Legal
Privacy Policy
Last updated: 17 August 2026
1. Introduction
DMQ Ventures Ltd ("DMQ", "we", "us", "our") is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal data transparently and securely.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share and protect personal data when you visit our website at www.dmqglobal.com (the "Site"), contact us, or engage with us as an investor, prospective investor, founder, counterparty or professional contact.
We are the data controller in respect of the personal data described in this policy. This means we determine how and why your personal data is processed.
We process personal data in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018, and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR).
Our details:
- DMQ Ventures Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 16524928
- Data protection contact: the contact form on our website
2. Personal data we collect
2.1 Information you give us
When you complete the contact form on the Site, email us, or otherwise communicate with us, we may collect:
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Identity data | Name, job title, employer or firm name |
| Contact data | Email address, telephone number, business address |
| Correspondence data | The content of your message, enquiry or attachments, and our correspondence with you |
| Professional data | Your role, sector, area of interest, and information about your organisation |
2.2 Information we collect if we enter into a relationship with you
If you become, or apply to become, an investor, portfolio company contact, counterparty or supplier, we may also collect:
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Investor classification data | Information needed to categorise you as a professional client, eligible counterparty, high net worth or sophisticated investor, including self-certification statements |
| Financial and suitability data | Source of wealth, source of funds, investment experience, bank account details, tax residency and tax identification numbers |
| Compliance data | Identity verification documents (e.g. passport, proof of address), anti-money laundering (AML), know-your-customer (KYC), sanctions and politically exposed person (PEP) screening results |
| Transaction data | Details of subscriptions, commitments, distributions and payments |
Some of this may include information about criminal convictions and offences, or data revealing e.g. PEP status, obtained through screening. We process this only where permitted by law — principally to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations to prevent money laundering, fraud and financial crime.
2.3 Information we collect automatically
When you visit the Site, we and our hosting provider may automatically collect:
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Technical data | IP address, browser type and version, device type, operating system, time zone and language settings |
| Usage data | Pages visited, time spent, referring URL, and interactions with the Site |
2.4 Information from third parties
We may receive personal data about you from:
- publicly available sources (company registries, regulatory registers, company websites, professional networking sites and news media);
- our principal firm, Capital Alliance Partners Limited;
- introducers, placement agents, co-investors, fund administrators and advisers;
- identity verification, sanctions and AML screening providers; and
- credit reference and fraud prevention agencies, where relevant.
We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. The Site is not directed at anyone under 18.
3. How and why we use your personal data
We may only use your personal data where we have a lawful basis to do so. The table below sets out our purposes and the corresponding lawful bases.
| Purpose | Lawful basis |
|---|---|
| Responding to your enquiry submitted via the Site or by email | Legitimate interests (responding to and managing enquiries about our business); or performance of a contract/steps prior to entering one |
| Evaluating investment opportunities and communicating with founders and their teams | Legitimate interests (assessing and pursuing investment opportunities) |
| Assessing your eligibility and investor classification | Legal obligation (FCA rules); legitimate interests |
| Carrying out AML, KYC, sanctions and PEP checks; preventing fraud and financial crime | Legal obligation; and, for special category or criminal offence data, substantial public interest (preventing or detecting unlawful acts) under Schedule 1, Data Protection Act 2018 |
| Administering investments, commitments, payments and reporting to investors | Performance of a contract; legal obligation |
| Sending you information about DMQ, our investment activity, market commentary or events | Consent where required; otherwise legitimate interests (business-to-business marketing to relevant professional contacts) |
| Maintaining records of communications and transactions as required by the FCA and other regulators | Legal obligation |
| Operating, securing, maintaining and improving the Site | Legitimate interests (running a secure, effective website) |
| Establishing, exercising or defending legal claims; responding to regulators, auditors and courts | Legitimate interests; legal obligation |
| Corporate transactions, such as a restructuring, merger or sale of our business | Legitimate interests (managing our business) |
Where we rely on legitimate interests, we have assessed that our interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms. You can ask us for more information about that assessment, and you have the right to object (see section 8).
Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.
4. Marketing communications
We may send you information about our activities, market views or events where you have consented, or where you are an existing or prospective business contact and we have a legitimate interest in doing so (in line with PECR's rules on business-to-business communications).
You can opt out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email, or by contacting us via the contact form on our website. Opting out of marketing does not stop us sending you service, transactional or regulatory communications relating to an existing relationship.
We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.
5. Who we share your personal data with
We may disclose your personal data to:
- Our principal firm, Capital Alliance Partners Limited, for regulatory oversight, compliance monitoring and approval of financial promotions;
- Service providers acting as processors on our behalf, including our website hosting provider (Lovable), email and productivity providers, CRM and marketing platforms, cloud storage providers, and IT support;
- Compliance and verification providers, including AML/KYC, sanctions screening and identity verification services;
- Fund managers, administrators, custodians, depositaries, transfer agents and portfolio companies, where necessary to progress or administer an investment;
- Professional advisers, including lawyers, auditors, accountants, insurers and consultants, acting as controllers or processors;
- Regulators, tax and law enforcement authorities, including the FCA and HMRC, where we are required or permitted to disclose;
- Prospective purchasers, investors or lenders in connection with a sale, restructuring or financing of our business, subject to appropriate confidentiality protections.
