Privacy Policy

VentureOut Inc. (“VentureOut”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) provides business valuation, exit-readiness, and advisory tools and services. We respect the privacy of the business owners and organizations who use them. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, why we collect it, how we use and protect it, who we share it with, and the choices and rights you have.

We handle personal information in accordance with applicable privacy laws, including Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), and Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL). Where we serve clients in the United States, we also comply with applicable U.S. state privacy laws that apply to us, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended), where applicable.

Information you provide including but not limited to: your name, email address, phone number, company name, role, location, and information about your business operations, financial performance, ownership structure, and readiness for sale that you enter into our surveys, tools, or assessments.

Technical information: IP address, browser and device information, cookies, and usage analytics.

We collect only the information reasonably needed for the purposes described in this Policy.

We use information that identifies you or your business to:

• deliver the reports, scores, and valuation estimates you request;
• provide the advisory, valuation, and related services you engage us for;
• respond to your inquiries and communicate with you about your account and results;
• verify accuracy, provide support, and maintain the security and integrity of our platform; and
• meet our legal, regulatory, tax, and contractual obligations.

We do not use your identifiable business financial files or personal information to train public or third-party artificial-intelligence or machine-learning models. Where our platform uses AI services (for example, to help generate written text within a report), those services are bound by confidentiality and data-use restrictions and are not permitted to use your information to train their models.

We may create de-identified and aggregated data from the information we collect — that is, data from which you and your business cannot reasonably be re-identified. We may use this de-identified and aggregated data for research, benchmarking, product development, or to improve the accuracy of our tools and methodologies, including to develop our own benchmarking datasets over time, which may be licensed to third parties. De-identified and aggregated data is not personal information and is not subject to the restrictions in this Policy that apply to personal information.

We use trusted third-party service providers — including cloud hosting, storage, analytics, communication, and AI-text providers — to help operate our business. These providers are permitted to use your information only to provide services to us and are bound by confidentiality and data-protection obligations.

Some of our service providers are located in the United States or other countries outside Canada. This means your information may be stored or processed outside Canada and may be accessible to courts, law enforcement, and regulatory authorities in those jurisdictions. If you have questions about our use of foreign-based service providers, including the purposes for which they process information, please contact us.

We do not sell your personal information. We share personal information only:

• with the service providers described above;
• with your consent or at your direction (for example, when you share a report with your advisors, a lender, or a prospective buyer);
• where required by law, regulation, or legal process, or to protect our rights; and
• in connection with a business transaction such as a merger or sale, subject to appropriate confidentiality protections.

We keep personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Policy or as required by law. You may request deletion of your personal information at any time. We will delete it, except where we are required to retain specific information to meet a legal, regulatory, or existing contractual obligation — in which case we will delete the remainder and retain only what is required, for only as long as it is required. De-identified and aggregated data may be retained.

With your consent, we may send you educational materials, updates and marketing communications. You may withdraw this consent or unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link in our messages or by contacting us.

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information, and may withdraw consent (subject to legal or contractual restrictions), by contacting us. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request, and we will respond within the timeframes required by applicable law.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect information against unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. No electronic transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be perfectly secure. If a privacy breach occurs that poses a real risk of significant harm, we will notify affected individuals and the applicable regulator(s) as required by law.

We use cookies and similar technologies to operate our website, remember preferences, and understand how our site is used. You can control cookies through your browser settings; disabling some cookies may affect functionality.

We may update this Policy from time to time. If we make a material change to how we use personal information, we will provide notice (for example, by email or a prominent notice on our website) and, where required by law, obtain your consent before the change applies to you. The Effective Date above shows when this version took effect.

VentureOut Inc. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Email: info@getventureout.com