Privacy Policy

Sum Capital Partners (“Sum Capital Partners”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal data that you provide to us.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, protect, and retain personal data when you visit our website, contact us, submit information to us, engage with us, or otherwise interact with Sum Capital Partners.

This Privacy Policy applies to our website, online forms, email communications, meetings, events, business development activities, investment evaluation activities, and any other interaction where we collect personal data.

1. Personal Data We May Collect

Depending on your interaction with us, we may collect the following types of personal data:

1.1 Identity and Contact Information

This may include your name, email address, phone number, company name, job title, business address, country of residence, and other contact details.

1.2 Business and Professional Information

This may include information about your business, role, industry, company profile, revenue range, business plans, funding requirements, investment interest, founder background, professional experience, and other information you choose to provide to us.

1.3 Investor, Founder, or Transaction-Related Information

If you engage with us in relation to a potential investment, partnership, acquisition, advisory arrangement, or other transaction, we may collect information relevant to assessing, structuring, negotiating, managing, or completing that transaction.

This may include company documents, shareholder information, financial information, business plans, pitch materials, due diligence materials, beneficial ownership information, identification details, tax information, source of funds information, and other information required for legal, regulatory, compliance, or commercial purposes.

1.4 Communications Information

This may include records of your emails, messages, meeting notes, call notes, enquiries, feedback, and other communications with us.

1.5 Website and Technical Information

When you visit our website, we may collect technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring website, pages visited, time spent on pages, and other analytics or usage data.

1.6 Marketing Preferences

This may include your preferences for receiving updates, newsletters, invitations, business insights, investment-related content, or other marketing communications from us.

1.7 Information from Third Parties

We may receive information about you from third parties such as referrals, business partners, advisors, public databases, company websites, social media platforms, professional networks, regulatory or compliance databases, service providers, and publicly available sources.

2. How We Collect Personal Data

We may collect personal data when you:

a. visit or use our website;
b. submit a contact form or enquiry form;
c. email, call, message, or meet with us;
d. send us pitch decks, business plans, financial information, or other documents;
e. apply for funding, investment, partnership, employment, or collaboration opportunities;
f. attend our events, webinars, meetings, or business sessions;
g. subscribe to our updates, newsletters, or marketing communications;
h. engage with our advertisements, content, or social media pages;
i. are referred to us by another person or organisation;
j. enter into, or consider entering into, a transaction or business relationship with us; or
k. otherwise provide personal data to us directly or indirectly.

If you provide personal data relating to another person, you confirm that you have obtained that person’s consent or have another lawful basis to provide the information to us, and that the person has been informed of the purposes for which we may collect, use, and disclose their personal data.

3. Purposes for Which We Use Personal Data

We may collect, use, and disclose personal data for the following purposes:

3.1 Responding to Enquiries

To respond to your questions, requests, applications, proposals, or enquiries.

3.2 Evaluating Business Opportunities

To review, assess, conduct due diligence on, and make decisions regarding potential investments, partnerships, acquisitions, financing opportunities, advisory engagements, business collaborations, or other commercial opportunities.

3.3 Managing Relationships

To manage our relationship with founders, business owners, investors, partners, advisors, service providers, portfolio companies, counterparties, and other stakeholders.

3.4 Conducting Due Diligence and Compliance Checks

To conduct identity verification, background checks, anti-money laundering checks, sanctions screening, conflict checks, credit checks, source of funds checks, beneficial ownership checks, and other legal, regulatory, compliance, or risk-management processes where applicable.

3.5 Providing Services and Support

To provide, manage, improve, and support our business activities, including investment-related, strategic, operational, advisory, business development, and portfolio support activities.

3.6 Communications and Updates

To send you business updates, newsletters, invitations, investment-related insights, market commentary, event information, or other communications that may be relevant to you, where permitted by law.

3.7 Marketing and Business Development

To carry out marketing, advertising, lead generation, relationship management, and business development activities.

3.8 Website Operation and Improvement

To operate, maintain, monitor, analyse, improve, personalise, and secure our website, online platforms, content, user experience, and digital marketing activities.

3.9 Legal and Regulatory Purposes

To comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, regulatory requests, tax requirements, audit requirements, reporting obligations, and other legal or compliance obligations.

3.10 Protection of Rights and Security

To protect our rights, property, business interests, confidential information, systems, users, staff, partners, investors, and other parties. This may include fraud prevention, cybersecurity, dispute resolution, enforcement of agreements, and investigation of suspected misconduct.

3.11 Other Purposes

For any other purpose that is reasonably related to the above purposes, or for which you have provided consent.

4. Consent

By providing personal data to us, interacting with us, submitting information through our website, or continuing to communicate with us, you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless you inform us otherwise.

Where required by law, we will obtain your consent before collecting, using, or disclosing your personal data.

You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the details set out in Section 17 below. Please note that withdrawing consent may affect our ability to respond to you, provide services to you, assess an opportunity, continue a business relationship, or comply with our legal or contractual obligations.

5. Cookies and Website Analytics

Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, analytics tools, and similar technologies to improve website performance, understand visitor behaviour, measure marketing effectiveness, and enhance user experience.

Cookies may collect information such as your device type, browser, IP address, pages visited, time spent on the website, referring links, and interactions with our content.

You may disable or manage cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling cookies may affect the functionality or performance of certain parts of our website.

