TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Transition Equity Partners, LLC (“TEP”) provides this website and the information contained herein for general overview purposes only, and only subject to these terms and conditions (the “Terms and Conditions”). These Terms and Conditions apply to all users. By entering this website or by transmitting any information to the website, you acknowledge and agree to all of the Terms and Conditions. Please read them carefully. If you do not agree to the Terms and Conditions, please do not use this website. Any use of this website in a manner inconsistent with these Terms and Conditions is deemed unauthorized access and may subject the user to civil or criminal penalties. We reserve the right to revise these Terms and Conditions at any time and for any reason, without notice or obligation, by updating this posting. Your continued use of this website following the posting of any changes to the Terms and Conditions will mean that you accept the revised terms. We strongly recommend that you regularly review the Terms and Conditions.
DISCLAIMERS
This website is not intended to be, should not be used or construed as, and is not, an offer to sell, a solicitation of any offer to buy, or a recommendation of an investment in any security. The website does not contain material information regarding any security, and no offer or solicitation may be made other than through the delivery of definitive offering documents, the information contained in which would supersede any information provided herein. Offers of securities will only be made where lawful, and in compliance with applicable law.
TEP is not utilizing the website to provide investment or other advice, and no information or material on the website should be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security, or be relied upon for the purpose of making investment decisions. In addition, no information, content or other materials contained on the website should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, accounting, tax or other professional advice or in connection with any offer or sale of securities.
TEP makes no representation that transactions, products or services discussed on the website are available or appropriate for sale or use in any jurisdictions or by any investor. Persons who access the website do so at their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws or regulations.
While TEP uses reasonable efforts to obtain information from reliable sources, TEP makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability or completeness of any information or document on the website obtained from outside sources. Unsourced statements should be understood to reflect the subjective beliefs, opinions, expectations or understandings of TEP, which may be inaccurate. This website contains forward-looking statements, which reflect TEP’ views with respect to, among other things, TEP’ operations and financial performance. Such forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties and speak only as of the date on which they are made. There are many factors that could cause actual outcomes or results to differ materially from those indicated in any forward-looking statement. You can identify these forward-looking statements by the use of words such as “outlook,” “indicator,” “believe,” “expect,” “potential,” “continue,” “may,” “should,” “seek,” “approximately,” “predict,” “anticipate,” “optimistic,” “intend,” “plan,” “estimate,” “aim,” “will” or the negative version of these words or similar expressions. TEP undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any information on the website, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise. Opinions and any other information on the website are subject to change without notice.
Past performance is not indicative of future results; no representation is made that any investment will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those achieved in the past, or that significant losses will be avoided.
This website has not been filed with or reviewed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or any U.S. or non-U.S. governmental or self-regulatory authority. Investments in securities involve numerous risks, including but not limited to market, currency, economic, regulatory, tax, political, business and other risks. There can be no guarantee that an investment in securities will be profitable, or that investors in securities will not lose some or all of their investment.
LEGAL AND PRIVACY NOTICES
Legal requirements in various countries and jurisdictions may restrict the types of information that can be accessed on the internet or how it may be used. Persons who view or obtain information from this website should inform themselves of and observe any such restrictions in the jurisdiction in which they access this website. [All visitors to this website should refer to our Website Privacy Policy immediately below.]
PRIVACY POLICY
Visitors who are residents of California should refer to our California Website Privacy Policy supplement.
Visitors who are residents of the European Union or the European Economic Area should refer to our EU Privacy Notice supplement.
Your privacy is important to Transition Equity Partners, LLC and its affiliates (together, “TEP,” “our,” “us,” “we” or “company”). To better protect your privacy, we are providing information explaining our online information practices.
This Website Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy”) describes how we gather and use information for visitors of this website. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with any of the terms and conditions contained herein, please do not access or otherwise use this website.
