Privacy Policy

Last updated: (27.7.22)

Property Venture® (“the Company”, “us”, “we”, or “our”), operates the website https://property-venture.com

We may change or add to this privacy notice, so we encourage you to come back and read it periodically. Property Venture® is the data controller that resides at 1 Park Road, Hampton Wick, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 4AS

This privacy notice governs the website Property Venture® informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. Your privacy is very important to us.

We use your data to provide and improve our site. By using the site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Please note Property Venture® is a trading name of Business Venture Ltd which is the registered entity at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)

DATA WE COLLECT

While using our site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personal data that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personal Data may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

For clients who work with the company, or potential clients, we may also collect further, voluntary information to enable us to provide our service in an optimised manner. Some data collected from clients may include:

Sensitive Information
Goals and Aspirations
Business Details
Health Related Information

Information Collected Automatically

Like many websites, we and our service providers, such as Facebook, use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to receive and store certain types of information when you interact with us through your computer or mobile device. Using these technologies helps us recognise you, customise your experience and make relevant marketing messages. Here are some of the types of information we collect:

Log & Device data. When you visit our site, we may automatically record information (“log data”), including information that your browser sends whenever you visit our site. This log data may include your web address you came from or are going to, your device model, operating system, browser type, unique device identifier, IP address, mobile network carrier, and time zone or location.

Cookie data. We may use “cookies” (a small text file sent by your computer each time you visit our site) or similar technologies to record log data. When we use cookies, we may use “session” cookies (that last until you close your browser) or “persistent” cookies (that last until you or your browser delete them). To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from us if your computer supports such capabilities. You can opt out of receiving emails from us. Please see the Your Choices section below.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use information that we collect about you to:

Provide our Products and Services. We will use your information to provide our products and services to you
Understand and improve our products and services. We will perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products, services, or content, or products, services or content offered by others. We do this to help make our products better and to develop new products.
Communicate with you. We may send you emails about new product or service features or other news about us or on topics we think would be relevant to you. You may opt out of these at any time. Visit the Your Choices section below.
Responding to your requests. We will also use your information to respond to your questions or comments.

We may contact you to inform you about changes in our services, our service offering and other important service-related notices such as changes to the privacy policy or about security or fraud notices.

We may develop and display content and advertising tailored to your interests on our products and services on our site and on other sites.

We also may use your information to manage our business or perform functions as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.

Sharing and Disclosure

We do not share your personal information with others except as indicated within this policy or when we inform you and give you an opportunity to opt out of having your personal information shared.

We will share your information in the following ways

With third party service providers, agents, or contractors. We use other companies, agents or contractors (“Service Providers”) to perform services on our behalf or to assist us with providing services to you. For example, we may engage Service Providers to process credit card transactions or other payment methods. Or, we may engage Service Providers to provide services such as marketing, advertising, communications, infrastructure and IT services, to provide customer service, to collect debts, and to analyse and enhance data (including data about users’ interactions with our service). These Service Providers may have access to your personal or other information in order to provide these functions. In addition, some of the information we request may be collected by third party providers on our behalf. We do not authorise them to use or disclose your personal information except in connection with providing their services.

Analytics: Specifically for analytics providers, we use Google Analytics which is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.

Advertising:

We may use third-party Service Providers to show advertisements, which may include targeted advertisements on a third party site after you have visited our website. We and the third party service providers use cookies to inform, optimise, measure performance serve ads based on your previous visits to our site.

Please note at this time, we do not recognise automated browser signals regarding tracking mechanisms, which may include “do not track” instructions.

We work with Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service or other websites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

Facebook: You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/516147308587266/

To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

To see more about Facebook’s participation in the Digital Advertising Alliance please visit the Choices section of this notice.

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

Payment Providers: We may provide paid products and/or services within the site. When we do, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors). We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their own privacy notice. The payment processors we work with adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The payment processors we work with are:

Stripe – Please view their privacy policy here

Paypal – Please view their privacy policy here

To comply with legal process or to protect Property Venture® If we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal or governmental request; to enforce applicable terms of use, including investigation of potential violations thereof; to protect the safety, rights, or property of the public, any person, or Property Venture® as required by law; or to detect, prevent, or otherwise address, security or technical issues or illegal or suspected illegal activities (including fraud).

Business Transfers.

We may engage in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganisation, or similar transaction or proceeding that involves the transfer of the information described in this Policy. In such transitions, customer information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. In the unlikely event that we or substantially all of our assets are acquired or enter a court proceeding, you acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that your personal information can continue to be used as set forth in this privacy policy.

Links to Other Sites

We may have links on our site to other sites that we do not operate. If you click on a third party link, you will be taken directly to that site which is governed by its own privacy notice. We strongly encourage you to read that privacy notice. We do not control that site and assume no responsibility for the content, policies or its practices.

Retention

Property Venture® will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Property Venture® will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Choices and Individual Rights:

We aim to take reasonable steps so you can correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.

You have the following choices:

E-mail. As described above, if you do not wish to receive promotional e-mails from us, you may opt out at any time.
Your browser’s help function should contain instructions on how to set your computer to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is issued, or to not receive cookies at any time.
You can opt out of online targeted advertising by opting out within the advertisement itself or by visiting Digital Advertising Alliance, http://www.aboutads.info/, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada http://youradchoices.ca/ or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/. You can also opt out of the Digital Advertising Alliance using your mobile device settings.

Your rights under certain circumstances:

To access and receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you.

To rectify any Personal Data held about you that is inaccurate

To request the deletion of Personal Data held about you

You have the right to data portability for the information you have provided to us. You can request to obtain a copy of this information in a commonly used electronic format so that you can manage and move it. We will need to verify your identity before being able to respond to such requests. Please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Security

We believe we use reasonable administrative, logical, physical and managerial measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and unauthorised access, use and modification. Unfortunately, no measures can be guaranteed to provide 100% security. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the security of your information.

