Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice describes how Obvious Management Services, L.L.C. (collectively, “Obvious” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects your personal information collected via its website. This Privacy Notice also tells you about your rights and choices with respect to such personal information, and how you can reach us to get answers to your questions. 

You can jump to particular topics below:

1. Information We Collect
2. How We Use Information
3. How We Share Information
4. Your Choices
5. How We Protect and Retain Information
6. Transmission Of Information To Other Countries
7. Third-Party Applications/Websites
8. Changes To This Privacy Notice
9. Contact Information
10. Additional Information For California Residents

Information We Collect

We collect information about you in a variety of ways depending on how you interact with us and our websites and services, including:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us, such as when you sign up to receive communications from us, or contact us by phone, email, or otherwise. 
• Automatically through the use of cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies when you interact with our websites and emails. 
• From other sources, including, for example, our affiliates, business partners, service providers, and other third parties, or from publicly available sources. 

The following provides examples of the type of information that we collect in a variety of contexts and how we use that information. 

Context	Types of Personal Information	Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information
Contact Information	We collect the name, contact information, and other personal information of individuals who contact us through our website.	To administer our business and operations.
Your Use of Our Website	We use technology to monitor how you interact with our websites.  This may include which links you click on, or information that you type into our online forms. Some of these technologies may use “cookies.”  Cookies are small pieces of information that a website sends to a computer’s hard drive while a website is viewed. Other types of data we track include your IP address, the website that referred you to our website, and data about the device you use to visit our website.	To make our website operate efficiently. We also use it to understand how you interact with our website to improve it and understand your preferences.  Finally, we use this information to help detect and prevent fraud.
Cookies and tracking Pixels	We may allow third parties to place technology on our websites (e.g., a cookie or a pixel) that allows them to track you. The third party might also collect data over time and across other websites.  They use this data to serve advertisements tailored to your interests, which may include advertisements about our products or services.	Our partnerships with third-party service providers allow us to enhance our web content.  We may permit cookies on our website to participate in behavior-based advertising, which allows us to tailor our advertisements to better suit users’ interests.
Employment	If you apply for a job posting, or become an employee, we may collect information necessary to process your application or to retain you as an employee. This may include, among other things, your Social Security Number.	We use this information to manage our recruitment processes, and to perform our obligations to employees. We may also be required by law to collect information about employees or applicants.
Mailing List	When you sign up for one of our mailing lists we collect your email address or postal address.	To provide information you may have requested.

How We Use Information

In addition to the purposes and uses described above, we use information in the following ways: 

• To identify you when you visit our websites. 
• To provide information and services.
• To improve, or create, our services and product offerings.
• To conduct analytics.
• To communicate with you, such as to respond to and/or follow-up on your requests, inquiries, issues, or feedback. 
• To send marketing and promotional materials including information relating to our services, sales, or promotions, or those of our business partners.
• To detect and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, including violation of our policies and terms and conditions, security incidents, and harm to the rights, property, or safety of our company and our users, employees, or others.
• To debug, identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of our website.
• To comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, to establish or exercise our rights, and to defend against a legal claim.
• For internal administrative purposes, as well as to manage our relationships.
• For such other purposes as you may consent (from time to time).

How We Share Information

In addition to the specific situations discussed elsewhere in this Privacy Notice, we may disclose personal information in the following situations:

• Affiliates and Acquisitions. We may share information with our corporate affiliates (e.g., parent company, sister companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control). If another company acquires, or plans to acquire, our company, business, or our assets, we will also share information with that company, including at the negotiation stage. 
• Other Disclosures without Your Consent. We may disclose information in response to subpoenas, warrants, or court orders, or in connection with any legal process, or to comply with relevant laws. We may also share your information in order to establish or exercise our rights, to defend against a legal claim, to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected fraud, safety of person or property, or a violation of our policies, or to comply with your request for the shipment of products to or the provision of services by a third-party intermediary.
• Partner Promotion. We may offer contests, sweepstakes, or other promotions with third party partners. If you decide to enter a contest, sweepstakes, or promotion that is sponsored by a third party partner the information that you provide will be shared with us and with them. Their use of your information is not governed by this privacy policy. 
• Service Providers. We may share your information with service providers. Among other things service providers may help us to administer our website, conduct surveys, provide technical support, process payments, and assist in the fulfillment of orders.
• Other Disclosures with Your Consent. We may disclose your information to other third parties when we have your consent or direction to do so. 

