1. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect information that alone or in combination with other information in our possession could be used to identify you (“Personal Information”).

• Personal Information You Provide. We may collect Personal Information when you create an account, subscribe to our newsletter, sign up for an event, or communicate with us as follows:
  • Event Information: If you attend one of our events, or if you are an investor and you sign up to attend Demo Day, you will be asked to provide Personal Information, including your name, the name and a description of your company or your fund, your contact information and other information that we will use to manage and administer your participation in our various events (“Event Information”).
  • GGC Program Information: If you sign up for our GGC program (“GGC Program”), we will collect your name, email, LinkedIn profile, and other information relevant to the type of job you are seeking, such as your location, eligibility to work in Japan, and your work experience, education, and skills (“WaaS Information”).
  • Startup School Information: If you sign up for our Startup School program (“SUS”), we will collect your name, email, location (city and country), LinkedIn profile, gender (only if you choose to provide it), education, area of expertise, company information, and cofounder email addresses (“SUS Information”).
  • Application Information: When a company applies to GGC, we will collect Personal Information relating to the founders of the applicant company, such as names, email addresses, telephone numbers, education, employment history, and the city/country in which they live. We will also collect information about the applicant company, such as the name, industry, and status of the company (together with Personal Information relating to founder(s) and any other information submitted in connection with the application process, “Application Information”).
  • Communication Information: When you subscribe to our newsletter or otherwise communicate with us, we may collect your name, contact information, and the contents of any messages you send (“Communication Information”).
  • Personal Information We Collect Through Our Social Media Pages. We have pages on social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, X (Twitter), YouTube and LinkedIn (“Social Media Pages”). When you interact with our Social Media Pages, we will collect Personal Information that you elect to provide to us, such as your contact details (“Social Information”). In addition, the companies that host our Social Media Pages may provide us with aggregate information and analytics regarding the use of our Social Media Pages.
  • Personal Information We Receive Automatically From Your Use of the Site. When you visit, use, and interact with the Site, we may receive certain information about your visit, use, or interactions (“Technical Information”). For example, we may monitor the number of people that visit the Site, peak hours of visits, which page(s) are visited, the domains our visitors come from (e.g., google.com, yahoo.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to access the Services (e.g., Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.), broad geographical information, and navigation pattern. Technical Information includes the following, which is created and automatically logged in our systems:
    • Log data: Log data is information that your browser automatically sends whenever you visit the Site. Log data includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interacted with the Site.
    • Cookies: Please see the “Cookies” section below to learn more about how we use cookies.
    • Device information: Includes name of the device, operating system, and browser you are using. Information collected may depend on the type of device you use and its settings.
    • Usage Information: We collect information about how you use our Services, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, and the time, frequency, and duration of your activities.
    • Session replay information: Session replay information includes Device Information, broad geographical information, and the contents of your screen.
  Cookies: We use cookies to operate and administer our Site, gather usage data on our Site, and improve your experience on it. A “cookie” is a piece of information sent to your browser by a website you visit. Cookies can be stored on your computer for different periods of time. Some cookies expire after a certain amount of time, or upon logging out (session cookies), others survive after your browser is closed until a defined expiration date set in the cookie (as determined by the third-party placing it) and help recognize your computer when you open your browser and browse the Internet again (persistent cookies).
  
  Session Replay: We use session replay tools to help us analyze how users use the Site and to improve user experience.
  
  Analytics: Among other service providers, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how users use the Site and enhance your experience when you use the Site. For more information on how Google uses this data, go to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
  
  Online Tracking and Do Not Track Signals: We and our third-party service providers may use cookies or other tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites following your use of the Site. Our Site currently does not respond to “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) signals and operates as described in this Privacy Policy whether a DNT signal is received. If we do respond to DNT signals in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy to describe how we do so.
  
  Your Choices. On most web browsers, you will find a “help” section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how to receive a notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off. Please see the links below for guidance on how to modify your web browser’s settings on the most popular browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Google Chrome
  • Apple Safari
  Please note that if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may be unable to access certain parts of the Site and you may not be able to benefit from the full functionality of the Site.
  
  Advertising networks may use cookies to collect Personal Information. Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s online resources at http://www.networkadvertising.org and follow the opt-out instructions there.
  
  If you access the Site on your mobile device, you may not be able to control tracking technologies through the settings.
  
