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We, the controller of your personal data, are located at:

The Data Economy Ltd

Vanquish House
Wellesley Road
Long Stratton
NR15 2PD

contact@thedataeconomy.world

WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We collect and use the following types of personal information:

  • Contact information (for example, your name, email address and phone numbers)
  • Basic information about you (for example, the business you work for, your job title)
  • Details of any contact or correspondence we have had with you
  • Financial billing details (for example, details about any payments you have made to us and where necessary your bank details)
  • Information about how you use our products and services
  • Information about your consumer preferences
  • Information about how you use our website (for example, traffic data, location data, weblogs, passwords, usernames and other communication data)
  • Information about your computer, including, where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type

We may also collect, use and/or share non-personal information or anonymised data such as statistical or demographic data.

As a principle, we do not collect any special categories of personal information about you (such as details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric information).  

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We collect your personal data when you:

  • Register or fill in forms on our site (https://thedataeconomy.world
  • Subscribe to our mailing lists
  • Participate in any promotions or competitions sponsored, promoted or offered by us or one of our clients.
  • Give us feedback, correspond with us or report a problem with our site.
  • Take part in an event
  • Use our site

WHAT WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR

The Data Economy collects your personal data so that we can:

  • Process your order and manage your account
  • Email you with special offers on other products and services we think you might like
  • Provide information on products (including events) you have requested/paid for
  • To keep you informed of our activities and news pertinent to your roles

LEGAL GROUND FOR OUR USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA  

We process your personal data only when we have a valid legal ground to do so.  Most frequently, we do so when:

  • you have provided us your consent (for instance when you have signed up to our newsletters)
  • it is necessary to process your personal information in connection with the performance of a contract that we have with you directly or indirectly
  • it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or the legitimate interests of a third party).  We will always consider your rights before using your personal data for the purposes of our business.  Where your rights or privacy override our business interests, we will not use your personal data
  • we use your personal information to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if a regulator or official authority asks us for your personal information)

WHOM WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITH  

To run our business efficiently, we sometimes will have to share your personal data with other (trusted) parties such as:

  • Data processors: providers of various services that process your personal data on our behalf (e.g., website builders)
  • Our accountant
  • Professional advisors from other industries, such as law and finance
  • IT support, when necessary
  • Public authorities when we are obliged to report to them

We take reasonable steps to ensure that such recipients secure data in accordance with good information security and as per the requirements of this privacy policy. We review all vendors and data processors and enter into a data processing agreements whenever necessary.

We use data processors for:

  • Email, calendar and digital meetings
  • Storing of your personal data
  • Accounting/bookkeeping
  • Maintaining this website, including maintenance of registrations
  • Transactional emails to customers
  • Support ticket system

We practice data minimisation so we will only use data suppliers to process your personal data when required.

When required under applicable law, we may provide you with a list of our suppliers upon request.    

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA  

We will store your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for processing.   To comply with this, we have regular reviews where we assess our data protection and privacy work with the intention to amend, update and, if necessary, delete personal data when it is no longer needed.

We will only hold information for a longer or shorter period to the extent necessary where we are under a legal obligation (for example, to comply with tax, labor laws or any other relevant applicable laws and regulations), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

HOW WE PROTECT AND STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We make our best efforts to ensure that your personal data is safeguarded and kept confidential in the best way possible.  We have measures in place to ensure that it is securely stored, is not excessive and is accurate and up to date.  For example, we use strong passwords, data encryption, and several other measures to secure your data and prevent unauthorised persons from accessing, altering, deleting, or in any way affecting the data we store, including your personal data.

We only allow others to access or process your personal data in accordance with our instructions and only when strictly necessary 

We have created and implemented a dedicated IT security policy for technical and organisational measures and a routine for managing data breaches.  

MARKETING

You may receive marketing communications from us about our services we think you might like when you have:

  • requested more information from us
  • provided your contact information to us in order to retrieve content or communications from us, including any research papers, insights or studies conducted by us, or
  • entered into a promotional campaign or survey and provided your contact details to participate in such activity.    

We keep a register of marketing and communications personal information that is used by us.  You are entitled to opt out from receiving such marketing by clicking on the opt out or unsubscribe link(s) provided in such The Data Economy marketing communications. 

If you want to change your marketing preferences, opt-out of future communications, find out what data we hold on you, or have any other concerns or questions about your data, please contact contact@thedataeconomy.world

Information on how to opt-out will also be provided on any marketing email sent to you.

COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGY

The Data Economy uses cookies, web beacons and similar technology (“cookies”) when you access our Websites.

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.

Our website uses the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies: where we allow our website to function properly by enabling key functions, such as navigation through websites and distinguishing humans from bots.
  • Functionality cookies: where we use these cookies so that we recognise you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
  • Analytical or performance cookies: where we use these cookies to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it.  This helps us to improve our website works and analyze how you interact with our website through session replays and heatmaps.  
  • Advertising or targeting cookies: where we allow these cookies to collect information about your visit to our websites, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device and your IP address.  Our company sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes.  We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners.  This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based in your browsing patterns on our website.

Note:

In general, any user can prevent any cookie to be dropped on their browser by accessing the privacy and security settings of their browser and disabling the “allow all cookies” Function.

To check which cookies are dropped from the specific website where you are, click on the lock icon in the top left corner of your browser and click on Cookies. From there the user can decide which cookies to block and save the settings.

MINORS

The Data Economy does not voluntarily or actively collect, use or disclose personal information of minors, according to the minimum age equivalent in the relevant jurisdiction, without the prior consent of the parents or guardians of the minor.

If we learn that we collected the personal information of a minor, without first receiving a verifiable parental consent, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.

YOUR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

It is important that you are familiar with your privacy rights and are able to easily exercise the them.  You have the rights to:

  • access your personal information by asking us for copies of the personal information we process about you  
  • correct or rectify your personal information by asking to correct any information you believe is inaccurate.  You can also request us to complete the information you believe is incomplete
  • erase your personal information by asking us to delete or erase personal information under certain circumstances if the personal information is no longer needed for the purposes for which we collected them (subject to local data retention legal obligations)
  • you may withdraw your consent to processing that you have given us and prevent further processing  
  • restrict the processing of your personal information by requiring certain personal information to be marked as restricted for processing under certain circumstances
  • request data portability by asking us to transfer your personal information that you have provided to us to another organisation or directly to you, under certain conditions
  • object to automated decision making, including profiling, if these decisions produce a legal effect on you;
  • raise a complaint about our processing of your personal information with the data protection regulator or applicable authority in your country. In the EEA, you can find the full contact details of your National Data Protection Authority online here.

Our main establishment is in the UK, where the local supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire, United
SK9 5AF

Phone: 0303 123 1113 or 01625 545 745 orwww.ico.org.uk

Please be aware that these rights are not always absolute and there may be some situations in which you cannot exercise them or they are not relevant.   

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: contact@thedataeconomy.world 

PRIVACY POLICIES OF OTHER WEBSITES

Our Company website may contain links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page.

This privacy policy was last updated on September 25, 2024.

CONTACT

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, please contact us at 

The Data Economy Ltd

Vanquish House
Wellesley Road
Long Stratton
NR15 2PD