Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 23, 2025

Headquarters: 459 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10024, United States

1. Information We Collect

Equaryon ("Equaryon", "Company", "we", "our", or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website at www.Equaryon.com (the "Site") or otherwise interact with us in connection with our investment banking and advisory services.

By using our Site or our services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

We may collect the following types of information:

• Personal Information you voluntarily provide, such as your name, email address, company, job title, and phone number (for example, when you fill out a contact form, request a proposal, or subscribe to our updates).
• Business Information related to potential or existing transactions, such as information about your company, counterparties, transaction structure, financial statements, capitalization tables, and other deal-related documents you choose to share with us.
• Regulatory and KYC Information, where required for regulatory or compliance purposes, such as identification information, information to verify beneficial ownership, information about source of funds, and sanctions-screening results.
• Usage Data collected automatically through cookies, analytics tools, and server logs (for example, IP address, device identifiers, browser type, pages visited, time spent, and referring URLs).

We may combine information we collect from you with information obtained from public sources and third-party providers (such as company databases, financial information providers, or compliance screening services) where permitted by law.

2. How We Use Your Information

We may use your information to:

• Provide, operate, and improve our Site and services, including investment banking, mergers and acquisitions advisory, capital markets advisory (such as IPOs and follow-on offerings), and other corporate finance advisory services.
• Evaluate, originate, structure, and execute potential or actual transactions, including performing due diligence and analysis.
• Communicate with you, including responding to inquiries, sending transaction-related updates, and providing insights or thought leadership that may be relevant to you.
• Personalize your experience and improve our content, marketing, and client communications.
• Conduct research and analytics about our client base, markets, and services (in aggregated or de-identified form where appropriate).
• Manage our business operations, including risk management, compliance, and audit.
• Protect the security and integrity of our systems, prevent fraud, and detect suspicious or unlawful activity.
• Comply with applicable legal and regulatory obligations, including securities regulations, anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) requirements, sanctions laws, anti-bribery and corruption rules, and record-keeping obligations.
• Enforce our Terms of Use and other agreements, and exercise or defend legal claims.

3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to enhance user experience, remember your preferences, and analyze traffic on our Site. Cookies may be set by us or by third-party analytics and service providers.

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. However, some parts of the Site may not function properly without certain cookies.

4. Information Sharing

We do not sell or rent your personal information. We may share information as follows:

• Group Entities and Affiliates involved in providing our investment banking and advisory services or supporting our operations, subject to appropriate confidentiality arrangements.
• Service Providers who help us operate the Site and deliver our services (for example, hosting providers, IT and security vendors, analytics providers, communications and marketing platforms, compliance and KYC vendors, and professional advisers such as law firms and accountants).
• Transaction Counterparties and Their Advisers where necessary in connection with a potential or actual transaction and subject to appropriate confidentiality obligations.
• Legal Authorities and Regulators if required by law, regulation, regulator, court order, or to respond to lawful requests from supervisory or enforcement authorities.
• Business Transfers in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of all or part of our business, in which case information may be transferred as part of the transaction.

Where we share personal information with third parties, we take steps to ensure that they process your information in accordance with applicable law and appropriate contractual safeguards.

5. Data Retention

We retain your information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy or as required by law, regulation, or regulatory guidance. In particular, financial services and AML/KYC rules may require us to retain certain records for extended periods after a transaction or relationship ends.

When data is no longer needed, we will securely delete, anonymize, or aggregate it, subject to any legal or regulatory record-keeping requirements.

6. Data Security

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. These measures may include access controls, encryption, network and application security, and regular monitoring.

However, no system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute protection. You are responsible for maintaining the security of any credentials or accounts associated with your use of our Site.

7. Your Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Access, correct, or delete your personal information.
• Object to or restrict certain types of processing.
• Receive a copy of your personal information in a portable format.
• Opt out of marketing communications.
• Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

To exercise these rights, contact us using the details in the "Contact Us" section below. We may need to verify your identity and, in some cases, may be unable to fully comply with your request where we must retain information to comply with legal or regulatory obligations or to protect our legitimate interests.

8. International Data Transfers

Equaryon may operate and provide services across multiple jurisdictions. As a result, your information may be transferred to and processed in countries that may not provide the same level of data protection as your home jurisdiction.

Where required by law, we implement appropriate safeguards for such transfers, such as standard contractual clauses or other mechanisms recognized under applicable data protection laws.

9. Links to Other Websites

Our Site may contain links to external websites not operated by us. We are not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, or legal and regulatory requirements. Any updates will be posted on this page with a new "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this Policy periodically.

11. Additional Disclosures for Investment Banking & Advisory Services

Because Equaryon provides investment banking and advisory services, the following additional disclosures apply:

• Confidential Deal Information: We treat information about potential or actual transactions (including non-public financial and strategic information) as confidential and protect it through contractual confidentiality obligations, information barriers, and internal policies.
• Regulatory and Compliance Use: We may process personal and business information to perform background checks, sanctions and watch-list screening, anti-money laundering and KYC checks, and other compliance assessments required by securities and financial regulations.
• Professional Communications: Communications with you in the context of potential or ongoing transactions may be recorded and retained to comply with regulatory obligations and for evidentiary purposes.
• Research and Analytics: We may use aggregated or anonymized transaction data and market insights to improve our advisory capabilities and produce market studies, provided that such outputs do not identify you or your company.

If we act in different regulated capacities in different jurisdictions, additional local disclosures or notices may apply. Where required, we will provide you with those disclosures separately.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, or if you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at:

Equaryon
459 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10024, United States
Phone: (908) 641-4405
Email: it@equaryon.com