As part of the SoftBank Vision Fund Emerge Program, SoftBank Investment Advisers (“Company”)will hold certain personal information as part of our interactions with you, such us an email or attend an event we are hosting. We also collect your information where you are involved in a company we interact with as part of our investment activities. We are what is known as a “data controller” or “data user” in respect of that information.
“Personal information” is any information that relates to, describes, identifies or can be used, directly or indirectly, to identify an individual, such as name, address, date of birth, personal identification numbers, sensitive personal information, and economic information.
This data protection notice (the “Data Protection Notice” or the “Notice”) sets out the ways in which we will process that personal information.
Please note that we may update this Data Protection Notice from time to time and, if we do, appropriate steps will be taken to bring material amendments to your attention. This notice was last updated/reviewed: January 2020.
When you interact with us, for example by visiting our offices, corresponding with us by email, post or telephone, or speaking to us at an event or meeting, we collect personal information about you. Where we collect your sensitive personal information (which, depending on the requirements set out in relevant applicable data protection law, may include your passwords, financial information, biometric information, sexual orientation, medical records and history or information about physical, physiological and mental health conditions), we will process it in accordance with the requirements of applicable data protection law (including obtaining express written consent, where required).
If you send us an email, we will collect any personal information included in your correspondence with us, including identifiers (e.g., your name and contact details).
If you give us your business card or other contact details, we may process personal information such as your:
Depending on the nature of our relationship with you, we may have collected any of the information in these categories from you in the past twelve months (identifiers, internet or other network activity, geolocation data, visual and audio information, professional or employment information, and inferences drawn from other personal information).
We process this personal information in our legitimate interests, which include:
We may also be required to process your personal information in accordance with our legal and regulatory obligations. If we are required to process your sensitive personal information, we will process it in accordance with applicable data protection law (including obtaining express written consent, where required).
We may provide you with information about our products and services and other information which we think you may find interesting. We may send you such information by post, e-mail and/or telephone, unless you have asked us not to do so.
We will not provide your personal data to external organisations for their own marketing purposes unless we seek your explicit consent before doing so.
For the purposes set out in the “For what purposes do we process personal information?” section above, we may share your personal information (as set out in the “What personal information do we collect and use?” section above) within the SoftBank Group and with certain third parties, such as:
For the purposes set out above and any directly related purposes, we may transfer certain of your personal information outside of your country, including to SoftBank Group companies and the third parties described above. This may include transfers to: the UK, the US, Japan, Jersey, India, the United Arab Emirates (whether to an economic free zone or otherwise), Singapore, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong.
Where we transfer your personal information (including sensitive personal information) overseas, we will take appropriate steps to ensure it is adequately protected as required under the applicable data protection law, including by entering into appropriate data transfer agreements with the recipients of your personal information where possible.
We will retain your personal information only as long as is necessary for the purpose for which we have collected it or as otherwise authorised, in accordance with our internal data retention policies.
You may have certain rights under applicable data protection legislation in your country in relation to the personal information about you that we process.
For example:
If you intend to provide us with personal data (including any sensitive personal information if applicable) about other individuals, you must ensure that such individuals are aware of the matters in this Data Protection Notice and agree that such personal data may be provided to us and processed as described herein.
When you engage with us (whether directly or indirectly) through the recruitment / application process we may collect the following personal information (subject to applicable local law):
SWe will, subject to applicable law, process information about you pursuant to our legitimate interest of managing the application process and assessing you for engagement, to communicate with you; to demonstrate your agreement to, or acceptance of, presented to you; to conduct fitness-for-duty examinations; to check your honesty, integrity and reputation, competence, capability and financial soundness; compliance with law and regulation; for internal operations, including audits, investigations, research, statistical and survey purposes; to protect the safety and security of the Company’s facilities, ensuring the security of our business; for purposes relating to legal claims made by or against us; to manage licenses, permits and authorisations applicable to the Company’s business operations.