As of October 2021
Creative Destruction Lab (“CDL”, “we”, or “us”) values and respects your privacy.
This privacy policy describes our personal information practices when you use our community portal, visit our website at creativedestructionlab.com (the “Website”), or otherwise contact or interact with us, including as participants in the CDL Program (as defined below) or investors and other partners. CDL is a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science- and technology-based ventures that employs an objectives-focused mentoring process with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation (the “Program”).
We collect and use personal information for the purposes identified below.
We do not sell, rent or disclose your personal information to third parties without your consent, except as described below or as required or permitted by applicable law.
We work with third parties such as ad networks and other advertising companies that use their own tracking technologies (including cookies and pixel tags) on our Website in order to provide you with tailored advertisements across the Internet. For more information on Interest-Based Advertising, Please see our Cookies and Interest-Based Advertising Policy.
We have implemented reasonable administrative, technical and physical measures in an effort to safeguard the personal information in our custody and control against theft, loss and unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure. We restrict access to personal information on a need-to-know basis to employees and authorized service providers who require access to fulfill their job requirements.
We have record retention processes designed to retain personal information for no longer than necessary for the purposes set out herein or as otherwise required to meet legal or business requirements.
As indicated above, if you have signed up to receive our email communications, you can unsubscribe any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link included at the bottom of the email. Alternatively, you can opt-out of receiving our marketing communications by contacting us at the contact information under “Contact Us” below.
Subject to limited exceptions under applicable law, you have the right to access, update and correct inaccuracies in your personal information in our custody and control. You may request access, updating and corrections of inaccuracies in your personal information in our custody or control by emailing or writing to us at the contact information set out below. We may request certain personal information for the purpose of verifying the identity of the individual seeking access to his or her personal information records.
When we process your personal data, we do so with your consent; to comply with applicable legal requirements; as necessary to pursue various legitimate interests (for example, processing applications to the CDL Program and/or facilitating registration to our CDL Sessions); and as necessary to further us entering into a contract with you (for example, processing and responding to applications for current and future career opportunities).
You may be entitled, in accordance with the applicable law, to object to or request the restriction of processing of your personal information, and to request access to, rectification, erasure and portability of your personal information. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your data protection authority. Where we use your personal information on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing conducted on the basis of the consent prior to its withdrawal. Where we process your personal information in furtherance of entering into a contract with you, you are not obliged to provide such personal information, however, failure to do so may not allow us to consider your application for current and future career opportunities with us.
As described in this privacy policy, we may transfer your personal information to third parties. Some of these third parties may be located in countries such as the United States, other than your own, whose privacy and data protection laws may not be equivalent to those in your country of residence. When we transfer your personal information to other countries, including the United States, we apply appropriate safeguards, to protect your personal information and comply with applicable laws, such as standard data protection contractual clauses, copies of which can be obtained from us upon request.
Where you provide us with information about, or on behalf of, any other individual or third party, it is your responsibility to ensure that they are made aware of this privacy notice.
We may update this privacy policy periodically to reflect changes to our privacy practices. We encourage you to periodically review this page to ensure you are familiar with those changes. We will indicate at the top of this privacy policy when it was most recently updated.
If you have any questions or comments about this privacy policy or the manner in which we or our service providers treat your personal information, or to request access to your personal information in our records, please contact our Privacy Officer at michael.rzadki@creativedestructionlab.com.