Privacy Policy
Last Updated: February 14, 2023
Purchase Capital LLC (“Purchase Capital” “we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to safeguarding and handling your Personal Information in a responsible and secure manner.
This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes how we process your Personal Information as you use our website located at www.PurchaseCapital.com, as we perform investment and related services in the conduct and operation of our business, and any services, tools, technology, products, features, events, and mobile apps (together, the “Services”) provided, operated or owned by Purchase Capital. When we collect, access, use or do anything with your Personal Information, we are “processing” your Personal Information.
We may modify this Policy at any time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this Policy.
In addition, we may provide you with real time disclosures or additional information about the Personal Information handling practices of specific parts of our Services. Such notices may supplement this Policy or provide you with additional choices about how we process your Personal Information.
Section 1 – Information We Collect Through Your Use of the Services
Personal Information is any information that identifies you or makes you identifiable. We collect different types of Personal Information when you’re accessing or using our Services, including:
- Information you provide to us. In connection with the Services, we may ask you to provide these categories of Personal Information:
- Business and Professional Information: Examples of business information collected by us include your name, employer/company, job title, telephone number, business and/or personal address(es), email address, information regarding your job, identification numbers (such as a passport number or other government issued ID), and/or other information regarding your preferences where it is relevant to the Services.
- Financial Information: Examples of financial information include bank account details, credit card number, money transfers (including communications regarding bank transfers), assets, investment profile, credit history, debts and expenses. A third-party service provider stores and processes this information securely on our behalf.
- Voluntary Information: Information you provide to us voluntarily by completing web forms, participating in polls, submitting information to us or contributing to blogs, forums, postings, contacting customer service, and other mediums constitutes Voluntary Information.
- Usage Information automatically collected. When you use the Services online or through our website, we automatically collect information about the Services you use and how you use them (“Usage Information”), as described below.
- Service Data: We collect information about your interactions with the Services, such as the pages or other content you view, and other actions you perform while using the Services.
- Log Data: We automatically collect log information when you use the Services. This might include your IP address, access times, hardware and software information, device information, device event information (e.g., crashes, unsuccessful logins, browser type), the web page you’ve viewed or engaged with before or after using the Services, and other relevant information.
- Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: We may use various tracking technologies to collect and store information about your use of our Services. We use these tools to ensure that you receive a personalized experience, to provide you with certain functions on our Services, to keep your account safe, and to improve and optimize our Services. See Section 9 below for more information.
Section 2 – How We Use Your Information
Your Personal Information can be used for various purposes, including:
- To Provide Our Services. When you access or use our Services, we process certain Personal Information about you to administer and maintain our business. Some examples of how we process your Personal Information in our Services include, but are not limited to:
- making, maintaining, managing and disposing of our investments;
- conducting due diligence and evaluating business opportunities;
- developing new investment opportunities; and
- managing, operating and growing our business, administering the Services and managing investor accounts, including through the use of third – party service providers.
- To Communicate with You. When you communicate with us or submit information to us, you will receive Service-related communications. Our Service-related communications are transactional messages about your business, investment opportunity, policy changes, or other Service-related notifications. However, service-related communications are necessary for us to continue to provide our Services to you.
- Marketing Communications. We may also use your Personal Information for marketing, promotional, or business development related communications and initiatives. You can manage your email preferences and opt out of certain communications by emailing us at info@purchasecapital.com or by following the instructions within the emails you receive from us.
- To Enforce our Terms, Agreements, or Policies. We use your Personal Information to make sure our terms, policies, and agreements with you and any third parties are enforced. We actively monitor, investigate, prevent, and mitigate any suspected or actual prohibited activities in our Services. We are required to process your Personal Information for this purpose to provide our Services.
- For Research and Analytics. We may process your Personal Information to improve, optimize, or expand our Services or features of our Services and to understand market trends and developments. We may take additional security measures when processing your Personal Information for such purposes, such as by de-identifying your Personal Information and limiting access to such data.
- To Comply with Applicable Laws. We may be required to process your Personal Information under certain laws and regulations, such as tax laws. We will also process any and all information to law enforcement agencies or others if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal or regulatory process (such as a judicial proceeding, court order, or government inquiry) or obligations that we may owe pursuant to ethical and other professional rules, laws, and regulations; (b) enforce the Purchase Capital User Agreement and other policies; (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Purchase Capital, its employees, its users, its clients, and the public. We cannot provide the Services to you without such processing.
Section 3 – How We Share Your Information
We may share your Personal Information as follows:
- Third-Party Service Providers. We may use third parties to perform certain services on our behalf in connection with the Services such as:
- to process and store data, including your Personal Information;
- to track, analyze, and modify our Services;
- for marketing, advertising, and event planning; and
- to support our IT and security efforts.
Google Analytics. Google Analytics is one of our analytics service providers. Learn more about how Google collects and uses data here. To opt out of Google Analytics Advertising Features please use Google Ad Settings. To opt out of Google Analytics entirely please use this link.
Certain third-party service providers, such as payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.
For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your Personal Information will be handled by these providers. In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located in a different jurisdiction than either you or us. If you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.
- To Perform Investment Services. We will also disclose Personal Information to the following categories of third parties: (i) anyone involved in the matter we are working on, including counsel, counterparties, experts, mediators, opponents, attorneys and witnesses, (ii) law enforcement, tax and regulatory agencies and bodies, and (iii) insurers.
