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Privacy Policy

VENTURE ALLIANCE REAL ESTATE ENTERPRISE, LLC

Effective June 19, 2020

 Venture Alliance Real Estate Enterprise, LLC (“Venture Alliance”) and its subsidiaries and affiliates, provide online tools to assist companies, potential investors, and others who are interested or involved in the acquisition, development, leasing, management, and financing of real estate and real estate projects.  This privacy policy (our “Privacy Policy”) describes our data practices regarding Personal Information (defined below). 

This Privacy Policy applies to Personal Information collected through our website, located at www.ventureallianceinvestments.com (the “Site” or the “Services.”) This Privacy Policy does not apply to any Personal Information collected by third party websites or apps not operated by Venture Alliance.  As a financial company, federal law (the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, or “GLBA”) also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your Personal Information.  By accessing the Site and/or using our Services, you are consenting to our use of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.  Further, your access to and use of the Services is subject to the Venture Alliance Terms of Use located at https://www.ventureallianceinvestments.com/terms-of-service/.

We use the term “Personal Information” to mean any information that could be used to identify you, including your name, address, email address, cell or land-line phone number, or any combination of information that could be used to identify you.

Site Visitors.  We have structured our Site so that, as a casual site visitor, you may come to our Site and review selected information about our Services.  However, if you wish to become an Investor, then we require you to provide certain additional Personal Information. 

Investors.  If you choose to access our Services as an Investor, we require that you complete our registration page on the Site.  An Investor is an individual who is over the age of 18 and has completed the information gathering process on the Site. Our forms will specify the information which you must provide in order to enjoy the particular features to which you wish to subscribe, which may include such items as (i) name; (ii) email address; (iii) phone number(s); (iv) mailing address; (v) social security number (for IRS tax reporting purposes); and (vi) bank account number.

Our forms may additionally request information that you may, at your option, choose to provide or withhold. To the extent this additional information constitutes Personal Information, we will treat it in the manner specified in this Privacy Policy.  We may require each Investor to provide information designed to verify his or her identity.  This information may include (i) information from a successfully completed electronic check transaction or (ii) other similar information designed to authenticate and confirm your identity or to otherwise comply with applicable law. We also require each Investor to provide certain financial information.  For example, we require that each Investor also provide Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 data, which includes your Social Security Number (or Taxpayer Identification Number, where applicable).  We also require that Investors provide us with certain account and other payment information, such as information needed to make payments via ACH, wire, electronic checks or our Site. Our registration process for Investors provides additional details on the types of payment information needed. When you upload content, we may also collect metadata associated with these media files including date, time, location and device information.  Venture Alliance’s use of such content will be governed by our user-generated terms and conditions which are provided at the time of collection of such content. 

Automatically-Collected Information.   Even if you do not register for an account on the Site, we may collect certain information automatically.  For example, we may automatically receive and record in our system the following information: ● your internet protocol (IP) address and location; ● referrer URL; ● the type and version of your web browser; ● device identifiers including mobile advertising identifiers; and ● your operating system.  We also record page views and other general statistical and tracking information.  We use this data to help us administer and operate our Site, to better understand how our users interact with the Site, and for security and monitoring purposes.  We may send email messages that use a “click-through URL” linked to content on our Site.  To enable us to better understand the characteristics of our Investors and/or to provide services tailored to your needs, we may combine the Personal Information an Investor provides with certain automatically-collected information that would not otherwise be personally identifiable.  If we combine or link any automatically-collected, non-individually identifiable information with your Personal Information, the resulting combination will be treated as Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.

How We Share Personal Data.  We do not disclose your Personal Information to unaffiliated third parties except as provided in this Privacy Policy.  To assist us in running our business and to perform certain services and functions, we may share your Personal Information with third-party providers of hosting, payment processing, transfer agent, email communication and customer support services, analytics, marketing, and advertising service providers, which companies provide integrated services to us as part of our product.  We may share information with our affiliates, meaning an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with Venture Alliance.  Our affiliates may use the Personal Information we share in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

For Legal Reasons.  We may share your Personal Information to the extent we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law or to comply with legal or regulatory requirements, or to protect against fraud, illegal activity, or to otherwise protect Venture Alliance against liability.  Moreover, in the event of a transaction or proposed transaction involving the transfer of substantially all of the assets of Venture Alliance or one or more of its businesses to another entity, we may be required to share your Personal Information in the diligence process or to otherwise facilitate the transaction, and with individuals assisting in the transaction or in connection with a bankruptcy.  Your Personal Information may also be one of the transferred assets as part of the transaction or bankruptcy.

For Safety & Security. We may reveal your Personal Information to third parties, including law enforcement agencies, in order to protect the safety and security of our users or of any third party. 

Links to Other Sites.  This privacy statement applies only to Personal Information collected by our Site. Our Site may contain links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Venture Alliance.  Venture Alliance is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites, and we encourage you to be aware when you leave our Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects Personal Information.

Data Security.  We have put in place commercially-reasonable security systems intended to prevent unauthorized access to or disclosure of Personal Information, and we take reasonable steps to secure and safeguard this Personal Information against loss, theft, and unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification. With that said, there is no such thing as 100% security of the networks, servers, and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf. For example, email sent to or from the Site may not be secure. Before submitting any Personal Information via the Site, please be aware of these inherent risks and understand that you do so at your own risk. 

Data Retention.  We keep your Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, while we have a legitimate business need to do so in connection with your account, or as required by law (e.g.,for tax, legal, accounting or other purposes), whichever is longer.  

Please note that: 

• we may not be permitted to delete your Personal Information completely, due to IRS and regulatory reporting requirements, investments on the platform and the rights thereof, and data backups and records of deletions;
• if you request deletion of your Personal Information, you may be unable to use certain features of the Site and any associated Services;
• certain of your Personal Information may remain in our databases following the deletion of your account; and
• we may not be able to remove de-identified, anonymous, or aggregate data from our databases. Any deletion requests may be sent to info@ventureallianceinvestments.com.

If you no longer wish to receive marketing emails from us, you can opt out of these communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link included in those emails, or by contacting us at info@ventureallianceinvestments.com.  Please understand that you will not be allowed to opt-out of transactional notices or other legal and related notices concerning your relationship to the Site or your account. 

Children’s Privacy.  Our Site is not directed to children under the age of 18.  We do not knowingly seek to collect or maintain Personal Information or other information from children under the age of 18. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete any Personal Information or other information later determined to be provided by a child under the age of 18.  Use of the Site by children under the age of 18 is not permitted. If you become aware that a minor has provided Personal Information through our Site, please email us at info@ventureallianceinvestments.com.   

We reserve the right to alter, modify, update, add to, subtract from or otherwise change this Privacy Policy at any time, which will become effective as of posting on the Site.  We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we collect, use, and share Personal Information. 

Your California Privacy Rights.   “Shine the Light” Law California law permits users who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed their Personal Information (if any) for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year, as well as the type of Personal Information disclosed to those parties.  However, Venture Alliance does not share your Personal Information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

Contact Us.  If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of our Site or Services, or your dealings with our Site or Services, or for any reason, by email at info@ventureallianceinvesmtents.com.  You may contact us by mail at Venture Alliance Real Estate Enterprise, LLC 211 East Lombard Street, Suite 231, Baltimore, MD 21202.