age. We do not knowingly encourage or solicit visitors to this website who are under the age of 18 or knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18 without parental consent. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from an individual under the age of 18, we will delete that information.
COOKIES
Adviser’s system does create cookies, but they do not contain or represent any personal information or entry details. They are random collections of numbers and letters that Adviser can use for back-end processing. Adviser does not collect electronic network activity, which includes browsing or search history and website interaction. ACON does not store IP addresses.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time and for any reason, in our sole discretion, without notice, by updating this Privacy Policy. Accordingly, users are strongly encouraged to review our Privacy Policy regularly. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to collect personal information or use any collected information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by posting changes on this page. We will use information only in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected. Your continued access or use of this website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy means that you accept such revisions, changes and/or amendments. If you object to any of the changes to this Privacy Policy, please stop accessing this website. Please check this page frequently and review any changes to this Privacy Policy carefully so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please email us at the following email address: [email protected].
EU WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
November 2020
OUR COMMITMENT TO PRIVACY
Your privacy is important to ACON Investments, L.L.C. and our affiliates (together, “Adviser,” “our,” “us,” “we” or “company”). To better protect your privacy, we are providing information explaining our online information practices.
This EU Website Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy”) describes how we gather and use information for visitors of this site. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.
In connection with offering, forming and/or operating the private investment funds and their affiliated co- investment vehicles and other special purpose vehicles (each, a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”), the Funds, their affiliates and, in each case, their administrators, legal and other advisors and agents (the “Authorized Entities”) will each be a data controller of any personal data collected by us. If you have any questions regarding our use of your personal data, or this Privacy Policy, please contact [email protected] or 202-454-1100.
Adviser relies on various legal bases under applicable data protection legislation in order to process your personal information, including our legitimate interests, contractual necessity and as required by law. We use the personal information we collect to operate our business and provide you with the services and products we offer and perform essential business operations. We do not collect any special categories of personal information about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
If we require your personal information due to a legal requirement or obligation or in order to perform a contract with you, we will make you aware of this at the time we collect your personal data, and the possible consequences of you failing to provide this personal data (e.g., we may require your passport details to verify your identity for the purposes of anti-money laundering regulations). Failure to provide this information means that we cannot provide our services or products to you). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
Further information about the legal bases under which we process your personal information is included in the section headed “Why we use your personal information”.
You do not need to take any action as a result of this Privacy Policy, but you do have certain rights as described below in the section headed “Your rights”.
HOW WE OBTAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Information you provide to us
We collect your personal information when you decide to interact with us and we only collect the information necessary to carry out our business for the purposes set out below. You can provide us with personal information via our “Contact” page on this website as well as through our investor reporting portal, email, post and telephone. This includes names, dates of birth, birth place, postal address, email address, phone number, fax number, citizenship, location of residence, account name, Social Security number, tax status, driver’s license number and passport number; name with financial account, gender, user name and password for investor portal, account data, risk tolerance, transaction history, investment experience, accounts and transactions with other institutions, source of funds, income and assets, and interest in any of the Funds, including ownership percentage, capital investment and income and losses.
Information provided by third parties or publicly available sources
We also process information in relation to companies that we are evaluating in connection with a potential investment in or purchase of such companies. This personal information is obtained via third parties (i.e., the company in question).
WHY WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
To the extent that you provide us with any personal information, through or in connection with this site (i.e., via telephone, email or post), we may use such information for the following purposes:
• Purpose: To provide you with the services or financial products you have requested
• Legal Basis: Contractual necessity
• Purpose: To keep a record of your relationship with us
• Legal Basis: Legal requirement and legitimate interest
• Purpose: To verify your identity
• Legal Basis: Legal requirement and legitimate interest
• Purpose: To conduct due diligence activities in connection with an actual or prospective corporate transaction or investment with respect to which we are party to
• Legal Basis: Legitimate interest
• Purpose: Fraud and abuse prevention
• Legal Basis: Legal requirement and legitimate interest
• Purpose: Litigation management and conducting internal audits and investigations
• Legal Basis: Legal requirement and legitimate interest
• Purpose: To administer and protect our business and this website
• Legal Basis: Legitimate interest
• Purpose: To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you
• Legal Basis: Legitimate interest
Note that we may process your personal data on more than one legal basis depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your personal information.
No automated decision making, including profiling, is used when processing your personal information.
