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This privacy notice (“Notice”) describes how Hg Capital LLP (a UK entity) and its related companies, including Hg entities in France (Hg France SAS), Germany (Hg Capital Verwaltungs GmbH, Hg Advisory GmbH & Co KG), Luxembourg (HgCapital (Luxembourg) S.a.r.l), Singapore (HgCapital Investments (Singapore) Pte. Ltd) and USA (Hg, Inc.), (“Hg” or “we” or “us” or “our”) collect, use and share personal data of individuals (“you”), both via this website, https://www.hgcapital.com and any other Hg website where this Notice is posted (the “Sites”), as well as through other sources as set out below, e.g. through recruitment exercises, attending events or our offices, through third party sources (e.g. via data brokers and/or via LinkedIn) and otherwise engaging with us.

We are the controller of personal data meaning we are the organization legally responsible for deciding how and for what purposes it is used. This Notice does not apply to websites that post different statements. This Notice does not apply to our processing of personal data regarding Hg personnel.

This Notice applies in addition to any relevant terms and conditions that may apply to the Sites and other privacy notices that may be provided to you. If you are an investor with Hg, or an investor-related party, please also refer to the data protection/privacy notice/s available in the Investor Portal and/or the applicable subscription document.

We maintain appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access, use, or disclosure of your personal data. While we seek to protect your information to ensure that it is kept confidential, we cannot absolutely guarantee that any information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our system or otherwise in our care, will be absolutely safe from intrusion by others, such as hackers.

Depending upon applicable law and the applicable circumstances, you have the right to:

(a) request us to provide access to personal data we hold about you;

(b) request us to rectify any inaccuracies in your personal data that we hold;

(c) request us to delete your personal data;

(d) where we process your personal data based on your consent, withdraw your consent so that we stop that particular processing;

(e) request us to port your personal data or to request the transmission of such data to another organization;

(f) object to processing of your personal data based on legitimate interests;

(g) object to processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including any profiling activities in connection with direct marketing); or

(h) request us to restrict how we process your personal data e.g. whilst a data protection complaint is being investigated.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, including if you wish to be removed from our marketing lists or change marketing preferences, please contact us using the details below or in the case of marketing, please use the unsubscribe link in the footer of all our marketing emails.

We endeavour to keep the personal data we store about you accurate. Please notify us if your personal details change or if you become aware of any inaccuracies in the personal data we hold about you.

You also have the right to make a complaint to applicable data supervisory authorities. Should you have a complaint or concern please allow us to deal with your concerns before you approach such authorities by contacting us in the first instance by emailing privacy@hgcapital.com .

In the UK, your local regulator is the Information Commissioner, whose website is available at https://ico.org.uk

In Germany, your local regulator is the Bavarian Data Protection Authority, whose website is available is https://www.lda.bayern.de

In France, your local regulator is Commission Nationale Informatique & Libertés, whose website is available at https://www.cnil.fr

In Luxembourg, your local regulator is Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données, whose website is available at https://cnpd.public.lu

In Singapore, your local regulator is Personal Data Protection Commission, whose website is available at https://www.pdpc.gov.sg/

If you are a resident of California, please refer to the U.S. State Supplement for more details as to our data processing.

We endeavour not to keep personal data in a form that allows an individual to be identified for any longer than is reasonably necessary for achieving permitted purposes. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the volume, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the personal data, the purposes for which we process personal data, whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal and/or regulatory requirements.

In relation to usage data collected about visitors to the Site, please see our Cookies Notice.