Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Ventures Harbor (“we”, “us” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and share information when you visit our website, register an account, submit a founder or investor profile, or use our business matchmaking services.

Ventures Harbor facilitates introductions between founders, prospective investors and business partners. It does not itself execute investments, manage transactions or handle investment funds.

2. Information We Collect

Depending on how you use the Platform, we may collect:

• Contact and account details, such as your name, email address, phone number, location and professional profile.
• Business and profile information, including organisation details, business descriptions, investment preferences, proposed funding requirements and partnership interests.
• Documents or verification details you choose to provide, where reasonably needed for a listing, account or verification process.
• Communications with us and basic technical information, such as browser, device, log and website-usage data.

3. How We Use Information

We use information to create and manage accounts, display listings, identify potentially relevant introductions, communicate with users, improve platform performance, maintain security, prevent misuse and comply with applicable legal obligations. Optional marketing or opportunity updates will be sent where permitted by law and, where required, with your consent.

4. Sharing of Information

We may share relevant profile or listing information with prospective founders, investors or business partners in accordance with your sharing preferences and the purpose of facilitating introductions. We may also share information with service providers supporting the Platform, or where disclosure is required by law or reasonably necessary to protect users, rights or platform security.

Please avoid submitting confidential business information unless you are authorised to disclose it and are comfortable with the selected sharing settings. Once information is shared directly with another user, their subsequent use may be outside our control.

5. Security and Retention

We use reasonable safeguards designed to protect information from unauthorised access, loss or misuse. No online system can be guaranteed completely secure. We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for platform operations, introductions, security, recordkeeping and legal compliance.

6. Your Choices and Rights

Subject to applicable law, you may request access to or correction or deletion of your information, update your profile-sharing preferences, or withdraw consent where processing is based on consent. You may opt out of promotional communications using the available unsubscribe option or by contacting us.

7. Cookies and Third-Party Services

The website may use essential cookies or similar technologies for functionality and security. If analytics or other non-essential technologies are used, appropriate notices or consent controls will be provided where required. Third-party websites and services are governed by their own terms and privacy practices.

8. Changes and Contact

We may update this Policy from time to time and publish the revised version with an updated effective date.