Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how Forge Europe (“Forge Europe”, “we”, “us”) collects, uses, shares and protects personal information when you visit forgeurope.com, use the Forge Europe marketplace, or otherwise interact with our products and services (together, the “Services”).
1. Information we collect
- Information you provide — name, email address, phone number, postal address, date of birth, government identification, accreditation and suitability information, trading account details, documents you upload, and any correspondence you send us.
- Transaction information — indications of interest, bids and asks, counter offers, trades and offering participations you submit through the marketplace.
- Automatically collected information — device and browser characteristics, IP address, pages viewed, referral URLs and usage data, collected through cookies and similar technologies that keep you signed in and help us improve the Services.
2. How we use information
- To provide, operate and improve the Services, including matching buyers and sellers of private-company securities.
- To verify your identity and accreditation status and to meet our legal and regulatory obligations, including anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer requirements.
- To communicate with you about your account, transactions, and — where you have opted in — market updates and new opportunities.
- To monitor, detect and prevent fraud, abuse and security incidents.
3. How we share information
We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with: counterparties and their advisers to the extent necessary to progress a transaction you have entered into; service providers who process data on our behalf under contract (identity verification, cloud hosting, e-signature, communications); our brokerage and advisory affiliates; and courts, regulators or law-enforcement bodies where required by law.
4. International transfers
We operate in the European Union and work with service providers in other jurisdictions. Where personal data is transferred outside the EEA or the UK, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as adequacy decisions or standard contractual clauses.
5. Data retention
We keep personal information for as long as your account is active and thereafter as needed to comply with our legal obligations (financial-services records are typically retained for at least five years), resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
6. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or port your personal information, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to withdraw consent at any time. You can exercise these rights by contacting us at support@forgeurope.com. You also have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority.
7. Security
We use administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information, including encryption in transit, access controls and audit logging. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
8. Cookies
We use strictly necessary cookies to keep you signed in across our domains and preference cookies to remember settings such as your theme. You can control cookies through your browser settings; disabling them may limit parts of the Services.
9. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the revised version on this page and update the “Last updated” date above; material changes will be notified to you directly.
10. Contact us
Forge Europe — Data Protection
support@forgeurope.com