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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last revised on 1st January 2010

fundthatdeal.com (“we”, “FTD”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

If you have any queries in relation to this Privacy Policy, you can email us at: privacy@fundthatdeal.com This is a legal document which sets out how FTD handles data which identifies you. This Privacy Policy forms part of our Terms of Use. At FTD we believe strongly in protecting the privacy of our customers' personal information. This statement describes the privacy practices we apply for the FTD Service. As part of that, it also expresses our approach to complying with the data protection laws which apply in [Country – does this have to be the country in which we're registered?]. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact the FTD customer services team at dataprotection@fundthatdeal.com.

Information We May Collect From You
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
Cookies
Where We Store Your Personal Data
Uses Made of Your Information
Sharing and Use of Information
Disclosure Of Your Information
Security
Your Rights
Changes To Our Privacy Policy
Contact

Information We May Collect From You

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on www.fundthatdeal.com (“our Site”). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information if you report a problem with our Site.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
Details of your visits to our Site and the resources that you access.
Where you communicate with any other users of our service through our Site we may keep a record of those communications.
Details of any information posted by you in connection with our service

Information gathered when you complete the registration forms on the FTD Service (“our Site”) When you register for the FTD Service, you provide your name, your email address, your gender, your date of birth, and some optional details about yourself. All of this information is made available to you, and is capable of being corrected or updated, through your FTD profile page. Other information gathered may be from uploading real estate proposals, posting videos and/or images, dialogue through our secure messaging system, or details of the terms agreed on deals. We may also ask you for information if you wish to contact us with an enquiry or to report a problem with our Site.

Cookies.

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration purposes. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our Site and to enhance users' experience of the our Site as follows:

To hold your login information, so that your name is displayed when you visit our Site. This option can be disabled by clicking on "Log Off", which appears at the top right hand corner of every page.
To recognise you when you return to our Site.
To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our Site according to your individual interests.
To facilitate optimal use of our Site by means of a temporary "session" cookie. These cookies disappear when your browser session ends, or if you click on "Log Off", at the top right hand corner of every page on our Site.
In the course of displaying sponsored or partner areas on our Site, a third-party sponsor or partner may place on your browser (and subsequently recognize) a unique cookie or pixel.
The cookies on our Site do not access or use information by which people can be personally identified. If you wish, you can prevent these files from using non-personal information about you by either deleting the cookie folder in your browser or by putting your browser's Privacy setting higher, but doing so will mean that you will not be able to use our Site in the way that we intend it to be used, and may well adversely affect your experience of websites that use cookies to enhance or personalize that experience.
You can find out how to make these changes to your browser at this site: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/

Access to Personally Identifiable Information

The information we collect may be used:

To process your payment for uploading property proposals, videos, or for our proposal review service or other goods or services ordered on our site or to fulfil such orders.
To provide our customer support service and to verify any claims or requests you make if you use our customer support service.
To enforce our terms and conditions and prevent or detect hacking activities, security breaches or safety risks in connection with our Site.
To send service announcements and messages. For example, a reminder is sent to users if a real estate proposal that they have either uploaded or have expressed an interest in is coming up to the deadline date entered for it.
To aggregate information to generate anonymous statistics regarding use of our websites. We may share this anonymous information with our partners. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
For our own internal marketing and demographic studies and to help us improve our website.
In the event of an actual or proposed (including as part of negotiations for any) merger, or business combination or sale of substantially all of our assets or a business operation to which such information relates or as provided under bankruptcy or applicable insolvency laws or by the enforcement of equitable rights.

If your personally identifiable information or email address changes, or if you no longer wish to be a registered user of the FTD Service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate your account via the Profile menu option found at the top of most pages when logged on to the FTD Service. Alternatively, you can email the FTD Customer Support Team at the following email: support@fundthatdeal.com We will endeavour to respond to all email enquires within 2 working days.

Where We Store Your Personal Data

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Uses Made of Your Information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

To ensure that content from our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
To notify you about changes to our service.

