Effective Date: May 3, 2025 | Last Updated: Dec 18, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Jade Woods Venture Capital, together with its applicable affiliates, funds, and related entities (“Jade Woods,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), collects, uses, discloses, retains, and protects Personal Information when you access or use our website, submit information through our online forms, communicate with us, attend our events, subscribe to our updates, or otherwise interact with us in connection with our venture capital, platform, portfolio-support, and strategic partnership activities.
For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked with an identifiable person or household. The exact definition may vary depending on the privacy law that applies to you.
1. Scope
This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through the Jade Woods website and related online services, including inquiry forms, contact forms, newsletter subscriptions, event registrations, research publications, and other website features that link to this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the privacy practices of companies we do not own or control, portfolio companies, third-party websites, social media platforms, or service providers that process information under their own terms. Where we provide a separate privacy notice, investor notice, employee notice, candidate notice, or fund subscription document, that separate notice or document will apply to the relevant processing activity.
2. Categories of Personal Information We Collect
A. Information You Provide Directly
We may collect information that you voluntarily submit to us, including:
Contact details, such as name, email address, phone number, company, title, country, and preferred communication channel.
Founder and company information, such as pitch materials, business plans, product descriptions, financial metrics, capitalization data, customer references, technical documentation, diligence materials, and other information you choose to submit.
Investor, limited partner, or strategic partner information, such as business contact details, institutional affiliation, communications preferences, and information required for relationship management, due diligence, compliance, onboarding, reporting, or fund administration.
Communications content, including messages submitted through the website, email correspondence, meeting notes, survey responses, event questions, support requests, and feedback.
Newsletter and event information, including registration details, attendance records, dietary or accessibility preferences if voluntarily provided, and marketing preferences.
Vendor and service provider information, such as contact details, contractual information, tax or billing details, and account management information.
Candidate information if you apply for a role or otherwise submit professional information, such as resume, employment history, education, portfolio links, references, compensation expectations, and interview notes.
B. Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website or interact with our online materials, we may automatically collect certain information through cookies, pixels, software development kits, server logs, analytics tools, and similar technologies, including:
Device and browser information, such as IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, language settings, and approximate location derived from IP address.
Usage information, such as pages viewed, links clicked, session duration, referring pages, date and time of visits, newsletter engagement, and similar interaction data.
Security and diagnostic information, such as logs, error reports, authentication events, access attempts, and information used to detect fraud, abuse, or unauthorized activity.
C. Information From Third Parties
We may receive Personal Information from third parties, including founders, co-investors, advisors, event partners, portfolio companies, business partners, data providers, professional networks, publicly available sources, social media platforms, recruiting sources, compliance vendors, and service providers. For example, we may receive introductions, referrals, diligence materials, public company information, market research, or professional background information relevant to our investment and portfolio-support activities.
D. Sensitive Personal Information
We do not seek to collect sensitive Personal Information through our website unless it is necessary for a lawful business purpose or you voluntarily provide it. Sensitive Personal Information may include government identification numbers, financial account information, precise geolocation, health information, biometric information, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, trade union membership, sexual orientation, or similar legally protected categories. Please do not submit sensitive information unless specifically requested or legally required. If you include sensitive information in materials you submit to us, you consent to our processing of that information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, subject to applicable law.
3. How We Use Personal Information
We may use Personal Information for the following purposes:
To operate, maintain, secure, and improve our website, online forms, communications, and related systems.
To respond to inquiries, evaluate investment opportunities, process founder submissions, conduct due diligence, manage deal flow, and communicate with founders or their representatives.
To support portfolio companies, facilitate introductions, organize events, share research, and provide strategic, technical, recruiting, go-to-market, compute, and network-related assistance.
To manage relationships with limited partners, investors, co-investors, advisors, vendors, strategic partners, and other business contacts.
To send newsletters, event invitations, updates, research, announcements, or other communications, subject to your marketing preferences and applicable law.
