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          SOUTH EAST ANGELS.

          Brighton's #1 Business Angel Investor Network

           

        • Why we exist.

          Our prime objective is to invest in SEIS/EIS qualified companies with the purpose of achieving successful growth for the businesses over five years or until exit. Such investments will normally require the raising of finance varying from £10k to £500k from our members with the potential of being offered a board seat at the company.

           

          South East Angels bring together high-net-worth individuals based in Brighton and surrounding areas. Our members have a track record as successful entrepreneurs themselves in various industries or have been heavily involved in the startup world for a number of years.

          Make money investing in SEIS/EIS qualified startups with high capacity for scale.

          Get the nitty-gritty taken care of: deal sourcing, due diligence, negotiation, and support

          Invest as a group, collaborate with local investors, and enjoy the social aspect of investing.

          Support the growth of innovative startups in the South East and mentor new founders.

        • What we do for our members.

          We make investing in startups a fun adventure.

          1. Identify globally ambitious entrepreneurs solving real problems with innovative tech or disruptive products. We look for credible teams that have gained traction and have high scalability potential. 
             
          2. Add value to your opportunities through hands-on support and partnerships with key stakeholders across the South East with incubators, accelerators, universities, and industry experts. 
             
          3. Organise socials at beautiful local venues with delicious food and great company so you can discover new investment opportunities, grow your network, and have a good time too.
           
          Interested in becoming a member?
          Please send an email to kristina@southeastangels.co.uk to arrange a conversation or complete our member enquiry form.

        • Who we are.

          South East Angels was founded by Kristina Pereckaite, backed by serial entrepreneurs and investors, with the aim of filling the funding gap for startups in Brighton. We are deeply connected in the UKs South East startup ecosystem and passionate about seeing ambitious individuals, exciting innovations, and great cities flourish.

           

           

           

          Kristina Pereckaite

          Founder & Managing Director

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          Kristina specialises in getting entrepreneurs investment ready and developing business models for scale. Prior to South East Angels, Kristina managed Brighton’s largest entrepreneur Accelerator, worked in investment & tax advisory for High Net Worth individuals, and has an extensive background in marketing & consultancy.

        • ADVISORY BOARD

          Alex Cowell

          Advisor

          NED, Wired Sussex

          Arjo Ghosh

          Advisor

          Entrepreneur & Investor

          Rob Clare

          Advisor

          Partner, Innovation Capital

          Claire James

          Advisor

          MD, Pivotal Moment

          Lindsay Willott

          Advisor

          CEO, Customer Thermometer

          Sara Osterholzer

          Advisor

          Founder, The Good Business Club

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          1. Introduction
          
          2. Welcome to South East Angel’s privacy notice.
          
          3. South East Angels respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
          
          4. Important information and who we are
          
          5. Purpose of this privacy notice
          
          6. This privacy notice aims to give you information on how South East Angels collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up to our newsletters, enrol on one of our programmes or sign up to attend one of the events that we organise.
          
          7. This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
          
          8. It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
          
          9. Controller
          
          11. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights please contact us using the details set out below.
          
          12. Contact details
          
          13. Our full details are:
          
          14. Full name of legal entity: South East Angels 
          
          15. Email address: hello@southeastangels.com
          
          17. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
          
          18. Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes
          
          19. The data protection law in the UK will change on 25 May 2018. Although this privacy notice sets out most of your rights under the new laws, we may not yet be able to respond to some of your requests (for example, a request for the transfer of your personal data) until May 2018 as we are still working towards getting our systems ready for some of these changes.
          
          20. 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.
          
          21. Third-party links
          
          22. 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 notice of every website you visit.
          
          23. The data we collect about you
          
          24. 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).
          
          25. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:
          
          Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
          Contact Data includes email address and telephone numbers.
          Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
          Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and services.
          Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
          We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
          
          We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
          
          26. If you fail to provide personal data
          
          Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
          
          27. How is your personal data collected?
          
          28. We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
          
          Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
          register to use our site
          subscribe to our services, newsletters  or publications;
          download content such as reports;
          enrol on a programme
          sign up to attend an event that we are organising;
          request marketing to be sent to you;
          take part in any discussion forums that we host; or
          give us some feedback.
          Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. 
          
          Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties, including those set out below:
          
          (a) analytics providers such as Google;
          
          (b) event booking platforms such  as Eventbrite
          
          (c) other third parties such as, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, search information providers, credit reference agencies
          
          29. How we use your personal data
          
          30. We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
          
          Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
          Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
          Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
          31. See below to find out more about the types of lawful basis that we will rely on to process your personal data.
          
          32. Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
          
          33. Purposes for which we will use your personal data
          
          34. We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
          
          35. Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
          
          Purpose/Activity	Type of data	Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
          To register you as a new customer as part of your enrolment on a programme or your signing up to attend an event	(a) Identity
          (b) Contact	Performance of a contract with you
          To deliver information, reports, newsletters and programmes that you have signed up to receive	(a) Identity
          (b) Contact
          (c) Marketing and Communications	(a) Performance of a contract with you
          (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests
          To manage our relationship with you which will include: (a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy (b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey	(a) Identity
          (b) Contact
          (c) Marketing and Communications	(a) Performance of a contract with you
          (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
          (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our services)
          To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) 	(a) Identity
          (b) Contact
          (c) Technical	(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
          (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
          To use data analytics to improve our website, programmes, services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences	(a) Technical
          (b) Usage	Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our programmes, events and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
          To make suggestions and recommendations to you about programmes, events or services that may be of interest to you	(a) Identity
          (b) Contact
          (c) Technical
          (d) Usage	Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our services and grow our business)
          36. Marketing
          
          37. We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We have established the following personal data control mechanisms:
          
          38. Promotional offers from us
          
          39. We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical and Usage 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).
          
          40. You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased or received services from us (including enrolling on a programme or attending an event) and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
          
          41. Third-party marketing
          
          We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside the South East Angels of companies for marketing purposes.
          
          42. Opting out
          
          43. You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.
          
          44. Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of enrolling onto a programme.
          
          45. Cookies
          
          46. 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. 
          
          47. Change of purpose
          
          48. 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.
          
          49. 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.
          
          50. 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.
          
          51. Disclosures of your personal data
          
          52. We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.
          
          Companies in the South East Angels  
          Marketing platforms such as Salesforce
          Event booking platforms such as Eventbrite
          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 notice.
          53. 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.
          
          54. International transfers
          
          55. We share your personal data within the South East Angels  . This may involve transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
          
          56. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
          
          We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission. For further details, see European Commission: Adequacy of the protection of personal data in non-EU countries.
          Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.  
          Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the US. For further details, see European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.
          57. Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.
          
          58. Data security
          
          59. 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.
          
          60. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
          
          61. Data retention
          
          62. How long will you use my personal data for?
          
          63. We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
          
          64. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
          
          65. In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see the YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS section below for further information.
          
          66. In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
          
          67. Your legal rights
          
          68. Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. Please read the section called YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS below to find out more about these rights
          
          69. If you wish to exercise any of your legal rights, please contact us
          
          70. No fee usually required
          
          71. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
          
          72. What we may need from you
          
          73. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
          
          74. Time limit to respond
          
          75. We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
          
          76. Glossary
          
          77. LAWFUL BASIS
          
          78. Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us
          
          79. Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
          
          80. Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.
          
          81. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
          
          82. You have the right to:
          
          Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
          Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
          Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
          Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
          Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
          Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
          Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
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