Privacy Policy

How Tesla Capital Hedge Fund protects and manages your personal information

Last Updated: October 15, 2023

Introduction

At Tesla Capital Hedge Fund ("we," "us," or "our"), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

This policy applies to information we collect:

  • On this website
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this website
  • Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this website
  • When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services

1. Information We Collect About You

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

Identity Data

Includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title, date of birth, and gender.

Contact Data

Includes billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.

Financial Data

Includes bank account, payment card details, and information about your investment objectives and experience.

Technical Data

Includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.

Usage Data

Includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.

Marketing and Communications Data

Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

2. How We Collect Your Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct Interactions

You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

  • Apply for our products or services
  • Create an account on our website
  • Subscribe to our service or publications
  • Request marketing to be sent to you
  • Enter a survey
  • Give us feedback or contact us

Automated Technologies or Interactions

As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.

Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources

We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:

  • Technical Data from analytics providers, advertising networks, and search information providers
  • Contact, Financial, and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment, and delivery services
  • Identity and Contact Data from data brokers or aggregators
  • Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources

3. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests
  • Where we need to comply with a legal obligation

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data although we will get your consent before sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message.

Purpose/Activity Type of Data Lawful Basis for Processing
To register you as a new client Identity, Contact Performance of a contract with you
To process and deliver your investments Identity, Contact, Financial, Transaction, Marketing Performance of a contract with you, Necessary for our legitimate interests
To manage our relationship with you Identity, Contact, Profile, Marketing Performance of a contract with you, Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To administer and protect our business and this website Identity, Contact, Technical Necessary for our legitimate interests, Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you Identity, Contact, Usage, Marketing, Technical Necessary for our legitimate interests
To use data analytics to improve our website Technical, Usage Necessary for our legitimate interests

4. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password that enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.

5. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or other requirements.

By law we have to keep basic information about our clients (including Contact, Identity, Financial, and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being clients for tax purposes.

6. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:

  • Request access to your personal data
  • Request correction of your personal data
  • Request erasure of your personal data
  • Object to processing of your personal data
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data
  • Request transfer of your personal data
  • Right to withdraw consent

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us using the details provided in the Contact section.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

7. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
  • Analytical/performance cookies: They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it.
  • Functionality cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website.
  • Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this privacy policy.

You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us in the following ways:

Full name of legal entity:

Tesla Capital Hedge Fund LLC

Email address:

privacy@teslacapital.duckdns.org

Postal address:

250 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10177, United States

Telephone number:

+1 (212) 555-0100

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the relevant data protection authority. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the authority so please contact us in the first instance.