Privacy Policy

Updated at 2023-01-15

Morphosis Venture Capital Limited (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how your personal information is collected, used, and disclosed by Morphosis Venture Capital Limited.

This Privacy Policy applies to our website, and its associated subdomains (collectively, our “Service”) alongside our application, Morphosis Venture Capital Limited. By accessing or using our Service, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service.


Definitions and key terms

To help explain things as clearly as possible in this Privacy Policy, every time any of these terms are referenced, are strictly defined as:

  • Cookie: small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your web browser. It is used to identify your browser, provide analytics, remember information about you such as your language preference or login information.
  • Company: when this policy mentions “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our,” it refers to Morphosis Venture Capital Limited, (Level 7, Gate Village Building 10, Dubai International Financial Centre) that is responsible for your information under this Privacy Policy.
  • Country: where Morphosis Venture Capital Limited or the owners/founders of Morphosis Venture Capital Limited are based, in this case is United Arab Emirates.
  • Customer: refers to an individual person that visits the Morphosis Venture Capital Limited website, including representatives of organizations interested in the services provided by Morphosis Venture Capital Limited
  • Device: any internet connected device such as a phone, tablet, computer or any other device that can be used to visit Morphosis Venture Capital Limited and use the services.
  • IP address: Every device connected to the Internet is assigned a number known as an Internet protocol (IP) address. These numbers are usually assigned in geographic blocks. An IP address can often be used to identify the location from which a device is connecting to the Internet.
  • Personnel: refers to those individuals who are employed by Morphosis Venture Capital Limited or are under contract to perform a service on behalf of one of the parties.
  • Personal Data: any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
  • Service: refers to the service provided by Morphosis Venture Capital Limited as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this platform.
  • Third-party service: refers to consultants, legal advisors, bankers, marketing partners, and others with whom we have had business related dealings (including, without limitation a) Limited Partners in our fund(s); and (b) our portfolio companies
  • Website: Morphosis Venture Capital Limited’s site, which can be accessed via this URL: www.morphosisvc.com
  • You: a person or entity that is interacting with Morphosis Venture Capital Limited to view our website or are interested in the use of our Services.

What Information Do We Collect?

We collect information from you when you visit our website and access the Pitch Us and Contact Us forms, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form.

  • Name
  • Organization Name
  • Email Address(es)
  • Job Title(s)
  • Any other personal or organizational information

How Do We Use The Information We Collect?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  • To engage in discussions about your business and to facilitate calls / meetings with you or others at your company
  • To maintain a directory of leads of various current and future organizations and investors we interact with
  • To evaluate, complete and administer transactions – including, seeking advice from professional advisors
  • To undertake statistical analysis, trade and transaction reporting and market research
  • To maintain a records of investments
  • To manage relationships with other third-party service providers, without limitation to external consultants, legal advisors, tax advisors, investment bankers, and other professional services providers

When does Morphosis Venture Capital Limited use end user information from third parties?

Morphosis Venture Capital Limited will collect End User Data necessary to provide the Morphosis Venture Capital Limited services to our customers.

End users may voluntarily provide us with information they have made available on social media websites. If you provide us with any such information, we may collect publicly available information from the social media websites you have indicated. You can control how much of your information social media websites make public by visiting these websites and changing your privacy settings.


When does Morphosis Venture Capital Limited use customer information from third parties?

We may receive some information from the third parties when you contact us. For example, when you submit your email address to us to show interest in becoming a Morphosis Venture Capital Limited customer, we may receive information from a third party that provides information on your prior professional experience, your educational background, your prior investment history to Morphosis Venture Capital Limited. We also occasionally collect information that is made publicly available on social media websites. You can control how much of your information social media websites make public by visiting these websites and changing your privacy settings.


Do we share the information we collect with third parties?

We may disclose and make available the information that we collect, both personal and non-personal, with third parties such as external consultants, legal advisors, tax advisors, investment bankers, and other professional service providers, independent chartered accountants and auditors, current and future business affiliates and potential customers (while maintaining adequate sensitivity on any confidential financial or other information pursuant to any NDAs that were signed for any organizations), other any other third parties as necessary to conduct our business effectively.

