This Privacy Policy describes how Recognize Partners LP (“Recognize” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information. This Privacy Policy also tells you about your rights and choices with respect to your personal information, and how you can reach us to get answers to your questions.
You can jump to particular topics by going to the headings below:
Information We Collect
How We Use Information
How We Disclose Information
Your Choices
How We Protect and Retain Information
Transmission Of Information To Other Countries
Third-Party Applications/Websites
Changes To This Privacy Policy
Contact Information
Additional Information for California Residents
Information We Collect
We collect information about you in a variety of ways depending on how you interact with us and our websites, including:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us, such as when you fill in forms on the website, subscribe to our newsletter, register for an event, create an account, or contact us by phone, email, or otherwise.
- Automatically through the use of cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies when you interact with our websites and emails.
- From other sources, including, for example, our affiliates, business partners, service providers, online social media networks, and other third parties, or from publicly available sources.
The following provides examples of the type of information that we collect in a variety of contexts and how we use that information.
| Context | Examples of Types of Information | Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Information |
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| Account Registration | When you register to use our Investor Portal, we collect information such as your name, email address, organizational affiliation, location, devices used, and the content of any communication you submit to us. We also collect information relating to the actions that you perform while logged into your account. | We use this information to administer your account and communicate with you about your account. |
| Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies | We use, and allow third parties to use, technologies, such as cookies and similar tracking technologies (collectively, “tracking technologies”). Tracking technologies may collect certain types of information when you interact with our websites. For example, they may collect data about your device, browser, operating system, and/or it may store or transmit identifiers that are unique to you or your browser. See the floating Cookie Preference Center appearing upon entry to our website for more information; and contact Recognize at the address below if you encounter issues in accessing the Center. | We use tracking technologies for a variety of reasons, including to better manage content on our websites, to help us understand usage patterns, track your preferences and understand your interests, fix issues, improve our products and services, remember you, and personalize your online experience. Third-parties use tracking technologies to report analytics to us |
| Email Interconnectivity | If you receive email from us, we use certain tools to capture data related to when you open our message and/or click on any links or banners it contains. | We use this information to better understand how you interact with our communications to you. |
| Inquiries, Comments, and Feedback | If you contact us, we collect your name and contact information, as well as any other content that you send to us. | We use this information to respond to or follow-up on your comments, inquiries and other requests. |
| Mailing List | If you sign up to receive our newsletter (for example, Tech Services Insights), we collect your name, email address, and information about your organization. | We use this information to send you our newsletters and other promotional materials, including information about our products and services. |
| Website Interactions | We use technology to monitor how you interact with our website. This may include which links you click on, or information that you type into our online forms. This may also include information about your device or browser. If you choose not to allow this type of tracking, our website may not function correctly. | We use this information to understand how you interact with our website to better improve it, and to understand your preferences and interests in order select offerings that you might find most useful. We also use this information to detect and prevent fraud. |
| Web Logs | We collect information, including your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address (a number that is automatically assigned to a computer when the internet is used), domain name, click-activity, referring website, and/or a date/time stamp for visitors. The collection of this information is necessary for the functionality of our website. | We use this information to monitor our networks and the visitors to our websites. Among other things, it helps us understand which of our services is the most popular. |
How We Use Information
In addition to the purposes and uses described above, we use information in the following ways:
- To provide you with access to our websites and its contents.
- To conduct analytics.
- To improve our websites
- To communicate with you, such as to respond to and/or follow-up on your requests, inquiries, issues, or feedback.
- To send marketing and promotional materials including information relating to our organization.
- To detect and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, including violation of our policies and terms and conditions, security incidents, and harm to the rights, property, or safety of our company and our users, employees, or others.
- To debug, identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of our website and services.
- To comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, to establish or exercise our rights, and to defend against a legal claim
- For internal administrative purposes, as well as to manage our relationships.
- For such other purposes as you may consent (from time to time).
Although the sections above describe our primary purpose in collecting your information, in many situations we have more than one purpose.
To the extent we maintain and use personal information in a deidentified form, we will not attempt to reidentify the information, except for the purpose of determining whether our deidentification processes satisfy our legal obligations.
How We Disclose Information
How We Disclose InformationIn addition to the specific situations discussed elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may disclose personal information in the following situations:
- Affiliates. Where permitted by law, and consistent with the purposes identified in this Privacy Policy, we may disclose information to our corporate affiliates (e.g., parent company, sister companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, affiliated funds, portfolio companies of affiliated funds, or other companies under common control).
- Corporate Transaction. We may disclose your information to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, including at the negotiation stage.
- Service Providers. We may share your information with service providers. Among other things service providers may help us to administer our website, provide technical support, produce events, distribute newsletters, and operate the Investor Portal.
- Other Disclosures without Your Consent. We may disclose information in response to subpoenas, warrants, or court orders, or in connection with any legal process, or to comply with relevant laws. We may also disclose your information in order to establish or exercise our rights, to defend against a legal claim, to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected fraud, safety of person or property, or a violation of our terms or policies.
