We at Vrkan Ventures (“we” “us” “company”) use respect your concerns about privacy and value the relationship that we have with you. We want you to know what happens to the personal information that we collect through the following website(s) vrkancapital.com our Website"); our social media activities on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook ("our Official Social Media Accounts"); and our other activities and sources.

For purposes of this Privacy Statement, "personal information" means information from or about you that identifies you directly and information that is associated with you and thus could potentially

identify you, including when combined with other information from or about you.

For information about how we collect, use, and share your information, please see below.

Vrkan Venturesis committed to working with you to obtain a fair and rapid resolution of any queries, complaints, or disputes about privacy. If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Statement or our information collection and data protection practices, please contact Vrkan Ventures at vrkan@vrkancapital.com.

Information that We Collect From and About You

Information that We Collect Directly

Vrkan Ventures may obtain information (primarily name, contact information, employer, title, and type of business) directly from and about you in a number of ways, such as:

• Through interactive forms on our Websites, if you choose to provide it;

• Through your registration for, or attendance at, one of our events;

• Through your conversations with someone from the Firm;

• Through your use of and access to our, newsletters, emails, and Official Social Media Accounts; and

• Through other public sources.

Information that We Collect Through Cookies and Technology

When you visit our Websites or open an email or newsletter that we send you, we may collect information about your usage and device by automated means or by using technologies such as cookies, web server logs, and web beacons. As set forth in more detail below, we may also collect information about your usage and browsing habits using various web-based technologies, including but not limited to Cookies. Cookies are small text files that websites send to your computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings in your browser. Your browser may tell you how to be notified when you receive certain types of cookies and how to restrict or disable certain cookies. Some cookies may exist for only a single session and some are persistent for multiple sessions over time.

Cookies

A "cookie" is a very small data file comprised of text and/or numbers that downloads on your computer hard drive (via your web browser) when you visit a website. Cookies notify a web server that you are returning to a specific web page on it, and they contain information about your web browsing that can save you time, such as by remembering your preferences, or they can track certain web browsing data (such as which site pages are more important in terms of traffic or which web browsers are preferred by site visitors) that can aid websites in enhancing the user/visitor experience. Cookies cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses, and they can be controlled by end users through their browser settings (see below).

Vrkan Ventures uses the following cookies:

• Google Analytics: This is a third-party cookie that is collected in anonymous form to analyze how visitors use vrkancapital.com in an effort gauge which topics and areas are most relevant to site visitors and to make the site more usable and compatible for users. Anonymous information gathered includes, but is not limited to: number of visitors to the site, how they got there (i.e., search engine, direct or referral site), pages they visit, browser usage, screen resolution; For more, see Google's privacy policy.

Controlling Cookies

Should you be adverse to the collection of cookies by vrkancapital.com or any other website, there are actions you can take with your personal Web browser settings.

Web browser settings can be adjusted to perform one or more of the following actions: delete all cookies, block all cookies, allow all cookies, block third-party cookies, clear all cookies when you close the browser, open a 'private' browsing session, install add-ons and plug-ins to extend browser functionality as it pertains to cookies.

More information on cookies can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org.

We may work with third-party advertising companies that use tracking technologies to serve our advertisements across the Internet. These companies may collect anonymous information about your visits to our Websites and other websites and your interaction with our advertising and other communications. Other companies may also use such companies to advertise on our Websites. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that they may use.

How We Use Information that We Collect From and About You

Prospective Clients

If you are considering the possibility of engaging us for professional services, you may be requested, in the course of interacting with us, to provide us with personal information relating to yourself or to other individuals. Such personal information will be collected, retained and used by us for the following purposes:

checking for conflicts of interest and making other internal evaluations to ascertain whether we are able to assist you and offer you our professional services;

responding to any queries that you address or pose to us;

marketing our professional services that we think may be of interest to you; and

other purposes incidental to any of the aforesaid.

We use information that we collect directly from or about You:

• To maintain client relationships as required by Vrkan Ventures business needs and contractual obligations.

• To administer, operate, maintain, and secure our Websites, newsletters, emails, and Official Social Media Accounts as required by Vrkan Ventures business needs, legal obligations, and contractual obligations

• To provide client support and respond to inquiries as required by Vrkan Ventures business needs and contractual obligations

• To provide information, education, and business updates to individuals and entities who have consented to receive such material

• To market Vrkan Ventures products and services to individuals and entities who have consented to receive such material (we only provide marketing information about Vrkan Ventures services, activities, and events; we do not provide information to third parties for marketing purposes or to provide information about third-party goods and services)

• To customize and improve communication content for individuals and entities who have consented to receive such material

• To comply with legal and ethical requirements and our Vrkan Ventures policies and procedures

• For Vrkan Ventures necessary accounting, recordkeeping, backup, and administrative needs

We use information that we receive while representing our clients solely for purposes related to that representation, not for other purposes described in this Privacy Statement.