We may engage trusted third party service providers to perform functions and provide services to us, such as hosting and maintaining our servers and the website, database storage and management, e-mail management, storage marketing etc. We will likely share your personal information, and possibly some non-personal information, with these third parties to enable them to perform these services for us and for you.

We may share portions of our log file data, including IP addresses, for analytics purposes with third parties such as web analytics partners, application developers, and ad networks. If your IP address is shared, it may be used to estimate general location and other technographics such as connection speed, whether you have visited the website in a shared location, and type of the device used to visit the website. They may aggregate information about our advertising and what you see on the website and then provide auditing, research and reporting for us and our advertisers.

We may also disclose personal and non-personal information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate in order to respond to claims, legal process (including subpoenas), to protect our rights and interests or those of a third party, the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to otherwise comply with applicable court orders, laws, rules and regulations.


Where and when is information collected from customers and end users?

Morphosis Venture Capital Limited will collect personal information that you submit to us. We may also receive personal information about you from third parties as described above.

How Do We Use Your Email Address?

By submitting your email address on this website, you agree to receive emails from us. You can cancel your participation in any of these email lists at any time by clicking on the opt-out link or other unsubscribe option that is included in the respective email. We only send emails to people who have authorized us to contact them, either directly, or through a third party. We do not send unsolicited commercial emails, because we hate spam as much as you do. Email addresses submitted only through our Pitch us and Contact Us pages will be used for the sole purpose of sending you information and updates pertaining to the service in discussion. If, however, you have provided the same email to us through another method, we may use it for any of the purposes stated in this Policy. Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.


How Long Do We Keep Your Information?

We keep your information only so long as we need it to provide Morphosis Venture Capital Limited to you and fulfill the purposes described in this policy. This is also the case for anyone that we share your information with and who carries out services on our behalf. When we no longer need to use your information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we’ll either remove it from our systems or depersonalize it so that we can't identify you.


How Do We Protect Your Information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information directly stored on our IT service provider’s servers. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the absolute security of any information you transmit to Morphosis Venture Capital Limited or guarantee that your information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by a breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.


Could my information be transferred to other countries?

Morphosis Venture Capital Limited is incorporated in United Arab Emirates. Information collected via our website, through direct interactions with you, or from use of our help services may be transferred from time to time to our offices or personnel, or to third parties, located throughout the world, and may be viewed and hosted anywhere in the world, including countries that may not have laws of general applicability regulating the use and transfer of such data. To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, by using any of the above, you voluntarily consent to the trans-border transfer and hosting of such information.


Is the information collected through the Morphosis Venture Capital Limited Service secure?

We take precautions to protect the security of your information. We have physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help safeguard, prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use your information. However, neither people nor security systems are foolproof, including encryption systems. In addition, people can commit intentional crimes, make mistakes or fail to follow policies. Therefore, while we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If applicable law imposes any non-disclaimable duty to protect your personal information, you agree that intentional misconduct will be the standards used to measure our compliance with that duty.


Can I update or correct my information?

The rights you have to request updates or corrections to the information Morphosis Venture Capital Limited collects depend on your relationship with Morphosis Venture Capital Limited. Personnel may update or correct their information as detailed in our internal company employment policies.

Customers have the right to request the restriction of certain uses and disclosures of personally identifiable information as follows. You can contact us in order to (1) update or correct your personally identifiable information, (2) change your preferences with respect to communications and other information you receive from us, or (3) delete the personally identifiable information maintained about you on our systems (subject to the following paragraph). Such updates, corrections, changes and deletions will have no effect on other information that we maintain, or information that we have provided to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy prior to such update, correction, change or deletion.

You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to us from our system. The need to back up our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. Promptly after receiving your request, all personal information stored in databases we actively use, and other readily searchable media will be updated, corrected, changed or deleted, as appropriate, as soon as and to the extent reasonably and technically practicable.

If you are an end user and wish to update, delete, or receive any information we have about you, you may do so by contacting the organization of which you are a customer.


Personnel

If you are a Morphosis Venture Capital Limited worker or applicant, we collect information you voluntarily provide to us. We use the information collected for Human Resources purposes in order to administer benefits to workers and screen applicants.

