Privacy Policy

Welcome to BRATTE (“BRATTE” or “company” or “we” or “us” or “ours”), a Startup Studio aiming at finding, validating and funding high-potential ideas. 

We believe that the privacy and security of our consumers’ information are of vital importance. For this reason, we administer policies safeguarding your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how BRATTE and some of the companies we work and/or cooperate with collect, store, use, transfer, disclose and protect information and/or personal data from our consumers (“you”) in relation to the services we are offering (“services”) as well as your choices about the collection and use of your information. 

Data We Collect from You

Personal Data you provide us include (i) Full Name; (ii) Email Address; (iii) Your emails and/or the context of your emails to us and/or email exchange correspondence between us; (iv) Other data/information you choose to give us (such as data/information of your works/ideas).

How We Use Your Personal Data 

Generally, we will not process Personal Data and any Information provided to us in a way that is incompatible with the purposes for which it has been collected or subsequently authorized by you or collect any Personal or other Data (“Data”) that is not required for the mentioned purposes (‘purpose limitation principle’). For this reason, we collect only such amount and type of Data that is strictly required for the performance of our Services (‘data minimization principle’).

Consent

I.               WE MAY STORE AND PROCESS THE DATA YOU PROVIDE US WITH SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING SERVICES TO YOU. 

II.             WE WILL NOT TRANSMIT ANY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA TO THIRD PARTIES, UNLESS IT IS NECESSARY FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF THE SERVICES AND UPON YOUR PRIOR EXPLICIT CONSENT. 

Your Rights

ü  You are able to modify, correct, erase and update your Data by writing us at hello@bratte.com;

ü  You have the right to access and update your Data and ask us about what kind of Data we have about you (including in a structured and portable form). You can do this by writing us at hello@bratte.com;

ü  Individuals residing in the countries of the European Union have certain statutory rights in relation to their personal data introduced by the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). Subject to any exemptions provided by law, you may have the right to request access to data (including in a structures and portable form), as well as to seek to update, delete or correct Data. You can do this by writing us at hello@bratte.com;

ü  You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of your Data that you submit to BRATTE. If you believe that your data is inaccurate, you have the right to contact us and ask us to correct them. You shall also have the right to object to the processing of your Data, if you contest the accuracy of the Data we keep, provided that a reasonable time is needed in order to verify its accuracy;

ü  You have the right to have your personal data erased for any reason and at any time by contacting us at hello@bratte.com;

ü  You can object to the processing of your data by simply write us at hello@bratte.com;

ü  We commit to promptly notify you and your data protection authority within the timeframe specified in applicable law (72 hours) about any personal data breaches;

ü  Subject to GDPR, you also have the right to (i) restrict our use of Personal Data and (ii) lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority about any of our activities that you deem are not compliant with GDPR.  

BE AWARE THAT:

(i)             by exercising any of your above-mentioned rights, you may affect the performance of our Services to you;

(ii)           in case of a vague access, erasure, objection request or any other request in exercise of the mentioned rights we may engage you in a dialogue so as to better understand the motivation for the request and to locate responsive information. In case this is impossible, we reserve the right to refuse granting your request;

(iii)         following the provisions of GDPR we might also require you to prove your identity (i.e. by requesting an ID/Passport or other proof such as utility bills) in order for you to invoke the mentioned rights. This is made to ensure that no right of third parties are violated by your request, and the mentioned rights are exercised by an actual Personal Data subject or an authorized person;

(iv)          we will grant any request you might have within 30 days after receiving it. However, if BRATTE cannot identify you, you may be requested to provide additional information necessary to confirm your identity as described above; and

(v)           we do not delete server back-ups that may include your deleted account Data but we can ensure that we do not use the data within the backup for any other purpose. In case of server breakdown and restoring from back-up your deleted account Data, we will delete your data.

Sharing Your Personal Data

We will not rent or sell your Data to third parties outside BRATTE without your consent, except as Parties with whom we may share your information in accordance with this Policy.

