Privacy policy

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General

SCI Ventures respects your privacy and recognises it is important for you to understand how we use your data. We do not collect Personal Information from you unless you offer it.

This Privacy Policy describes the way we will process and use any Personal Information about visitors to our site, as well as Personal Information that we collect through other means about people who contact us, vendors and prospective employees and donors. We aim to be transparent about our data practices regarding the personal data that we may collect, use, maintain and otherwise process.

We have a legal duty to protect personal data that we collect under the Data Protection Act 2018 (the “DPA”) and the General DataProtection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 as adopted into law in the UK, (the“GDPR”).

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Cookies

SCI Ventures uses cookies — codes that allow us to recognize your computer when you visit our website. We collect and store only anonymous information about your computer and mode of Internet access, including the name of the domain from which you access the Internet, the date and time you access our site, how long you stayed on our site, and the Internet address that brought you to our site.

We track this information to improve the usefulness, value, and navigation of our website. Please note that you can change your settings to notify you when a cookie is being set or updated, or to block cookies altogether.

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Personal information

SCI Ventures collects Personal Information when you contact us. We may ask for information such as your name, address, phone number, and email address. We may also collect Personal Information from third parties, such as a CV received from a recruiting firm, fit-for-work information received from a doctor, background information received from a background check provider, or personal data we view on social media.
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Legal bases for processing personal information

The laws in some jurisdictions require companies to tell you about the legal ground they rely on to use or disclose your personal data. To the extent those laws apply, our legal grounds for processing your Personal Information are as follows:

• Legitimate interests. In many cases, we handle Personal Information on the grounds that it furthers our legitimate interests in commercial activities, such as the following, in ways that are not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the affected individuals.
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  -  Providing our investment services.
  -  Providing and maintaining our site.
  -  Analysing and improving our business and site.
  -  Communications, including responding to your inquiries about our services.
  -  Addressing information security needs and protecting our members, Co-Founders and others.
  -  Managing legal issues.

• Legal compliance. We need to use and disclose personal data in certain ways to comply with our legal obligations.
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• Honor our contractual commitments.
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• Consent. Where we collect Personal Information from a third party that has obtained your consent, we may process your personal data on the basis of consent.
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Security and retention of personal information

We have implemented security measures  - administrative, physical and technical - to protect against the loss, misuse, and/or alteration of your Personal Information, based on the sensitivity of the information that we collect and store. However, we cannot guarantee that these measures will prevent every unauthorised attempt to access, use, or disclose your Personal Information since no website and/or other electronic transmissions can be completely secure.

We will securely store your Personal Information for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes outlined in this Policy, or as long as we are legally required or permitted to do so.

Links to other websites

Any links to outside sites are not protected under this policy. We recommend that you read each website’s privacy policy.
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Medical disclaimer

This website may contain information for the purpose of educating people about spinal cord injury and paralysis. Nothing contained on this website should be construed nor is intended to be used for medical diagnosis or treatment. It should not be used in place of the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider.
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The privacy of children

This site is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect information relating to children.
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Your data rights, as expressed by GDPR

All individuals have rights regarding data that is identified or connected to their identity (“Personal Data”). The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) describes these rights in law, but SCI Ventures believes they apply to all individuals. They include:

• You have the right to clear and transparent communication about your Personal Information. We want to make this policy as clear as possible and provide a friendlier version to help you understand it.
• You have the right to request a copy of your Personal Information in a common digital format. To request this information, please contact us.
• You have the right to edit or correct any Personal Information.
• You have the right to request that your Personal Information be deleted.
• You have the right to be notified of any breach involving your Personal Information. We will notify the appropriate data protection authority within 72 hours of detecting a breach involving your data. We will notify you as soon as possible after that.
• You have the right to object to the processing of your data.

In some cases, these rights might be restricted. Some examples would include where the information requested compromises the privacy of another individual or is the subject of legal proceedings or investigation. Additionally, processing that has already occurred cannot be undone. Further, these rights to edit, delete, be notified of a breach, and object to processing all apply to Personal Information and do not apply to de-identified information that, for example, has been shared by us with our partners and vendors.

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