Privacy Policy
This website is operated by Pantheon Ventures (UK) LLP (“Pantheon”) and Pantheon International Plc (“PIP”) (together “us” or “we”). Pantheon, established at: 10 Finsbury Square, 4th Floor, London EC2A 1AF, and PIP, whose registered office is Broadwalk House, Southernhay West, Exeter EX1 1TS are the data controllers of any personal information collected by this website. This privacy policy explains the personal information we collect about you when you use this website (www.piplc.com) and how we use that information.
This website may contain links to websites operated by companies outside the Pantheon remit. This privacy policy applies only to this website, so if you follow a link to any of these websites please make sure you read their privacy policies.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or about any information we hold about you, please address them to: 10 Finsbury Square, 4th Floor, London EC2A 1AF, email: DPO@piplc.com.
Information we collect
We collect the following information about you when you use this website:
- Information that you voluntarily choose to provide by completing forms on this website or signing up to or otherwise asking for our marketing communications. This includes your name, e-mail address and phone number so that we can respond to your questions and comments, or provide you with marketing information. You may choose to provide additional information as well.
- Information generated by your use of our website.
Website usage data
When you visit the website, we may automatically (i.e. not by registration) collect and store the following information about you:
- Details of your visits to this website, including details of the web pages and other resources you access, type of Internet browser and operating system used, domain name of the website from which you came, number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed.
- Through your use of telecommunications services to access our website, your communications data (e.g. Internet protocol address) or utilization data (e.g. information on the beginning, end and extent of each access, and information on the telecommunications services you accessed) are technically generated and could conceivably relate to personal data.
No attempt is made to identify individual users or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual.
Cookies
Like many companies, we may use browser cookies on this website. Browser cookies are bits of text that are placed on the hard drive of your computer when you visit certain websites. We use browser cookies to tell us, for example, whether you have visited us before or if you are a new visitor and to help us identify site features in which you may have the greatest interest. Cookies can be categorised into two types of cookies: strictly necessary cookies and non-essential (improvement) cookies designed to improve your user experience and the functioning of our website. We use the following categories of non-essential cookies:
- analytical or performance cookies (these allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it, which helps us to improve the way our website works);
- functionality cookies (these allow us to recognise you when you return to our website, which enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences); and
- targeting or advertising cookies (these cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed, and we will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests, and we may also share this information with third parties for this purpose).
A list of all the cookies used on the website by category is set out below:
| Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 2 years | Used to distinguish users. |
| _gid | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users. |
| _gat | 1 minute | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>. |
| AMP_TOKEN | 30 seconds to 1 year | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. |
| _gac_<property-id> | 90 days | Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. Learn more. |
| LinkedIn Insight Tag | 180 days | Allows us to track LinkedIn members visits to our website. Members’ data is pseudonymized by LinkedIn & deleted within 180 days. This tag also allows for campaign retargeting – enabling us to show personalized ads on LinkedIn to those who have visited the website before. |
If you are located in Europe, you will be asked if you would like to accept non-essential cookies. If you do not accept non-essential cookies, your access to certain parts of the website may be limited. Remember though that, without browser cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of all our website features. Necessary cookies are essential in order to provide you with the services you request on this website and in order that we can comply with legal obligations such as our security obligations under data protection law. We do not need to ask for your consent in order to use these cookies as without them we would not be able to provide the services requested by you. These are always active on this website.
We use both first and third-party cookies. First party cookies are set by the website you are visiting. Third party cookies are set by a domain which is different to the website you are visiting. Please note that the third parties listed below may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
- Linkedin.com (http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=privacy_policy); and
Social media sites that are linked from this website or those that link to this website may use cookies and the information practices of these third parties are not covered by this privacy policy. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
How we use information we collect
We use information we collect about you in the following ways:
- To respond to your questions and comments, in which case the legal bases for our processing may be any or all of the following, depending on the relevant circumstances in each case:
- your consent;
- that it is necessary for our performance of our contract with you, which is governed by the terms of use of our website, or to take steps prior to entering into a contract with you;
- our legitimate interests in performing our business in a responsible and commercially prudent manner and pursuing our corporate and social responsibility objectives; or
- in certain circumstances, that it is necessary for compliance with applicable legal obligations.
- To customise the way information on this website is presented to you, in which case the legal bases for our processing may be any or all of the following, depending on the relevant circumstances in each case:
- that it is necessary for our performance of our contract with you, which is governed by the terms of use of our website;
- our legitimate interests, or those of our third party service providers, which can be listed as follows:
- conducting business in a responsible and commercially prudent manner,
- maintaining the security of IT systems and preventing their misuse; or
- pursuing our corporate and social responsibility objectives; or
- in certain circumstances, that it is necessary for compliance with applicable legal obligations.
