Privacy

Last updated 15 October 2026

Who we are

This notice explains how Orthogonal (“we”, “us”) handles personal information when you visit this website or write to us. We have offices in San Francisco, Boston and London. You can reach us about anything in this notice at hello@orthogonal.vc.

What we collect, and why

Analytics, only if you accept. If you choose Accept in the cookie bar, we use Google Analytics to understand how the site is used: which pages are viewed, how visitors arrive, and their approximate location, device and browser. Google Analytics does not log or store IP addresses; for visitors in the UK and the EU, the address is used only to estimate location and is then discarded. We rely on your consent, and nothing is loaded unless you give it.

Visits to the site. Our host, Vercel, receives the technical information every visit sends, such as your IP address and browser details, to deliver the site and keep it secure, and keeps it for a limited period. We rely on our legitimate interest in running a secure website. Vercel explains its own handling in its privacy notice.

Email. If you write to us, we receive your message and the details you include, and use them to reply. Messages are held by the email service we use. We rely on our legitimate interest in corresponding with you.

We do not sell personal information.

Cookies

Google Analytics sets two cookies, _ga and _ga_ followed by an identifier, which last up to two years. They are set only after you accept. The site also keeps your choice in your browser's storage, so that it does not ask again on every visit. You can change your choice at any time with Cookie settings in the footer of the main pages; if you withdraw, analytics stops and its cookies are deleted.

The site does not respond to browser Do Not Track signals; analytics runs only with your consent.

Who receives it, and where

Personal information is received by Google (for analytics, if you accept), Vercel, our host, and the email service we use. They may process it in the United States. Google relies on the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework and its UK Extension, and otherwise on standard contractual clauses, as it describes on its data transfers page. Vercel relies on the Data Privacy Framework, standard contractual clauses and the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, set out in its data processing addendum.

Links on this site to other websites, including our portfolio companies, LinkedIn and the investor login, lead to sites with their own privacy policies.

How long we keep it

Analytics data: the period set in our Google Analytics account, no longer than 14 months.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access the personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to how we use it, and to receive it in a portable form. Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time with Cookie settings; that does not affect anything done before. To use any of these rights, write to hello@orthogonal.vc.

Changes

If we change this notice, we will update it here and change the date at the top.