Website Privacy Policy

Our Commitment To Privacy

Your privacy is important to Valor Management LLC (d/b/a Valor Equity Partners) and our affiliates (together, ‘our’, ‘us’, ‘we’ or ‘company’). This Privacy Policy is intended to help you understand what information we collect, how we use the information we collect, and how you can update, manage and delete your information.

For the purposes of applicable EU laws, Valor Equity Partners will 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 us at info@valorep.com.

We rely on various legal bases under applicable data protection legislation in order to process your personal information (e.g., name, title, address, email, marital status, date of birth, country of residence, IP address, financial data, username, password, etc.), including our legitimate interests, contractual necessity and as required by law. We use the personal information we collect to operate our business 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 offenses.

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. 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 this website, email, post and telephone. We also collect information about you through automated technology.

We may collect the following personal data:

  • Your full name and contact details (email address, phone number, postal address, country of residence, etc.) may be provided when you complete forms listed on ,or contact us on, our website;

  • Technical information related to how you used our website, specifically, the browser, device, internet connection, IP address, time zone setting, operating system and platform, etc. via cookies employed on our website; and

  • Details of visits to our website, including the volume of traffic received, logs and the resources that you have accessed.

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 website (i.e., via telephone, email or post), we may use such information for the following purposes: to conduct due diligence activities in connection with an actual or prospective corporate transaction or investment with respect to which we are party; if you are an entrepreneur, we may contact you to provide information about our financing capabilities or general information that we think may interest you; to better understand your needs and provide you with better service on our website (e.g., improve the layout of our website based on the click path you utilized to access certain information within the website); or to verify your identity, manage threatened or actual litigation matters, or conduct internal audits or reviews.

COMMUNICATIONS

We will send you direct communications where we have obtained your prior consent to keep you informed of our learnings in which you might be interested, or based on our legitimate business interests to tell you about certain events or to share news we believe you will be interested in. You may also opt-in to certain kinds of communications by emailing info@valorep.com or at any time choose not to receive our communications by clicking on the "Unsubscribe" link provided in all our emails.

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 website; any transmission of information or data by you to or through this website is at your sole risk.

Your personal information will be shared with and processed by our affiliates and certain service providers, employees, agents, and contractors as necessary to fulfil the purposes set out in this policy, including professional advisors, recruitment firms, consultants and data hosting 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 United States, such transfers will only be made in accordance with applicable data privacy laws.

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 on the basis of our legitimate interest.

Security and retention of personal information

We consider the protection of personal data to be a sound business practice, and to that end, employ appropriate technical and organizational measures, including robust physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect personal data in our possession or under our control. 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.

Capacity

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. If you prefer not to receive cookies through our website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you turn off cookies (or refuse to accept a request to place a cookie), you may not have access to some features on our website and some of our services.

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.

The website also has the ability to utilize Google Analytics, and may utilize Google Analytics in the future, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"), to help us analyze how users use the website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on site activity for site operators and providing other services relating to site activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.

Your rights

If you are an EU resident, 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 info@valorep.com.

  • 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 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, including where such personal information must be retained 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.

  • 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 us at info@valorep.com or +1 312 683 1900.

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.