Effective Date: 3rd October 2025
Last Updated: 3rd October 2025
At Venture Stori, our mission is to help businesses, innovators, and leaders tell their stories. We believe every great story is built on trust, and that includes how we handle your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains, in clear language, how we collect, use, and protect the details you share with us through our Lead Generation Form.
When you submit your information, you are entrusting us with a part of your story. We take that responsibility seriously.
1. What We Collect and Why
When you fill out our form, we may collect:
- Basic details like your name, email, phone number, job title, company, and location.
- Business insights, such as your industry, company size, and areas of interest.
- Preferences — whether you’d like to hear from us about news, features, or opportunities.
- Technical data, including IP address, browser, and device type (collected via cookies and analytics).
Why? Because this helps us respond to you, connect you with the right stories, and share insights that matter to your professional journey.
2. How We Use Your Information
We promise to use your data responsibly and meaningfully, never intrusively. Your information may be used to:
- Respond to your requests and inquiries.
- Keep you updated with stories, features, and resources that fit your interests.
- Invite you into opportunities where your work or brand can shine.
- Improve how we communicate and serve our community.
- Comply with applicable legal requirements.
And to be absolutely clear: We do not sell your personal data.
3. The Legal Ground (for Our Global Audience)
Different regions require us to explain the legal “why.” Depending on where you live, we process your data because:
- You gave us consent (e.g., for newsletters or updates).
- It’s needed to fulfill a request (responding to your inquiry).
- We have a legitimate interest (building trusted connections, improving services, preventing misuse).
- Or because we have a legal duty to keep certain records.
4. When We Share (and When We Don’t)
We only share your information when it helps us serve you better:
- With trusted service providers (like CRM or email systems), under strict confidentiality.
- With legal authorities, if required.
- With carefully chosen partners in contexts where it benefits you and aligns with our mission.
We never trade or rent your data: that’s not who we are.
5. Where Your Data Lives
Since Venture Stori speaks to a global audience, your information may be stored or processed outside your home country. When this happens, we put safeguards in place (like GDPR-approved contractual clauses or strong encryption) to keep your data safe, wherever it travels.
6. How Long Do We Keep Your Story
- Lead form submissions: up to 24 months after our last interaction, unless you ask us to delete sooner.
- Marketing preferences: until you opt out.
- Technical analytics: usually 6–12 months.
When the data is no longer useful, we securely delete or anonymise it.
7. Your Rights, Your Control
Your story, your choice. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:
- Access, update, or correct your information.
- Ask us to delete it.
- Restrict or object to how it’s used.
- Withdraw consent at any time.
- Request a copy of your data to take elsewhere.
- File a complaint with your local authority.
California residents also have rights under the CCPA/CPRA, including knowing what we collect, opting out of data sharing, and receiving fair treatment regardless of privacy choices.
To exercise any right, simply email us at arielepublishing@gmail.com
8. Cookies and Tracking
Like most websites, we use cookies and similar tools to understand how people interact with our content. This helps us improve the way we connect with you. You can manage or disable cookies anytime through your browser settings.
9. How We Protect Your Story
We take your trust seriously. That’s why we safeguard your data with:
- Encryption in transit and at rest.
- Limited access only to those who need it.
- Monitoring and best-practice security measures.
We work hard to protect your information.
10. For Children
Venture Stori is designed for professionals. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 18. If that ever happens by mistake, we will delete it.
11. Updates to This Policy
Privacy standards evolve, and so will we. If this policy changes, we’ll post the updated version here with a new “Last Updated” date.
12. Contact Us
Got a question, concern, or request about your data? We’d love to hear from you.
Venture Stori Office
Email: arielepublishing@gmail.com
Address: Plot 676 Diamond Estate, Enugu, Nigeria.
Phone: +234 907 835 3088