To personalize and analyze website usage, measure engagement, troubleshoot errors, and understand the effectiveness of our content and communications.
To evaluate candidates, contractors, vendors, or partnership opportunities.
To comply with legal, tax, accounting, anti-money-laundering, sanctions, securities, regulatory, contractual, and fund administration obligations.
To protect our rights, privacy, safety, property, systems, users, portfolio companies, investors, and third parties; to detect and prevent fraud, abuse, security incidents, and unauthorized access.
To create aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified information that does not reasonably identify you, and to use that information for analytics, research, benchmarking, and operational improvement.
4. AI-Assisted Processing
Jade Woods is an AI-first venture firm and may use artificial intelligence, machine learning, large language models, automation tools, and other AI-enabled systems to support internal operations and investment workflows. AI-assisted processing may include summarizing materials, organizing deal flow, translating content, assisting research, drafting internal notes, detecting duplicates, classifying submissions, preparing meeting materials, or supporting portfolio operations.
When we use AI-assisted tools in connection with Personal Information, we aim to apply reasonable safeguards appropriate to the context, which may include access controls, human review, vendor diligence, confidentiality settings, contractual restrictions, data minimization, and restrictions on using confidential founder materials in public or consumer AI tools. Unless separately disclosed or agreed, AI-assisted tools are not intended to make final investment decisions or other decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects without human involvement.
Do not submit confidential, proprietary, regulated, or highly sensitive information through general website forms unless you are comfortable with the processing described in this Privacy Policy or unless a separate written agreement, such as a nondisclosure agreement, applies.
5. Legal Bases for Processing
Where the EU General Data Protection Regulation, UK General Data Protection Regulation, or similar laws apply, we process Personal Information on one or more of the following legal bases:
Legitimate interests, including operating our website, evaluating investment opportunities, conducting due diligence, managing business relationships, supporting portfolio companies, improving our services, securing our systems, and developing our investment thesis and market research.
Consent, where you have given consent for a specific purpose, such as receiving certain marketing communications or providing optional information.
Contractual necessity, where processing is needed to enter into or perform a contract with you or the organization you represent.
Legal obligation, where processing is necessary to comply with applicable law, regulation, regulatory request, tax, accounting, sanctions, securities, anti-money-laundering, or other legal obligations.
Vital interests or public interests, where recognized under applicable law and relevant to the specific processing activity.
6. How We Disclose Personal Information
We may disclose Personal Information to the following categories of recipients:
Affiliates, funds, investment vehicles, partners, employees, contractors, advisors, and related entities for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Service providers and processors that support our website, cloud hosting, cybersecurity, analytics, CRM, email, event management, data rooms, document management, AI-assisted tools, compliance, fund administration, accounting, legal, recruiting, and business operations.
Professional advisors, including lawyers, accountants, auditors, consultants, placement agents, administrators, insurers, and other advisors acting under appropriate confidentiality or professional obligations.
Co-investors, strategic partners, portfolio companies, advisors, or potential commercial partners where appropriate for investment evaluation, diligence, portfolio support, introductions, or transaction execution, and subject to confidentiality obligations where applicable.
Regulators, government authorities, courts, law enforcement, tax authorities, exchanges, or other parties where disclosure is required or reasonably necessary to comply with law, legal process, regulatory obligations, or to protect rights, safety, and security.
Successors or transaction participants in connection with a merger, restructuring, financing, sale, transfer, acquisition, bankruptcy, or similar corporate or fund transaction involving all or part of our business, assets, or interests.
Other parties with your direction, authorization, or consent.
We do not sell Personal Information for money. We also do not knowingly sell or share Personal Information of minors. If our use of analytics, cookies, or advertising technologies is treated as a “sale,” “share,” or targeted advertising under applicable privacy law, you may have the right to opt out as described below.
7. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, improve performance, analyze traffic, secure the site, and understand engagement with our content. Cookies may be set by us or by third-party providers acting on our behalf.
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may be able to manage cookies through a cookie banner, browser settings, device settings, or opt-out tools provided by third parties. Some cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be disabled through our tools. If you block cookies, some website features may not operate correctly.
Some browsers provide “Do Not Track” signals or similar mechanisms. Because there is no uniform industry standard for responding to such signals, our website may not respond to them unless required by applicable law.
8. Data Retention
We retain Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including to operate our website, maintain business relationships, evaluate opportunities, manage investments, comply with legal and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, maintain records, and protect our rights. Retention periods vary depending on the nature of the information, the context of collection, legal requirements, limitation periods, fund or regulatory recordkeeping obligations, and operational needs.
Founder submissions and diligence materials may be retained for an extended period because investment opportunities, market theses, follow-on financings, portfolio support, conflicts checks, compliance obligations, and similar venture capital activities may require long-term records. If you want us to delete or restrict certain information, contact us using the details below, and we will assess your request under applicable law and our legal obligations.
9. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect Personal Information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. These measures may include access controls, encryption, vendor diligence, logging, security monitoring, confidentiality obligations, and incident response procedures. No website, transmission, or storage system is completely secure. You should use caution when submitting information online and should not submit sensitive or confidential information unless necessary.
10. International Transfers
Jade Woods may process and store Personal Information in the United States and other jurisdictions where we, our affiliates, funds, advisors, service providers, or partners operate. These jurisdictions may have data protection laws that differ from those in your location. Where required by applicable law, we use appropriate safeguards for international transfers, such as standard contractual clauses, data processing agreements, adequacy mechanisms, or other legally recognized transfer mechanisms.
11. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to request access to Personal Information we hold about you; correction of inaccurate information; deletion; restriction or objection to processing; portability; withdrawal of consent; opt-out of marketing; opt-out of sale, sharing, or targeted advertising; limitation of certain sensitive information uses; or appeal of a privacy request decision.
To exercise rights, contact us at [Insert Privacy Contact Email]. We may need to verify your identity and authority before processing your request. We may deny or limit requests where permitted by law, including where fulfilling a request would adversely affect the rights of others, reveal confidential information, interfere with legal obligations, or conflict with securities, tax, accounting, fund administration, regulatory, or recordkeeping requirements.
California and Other U.S. State Privacy Notices
If you are a resident of California or another U.S. state with applicable privacy laws, you may have additional rights. In the preceding 12 months, we may have collected the categories of Personal Information described in Section 2, used them for the purposes described in Section 3, and disclosed them to the categories of recipients described in Section 1.6. We do not use or disclose sensitive Personal Information for purposes that require a right to limit under California law unless separately disclosed.
We do not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights. Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by law, but we may require proof of authorization and verification of identity.
EU/UK/EEA Notices
If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction with similar data protection rights, you may have rights to access, correct, erase, restrict, object to processing, request portability, withdraw consent, and lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. Jade Woods acts as a controller for Personal Information processed for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a separate agreement states otherwise.
12. Marketing Communications
You may opt out of marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link in the relevant email or by contacting us. We may continue to send non-marketing communications, such as responses to inquiries, transactional messages, legal notices, security updates, relationship management messages, and communications about existing business dealings.
13. Children
Our website is not directed to children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 16. If you believe a child has provided Personal Information to us, contact us and we will take appropriate steps to delete the information where required by law.
14. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, platforms, portfolio companies, social media pages, publications, data rooms, event platforms, or services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third parties. You should review the applicable privacy notices and terms before providing information to third parties.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on our website with a revised “Last Updated” date. If required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent. Your continued use of the website after an updated Privacy Policy becomes effective means you acknowledge the updated terms, subject to applicable law.
16. Contact
For questions or requests about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, contact us at:
Jade Woods Venture Capital
Attention: Privacy
Email: privacy@jadewoods.vc