Privacy Policy
Fiat Growth, LLC · Effective
This Privacy Policy explains how Fiat Growth, LLC [COUNSEL: confirm FGV Capital entity] (“FGV Capital,” “we,” or “us”) collects, uses and shares information when you visit fgv.vc (the “Site”), fill in one of our forms, or otherwise deal with us, and the choices you have about it. It also explains the cookies and similar technologies the Site uses. By using the Site you agree to this policy and to our Terms of Service.
The Site is for businesses. We do not direct it at individuals acting as consumers and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.
1. Information we collect
Information you give us
When you use the founder intake form, hosted by Typeform, which collects what you enter there (typically your name, email, company and the details of what you are building), or subscribe to our newsletter (your email address), we receive what you enter. Submissions are stored in Salesforce, our customer-relationship system, so the right person can follow up.
Information collected automatically
When you visit the Site we and the providers listed under Cookies collect the kind of information browsers routinely send — your IP address, device and browser type, the pages you view, how long you stay and the site that referred you — through cookies, pixels and similar technologies. Which of those run depends on the choices you make in the cookie banner; see the Cookies section.
Information from other sources
With the Marketing category on, RB2B may match a visit from the United States to a business profile (name, role and company) drawn from its own data. We use this only to understand which businesses are interested in us.
2. How we use information
We use the information described above to:
- respond to your message, evaluate your company or your pitch, and provide the services you ask about;
- send the newsletter and, where you have agreed to it, other updates about our work — every message carries an unsubscribe link;
- operate, secure and improve the Site, and understand how it is used;
- measure and attribute our own marketing;
- comply with law and enforce our Terms.
Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, our legal bases are your consent (for optional cookies and marketing messages), the performance of a contract or steps you ask us to take before one (responding to your enquiry), and our legitimate interests in running and securing the Site and in marketing our business, balanced against your rights.
4. Your rights and choices
California and other US states
Depending on where you live you may have the right to know what personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to opt out of its sale or sharing, and not to be discriminated against for exercising those rights. We honour opt-out preference signals such as the Global Privacy Control.
European Union, United Kingdom and Switzerland
You have the right to access, correct or erase your personal data, to restrict or object to its processing, to receive it in a portable form, and to withdraw consent at any time without affecting what was done before. You may also complain to your data-protection authority.
How to exercise them
Email [COUNSEL: privacy-request email] — until that mailbox is set up, hello@fgv.co — and tell us what you would like us to do. We may ask you to confirm your identity first. You can unsubscribe from any email with the link at its foot, and change your cookie choices at any time from the footer link.
5. Retention and security
We keep enquiries and contacts for as long as we are in touch with you or have a business reason to hold them, and analytics data for the periods the providers above set (Google Analytics: 14 months by default). We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect information, but no transmission over the internet is completely secure and we cannot guarantee it.
6. Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser; pixels and tags are scripts that do similar work. We group ours into three categories. The banner and the cookie manager (the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in the footer opens it) let you turn the optional categories on or off, and we keep your choice for 12 months in a first-party cookie.
Necessary — always on
What the site needs to work and to remember your choice. Vercel, which hosts the site, may set cookies for security and to route traffic; our own fgv-consent cookie records what you decided here. Google Tag Manager, the container that loads the optional tags below, runs in a mode that grants nothing until you do.
Analytics
- Google Analytics (Google LLC) — page views, sessions and referrers, aggregated, so we can see which pages are read.
- Hotjar (Contentsquare) — anonymised heatmaps and session recordings, so we can see how pages are used.
Marketing
- LinkedIn Insight Tag (LinkedIn Corporation) — attribution for LinkedIn campaigns and audience building.
- RB2B (Retention.com) — identifies the business a visit comes from and, in the United States, may match a visit to a business profile. Under California law this may count as sharing personal information; the Marketing switch and the Do Not Sell link opt you out.
- Customer.io — messaging and campaign measurement for people who have already given us their email.
Your choices
If you are in the European Union, the United Kingdom, the wider European Economic Area or Switzerland, nothing in the Analytics or Marketing categories runs until you accept it. Everywhere else those categories run by default and you can reject them at any time: open the manager from the footer link, or use the Reject option when the banner shows. We honour the Global Privacy Control signal — a browser that sends it is treated as having opted out of Marketing. You can also clear or block cookies in your browser’s settings; blocking the necessary ones may stop parts of the site working.
7. International transfers
We are based in the United States and the providers above process information there and elsewhere. If you are outside the United States your information is transferred to it; where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies we rely on the providers’ standard contractual clauses or an adequacy decision.
8. Changes to this policy
We will post any changes here and update the effective date at the top. Material changes will also be announced on the Site.
9. Contact us
Fiat Growth, LLC [COUNSEL: confirm FGV Capital entity], [COUNSEL: business address]. Privacy requests: [COUNSEL: privacy-request email]. Everything else: hello@fgv.co.