We require all processors acting on our behalf to process personal data only on our documented instructions, to keep it secure and confidential, and to comply with UK data protection law under a written contract.
6. International transfers
Some of our service providers are located outside the United Kingdom. Where we transfer personal data outside the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection by relying on one of the following safeguards:
- transfer to a country that the UK Government has determined provides an adequate level of protection;
- the International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses; or
- another lawful transfer mechanism permitted under the UK GDPR.
You may request a copy of the safeguards we use by contacting us at the contact form on our website.
7. How long we keep your personal data
We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including to satisfy legal, regulatory, accounting or reporting requirements.
Our general retention periods are:
| Data | Typical retention period |
|---|---|
| Website enquiries that do not lead to a relationship | Up to 24 months from last contact |
| Marketing contact data | Until you opt out, or 24 months of inactivity |
| Records relating to regulated business, including client classification, communications and transaction records | At least 5 years from the end of the relationship, in line with FCA record-keeping requirements (longer where the FCA requires, or for pension and long-term products) |
| AML/KYC records | 5 years from the end of the business relationship or completion of the transaction, as required by the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 |
| Accounting and tax records | 6 years from the end of the relevant financial year |
| Records relevant to actual or potential legal claims | Up to 6 years from the end of the relationship, or longer where a claim is ongoing |
| Website server logs and analytics | Up to [12] months |
Where personal data is no longer required, we securely delete or anonymise it. In some circumstances we may retain anonymised data indefinitely for analysis, in which case it can no longer be linked to you.
8. Your rights
Under the UK GDPR you have the following rights:
- Right of access — to obtain a copy of the personal data we hold about you and information about how we process it.
- Right to rectification — to have inaccurate personal data corrected and incomplete data completed.
- Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten") — to ask us to delete your personal data where there is no good reason for us to continue processing it. This right does not apply where we must retain data to meet a legal or regulatory obligation.
- Right to restrict processing — to ask us to suspend processing in certain circumstances, for example while we verify the accuracy of your data.
- Right to data portability — to receive personal data you provided to us in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, where processing is based on consent or contract and carried out by automated means.
- Right to object — to object to processing based on our legitimate interests. You have an absolute right to object to processing for direct marketing purposes.
- Right to withdraw consent — where we rely on consent, at any time.
- Rights relating to automated decision-making — not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing that produces legal or similarly significant effects.
We do not use your personal data for automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects. Where automated screening tools are used for AML or sanctions purposes, any resulting decision is reviewed by a person.
How to exercise your rights
Contact us at the contact form on our website.
There is normally no fee, although we may charge a reasonable fee, or refuse to comply, if a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive. We may need to request specific information from you to verify your identity. We aim to respond within one month; if your request is complex or you have made a number of requests, we may extend this by up to two further months and will let you know.
9. Cookies and similar technologies
The Site uses cookies and similar technologies. A cookie is a small text file placed on your device when you visit a website.
| Type | Purpose | Consent required |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Enable core functionality such as page navigation, security and form submission. The Site cannot function properly without them. | No |
| Functional | Remember your preferences, such as language or display settings. | Yes |
| Analytics/performance | Help us understand how visitors use the Site so we can improve it. | Yes |
| Marketing | Used to measure the effectiveness of campaigns or deliver relevant content. | Yes |
We only place non-essential cookies on your device with your consent, obtained through our cookie banner. You can change or withdraw your preferences at any time via [COOKIE SETTINGS LINK], and you can block or delete cookies through your browser settings — although blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect how the Site works.
Note: Complete the table above with the actual cookies set by your site, including the provider, purpose and duration of each. If the Site currently sets only strictly necessary cookies, you may not need a consent banner — but you should verify this against the cookies your hosting platform and any embedded scripts actually set.
10. Data security
We have put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access. These include access controls, encryption in transit, secure hosting, confidentiality obligations on staff and contractors, and staff training.
We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and third parties who have a business need to know, and who are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) where we are legally required to do so.
Please note that no transmission of information over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Any transmission is at your own risk.
11. Third-party websites
The Site may contain links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party sites and are not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
12. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with a revised "Last updated" date. Where changes are significant, we will take reasonable steps to notify you directly. Please review this page periodically.
13. Contact us and your right to complain
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact:
We would appreciate the chance to address your concerns before you approach the regulator, so please contact us in the first instance.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection:
- Website: ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
- Helpline: 0303 123 1113
- Address: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF