Privacy Policy

The privacy policy regulates the relationship with us, CEOcouch, as the owner and operator of this Website

The Privacy policy governs your interactions with CEOcouch, the company that owns and operates this website. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Policy describes how we gather information pertaining to businesses and business people as well as all other forms of information, including personal information through our online platform, how we use and distribute that information. Additionally, it explains how you can control the way in which your personal information is used.

It is important to understand that by using our website, you consent to the collection, use, and dissemination of your personal information as indicated in this policy. If you do not agree with the way in which your information will be used, as described in this policy, please do not provide personal information through this website.

1. The personal data we collect

   We collect the following Business Information, if available:

   Identity Data which includes information such as: first and last name, job title and department, company name, corporate website URLs, social networking URLs.

   Contact Data which includes information such as: email address, business phone numbers (general, direct and fax), postal address of company and business-related postal address of the person.

   Technical Data, which includes: metadata such as Internet Protocol addresses and the dates email messages are sent or received and email addresses, names, and job titles of recipients and senders.

   We carry out the following steps to ensure the Directory's integrity:

   • We only collect business related data. Thus, any contacts that have an address from a consumer-oriented service such as Gmail or Yahoo are disregarded.

   • We do not disclose who contributed particular information. The only exceptions: See “Disclosures to Service Providers,” “Disclosures for Legal Reasons,” and “Disclosures to a Buyer of the Company,” below.

   • Any person added to the Directory may request removal at any time by writing an email or using the website. We promptly react to such requests.

2. Customer Information

   We may collect the following information from or regarding our customers:

   • Personal contact information regarding users of the Services (“User Information”);

   • Information uploaded to our system by a user of the Services (“Uploaded Information”);

   • Information that a user of the Services has uploaded to our system ("Uploaded Information");

   • Usage logs for the Site and Services, including logins and other actions taken, time stamps, IP addresses, and other usage data ("Usage Logs") (collectively, "Customer Information").

   As part of the license agreement with your business, you can be a user who has been given access to the Site. Your employer may require, one or more users to have access to all information available of all users that have access through the company. You should contact the right person at your organization if you have any questions or concerns about the rights of other people to access your user information.

   Customer Information may be used for CEOcouch’s legitimate business interests, such as responding to user inquiries and fulfilling user requests, completing transactions, providing customer service, sending administrative information, and to personalize user experience of the site.

   We may use Customer Information to better understand our users in general and to improve the content and functionality of the Site. We may use Customer Information to contact you in the future to tell you about services, promotions, opportunities, and other general information we believe will be of interest to you. We may use Customer Information to investigate and prosecute potential breaches of CEOcouch’s security or license agreements.

   We will not disclose Customer Information to any third party except in connection with a legitimate use as set forth herein, or as otherwise required by law.

   CEOcouch protects customer information by using resonable security and backup measures. CEOcouch is not accountable or liable for any loss or corruption of customer information, though it is a remote possibility. We strongly advise all of our users to save copies of any uploaded information on their own systems.

3. How we collect your data

   We gather data from several sources to generate "Business Profiles," which are profiles of businesses and their owners. After gathering Business Information about a person or company, we put together all the mentions of that person or business to create a Business Profile. The users of the Site, as well as our clients and business partners, have access to the directory of business profiles (the "Directory"). Name, email address, job title, department, phone number, company name, postal address of the company, the person's business-related postal address, employment history, and educational background are all examples of business information that can be included in a business profile. Links to an individual's social media profiles and articles written by, about, or quoting that person are also permitted in business profiles.

   We obtain the data for the Business Profiles in the following ways:

   • Our software scans for attendees of competitions and hackathons, as well as winners of programming awards.

   • Our search technology scans the web and gathers publicly-available information.

   • We license information from other companies.

   • Through market research surveys and phone interviews conducted by our in-house research team.

4. How else does CEOcouch collects Information?

   When you submit information through our website.

