RGPT respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it. This privacy policy applies to www.startupsrunway.com (‘Website’) owned and operated by RGPT (‘RGPT’, "We", "Us" or "Our"). This Privacy Policy describes RGPT’s policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your personal data when you use the Website. It also describes the choices available to you regarding the use of, your access to, and how to update and correct your personal data. We will not use or share your confidential information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information we collect from other sources. Capitalized terms that are not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning given to them in RGPT’s Terms of Use.
Website
The Website provides resources and tools through events, mentors, industry experts, investors, incubators, accelerators, e-learning programs, co-working spaces, established start-ups, service providers and government-backed initiatives to entrepreneurs, start-ups, and Organizations. The Website caters to meet the needs of the entrepreneurs, start-ups, venture capitalist, investor, and angel community.
Privacy norms
This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:
On the Website;
In e-mail, text and other electronic messages between you and RGPT, on the Website or otherwise; and
When you interact with our links and applications on third-party websites and services if they include a link to this Privacy Policy.
It does not apply to information collected by:
RGPT offline or through any other means, including on any other websites operated by RGPT or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use the Website. By accessing or using the Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. Kindly note that the Privacy Policy is subject to change at any given point in time.
What is “personal data”?
"Personal data" is any data that (1) is recorded in any form, (2) is about or pertains to a specific individual and (3) can be linked to that individual. For example, and without limitation, your first and last names, address, email address, telephone number, and other contact information, and the deals in which you have participated are "personal data."
What kind of personal data is collected?
We collect personal data at different stages of your use of the Website.
If you visit the Website or use an interface which interacts with the Website, whether or not you sign-in as a registered user, we collect your Internet Protocol (IP) address, the location of your Internet Service Provider, the type and version of Internet browser that you are using, and the Website from which you came. We also collect information regarding your site usage, such as the time spent on a page and the number of pages you viewed.
When you set up your account, you will be required to provide certain personal data including your name and email address. You may also be invited to provide optional personal data, such as biography, photograph, postal address or phone number. If you choose to do so, our use of your personal data shall be governed by this Privacy Policy.
We also collect personal data that you provide when you interact with the Website such as, for example, by sending a message or uploading documents, or when exchanging correspondence with us such as through support emails.
We collect information that you provide or create when you use your account:
you may record in your profile within your Organization’s information about yourself, such as your contact information, picture, biography, experience, or other groups to which you belong. While the Organization’s name will be public, no investor information will be publicly disclosed.
and you represent a company that is seeking investors, you may record information about yourself, your company, and your company’s management team. You may also include a video recording or picture.
If you provide any information about or personal data of a third party (such as a person's name or photograph), you are representing to RGPT that you have all necessary authority and/or have obtained all necessary consents from such individual to enable RGPT to collect, use and disclose his or her personal data as set forth in this Privacy Policy. If we receive a written complaint or direction from the person, we will take down his or her information, without prejudice to any rights and remedies available to us hereunder and/or under law and in equity against you.
How is personal data collected?
We collect personal data directly from you when you provide it through your use of Website, such as in emails or when you fill out forms that are displayed on the Website.
We also use cookies that are sent to your computer, or action tags that are placed on the Website.
For what purpose, will my personal data be used?
RGPT uses your personal data to maintain your account and to provide you with services offered on the Website. We also use your personal data to respond to requests that you make of us and to contact you and to provide you with information that we believe may be of interest to you.
We may also use your name and contact information to make queries to social networking and other sites, such as LinkedIn, for a variety of purposes, including, but not limited to, verifying your identity, and showing you how you are linked or connected to other individuals who are also the Website Users.
Your personal data may also be shared with third parties as described below.
Can third parties see my personal data?
The Website allows the Organization administrator of an Organization, the ability to set certain settings in the profile of the members of the Organization. Thus, for each Organization, the administrator decides which information is available for access or review by entrepreneurs and/or other Organizations, and which information is not to be disclosed, or is disclosed to selected entrepreneurs and/or other Organizations, according to the policies of the Organization. Please note that (1) the default settings that are set by an Organization administrator may change from time to time; (2) each Organization may opt for different default settings. While the Website includes initial defaults, RGPT has no control over the choice of a setting or the change in a default setting by an Organization’s Administrator.
If you are an entrepreneur and you have posted or uploaded information about you and/or your team, this information is disclosed to the Organizations.
Under certain business or legal conditions, RGPT may have to disclose your personal data to others as follows:
RGPT may now or in the future have a parent, subsidiary or related company or companies within the RGPT family of companies. RGPT has the right to share all personal data with all such affiliated companies.
RGPT may engage other companies and individuals to perform necessary business functions on behalf of RGPT (e.g. customer service or email provider). If it is necessary to perform these functions, these companies or individuals may have access to personal data of our Users. These service providers have agreed not to use the personal data for any other purpose other than providing the required services.
Under certain circumstances, the disclosure of your personal data may be required by law. RGPT may disclose your personal data (1) if, in its own best judgment, it is required by law to do so in order to comply with a facially valid judicial or governmental subpoena, warrant, bankruptcy proceedings, or other order, or (2) to a government institution that has asserted its lawful authority to obtain the information, or (3) when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, or (4) investigate fraud.
If ownership of RGPT changes as a result of a merger, acquisition, or transfer to another company, your personal data may be transferred to the successor entity. If such transfer takes place, you will be notified of any material changes to the Privacy Policy and provided with the ability to opt-out of the transfer of your personal data to the successor entity.
Sharing with third Parties
Third Parties are companies unaffiliated with the Website. We may share your personal data with third parties if given permission by you so that they can market their products or services to you. If you do not want us to share your personal data with third parties after giving us permission to do so, contact us at connect@startupsrunway.com
Can I access or change my personal data?
