At Kingfish Group, Inc. (“Kingfish”), we want you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and disclose personal information.

Kingfish is a trusted partner to investors, private equity managers and experienced senior executives. We believe in the power of the right relationships, experience and insights to create an advantage in private equity investing. We have built a proprietary platform and approach that provides clear differentiation and a powerful advantage across the transaction cycle.

This Privacy Policy describes how we handle personal information that we collect in connection with our services, including through in-person interactions, at conferences, on our websites, social media pages, online communications, and any other sites or services that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, “Services”).

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may collect personal information about our prospective and existing private equity clients, executive advisors, website visitors, job applicants, and other individuals who interact with our Services.

Here’s how we collect personal information in providing our Services:

Personal information we receive from you
DATA CATEGORIES	EXAMPLES
Contact Details	First and last name, title, prefix, email address, government-issued ID, telephone number, and postal address.
Business Contact Details	Business name, name of employer, job title, business email address, business telephone number, and business postal address.
Financial Information	Tax-related identification numbers, wire transfer information, banking details and other account details.
Communications History	Details of your communications and inquiries, including email and text message communications.
Geolocation	Approximate location derived from the IP address of the device you are using to access our website.
Marketing Data	Choices regarding our newsletters, surveys, and other marketing or advertising displayed or provided to you, and preferred methods of receiving such promotional communication.

Other sources from which we collected personal information
DATA SOURCES	EXAMPLES
Social Media	Information we collect from social media sites may include details such as profile pictures, social media account ID, and other public social media profile information.
Other Third Parties	We may collect information from sources such as publicly available databases or similar sources, marketing partners, third-party providers, and data brokers

HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Here’s an overview of how we use personal information in providing our Services:

PURPOSES	EXAMPLES
Administering the Services	Contacting and interacting with you, receiving and responding to your requests; providing the Services; verifying your information; sending you administrative information, such as agreements to provide the Services, and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
Operations and General Business	Troubleshooting and diagnostic testing; conducting performance analyses of our systems and Services; testing new system features to evaluate their impact; system and log maintenance; technical support, system debugging, and hosting data; facilitating mergers, acquisitions and other reorganizations and restructurings of our business (including prospective transactions).
Marketing	Sending you our newsletters, publications, updates, and invitations that we think may be of interest to you. We may send marketing messages through mail, email, phone calls, and text messages.
Improving and Developing Products and Services	Conducting data analysis, monitoring and analyzing Services use and using data analytics to improve the efficiency of our Services; developing new Services; considering ways to enhance, improve, repair, maintain, or modify our Services; identifying usage trends, for example, understanding which parts of our Services are most interesting to users; determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns; operating and expanding our business activities.
Security and Fraud Prevention	Conducting audits; verifying that our internal processes function as intended and are compliant with legal, regulatory, or contractual requirements; monitoring for and preventing fraud; for security purposes, including maintaining system security.
Legal and Compliance	Fulfilling our legal and compliance-related obligations, including complying with applicable laws, complying with legal processes, responding to requests from public and government authorities, meeting national security or law enforcement requirements, and complying with requirements set by industry-specific supervisory bodies. Enforcing our terms and conditions and standards; protecting our operations; protecting the rights, privacy, or property of our business; responding to auditors; allowing us to pursue available legal remedies and make insurance claims, defend claims, and limit the damages that we may sustain.

HOW WE DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Here are the types of entities to which we may disclose personal information in providing our Services:

DISCLOSURES	EXAMPLES
At Your Direction	We may disclose personal information at the direction of our clients, executive advisors in connection with providing our Services, including to various business counterparties.
Service Providers	Our service providers include companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate our Services or our business (such as businesses that provide web hosting and analytics services, data analysis, financial services, information technology, support, email delivery, fraud prevention, and auditing).
Private Equity Firms and Their Portfolio Companies	We may disclose name, contact, and other background information about executive advisors to private equity firms and their portfolio companies as part of the advisory services we provide.
Professional Advisors	We use advisors, accountants, actuaries, auditors, experts, consultants, lawyers, banks, and financial institutions to support our business.
Authorities and Others	If we are required by law or legal process or if we deem the disclosure appropriate for other legal, compliance or fraud-prevention purposes, we may disclose information to law enforcement, public, regulatory and government authorities, or courts, or other entities that obtain valid subpoenas.
Business Transferees	We may disclose or transfer your personal information to third parties such as acquiring entities and their advisors in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

Please note that mobile information collected will be used solely for the intended business purposes described in this Privacy Policy and in compliance with applicable privacy regulations. Mobile information will not be shared with third parties or affiliates for their own marketing or promotional purposes. Any use or disclosure of mobile information will be limited to operational, security, or compliance-related requirements as necessary.

SECURITY

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect personal information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please notify us immediately.

You are responsible for obtaining, maintaining and paying for all hardware and all telecommunications and other services needed to use the Site.

MARKETING CHOICES

You have choices regarding marketing-related communications. If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt-out by following the unsubscribe instructions in any such message. If you no longer want to receive marketing-related SMS/text messages from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt out by texting “STOP.”

We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt out of receiving marketing from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt out.

RETENTION PERIOD

We retain personal information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purposes for which it was obtained as outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable law.

THIRD PARTY SERVICES

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties. This includes any third party operating any website or service to which the Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.

JOB APPLICANTS

When you visit the Careers portion of the website, we collect the information that you provide to us in connection with your job application. This includes but is not limited to business and personal contact information, professional credentials and skills, educational and work history and other information of the type that may be included in a resume. This may also include diversity information that you voluntarily provide. We use this to facilitate our recruitment activities and process employment applications, such as by evaluating a job candidate for an employment activity, to monitor recruitment statistics and to respond to surveys. We may also use this information (i) to comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us, (ii) to protect and defend our or others’ rights or property, (iii) in connection with a legal investigation and (iv) to investigate or assist in preventing any violation or potential violation of the law, this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use.

USE OF SERVICES BY MINORS

The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 18.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

The “Last Updated” legend at the top of this Privacy Policy indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services.

CONTACTING US

You can reach us at mail@kingfishgroup.com or by calling us at (650) 980.0200.