Your use of our website at www.nstarfinance.com (the “Website”) indicates your acceptance of the terms of our privacy policy set out below. If you do not agree to these terms you must not use this Website.

1. This Website is operated by NStar Limited a company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales with company number 4908607 whose registered office is at Sandgate House, 102 Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3DX. Our VAT registration number is 847702705. Please see the Contact link on our homepage for our contact information.

2. We are committed to protecting the privacy of the information we may obtain as a result of your use of the Website. We will treat any personal information (which means data from which you can be identified, including your name, address and email address) that you provide to us, or that we obtain from you, in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998.

3. We may collect information you submit via any online forms or interactive areas that appear on our Website from time to time. We may collect information about you if you contact us offline, for example by telephone, fax, email or post. We may collect information about your usage of this Website but this will not include any information from which you can be identified.

4. Your information will be used to supply you with any information or services you request. We may also use and analyse the information we collect for reporting and audit purposes and so that we can administer, support, improve and develop our Website and the services we offer.

5. We may share your information with our group companies (which include NorthStar Equity Investors Limited) for administrative and reporting purposes and so they can provide you with any information or services you have requested. We may share your information with One NorthEast and other organisations for audit and reporting purposes. We may allow third party providers and contractors who supply services to us or who process information on our behalf incidental access to your information, but we will ensure that they keep your information secure and do not use it for their own purposes. We may share your information with another organisation which acquires our business or our assets and in the course of any negotiations which may or may not lead to such a transfer. We may pass aggregate information about the usage of our Website to third parties but this will not include information that can be used to identify you. We will disclose your information if we are required to by law. We may disclose your information to enforcement authorities if they ask us to, or to a third party in the context of actual or threatened legal proceedings, provided we can do so without breaching data protection laws. Unless permitted or required to do so by law, we will not otherwise share sell or distribute any of the information you provide to us without your consent.

6. You have the right to see any information we hold about you on payment of a statutory fee, which is currently £10. You have the right to correct any errors in information we hold about you. Please inform us about changes to your details so that we can keep our records accurate and up to date.

7. We will keep your information secure by taking appropriate technical and organisational measures against its unauthorised or unlawful processing and against its accidental loss, destruction or damage. We will retain your information for as long as we need it for the purposes set out in this policy, or as otherwise required by law.

8. We will from time to time update and make changes to this policy. We recommend that you revisit this privacy policy frequently, and ideally each time you visit our Website.

9. If you follow a link from our Website to another site, this policy will no longer apply. We are not responsible for the information handling practices of third party sites and we encourage you to read the privacy policies appearing on those sites.

10. If you have any queries about the information we hold on you, or would like to exercise your rights set out above, please contact us by email on enquiries@nstarfinance.com. Further information about data protection issues including the online Register of Data Controllers can be found on the Information Commissioner’s site at http://www.ico.gov.uk. We are entered in the Register of Data Controllers with registration number Z8664533.

11. The Co-investment Fund is managed by NorthStar Equity Investors Limited who is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. The Proof of Concept, Design and Creative and Three Pillars Funds are not regulated by the Financial Services Authority.