Welcome to AltaClub, an online community and platform for investors and startups seeking capital investment opportunities (the “Platform”). The Platform is a branch of the Altair Capital eco-system, and it is owned and operated by AltaClub LLC. (“AltaClub”, “we”, “us”, “our”).
AltaClub respects your privacy. This policy (the “Policy”) explains our privacy practices for the Platform. It describes the ways your personal information is collected and used and the rights and options available to you with respect to your information.
Personal information you provide (as described below) depends on your volition and consent, but we do require it in order to allow you to use the Platform. If you choose to apply to join the Platform as an investor or startup, we also require your personal information in order to consider your application.
This Policy is incorporated by reference to our Platform’s Terms of Use (the "Terms") , and constitutes an integral part thereof.
Information you provide
If you apply to be admitted to the Platform as an investor or startup, you will be asked to provide basic contact information such as your full name, email address, nationality, country of residence, link to your LinkedIn webpage, and your mobile phone number. We will indicate the mandatory fields for completion. If you do not enter the required information in these fields, you will not be able to apply.
As we process your application, and thereafter, following your admission to the Platform (if admitted), we typically request additional personal information from you, including biographical information, and information pertaining to your investment preferences and desires, financial affairs and professional qualifications. The contact information outlined above, together with all other additional personal information you provide in connection with your application or admission to the Platform will be collectively referred to as “Application Information”.
If you are admitted to the Platform as an investor, you can choose whether or not to publicly post certain Application Information on your profile page on the Platform.
As an applicant startup or an admitted startup, materials and documents you submit to us about your startup (“Startup Content”), may also include or be indicative of personal information regarding yourself or others (such as your startup team members). Note that we may post Startup Content that you submit, on the Platform, to make it accessible and viewable by admitted investors.
STARTUP CONTENT YOU SUBMIT AND APPLICATION INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE, MAY HAVE TO DO WITH THE PRIVACY OF OTHERS. YOU MUST THEREFORE LAWFULLY OBTAIN THE CONSENT OF ALL INDIVIDUALS WHOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION OR PRIVATE AFFAIRS MAY BE INVOLVED IN SUCH STARTUP CONTENT OR APPLICATION INFORMATION. THE CONSENT MUST PERMIT YOU TO SUBMIT THE STARTUP CONTENT AND PROVIDE THE APPLICATION INFORMATION, FOR THE PURPOSES OUTLINED IN THIS POLICY.
IN ANY CASE, USE CAUTION AND COMMON SENSE WHEN YOU SUBMIT STARTUP CONTENT OR PROVIDE APPLICATION INFORMATION, INVOLVING PERSONAL INFORMATION OF YOURSELF OR OTHER INDIVIDUALS. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CONTENT THAT YOU SUBMIT OR INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE.
Other information and data we collect
We may also collect analytical data related to your use of the Platform, such as the interactions you have made with the Platform’s interface, content that you viewed on the Platform, and the Internet Protocol (IP) address that you use to access the Platform.
Children's Privacy
We do not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information about children.
Use of information
We may use the information outlined above, for the following purposes:
Evaluating and considering your application as an investor or startup on the Platform (whichever is relevant).
Operating, maintaining and enhancing the Platform and our venture capital activities.
Managing the administrative and operational aspects of the Platform and our venture capital activities.
Sending you updates, announcements, newsletters and marketing messages (note that you may opt-out of receiving newsletters and marketing messages).
Enforcing this Policy and the Platform’s Terms, preventing misuse of the Platform, complying with legal requirements, assisting competent authorities, and taking action in case of a dispute involving you, with respect to the Platform or our venture capital activities.
Sharing information
We may share the information outlined above, with others, in any of the following instances:
With our service providers, advisors and business partners, in order to evaluate and consider your application as an investor or startup (whichever is relevant), and to operate, maintain and enhance the Platform and our venture capital activities.
If you are an investor or startup admitted to our Platform, we may share the information you provided with parties involved in investment opportunities posted on our Platform.
If you are admitted as an investor, certain Application Information that you so choose will be publicly posted on your Platform profile page. You can control the scope of information publicly posted through your investor profile settings on the Platform.
If you are admitted as a startup, your Startup Content and Application Information may be accessible to and viewable by investors admitted to our Platform.
If you have breached the Terms, abused your rights to use the Platform, or violated any applicable law. Your information may be shared with competent authorities and with any third party, as may be necessary to handle such matters.
If we believe that we are required by law to share or disclose your information.
In any case of dispute or legal proceeding of any kind involving you with respect to the Platform or our venture capital activities.
If the operation of the Platform or our venture capital activities are organized within a different framework or through another legal structure or entity (such as due to a merger or acquisition), provided that those entities agree to be bound by the provisions of this Policy, with reasonably necessary changes taken into consideration.
Personally identifiable information may be shared with affiliated companies in our corporate group, but their use of such information must comply with the Policy.
In any case other than the above, your personally identifiable information will be shared with others only if you provide your explicit prior consent.
Aggregated or anonymized information
We may use the information we collect, as outlined above, to compile anonymized or aggregated information, either by ourselves or with the assistance of third parties such as Google Analytics. We may share, sell or otherwise communicate and make available anonymized or aggregated information that does not specifically identify you or your business, with or to any other third party, in our sole discretion.
Third parties
When you use our Platform, other parties, such as Google, may collect personally identifiable information about your online activities over time and across different websites. AltaClub has no control over such parties and you should in each case consult such party’s privacy policy in order to understand how such party makes use of your personally identifiable information.
Retention of information
We keep the personally identifiable information about you to comply with our legal obligations
or to communicate with you. We retain such personally identifiable information for the time
necessary to achieve the purposes set out herein in accordance with applicable law.
Your Rights
If you believe that your personally identifiable information is inaccurate or used improperly,
or there is an infringement of copyright, please let us know by contacting
us at legal@altaclub.vc .