This Privacy Policy constitutes a legally binding agreement between TEP and you, the user of this website. By entering and using this website, you acknowledge your acceptance of, and agree to be bound by, the Privacy Policy stated herein, ourTerms and Conditions. and all additional terms incorporated by reference herein. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use this website.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
We may collect various types of information from users of this website. [TEP generally does not, however, collect any personally identifiable information such as names, home addresses or e-mail addresses from users of this website, unless a user submits such information to us via email or a “Contact” page.]
To the extent that you provide us with any personally identifiable information through or in connection with this website, we may use such information for TEP’s business purposes, but will not disclose any personally identifiable information about you to anyone, except as permitted or required by law or regulation and to service providers. In providing personally identifiable information to TEP, you consent to TEP’ use of such personally identifiable information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
The transmission of information and data via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we make an effort to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of any information or data transmitted to or through our website; any transmission of information or data by you to or through this website is at your sole risk.
CAPACITY
You represent to TEP that you have the authority to visit this website. This website is only intended for individuals who are at least 18 years of age. We do not knowingly encourage or solicit visitors to this website who are under the age of 18 or knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18 without parental consent. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from an individual under the age of 18, we will delete that information.
COOKIES
Information regarding how you access this website (e.g., browser type, access times and Internet Protocol (IP) address) and your hardware and software is automatically collected through the use of cookies (a small text file placed on your hard drive) or other technologies or tools. This information is used to improve website performance and for our business purposes. [Where cookies are not necessary for us to provide the products or services you have requested or for the functioning of this website, we will ask you to consent to their use]. You may opt-in to accept cookies automatically by changing the settings on your browser. If you opt-out of certain cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of this website. You may visit www.aboutcookies.org to review comprehensive information about cookies, how they are used and how you may manage your cookie preferences.
[This website uses Google Analytics, which collects information on site visitors and usage through cookies. (For more information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners). By using the site you hereby understand and consent to Google’s collection and processing of any data submitted by you to TEP (including personally identifiable information such as IP address, domain name, webpage, the length of time spent on the site, or the pages accessed while visiting the site).]
You may access any personally identifiable information we have about you by contacting Pat Eilers, Managing Partner of TEP at [email protected] .
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time and for any reason, in our sole discretion, without notice, by updating this Privacy Policy. Accordingly, users are strongly encouraged to review our Privacy Policy regularly. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to collect personal information or use any collected information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by posting changes on this page. We will use information only in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected. Your continued access or use of this website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy means that you accept such revisions, changes and/or amendments. If you object to any of the changes to this Privacy Policy, please stop accessing this website. Please check this page frequently and review any changes to this Privacy Policy carefully so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you.
MISCELLANEOUS
The provisions in our Terms and Conditions are hereby incorporated by reference.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact Pat Eilers, Managing Partner of TEP at [email protected].
CALIFORNIA WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
This California Website Privacy Policy supplements the Website Privacy Policy with respect to specific rights granted under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (as amended, the “CCPA”) to natural person California residents and provides information regarding how such California residents can exercise their rights under the CCPA. This supplement is only relevant to you if you are a resident of California as determined in accordance with the CCPA. Information required to be disclosed to California residents under the CCPA regarding the collection of their personal information that is not set forth in this CCPA supplement is otherwise set forth in the Website Privacy Policy. To the extent there is any conflict with the privacy requirements under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and/or Regulation S-P (“GLB Rights”), GLB Rights shall apply.
WHAT DOES THIS WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY APPLY TO?
This Website Privacy Policy applies solely to your interactions with us through our Website (as defined below). If you provide personal information to use through another means (e.g., as an employee or seeking employment, as a client, or as an investor) you will receive a separate privacy notice and that notice will govern that personal information.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?
We collect limited types of personal information through our website and investor reporting portals as well as through other electronic communications (e.g., emails), as applicable (collectively, the “Website”). The types of personal information we collect about you depend on the nature of your interaction with us. The categories of personal information we have collected from individuals on this Website over the last twelve (12) months include the following:
- [Identifiers, such as name, contact details and address (including physical address, email address and Internet Protocol address);
Other customer records, such as telephone number and personal information provided in connection with obtaining account access;
- Commercial information, such as account data;
- Professional or employment-related information;
- Education information;
Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as information regarding your use of our Website (e.g., cookies, browsing history and/or search history), as well as information you provide to us when you correspond with us in relation to inquiries.]