Our policy on children’s information

Our site is not directed to children under 16. If you learn that your minor child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us.

Changes to the Policy

We may change this policy from time to time, and if we do make changes, we’ll post any changes on this page. If you continue to visit our site after those changes are in effect, you agree to the revised policy. If the changes are significant, we may provide more prominent notice or get your consent on the new policy.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions or comments about this policy, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Cookies Policy

Last updated: 27.7.22

Property Venture® (“us”, “we”, or “our”) uses cookies on the Website https://property-venture.com (the “Service”). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies.

Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

What are cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognise you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you.

Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

How Property Venture® uses cookies

When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

To enable certain functions of the Service
To provide analytics

We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service:

Essential cookies. We may use cookies to remember information that changes the way the Service behaves or looks, such as a user’s language preference on the Service.
Analytics cookies. We may use analytics cookies to track information how the Service is used so that we can make improvements. We may also use analytics cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features or new functionality of the Service to see how our users react to them.

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.

What are your choices regarding cookies?

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

For the Chrome web browser, please visit this page from Google: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
For the Internet Explorer web browser, please visit this page from Microsoft: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
For the Firefox web browser, please visit this page from Mozilla: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
For the Safari web browser, please visit this page from Apple: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201265
For any other web browser, please visit your web browser’s official web pages.

Where can you find more information about cookies?

You can learn more about cookies and the following third-party websites:

AllAboutCookies: https://www.allaboutcookies.org/
Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/

Disclaimer:

This policy may be changed at any time at Property Venture®‘s discretion. If we should update this policy, we will post the updates to this page on our Website.

This policy was last updated: 27.7.22

If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy please direct them to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Property Venture® does not send “spam” nor send marketing and sales communications that are excessive, intrusive or unreasonable. For those individuals wishing to no longer benefit from this service they can easily and simply unsubscribe at the bottom of any mailer. There has always been the facility to opt-out at any time at the bottom of regular group e-mails, should you no longer wish to be in contact.

NB: Please note Property Venture® is a trading name of Business Venture Ltd and registration is in the name of the Limited Company

Property Venture^®is a trading name of Business Venture Ltd
Company no. 06343172 . Registered in England & Wales
Registered Office: 1 Park Road . Hampton Wick . Kingston Upon Thames . KT1 4AS

As a registered company at the Information Commissioners Office (ICO), we comply with Data Protection Regulations and GDPR. This is an overview of how we treat client and potential client data.

How we process your data

The following is a broad description of the way Property Venture® processes personal information. To understand how your own personal information is processed you may need to refer to any personal communications you have received, which takes into account your personal circumstances.

Our Reasons or purpose for processing information

We process personal information to enable us to provide property services to our clients; promote the services we offer; maintaining our own accounts and records; support and manage our employees and associates. We also comply with relevant legislation on Anti-Money Laundering Regulations (AML) and are also required to collect pertinent information as part of knowing our customers (or clients) and potential customers (or clients). There can be a legitimate interest in processing information in this way, in order to comply with statuory regulation and legal requirements.

Type of information processed

We process information relevant to the way we run our business. This may include:
• personal details
• family details
• lifestyle and social circumstances
• employment and education details
• financial details
• goods and services provided

Who the information is processed about

We process personal information about:

• clients
• suppliers and associates
• advisers and professional consultants
• enquirers
• employees

Who the information may be shared with

We sometimes need to share the personal information we process with the individual themself and also with other agents and other organisations. Where this is necessary we are required to comply with all aspects of the Data Protection Act (DPA). What follows is a description of the types of organisations we may need to share some of the personal information we process with for one or more reasons.

Where necessary or required we share information with:
• suppliers and service providers
• family, associates and representatives of the person whose personal data we are processing
• financial organisations
• credit reference agencies
• debt collection and tracing agencies
• business associates and other professional advisers
• central and local government
• police forces

The right to erasure

Under Article 17 of the GDPR individuals have the right to have personal data erased. This is also known as the ‘right to be forgotten’. The right is not absolute and only applies in certain circumstances.

Individuals have the right to have their personal data erased if:

• the personal data is no longer necessary for the purpose which it was originally collected or processed for

• the individual withdraws their consent

• there is no overriding legitimate interest to continue this processing

Our mailing database policy

We offer an opted-in subscriber e-mail monthly service (Property E-Insights Mailer). This service is based on consent.

How we got your data

If you receive regular emails from Property Venture® it is because at some point in the past 10 years or more you signed up on a page on my website, or requested to receive a free resource, or requested a regular updating mailing from Property Venture®. This could have been a downloadable Property Investment Guide, a webinar, a seminar, or a product-specific promotion and you have not opted-out or unsubscribed since.

We did not get your data by purchasing it from a third party, or by downloading your contact information from a social media platform.

What we do with your data
We use your data to inform you about:

Free blogs, articles, videos, webinars containing valuable specialist advice
Regular updates on property investments in and around Europe.
Direct marketing communications and invitations to purchase products and services.
Suggestions for relevant, property-related third party providers where this a connection. This is usually on a one-on-one basis.
Invitations to register for events, training resources including online webinars, workshops, masterclasses and interviews.

Your details are not shared with, or sold to third parties (unless you want this to happen and request it for example to help you in your purchasing process or specific transaction). Property Venture® does not send “spam” nor send marketing and sales communications that are excessive, intrusive or unreasonable. For those individuals wishing to no longer benefit from this service they can easily and simply unsubscribe at the bottom of any mailer. There has always been the facility to opt-out at any time at the bottom of regular e-mails, should you no longer wish to be in contact.

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