Website Terms & Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is for this website and any services provided through the ordinary course of business. Our website is https://www.vizierventures.com (including all other extensions) (“The Website”) and is owned and operated by Vizier Ventures Management Consultancy FZE (the “Company”). This policy governs the privacy of both users who choose to use our website or engage with any of our services for both with and without consideration (“Users”).
The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the Users, the website and the Company. Furthermore, the way in which this website and company processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.
The Website
This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its Users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies with all requirements for user privacy.
For the avoidance of doubt. the website and all company data are hosted, stored and maintained within the European Union and/or the United States in line with our service provider.
Use Of Cookies
This website may use cookies to better the User's experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the User on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer/device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from Users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a User's computer/device.
Cookies are small files saved to the User's computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the User's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server, to provide the Users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website onto their computers' hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browser's security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.
This website may use software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software may use technology to track visitor usage. The software may save a cookie to your computer's hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.
Other cookies may be stored to your computer's hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.
Contact And Communication
Users contacting this website and/or the Company do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until such time that it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the relevant Data Protection Laws. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure Form to Email submission process but advise Users using such Form to Email processes that they do so at their own risk.
This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products/services they offer, or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted.
This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates, but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting via any Form to Email process, or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing a product or service from the Company that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your User rights regarding receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.
In sending the Company or the website your personal information, you are consenting to allow the Company to contact you subject to the above conditions. Any data held by the Company relating to individuals will be stored and destroyed once a period of 12 months of no communication has occurred between the User and the Company.
The Company will never knowingly or willingly pass information it holds on Users onto a third party without the consent of the said User. For clarity, the term “User” includes clients, prospects, and/or website Users.
From time to time the Company operates various email campaign programs (at all times we refer to these as a Newsletter Program), used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so, but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the User.
Subscriptions are taken in compliance with Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with the relevant Data Protection Laws. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies/people outside of the Company that operates this website. Under the relevant Data Protection Laws, you may request a copy of personal information held about you by this website’s email newsletter program. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you, please write to the business address at the bottom of this policy.
Email marketing campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include: the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity (this is by no means a comprehensive list).
This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the User with more relevant content based on their activity.
In compliance with the EU’s ePrivacy Directive 2002 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, as well as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), subscribers are given the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated unsubscription system is unavailable, clear instructions on how to unsubscribe will be detailed instead.
At all times our email campaigns are run through third-party providers such as Mailchimp. Users are advised to refer to the specific terms and conditions attached to these third-party companies. Users can easily remove themselves from any email communication by “unsubscribing”.
The Company holds no liability as to any damages or losses associated with the use of any third-party email service provider. In engaging with the Company or continuing use of the website, you hereby expressly accept that the Company holds no such liability
External Links
While every effort has been made to include quality, safe and relevant external links within this website, Users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. For clarity, ‘external web links’ can be defined as clickable text/banner/image links to other websites.
The owners of this website and the Company cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk, and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Adverts And Sponsored Links
This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, which may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.
Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertiser’s website through a referral program, which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computer’s hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk, and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
The owners of this website and the Company cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note that they click on external links at their own risk, and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website, the Company, and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and to communicate/engage with them with due care and caution regarding their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms, and encourage Users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.
This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion, and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.
The Company holds responsibility for any and all comments, posts or any other action taken on social media belonging to the Company. Social media can easily be identified as belonging to the Company by the name of the account on the relevant social media platform. Any and all comments and actions made on social media are not intended to cause offense or serve as a defamatory action. Each and every posting will be checked for accuracy.
If you believe your intellectual property rights, personal rights, or any other rights have been infringed by any action on social media, you are to notify the Company as soon as possible so that the Company has an opportunity to rectify and/or remove the post.
Shortened Links in Social Media
This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default, some social media platforms shorten lengthy domains and URLs to third-party pages.
Users are advised to take caution and good judgment before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published, many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking, and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
This privacy policy and any and all items posted on behalf of the Company are strictly subject to the Laws of Dubai. Any disagreement that arises under the use of personal information shall be resolved through the Courts of Dubai.
The User, in using the website or engaging in social media belonging to the Company, expressly agrees that they are accepting the terms of this privacy policy.
Any disagreement and all notices are to be delivered to the Company registers office.
If any part of this policy is found to be defective, the remaining elements of the policy shall remain in place.
The Company registered office and address for service can be found on the website.
Special GDPR Notice
Citizens of the European Union have the right to track their data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) brought into force in 2018.
In using the Company website, you are hereby agreeing to the following terms and give your consent for such data to be stored as contained in accordance with this GDPR notice.
