Conscious Ventures Global Ltd ("CVG", "we", "us") respects your privacy and protects the personal information we hold. This policy explains what we collect, why, how long we keep it, and your rights. It applies to this website, our enquiry and registration forms, and our dealings with clients, candidates and partners.

Data controller: Conscious Ventures Global Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 15550206. Contact for all privacy matters: info@conscious-ventures-global.com.

• When you register or enquire through this website: your name, email address, phone number, country, company or organisation, and what you tell us about your idea or interest.
• When you send us your CV — through our Register form or by email: the information your CV contains.
• When you are, or may become, a client, innovator, consultant, supplier, adviser or business partner: contact details and, where an engagement proceeds, the identity information needed for verification and background checks (for example passport or ID documents and proof of address).
• When you book a call with us: the details you enter on the booking page.
• When you attend our events: name, title, and — with your consent — photo and biography.
• From other sources: where a recruiter shares your CV with your permission, or where information is publicly available on commercial websites.

We use your information based on our legitimate interests, legal and regulatory requirements (including our fiduciary duties), contractual necessity, and/or your consent.

We use your information for the purposes of the following legitimate interests :

• Responding to your enquiries and resolving your complaints.
• Assessing your application for employment.
• Communicating with you about service updates and marketing, and potential business, partnership, or career opportunities within the Growth-On-Demand ecosystem.
• Compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations.
• Compliance with Know Your Customer, anti-money laundering, and similar checks.
• Obtaining professional services from our lawyers, accountants, consultants, and auditors.
• Conducting market or other due diligence in respect of potential or actual investment opportunities.
• Searching and assessing potential investment and value creation opportunities for The Guild and the portfolio companies we manage (Atelier ventures).
• Transfer to a potential buyer or merger partner.
• Improving our marketing materials.
• Processing data generated by AI assessment agents shall be 'secure by design' and comply with the transparency requirements of the EU AI Act 2024.

Your information may be transferred to a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA) – such as the US or other non-EEA countries. Where this occurs, we ensure the transfer is subject to appropriate safeguards in accordance with data protection laws, which may include incorporating the European Commission Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK International Data Transfer Addendum to the SCCs.

 We are committed to ensuring your information is secure and have put in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures (including role-based access controls and encryption) to safeguard and secure the information we collect.

The data we collect will be retained for as long as it is needed to fulfil the purposes set out. ,  or longer where permitted or required by law or in the natural course of business.

We do not sell your information. We share it only with service providers who process it for us under contract (for example our email, storage and form providers), with professional advisers, and where the law requires. If information is transferred outside the UK or EEA, we use recognised safeguards, including the UK International Data Transfer Addendum and the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses. We protect your information with role-based access controls, encryption and managed procedures.

You have the right to: access a copy of your information; correct it; have it deleted; restrict or object to our processing; withdraw consent at any time; receive data you provided in a machine-readable format; and be removed from marketing lists. These rights are not absolute and exemptions can apply. To exercise any of them, email info@conscious-ventures-global.com. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).