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18.
HOW DO WE OBTAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
In connection with forming and operating our Website, we collect and maintain your nonpublic personal information from the following sources:
Information from your communications with us in connection with this Website, including any update notices provided by you.
- [Information captured on our Website, including registration information, information provided through online forms and any information captured via cookies.]
We may combine personal information that you provide to us with information that we collect from or about you from publicly available sources. This will include information collected in an online or offline context.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We will use your personal information for one or more of the following business purposes:
- To perform services for you.
- To improve our Website and the products and services that we offer and notify you about changes to our products and services.
- To communicate with you, including responding to requests for information submitted by you through our Website.
- To keep a record of your relationship with us.
- Ongoing operations, administrative, accounting, reporting, account maintenance and other processes.
- To audit and verify the quality and effectiveness of our services and compliance.
- To detect security incidents and to protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
- To generally comply with U.S., state, local and non-U.S. laws, rules and regulations.
Additionally, we may use your personal information to keep you informed of our products and services, if you have provided your consent to us doing so, or where we have an existing relationship with you and we wish to contact you about products and services similar to those which we provide you, in which you may be interested. You may opt-in to certain kinds of marketing, or all forms of marketing at any time, by contacting us and you may unsubscribe to receiving emails by clicking on the “opt-out” or “unsubscribe” link provided in all our marketing emails.
WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH?
We do not sell any of the personal information we collect about you to third parties.
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about you to anyone, except as permitted or required by law or regulation and to affiliates and service providers, including but not limited to service providers, employees, agents, contractors, consultants, professional advisers, lenders, data processors and persons employed and/or retained by them. We may also disclose your information to other parties as may be required by law or regulation, or in response to regulatory inquiries.
Within the last twelve (12) months, we have shared each of the categories of personal information collected in connection with this website with affiliates and service providers as set forth above in“WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?”
We may also share your personal information with applicable third parties in the event of a reorganization, merger, sale, acquisition, assignment, bankruptcy proceeding, or other disposition of all or a portion of our business, assets or shares.
HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE?
We consider the protection of sensitive information to be a sound business practice, and to that end we employ appropriate organizational, physical, technical and procedural safeguards, which seek to protect your personal information in our possession or under our control to the extent possible from unauthorized access and improper use.
YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE CCPA
Deletion Rights: You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we retain, subject to certain statutory exceptions, including, but not limited to, our compliance with U.S., state, local and non-U.S. laws, rules and regulations. We will notify you in writing if we cannot comply with a specific request and provide an explanation of the reasons.
Disclosure and Access Rights: You have the right to request that we disclose to you certain information regarding our collection and use of personal information specific to you over the last twelve (12) months. Such information includes:
- the categories of personal information we collected about you;
- the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;
- our business or commercial purpose for collecting such personal information;
- the categories of third parties with whom we share the personal information;
- the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you; and
- whether we disclosed your personal information to a third party, and, if yes, the categories of personal information that each recipient obtained.
No Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA, including by denying service, suggesting that you will receive, or charging, different rates for services or suggesting that you will receive, or providing, a different level or quality of service to you.
How to Exercise Your Rights: To exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, or to access this notice in an alternative format, please submit a request on your behalf using any of the methods set forth in the Contact us section below.
CONTACT US
For any requests relating to the exercise of your rights under the CCPA, or questions regarding our processing of your personal information, please submit or have your authorized representative submit a request using any of the methods set forth below.
Email us at the following email address: [email protected].
If you would like to contact us by telephone without incurring telephone charges, please submit your request and telephone number by emailing your information to [email protected], and we will call you between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Central Time.