  

2. HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use Personal Information for the following purposes:

• To provide and administer access to the Services.
• To grant access to and track attendance at our events.
• To respond to your inquiries, comments, feedback, or questions.
• To send administrative information to you, for example, information regarding the Services and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
• To analyze how you interact with our Services.
• To maintain and improve the content and functionality of the Services.
• To develop new programs and services.
• To prevent fraud, criminal activity, or misuses of our Services, and to ensure the security of our IT systems, architecture, and networks.
• To ensure compliance with sanctions regulations, and
• To comply with legal obligations and legal process and to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our Affiliates, you, or other third parties.

Aggregated Information. We may aggregate Personal Information and use the aggregated information to analyze the effectiveness of our Services, to improve and add features to our Services, and for other similar purposes. In addition, from time to time, we may analyze the general behavior and characteristics of users of our Services and share aggregated information like general user statistics with prospective business partners. We may collect aggregated information through the Services, through cookies, and through other means described in this Privacy Policy.

3. SHARING AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
In certain circumstances we may share your Personal Information with third parties without further notice to you, unless required by the law, as set forth below:

• Vendors and Service Providers: To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may share Personal Information with vendors and service providers, including providers of hosting services, cloud services, and other information technology services providers, event management services, email communication software and email newsletter services, and web analytics services. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store Personal Information while performing their duties to us.
• Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of all or a portion of our assets, or transition of service to another provider (collectively a “Transaction”), your Personal Information and other information may be shared in the diligence process with counterparties and others assisting with the Transaction and transferred to a successor or Affiliate as part of that Transaction along with other assets.
• Legal Requirements: If required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, (ii) protect and defend our rights or property, (iii) prevent fraud, (iv) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Services, or the public, or (v) protect against legal liability.
• Affiliates: We may share Personal Information with our Affiliates, meaning an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with GGC. Our Affiliates will use the Personal Information we share in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
• With Your Consent. We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties upon your request, at your direction, or with your consent.
• Other Users: certain actions you take may be visible to other users of the Services.

Please note that for purposes of this section, “sharing” does not include “sharing” as defined under the APPI. For additional disclosures and information on our APPI practices, please review Japan Privacy Rights below.

The following disclosures are intended to provide additional information about (1) the categories of Personal Information we collect, (2) the source of the Personal Information, (3) how we use each category of Personal Information, and (4) how we disclose Personal Information. These disclosures do not limit our ability to use or disclose information as described in Sections 2 and 3.

Category of Personal Information	Sources Of Personal Information	Use of Personal Information	Disclosure of Personal Information
Event Information	We collect Event Information directly from you.	We use Event Information to grant access to, and administer your participation in, our events.	We disclose Event Information to our Affiliates and the companies participating in and the vendors helping to host our events.
WaaS Information	We collect WaaS Information directly from you.	We use WaaS Information to help WaaS applicants get jobs at GGC - funded companies.	We disclose WaaS Information to our Affiliates and GGC -funded companies.
SUS Information	We collect SUS Information directly from you.	We use SUS Information to evaluate SUS profiles, to provide access to the SUS forums and network, to compile and publish aggregated and anonymized statistics, and to track participants, investments, and companies.	We disclose SUS Information to our Affiliates. We make reasonable efforts to treat your SUS Information confidentially, but given the volume of participants we disclaim all responsibility for preventing misuse or unauthorized disclosure of or access to SUS Information.
Application Information	We collect Application Information directly from you.	We use Application Information to evaluate applications, compile and publish aggregated statistics regarding technology, companies, founders, industries, etc., and to track applicants, founders, industries, companies, and application trends.	We disclose Application Information to our Affiliates. Please see below for additional disclosures regarding Application Information.
HN Information	We collect HN Information directly from you.	We use HN Information for logging you into your account and granting you access to the Services, and in some cases, for password recovery requested by you.	We do not disclose HN Information to third parties, but certain HN Information that you have chosen to include in your profile is publicly available on the Internet.
Social Information	We collect Social Information from you when you interact with our Social Media Pages.	We use Social Information to perform analytics and to communicate with you.	We disclose Social Information to our Affiliates.
Communication Information	We collect Communication Information directly from you.	We use Communication Information for providing our Services and responding to you.	We disclose Communication Information to our Affiliates and communication services providers.
Technical Information	We collect Technical Information from you.	We use Technical Information for analytics and in some cases, for moderation and prevention of fraud and malicious activity by users of our Services.	We disclose Technical Information to our Affiliates and analytics providers.

