Your privacy is very important to Dimension Fund Management Oy. We are committed to protecting the privacy of our current and prospective clients and any other kind of business contact.
Through this Privacy Policy we aim to inform you about the types of personal data we collect, the purposes for which we use the data and the ways in which the data is handled. We also aim to comply with all requirements and obligations of transparency under the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR“) and national laws implementing GDPR.
For this Privacy Policy the controller of personal data is Dimension Fund Management Oy.
If you contact us by email, phone, through the submission of forms on our website, social media channels, or in person, we may retain the communication for records including any information included within it. We also make use of systems that collate publicly available information.
We may collect the following information from you:
You can be assured that information you provide voluntarily will only be used in connection with your business relationship with Dimension Fund Management Oy. We will hold, use and disclose your personally identifiable information for our legitimate business purposes including:
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research or, with your consent, to provide you with marketing information including as set out above we think would be of interest. At a minimum, we will always give you the choice to opt-out of receiving such direct marketing or market research contact.
We will not use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the uses described in this statement.
Under GDPR, the main grounds that we rely upon to process personal information of users of our websites, business contacts and clients are the following:
(a) Necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests – either we, or a third party, will need to process your personal data for the purposes of our (or a third party’s) legitimate interests, provided we have established that those interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms, including your right to have your personal data protected. Our legitimate interests include: responding to requests and enquiries from you or a third party; optimizing our website; enhancing the information we provide to you; creating and developing the services we provide to our clients; informing you about our products and services and ensuring that our operations are conducted in an appropriate and efficient manner;
(b) Necessary for compliance with a legal obligation – we are subject to certain legal requirements which may require us to process your personal data. We may also be obliged by law to disclose your personal data to a regulatory body or law enforcement agency;
(c) Necessary for entering into, or performing, a contract – in order to perform obligations that we undertake in providing a service to you, or in order to take steps at your request to enter into a contract with us, it will be necessary for us to process your personal data;
(d) Consent in some circumstances, we may ask for your consent to process your personal data in a particular way.
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. During our business, Dimension Fund Management Oy utilizes a number of service providers to store and process data. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, all information is securely stored with GDPR-compliant services.
i. Events and activities Sometimes we host events or activities in partnership with other organizations. In those cases, we may share your name and company name with them for the operations of the event or activity.
ii. Other Companies within our Group When you disclose your personal information to us we may share it with other companies in our Group of companies. We will share your personal information as above for any or all the following purposes:
iii. Third party service providers We may, from time to time, use trusted third-party service providers to help us ensure our business operations. We may, where necessary, share your personal information and, where necessary, your sensitive personal information with trusted third parties where we have retained them to provide services that you or our clients have requested, or which are required to enable us to maintain our records. We will not share any contact information with other organizations unless we have your explicit consent.
We will retain your personal information for the time necessary to provide the services we perform for you or stated by the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, and you can always request that we stop processing or delete your personal information. The next section sets out more information on your rights.
The GDPR ensures that the data subject has several rights and that the data subject can exercise these rights in many cases to govern the processing of their personal data. The extent of the data subject’s rights is subject to the legal basis provided for processing the relevant personal data, and the data subject must provide identification to exercise the said rights. Where we have reasonable doubts concerning the identity of the natural person making the request referred to below, we may request you to provide additional information that we require to confirm your identity.
You can use your rights by sending an email to team@dimensionpartners.vc
We do not engage in any kind of automated individual decision-making.
We do not process any personal data that is included in the special categories of personal data (i.e. personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, health data, etc.).
If you consider the way in which we process your personal data to be in breach of the applicable legislation, you may lodge a complaint with the national supervisory authority regarding our processing of your personal data. If you are in Finland, your local data protection authority is the Data Protection Ombudsman (Tietosuojavaltuutettu) (www.tietosuoja.fi).
If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, please feel free to contact team@dimensionpartners.vc
This Privacy Notice was updated in February 2023. We reserve the right to update and amend this Privacy Notice. Unless otherwise provided in mandatory applicable legislation, we may not personally notify the data subjects of any changes we make to this Privacy Notice. We kindly ask that you review this Privacy Notice from time to time for possible changes.
DVP invest in top quartile European funds that, have access to most promising teams and companies, have capability to add value, can recognize the next generation of future winners and invest sustainably. DVP is founded by its four partners, that have complementary backgrounds and end-to-end experience from VC investing as LPs, GPs, angel investors and founders.
We are a registered alternative investment fund manager (AIFM). We are supervised by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority.