Legal
Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
Lyrik Venture Capital Ltd ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal data when you interact with our website, services, or contact us. It also outlines your rights under applicable data protection law, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
2. Who we are
- Company: Lyrik Venture Capital Ltd, trading as Lyrik Ventures
- Registered address: C/O Laven Partners Limited, 7th Floor (North), 11 Old Jewry, London EC2R 8DU
- Company number: 13764099 (registered in England and Wales)
- Contact: privacy@lyrik.ventures
We are the data controller for the personal data described in this policy. We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer; data protection enquiries can be sent to the contact above. Lyrik Venture Capital Ltd is an Appointed Representative of Laven Advisors LLP, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
3. What personal data we collect
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect and process:
- Identity data: name and job title
- Professional data: the firm you represent
- Contact data: email address
- Technical data: IP address, browser type and device information, to the extent collected through essential or analytics cookies
- Marketing preferences: your choices about being contacted
Browsing the public pages of this website does not require you to provide any personal data; the entry confirmation does not collect your identity.
4. How we collect your data
- Directly from you — when you request access to fund materials, join a waitlist, or otherwise contact us
- Automatically — through cookies and any analytics tools used on the website (see section 12)
5. Legal basis for processing
Under UK GDPR, we rely on the following grounds:
- Consent — where you opt in to be contacted
- Legitimate interests — to respond to your enquiries, operate and secure our business, and assess and develop relationships with professional clients and eligible counterparties, where these do not override your rights
- Legal and regulatory obligation — including identity, anti-money-laundering and suitability checks carried out at the point of onboarding or transaction
- Contractual necessity — where data is needed to enter into or perform an agreement with you
6. How we use your data
- To respond to access requests and enquiries, and to share information with professional clients and eligible counterparties
- To operate, improve and secure our website and services
- To send communications where you have asked us to
- To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
7. Who we share your data with
We do not sell your data. We may share it with:
- Service providers — including Netlify, which hosts this website and processes the details you submit through our forms on our behalf, and our email providers
- Laven Advisors LLP, our principal, where required to carry out client categorisation, onboarding and regulatory checks
- Regulatory authorities and other third parties — where required by law
Any third parties who process data on our behalf are required to keep it secure and to use it only for the purposes we specify.
8. Data retention
We keep your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes set out above, including to meet legal, regulatory or accounting requirements and to maintain our relationship with you. When data is no longer needed, it is securely deleted or anonymised.
9. Your data protection rights
Under UK GDPR, you have the right to: access your data; have inaccurate data corrected; have your data erased in certain circumstances; restrict or object to processing; request portability of your data; and withdraw consent at any time where we rely on it. To exercise any of these rights, contact us at privacy@lyrik.ventures.
10. How we protect your data
We apply appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data, including access controls, encryption in transit and at rest where appropriate, and periodic review of our security practices.
11. International data transfers
Some of our service providers, including our website host, are based outside the United Kingdom, principally in the United States. Where we transfer personal data outside the United Kingdom, we ensure an appropriate level of protection through a UK adequacy decision (including the UK Extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework), the International Data Transfer Agreement, Standard Contractual Clauses, or another lawful safeguard.
12. Cookies and tracking technologies
We may use cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to function, and — where you consent — analytics cookies that help us understand how the site is used. You can manage non-essential cookies through your browser settings or any cookie controls we provide.
13. Complaints and contact
If you have concerns about how we handle your data, please contact us at privacy@lyrik.ventures. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK's supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), at ico.org.uk.
14. Updates to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date above shows when it was most recently changed. Please check this page periodically.