   Visitors to our Site have the option of providing their name, email address, phone number, and/or other information in order to, among other things, learn more about our Services. You consent to the practices described in this Policy in relation to the information collected, if you access, use or submit information through the site. If you disagree with this Policy, you must stop from using or accessing our site, remove all cookies from your browser's cache after visiting, and refrain from submitting any information through it.

   When you manage your Business Profile.

   You can update or change the information listed about you in your business profile, including your name, job title, company email address, direct phone number, current and previous employment information and educational background. We only use the data you provide to update your business profile for the purposes of confirming your identification, making changes to the information in your business profile, and honouring your privacy settings. See the "Your Choices" section below for further details.

   When you use our Services.

   You might need to register as a user before you can access some of our services. Your email address might occasionally be used by us to inform you about goods and services in which you might be interested. You can always choose not to stop receiving these communications. Your contact information may be used to get in touch with you about problems relating to how you've been using our services or website, including updates to this policy.

5. How we use your information

   We may also use information for one or more of the following reasons in addition to the ones mentioned above:

   • Our software scans for attendees of competitions and hackathons, as well as winners of programming awards.

   • Create, keep, and enhance the Site.

   • Verify, cleanse, update, and maintain Business Information and other information provided through the Site.

   • Provide and deliver the Services you request, process transactions, and send you related information, including communications and invoices.

   • Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.

   • Respond to your comments, questions, and requests, and provide customer support.

   • Create your account and identify you when you sign in to your account.

   • Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, rewards, and events offered by CEOcouch, and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you.

   • Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with the Site.

   • Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud and other illegal activities.

   • Protect the rights and property of our customers, and others.

   • Personalize and improve the Site.

   • Notify you about significant changes to the Site, including changes or updates to this Privacy Policy.

   • Create aggregated statistical data, inferred non-personal data, or anonymized or pseudonymized data (rendered non-personal and non-identifiable), which we or our business partners or customers may use to provide and improve our respective services.

   • Comply with our contractual and legal obligations, resolve disputes with users, and enforce our agreements.

   • Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.

6. How we share your data

   Disclosures to Affiliates.

   We may disclose Business Information to our affiliates v, including our present and future parents, subsidiaries, and other businesses under our joint control and ownership with CEOcouch.

   Disclosures to Service Providers.

   • CEOcouch uses service providers to handle credit card processing. Your name, billing address, phone number, email address, and credit card information will be provided to service providers when you pay for our services with a credit card, so they can verify your identity and handle any recurring payments.

   • To obtain information on the activities of our visitors on our website, we use a software hosted by a service provider. That service provider may set cookies on our behalf when you visit our site and may obtain information about your browsing activity on our site.

   Disclosures for Legal Reasons.

   We might disclose collected information, including Business information, to a third party if we believe that disclosure is necessary or desirable and we act in good faith:

   • to comply with lawful requests, subpoenas, search warrants, or orders by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements;

   • to address a violation of the law;

   • to protect the rights, property, or safety of CEOcouch, its users, or the public;

   • to allow CEOcouch to exercise its legal rights or respond to a legal claim.

   Disclosures to a Buyer of the Company.

   • Information about you and/or information you supply to CEOcouch may be among the transferred assets if our firm, or all of our assets, are bought, if we merge with another company, or if we go bankrupt. Any time there is a change in ownership or uses of your personal information, you will be told via email and/or a conspicuous notice on our website. You will also have the option to exercise any of your legal rights in relation to your personal data.

   • In the event of a merger, bankruptcy or if our company or all of our assets are acquired, information about you and/or information you provide to us, may be among the transferred assets. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information. You will also be informed of the choices you may have regarding your personal information.

7. Cookies and similar technologies

   A cookie is text file with small pieces of data that are stored on your computer and used to identify specific users and enhance their experience. Data stored in a cookie is created by the server upon your connection and some cookies are essential to access our website.

   Your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, referring/exit pages and URLs, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages seen, time and date of use, and other information are automatically recorded by our servers when you visit our site. Cookies don't normally contain information that directly identifies a user, but we may link the data stored in and retrieved via cookies to the personal information we have on file for you. We are the "data controller" of any "personal data" processed by these cookies to the extent that such term is used in the relevant data protection legislation.