We will contact you to confirm receipt of your request under the CCPA and request any additional information necessary to verify your request. We verify requests by matching the information provided in connection with your request to the information contained in our records. Depending on the sensitivity of the request and the varying levels of risk in responding to such requests (for example, the risk of responding to fraudulent or malicious requests), we may request further information or your investor portal access credentials, if applicable, in order to verify your request. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf, provided that you provide a signed agreement verifying such authorized agent’s authority to make requests on your behalf, and we may verify such authorized person’s identity using the procedures above.
Our goal is to respond to any verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of our receipt of such request, but in certain cases, additional time might be required. Please contact Pat Eilers, Managing Partner of TEP at [email protected] with any questions about this California Website Privacy Policy.
EU WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is important to Transition Equity Partners, LLC and its affiliates (together, “TEP,” “our,” “us,” “we” or “company”). To better protect your privacy, we are providing information explaining our online information practices.
This EU Website Privacy Policy describes how we gather and use information for visitors of this website, or investors who use our online investor portal, in each case, that are from the EU and supersedes the Privacy Policy of TEP linked to this website with respect to EU users, as applicable. Please read this EU Website Privacy Policy carefully.
For the purposes of applicable EU laws, TEP and its affiliated general partners and managing members will each be a data controller of any personal data collected by us. If you have any questions regarding our use of your personal data, or this EU Website Privacy Policy, please contact Pat Eilers, Managing Partner of TEP at [email protected].
We rely on various legal bases under applicable data protection legislation in order to process your personal information (e.g., name, title, address, email, date of birth, IP address, financial data, username, password, etc.), including our legitimate interests, contractual necessity and as required by law. We use the personal information we collect to operate our business and provide you with the services and products we offer and perform essential business operations. We do not collect any special categories of personal information about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
If we require your personal information due to a legal requirement or obligation or in order to perform a contract with you, we will make you aware of this at the time we collect your personal data, and the possible consequences of you failing to provide this personal data. Failure to provide this information means that we cannot provide our services or products to you. In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
Further information about the legal bases under which we process your personal information is included in the section headed “Why we use your personal information.”
You do not need to take any action as a result of this EU Website Privacy Policy, but you do have certain rights as described below in the section headed “Your rights.”
HOW WE OBTAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Information you provide to us
We collect your personal information when you decide to interact with us and we only collect the information necessary to carry out our business for the purposes set out below. You can provide us with personal information via online form, email, post, telephone and this website and when you log into the investor online portal. We also collect information about you through automated technology.
Information provided by third parties or publicly available sources
We also process information in relation to companies that we are evaluating in connection with a potential investment in or purchase of such companies. In this situation, your personal data will be provided to us by third parties involved in that potential transaction (including the target of any investment).
WHY WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
To the extent that you provide us with any personal information, through or in connection with this website (i.e., via online form, telephone, email or post) or the investor online portal, we may use such information for the following purposes:
Purpose | Legal Basis |
To provide you with the services or products you have requested | Contractual necessity |
To keep a record of your relationship with us | Legitimate interest |
To verify your identity | Legal requirement |
To conduct due diligence activities in connection with an actual or prospective corporate transaction or investment with respect to which we are party to | Legitimate interest |
Fraud and abuse prevention | Legitimate interest |
Litigation management and conducting internal audits and investigations | Legitimate interest |
To administer and protect our business and this website | Legitimate interest |
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you. | Legitimate interest |
No automated decision-making, including profiling, is used when processing your personal information.
MARKETING
We may send you direct marketing communications to keep you informed of our products and services in which you might be interested either where we have obtained your prior consent or based on our legitimate business interests where we have an existing relationship with you and we wish to contact you about similar products or services in which you may be interested. You may opt-in to certain kinds of marketing, and all forms of marketing at any time, by emailing Pat Eilers, Managing Partner of TEP at [email protected]. You can also click on the “opt-out”/unsubscribe link provided in our marketing emails, if applicable, or by contacting Pat Eilers, Managing Partner of TEP at [email protected].
DISCLOSURE AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
The transmission of information and data via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of any information or data transmitted to or through this website; any transmission of information or data by you to or through this website is at your sole risk.
