Privacy Policy Last updated July 7, 2022
FRANCISCO PARTNERS MANAGEMENT, L.P.
Please read this Website Privacy Policy carefully and check this page frequently to review any changes to this Website Privacy Policy carefully, so that you are aware of any changes, as we reserve the right to amend this Website Privacy Policy from time to time. If you object to any of the policies or changes to this Website Privacy Policy, please stop accessing this Website.
Visitors that are residents of California should refer to our California Website Privacy Notice supplement below.
Visitors that are residents of the United Kingdom, the European Union or the European Economic Area should refer to our EU and UK Website Privacy Notice supplement below.
OUR COMMITMENT TO PRIVACY
Your privacy is important to Francisco Partners Management, L.P. and its affiliates (together, “our”, “us”, “we” or “Francisco Partners”). To better protect your privacy, we are providing information explaining our online information practices.
This Website Privacy Policy describes how we gather and use information from visitors of and through this website and investor reporting portals, as applicable (collectively, the “Website”) and applies solely to your interactions with us through our Website. We gather limited types of personal information through the Website, and the types of personal information we collect about you depends on the nature of your interaction with us. If you provide personal information to us through another means (e.g., as an employee or seeking employment, or as a client or investor in an offline context), you will receive a separate privacy notice and that notice will govern those information practices.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
We may collect various types of information from users of this Website. For example, knowing how users use our Website (e.g., tracking their movement through this Website) helps us improve its design and usefulness. As a result, our server collects general data pertaining to users, including the length of time spent on this Website, the pages accessed while visiting the Website, and Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses. Francisco Partners generally does not, however, collect any personally identifiable information such as names, home addresses or e-mail addresses from users of this Website, unless a user submits such information to us via our “Contact” page.
To the extent that you provide us with any personally identifiable information through, or in connection with, this Website, we may use such information for our business purposes, but will not disclose any personally identifiable information about you to anyone, except as permitted or required by law or regulation and to service providers. In providing personally identifiable information to us, you consent to our use of such personally identifiable information.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information and data via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we make an effort to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information or data transmitted to or through our Website; any transmission of information or data by you to or through this Website is at your sole risk.
CAPACITY
This Website is only intended for individuals who are at least 18 years of age. We do not knowingly encourage or solicit visitors to this Website who are under the age of 18 or knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18 without parental consent. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from an individual under the age of 18, we will delete that information.
COOKIES
We collect cookies relating to your use of this Website. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for further details.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns about this Website Privacy Policy, please contact [email protected].
EU AND UK WEBSITE PRIVACY NOTICE
FRANCISCO PARTNERS MANAGEMENT, L.P.
Your privacy is important to Francisco Partners Management, L.P. and its affiliates (together, “our”, “us”, “we” or “Francisco Partners”). To better protect your privacy, we are providing information explaining our online information practices.
This EU and UK Website Privacy Notice applies to the extent that EU and UK data protection laws (including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the GDPR as it forms part of the laws of England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (“UK GDPR”)) applies to the processing of your personal information, or to the extent you are a resident of the UK, the European Union or the European Economic Area. This EU and UK Website Privacy Notice describes how we gather and use information from visitors of and through this website and investor reporting portals, as applicable (collectively, the “Website”) and applies solely to your interactions with us through our Website and supersedes the Website Privacy Policy of Francisco Partners above with respect to EU and UK users, as applicable. Please read this EU and UK Website Privacy Notice carefully.
For the purposes of applicable EU and UK data protection laws, Francisco Partners will be a data controller of any personal information collected by us. If you have any questions regarding our use of your personal information, or this EU and UK Website Privacy Notice, please contact [email protected].
We rely on various legal bases under applicable data protection legislation in order to process your personal information (e.g., name, title, address, email, marital status, date of birth, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, financial data, username, password, etc.), including our legitimate interests, contractual necessity, and as required by law. We use the personal information we collect to operate our business and perform essential business operations and provide you with the services and products we offer. We do not collect any special categories of personal information about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership or information about your health or genetic or biometric data).
If we require your personal information due to a legal requirement or obligation or in order to perform a contract with you, we will make you aware of this at the time we collect your personal information, and the possible consequences of you failing to provide this personal information. Failure to provide this information means that we cannot provide our services or products to you. 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.
Further information about the legal bases under which we process your personal information is included in the section headed “Why We Use Your Personal Information”.
You do not need to take any action as a result of this EU and UK Website Privacy Notice, but you do have certain rights as described below in the section headed “Your Rights Under the EU and UK Privacy Laws”.
HOW WE OBTAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect your personal information when you decide to interact with us and we only collect the information necessary to carry out our business for the purposes set out below. You can provide us with personal information via email, post or telephone. We also collect information about you through automated technology.
WHY WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
To the extent that you provide us with any personal information, through, or in connection with, this Website (e.g., via telephone, email or post), we may use such information for the following purposes:
Purpose: To provide you with the services you have requested.
Legal Basis: Contractual necessity
Purpose: To keep a record of your relationship with us.
Legal Basis: Legitimate interest
Purpose: To verify your identity.