MARKETING
We will send you direct marketing communications where we have obtained your prior consent to keep you informed of our products and services in which you might be interested, or based on our legitimate business interests where we have an existing relationship with you and we wish to contact you about similar products or services in which you may be interested. You may opt-in to certain kinds of marketing, and all forms of marketing at any time, by emailing [email protected].
DISCLOSURE AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Unfortunately, the transmission of information and data via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of any information or data transmitted to or through our site; any transmission of information or data by you to or through this site is at your sole risk.
Your personal information will be shared with and processed by our affiliates and certain service providers as necessary to fulfil the purposes set out in this policy, including banks, fund administrators and legal, accounting and compliance service providers. We make sure anyone who provides a service to, or for us, enters into an agreement with us and meets our standards for data security. To the extent your personal information is transferred to countries outside of the EEA, such transfers will only be made in accordance with applicable data privacy laws. For further information about the safeguards used, please contact [email protected].
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law, or when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, request from a regulator, national security, for the purposes of public importance or any other legal or investigatory process involving us. Should we, or any of our affiliated entities, be the subject of a takeover, divestment or acquisition we may disclose your personal information to the new owner of the relevant business and their advisors.
SECURITY AND RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We are committed to protecting the personal information you entrust to us. We adopt robust and appropriate technologies and policies, so the information we have about you is protected to the extent possible from unauthorized access and improper use. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal information breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We will keep your personal information only for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law. We will not keep more information than we need for those purposes. For further information about how long we will keep your personal information, please contact [email protected].
CAPACITY
This site is only intended for individuals who are at least 18 years of age. We do not knowingly encourage or solicit visitors to this site who are under the age of 18 or knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18 without parental consent. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from an individual under the age of 18, we will delete that information.
COOKIES
Our system does create cookies, but they do not contain or represent any personal information or entry details. They are random collections of numbers and letters that we can use for back-end processing. We do not collect electronic network activity. You may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information about types of cookies, how they are used, and how you manage your cookie preferences.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you, and there are a number of ways you can control the way in which and what information we store and process about you. To exercise these rights and controls, please contact [email protected].
Access: You have the right to ask for a copy of the personal information that we hold about you free of charge, however we may charge a ‘reasonable fee’, if we think that your request is excessive, to help us cover the costs of locating the information you have requested.
Correction: You may notify us of changes to such your personal information if it is inaccurate or it needs to be updated.
Deletion: If you think that we shouldn’t be holding or processing your personal information any more, you may request that we delete it. Please note that this may not always be possible due to legal obligations.
Restrictions on use: You may request that we stop processing your personal information (other than storing it), if: (i) you contest the accuracy of it (until the accuracy is verified); (ii) you believe the processing is against the law; (iii) you believe that we no longer need your data for the purposes for which it was collected, but you still need your data to establish or defend a legal claim; or (iv) you object to the processing, and we are verifying whether our legitimate grounds to process your personal information, override your own rights.
Object: You have the right to object to processing, including: (i) for direct marketing; (ii) for research or statistical purposes; or (iii) where processing is based on legitimate interests.
Portability: If you wish to transfer your personal information to another organisation (and certain conditions are satisfied), you may ask us to do so, and we will send it directly if we have the technical means.
Withdrawal of consent: If you previously gave us your consent (by a clear affirmative action) to allow us to process your personal information for a particular purpose, but you no longer wish to consent to us doing so, you can contact us to let us know that you withdraw that consent.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time by updating this Privacy Policy. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to collect personal information or use any collected information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify applicable users. We will use information only in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact [email protected].
COMPLAINTS
Should you wish to lodge a complaint with regards to how your personal information has been processed by us, please contact your local supervisory authority. In the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office – https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us.
CALIFORNIA WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
November 2020
This California Website Privacy Policy supplements the Website Privacy Policy with respect to specific rights granted under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (as amended, the “CCPA”) to natural person California residents and provides information regarding how such California residents can exercise their rights under the CCPA. This supplement is only relevant to you if you are a resident of California as determined in accordance with the CCPA. Information required to be disclosed to California residents under the CCPA regarding the collection of their personal information that is not set forth in this CCPA supplement is otherwise set forth in the Website Privacy Policy. To the extent there is any conflict with the privacy requirements under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and/or Regulation S-P (“GLB Rights”), GLB Rights shall apply.
What does this Website Privacy Policy apply to?
This Website Privacy Policy applies solely to your interactions with us through our Website (as defined below). If you provide personal information to use through another means (e.g., as an employee or seeking employment, as a client, or as an investor) you will receive a separate privacy notice and that notice will govern that personal information.