Your personal information will be shared with and processed by our affiliates and certain service providers as necessary to fulfill the purposes set out in this policy, including service providers, employees, agents, contractors, consultants, professional advisers, lenders, data processors, and persons employed and/or retained by them. We seek assurances that our standards for data security are met by anyone who enters into an agreement providing a service to, or for us, involving personal data. To the extent your personal information is transferred to countries outside of the EEA, such transfers will only be made in accordance with applicable data privacy laws. For further information about the safeguards/derogations used, please contact Pat Eilers, Managing Partner of TEP at [email protected].
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law, or when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, request from a regulator, national security, for the purposes of public importance or any other legal or investigatory process involving us. Should we, or any of our affiliated entities, be the subject of a takeover, divestment or acquisition, we may disclose your personal information to the new owner of the relevant business and their advisors on the basis of our legitimate interest.
SECURITY AND RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We are committed to protecting the personal information you entrust to us. We adopt robust and appropriate technologies and policies, so the information we have about you is protected to the extent possible from unauthorized access and improper use. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal information breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We will keep your personal information only for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this EU Website Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required by law. We will not keep more information than we need for those purposes. For further information about how long we will keep your personal information, please contact Pat Eilers, Managing Partner of TEP at [email protected].
CAPACITY
This website is only intended for individuals who are at least 18 years of age. We do not knowingly encourage or solicit visitors to this website who are under the age of 18 or knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18 without parental consent. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from an individual under the age of 18, we will delete that information.
COOKIES
Information regarding how you access this website (e.g., browser type, access times, and Internet Protocol (IP) address) and your hardware and software is automatically collected through the use of cookies (a small text file placed on your hard drive) or other technologies or tools. This information is used to improve website performance and for our business purposes. Where cookies are not necessary for us to provide the products or services you have requested or for the functioning of this website, we will ask you to consent to their use. You may opt-in to accept cookies automatically by changing the settings on your browser. If you opt-out of certain cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of this website. You may visit www.aboutcookies.org to review comprehensive information about cookies, how they are used and how you may manage your cookie preferences.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you, and there are a number of ways you can control the way in which and what information we store and process about you. To exercise these rights and controls, please contact Pat Eilers, Managing Partner of TEP at [email protected].
- Access: You have the right to ask for a copy of the personal information that we hold about you free of charge; however, we may charge a “reasonable fee,” if we think that your request is excessive, to help us cover the costs of locating the information you have requested.
- Correction: You may notify us of changes to your personal information if it is inaccurate or it needs to be updated.
- Deletion: If you think that we should not be holding or processing your personal information any more, you may request that we delete it. Please note that this may not always be possible due to legal obligations.
- Restrictions on use: You may request that we stop processing your personal information (other than storing it), if: (i) you contest the accuracy of it (until the accuracy is verified); (ii) you believe the processing is against the law; (iii) you believe that we no longer need your data for the purposes for which it was collected, but you still need your data to establish or defend a legal claim; or (iv) you object to the processing, and we are verifying whether our legitimate grounds to process your personal information, override your own rights.
- Object: You have the right to object to processing, including: (i) for direct marketing; (ii) for research or statistical purposes; or (iii) where processing is based on legitimate interests.
- Portability: If you wish to transfer your personal information to another organization (and certain conditions are satisfied), you may ask us to do so, and we will send it directly if we have the technical means.
- Withdrawal of consent: If you previously gave us your consent (by a clear affirmative action) to allow us to process your personal information for a particular purpose, but you no longer wish to consent to us doing so, you can contact us to let us know that you withdraw that consent.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
We reserve the right to amend this EU Website Privacy Policy from time to time by updating this EU Website Privacy Policy. If we decide to change our EU Website Privacy Policy, we will post those changes so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to collect personal information or use any collected information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify applicable users. We will use the information only in accordance with this EU Website Privacy Policy under which the information was collected.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns about this EU Website Privacy Policy, please contact Pat Eilers, Managing Partner of TEP at [email protected].
COMPLAINTS
Should you wish to lodge a complaint with regards to how your personal information has been processed by us, please contact your local supervisory authority. In the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office – https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us.