   You have the option to reject cookies. Your browser can be set up to accept all cookies, refuse all cookies, delete cookies, or alert you when a cookie is created. Your ability to use our site may be significantly limited if you choose to refuse or disable cookies.

   Session cookies

   Only used when a user is navigating a website and immediately erased after the session finishes. They also support the operation of third-party anonymizer plugins or the "back" button. These plugins are made to function and support user privacy on particular browsers. Used for a variety of essential site activities, including quickly loading pages.

   Persistent cookies

   They remain on a computer indefinitely, although many include an expiration date and are automatically removed when that date is reached. They are used for two primarily purposes, authentication, and tracking.

   Third Party Cookies

   Third-party cookies are those made by external websites or domains that we use on our website. This Policy does not apply to the use of cookies and related technologies by our partners, affiliates, tracking utility companies, and service providers. These cookies are not under our control and we are unable the access the data they store. Our affiliates, partners, tracking utilities, and service providers may make use of session ID cookies to:

   • Send targeted messages and advertising to you

   • Study the pages that our visitors visit

   • Offer website features like social media sharing widgets

   • Evaluate the success of the advertising

   • To remarket to you after you leave, we must keep track of which parts of our website you visit

   Please visit the relevant website of the third party to learn how to generally disable or reject third-party cookies. When browsing our site, you may also refuse third-party analytics cookies by selecting "Close" from the cookie banner.

   Google analytics

   The Site does not use Google Analytics to gather information that personally identifies you. The information generated by Google Analytics will be transmitted to and stored by Google and will be subject to Google’s privacy policies. To learn more about Google’s partner services and to learn how to opt out of tracking of analytics by Google click here.

   On our website, we make use of Google Analytics, a web analytics tool offered by Google, Inc in order to better understand how users interact with and use the site, create reports on the site’s activity, and offer other services relating to site activity and usage. Google Analytics uses cookies or other tracking technology and may gather data such as your IP address, the date and time of your visit, whether you are a return visitor, and any referring websites.

   Google Analytics is not used by the Site to collect data that can be used to identify you personally. The data produced by Google Analytics will be sent to Google, where it will be stored and handled according to its privacy policies. In order to find more information about Google’s partner services and how you can opt out of tracking analytics, click here.

   Online Beacons

   Web beacons, also known as single-pixel gifs, are electronic images used on our site to collect aggregated data and analyze how our site is used. They may also be used in some of our emails to track which recipients have opened emails and links. This enables us to evaluate the success of our marketing campaigns and customer communications initiatives.

   Advertising Choices and Control

   As described in this Privacy Policy, third parties on our Site may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect information and infer your interests for interest-based advertising purposes.

   Once you sign up to our website you are thereby consenting to us storing your data. If you would prefer to not receive personalized ads based on your browser or device usage, you can indicate your opt-out preference. Please note that you will continue to see advertisements, but they will no longer be tailored to your interests.

   You can delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser. Please visit the help pages of your web browser in order to delete or refuse cookies. Keep in mind that if you delete all cookies, your use of the website will be limited.

8. Your Choices

   How can you change or delete your company information?

   In order to determine if your company is in the CEOcouch database, you need to search for your organization on the home page. Once you have located the profile, consider the following options for managing your company:

   • Update your company profile - you can easily edit your firm's description, industry, location, and other information by simply verifying your CEOcouch company profile. Additionally, you may combine various profiles to produce a thorough overview of your business.

   • Delete your CEOcouch company profile completely - The company summaries are automatically generated by CEOcouch software based on the information we find on corporate websites, news releases and/or SEC documents filed with the US government

   • We have a policy of not deleting business data from our search engine. Please update your company profile if any of the information is inaccurate.

   How can you opt-out of certain uses of your information?

   You have the option to "opt out" of having your information used for specific purposes when using CEOcouch.

