Privacy Notice
Kyocera is committed to protecting your privacy. Please review our Privacy Notice to better understand who we are, how we collect, share and use personal information about you. This Notice applies to all information collected or submitted on this website (“Website”) and other information we collect and process in the course of conducting our business. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, then please contact us using the contact details provided at the bottom of this Privacy Notice.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT, AND HOW IT IS USED
Information You Provide to Us
Certain parts of our Website may ask you to provide personal information to us voluntarily: for example, you may contact us about potential funding or other investment opportunities, or respond to one of our ‘calls for innovation’, and provide us with details such as your name, contact details, job title/role, work-related experiences, and any other information that you choose to provide to us about yourself, your company or your employees. You may also provide us with personal information when you submit any inquiry to us, or correspond with us by email, mail or otherwise.
We use this information primarily to evaluate your company for investment or other related opportunities, to respond to your inquiry or request, to communicate with you about such matters, and to manage and administer our investments.
Information We Collect Automatically
When you visit our Website, we may collect certain information automatically from your device. Only we use in this Website is essential cookies. These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
Information We Collect from Third Party Sources
From time to time, we may obtain personal information about you from third party sources (such as online resources such as PitchBook, or our select third party data providers). We use such information for the purpose of exploring current or future investments, and to help us to connect with businesses that may be interested in our investment opportunities, subject to applicable data protection laws.
In general, we will use the personal information we collect from you only for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice or for purposes that we explain to you at the time we collect your personal information. However, we may also use your personal information for other purposes that are not incompatible with the purposes we have disclosed to you (such as archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes) if and where this is permitted by applicable data protection laws.
SHARING OF INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to the following categories of recipients:
- to our group companies, third party services providers and partners who support us in the operation of our business, assist in the delivery, security and functionality of our Website, or who otherwise process personal information for purposes that are described in this Privacy Notice or notified to you when we collect your personal information.
- to any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights, or (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person;
- to a third party (and its agents and advisers) in connection with an actual or proposed purchase, merger, acquisition of assets, or other business reorganization, provided that we inform the third party it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Notice;
- to any other person with your consent to the disclosure.
CHILDREN
This Website is not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information from anyone under 16 years of age. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected personally identifiable information from a child under the age of 16, we will make reasonable efforts to delete such information from our records.
SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
We take information security seriously and use certain appropriate technical and organizational security measures to help protect your personal information. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information.
However, no electronic data transmission or storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you use the site and provide us with your information at your own risk.
With respect to the retention of your personal information, we keep personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes described in this Notice and to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting obligations. If you have further questions about the security or retention of personal information you have submitted to us, please email us at venture@kyocera.com
CHANGES
We may update this Privacy Notice to reflect changes to our information practices or to changing legal developments. When we update our Privacy Notice we will take appropriate measures in accordance with applicable data protection laws. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
You can see when this Privacy Notice was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the top of this Notice.
CONTACT US
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at venture@kyocera.com or mail your inquiry to:
(Kyocera Venture Fund)
ATTN: Privacy Request
1 AVX Blvd,
Fountain Inn, SC 29644