Application Information Disclosures. Due to the large number of applications and related materials that we receive and review, and the similarity of much of the information provided in such applications, we cannot accept responsibility for protecting against the misuse or disclosure of any general information, knowledge or other materials (including without limitation any information generally known in your industry) included in your Application Information. Any such general information or knowledge you submit to GGC may be used or disclosed by us or any person with whom we share your application for any purpose and in any manner. You submit applications at your own risk. We implement commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures to protect Application Information both online and offline from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, email sent to or from us may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what Application Information you send to us.

4. YOUR CHOICES, DELETION REQUESTS, AND UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION

Your Rights and Choices: In certain circumstances providing Personal Information is optional. However, if you choose not to provide Personal Information that is needed to use some features of our Services, you may be unable to use those features. You can contact us at info@goglobal-catalyst.com to request to update, correct, or delete your Personal Information.

Deletion Requests:

• If you would like to request that we delete your entire GGC account and all Personal Information associated with it, contact us at info@goglobal-catalyst.com
• If you would like to request that we delete your Application Information but otherwise maintain your GGC account, contact us at info@goglobal-catalyst.com
• If you would like to request that we delete your WaaS Information but otherwise maintain your GGC account, contact us at info@goglobal-catalyst.com.

Account Update Requests:

• Please log in to your GGC account to change or correct your Personal Information. If you need help, contact us at info@goglobal-catalyst.com
• With respect to Application Information, before you submit your application, you can update your Application Information by logging in and editing your application directly.
• If you need help updating your WaaS information, you can contact us at info@goglobal-catalyst.com

5. JAPAN PRIVACY RIGHTS

If you are in Japan, we process your personal information in accordance with the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI). Under the APPI, you have the right to:

• Request notification of the purpose of use of your personal information
• Request access to or a copy of your personal information
• Request correction, addition, or deletion of your personal information if it is inaccurate
• Request suspension of use or erasure of your personal information if it is handled in violation of applicable laws
• Request suspension of disclosure to third parties

To exercise these rights, or if you have any questions or concerns regarding our handling of your personal information under Japanese law, please contact us at info@goglobal-catalyst.com

We take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, loss, destruction, falsification, or leakage of personal information and comply with Japan’s legal requirements for cross-border data transfers.

Notice at Collection and Use of Personal Information

Information We Collect. Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the categories of personal information from or about you as identified in Personal Information We Collect and including:

• Identifiers and similar information, such as your name, address, date of birth, email address, online identifiers or other similar identifiers.
• Characteristics of Protected Classifications under certain federal or state laws, including gender, national origin, or marital status.
• Commercial information, including records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing histories or tendencies.
• Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information.
• Geolocation information, such as information about your location or the location of your device.
• Professional or employment-related information, including occupation, compensation, employer, and title.
• Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information.
• Internet or other electronic network activity information, including interactions with our website or use of certain online tools, and IP addresses; and
• Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile reflecting your preferences or similar information.

Our Use and Collection of Information. We may collect and use Personal Information from you for the purposes described above in How We Use Information and described below in Our Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information.

Sale or Sharing of Personal Information. We do not sell or share your Personal Information (as those terms are defined under the APPI).

How Long We Keep Information. How long we keep your Personal Information will vary depending on the type of personal data and our reasons for collecting it. The retention period will be determined by various criteria, including the purposes for which we are using it (as it will need to be kept for as long as is necessary for any of those purposes) and our legal obligations (as laws or regulations may set a minimum period for which we have to keep your personal data). In general, we will retain your Personal Information unless your account is deleted, or for as long as we require it to fulfill the business purposes for which it was collected, perform our contractual rights and obligations, or for periods required by our legal and regulatory obligations.

For more information about our privacy practices, please review our entire Privacy Policy.

Our Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information

The following disclosures are intended to provide additional information about (1) the categories of Personal Information we have collected in the preceding 12 months (as listed in Information We Collect), (2) the source of the Personal Information, (3) the business or commercial purposes for our collection of the Personal Information and (4) how we may disclose Personal Information for a business purpose. These disclosures do not limit our ability to use or disclose information as described in Sections 2 and 3. We do not sell or share your personal information (as those terms are defined under the APPI). We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of Japan Residents under 16 years old.