Your Control Over Information that We Collect From and About You

With regard to information that we collect directly from or about you:

• You may choose not to provide us with information that we request, but we may not be able to respond to your inquiry, register you for one of our events or activities, or provide you with additional information or publications.

• If you provide us with your information, but later decide that you do not want to receive marketing or other informational communications or if you wish to discontinue your subscription to an email or newsletter click the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email communication.

We may transfer information to third-party service providers and business partners to the extent necessary to help us comply with our legal and contractual obligations, to provide information and services to prospective and current clients, and to perform related business services such as hosting our Websites or managing e-discovery. Our contracts with our service providers and business partners, among other things:

• maintain our ownership in and exclusive rights to any information that we provide;

• prohibit use or disclosure of information that we provide except to the extent required to perform authorized services on our behalf;

• require compliance with all applicable legal and ethical requirements;

• require implementation and maintenance of risk-based security that is at least equivalent to what we would provide;

• require compliance with all applicable legal and contractual privacy and data security requirements, including data transfer and data localization;

• require prompt notification to us of any actual or suspected unauthorized access, use, disclosure, or disposal of information that we have provided or that they have collected on our behalf;

Interaction with Your Social Media Accounts

Our Websites, Official Social Media Accounts, and Official Blogs, as well as the websites of some of our third-party service providers, may permit you to connect and share your online activities and interactions with us and our content with your online community through your accounts on social media platforms such as YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter, including through the use of social media plugins (such as the Twitter "Tweet" button). The operator of that social media plugin may set cookies or other tracking technology on your browser to recognize its users when they visit our Websites again. In addition, if you are logged into one of your social media accounts while you are browsing on our Websites, the social media plugins may allow the social media platform to receive information about your visit – including the pages that you viewed – and to connect information about Your visit to our Websites with other personal information regarding your social media account.

When you use social media plugins to connect to your social media account, we may receive or review certain information that you post on that service in accordance with the Privacy Statement of that service and the privacy settings that are applicable to your account. This allows us to share information about your activities on our Websites with other users of their social media website. For example, Twitter social media plugins allow Twitter to show your Tweets and comments on our Websites to your Twitter followers. Your use of social media plugins is subject to each social media platform's Privacy Statement, and we encourage you to use care and thoughtfully read the Privacy Statement of each social media platform that you use. We have no control over the information that social media websites or social media plugins collect, store, or use. Before connecting to our Websites from a social media website or using a social media plugin on our Websites, please be certain that you understand the social media website's Privacy Statement and how it may gather information about your use of our Websites.

Right to opt out and withdrawal

Vrkan Ventures respects your privacy considerations and hence provides you an option to refuse to provide your Personally Identifiable Information or information sought to be collected.You also have the option to subscribe/opt-in to receive newsletters, new alerts and marketing content. You can always opt-out of such options by writing to vrkan@vrkanventures.com or click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of an email newsletter received by you from us. We shall adhere to your preferences.

Links to Other Sites

Occasionally we provide links to other websites, social media platforms, or blogs for your convenience and information. Except to the extent that those websites, social media platforms, or blogs provide services with the authorization of Vrkan Ventures, they operate independently from Vrkan Ventures and are not under our control. These websites, social media platforms, and blogs have their own privacy notices in place, which we strongly suggest that you review if you visit any third party links. Except to the limited extent that the third parties provide services to us or otherwise act our behalf, we are not responsible for their content, any products or services they may offer, or any other uses that are not related to Vrkan Ventures services.

Authenticity

We shall not be responsible for the authenticity of the information and it is your duty to ensure that the information provided is authentic.

Data Retention

Pursuant to our retention policy, we retain personal information only as long as is necessary to accomplish the purpose for which it was collected, and as otherwise required for legal, compliance, or business requirements, and we securely delete it thereafter. The retention period will depend upon, among other factors, the status of your relationship with Vrkan Ventures ethical obligations, whether any applicable contract, law, statute, or regulation requires a specific retention period, and what the expectation for retention was at the time the data was provided to us.

Grievance Redressal
Any grievance or complaint, in relation to processing of information, should be sent to us in writing to the following contact email ID vrkan@vrkancapital.com

Changes or Updates to this Privacy Statement

We may update or change this Privacy Statement from time to time and without prior notice to you. We will post a notice on this site to notify you of any significant changes to our Privacy Statement and indicate at the bottom of the Statement when it was most recently updated.