You may contact us in order to (1) update or correct your information, (2) change your preferences with respect to communications and other information you receive from us, or (3) receive a record of the information we have relating to you. Such updates, corrections, changes and deletions will have no effect on other information that we maintain, or information that we have provided to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy prior to such update, correction, change or deletion.


Sale of Business

We reserve the right to transfer information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of Morphosis Venture Capital Limited or any of its Corporate Affiliates (as defined herein), or that portion of Morphosis Venture Capital Limited or any of its Corporate Affiliates to which the Service relates, or in the event that we discontinue our business or file a petition or have filed against us a petition in bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding, provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this Privacy Policy.


Affiliates

We may disclose information (including personal information) about you to our Corporate Affiliates. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "Corporate Affiliate" means any person or entity which directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control with Morphosis Venture Capital Limited, whether by ownership or otherwise. Any information relating to you that we provide to our Corporate Affiliates will be treated by those Corporate Affiliates in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.


Governing Law

This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of United Arab Emirates without regard to its conflict of laws provision. You consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in connection with any action or dispute arising between the parties under or in connection with this Privacy Policy except for those individuals who may have rights to make claims under Privacy Shield, or the Swiss-US framework.

The laws of United Arab Emirates, excluding its conflicts of law rules, shall govern this Agreement and your use of the website. Your use of the website may also be subject to other local, state, national, or international laws.

By using Morphosis Venture Capital Limited or contacting us directly, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you should not engage with our website, or use our services. Continued use of the website, direct engagement with us, or following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy that do not significantly affect the use or disclosure of your personal information will mean that you accept those changes.


Your Consent

We've updated our Privacy Policy to provide you with complete transparency into what is being set when you visit our site and how it's being used. By using our website, registering an account, or making a purchase, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.


Links to Other Websites

This Privacy Policy applies only to the Services. The Services may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by Morphosis Venture Capital Limited. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed in such websites, and such websites are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy or completeness by us. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including those that have a link on our platform, is subject to that website’s own rules and policies. Such third parties may use their own cookies or other methods to collect information about you.


Cookies

Morphosis Venture Capital Limited uses "Cookies" to identify the areas of our website that you have visited. A Cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We use Cookies to enhance the performance and functionality of our website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality like videos may become unavailable or you would be required to enter your login details every time you visit the website as we would not be able to remember that you had logged in previously. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of Cookies. However, if you disable Cookies, you may not be able to access functionality on our website correctly or at all. We never place Personally Identifiable Information in Cookies.


Blocking and disabling cookies and similar technologies

Wherever you're located you may also set your browser to block cookies and similar technologies, but this action may block our essential cookies and prevent our website from functioning properly, and you may not be able to fully utilize all of its features and services. You should also be aware that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences) if you block cookies on your browser. Different browsers make different controls available to you. Disabling a cookie or category of cookie does not delete the cookie from your browser, you will need to do this yourself from within your browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.


Kids' Privacy

We do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.


Third-Party Services

We may display, include, or make available third-party content (including data, information, applications and other products services) or provide links to third-party websites or services ("Third- Party Services"). You acknowledge and agree that Morphosis Venture Capital Limited shall not be responsible for any Third-Party Services, including their accuracy, completeness, timeliness, validity, copyright compliance, legality, decency, quality, or any other aspect thereof. Morphosis Venture Capital Limited does not assume and shall not have any liability or responsibility to you or any other person or entity for any Third-Party Services.

Third-Party Services and links thereto are provided solely as a convenience to you, and you access and use them entirely at your own risk and subject to such third parties' terms and conditions.


Tracking Technologies

  • Cookies
    We use Cookies to enhance the performance and functionality of our website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality like videos may become unavailable or you would be required to enter your login details every time you visit the website as we would not be able to remember that you had logged in previously.
  • Local Storage
    Local Storage sometimes known as DOM storage, provides web apps with methods and protocols for storing client-side data. Web storage supports persistent data storage, similar to cookies but with a greatly enhanced capacity and no information stored in the HTTP request header.

Contact Us

Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions on our Privacy Policy or have any concerns or complaints via email at hello@morphosisvc.com.