Data Control Officer
The Data Control Officer is based at the Company headquarters, which can be found in our Terms and Conditions document. You can reach the Data Control Officer by emailing the Company at info@vizierventures.com, or by using the methods contained within the Company website for contact with us.
The Company does NOT collect any personal information and does not store any information on you. Any communications are held and retained on third-party servers for reference purposes. You will never be emailed marketing communication by the Company.
Purpose Of The Processing.
The information is collected in the interest of Know Your Client and Anti Money Laundering regulations. The Company is allowing individuals to participate in a crowdfunding exercise. Some jurisdictions do not allow their citizens and residents to participate in such activities. We, therefore, are required to collect basic information on those who participate to demonstrate, when necessary, that citizens and residents of that jurisdiction did not participate in the crowdfunding. The legal basis for this processing of data is found in international law (different laws from different countries) including but not limited to, The UK Financial Services Act, The US Securities Legislation, European Monetary laws and regulations (including those of its member states), Chinese Financial Code, anti-money laundering laws, and antiterrorism laws.
Third Parties
Data may, from time to time, be shared with third parties for the purposes of conducting a Know Your Client assessment, so that participants can prove their location, residence, and citizenship. All parties that have access to your data will be members of the necessary data-controlling bodies of their respective countries.
Recipients Of The Data
At all times our compliance team will have access to the data. They are regulated by the Information Commissioners Office and will not share that data with any third party.
Safeguards
Your data will never be shared with any third party without your consent or court order provided by a court of competent jurisdiction within the country making the request.
Retention Period
All data will be stored for a period of a minimum of six months and a maximum of two years.
The Existence of your rights
Nothing within this agreement or the Company’s process impacts your rights under the GDPR.
The right to withdraw consent
You may, at any time, request the right to know what information is held by the Company relating to you. This request can only be made once as data is only captured once during the registration and participation process.
As the information is required for anti-money laundering and antiterrorism laws, we are obliged to keep any and all information relating to you.
The Right To Lodge a Complaint
Citizens of the EU may file a complaint with the relevant data controller within their country. Complaints should first be made to the Company so that we can investigate any issues relating to the storage or use of your data.
Source of Data
All data collected on you will be done so by your submission of the information and collection of information from the machine you access the website with. Data collection is limited to that contained in our registration method and the information which your computer automatically transmits to our company when accessing our website, such as cookies and IP data.
NOTICE FOR U.S. PERSONS
This notice is prepared for U.S. persons only. ‘U.S. Persons’ shall mean any person who is a Citizen or Resident of the United States and is present within the United States. It also includes any corporation, LLC, or other body as organized within the United States.
Due to the nature of legal services within the U.S., Vizier Ventures does not work as a law firm, lawyer, attorney's office, or the equivalent within your State or across the U.S. as a whole. Vizier Ventures and its team can provide compliance services which are aligned to the development and deployment of corporate and cryptographic assets (sometimes in the U.S. these are considered a type of security regulated by the SEC). Additionally, they can assist with certain U.S. tax issues. They cannot, however, represent you as an attorney at law nor provide you with legal advice. Therefore, we are classed and work as compliance consultants within the U.S.
This does not relate to any person who is a director, member, or shareholder of a foreign entity which is not based in the U.S. and is seeking legal advice for such an entity as its officer/agent. Additionally, it does not apply to any U.S. person who is not in the United States of America at the time they are seeking such advice.
If you are a U.S. person, or plan on targeting the U.S. market on an ongoing basis, you should retain local U.S. counsel, or, Vizier Ventures can introduce you to their partner/of counsel based within the U.S. You will be required to retain counsel through us in order to benefit from that service.
Please note, some members of the Vizier Ventures team may work for U.S. companies, however, such an arrangement is undertaken specifically with the permission of the local bar association of that company.
For Tax, Crypto, and Corporate Compliance issues we are more than able and happy to assist you. You should speak with your associate about what level of assistance can be provided within your State.
Finally, Vizier Ventures Management Consultancy FZW is not based in the United States. It does not have a Tax ID and does not engage with nor have dealing with the U.S. Tax Body (The IRS). Accordingly, Vizier Ventures shall not provide any tax documents to any client regardless of requirements. Invoices can be produced as proof of work with Vizier Ventures which are suitable for the purposes of Tax returns.
Occasionally, we may, from time to time, take payment from U.S. persons in the provision of services. If such payment is taken, it can be necessary to use a local bank through a service provider within our network. The use of such a local bank does not and is not an admission of any of the work being conducted or carried out within the U.S. It is also not an admission for jurisdictional reach for the purposes of any complaint, or filing of any complaint.
In signing our Terms of Service, you are deemed to have inspected or accepted these terms.