Upon request, RGPT will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. If your personal data changes, you may correct, update, or amend by making the change on our member information page. If you wish to delete/remove/deactivate your profile or remove your testimonial from our site, please email us at connect@startupsrunway.com. We will respond to your request to access within 30 (thirty) days.
Data Retention
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Can I have my personal data deleted?
You can delete any personal data that is recorded in the profile that you create for yourself as an investor or for your company, or as an entrepreneur.
Social Media Widgets
Our Website includes social media features, such as the Facebook and Twitter button. These features may collect your IP address, which pages you are visiting on our site and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
Single Sign-On
You can log in to our site using sign-in services such as LinkedIn or an Open ID provider. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal data with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign-up form.
What is Aggregated Data
Data aggregation is a process in which information is gathered and expressed in a summary form for purposes such as statistical analysis, in order to obtain information about a particular group based on specific variables. Data used for aggregation purposes are collected in a form that removes all identifiers and may be combined with other data for which all identifiers have also been removed.
What is Website Data, and how is it used?
Website data is aggregated data about the overall traffic to, and usage of the Website. Examples include the number of visitors to the Website and the number of registered Users of the Website. RGPT may extract and use Website data for internal purposes, in order to analyze the performance of the Website and applications. For example, we may use these data for traffic analysis and business decision making, in order to determine how we can improve our site or its functionalities.
The statistics generated in this manner contain no personal data and cannot be used to gather any information about individual visitors to the Website.
Cookies and other Tracking Technologies
We and our partners use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the Website, track Users’ movements around the Website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
RGPT uses 'cookies'. A cookie is a small amount of data sent to a User's web browser from a web server, which is then stored on the User's hard drive. Cookies are used to make site navigation easier and can help recognize a returning visitor. RGPT's cookies do not generate any personal data, do not read personal data from your computer, and are not tied to any personal data. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can instruct your browser, by editing its options, to stop accepting cookies, or to prompt you before accepting cookies from the sites that you visit. If you decide not to accept our cookies, some or all features of the site may not be available because navigation on the site is facilitated by cookies. You can delete cookies from your computer at any time.
RGPT uses action tags. An action tag is a small piece of code that is placed on a webpage or in an email in order to track the pages viewed or the messages opened, the date and time when someone visited our Website, the Website from which the visitor came, the type of browser used, and the domain name and address of the User's Internet Service Provider. Action tags allow us to better understand how Users and visitors use our site or browse through our pages, so that we can improve access to and navigation through the Website, add or modify pages, according to our User's patterns. Action tags cannot be removed or deleted by our Users because they are part of the programming of a webpage.
Log file information is automatically reported by your browser each time you access a web page. When you use the Website, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends out whenever you visit any Website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, IP address, browser type, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.) and URLs, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other similar information.
When you use the Website, we may employ web beacons, which are used to track the online usage patterns of Users anonymously. No personal data from your account is collected using these beacons. In addition, we may also use web beacons in HTML-based emails sent to Users to track which emails are opened by recipients. The use of cookies or similar technologies by our partners is not covered by our Privacy Policy. We do not have access or control over these cookies or similar technologies.
We partner with a third party to either display advertising on our Website or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third-party partner may use cookies or similar technologies in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. Please note you will continue to receive generic ads.
What security measures are in place to protect my personal data?
RGPT uses physical, technical, and administrative procedures in order to safeguard and protect personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, while we do our best to implement reasonable security measures, we do not guarantee that our safeguards will always work.
RGPT uses industry-standard technological means to protect your personal data while in transit through the Internet. We use encryption and a comprehensive authentication protocol to provide reasonable security. However, please remember that no security system on the Internet is perfect.
What about Uploaded Documents?
Documents that are uploaded to the Website for sharing are stored on various data storage devices and may also be stored on cloud. All uploads and downloads are transmitted through the web between Users and the data storage service using the same encryption techniques as those that are used with personal data. However, uploaded documents are neither stored redundantly nor backed up. Therefore, we recommend that RGPT Users keep back-up copies of their documents if they upload them to the Website.
When will RGPT contact me?
RGPT will communicate with you in response to your requests for service or customer support. We will contact you by phone or by email, according to your preference
RGPT will send you service-related emails if it becomes necessary to do so. RGPT may send you an email in order to notify you of updates to our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, or other agreement that you have with RGPT. RGPT may also send you an email in order to notify you of new products, or services or features. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you may opt-out of them by clicking on the unsubscribe button. For system, generated emails (in response to you or other RGPT User’s actions) the majority of them are configurable under settings.
Links to other Websites
RGPT may provide links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these sites. In order to safeguard your privacy, please review the privacy policies of any sites that you may visit before providing any personal data to these third-party sites.
Limitation of Liability
RGPT exercises reasonable efforts to safeguard the security and confidentiality of your personal data; however, transmissions protected by industry standard technology and administered by humans cannot be guaranteed to be secure. RGPT will not be liable for unauthorized disclosure of personal data that occurs through no fault of RGPT including, but not limited to, errors in transmission, access to your account by anyone uses your user ID and password, your failure to comply with your security obligations, and the unauthorized acts of RGPT's employees.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
From time to time, RGPT may update this Privacy Policy in order to reflect changes in its practices. Whenever such changes are made, RGPT will post an updated Privacy Policy on its Website and may email registered Users. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
All changes will apply to the personal data that are already collected, and to personal data that are collected after the effective date of the revised Privacy Policy, and will become effective when posted.
You will have the right to terminate your account at any time.
Contacting RGPT
RGPT owns and operates the Website. Our mailing address is Flat B4, Bandra Liberty CHS Ltd, Plot 98B, Hill Road, Bandra West, Mumbai 400050