Privacy Policy
MTE Private Equity LLC (“MTEPE,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information entrusted to us. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information obtained through our website, communications, investor and client interactions, and related services.
By accessing or using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time, and the updated version will be posted on this website with a revised “Last Updated” date.
1. Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect personal and other information, including:
- Contact information, such as your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, and other contact details.
- Professional and background information, where relevant to evaluating or establishing an investor, client, business, or other relationship.
- Financial and investment information, including information necessary to evaluate investment eligibility, process transactions, maintain accounts, administer investments, and satisfy applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
- Account and transaction information, including information relating to investments, subscriptions, distributions, communications, and other activities involving our services.
- Information provided through forms, correspondence, and communications, including information submitted through our website, investor portals, email, telephone, text message (SMS), messaging channels such as WhatsApp, or other communications.
- Website and technical information, such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, referring websites, and other information collected through cookies or similar technologies.
We generally collect information directly from you, but we may also obtain information from affiliates, service providers, publicly available sources, regulatory or governmental authorities, and other third parties where permitted by applicable law.
2. How We Use Information
We may use personal information for legitimate business, investment, operational, and regulatory purposes, including to:
- Provide and administer investment-related and other services;
- Establish, maintain, and service investor, client, and business relationships;
- Process subscriptions, transactions, distributions, and other account activities;
- Communicate with you regarding your account, investments, services, and relevant updates;
- Respond to inquiries, requests, and communications;
- Verify identity and eligibility and conduct required due diligence;
- Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, unauthorized activity, and other security incidents;
- Maintain and improve our website, systems, services, and communications;
- Comply with applicable laws, regulations, regulatory requests, and legal obligations;
- Maintain required books and records; and
- Protect the rights, property, security, and interests of MTEPE, its affiliates, investors, clients, and other parties.
3. Information Sharing
We do not sell your nonpublic personal information.
We do not share your mobile telephone number or text message opt-in consent with third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes. Mobile information is shared only with the service providers that deliver our text message program on our behalf.
We may disclose personal information to affiliated and nonaffiliated third parties where permitted or required by law and as necessary to operate our business and provide services. These parties may include:
- Service providers, administrators, custodians, accountants, auditors, attorneys, technology providers, and other professional advisers;
- Financial institutions and other parties involved in processing transactions or administering investments;
- Regulatory authorities, governmental agencies, law enforcement, courts, or other parties when disclosure is required or permitted by law;
- Affiliates and business partners where appropriate and permitted (other than mobile information, as described above); and
- Other parties with your consent or at your direction.
Where appropriate, we seek to require service providers and other third parties that process personal information on our behalf to maintain appropriate safeguards and use the information only for authorized purposes.
4. Regulatory and Legal Disclosures
As an investment-related business, we may be required to collect, maintain, and disclose certain information to satisfy legal, regulatory, tax, anti-fraud, anti-money-laundering, know-your-customer, investor eligibility, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements.
We may retain and disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, respond to legal process or regulatory inquiries, or protect against fraud, unauthorized transactions, or other unlawful activity.
5. Data Security
We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, use, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
Access to personal information is limited to authorized personnel and service providers who require the information for legitimate business, operational, regulatory, or service-related purposes.
Although we take reasonable measures to protect personal information, no method of transmitting or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to or through our website.
6. Cookies and Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a service provided by Google LLC, to understand how visitors find and use the site. Google Analytics sets first-party cookies in your browser and records information such as the pages you view, the site or search that referred you, the general location derived from your IP address, and the type of device and browser you are using. We use this information in aggregate to see which pages are read and where our visitors come from. We do not use it to identify you personally, and we do not combine it with the contact information you submit through the forms on this site.
Links in our text messages may be tracked by our messaging provider so that we can see which links are opened.
You can prevent this collection by blocking or deleting cookies in your browser settings, or by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on. Neither of these will affect your ability to use this website.
Pages that carry a video embed a player hosted by YouTube in its privacy-enhanced mode, which is designed to limit tracking unless you start the video.
7. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, platforms, applications, or services. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the privacy practices of those third parties.
We are not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of third-party websites or services. We encourage you to review the applicable privacy policies and terms of use before providing personal information to any third party.
8. Investor and Client Portals
Certain portions of our website or related services may be accessible only to authorized investors, clients, or other users through password-protected portals.
Users are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their login credentials and for taking reasonable precautions to protect their accounts. If you believe your credentials or account have been compromised, you should notify us promptly.
Information submitted through investor or client portals may be subject to additional terms, notices, or privacy policies applicable to those services.
9. Communications
We may communicate with you by email, telephone, mail, text message (SMS), messaging channels such as WhatsApp, through investor or client portals, or by other means regarding your relationship with us, investments, accounts, services, regulatory matters, and other relevant business matters.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, electronic communications, including WhatsApp messages, may be retained, reviewed, monitored, and processed for business, security, compliance, recordkeeping, and regulatory purposes.
We send text messages only to people who have opted in to our text message program, under our Mobile Messaging Terms and Conditions and our SMS Privacy Policy, each posted on this website.
10. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and to satisfy applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, contractual, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements.
The length of time information is retained may vary depending on the nature of the information and the purpose for which it was collected.
11. Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction and applicable law, you may have certain rights relating to your personal information, which may include the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information, or to exercise other applicable privacy choices.
Certain information may be exempt from such requests or may need to be retained to comply with legal, regulatory, contractual, or other obligations.
You may opt out of marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link in any such email. You may also exit our WhatsApp communities or ask to be removed from our WhatsApp broadcast lists at any time. You may stop text messages at any time by replying STOP to any message we send. Reply HELP for help. Opting out of marketing communications will not affect communications relating to your account, investments, or regulatory matters.
To make a privacy-related request or inquiry, please contact us using the information provided below. We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before processing certain requests.
12. Children’s Privacy
This website and our services are not directed toward children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children in circumstances where such collection is prohibited by applicable law.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so that we can evaluate and, where appropriate, take reasonable steps to address the situation.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may modify this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our business, services, technology, applicable laws, or privacy practices.
Any changes will be posted on this page and reflected in the “Last Updated” date. Your continued use of the website following the posting of changes constitutes acknowledgment of the updated Privacy Policy to the extent permitted by applicable law.
14. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or wish to submit a privacy-related request, please contact us:
MTE Private Equity LLC
4116 W Spring Creek Pkwy
Suite 100
Plano, TX 75024
United States
Email: ir@mytimeequitype.com
Phone: (972) 330-2771