Privacy Policy
Sharing and Disclosure
1.) InVenture will not rent or sell your personal information to third parties.
2.) When you create a user account on InVenture, we collect basic information about you through the registration process - your name, email address, and a means to authenticate your account (for example, a password). You may also provide additional information through the account creation process, such as the email address of the person who referred you to InVenture. You may also provide other information (for example, a picture of yourself, your occupation, your physical address, your city/state/ country of residence, the reasons why you choose to join InVenture) through the creation of a public profile page, creating/joining an InVenture Rally on the Website, making a transaction on InVenture, updating your account information, or by registering with InVenture through a third-party single sign on registration tool. A basic public profile page will automatically be created for you when you register for an account at InVenture, which shows your InVenture "My InVenture" page profile url and the date on which you joined InVenture. You have the option of closing down your public profile page by changing your profile option to anonymous at your discretion. To the extent you maintain the public profile, once you begin to conduct transactions or utilize the features/functionality on InVenture (e.g., make an "InVestment", invite others to participate in InVenture, or participate in a Rally) your public profile will also show the following information: the InVestments you have made, the Rallies you have joined, your city/state/country of residence and the individuals who have accepted your invitations to create an account on InVenture. InVenture will also track information on your InVestment transactions (for example, amount of the InVestment, recipient of the InVestment) and make that information available to you on your private "My InVenture" account page. If you have a public profile page, such InVestment information may furthermore be shared in public areas of the InVenture website. InVenture will also collect information on any donations you make to the InVenture Foundation via the website and communicate with you (for example, to provide donation confirmations) via the email address and/or the physical address that you provide.
3.) As you use additional features of the Website, we may collect the additional information you enter. If you use interactive features on InVenture's website to write a comment - for example, on a InVenture Fellows blog journal – InVenture will collect your name, email address, any url address you enter, and your comment - and publicly display the information (except for your email address). If you use interactive features on InVenture to indicate that you "like" a particular feature or listing on InVenture, that information will be collected and will be noted on the InVenture website that you have "liked" that feature or listing and that information may furthermore be shared on applicable third party social networking sites to which you may have authorized such information sharing. If you contact InVenture Customer Service, we will collect the information you provide (for example, your name, email address, physical address, phone number, question/comment) in order to contact you and address your question or comment. If you submit an application to InVenture, such as via the Website's InVenture's volunteer, fellows, or job portal, we collect the information you submit (for example, name, phone number, resume, cover letter, position of interest) to assess the application and follow up with you on such submission.
Email Communications
4.) By establishing an account on InVenture, you agree to receive emails or other written communication, such as physical mail, based on your account status or activity (for example, confirmations of InVestments you have made, confirmation receipts for donations you have made, notifications of InVestment repayments you have received, statements or other information with respect to the amount of credit available in your InVenture account, confirmation of email address or password changes, or customer service inquiries regarding the status of or activity in your account).
5.) By default, you will receive update emails on your lnVestments that are sent by our entrepreneurs and fellows through the Website. InVenture will not disclose your email address to our entrepreneurs, field partners or fellows in any case -- these emails are sent through a webform without any third party learning your address. You can choose not to receive these emails through a preference on the Website.
6.) By default, you may receive periodic newsletter emails from InVenture. The frequency of these newsletters may vary. You can choose not to receive these newsletters through a preference on the Website.
7.) InVenture will not disclose your personally identifiable lending activity to any third party without consent (please note: the creation of a public profile on InVenture is considered consent for such disclosure). InVenture reserves the right to record and display anonymous lending activity on the Website and display the general regions where our InVestors are located.
8.) InVenture's service providers, agents and representatives may be provided access to your personally identifiable information as part of, or incident to, their provision of services to InVenture (for example, processing of InVestment transactions). All such access shall be under appropriate confidentiality agreements and limited to use to provide services to InVenture.
Accessing, reviewing and changing your personal information
9.) If you follow any links which remove you from the Website (currently only PayPal), this Privacy Policy no longer applies - i.e., InVenture does not control the privacy policies or the privacy practices of any third parties and use of those third party sites are governed by those third party sites' respective terms of use and privacy policies. Please note that payment processing for (i) additions of funds into an InVenture account or (ii) withdrawal of funds from an InVenture account is provided by the third-party payment processing provider, PayPal.
Cookies and Web Beacons
10.) Similar to many websites, if a Website user has enabled cookies in their browser, InVenture, independently and through enabled third party tools and programs, collects certain technical information utilizing a cookie file, such as the path of users to the Website, pages visited, originating IP address, browser type, browser language, and the date and time of the user's visit. This information helps InVenture track trends and improve areas of our Website based on visits, and are common analytics used by most websites.
11.) This Website is intended to be used by adults. It is not intended for children, and InVenture does not want to collect any personal information for users who are under the age of 13. InVenture recommends that parents do not post, or permit others to post, any personally identifiable information with respect to persons under the age of 13.
General
12.) InVenture may update or modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. If any changes are made, InVenture will reflect the date on which any such changes are made and posted by updating the "last updated" date at the top of the page. Please be sure to check this page periodically for changes. This Privacy Policy was last changed and posted on our Website on June 13, 2011.
13.) We take privacy seriously and we value yours.