California Privacy Notice

Last Updated: January 31, 2024

This California Privacy Notice (“CA Privacy Notice”) supplements the Privacy Policy and applies solely to California consumers, including our website visitors and personnel working on behalf of our institutional investors, portfolio companies, business partners and vendors, both online and offline.

This CA Privacy Notice does not apply to (i) Silver Lake personnel or job applicants seeking opportunities at Silver Lake or (ii) investor information collected, processed, sold, or disclosed pursuant to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and its implementing regulations or the California Financial Information Privacy Act.

This CA Privacy Notice uses certain terms that have the meanings given to them in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, and its implementing regulations (the “CCPA”).

Collection and Use of Personal Information

We may collect (and may have collected during the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of this CA Privacy Notice) the following categories of personal information about you:

  • Identifiers: identifiers, such as a real name, postal address(es), unique personal identifier (such as a device identifier; cookies; beacons; customer number, unique pseudonym, or user alias; telephone number and other forms of persistent or probabilistic identifiers), online identifier, IP address, email address, account name, Social Security number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, date of birth, and other similar identifiers
  • Additional Data: This includes information subject to Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80, such as your signature, physical characteristics, bank account number and other financial information, education information and medical information
  • Protected Classifications: characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, including but not limited to race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, disability, citizenship status, and military and veteran status
  • Commercial Information: commercial or investment information, including financial products or investment services considered, obtained, or purchased, and other investing or consuming histories or tendencies
  • Online Activity: Internet and other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, browser type and version, search history, and information regarding your interaction with our websites and applications
  • Sensory Information: audio, electronic, visual, and similar information
  • Employment Information: professional or employment-related information, such as job title and salary
  • Inferences: inferences drawn from certain of the information identified above to create a profile about you reflecting your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes

We may use (and may have used during the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of this CA Privacy Notice) the categories of personal information listed above for the purposes described in our Privacy Policy.  In addition, we use personal information for the following purposes, including “business purposes” as they are described in the CCPA:

  • Monitoring and managing our investments (including our portfolio companies) and advising on career opportunities and/or employment decisions at our portfolio companies, in accordance with applicable law
  • Complying with applicable laws or rules of local or foreign regulatory or law enforcement authorities
  • Recruiting efforts, including to identify potential job applicants for our portfolio companies and to evaluate candidates as part of job applications
  • Performing services, such as maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, providing analytics services, calculating and carrying out distributions, responding to inquiries and providing announcements about future events and opportunities
  • Auditing, including auditing related to California consumer interactions and transactions
  • Short-term, transient use
  • Helping to ensure security and integrity
  • Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality, such as on our website
  • Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration
  • Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality of our services and/or to improve, upgrade, or enhance those services.

We do not collect or process sensitive personal information for purposes of inferring characteristics about consumers.

To the extent we process deidentified information, we will maintain and use the information in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify the information unless permitted by applicable law.

Retention of Personal Information

We will retain your personal information in accordance with the criteria described in the “How Long We Keep Your Personal Information” section of our Privacy Policy.

Sources of Personal Information

During the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of this CA Privacy Notice, we may have obtained personal information about you from the following categories of sources:

  • Directly from you, such as when you attend an event that we have organized or you provide information through surveys, emails, calls, forms, investor questionnaires, subscription agreements (other onboarding documents), your online data-site or investor reporting portal, and other features on our website, or interact with our social media accounts;
  • From your devices, such as when you visit our website or connect to our wireless network;
  • From your investor capital account;
  • Our affiliates;
  • Our portfolio companies;
  • Your employer;
  • Other individuals, such as in connection with a referral or reference;
  • Recruitment agencies we collaborate with to fulfil vacancies at our portfolio companies;
  • Businesses and counterparties that we are evaluating in connection with a potential investment, disposition, or other business opportunity;
  • Vendors who provide services to us, such as administrative agents, know-your-client service providers, and IT and software service providers;
  • Law firms and fund administrators involved in the subscription process;
  • Social networks or other third-party websites; and
  • Website analytics providers, such as Google Analytics.

How We Disclose Personal Information 

Silver Lake does not sell, or share for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes, personal information about CA consumers covered by this CA Privacy Notice.

During the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of this CA Privacy Notice, we may have disclosed the following categories of personal information about you for a business purpose to the following certain categories of third parties:

Category of Personal Information

Identifiers

Categories of Third Parties

  • Our affiliates
  • Vendors who provide services to us, such as administrative agents, know-your-client service providers, and IT and software service providers
  • Other financial institutions, such as banks and insurers
  • Professional services organizations, such as auditors, recruitment agencies, and law firms
  • Actual and potential portfolio companies and others within our network, purchasers thereof and potential co-investors, and each of their respective advisors
  • Persons holding a legal or beneficial interest relating to investors or acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity on their behalf
  • Partners and investors in our funds
  • Website analytics providers

Category of Personal Information

Additional Data Subject to Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80

