Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 2024

OUR COMMITMENT TO PRIVACY

Your privacy is important to Fusion Capital Partners and its affiliates (together, “Fusion,” “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 (the “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 Fusion 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, our Terms of Use 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.

If you are a natural person California resident, please also read the California Website Privacy Policy.

If you are located in the United Kingdom (“UK”), the European Union (“EU”) or the European Economic Area (“EEA”), or if the processing of your personal data would otherwise be subject to EU and/or UK data protection laws, please also read the EU and UK Privacy Notice Supplement.

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect limited types of personal information through our Website and investor reporting portals, 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 twelve (12) months include the following:

Identifiers, such as name, contact details and address (including physical address, email address and Internet Protocol address) and other identification (including social security number, passport number and drivers’ license or state identification card number);
Other customer records, such as telephone number, signature, bank account number, other financial information (including accounts and transactions with other institutions and anti-money laundering information) and verification documentation and information regarding investors’ status under various laws and regulations (including social security number, tax status, income and assets);
Protected classification characteristics under applicable law, such as date of birth, citizenship and birthplace; and
Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as information regarding your use of our Website, fund data room and investor reporting portal (e.g., cookies, browsing history and/or search history), as well as information you provide to us when you correspond with us in relation to inquiries.

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.

SOURCES OF NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION

We collect and maintain non-public personal information from the following sources:

Information we receive from you in conversations over the telephone, in voicemails, through written correspondence, via e-mail and other electronic communications, or on subscription agreements, investor questionnaires, applications or other forms (including, without limitation, any anti-money laundering, identification and verification documents);
Information about your transactions with us or others; and
Information captured on our Website, fund data room and/or investor reporting portal (as applicable), including registration information, information provided through online forms and any information captured via “cookies.”

HOW 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.
Information captured on our Website, including registration and account information, information provided through online forms and any information captured via cookies.

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 WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may use your personal information for one or more of the following business or commercial purposes:

To perform services for you including but not limited to the administrative processes (and related communication) in connection with an investment.
To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
To provide, support, personalize, develop and improve our Website and the products and services that we offer and notify you about changes to our products and services.
To provide you with support and to communicate with you, including responding to requests for information submitted by you through our Website.
To provide advertising and marketing services.
To keep a record of your relationship with us.
To further build our relationship with you.
To provide you with details regarding our potential financing, operational support or other capabilities that we offer to entrepreneurs and/or prospective portfolio companies.
Ongoing operations, administrative, accounting, reporting, account maintenance and other processes.
To audit and verify the quality and effectiveness of our services and compliance.
To maintain the safety, security and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases, technology assets and business, including to detect security incidents and to protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
As needed to comply with U.S., state, local and non-U.S. laws, rules and regulations, including responding to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order or government regulations.
To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.

Purpose	Legal Basis (relevant to the EU and UK Privacy Notice Supplement)
To perform services for you.	Contractual necessity; and/or our legitimate interest in operating our business
To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.	Our legitimate interest in operating our business
To provide, support, personalize, develop and improve the Website and the products and services that we offer and notify you about changes to our products and services.	Our legitimate interest in operating our business
To provide you with support and to communicate with you, including responding to requests for information submitted by you through the Website.	Our legitimate interest in operating our business
To provide advertising and marketing services.	Our legitimate interest in operating our business
To keep a record of your relationship with us.	Our legitimate interest in operating our business
To conduct conflicts checks.	Legal requirement
To conduct due diligence activities in connection with an actual or prospective corporate transaction or investment with respect to which we are party to.	Our legitimate interest in operating our business; contractual necessity; and/or legal requirement
To further build our relationship with you.	Our legitimate interest in operating our business
To provide you with details regarding our potential financing, operational support or other capabilities that we offer to entrepreneurs and/or prospective portfolio companies.	Our legitimate interest in operating our business
Ongoing operations, administrative, accounting, reporting, account maintenance and other processes.	Legal requirement; contractual necessity; and/or our legitimate interest in operating our business
To audit and verify the quality and effectiveness of our services and compliance.	Our legitimate interest in operating our business
To maintain the safety, security and integrity of the Website, products and services, databases, technology assets and business, including to detect security incidents and to protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.	Our legitimate interest in operating our business
As needed to comply with laws, rules and regulations, including responding to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order or government regulations.	Legal requirement
To obtain advice from our professional advisors, including lawyers and accountants.	Our legitimate interest in operating our business
To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about the Website users is among the assets transferred.	Our legitimate interest in operating our business
For any other purpose that has been notified in writing	Consent

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. You may opt-in to certain kinds of marketing, or all forms of marketing at any time, by contacting us and you may unsubscribe to receiving emails by clicking on the “opt-out” or “unsubscribe” options within the “manage preferences” link provided in all our marketing emails.

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 Fusion’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.

CAPACITY

You represent to Fusion that you have the authority to visit this Website according to the Terms of Use. 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

Information regarding how you access this Website (e.g., browser type, access times and Internet Protocol (IP) address) and your hardware and software is automatically collected through the use of cookies (a small text file placed on your hard drive) or other technologies or tools. This information is used to improve Website performance and for our business purposes. Where cookies are not necessary for us to provide the products or services you have requested or for the functioning of this Website, we will ask you to consent to their use. You may opt-in to accept cookies automatically by changing the settings on your browser. If you opt-out of certain cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of this Website. 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.

Subject to your consent, the Website will place the cookies listed below:

Cookie name	Source	Purpose	Type	Duration
CD_activated	fcpartners.com	Track user preferences on cookie use	Functionality	1 year
CD_consent{#}	fcpartners.com	Track user preferences on cookie use	Functionality	1 year
_ga	fcpartners.com	Used to distinguish user	Performance	2 years
_ga_{container-id}	fcpartners.com	Used to persist session state	Performance	2 years

You may access any personally identifiable information we have about you by contacting admin@fcpartners.com.

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.

MISCELLANEOUS

The provisions in our Terms of Use are hereby incorporated by reference.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise any rights, submit requests, or appeal any of our decisions in connection with this Privacy Policy (each, a “Communication”), please contact admin@fcpartners.com.

We verify Communications by matching information provided in or in connection with your Communication to information contained in our records. Depending on the sensitivity of the Communication and the varying levels of risk in responding to such Communications (for example, the risk of responding to fraudulent or malicious communications), we may request further information in order to verify your Communication.