What information do we collect about you?
We generally do not collect any personally identifiable information such as names, home addresses or e-mail addresses from users of this website, unless a user submits such information to us via our “Contact” page. We collect limited types of personal information, however, through our website Contact page and investor reporting portal, as well as through other electronic communications (e.g., emails), as applicable (collectively, the “Website”). The types of personal information we collect about you depends on the nature of your interaction with us. The categories of personal information we have collected from individuals on this Website over the last 12 months include the following:
• Identifiers, such as name, contact details and address (including physical address and email address);
• Other customer records, such as telephone number and personal information provided in connection with obtaining account access;
• Commercial information, such as account data;
• Internet correspondence, such as information you provide to us when you correspond with us in relation to inquiries; and
• Cookies: our system does create cookies, but they do not contain or represent any personal information or entry details. They are random collections of numbers and letters that Adviser can use for back-end processing. We do not collect electronic network activity.
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18.
How do we obtain your personal information?
In connection with forming and operating our Website, we collect and maintain your nonpublic personal information from the following sources:
• Information from your communications with us in connection with this Website, including any update notices provided by you; and
• Information provided through online forms.
We may combine personal information that you provide to us with information that we collect from or about you from publicly available sources. This will include information collected in an online or offline context.
How do we use your personal information?
We will use your personal information for one or more of the following business purposes:
• To perform services for you;
• To improve our Website and the products and services that we offer and notify you about changes to our products and services;
• To communicate with you, including responding to requests for information submitted by you through our Website;
• To keep a record of your relationship with us;
• Ongoing operations, administrative, accounting, reporting, account maintenance and other processes;
• To audit and verify the quality and effectiveness of our services and compliance;
• To detect security incidents and to protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; and
• To generally comply with U.S., state, local and non-U.S. laws, rules and regulations.
Additionally, we may use your personal information to keep you informed of our products and services, if you have provided your consent to us doing so, or where we have an existing relationship with you and we wish to contact you about products and services similar to those which we provide you, in which you may be interested.
Who do we share your personal information with?
We do not sell any of the personal information we collect about you to third parties.
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about you to anyone, except as permitted or required by law or regulation and to affiliates and service providers, including but not limited to fund administrators, banks, legal, accounting and compliance service providers, affiliated companies and government regulators. We may also disclose your information to other parties as may be required by law or regulation, or in response to regulatory inquiries.
Within the last 12 months, we have shared each of the categories of personal information collected in connection with this website with affiliates and service providers as set forth above in “What information do we collect about you?”
How do we keep your personal information secure?
We consider the protection of sensitive information to be a sound business practice, and to that end we employ appropriate organizational, physical, technical and procedural safeguards, which seek to protect your personal information in our possession or under our control to the extent possible from unauthorized access and improper use.
Your rights under the CCPA
Deletion Rights: You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we retain, subject to certain statutory exceptions, including, but not limited to, our compliance with U.S., state, local and non-U.S. laws, rules and regulations. We will notify you in writing if we cannot comply with a specific request and provide an explanation of the reasons.
Disclosure and Access Rights: You have the right to request that we disclose to you certain information regarding our collection and use of personal information specific to you over the last 12 months. Such information includes:
• the categories of personal information we collected about you;
• the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;
• our business or commercial purpose for collecting such personal information;
• the categories of third parties with whom we share the personal information;
• the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you; and
• whether we disclosed your personal information to a third party, and, if yes, the categories of personal information that each recipient obtained.
No Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA, including by denying service, suggesting that you will receive, or charging, different rates for services or suggesting that you will receive, or providing, a different level or quality of service to you.
How to Exercise Your Rights: To exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, or to access this notice in an alternative format, please submit a request on your behalf using any of the methods set forth in the Contact us section below.
CONTACT US
For any requests relating to the exercise of your rights under the CCPA, or questions regarding our processing of your personal information, please submit or have your authorized representative submit a request using any of the methods set forth below.
Call us using the following toll-free number: (833) 391-1101.
Email us at the following email address: [email protected].
We will ask you for information that allows us to reasonably verify your identity (that you are the person about whom we collected personal information) and will use that information only for that purpose. We may request that you submit a signed statement under penalty of perjury that you are the individual you claim to be. We will acknowledge receipt of your request within 10 days and will endeavor to respond within 45 days of receipt of your request, but if we require more time (up to an additional 45 days) we will notify you of our need for additional time. For requests that we not sell your information we will comply with your request within 15 days. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity and confirm that the personal information relates to you.