Chesterton Hills ("Chesterton Hills," "the firm," "we," "us," or "our") respects the privacy of everyone who visits this website, contacts us, applies for a role, or engages us. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, why we collect it, who we share it with, how long we keep it, and the rights available to you. It applies to www.chestertonhills.com and to the communications and forms reachable from it (together, the "Site").
This Policy does not apply to information governed by a separate written agreement between you and the firm, such as a nondisclosure agreement or an engagement letter. Where a signed agreement and this Policy conflict, the signed agreement controls as to the information covered by it.
1. Information we collect
Information you give us
- Enquiries and scheduling. If you book a call or write to us, we receive your name, email address, any telephone number you provide, and whatever you choose to tell us about your organization.
- Job applications. If you apply for a role, we receive your name, email address, telephone number, city and state or region, your answers to the application questions, your résumé, and any additional documents you attach.
- Partner and organization submissions. If you complete the partner form, we receive the organization and contact details entered on that form.
- Engagement correspondence. If your organization engages us, we receive the business information you and your team share with us in the course of the work, which may include personal information about your personnel.
Information collected automatically
- Server and delivery logs. Our hosting provider records standard technical data when a page is served, including IP address, approximate location derived from it, browser and device type, referring page, and the date and time of the request.
- Cookies and analytics. The Site sets no advertising cookies and does not track you across other websites. We measure aggregate traffic, such as how many people viewed a page and which site referred them, using privacy preserving analytics that do not use cookies and do not build a profile of you. Services from other companies embedded in or linked from the Site may set their own cookies.
We do not knowingly collect special category data, government identifiers, financial account numbers, or payment card data through the Site. Please do not send them to us through it. If you send them anyway, we will delete them where we are not required to retain them.
2. Why we use your information, and on what legal basis
- To respond to you and to provide our services. Legal basis: performance of a contract, or steps taken at your request before entering into one.
- To assess job applications and administer recruitment. Legal basis: steps taken at your request before entering into a contract, and our legitimate interest in staffing the firm.
- To operate, secure, and improve the Site, including detecting and preventing abuse. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in running a secure and functioning website.
- To keep records and to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims. Legal basis: our legitimate interest, and compliance with legal obligations.
- To send you information you asked for. Legal basis: consent, which you may withdraw at any time.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for behavioural advertising on other websites. We do not use the information you submit to train machine learning models, and applications are reviewed by people.
3. When we disclose information
We disclose personal information only as follows:
- To service providers who process it on our instructions to run the Site and the firm.
- Within the firm, to the partners and personnel who need it for the purpose it was given.
- Where you direct us to, including where a client asks us to make an introduction on its behalf. We do not disclose a client's name, materials, or details to any third party without that client's permission.
- Where required by law, or in response to lawful requests by public authorities, or where necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
- In connection with a reorganization, merger, or transfer of all or part of the firm's business, subject to the recipient honouring commitments materially as protective as those in this Policy.
4. International transfers
Chesterton Hills operates from the United States, and the service providers we use process data in the United States and other countries. If you are located in the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area, or another jurisdiction with data transfer restrictions, your information will be transferred to and processed in countries whose data protection laws may differ from those of your own. Where such a transfer requires a safeguard, we rely on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses or another lawful transfer mechanism, and you may request further information using the contact details in section 9.
5. How long we keep it
- Enquiries that do not become engagements: up to twenty four months from the last contact.
- Applications from candidates we do not hire: up to twelve months, so that we can consider you for later openings, unless you ask us to delete them sooner.
- Engagement records: for the duration of the engagement and for so long afterwards as is necessary for our legal, tax, and professional obligations.
- Server logs: for the period set by our hosting provider, which is short.
We delete or anonymize information when it is no longer needed for the purpose it was collected for, unless we are required to keep it.
6. Security
We use administrative and technical measures appropriate to the size of the firm and the sensitivity of the information, including transport encryption for the Site, access limited to personnel who need it, and confidentiality obligations on the people who handle it. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. Please do not send us confidential business information through the Site before an appropriate agreement is in place.
7. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you; to have it corrected or deleted; to restrict or object to how we use it; to receive it in a portable format; to withdraw consent where we relied on it; and not to be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights.
If you are in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. If you are a California resident, you may exercise the rights described above under the California Consumer Privacy Act, including through an authorized agent, and we confirm that we have not sold or shared personal information for behavioural advertising on other websites in the preceding twelve months.
To exercise any right, write to contact@chestertonhills.com. We will respond within the period required by the applicable law, and we may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.
8. Other matters
Children. The Site is directed to businesses and professionals. It is not intended for anyone under sixteen, and we do not knowingly collect their information. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, write to us and we will delete it.
Other websites. The Site links to sites we do not control, including scheduling and form providers. Their privacy practices are their own, and we are not responsible for them.
Changes. We may update this Policy. The date at the top of this document reflects the most recent version. Material changes will be reflected here, and your continued use of the Site after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Policy.
9. How to reach us
Questions, requests, and complaints about this Policy should be sent to contact@chestertonhills.com, addressed to the Managing Partner, Chesterton Hills.
These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your access to and use of www.chestertonhills.com and its contents (the "Site"), which is operated by Chesterton Hills ("Chesterton Hills," "the firm," "we," "us," or "our"). By accessing or using the Site you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree to them, do not use the Site.
1. The Site is information, not advice
Everything on the Site is provided for general information about the firm and its services. Nothing on the Site is, or should be relied on as, legal, tax, accounting, regulatory, investment, or other professional advice, and nothing on it takes account of the objectives, financial situation, or particular needs of any person. You should obtain your own professional advice before acting on anything you read here.
2. No securities activity, and no offer
Chesterton Hills is not a broker-dealer, investment adviser, or placement agent. We do not offer, sell, or solicit investments or securities. Our role is purely advisory and connective; we are not involved in any deals or negotiations. Chesterton Hills is also not a venture capital firm, angel group, or other funding organization, we do not invest or provide any funding for our clients. Nothing on this site constitutes an offer to sell, a solicitation of an offer to buy, or a recommendation to purchase any investment or security.
The firm is not a finder or a registered representative of any of them, and is not registered as such with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, any state securities regulator, or any comparable authority in any other jurisdiction. The firm is not a law firm and does not provide legal or investment advice.
The firm does not offer, sell, solicit, or negotiate the purchase or sale of securities; does not raise capital on behalf of any person; does not act as an intermediary in, or a party to, any financing or transaction; and does not receive any commission, success fee, finder's fee, or compensation tied to a transaction. The firm's capital readiness and investor services consist of company assessment, commercial and operational support, education, training, mentorship, company development, preparation, coaching, materials, and connections, and the decision to invest, to accept an investment, to transact, or to proceed on any terms rests solely with the parties concerned.
Demo Day participation is offered only through the full retainer-based Capital Readiness program, after the company's preparation is complete. The firm invites members of its capital network whose investment interests match the company's industry to hear the business presentation and make connections. Demo Day is connections only and is not a fundraising service. Hourly and project preparation engagements do not include Demo Day participation. The firm does not solicit investment commitments, negotiate terms, handle investor funds or securities, or receive success-based or transaction-contingent fees.
3. No relationship is created by using the Site
Visiting the Site, reading it, submitting a form on it, or corresponding with us through it does not create a client, advisory, agency, partnership, joint venture, fiduciary, or employment relationship between you and the firm. A client relationship arises only when the firm and a client have both signed a written engagement agreement, and then only on the terms of that agreement.
4. Figures, statements, and outcomes
Figures presented on the Site describe the collective past experience of the firm's team, including work performed prior to and outside of Chesterton Hills. They are provided as background and are necessarily summarized. Past results do not predict or guarantee future outcomes. Statements about what the firm does or what an engagement may involve are descriptive and are not commitments, warranties, or guarantees of any particular result, revenue, valuation, financing, transaction, introduction, or other outcome.