- Between Purchase Capital affiliated companies. Since Purchase Capital is a global business operating in different countries, we may transfer Personal Information between Purchase Capital affiliates, offices, departments, and across national borders for the purposes of international administration and operations.
- Merger, Bankruptcy, or Corporate Reorganization. We may disclose and transfer your Personal Information to a subsequent owner, co-owner, or operator of Purchase Capital or the Services, or in connection with a merger, consolidation, restructuring, the sale of substantially all of our interests and/or assets (i.e., a bankruptcy proceeding), or other corporate change. We will notify you with any choices you may have regarding your Personal Information when we are engaged in a merger, bankruptcy, or corporate reorganization.
- Legal Obligations and Safety. We may share your Personal Information if it is reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with a valid legal process (e.g., subpoenas, warrants, court orders, etc.);
- Comply with requests or investigations by public authorities;
- Comply with applicable laws or regulations;
- Enforce or apply the Purchase Capital policies or policies of our business partners;
- Protect the security or integrity of the Services; or
- Protect the rights, property, or safety of Purchase Capital, our employees or users, partners and affiliates, or other natural persons.
- For any other purpose, with your consent. We may share your Personal Information on your behalf or at your request. We will only do so with your specific consent. If you provide your consent to share your information, you may withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not undo or reverse the lawfulness of any previous processing, and in some cases Personal Information may not be retrieved once shared. Contact us at info@purchasecapital.com if you would like to withdraw your consent.
Section 4 – Your Choices
- Self-Reported and Voluntary Information. You may choose not to provide us with some of your Personal Information. For example, you are not required to complete any survey we send to you. Note, if you do not provide certain Personal Information, we may not be able to fully administer our Services, make investments, or otherwise analyze a company.
- Communication Preferences. If you do not want to receive marketing emails from us, please adjust your communication preferences or click the unsubscribe link within the email you received from us. You will not be able to unsubscribe from Service-related communications as they are necessary for us to continue offering you the Services.
Section 5 – Third-Party Services
You may find links to other websites, third party applications, and widgets on our Services that we do not own or control, such as social media, portfolio company websites, or related news. When you click on links in our Service, they may direct you away from our website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements. Once you leave our Service or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s User Agreement or Terms of Use.
Section 6 – Security
To protect your Personal Information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry standard practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. You should be aware that, unfortunately, no system can be 100% secure. There will always be a risk that your Personal Information gets compromised.
Section 7 – Children’s Privacy
By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your jurisdiction of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your jurisdiction of residence, and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site. This website is not intended for children under the age of 13. Please contact us if you believe we have collected Personal Information about a child without consent from their parent or guardian so we can take action to prevent such access and to delete their Personal Information from our Services.
Section 8 – Retention
We generally retain your Personal Information as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes of collection or to comply with applicable law. Otherwise, where required by law we will endeavor to delete your Personal Information when we no longer need it for the purposes it was originally collected. We will not delete any Personal Information that also relates to other individuals, unless such other individuals also wish to delete their Personal Information at the same time.
Section 9 – Cookies and Other Tracking Technology
We use cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs and JavaScript (collectively, “Cookies”) to enable our servers to recognize your web browser, tell us how and when you visit and use our Services, analyze trends, learn about our user base and operate and improve our Services. Cookies are small pieces of data–usually text files–placed on your computer, tablet, phone or similar device when you use that device to access our Services. We may also supplement the information we collect from you with information received from third parties, including third parties that have placed their own Cookies on your device(s).
We use the following types of Cookies:
- Required Cookies. Required Cookies are required for providing you with features or services that you have requested. Disabling these Cookies may make certain features and services unavailable.
- Functional Cookies. Functional Cookies are used to record your choices and settings regarding our Services, maintain your preferences over time and recognize you when you return to our Services. These Cookies help us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Performance/Analytical Cookies. Performance/Analytical Cookies allow us to understand how visitors use our Services. They do this by collecting information about the number of visitors to the Services, what pages visitors view on our Services and how long visitors are viewing pages on the Services. Performance/Analytical Cookies also help us measure the performance of our advertising campaigns in order to help us improve our campaigns and the Services’ content for those who engage with our advertising.
Performance/Analytical Cookies also help us measure the performance of our advertising campaigns in order to help us improve our campaigns and the Services’ content for those who engage with our advertising.
You can decide whether or not to accept Cookies through your internet browser’s settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new Cookie in a variety of ways. You can also delete all Cookies that are already on your device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our website and some of the Services and functionalities may not work.
To explore what Cookie settings are available to you, look in the “preferences” or “options” section of your browser’s menu. To find out more information about Cookies, including information about how to manage and delete Cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
Section 10 – Notice to Individuals in the State of California
Marketing. California law permits California residents to ask Purchase Capital for a notice that identifies the categories of Personal Information that we share with our affiliates and/or third parties for marketing purposes, and that provides contact information for such affiliates and/or third parties. If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please submit a written request to us at the address provided under the “Contact Information” section.
Do Not Track Signals. Currently, we do not monitor or take any action with respect to Do Not Track signals.
Section 11 – Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
Questions & Contact Information
If you would like to register a complaint, or simply want more information please contact us at info@purchasecapital.com or by mail at:
Purchase Capital, LLC
1395 Brickell Avenue
Suite 800
Miami, FL 33131
Email: info@purchasecapital.com
Telephone: +1 (305) 697-9600