Category of Personal Information	Sources Of Personal Information	Business or Commercial Purpose for Collecting Personal Information	Disclosure of Personal Information
Identifiers and similar information	We collect this information directly from you.	We use this information for operational purposes, including for logging you into your account and granting you access to the Services, to provide you with the Services, to enforce our community norms and policies, to monitor the Site for security purposes, and in some cases, for password recovery requested by you.	We disclose this information to our Affiliates, and in some cases, to service providers, GGC-funded companies, and/or other users of the Services.
Characteristics of Protected Classifications	We collect this information directly from you.	We use this information as directed by you and in some cases, to compile and publish aggregated statistics.	We disclose this information to our Affiliates, and in some cases, to GGC-funded companies, and/or other users of the Services.
Commercial information	We collect this information from you directly when you sign up for the Services, and from your interactions with the Services.	We use this information to provide you with the Services and to improve the Services.	We disclose this information to our Affiliates and analytics providers.
Geolocation information	We collect this information directly from you through your interactions with the Services.	We use this information for analytics purposes, regulatory compliance, and in some cases, for moderation and prevention of fraud and malicious activity by users of our Services.	We disclose this information to our Affiliates and analytics providers.
Professional or employment-related information	We collect this information directly from you.	We use this information to provide you with the Services	We disclose this information to our Affiliates, and in some cases, to GGC-funded companies, and/or other users of the Services.
Education information	We collect this information directly from you.	We use this information to provide you with the Services.	We disclose this information to our Affiliates, and in some cases, to GGC-funded companies, and/or other users of the Services.
Internet or other electronic network activity information	We collect this information directly from you through your interactions with the Services.	We use this information to improve the Services, for analytics, and in some cases, for moderation and prevention of fraud and malicious activity by users of our Services.	We disclose this information to our Affiliates and analytics providers.
Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above	We collect this information directly from you through your interactions with the Services.	We use this information to improve and personalize the Services.	We disclose this information to our Affiliates.

In addition, in the preceding 12 months, we may have disclosed all of the categories of Personal Information identified in Information We Collect above to the following categories of third parties: (i) judicial courts, regulators, or other government agents purporting to have jurisdiction over us, our subsidiaries or our Affiliates, or opposing counsel and parties to litigation; and (ii) other third parties as may otherwise be permitted by law. We may disclose the categories of Personal Information identified in Information We Collect for the business or commercial purposes identified above in How We Use Information. Additionally, we may disclose your Personal Information to third parties upon your request, at your direction, or with your consent.

We may also disclose your Personal Information or otherwise make it available to our service providers, other entities that have agreed to limitations on the use of your Personal Information, or entities that fit within other exemptions or exceptions in, or as otherwise permitted by, the APPI.

Japan Resident's Privacy Rights

To the extent provided for by law and subject to applicable exceptions, Japan residents may have the following privacy rights in relation to the Personal Information we collect, including the right to:

• Be informed, at or before the point of collection, of the categories of Personal Information to be collected, and the purposes for which the categories of Personal Information shall be used.
• Know what Personal Information we have collected and how we have used and disclosed that Personal Information (“Request to Know”);
• Request deletion of your Personal Information, subject to certain exemptions (“Request to Delete”);
• Opt-out of the “sale” (as that term is defined in the APPI) of your personal information if a business sells your Personal Information (we do not);
• Opt-out of the “sharing” (as that term is defined in the APPI) of your Personal Information if a business shares your Personal Information with third parties (we do not);
• Limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information where required by the APPI (“Right to Limit”) (please note that we are not using your sensitive personal information for purposes that would require that we provide you with a Right to Limit);
• Correct inaccurate Personal Information (“Request to Correct”); and
• Be free from discrimination relating to the exercise of any of your privacy rights.

The APPI does not restrict our ability to do certain things like comply with other laws or comply with regulatory investigations. We also reserve the right to retain, and not to delete, certain Personal Information after receipt of a Request to Delete from you here permitted by the APPI or another law or regulation.

Verification. To protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access or deletion, we may require you to verify your login credentials before you can submit a Consumer Rights Request. In verifying your request, we may ask you to provide additional Personal Information and proof of residency for verification. Such information may include, at a minimum, depending on the sensitivity of the information you are requesting and the type of request you are making, your name and email address. Any information gathered as part of the verification process will be used for verification purposes only. If we cannot verify your identity, we will not provide, delete or correct your Personal Information.

Authorized Agents. You may submit a Consumer Rights Request through an authorized agent. If you do so, the agent must present signed written permission to act on your behalf and you may also be required to independently verify your identity and submit proof of your residency with us.

Shine the Light Disclosures. Japan law requires us to inform Japan residents who have provided us with personal information that they may request information from us about our disclosures to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To request this information, please contact us at info@goglobal-catalyst.com.