Parties with whom we may share your aggregated Data:

We may share aggregated, anonymized or de-identified information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you, including our partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, research institutions or with third-party organizations that help us provide the Service to you (collectively, “Service Providers” or “Partners”). PLEASE BE AWARE THAT IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION MAY BE SHARED TO SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF RENDERING SERVICES AND UPON YOUR PRIOR EXPLICIT CONSENT. Our Service Providers will be given access to your Data as is reasonably and appropriately necessary to provide the Service under reasonable confidentiality and data protection terms. 

The parties we share your Data with, ensures that data privacy requirements are met. We also enter into standard contractual agreements (i.e. Data Processing Agreements, Data Sharing Agreements) and other contractual safeguards in order to protect your privacy and ensure that all transfers of your Data are safe and compliant with applicable laws. 

Special Circumstances, Responding to Legal Requirements and Preventing Harm:

We will not share any of your data to any third party except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy and in the following circumstances: (i) in response to subpoenas, court orders or legal processes, to the extent permitted and as restricted by law (including to meet national security or law enforcements requirements); (ii) when disclosure is required to maintain the security and integrity of the services, or to protect consumers’ security or the security of other persons, consistent with applicable laws; (iii) when disclosure is directed or consented to by the consumer who has input the Data; (iv) in the event that we go through a business transition, such as a merger, divestiture, acquisition, liquidation or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred. 

Data Retention 

We retain your data for as long as needed to provide you the Service. We will also retain your personal data as necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. 

Data Security

We take all reasonable and appropriate measures to protect all collected Data from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the nature of the Data we process. Among others, we utilize organizational and legal measures to protect your Data. For example, our employees and/or service providers have different levels of access to your Data and only those in charge of data management get access to your Data and only for limited purposes required for the operation of the Services. 

Employees’ Compliance:

We undertake appropriate measures to train and keep informed our employees in relation to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service of Personal Data of our consumers as well as the GDPR policy, and impose strict liability on them for any disclosures, unauthorized accesses, alterations, destructions, and misuses of your data. In order to further confirm compliance of our employees, we enter into a Bring Your Own Device Agreement (“BYOD”). Through the BYOD strategy, our employees can easily configure their devices and easily, but securely, access what information they need. Bearing in mind that some of the key points of the regulation include putting measures in place to protect sensitive personal information, ensuring that only those who need access to information have it. We therefore secure not only consumer data and communications on the employees’ device but we also retain and control consumer data if an employee leaves the business. 

PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT NO SECURITY SYSTEM IS PERFECT AND, AS SUCH, WE CANNOT GUARANTEE THAT YOUR INFORMATION WON’T BE INTERCEPTED WHILE BEING TRANSMITTED TO US. IF WE LEARN OF A SECURITY SYSTEM BREACH, WE MAY EITHER POST A NOTICE, OR ATTEMPT TO NOTIFY YOU BY EMAIL AND WILL TAKE REASONABLE STEPS TO REMEDY THE BREACH AS SPECIFIED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.  

Complaints and Dispute Resolutions

In compliance with the principles, we commit to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. Any inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Policy please contact us at hello@bratte.com or mailing address at:

BRATTE SERVICES LTD

Krinou 3, Oval building, office 902, Agios Athanasios, Limassol, Cyprus

If a dispute arises between you and BRATTE, we strongly encourage you to first contact us directly to seek a resolution. These terms shall be governed and construed by the law of Cyprus. All disputes arising in connection with the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service are subject to mandatory pre-trial settlement by the Parties and in case of failure to reach agreement during the pre-trial settlement of the dispute, the dispute will be subject to the courts of Cyprus.

Updates/Changes To Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to and may change these Terms of Service from time to time, with or without notifying you. We encourage you, and you are responsible to periodically review our website for the latest information on our data privacy practices. Your continued use of the services after the effective date of an updated version of the privacy policy will indicate your acceptance of the privacy policy as modified. If you do not accept the terms of the privacy policy, we ask that you inform us immediately. 

BY USING OUR SERVICES, YOU AGREE THAT YOU CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF SERVICE AND TO ANY CHANGES HERETO IN THE FUTURE. YOU AGREE THAT BRATTE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AT ANY TIME WITHOUT ANY GIVEN NOTICE AT ITS DISCRETION.