Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 19th November 2025

1. Introduction

This website with the URL address www.sparkventurefunding.com (the "Website") is owned and operated by Slua Ventures Limited, trading as Spark Venture Funding ("we," "us," "our," or "Spark").

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, store, use, and disclose your personal information when you use our Website and informs you about your privacy rights.

By using the Website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. We may update this policy from time to time. The date of the most recent revision will be displayed at the top of this page. Your continued use of the Website following any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.

2. The Data We Collect About You

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data which you provide to us through your use of the Website, including:

  • Identity Data: First name, last name, username or similar identifier.
  • Contact Data: Email address, telephone number, residential address.
  • Financial Data: Bank account and payment card details are processed directly by our payment service providers (e.g., Stripe). We do not store your full payment card details on our servers.
  • Technical Data: Internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this Website.
  • Profile Data: Your username and password, your investment interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our Website and services.
3. How We Collect Your Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:

  • Direct Interactions: You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms on our Website or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
  • Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our Website, we may automatically collect Technical and Usage Data through the use of cookies and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookie Policy (section 7) for more information.
  • Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties, such as analytics providers and identity verification services.
4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • To register you as a new investor and manage your account.
  • To process and administer your investments.
  • To manage our relationship with you, which may include notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.
  • To administer and protect our business and this Website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data).
  • To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
  • To use data analytics to improve our Website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.
  • To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods, services, or investment opportunities that may be of interest to you ("Direct Marketing").
5. Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes outlined in this policy:

  • Service Providers: We contract with third parties to perform business functions on our behalf, such as our payment processor (Stripe), IT service providers, marketing agencies, and archival services. These third parties are only permitted to use your data to perform the specific services we have engaged them for.
  • Professional Advisers: Including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
  • Regulatory and Other Authorities: In certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your data to comply with a legal obligation or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Spark, our customers, or others.
  • Business Transfers: If we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or assets, your personal data may be transferred to the new owners.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6. International Transfers

Some of our external third-party service providers are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or the UK. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA or UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing appropriate safeguards, such as relying on the service provider's participation in frameworks like the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or using specific contracts approved for use in the UK and EEA which give personal data the same protection it has in these regions.

7. Cookies

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website, to remember your preferences, and to help us improve our site.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

8. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

9. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data.
  • Request correction of your personal data.
  • Request erasure of your personal data.
  • Object to processing of your personal data.
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data.
  • Request transfer of your personal data.
  • Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@sparkventurefunding.com.

10. Marketing Communications

You may receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or made an investment through our platform and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us at info@sparkventurefunding.com or by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you.

11. Third-Party Links

This Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our Website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every site you visit.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

Spark Venture Funding
13 Adelaide Road,
Dublin, D02 P950,
Ireland
Email: info@sparkventurefunding.com
Phone: +353 1 44 33 944