Privacy notice

Who we are

Significa Ventures B.V. (“Significa Capital”, “we”), Keizersgracht 241, 1016 EA Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Chamber of Commerce (KvK) no. 83194983, is the controller of the personal data described here. For anything about your data, write toprivacy@significacapital.com.

Contact and investor enquiries

• WhatYour name, email, company, phone number and message, and any pitch deck you attach. On the Invest page, the details of your interest.
• WhyTo reply to you and discuss what you asked about.
• Legal basisSteps you ask us to take before any agreement (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b)) and our legitimate interest in answering business enquiries (Art. 6(1)(f)).
• How long12 months after our last contact. If we start working together, the records become part of that engagement.

M&A mandates

• WhatYour contact details and the transaction information you share, which can include confidential financial data.
• WhyTo assess your mandate. It is seen only by the deal team.
• Legal basisSteps you ask us to take before an engagement (Art. 6(1)(b)).
• How long12 months if we do not proceed. If we do, for the engagement and then 7 years, as Dutch tax law requires for business records.

Job and general applications

• WhatYour name, email, phone number, LinkedIn profile, country, start date, answers to the application questions and your CV.
• WhyTo assess your application and contact you about it.
• Legal basisSteps you ask us to take before an employment contract (Art. 6(1)(b)).
• How longUp to 4 weeks after the recruitment process ends. With your consent, up to 1 year so we can consider you for future roles. If you join us, your application moves to your personnel file.

Expert network

• WhatYour contact details, your expertise and, if you add it, your CV.
• WhyTo match you with mandates where your expertise helps.
• Legal basisOur legitimate interest in building an expert network (Art. 6(1)(f)). You can ask us to remove you at any time.
• How longWhile you are part of the network. We remove your details when you ask, or after 2 years without contact.

Research reports

• WhatYour name, email and company.
• WhyTo email you the download link for the report you requested.
• Legal basisOur legitimate interest in sharing our research with people who ask for it (Art. 6(1)(f)).
• How long12 months.

Newsletter

• WhatYour email address and a record of your consent.
• WhyTo send you news and updates.
• Legal basisYour consent (Art. 6(1)(a)). You can unsubscribe at any time from any newsletter or by writing to us.
• How longUntil you unsubscribe. We keep the record of your consent as proof.

Email we send, including PairPoint

We send business email through Microsoft 365, from our staff and from PairPoint, our client matchmaking platform.

• WhatSender and recipient names and email addresses, the message and any attachments, and delivery data.
• WhyTo run our business correspondence.
• Legal basisOur legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)), or the contract we have with you (Art. 6(1)(b)).
• How longFor as long as needed for the correspondence. Messages that form part of our business records are kept for 7 years, as Dutch tax law requires (General State Taxes Act, art. 52). Microsoft keeps delivery logs for up to 90 days.

Website visits and cookies

This site is hosted on Cloudflare, which processes technical data such as your IP address and browser type to deliver and protect it. Our forms use Cloudflare Turnstile, a check that tells people from bots. We do not use advertising or analytics cookies.

Who receives your data

Our service providers, as processors under a data processing agreement: Microsoft (email and files), Airtable (where form submissions are stored) and Cloudflare (hosting, security and the bot check). Other parties, such as a counterparty to a transaction, receive your data only with your agreement. We do not sell personal data or use it for advertising.

International transfers

Our providers may process data outside the European Economic Area. These transfers are covered by each provider’s data processing agreement, including the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

Your rights

You can ask us for access to, correction or erasure of your personal data, ask us to restrict its use, object to its use (including use based on our legitimate interest) and ask for a copy in a portable format. Where we rely on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time. Write toprivacy@significacapital.com; we reply within one month. You can also complain to the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) or the authority where you live.

Security

Form submissions are sent encrypted, checked before they are stored, and access is limited to the people who need them.

Changes

We update this notice when what we do changes, and change the date above.