- Other Disclosures with Your Consent. We may disclose your information to other third parties when we have your consent or direction to do so.
Your Choices
You may make the following requests regarding your personal information. Please note, the choices described below are not always available. We may limit or deny a request because the law permits or requires us to do so, the laws of the jurisdiction in which you reside do not provide you with one of the choices identified below, or we are unable to adequately verify your identity. We will not discriminate against individuals who exercise their privacy rights under applicable law.
- Access To Your Personal Information. You may request access to, including a copy of, the personal information that we have about you.
- Changes To Your Personal Information. You may ask us to correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete. Note that we may keep historical information in our backup files as permitted by law.
- Deletion Of Your Personal Information. You may request that we delete your personal information. If required by law, we will grant a request to delete information, but you should note that in many situations we must keep your personal information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, or for another business purposes.
- Online Tracking. We do not currently recognize the “Do Not Track” signal.
- Promotional Emails. You may choose to provide us with your email address for the purpose of allowing us to send free newsletters other promotional materials to you. You can stop receiving promotional emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in emails that you receive. If you decide not to receive promotional emails, we may still send you service-related communications.
- Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies. Most web browsers allow you to reject or delete cookies through their settings preferences. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our websites. For more information about how our websites use cookies and, where applicable, to update your preferences, click the “Cookie Settings” link available on the applicable website.
Submitting Requests
You may submit a request to access, correct, or delete your personal information by contacting us as indicated in the “Contact Information” section below.
Please note that to protect your information we must be able to verify your identity before we can process your request to exercise any of the foregoing privacy rights. We may conduct the verification process by email or phone, and we may ask you to provide information such as your name, contact information, and any additional relevant information based on your relationship with us.
In some circumstances, you may designate an authorized agent to submit requests to exercise certain privacy rights on your behalf. If you are an authorized agent submitting a request on behalf of an individual, you must provide a written and signed form indicating that you are able to act on another person’s behalf.
How We Protect and Retain Information
No method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is fully secure. While we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. In the event that we are required by law to inform you of a breach to your personal information we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law.
Some of our websites permit you to create an account. When you do you will be prompted to create a password. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password, and you are responsible for any access to or use of your account by someone else that has obtained your password, whether or not such access or use has been authorized by you. You should notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or account.
We retain your personal information for only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which we obtained the information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, as well as applicable legal requirements.
Transmission Of Information To Other Countries
As a multi-national company, we transmit information between and among our affiliates and to our service providers. As a result, your information may be processed in a foreign country where privacy laws may be less stringent than the laws in your country. Nonetheless, where possible we take steps to treat personal information using the same privacy principles that apply pursuant to the law of the country in which we first received your information. By submitting your personal information to us you agree to the transfer, storage, and processing of your information in a country other than your country of residence including, but not necessarily limited to, the United States.
Third-Party Applications/Websites
For your convenience, we may provide links to websites and other third-party content or services that we do not own or operate. The websites and third-party content to which we link may have separate privacy notices or policies. Please note, we have no control over the privacy practices websites, or services that we do not own. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party website or application for details about such third party’s privacy practices.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may change our Privacy Policy and practices over time. To the extent that our policy changes in a material way, the policy that was in place at the time that you submitted personal information to us will generally govern that information unless we receive your consent to the new privacy policy. You can check the “Last Updated” legend at the bottom of this page to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised. If we make a material change to our privacy notice, we will attempt to notify you through email, a website pop-up, or other reasonable means.
Contact Information
If you have any questions, comments, or complaints concerning our privacy practices, or if you need to access this Privacy Policy in an alternative format due to having a disability, please contact us at the appropriate address below.
Recognize Partners LP
540 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, New York 10022
evan@recognize.com
Additional Information For California Residents
California law requires us to disclose the following additional information related to our privacy practices. If you are a California resident, the following privacy disclosures apply to you in addition to the rest of the Privacy Policy.
- Categories of Information We Collect, Use and Disclose. California law indicates that organizations should disclose for California residents whether certain categories of information are collected, disclosed for an organization’s “business purpose”, “sold” or “shared” for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising (as those terms are defined under California law). The following table describes the categories of personal information we collect and disclose for a business purpose. Please note that in addition to the recipients identified below, we may disclose any of the categories of personal information we collect to government entities, as may be needed to comply with law or prevent illegal activity, or professional services organizations, such as auditors and law firms. We do not “sell” or “share” personal information for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising.
| Categories of Personal Information We Collect | To Whom We May Disclose This Information For Our Business Purposes |
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| Identifiers – this may include real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers. |
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| Commercial information – this may include information about products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. |
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| Internet or other electronic network activity information – this may include browsing history, search history, and information regarding an individual’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement. |
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| Inferences drawn from any of the information listed above |
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- California Shine the Light. If you would like more information concerning the categories of personal information (if any) we share with third parties or affiliates for those parties to use for direct marketing, please submit a written request to us using the information in the “Contact Information” section above.
Last Updated and Effective: December 21, 2023