   You can choose not to receive our newsletter or promotional messages by following the instructions provided in each newsletter or email. We will send you an email to confirm that you have been unsubscribed as soon as we receive your request.

   We will not share with third parties' information about you that you submit when your register for our services unless you expressly consent to such sharing. If personal information is obtained from other sources, we will give you the opportunity to stop sharing it with other parties by opting out via email.

   Using the contact details at the bottom of this Policy, you may also communicate your opt-out request by phone call or email.

9. How do we keep your information secure?

   We place great importance on the security of your information. We use secure socket layer technology (SSL) to encrypt any sensitive data you input on our registration forms, including credit card details.

   We safeguard the information you give to us by adhering to generally accepted industry standards, both during transmission and after we receive it. Nevertheless, no technique of electronic storage or transmission via the Internet is completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee that your information is completely secure, despite our best efforts to apply commercially acceptable safeguards.

10. Data retention

    As described in this Privacy Policy, we will keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the original reason(s) for which we collected it. We will keep your information:

    • For as long as we maintain our business relationship with you and as needed to provide you with services;

    • To meet our legal obligations;

    • Settle disputes or safeguard ourselves against any future conflicts;

    • Enforce our agreements.

    The quantity, nature and sensitivity of your information as well as the reasons for which it was obtained will be taken into consideration for determining the appropriate retention periods. We will remove your information once the retention period ended. Where we are unable to delete your information, we will make sure that proper safeguards are put in place to prevent any further use.

11. Links to other websites

    Links to other websites not within CEOcouch's control or ownership can be found on this website. The privacy policies of these other websites are not our responsibility and we advise you to be informed and to read the privacy statements of every website that collects personally identifiable information. Only information gathered through this Site or using the other method(s) discussed above is covered by this Policy.

12. Information for users in Europe and elsewhere outside the U.S

    You acknowledge that if you access or use our site from outside the United States, we may collect, process and store your personal in the Unites States and other countries in which we or our affiliates maintain facilities. It is important to understand that your state or country law might be different from those in the United States.

    Users in the European Union (EEA), the UK, and Switzerland

    The information below only applies to people who live in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland.

    As previously mentioned, depending on how you use our sites, we process personal information in different ways. We process personal information on the following legal bases:

    • With your consent;

    • As required to carry out our agreement to provide Services;

    • As necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject;

    • As required for the purposes of our legitimate interests in providing the Sites, where those interests do not outweigh your fundamental freedoms and rights regarding the privacy of your information;

    Given the limited impact of business contact information on an individual's private life and the fact that this information, unlike personal contact details, is widely disclosed, CEOcouch has a legitimate interest in collecting business information, creating business profiles, and licensing business directory. In order to protect individual privacy, we have put in place safeguards such using consent or opt-outs when appropriate.

    Right to complain

    Users that reside in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland have the right to make a complain to the relevant supervisory authority regarding our data collection and processing practices. We would appreciate the chance to deal with your concern before you contact the relevant supervisory authority.

    Transfers

    We reserve the right to transfer, keep, and process the personal data we collect in the United States or any other country where we, our affiliates, or our subcontractors have offices or operations. We will ensure that transfers of personal information to a third country or an international organization are subject to the appropriate safeguards as described in Article 46 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. Please see “Privacy Shield Frameworks” below regarding our compliance with the EU- and Swiss-US Privacy Shields.

    Individual Rights

    In accordance with the GDPR, residents of the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland are granted the following rights. Please be aware that before you may view any records that contain information on you, we could ask you for personal information to help us confirm your identity.

    The right to access, correction, and restriction of processing.

    You have the right to request, free of charge, access to a copy of the personal information we hold about you and specific details regarding our data processing of your personal data.

    You are entitled to have your personal data corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete. If you question the accuracy of the information we possess about you, you have the right to restrict our processing while we investigate your claim and verify its accuracy.

    You are entitled to request a copy of your data in a machine-readable format. Additionally, where technically possible, you can ask that we forward your data to another entity.

