Privacy Policy

Last updated: 01/15/2025

HOPE Ventures respects your right to privacy. This privacy policy discloses how we gather, use and disclose information about you when you access or use our website located at https://hopeventures.co or other websites owned by HOPE Ventures (the "Site").

Please review this Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into and made part of our Terms of Use. By accessing or using the Site, you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. If you have questions about our Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use, please contact us at jballam@hopeventures.co. If you do not agree to our Privacy Policy or Terms of Use, you may not use the Site.

What Information Does HOPE Ventures Collect?

Information You Give Us

We collect information you provide directly to us. The personal information we collect may include, but is not limited to, full name, street address, email address, telephone number, birth date or age, and other information that you provide to us. We may also collect other personal information that will be identified on applicable page(s) of this site.

Information We Collect Automatically When You Use Our Website

During your visits to our Site, we may automatically collect the following information:

Log Information. We may automatically collect or allow other providers to collect information about your use of our Site or other websites including your Internet Protocol ("IP") address, login information, demographic information (e.g., age or gender), your device's model and manufacturer, location information, MAC address, web browser, and operating system, performance issues, and your activity on the Site.
Visit Information. When you visit the Site, we may automatically collect information about your visits, including the URL, pages viewed, links clicked, access times, page response times, length of visits to certain pages, methods used to browse away from the page, domain names, and other statistical data involving the use of our Site. We may also collect information about you such as your communication preferences.

We may also collect information about you from other sources to optimize our engagement with you; however, we treat all your personally identifiable information as confidential, and we secure it in accordance with this policy.

How Does HOPE Ventures Use Information?

HOPE Ventures uses the information about you for various purposes, including to:

Provide the Site, including website management and administration and to improve the content and overall performance of our Site;
Distribute email newsletters, publications or press releases;
Process requests to unsubscribe from email newsletters, publications or press releases;
Monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with our Site;
Detect, investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities and protect the rights and property of HOPE Ventures and others; and
Conduct any other purpose described at the time the information was collected.

How Does HOPE Ventures Share Information?

We do not share personally identifiable information with anyone other than those who provide support for the operations of HOPE Ventures. We do not sell your personally identifiable information.

Children's Privacy

HOPE Ventures is committed to children's privacy. Please be aware that our Site is not intended for or designed to attract children. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under 13, do not send your information to us. If we learn that we have improperly collected personal information from a person under age 13, we will delete the information. If you believe that we may improperly have information from or about a person under the age of 13, please contact us at jballam@hopeventures.co.

How Your Information is Protected

HOPE Ventures uses industry-standard tools to secure our Site. We store personal information data with Transport Layer Security (TLS)/Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate technology and encryption to protect information you may submit on our Site. Using a variety of physical, administrative and technical measures, we will take all reasonable steps to protect your privacy in accordance with the applicable U.S. data protection laws. You acknowledge that the laws of the United States may not protect your privacy to the same extent as the laws in the country from which you are accessing the Site.

HOPE Ventures does not share your personal information with anyone besides our third-party service providers, who have separate agreements with us.

Non-identifiable information in our aggregate database will not be deleted. We maintain backup files as a protection against natural disasters, equipment failures, or other disruptions. Backup files lower the risk of losing valuable data. Removing a record from our main files does not remove that record from any backup systems. It may take up to six months before all information in a backup record is completely erased through the normal recycling of backup files. In the meantime, backup records receive the same privacy and security protections as our other records.

Your Choices

Newsletters

Upon your request, we may send you information about HOPE Ventures via email. You may unsubscribe from receiving marketing or other commercial emails from us by following the instructions included in the email. However, even if you opt-out of receiving such communications, we retain the right to send you non-marketing communications (such as important transaction information or changes in Site terms).

How We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We may use "cookies" or web beacons to make our sites and services more useful to you. Cookies are small data files placed on the computer hard drives of users of our sites. Cookies help us to tailor our sites to be more helpful and efficient for you. We may also use cookies for the marketing purposes of our Site. The cookie consists of a unique identifier that does not contain information about you. We use two types of cookies:

Session cookies help customize your experience on our site. Session cookies are temporary, and expire after the session ends and you close your browser or app.
Persistent cookies remain on your hard drive after you exit from our website.

You may have software on your computer that will allow you to decline or deactivate cookies and beacons. If you do so, some features of the Site may not work properly for you. For instructions on how to remove cookies from your hard drive, go to your browser's website for detailed instructions. Further information regarding cookies may be available on other websites or from your Internet service provider.

HOPE Ventures is Not Responsible for Links to or From Other Sites

This Site may contain links to other websites, and other websites may provide links to this Site. These links are provided for your convenience only. HOPE Ventures does not control these other sites and assumes no liability or responsibility for them, including any content or services provided to you by such websites. You should not consider any link to or from another website as an endorsement of that website by HOPE Ventures.

Do Not Track Signals

This Site does not respond to Do Not Track signals. Currently, there is no universally accepted technological or regulatory standard for recognizing or honoring Do Not Track signals. Once such technology is created and has received applicable regulatory approval, we will consider (a) whether it is possible; and (b) if so, how it can be incorporated within our Site in the future.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our programs and practices. The updated Privacy Policy is effective when posted on this Site. Our use of personal information is subject to the then-current version of the Privacy Policy. Your use and continued use of HOPE Ventures's Site reflects your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any modifications of the policy made by HOPE Ventures.

How to Contact Us

If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:

HOPE Ventures

7999 Gateway Blvd., Suite 200
Mailing Address: PO Box 410, Newark, CA 94560-0410, USA