- To monitor the attractiveness of our website and improve its performance or content, which might involve performing analytics on how you use this website, in which case the legal basis for our processing is:
- our legitimate interests, or those of our third party service providers, which can be listed as follows:
- to improve this website, and our products and services;
- conducting business in a responsible and commercially prudent manner,
- maintaining the security of IT systems and preventing their misuse; and
- pursuing our corporate and social responsibility objectives.
- our legitimate interests, or those of our third party service providers, which can be listed as follows:
- To enforce our website terms of use, including investigation of potential violations of those terms of use, in which case the legal basis for our processing may be any or all of the following, depending on the relevant circumstances in each case:
- that it is necessary for our performance of our contract with you, which is governed by the terms of use of our website;
- it is necessary for compliance with legal obligations; or
- our legitimate interests in conducting our business in a responsible and commercially prudent manner, and preventing, investigating or detecting theft, fraud or other criminal activity.
- To send you marketing communications should you sign up to receive them, in which case the legal bases for our processing may be any or all of the following, depending on the relevant circumstances in each case:
- our legitimate interests in identifying ways to grow our business by targeting our marketing actives more effectively and promoting our events and services; or
- your consent.
We do not sell or otherwise market your personal data to third parties.
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you (or are proposing to enter into with you), and you fail to provide that data when requested, in some circumstances we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are proposing to enter into with you. In this case, we may have to cancel the contract you have with us, or decline to enter into a proposed contract with you, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
Legitimate interests
Where we have listed our legitimate interests as the legal basis for our processing above, please note that we will not process your personal data for these purposes if our or the third party’s legitimate interests should be overridden by your own interests, rights and freedoms. In certain circumstances, you can object to the use of your personal data for legitimate interests.
Information that we share
We may disclose your personal data to other organisations in connection with the above purposes including:
- To other members of Pantheon;
- To third party service providers that we engage to provide services to us in connection with the website, such as IT service providers, professional advisors and auditors. These service providers are contractually restricted from using or disclosing the information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf;
- To any successor owners or operators of the website;
- To public authorities and bodies where required or permitted by law, such as law enforcement authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation or detection of crime or fraud;
- If Pantheon or any of its subsidiaries, or most or all of its assets, are acquired by a third party, your personal information may be shared with the company, organisation or individual making the acquisition.
Transfers abroad
We process your personal data in the UK. In connection with the above, we may transfer your personal data to a country outside the UK or the European Economic Area, including to a country which has not been found by the European Commission or the Information Commissioner’s Office to provide an adequate level of data protection. If and to the extent that we do so, we will ensure that appropriate measures are in place to comply with our obligations under applicable law. These may include entering into a data transfer agreement incorporating the ‘standard contractual clauses’ approved by the European Commission or the Information Commissioner’s Office (or equivalent data transfer agreements approved by applicable supervisory authorities). If you would like to receive further details of the measures that we have taken in this regard, please contact us using the contact information listed at the beginning of this privacy policy.
Marketing
We may send you marketing communications if you choose to sign up to receive such communications from us or otherwise ask for our marketing materials. We will not use your personal data to send you marketing materials if you have not expressly asked to receive such materials from us or have requested not to receive them. If you request that we stop processing your personal data for marketing purposes, we will stop processing your personal data for those purposes. Please use the contact details listed in this privacy policy should you wish to stop receiving our marketing communications. The “How we use information we collect” section of this privacy policy explains the legal bases we rely on when processing your personal data for these purposes.
Requirement to provide data
You are not under a statutory or contractual obligation to provide us with any personal data.
How we protect your information
We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect against unauthorized disclosure, use, alteration or destruction of the personal information you provide on this website.
Retention
We will only keep your personal information for as long as is necessary to fulfil the relevant purpose(s) collected for, as set out above in this notice, and for as long as we are required to keep it for legal purposes.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, Pantheon considers the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
Your rights
You have the following rights, in certain circumstances and subject to certain restrictions, in relation to your personal data:
- the right to access your personal data, which means that you are entitled to a copy of any information that we hold about you;
- the right to request that we correct information that we hold about you that is inaccurate;
- the right to erasure of your personal information;
- the right to restrict the use of your personal information;
- the right to object to the processing of your personal information;
- the right to receive your personal data, which you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to require us to transmit that data to another controller;
- where our processing of your personal data is based on you having provided consent, the right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time.
If you wish to avail of any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information listed at the end of this privacy policy.
Complaints
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues. The ICO can be contacted by telephone on 0303 123 1113 or by post as follows: Information Commissioners Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF or via email at casework@ico.org.uk.
Changes to this policy
We keep this privacy policy under regular review, and will place any updates on this web page. We encourage you to frequently check this page for any changes to this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the website following any change in this privacy policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes. If you do not accept such changes, you must not use the website.
This privacy policy was last updated on 11 May 2023.