Legal Basis: Legal requirement
Purpose: To conduct due diligence activities in connection with an actual or prospective corporate transaction or investment with respect to which we are party to.
Legal Basis: Legitimate interest
Purpose: Fraud and abuse prevention.
Legal Basis: Legitimate interest
Purpose: Litigation management and conducting internal audits and investigations.
Legal Basis: Legitimate interest
Purpose: To correspond with you if you contact us via our Website.
Legal Basis: (Pre-)contractual necessity or Legitimate interest
Purpose: To provide you with further information and administer the recruitment process if you apply for (or are considering applying) for a job with us.
Legal Basis: (Pre-)contractual necessity or Legitimate interest
Purpose: To administer and protect our business and this Website and to improve its design and usefulness.
Legal Basis: Legitimate interest
No automated decision-making, including profiling, is used when processing your personal information.
DIRECT COMMUNICATIONS
We will send you direct communications where we have obtained your prior consent to keep you informed of our products and services in which you might be interested, or based on our legitimate business interests where we have an existing relationship with you and we wish to contact you about similar products or services in which you may be interested.
DISCLOSURE AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
The transmission of information and data via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information or data transmitted to or through our Website; any transmission of information or data by you to or through this Website is at your sole risk.
If collected, your personal information will be shared with and processed by our affiliates and certain service providers, as necessary, to fulfil the purposes set out in this EU and UK Website Privacy Notice, including professional advisors and data hosting providers. For further information about the safeguards/derogations used, please contact [email protected].
To the extent any personal information is transferred from a Francisco Partners entity or an affiliate within the EEA or to the UK to a Francisco Partners entity or an affiliate outside the EEA or to the UK or to Francisco Partners Consulting this transfer is legitimised and your personal information is adequately protected under the terms of the EU controller-to-controller model contract clauses (including, where appropriate, the International Data Transfer Addendum as approved by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office).
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law, or when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, request from a regulator, national security, for the purposes of public importance or any other legal or investigatory process involving us. Should we, or any of our affiliated entities, be the subject of a takeover, divestment or acquisition, we may disclose your personal information to the new owner of the relevant business and their advisors on the basis of our legitimate interest.
SECURITY AND RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We are committed to protecting the personal information you entrust to us. We adopt and seek to ensure the proper functioning of robust and appropriate technologies and policies, so the information we have about you is protected to the extent possible from unauthorized access and improper use. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality and security.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal information breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We will keep your personal information only for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this EU and UK Website Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required by law, regulation, or for legitimate business purposes. For further information about how long we will keep your personal information, please contact [email protected].
COOKIES
We collect cookies relating to your use of this Website. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for further details.
YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE EU AND UK PRIVACY LAWS
You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you, and there are a number of ways you can control the way in which and what information we store and process about you. To exercise these rights and controls, please contact [email protected].
- Access: You have the right to ask for a copy of the personal information that we hold about you free of charge, however we may charge a ‘reasonable fee’, if we think that your request is excessive, to help us cover the costs of locating the information you have requested.
- Correction: You may notify us of changes to your personal information if it is inaccurate or it needs to be updated.
- Deletion: If you think that we shouldn’t be holding or processing your personal information anymore, you may request that we delete it. Please note that this may not always be possible due to legal obligations.
- Restrictions on use: You may request that we stop processing your personal information (other than storing it), if: (i) you contest the accuracy of it (until the accuracy is verified); (ii) you believe the processing is against the law; (iii) you believe that we no longer need your data for the purposes for which it was collected, but you still need your data to establish or defend a legal claim; or (iv) you object to the processing, and we are verifying whether our legitimate grounds to process your personal information, override your own rights.
- Object: You have the right to object to processing, including: (i) for direct marketing; (ii) for research or statistical purposes; or (iii) where processing is based on legitimate interests.
- Portability: If you wish to transfer your personal information to another organisation (and certain conditions are satisfied), you may ask us to do so, and we will send it directly if we have the technical means.
- Withdrawal of Consent: If you previously gave us your consent (by a clear affirmative action) to allow us to process your personal information for a particular purpose, but you no longer wish to consent to us doing so, you can contact us to let us know that you withdraw that consent.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal information 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.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns about this EU and UK Website Privacy Notice, please contact [email protected].
COMPLAINTS
Should you wish to lodge a complaint with regards to how your personal information has been processed by us, please contact your local supervisory authority. A full list of EU supervisory authorities is available here. For UK-based data subjects, you can lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office whose details are available here.
CALIFORNIA WEBSITE PRIVACY NOTICE
FRANCISCO PARTNERS MANAGEMENT, L.P.
Your privacy is important to Francisco Partners Management, L.P. and its affiliates (together, “our”, “us”, “we” or “Francisco Partners”). To better protect your privacy, we are providing information explaining our online information practices.
This California Website Privacy Notice supplements the Website Privacy Policy above with respect to specific rights granted under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (as amended, the “CCPA”) to natural person California residents and provides information regarding how such California residents can exercise their rights under the CCPA. This California Privacy Policy is only relevant to you if you are a resident of California as determined in accordance with California law. Information required to be disclosed to California residents under the CCPA regarding the collection of their personal information that is not set forth in this California Privacy Policy is otherwise set forth in the Website Privacy Policy above.
