PRIVACY POLICY

This website is operated by NEURON INVESTORS (“NEURON INVESTORS”, “we” or “us”) a British Virgin Islands corporation.

NEURON INVESTORS is dedicated to protecting the confidentiality and privacy of information entrusted to us and we comply with the Data Protection Acts, 1988-2018, the ePrivacy Regulations 2011 (S.I. 336), and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 - (“applicable data protection law”).

NEURON INVESTORS is committed to the appropriate protection and use of personal data that has been collected via our website. The term ‘personal data’ means any information concerning or relating to a living person who is either identified or identifiable.  Generally, our intent is to collect only the personal data that is provided voluntarily by online visitors so that we can offer information and/or services to those individuals or offer information about employment opportunities.

Please review this (“Privacy Statement”) to learn more about how we collect, use, share and protect the personal data that we have obtained. This Privacy Statement applies to your use of our websites and more generally to individuals whose personal data we collect and process in the course of our business operations.

1. Collection and use of personal data

1.1 The type of information we collect

We obtain personal data about you should you choose to provide it. For example, you may provide information such as your name, title, work address and email address when registering for services or when contacting our mailboxes. In some cases, you will have previously provided your personal information to NEURON INVESTORS (if, for example, you are a former employee).

If you choose to register or login to a NEURON INVESTORS website using a third party single sign-in service that authenticates your identity and connects your social media login information (e.g., LinkedIn, Google, or Twitter) with NEURON INVESTORS, we will collect any information or content needed for the registration or log-in that you have permitted the social media provider to share with us, such as your name and email address. Other information we collect will depend on the privacy settings you have set with your social media provider, so please review the privacy statement or policy of the applicable service.

By registering and/or submitting personal data to NEURON INVESTORS, we will use this information in the manner outlined in this Privacy Statement. Your personal data is not used for other purposes, unless we obtain your consent or unless such a purpose is permitted by law or professional standards. For example, if you register to a NEURON INVESTORS website and provide information about your preferences, we will use this information to personalize your user experience. Where you register or login using a third-party single user sign-in we may also recognize you as the same user across any different devices you use and personalize your user experience across other NEURON INVESTORS sites you visit. If you send us a resume or curriculum vitae (CV) to apply online for a position with NEURON INVESTORS, we will use the information that you provide to match you with available NEURON INVESTORS job opportunities.

In some cases where you have registered for certain services we will store your email address temporarily until we receive confirmation of the information you provided via an email (i.e. where we send an email to the email address provided as part of your registration to confirm a subscription request).      

1.2 The legal grounds we rely on to use your personal data

NEURON INVESTORS generally collects only the personal data necessary to fulfil your request. Where additional, optional information is sought, you will be notified of this at the point of collection.

Applicable data protection law allows us to process personal data, so long as we have a ground under the law to do so. It also requires us to tell you what those grounds are. As a result, when we process your personal data, we will rely on one of the following processing conditions:

· Performance of a contract: this is when the processing of your personal data is necessary in order to perform our obligations under a contract;

· Legal obligation: this is when we are required to process your personal data in order to comply with a legal obligation, such as keeping records for tax purposes or providing information to a public body or law enforcement agency;

· Legitimate interests: we will process information about you where it is in our legitimate interest in running a lawful business to do so in order to further that business, so long as it doesn’t outweigh your interests; or

· Your consent: in some cases, we will ask you for specific permission to process some of your personal data, and we will only process your personal data in this way if you agree to us doing so. Where we are processing your personal data on your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting NEURON INVESTORS at: info@neuroninvestors.com 

Examples of the ‘legitimate interests’ referred to above are:

· To offer information and/or services to individuals who visit our website or offer information about employment opportunities.

· To prevent fraud or criminal activity and to safeguard our IT systems.

· To customize individual’s online experience and improve the performance usability and effectiveness of NEURON INVESTORS’s online presence.

· To conduct, and to analyse, our marketing activities.

· To meet our corporate and social responsibility obligations.

· To exercise our fundamental rights in the EU under Articles 16 and 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, including our freedom to conduct a business and right to property.

In some cases, the personal data that we collect will also include special categories of data, such as diversity related information (including data about racial and ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs and other beliefs of a similar nature, trade union membership and data about sexual life and sexual orientation), or health data and data about alleged or proven criminal offences in each case where permitted by law.    

1.3 Automatic collection of personal data

In some instances, NEURON INVESTORS and its service providers uses cookies, web beacons and other technologies to automatically collect certain types of information when you visit us online, as well as through emails that we may exchange. The collection of this information allows us to customize your online experience, improve the performance, usability and effectiveness of NEURON INVESTORS’s online presence, and to measure the effectiveness of our marketing activities.

1.3.1 IP addresses

An IP address is a number assigned to your computer whenever you access the internet. It allows computers and servers to recognise and communicate with one another. IP addresses from which visitors appear to originate may be recorded for IT security and system diagnostic purposes. This information may also be used in aggregate form to conduct website trend and performance analysis.

1.3.2 Cookies

Cookies may be placed on your computer or internet-enabled device whenever you visit us online. This allows the site to remember your computer or device and serves a number of purposes.

On some of our websites, a notification banner will appear requiring your consent to collect cookies (cookies banner). Below is a summary of the categories of cookies collected on our websites, and how your consent may impact your experience of certain features as you navigate those websites:

· Strictly necessary cookies: Strictly necessary cookies are essential in order to enable users to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. These cookies must be enabled or the site will not function, and cannot be blocked.

· Performance cookies: Performance cookies are cookies used to gather data to enhance the performance of a website.

You can manage your consent for performance cookies using the cookie banner, or by updating your browser’s settings (often found in your browser’s Tools or Preferences menu) to not accept cookies.

· Functionality cookies: Functionality cookies are used to remember customer selections that change the way the site behaves or looks. You may opt-out of these cookies, but it will impact your experience on the website, and you may need to repeat certain selections each time you visit.

You can manage your consent for functionality cookies using the cookie banner, or by updating your browser’s settings (often found in your browser’s Tools or Preferences menu) to not accept cookies.

· Targeting cookies or advertising cookies: Targeting cookies are used to deliver content relevant to your interests They are also used to limit the number of times you see certain marketing materials, as well as help measure the effectiveness of those marketing materials. If you do not provide consent for targeting cookies, your computer or internet-enabled device will not be tracked for marketing-related activities.

You can manage your consent for targeting cookies using the cookie banner, or by updating your browser’s settings (often found in your browser’s Tools or Preferences menu) to not accept cookies.

Although most browsers automatically accept cookies, you can choose whether or not to accept cookies via your browser's settings (often found in your browser's Tools or Preferences menu). If you wish to withdraw your consent to cookies, you may also delete cookies from your device at any time. You may do so by clearing your browser’s cookies, or by updating your preferences in the cookies banner. However, please be aware that if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to fully experience some of our web sites' features.

Further information about managing cookies can be found in your browser's help file or through sites such as www.allaboutcookies.org.