5. Permitted use
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, nonexclusive, nontransferable, revocable licence to access and view the Site for your own informational and business evaluation purposes. You agree that you will not:
- copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, or create derivative works from the Site or its contents, except for ordinary personal or internal business reference;
- use the Site or its contents to train, or evaluate any machine learning or artificial intelligence model, or scrape, crawl, harvest, or systematically extract data from it by any automated means, except that search engines and answer engines may crawl and index publicly available pages in accordance with the Site's robots.txt. This limited indexing exception does not permit model training, model evaluation, or other automated harvesting;
- frame, mirror, or present the Site or any part of it as your own, or remove or obscure any proprietary notice;
- attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site or any related system, probe or test its vulnerability, or interfere with its operation or with anyone else's use of it;
- use the Site to send unsolicited commercial communications, to submit unlawful, defamatory, infringing, or malicious material, or for any unlawful purpose or in violation of any applicable law, sanction, or export control.
6. Intellectual property
The Site and its contents, including text, layout, design, graphics, photographs, and the Chesterton Hills name and marks, are owned by the firm or its licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. No licence to any trademark is granted by these Terms.
7. What you send us
Do not send us confidential or proprietary information through the Site. Except where a signed nondisclosure agreement or engagement agreement covers it, any material you submit through the Site is received on a nonconfidential basis, and we may use it for the purpose for which you sent it without obligation to you.
Job applications are governed by the Privacy Policy. We do not accept unsolicited résumés from agencies or placement services and we do not pay any fee for candidates referred that way; any such submission is made without obligation of any kind and does not create an agency relationship. If you send us an unsolicited business idea, proposal, or suggestion, you agree that it is submitted voluntarily and that the firm has no obligation of confidentiality, compensation, attribution, or return with respect to it.
You represent that anything you submit is yours to submit, is accurate, and does not infringe the rights of any third party.
8. Third parties
The Site links to and embeds services operated by others, including scheduling, form, and video services. We do not control those services, we do not endorse them by linking to them, and we are not responsible for their content, availability, terms, or privacy practices. Your use of them is governed by their own terms.
9. Availability
We may change, suspend, or discontinue the Site or any part of it at any time, and we may restrict access to it, without notice and without liability to you. We do not undertake to keep the Site available, current, complete, or free of error.
10. Disclaimer of warranties
The site and all content on it are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Chesterton Hills disclaims all warranties, express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, noninfringement, accuracy, and any warranty arising out of course of dealing or usage of trade. We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, secure, or free of error, or that it or the servers that make it available are free of harmful components.
11. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Chesterton Hills and its partners, members, officers, employees, contractors, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profit, revenue, business, opportunity, goodwill, or data, arising out of or relating to the site or these terms, whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other theory, and whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the site and these terms will not exceed one hundred United States dollars (us$100).
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages. Where that is so, the exclusions and limitations above apply only to the extent permitted, and nothing in these Terms limits liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
Nothing in this section limits or alters the terms of any signed engagement agreement between the firm and a client, which governs the firm's liability for the services provided under it.
12. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Chesterton Hills and the persons listed in section 11 from any claim, demand, loss, liability, and expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of your use of the Site, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or of the rights of any third party.
13. Governing law and disputes
These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or to the Site are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict of laws rules and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.
Before commencing any proceeding, you agree to give us written notice at contact@chestertonhills.com describing the dispute and to attempt in good faith to resolve it informally for thirty days. If it is not resolved, you and Chesterton Hills submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Dallas County, Texas, and waive any objection to venue or forum in those courts. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each party waives any right to a trial by jury and any right to bring or participate in a class, collective, or representative action. Any claim arising out of or relating to the Site or these Terms must be brought within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred, except where a longer period is required by law.
14. General
If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or severed, and the remaining provisions will continue in full force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a reorganization or transfer of the firm's business. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any signed agreement between us, are the entire agreement between you and the firm concerning the Site and supersede any prior understanding about it.
We may revise these Terms at any time. The date at the top of this document reflects the current version, and your continued use of the Site after a revision takes effect constitutes acceptance of it.
15. Contact
Questions about these Terms should be sent to contact@chestertonhills.com, addressed to the Managing Partner, Chesterton Hills.
