Privacy Policy

At Real Investment Management Inc. (“Real Ventures”, “we,” “us,” or “our”), we want you to understand what information we collect, and how we use and share it. That is why we encourage you to read our Privacy Policy before using our Website.

1. What is the Privacy Policy and what does it cover?

This Privacy Policy applies to our website at https://realventures.com/ (our “Website”). This Privacy Policy does not apply to the collection, use, and/or disclosure of employee candidate, employee, or former-employee personal information.

If you click through links to third party websites or applications from our Website, this Privacy Policy does not apply to such external services. It is always a good idea to read their privacy policies to understand what they do with your information.

2. What information do we collect and why?

We collect your information for different purposes, particularly to evaluate investment inquiries. You hereby agree that the information you provide to Real Ventures is correct; otherwise, it is possible that we will be unable to process any inquiries you make to us. Please see the table below for more details.

Category	Examples	Means & Purposes of Collection
Identification Information	Name, email address	We collect this information when you fill in forms or sign up for our newsletter on our Website. This information allows us to: Evaluate your inquiries for investments; Support your tech and entrepreneurship events; Send you marketing communications.
Racial Information	Belonging to Black community	We may collect this information when you fill in the “Join the Movement” form on the Rep Matters page on our Website. This information allows us to support and evaluate the inquiries of Black Canadians for investments and other initiatives.
Technical Information	Date, time and duration of your visits on our Website, imprecise location (country), the pages viewed and links clicked on our Website, your language preferences, browsing history, web pages that redirected you to our Website, etc.	We collect this data using cookies and pixels on our Website, including those provided by trusted third parties who collect it on our behalf (such as Google Analytics). This information allows us to compile aggregate data about traffic and interactions on our Website in order to improve the experience on our Website and to provide customized website experiences to our users.

Please note that we may also collect and use your information for any other purpose permitted or required by law.

3. How do we share your information?

We share your information with third parties where necessary to fulfil the purposes identified above, including as set forth in the table below:

Category	Explanations
Partner Organizations	We may share your information with incubators, accelerators, investors, and/or non-profits operating in the startup ecosystem to refer your project and support its growth.
Service Providers	We may share your information to our authorized third party services providers providing us services such as website hosting, marketing, event management, or data storage.
Law Enforcement and Other authorities	We may receive requests by authorities to access your information. We will validate that the request is licit before responding. When possible, we will advise you. We will only share what is strictly required.
Commercial Transactions	We may share your information with an acquirer, successor or assignee as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets.

4. How do we transfer your information?

Your information may be held at our offices and those of our third-party service providers as described above. Some of these third parties may be based or share your information outside of your region. By submitting information to us, you consent to the communication of your information to, and the storage of that information, outside of your region. While such information is outside of your region, it is subject to the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is held, and may be subject to disclosure to the governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies of such other jurisdictions pursuant to local laws.

However, our practices regarding your information will continue to be governed by this Privacy Policy. In addition, where applicable, we comply with legal requirements providing adequate protection for the transfer of information to other regions.

If you would like more information about how we transfer your information, please contact us as set forth in the section below “How to contact us?”

5. How do we secure and keep your information?

We implement physical, administrative and technical safeguards designed to preserve the confidentiality, integrity and security of information under our control. However, information transmitted on the Internet and/or stored on systems attached to the Internet is not 100% secure, and no security can provide absolute protection. As a result, we do not ensure, warrant or guarantee the security or integrity of such information.

We take steps to ensure that only those who need access to your information to perform their duties have access to it.

We retain your information only for as long as is necessary for us to fulfil the relevant purposes specified in this Policy and to comply with our legal obligations.

6. What are your rights regarding your information?

Under certain circumstances and subject to applicable data protection laws, supported by a written request and proof of identification, you may consult the personal information that we have collected, used or shared, and/or ask that it be corrected, and/or withdraw your consent to our disclosure or use of personal information collected.

As required or permitted by law, you may be entitled to additional rights, including: (i) the right to control the dissemination of your personal information; (ii) the right to receive computerized personal information collected from you in a structured, commonly used and technological format and to have this information transferred directly to another organization; (iii) the right to be informed of and submit observations regarding automated decision-making; and (iv) the right to request information about data processing.

Finally, you also have a right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority, in particular in the region where you normally reside, where we are based or where an alleged infringement of data protection law has taken place, such as the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us as set forth in the section below “How to contact us?”

7. Children’s privacy

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 14 on our Website. If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child under 14 who has provided us with personal information, please contact us as set forth in the section below “How to contact us?” to ask us to stop using or to delete that information.

8. How to unsubscribe to marketing communications?

If at any time you wish to stop receiving marketing communications from us, we include an unsubscribe mechanism in all of our marketing emails or you can contact us as set forth in the section below “How to contact us?”

Please keep in mind that, if you choose not to receive marketing communications, you will continue to receive communications related to investment and event inquiries, funding, or other requests made to us through our Website.

9. How will you know this Privacy Policy has changed?

From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy. Any changes will be effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was last updated as of the effective date listed at the top. Subject to applicable laws, we will notify you of any changes to this Privacy Policy.

10. How to contact us?

If you have any questions, requests or complaints regarding your information or this Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy Officer at privacy@realventures.com.