Your Choices

Some jurisdictions give you a right to make the following choices regarding your personal information:

• Access To Your Personal Information. You may request access to your personal information or confirmation that we have information about you, including in some instances a list of third parties to whom we have disclosed personal information. In certain limited circumstances, you may also request to receive access to your data in a portable, machine-readable format. 
• Changes To Your Personal Information. We rely on you to update and correct your personal information. You may ask us to correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete. Note that we may keep historical information in our backup files as permitted by law. 
• Deletion Of Your Personal Information. You may request that we delete your personal information. If required by law, we will grant a request to delete information, but you should note that in many situations we must keep your personal information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, or for another business purposes. 
• Promotional Emails. You may choose to provide us with your email address for the purpose of allowing us to send free newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials to you, as well as targeted offers from third parties. You can stop receiving promotional emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in emails that you receive. If you decide not to receive promotional emails, we may still send you service related communications. 
• Promotional Text Messages. If you receive a text message from us that contains promotional information you can opt-out of receiving future text messages by replying “STOP.”
• Revocation Of Consent. Where we process your personal information based upon consent, you may revoke consent. Please note, if you revoke your consent for the processing of personal information then we may no longer be able to provide you services.

Please note, not all of the rights described above are absolute, and they do not apply in all circumstances. In some cases, we may limit or deny your request because the law permits or requires us to do so, or if we are unable to adequately verify your identity. We will not discriminate against individuals who exercise their privacy rights under applicable law.

Submitting Requests

You may exercise the rights described above by contacting us as indicated in the “Contact Information” section below. If you disagree with our denial of a request, you may appeal our decision by contacting us with the subject line “Appeal.” 

Note that, as required by law, we will require you to prove your identity. We may verify your identity by phone call or email. Depending on your request, we will ask for information such as your name, the last item you purchased from us, or the date of your last purchase from us. We may also ask you to provide a signed declaration confirming your identity. Following a request, we will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you in our files.

In some circumstances, you may designate an authorized agent to submit requests to exercise certain privacy rights on your behalf. 

How We Protect and Retain Information

No method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is fully secure. While we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. In the event that we are required by law to inform you of a breach to your personal information we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law.

We retain your personal information for only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which we obtained the information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, as well as applicable legal requirements.

Transmission Of Information to Other Countries

As company that conducts business in various jurisdictions, your information may be processed in a foreign country where privacy laws may be less stringent than the laws in your country. Nonetheless, where possible we take steps to treat personal information using the same privacy principles that apply pursuant to the law of the country in which we first received your information. By submitting your personal information to us you agree to the transfer, storage, and processing of your information in a country other than your country of residence including, but not necessarily limited to, the United States. If you would like more information concerning our attempts to apply the privacy principles applicable in one jurisdiction to data when it goes to another jurisdiction you can contact us using the contact information below. 

Third-Party Applications/Websites

For your convenience, we may provide links to websites and other third-party content or services that we do not own or operate. The websites and third-party content to which we link may have separate privacy notices or policies. Please note, we have no control over the privacy practices websites, or services that we do not own. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party website or application for details about such third party’s privacy practices.

Changes To This Privacy Notice

We may change our privacy policy and practices over time. To the extent that our policy changes in a material way, the policy that was in place at the time that you submitted personal information to us will generally govern that information unless we receive your consent to the new privacy policy. Our privacy policy includes an “effective” and “last updated” date. The effective date refers to the date that the current version took effect. The last updated date refers to the date that the current version was last substantively modified. If we make a material change to our privacy notice, we will attempt to notify you through email or through a website pop-up.

Contact Information

If you have any questions, comments, or complaints concerning our privacy practices, or if you need to access this Privacy Notice in an alternative format due to having a disability, please contact us at the appropriate address below. We will attempt to respond to your requests and to provide you with additional privacy-related information. 

Email: legal@obviousventures.com
190 Pacific Ave, San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone: 415-754-0003

Additional Information For California Residents 

California law requires us to disclose the following additional information related to our privacy practices. If you are a California resident, the following privacy disclosures apply to you in addition to the rest of the Privacy Notice.

• California Shine the Light. If you would like more information concerning the categories of personal information (if any) we share with third parties or affiliates for those parties to use for direct marketing, please submit a written request to us using the information in the Contact Information section above. 

Effective Date: September 9, 2024

Last Update: September 9, 2024