Get Verdane updates Contact Why Verdane Team Portfolio Investors Policies The Verdane privacy and cookie policy Privacy Policy Your privacy is important to us. It is Verdane’s policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including across our website, https://www.verdane.com, and other sites we own and operate. Personal information is any information about you which can be used to identify you. This includes information about you as a person (such as name, address, and date of birth), your devices, payment details, and even information about how you use a website or online service. In the event our site contains links to third-party sites and services, please be aware that those sites and services have their own privacy policies. After following a link to any third-party content, you should read their posted privacy policy information about how they collect and use personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of your activities after you leave our site. This policy is effective as of 29 September 2021. Last updated: 29 September 2021 Information we collect Information we collect falls into one of two categories: ‘voluntarily provided’ information and ‘automatically collected’ information. ‘Voluntarily provided’ information refers to any information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our services and promotions. ‘Automatically collected’ information refers to any information automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing our products and services. Log Data When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other details about your visit. Additionally, if you encounter certain errors while using the site, we may automatically collect data about the error and the circumstances surrounding its occurrence. This data may include technical details about your device, what you were trying to do when the error happened, and other technical information relating to the problem. You may or may not receive notice of such errors, even in the moment they occur, that they have occurred, or what the nature of the error is. Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons. Device Data When you visit our website or interact with our services, we may automatically collect data about your device, such as: Device Type, Operating System, Geo-location data Data we collect can depend on the individual settings of your device and software. We recommend checking the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider to learn what information they make available to us. Personal Information We may ask for personal information — for example, when you subscribe to our newsletter or when you contact us — which may include one or more of the following: Name, Email, Country, Industry, Company Collection and Use of Information Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information We will only collect and use your personal information when we have a legal right to do so. In which case, we will collect and use your personal information lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. If we seek your consent to process your personal information, and you are under 16 years of age, we will seek your parent or legal guardian’s consent to process your personal information for that specific purpose. Personal data is processed by Verdane in order to identify and evaluate business opportunities, maintain and develop contacts with investors, advisors, suppliers and co-operating partners, and for business development, statistical and risk management purposes. Personal data may be transferred between Verdane’s offices in order to achieve the above-mentioned purposes. We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our website: Sign up to receive updates from us via email or social media channels Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content Contact us via email, social media, or on any similar technologies When you mention us on social media When you attend events When you apply for a position at Verdane We may collect, hold, use, and disclose information to provide you with our platform’s core features and services. Our lawful bases depend on the services you use and how you use them. This means we only collect and use your information on the following grounds: Consent From You Where you give us consent to collect and use your personal information for a specific purpose. You may withdraw your consent at any time using the facilities we provide; however this will not affect any use of your information that has already taken place. You may consent to providing your email address for the purpose of receiving marketing emails from us. While you may unsubscribe at any time, we cannot recall any email we have already sent. If you have any further enquiries about how to withdraw your consent, please feel free to enquire using the details provided in the Contact Us section of this privacy policy. Performance of a Contract or Transaction Where you have entered into a contract or transaction with us, or in order to take preparatory steps prior to our entering into a contract or transaction with you. For example, if you contact us with an enquiry, we may require personal information such as your name and contact details in order to respond. Our Legitimate Interests Where we assess it is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as for us to provide, operate, improve and communicate our services. We consider our legitimate interests to include research and development, understanding our audience, measures taken to operate our services efficiently, marketing analysis, and measures taken to protect our legal rights and interests. Verdane also has a legitimate interest in maintaining business contacts and developing the business, and therefore, in balancing relevant interests, Verdane may also process personal data as a result thereof. Compliance with Law In some cases, we may have a legal obligation to use or keep your personal information. Such cases may include (but are not limited to) court orders, legal proceedings, government requests, and regulatory obligations. If you have any further enquiries about how we retain personal information in order to comply with the law, please feel free to enquire using the details provided in the Contact Us section of this privacy policy. We may combine voluntarily provided and automatically collected personal information with general information or research data we receive from other trusted sources. For example, Our marketing and market research activities may uncover data and insights, which we may combine with information about how visitors use our site to improve our site and your experience on it. Security of Your Personal Information When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure and no one can guarantee absolute data security. You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the bounds of our services. For example, ensuring you do not make your personal information publicly available via our platform. How Long We Keep Your Personal Information We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this privacy policy. For example, if you have provided us with personal information such as an email address when contacting us about a specific enquiry, we may retain this information for the duration of your enquiry remaining open as well as for our own records so we may effectively address similar enquiries in future. If your personal information is no longer required for this purpose, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you. However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes. International Transfers of Personal Information The personal information we collect is stored and/or processed in Norway and where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain facilities. The countries to which we store, process, or transfer your personal information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your personal information to third parties in other countries: (i) we will perform those transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and (ii) we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this privacy policy. Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information Your choice: By providing personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use, and disclose your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect your use of our website or the products and/or services offered on or through it. Access: You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you. Restrict: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information if (i) you are concerned about the accuracy of your personal information; (ii) you believe your personal information has been unlawfully processed; (iii) you need us to maintain the personal information solely for the purpose of a legal claim; or (iv) we are in the process of considering your objection in relation to processing on the basis of legitimate interests. Objecting to processing: You have the right to object to processing of your personal information that is based on our legitimate interests or public interest. If this is done, we must provide compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which overrides your interests, rights, and freedoms, in order to proceed with the processing of your personal information. Data portability: You may have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you. You may also have the right to request that we transfer this personal information to a third party. Correction: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date. Deletion: You have a right to request that we delete the personal information we hold about you at any time, and we will take reasonable steps to delete your personal information from our current records. There may be exceptions to this right for specific legal reasons which, if applicable, we will set out for you in response to your request. Please be aware that search engines and similar third parties may still retain copies of your personal information that has been made public. Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our email database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication. Marketing permission: If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below. Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us. Non-discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. Notification of data breaches: We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach. Complaints: If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint. Limits of Our Policy Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices. Data Controller / Data Processor The GDPR distinguishes between organisations that process personal information for their own purposes (known as “data controllers”) and organizations that process personal information on behalf of other organizations (known as “data processors”). We, Verdane, located at the address provided in our Contact Us section, are a Data Controller with respect to the personal information you provide to us. Changes to This Policy At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy to reflect updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this privacy policy. If required by law, we will get your permission or give you the opportunity to opt in to or opt-out of, as applicable, any new uses of your personal information. Cookie Policy Effective Date: 19-Oct-2021 Last Updated: 19-Oct-2021 What are cookies? This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage the cookie settings. Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement. How do we use cookies? As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data. The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website. Types of Cookies we use Domain Cookie Name Cookie Functionality Expiration time Cookie Purpose .verdane.com wpml_browser_redirect_test This cookie is set by WPML WordPress plugin and is used to test if cookies are enabled on the browser. Session Functional .verdane.com _icl_visitor_lang_js Saves the user’s preferred language on the website. 6 days Functional .verdane.com _icl_current_language Saves the user’s preferred language on the website. 1 day Functional .verdane.com cookie_notice_accepted Stores your cookie preferences (so you won’t be asked again) Functional .akamaized.net aka_debug Vimeo sets this cookie which is essential for the website to play video functionality. Session Functional .verdane.com _ga Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 365 days Analytics .verdane.com _gat_UA-29852902-2 A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. Analytics .verdane.com _gid Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 1 Day Analytics .verdane.com _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie 30 minutes Analytics .verdane.com _hjIncludedInPageviewSample This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that user is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s pageview limit. 2 minutes Analytics .verdane.com _hjTLDTest When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). Session Analytics .verdane.com _hjFirstSeen Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. 30 minutes Analytics .verdane.com _hjid Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. 365 days Analytics Manage cookie preferences Cookie Settings You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away. In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers. Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050 Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox?redirectslug=delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored&redirectlocale=en-US Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents. Contact If you have any questions or complaints about how we process your personal data or wish to exercise any of your rights set out above, you are welcome to contact us by email at dataprotection@verdane.com or by post to the address below. Contact: Oscar Rydén You may also turn to the Swedish Data Inspection Board or the Norwegian Data Protection Authority if you believe that Verdane’s processing of your personal data is not in accordance with applicable laws. 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