Privacy Policy

Who we are

Welcome to StartupTortoise, operated by Soft Innovators, registered in England and Wales under company number 06890751. In this policy, the references to ‘we’ and ‘us’ are to StartupTortoise.

Scope

This privacy policy sets out how StartupTortoise uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website. Please note that the Site may contain links to other websites. If you click on a link to another website, this Privacy Policy will not apply to any information collected on that website.

StartupTortoise is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

StartupTortoise may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Information collection

Our principal goals in collecting information is to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, features and content. We may collect, store and use your personal information including:

Information You Provide to Us

You may browse the Site without providing any personal information that may be used to identify you personally. However, when you register for and use the service, access certain content or features, or directly contact the site, we may ask you to provide information, including:

Any personal details you type in or submit, such as name, address, email address, mobile number.
Your username, password, preferences and contact choices
Demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
Your PayPal ID, billing address and other billing related information.

We will collect personal identifiable information from users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us.

Log Data

We automatically collect Log Data when you visit our site, whether as a Member or a non-registered user. This information does not identify you to us unless you have given us your name, contact information, or other identifying information.

This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address, browser type or the webpage you were visiting before you came to our site, pages of our site that you visit, the time spent on those pages, information you search for on our site, access times and dates, and other statistics.

We use Log Data to respond to your requests, improve our website, and deliver personalized content to you. We may disclose that information to third parties to help us in these activities but we do not allow them to use it for other purposes.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Information collected from other sources

To simplify our registration process, we allow you to access the service by logging into online accounts you may have with third party service providers such as Facebook and LinkedIn.

As part of the functionality of the site, you may link your StartupTortoise account with Third Party Accounts, by either:

(i) providing your Third Party Account login information to StartupTortoise through the site or

(ii) allowing StartupTortoise to access your Third Party Account, as is permitted under the applicable terms and conditions that govern your use of each Third Party Account.

You represent that you are entitled to disclose your Third Party Account login information to StartupTortoise and/or grant StartupTortoise access to your Third Party Account for use for the purposes described herein without breach by you of any of the terms and conditions that govern your use of the applicable Third Party Account and without obligating StartupTortoise to pay any fees or making StartupTortoise subject to any usage limitations imposed by the applicable Third Party Accounts.

If you register by logging into a Third Party Account via our site, we will obtain the Personal Information you have provided to the applicable Third Party service Provider (such as your name, email address, profile picture, names of friends, other information you make publicly available via the applicable Third Party Service Provider and/or other information you authorize StartupTortoise to access by authorizing the Third Party Service Provider to provide such information) from your Third Party Accounts and use that information to create your StartupTortoise Account and your profile page.

Depending on the Third Party Accounts you choose and subject to the privacy settings that you have set in such Third Party Accounts, you understand that by granting us access to the Third Party Accounts, we will access, make available and store (if applicable and as permitted by the Third Party Service Provider and authorized by you) the information in your Third Party Accounts so that it is available on and through your StartupTortoise Account on the Site. If there is information about your "friends" or people with whom you are associated in your Third Party Account, the information we obtain about those "friends" or people with whom you are associated, may also depend on the privacy settings such people have with the applicable Third Party Service Provider.

Use of Collected Information

We do not use Personal Information for purposes other than those disclosed to you in this Privacy Policy and/or at the time it was collected, except with your consent or as required by law. We may use information about you for various purposes, including to:

Email Communications

We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided

Mobile Communications

With your consent, we may use your mobile phone number to send you information, notifications and updates regarding the site.

Profile Information

We use the information we collect at registration to create your StartupTortoise account and profile page. Your profile page will include, among other things, your first and last name, your profile picture and your location. Any information you choose to provide as part of your Profile Information will be publicly visible to all StartupTortoise users and consequently should reflect how much you want other StartupTortoise users to know about you. You can review and edit your Profile Information at any time.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Data Retention

We retain information collected through our websites for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We also retain and use this information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Access

We will make available to you any of your personal information that we have collected, used or disclosed upon request. Please contact us at support@StartupTortoise.com If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Your Concerns

If you have any concerns about our Privacy Policy and the Personal Information under our control, please contact support@StartupTortoise.com

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