Privacy Policy

Last updated: 15 May 2025

At Fifty Years, we're committed to building a better future by supporting civilizationary founders. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal data  in accordance with applicable data protection laws globally—including the General Data Protection Regulation (EU & UK GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA), and other relevant regulations.

1. Who We Are

Fifty Years is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco. We invest in ventures solving pressing global challenges. For the purposes of data protection law, Fifty Years is the "data controller" of your personal information.

2. How We Collect Your Data

We collect personal data in the following ways:

  • Direct interactions: When you contact us via our website, email, or phone.

  • Automated technologies: As you interact with our website, we may collect technical data about your equipment and browsing actions through cookies and similar technologies.

  • Third parties: We may receive personal data from analytics providers or publicly available sources.


3. Types of Data We Collect

  • Identity Data: Name, title, company affiliation.

  • Contact Data: Email address, telephone number.

  • Technical Data: IP address, browser type, time zone setting, operating system.

  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our website and services.

  • Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us.


4. How We Use Your Data

We use your personal data to:

  • Respond to your inquiries and provide information about our services.

  • Manage our relationship with you.

  • Improve our website and services through analytics.

  • Comply with legal obligations.

Our legal bases for processing your data include:

  • Consent: Where you have given clear consent.

  • Contract: Processing necessary for a contract with you.

  • Legal obligation: Processing necessary to comply with the law.

  • Legitimate interests: Processing necessary for our legitimate interests, provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

For California residents, we do not sell personal information as defined under CCPA/CPRA.


5. Data Sharing

We do not sell your personal data. We may share your data with:

  • Service providers: Who provide IT and system administration services.

  • Professional advisers: Including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers.

  • Regulatory authorities: As required by law.


6. International Transfers

If we transfer your personal data outside the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses approved by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

7. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal data to those employees and partners who have a business need to know.

8. Data Retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

9. Your Legal Rights

Under data protection laws, you have rights including:

  • Access: Request access to your personal data.

  • Correction: Request correction of inaccurate data.

  • Erasure: Request deletion of your data.

  • Objection: Object to processing of your data.

  • Restriction: Request restriction of processing.

  • Data portability: Request transfer of your data to you or a third party.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@fiftyyears.com.

10. Cookies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, and JavaScript (collectively, “Cookies”) to distinguish you from other users. This helps us provide you with a good experience and allows us to improve our site. We use the following types of cookies:

  • Essential Cookies. Essential Cookies are required for providing you with features or services that you have requested.

  • Functional Cookies. Functional Cookies are used to record your choices and settings regarding our services, maintain your preferences over time and recognize you when you return to the site.

  • Performance/Analytical Cookies. Performance/Analytical Cookies allow us to understand how visitors use our services such as by collecting information about the number of visitors, what pages visitors view, and how long visitors are viewing pages. Performance/Analytical Cookies also help us measure the performance of our advertising campaigns in order to help us improve our campaigns and content for those who engage with our advertising. In addition to our own Performance/Analytical Cookies, these may contain Performance/Analytical Cookies from third party analytics services.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at: privacy@fiftyyears.com