We may use third-party tools such as website analytics platforms, advertising platforms, CRM tools, or marketing automation tools. These third parties may collect information in accordance with their own privacy policies.

6. Disclosure of Personal Data

We may disclose personal data to the following parties where necessary or appropriate:

a. our directors, officers, employees, consultants, representatives, and authorised personnel;
b. our related companies, affiliates, associated entities, funds, investment vehicles, or portfolio companies;
c. professional advisors, including lawyers, accountants, auditors, tax advisors, corporate secretarial providers, consultants, and financial advisors;
d. banks, financial institutions, payment providers, brokers, custodians, administrators, insurers, and other transaction-related service providers;
e. technology providers, cloud service providers, website hosts, CRM providers, analytics providers, email providers, cybersecurity providers, and other operational service providers;
f. prospective investors, co-investors, lenders, buyers, sellers, partners, acquirers, merger parties, transaction counterparties, or their advisors;
g. regulatory authorities, law enforcement agencies, courts, government bodies, tax authorities, exchanges, or other public agencies where required or permitted by law;
h. persons or organisations involved in due diligence, compliance checks, background checks, legal proceedings, audits, investigations, or dispute resolution;
i. any person to whom disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, interests, property, security, or business; and
j. any other person or organisation where you have consented to the disclosure or where disclosure is permitted or required by law.

We do not sell your personal data.

7. Overseas Transfers of Personal Data

Your personal data may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in countries outside Singapore. This may happen where our service providers, advisors, affiliates, business partners, cloud platforms, or transaction counterparties are located overseas.

Where we transfer personal data outside Singapore, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that the transferred personal data receives a standard of protection comparable to that required under applicable Singapore data protection laws, unless otherwise permitted by law.

8. Protection of Personal Data

We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organisational measures to protect personal data in our possession or under our control against unauthorised access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, disposal, loss, or similar risks.

These measures may include access controls, password protection, secure storage, encryption where appropriate, confidentiality obligations, vendor due diligence, internal policies, staff awareness, and restricted access to personal data on a need-to-know basis.

However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure. While we take reasonable steps to protect personal data, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

9. Retention of Personal Data

We will retain personal data for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, or as required or permitted for legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, audit, compliance, contractual, business, or dispute-resolution purposes.

When personal data is no longer required, we will take reasonable steps to securely delete, destroy, anonymise, or otherwise dispose of it in accordance with applicable requirements and our internal policies.

10. Accuracy of Personal Data

We rely on you to provide accurate, complete, and up-to-date personal data.

If your personal data changes, or if you believe that any personal data we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, please contact us so that we may update our records where appropriate.

11. Access and Correction Requests

You may request access to personal data that we hold about you, or request correction of personal data that is inaccurate or incomplete.

To make an access or correction request, please contact us using the details set out in Section 17 below.

We may need to verify your identity before processing your request. We may also charge a reasonable administrative fee for access requests where permitted by law. If a fee applies, we will inform you before processing the request.

We may decline or limit a request where permitted or required by law, including where the request is frivolous, vexatious, disproportionately burdensome, would reveal confidential or commercially sensitive information, would affect the rights of others, or would conflict with legal, regulatory, or compliance obligations.

12. Withdrawal of Consent

You may withdraw your consent for our continued use or disclosure of your personal data by contacting us.

Upon receiving your withdrawal request, we will inform you of the likely consequences of withdrawal where appropriate. We will then process your request within a reasonable time, unless we are permitted or required by law to continue using, disclosing, or retaining the personal data.

Withdrawal of consent does not affect any collection, use, disclosure, or retention of personal data that occurred before the withdrawal.

13. Marketing Communications

If you have provided us with your contact details, we may send you marketing communications, newsletters, event invitations, insights, updates, or other business-related information that may be relevant to you.

You may opt out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time by using the unsubscribe function, following the opt-out instructions in our communications, or contacting us directly.

Where applicable, we will comply with Singapore Do Not Call requirements and other applicable marketing communication laws.

Please note that even if you opt out of marketing communications, we may still send you non-marketing communications relating to existing business dealings, legal notices, administrative matters, security updates, or transaction-related matters.

14. Third-Party Websites and Links

Our website or communications may contain links to third-party websites, platforms, tools, or services.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party websites or services. You should review the privacy policies of those third parties before providing any personal data to them.

15. Confidential Business Information

In the course of evaluating business opportunities, we may receive confidential business information, financial information, commercial information, pitch materials, founder information, investor information, or transaction-related documents.

Where such information includes personal data, we will handle the personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Confidentiality obligations relating to business information may also be governed by separate non-disclosure agreements, engagement letters, investment documents, transaction documents, or other written agreements.

16. Children and Minors

Our website and services are intended for business users and are not directed at children or minors.

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children or minors. If you believe that a child or minor has provided personal data to us, please contact us and we will take appropriate steps to delete or manage the information.

17. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to make an access request, correction request, withdrawal request, complaint, or enquiry relating to your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer:

Data Protection Officer
Sum Capital Partners
Email: admin@sumcapitalpartners.com
Address: 1, Harbourfront Pl, #04-08, Singapore 098633  

We will review and respond to your request as soon as reasonably practicable.

18. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our business, operations, legal obligations, data protection practices, or website features.

The updated version will be posted on our website with the “Last updated” date amended accordingly. Your continued use of our website or continued interaction with us after any update constitutes your acknowledgement of the updated Privacy Policy.

19. Governing Law

This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Singapore.