Categories of Third Parties

  • Our affiliates
  • Vendors who provide services to us, such as administrative agents, know-your-client service providers, and IT and software service providers
  • Other financial institutions, such as banks and insurers
  • Professional services organizations, such as auditors, recruitment agencies, and law firms
  • Actual and potential portfolio companies and others within our network, purchasers thereof and potential co-investors, and each of their respective advisors
  • Persons holding a legal or beneficial interest relating to investors or acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity on their behalf
  • Partners and investors in our funds
  • Website analytics providers

Category of Personal Information

Protected Classifications

Categories of Third Parties

  • Our affiliates
  • Vendors who provide services to us, such as administrative agents, know-your-client service providers, and IT and software service providers
  • Other financial institutions, such as banks and insurers
  • Professional services organizations, such as auditors, recruitment agencies, and law firms
  • Actual and potential portfolio companies and others within our network, purchasers thereof and potential co-investors, and each of their respective advisors
  • Persons holding a legal or beneficial interest relating to investors or acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity on their behalf
  • Partners and investors in our funds
  • Website analytics providers

Category of Personal Information

Commercial Information

Categories of Third Parties

  • Our affiliates
  • Vendors who provide services to us, such as administrative agents, know-your-client service providers, and IT and software service providers
  • Other financial institutions, such as banks and insurers
  • Professional services organizations, such as auditors, recruitment agencies, and law firms
  • Actual and potential portfolio companies and others within our network, purchasers thereof and potential co-investors, and each of their respective advisors
  • Persons holding a legal or beneficial interest relating to investors or acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity on their behalf
  • Partners and investors in our funds
  • Website analytics providers

Category of Personal Information

Online Activity

Categories of Third Parties

  • Our affiliates
  • Vendors who provide services to us, such as administrative agents, know-your-client service providers, and IT and software service providers
  • Other financial institutions, such as banks and insurers
  • Professional services organizations, such as auditors, recruitment agencies, and law firms
  • Actual and potential portfolio companies and others within our network, purchasers thereof and potential co-investors, and each of their respective advisors
  • Persons holding a legal or beneficial interest relating to investors or acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity on their behalf
  • Partners and investors in our funds
  • Website analytics providers

Category of Personal Information

Sensory Information

Categories of Third Parties

  • Our affiliates
  • Vendors who provide services to us, such as administrative agents, know-your-client service providers, and IT and software service providers
  • Other financial institutions, such as banks and insurers
  • Professional services organizations, such as auditors, recruitment agencies, and law firms
  • Actual and potential portfolio companies and others within our network, purchasers thereof and potential co-investors, and each of their respective advisors
  • Persons holding a legal or beneficial interest relating to investors or acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity on their behalf
  • Partners and investors in our funds
  • Website analytics providers

Category of Personal Information

Employment Information

Categories of Third Parties

  • Our affiliates
  • Vendors who provide services to us, such as administrative agents, know-your-client service providers, and IT and software service providers
  • Other financial institutions, such as banks and insurers
  • Professional services organizations, such as auditors, recruitment agencies, and law firms
  • Actual and potential portfolio companies and others within our network, purchasers thereof and potential co-investors, and each of their respective advisors
  • Persons holding a legal or beneficial interest relating to investors or acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity on their behalf
  • Partners and investors in our funds
  • Website analytics providers

Category of Personal Information

Inferences

Categories of Third Parties

  • Our affiliates
  • Vendors who provide services to us, such as administrative agents, know-your-client service providers, and IT and software service providers
  • Other financial institutions, such as banks and insurers
  • Professional services organizations, such as auditors, recruitment agencies, and law firms
  • Actual and potential portfolio companies and others within our network, purchasers thereof and potential co-investors, and each of their respective advisors
  • Persons holding a legal or beneficial interest relating to investors or acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity on their behalf
  • Partners and investors in our funds
  • Website analytics providers

In addition to the categories of third parties identified above, during the 12-month period prior to the Effective Date of this Notice, we may have disclosed personal information about Job Applicants to government entities (e.g., law enforcement authorities) and third parties in connection with corporate transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions or bankruptcy.

California Consumer Privacy Rights

You have certain choices regarding your personal information, as described below.

Access:  You have the right to request, twice in a 12-month period, that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected, used, and disclosed about you.

Correction: You have the right to request that we correct the personal information we maintain about you, if that information is inaccurate.

Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information we have collected from you.  Please note that as a registered investment adviser, we are required by law to maintain certain records and may be unable to accommodate your request.

If you choose to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment by us.  For questions or concerns about our privacy policies and practices, please contact us as described in the “How to Contact Us” section of our Privacy Policy, which can be found on our website at https://www.silverlake.com/privacy-policy.

How to Submit a Request

To submit an access, correction or deletion request on your own behalf or as an authorized agent, email us at [email protected] or call our toll-free number at (866) 994-0462.

Verifying Requests

To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your request.  If you request access to, or correction or deletion of, your personal information, we may require you to provide certain information, such as your full name, email address, and phone number.  In addition, if you ask us to provide you with specific pieces of personal information, we may require you to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose personal information is the subject of the request.

Additional Information

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request.  This CA Privacy Notice is available in alternative formats upon request.  Please contact [email protected] or our toll-free number at (866) 994-0462 between the hours of 9:00 am and 5:00 pm Pacific Time to request this CA Privacy Notice in an alternative format.