WHAT DOES THIS WEBSITE PRIVACY NOTICE APPLY TO?
This California Website Privacy Notice describes how we gather and use information from visitors of and through this website and investor reporting portals, as applicable (collectively, the “Website”) and applies solely to your interactions with us through our Website. If you provide personal information to use through another means (e.g., as an employee or seeking employment or as a client or as an investor in an offline context) you will receive a separate privacy notice and that notice will govern those personal information practices.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?
The categories of personal information we have collected from individuals on this Website over the last twelve (12) months include the following:
- Identifiers, such as name, contact details, and address (including email address and Internet Protocol address);
- Other customer records, such as telephone number and personal information provided in connection with obtaining account access;
- Commercial information, such as account data;
- Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as information regarding your use of our Website (e.g., cookies, browsing history, and/or search history), as well as information you provide to us when you correspond with us in relation to inquiries.
HOW DO WE OBTAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
In connection with forming and operating our Website, we collect and maintain your personal information from the following sources:
- Information from your communications with us in connection with this Website, including any updates provided by you; and
- Information captured on our Website, including registration information, information provided through online forms and any information captured via cookies. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for further details.
We may combine personal information that you provide to us with information that we collect from, or about you from publicly available sources or from information we collect about you in offline contexts.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We will use your personal information for one or more of the following business purposes:
- To perform services for you.
- To improve our Website and the products and services that we offer and notify you about changes to our services.
- To respond to requests for information submitted by you through our Website.
- To keep a record of your relationship with us.
- To audit and verify the quality and effectiveness of our services and compliance.
- To detect security incidents and to protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
- To generally comply with U.S., state, local, and non-U.S. laws, rules, and regulations.
Additionally, we may use your personal information to keep you informed of our products and services (e.g., investment opportunities), if you have provided your consent to us doing so, or where we have an existing relationship with you and we wish to contact you about products and services similar to those which we provide you, in which you may be interested. You may opt-in or opt-out of any such communications from us at any time, by contacting us or by clicking on the "opt-out" or "unsubscribe" link provided in our direct email communications.
WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH?
We do not sell any of the personal information we collect about you to third parties.
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information except as permitted or required by law, or to our affiliates and service providers such as, for example, our administrator, legal counsel, independent accountants, credit facility lenders, placement agent, compliance consultant and other advisors and agents. We may also disclose your information to other parties as may be required by law or regulation, or in response to regulatory inquiries.
Within the last twelve (12) months, we have shared each of the categories of personal information collected in connection with this Website with affiliates and service providers as set forth above in “What Information Do We Collect About You?”
HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE?
We are committed to protecting the personal information you entrust to us, and to that end we employ appropriate organizational, physical, technical, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information in our possession or under our control to the extent possible from unauthorized access and improper use.
YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE CCPA
- Deletion Rights: You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we retain, subject to certain statutory exceptions, including, but not limited to, our compliance with U.S., state, local, and non-U.S. laws, rules, and regulations. We will notify you in writing if we cannot comply with a specific request and provide an explanation of the reasons.
- Disclosure and Access Rights: You have the right to request that we disclose to you certain information regarding our collection and use of personal information specific to you over the last twelve (12) months. Such information includes:
o the categories of personal information we collected about you;
o the categories of sources from which the personal information was collected;
o our business or commercial purpose for collecting such personal information;
o the categories of third parties with whom we shared the personal information;
o the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you; and
o whether we disclosed your personal information to a third party, and, if yes, the categories of personal information that each recipient obtained. - Disclosure and Access Rights: If you think that we shouldn’t be holding or processing your personal information anymore, you may request that we delete it. Please note that this may not always be possible due to legal obligations.
- How to Exercise Your Rights: You may request that we stop processing your personal information (other than storing it), if: (i) you contest the accuracy of it (until the accuracy is verified); (ii) you believe the processing is against the law; (iii) you believe that we no longer need your data for the purposes for which it was collected, but you still need your data to establish or defend a legal claim; or (iv) you object to the processing, and we are verifying whether our legitimate grounds to process your personal information, override your own rights.
CONTACT US
For any requests relating to the exercise of your rights under the CCPA, or questions regarding our processing of your personal information, please submit or have an authorized representative submit a request using any of the methods set forth below.
Call us using the following toll-free number: (833) 418-3737
Email us at the following email address: [email protected]
We will contact you to confirm receipt of your request. We may also contact you to request additional information necessary to verify your request. We verify requests by matching information provided in connection with your request to information contained in our records. Depending on the sensitivity of the request and the varying levels of risk in responding to such requests, we may request further information from you in order to verify your identity or right to receive the information requested, including through a third party verification service. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf, provided certain additional requirements are satisfied, and we may verify such authorized person’s identity using the procedures above.
Our goal is to respond to any verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of our receipt of such request, but in certain cases, additional time might be required. Please contact the Chief Compliance Officer of Francisco Partners at the email address above with any questions about this California Website Privacy Notice.