You are entitled to send us a request with information pertaining to you that we store, which
we have transferred to marketing purposes, and request the deletion of such information.

As a registered user, you may, at any time, opt out of our newsletters and marketing messages, by modifying your user profile settings on the Platform or following the unsubscribe link included in each newsletter and marketing message. It may take several business days for your opt-out request to take effect. You may not, however, opt-out of updates and announcements related to the operation or administration of the Platform or investments.
Cookies
We and our third party website analytics provider (such as Google) use cookies on the Platform. Cookies are packets of information sent by our servers to your web browser and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses our servers. The cookies may contain a variety of information, such as the web pages you have accessed, session durations and IP addresses. Cookies are used for various purposes, such as to collect statistical information about your use of the Platform and save you the need to re-login with your username and password when you return to the Platform.
Some cookies may expire when the session ends and you close your browser. Other cookies are saved on your computer's hard drive. If you wish to block cookies, you may do so through your browser’s settings. Please refer to the browser's Help file for further information. However, bear in mind that disabling cookies may adversely affect your user experience on the Platform.
Transfer of data outside your territory
Our Platform is generally intended for use in the United States but is also available in other jurisdictions. Therefore, we may store and process the personal information in the United States and in other various locations throughout the globe, including through cloud services. You hereby provide your express and unambiguous consent to such cross-border transfer of your personal information.
Data security
We implement measures to reduce risks of damage, loss and unauthorized access or use of personal information, but they do not provide absolute security. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that the Platform or our systems are immune to unauthorized access to the information stored therein and to other information security risks.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Policy from time to time. Substantial changes will take effect 30 days after we provide a notice of such changes on the Platform. Other changes will take effect 7 days after we provide notice. However, if the policy is amended to comply with legal requirements, the amendments will become effective immediately upon their initial posting, or as required. The most up-to-date policy will always be accessible on our Platform.
In any event, we will seek your explicit consent if we wish to have substantial changes to the Policy apply to personal information we collected prior to those changes.
Contact us
You may send requests, questions and comments via email: legal@altaclub.vc.
Last updated: February 1th, 2024.

PRIVACY POLICY