    If the information is no longer required for the purpose it was collected, you withdraw your consent and there is no other legal basis for the processing, or your fundamental rights to data privacy and protection outweigh our legitimate interest in keeping the information processed, you have the right to have your information deleted from our servers. Please be aware that in some circumstances, we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you in oral or writing, if applicable, at the time of your request.

    You have the right to object to our processing if we are processing your data based on our legitimate interest or as part of the exercise of official authority to carry out a task in the public interest, using your data for direct marketing (including profiling), conducting scientific or historical research.

    When CEOcouch is a controller

    CEOcouch acts as a data controller when collecting information about data in relation to the visitors of the site, as well as when we collect and use information for the purposes of creating and maintaining our business profiles and providing the services.

    When CEOcouch is a processor

    When our clients use our services, they are operating in the capacity of data controllers and are in charge of ensuring that the personal data they have gathered about data subjects is being used in compliance with the law. In those situations, we serve as the data processor and only receive personal information on behalf of our clients in order to process it as they direct.

    Our customers are solely responsible for deciding whether and how to use our services and ensuring that all third parties individuals who visit or use the website have received adequate notice about the processing of their personal information, have given informed consent when such consent is required or advised, and have complied with all laws that may be relevant to the processing of their personal information.

    In accordance with applicable law, our customers are also responsible for handling data subject rights requests by their users and other individuals whose data they process through the services. Our obligation with respect to personal information for which we are solely a data processor are defined in our agreements with our customers and are not covered by this Policy.

    The general data protection regulation (“GDPR”) 2016/679

    CEOcouch takes all reasonable steps in order to comply with the provisions of the GDPR with regards with any information it has about individuals based in the European Union. Thus, we only process personal information when we have a legal basis to do so, which can include the consent of the person, performance of a contract, compliance with a legal obligation or the legitimate interest of the controller or a third party. In accordance with articles 13 and 14 of GDPR we notify all data subjects and uphold their rights.

    If CEOcouch discover business information regarding an individual that CEOcouch has reasons to believe they are based in the European Union, CEOcouch.

    In the course of obtaining data to be included on the Site, if we obtain Business Information regarding an individual that we have reasons to believe is based in the European Union, we will provide such individual with a notice detailing the information we have on such person, the purpose for which it will be used, and informing such person of their rights with respect to such information. Such persons may opt out of the Devloperrr’s database by visiting /update/remove or emailing us.

    Privacy shield frameworks

    Regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transmitted from the European Union and Switzerland to the United States, we comply with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Framework as established by the US Department of Commerce.

    We commit to resolve complaints regarding your privacy and the collection or use of your personal information, in compliance with Privacy Shield Principles. European Union or Swiss individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding this Policy should first contact us at (put email address). European Union and Swiss individuals have the right to access their personal information.

    CEOcouch also committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the Privacy Shield Principles to JAMS (Judicial Arbitration & Mediation Services), an independent alternative dispute resolution provider located in the United States and recognized for this purpose by the US Department of Commerce. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, please visithttps://www.jamsadr.com/eu-us-privacy-shield for more information, and to file a complaint.

13. Your California privacy rights

    If you are a California resident, you have the right to obtain specific details regarding the way in which we disclose your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing needs. To make such a request, submit your letter or email to the address listed under "Contact Us" at the conclusion of this Policy. To make such a request, please send your request, by mail or email, to the address at the end of this Policy under the “Contact Us” section.

14. Children’s privacy

    Our Site is not directed to or intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect or use any personal information from users of our site who are under the age of 13. Individuals under the age of 13 should not submit any personal information to our website and if we become aware that we have gathered personal data from a person under the age of 13, we will take immediate action to have the data removed.

15. Changes to this policy

    Please constantly review this Policy as we retain the right to update it regularly and is your obligation to be always informed. If we make significant changes to this policy, we will inform you by posting a notice on our site or emailing you. You are considered to have accepted the amended Privacy Policy if you keep using the site after any changes have been made to it.