We may also use your data, to provide you with news and information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we may contact you about these by email, post or telephone. You may also receive email notifications when you have new mail in your FTD Message Inbox or, if you are a self certified investor on our Site, when a new funding proposal that matches your criteria is published on our Site.

If you do not want us to use your data in this way for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data (the “registration form”). We may retain information about you, after you stop using our service, in order to comply with any statutory or legal obligation and/or to uphold the quality of our service.

Sharing and use of information

The over-riding principles we apply are these:

We, and (where relevant) our credit card processing agents, will not supply your personal data to a third party for commercial exploitation except as consented to by you in accordance with prevailing law.

Profile Information. Once a registered entrepreneur uploads a new proposal, the proposal information and some or all of the information held for that entrepreneur, except for the email address, telephone numbers and passwords, will be available for viewing by the community of registered investors. Once a registered investor expresses interest in a proposal, some or all of the information held for that investor, except for the email address, telephone numbers and passwords, will be available for viewing by the entrepreneur who published that proposal.

Email addresses. We do not directly make your email address available to anyone on any screen of the FTD Service. Similarly, when you send an email to another registered member through the FTD Service, neither the sender's nor the recipient's email address is disclosed by the FTD Service itself. Members can, however, choose to make their email addresses known to other registered members; however, any such disclosure is at the registered member's own risk. Members may change the email address we hold for them at any time by visiting "Profile", which is found at the top of most pages when logged on to the FTD Service. If your email system automatically responds to a contact email with a read or delivery receipt, your email address will be revealed. No tracking technologies are used within / in conjunction with emails nor do we share, sell, rent or trade Personally Identifiable Information with third parties for their promotional purposes.

Un-validated Memberships. If you register for the FTD Service, and you receive a validation email, but fail to validate your membership then we may contact you via email at periods of 24 hours, 7 days, and 30 days at your registered email address to notify you of the invalid status. Should you fail to respond to these notifications then we may send you one final notice before the un-validated membership is removed.

Telephone numbers. You may enter a contact telephone number in your Profile. This number is for internal use only, for future or current services such as SMS. Your number will never be disclosed to any third party without your prior consent. Should we introduce an additional service which utilises telephone numbers, or we wish to provide you with informational content via your mobile phone, you will be given the option to agree to this, as we believe it should be your choice what services you receive.

Notification of unread messages. If you have a number of messages waiting for you in your FTD Message Inbox, and you have not logged in to the service for an extended period, we may at our discretion contact you via your registered email address to notify you of the unread messages. Should you still not read and remove these messages then we may remove the messages as part of our data cleansing process.

Credit Card information. Members' credit or debit card information is encrypted and stored securely. We share your billing information with such companies insofar as necessary for the processing of your payment or to prevent or detect fraud. These companies have agreed not to retain, share, store or use your personally identifiable information for any secondary purpose.

FTD companies and subsidiaries. We may share data supplied by you (or collected about you) with our subsidiaries and other companies owned by us, but only for the purposes described in this policy.

Place of processing. The computers and companies that process data on our behalf are based in the United Kingdom, and other countries, some of which may be outside the European Union ("EU"). Thus, your personal data may be transferred to, processed and held both inside and outside the EU. Countries outside the EU may not have as well developed data protection laws in place to protect your information as those inside the EU, but we will ensure your personal data is treated in compliance with those laws and this Privacy Policy.

Disclosure Of Your Information

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
If FTD or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use or terms and conditions of business and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of FTD, our customers, or others.

Security

We have security measures in place to protect our customer database and access to this database is restricted internally. However, it remains each member's responsibility:

to protect against unauthorised access to Your Details;
to ensure against use by anyone else of the FTD Service through the machine that Member uses while they are "logged on" to the FTD Service;
to log off or exit from the FTD Service when not using it;
and to keep his/her password secret.
our Security team can be reached via dataprotection@fundthatdeal.com
FTD strives to protect the Personal Information and email address you provide through our site, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure

Your Rights

Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with FTD, you can contact us at support@fundthatdeal.com. You can also use this address if you wish to request from a copy of the personal data we hold about you or a description of that data from FTD. Please note that by English law we are entitled to charge you a small sum for providing this information.

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