PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE
These terms and conditions set out the terms and conditions for using our website plus.vc.
plus.vc (the Website) is a site operated by Plus VC Management Limited (we, us, and together with our affiliates, the +VC Group). We are registered in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) under company number 4314 and have our registered office at DD-14-116-019, 14 Floor, WeWork Hub71, Al Khatem Tower, ADGM Square, Al Maryah Island, United Arab Emirates.
We are regulated by ADGM Financial Services Regulatory Authority.
To contact us, please email hello@plus.vc.
By using the Website, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.
If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use the Website.
We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.
Please refer to our Privacy Policy which also apply to your use of the Website.
We amend these terms and the Website from time to time, and in using the Website you are deemed to accept any variations to these terms and conditions. Every time you wish to use the Website, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.
The Website is made available free of charge.
We do not guarantee that the Website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of the Website for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.
We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at hello@plus.vc.
You may use the Website only for lawful purposes. You may not use the Website:
You also agree:
When we consider that a breach of this acceptable use standard has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate including but not limited to immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use the Website; issue of a warning to you; and/or legal action against you.
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in the Website, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. Accessing and viewing our content does not provide you with any ownership rights.
You are not permitted to use our Website content in any way unless you get the expressed written permission from Plus VC Management Limited. That includes logos, charts, and images as well as any text on the Website or in a file accessible on the Website.
If you want to request permission to use content from our Website, you can contact us. We will endeavour to respond quickly and accommodate your request. If the content you want to use is owned by someone else, we will let you know and redirect you.
The content on the Website is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on the Website.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on the Website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on the Website is accurate, complete or up to date.
Where the Website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
This website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including user comments. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on the Website do not represent our views or values.
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to the Website, you must comply with our acceptable use standards as set out above.
You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.
Any content you upload to the Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to us are described below.
We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to the Website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.
When you upload or post content to the Website, you grant us the right to use that content being a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence for other users, partners or advertisers to use the content for their purposes and in accordance with the functionality of the site.
For the purposes of these terms, Application Information shall mean all confidential information and documents relating to the application for funding made by you and relating to you or your affiliates which is uploaded to the Website as part of such application but specifically excluding information that (i) is, or becomes, generally available to the public; (ii) was, is or becomes available to the +VC Group on a non-confidential basis prior to disclosure by you or by a person who, to our knowledge, is not under any confidentiality obligation; (iii) is lawfully in our possession before disclosure was made by you; or (iv) is developed by or for us independently of the information disclosed by you.
We shall keep the Application Information secret and confidential and shall not use or exploit the Application Information in any way except for the assessment of your application for funding, provided however, that we may share the Application Information on a need to know basis with the +VC Group and their officers, employees, professional advisers or consultants and we shall take reasonable steps to ensure such persons comply with these confidentiality obligations.
Nothing in these terms shall prevent us disclosing any information including Application Information where required to do so by law, a court or any other competent or regulatory authority.
We do not guarantee that the Website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access the Website. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse the Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website, the server on which the Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Website. You must not attack the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the Website will cease immediately.
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
You must not establish a link to the Website in any website that is not owned by you.
The Website must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of the Website other than the home page.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use standards as set out above.
If you wish to link to or make any use of content on the Website other than that set out above, please contact hello@plus.vc.
In the event you make any application to us for investment (whether invited or opportunistic), we are under no obligation, and nothing shall be deemed to require us, to review, consider, respond or accept any investment.
We provide the website to you on an “as is” basis. We do not give you any warranties or guarantees about how the Website will work, the availability of the Website, or whether you can get results from the Website. Additionally, no third parties that provide any form of content on the Website give you any warranties about how it will work, its availability, or any results you can receive.
Any liability related to the quality and performance of the Website, or the accuracy or completeness of the content on the Website, belongs to you. We are not liable for any acts or damages that arise out of your use of the Website in any way. We are not liable for any acts or damages that arise out of your inability to use the Website in any way. Likewise, none of the third parties that provide any forms of content on the Website are liable for any acts or damages that arise out of your use, or inability to use, the Website either.
If you violate the Terms of Use and another person or entity brings a legal claim against +VC Group, or their respective officers, directors, owners, agents, information providers, or copyright owners (together, the +VC Parties) because of your violation, you are required to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the +VC Parties for that legal claim.
Please note that these terms, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by the laws of the ADGM and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the ADGM.
Welcome to the Plus VC Management Limited’s privacy notice.
This privacy notice provides information on how Plus VC Management Limited collects and processes your personal data when you visit our website to sign up for a newsletter or complete a funding application to become part of the +VC community.
It is important that you read this privacy policy together with our website terms and conditions.
Plus VC Management Limited is the controller and responsible for your personal data. We are registered in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) under company number 4314 and have our registered office at DD-14-116-019, 14 Floor, WeWork Hub71, Al Khatem Tower, ADGM Square, Al Maryah Island, United Arab Emirates.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our data protection practices, please contact us.
Our full details are:
Full name of legal entity: Plus VC Management Limited
Email address: hello@plus.vc
Postal address: DD-14-116-019, 14 Floor, WeWork Hub71, Al Khatem Tower, ADGM Square, Al Maryah Island, United Arab Emirates
We keep our privacy policy under regular review.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you. Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
We will only use your personal data where need to comply with a legal obligation or otherwise for the purpose for which we collected it which include the following:
We may use your identity, contact, technical, usage and profile data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
We may share your personal data within the +VC Group and with external third parties including service providers, professional advisors and regulators and other authorise in the ADGM or the United Arab Emirates as required.
We may also share your personal data with third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
By accepting these terms and conditions you consent to us transferring your data outside of the ADGM and United Arab Emirates.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data 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 will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data including the right to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and the right to make a complaint at any time to the ADGM Commissioner of Data Protection.
If you are looking for more information on how we process your personal data including on data security and data retention, please contact us.
