Last Updated: December 20, 2024
This Privacy Policy explains how DueReady Collective ("DueReady," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, stores, protects, and shares your personal data when you use our website at dueready.com (the "Website"), our Readiness Assessment Tool, and our deal readiness services (collectively, the "Services").
We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal data in a transparent and lawful manner, in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
DueReady Collective is a deal readiness firm that provides specialized consulting and implementation services to startups, helping them prepare their financials, legal documentation, tech stack, and compliance for funding rounds, acquisitions, and enterprise deals.
Our registered address is 3rd Floor, 86-90, Paul Street, London, England, United Kingdom, EC2A 4NE.
We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) under registration number ZB924306.
We may collect and process various types of personal data, depending on how you interact with our Services:
Name, email address, phone number, company name, job title, startup stage, and message content.
Source: Directly from you via contact forms, inquiries, or assessment tool submissions.
Information about how you use our Website, including your IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this Website.
Source: Automatically collected via cookies and analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics).
All information and answers you provide when using our online Readiness Assessment Tool, which may include sensitive details about your startup's financial practices, legal setup, tech infrastructure, compliance status, business strategy, and personal/company information. This is stored locally in your browser and may be processed to generate customized results.
Source: Directly from you via the assessment tool with explicit consent.
If you become a client, we will collect and process highly sensitive personal and business data necessary to provide our deal readiness services. This may include:
Source: Directly from you, often via a secure Virtual Data Room (VDR).
For individuals who join our "Collective" as independent contractors/consultants, we collect professional profiles, contact details, payment information, vetting documentation (e.g., certifications, references), and project performance data.
Source: Directly from the individual.
Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
Source: Directly from you.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:
You provide data directly when you:
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 and other similar technologies.
We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources, such as analytics providers (e.g., Google Analytics), information providers (e.g., Crunchbase, PitchBook, LinkedIn).
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:
| Purpose of Processing | Type of Data Collected | Legal Basis for Processing |
|---|---|---|
| To provide and manage our Services | Identity & Contact Data, Client Project Data, Collective Member Data | Performance of a contract with you (or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract). |
| To respond to your inquiries and requests | Identity & Contact Data, Readiness Assessment Data | Our legitimate interests (to respond to queries, build relationships, and grow our business). |
| To process your Readiness Assessment submission | Identity & Contact Data, Readiness Assessment Data | Your consent (when you submit the assessment) and our legitimate interests (to provide you with tailored insights and potentially offer our services). |
| To process contact form submissions | Identity & Contact Data (name, email, company, startup stage, message content) | Your consent (provided when submitting the form) and our legitimate interests (to respond to inquiries and provide requested information). |
| To send you marketing communications | Identity & Contact Data, Marketing & Communication Data | Your consent (where required) or our legitimate interests (for existing clients, to inform them about relevant services). You can opt-out at any time. |
We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized 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.
We have 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.
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.
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 unauthorized 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.
We may share your personal data with the following parties for the purposes outlined in Section 4:
Specific expert consultants and contractors within the DueReady Collective who are assigned to your project, on a strict need-to-know basis, and subject to robust confidentiality and data processing agreements.
External providers who perform services on our behalf, such as:
Including lawyers, accountants, and insurers who provide consulting, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:
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.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data protection practices, please contact us at:
Email: hello@dueready.com
Postal Address: 3rd Floor, 86-90, Paul Street, London, England, United Kingdom, EC2A 4NE