WHO IS THE CONTROLLER OF YOUR DATA

ENTREPRENEURS’ ORGANIZATION, a District of Columbia non-profit corporation with a principal place of business located at 500 Montgomery Street, Suite 700, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA (“EO” “We”, “Us”, “Our”) is the controller of your personal data. This means that EO is responsible for processing and protecting your personal data.

You can contact EO with any inquiries about Our use of your personal data or this Notice by writing to EO’s Data Protection Officer at the postal address listed above or to the following email address: DataProtectionOfficer@eonetwork.org

LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The legal basis for EO’s processing of your personal data depends on the purpose for which that data is being processed.

For members:

• Our legal basis for processing member personal data, is in pursuit of Our legitimate interest in furthering Our charitable purpose and providing you your membership benefits. You may object to any instance of Our processing of your personal data based on Our legitimate interest at any time.

• In certain circumstances, we might process your data based on the legal basis of requirements related to the fulfillment of Our contractual obligations.

For visitors, non-member Platform users, non-member EO communications subscribers, and/or non-member EO event guests:

• Our legal basis for the processing of your personal data is the consent you are required to provide to EO prior to any use of any of Our Services or Platforms. You have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.

HOW LONG WILL WE KEEP YOUR DATA

Entrepreneurs’ Organization has established data retention categories associated with EO’s legitimate use of your personal data. In no event will EO retain any of your personal data for any longer than is necessary to perform the purpose for which EO is processing that data or otherwise legally obliged to retain it. When EO asks you to share your personal data with EO, you may request information related to the associated retention period to allow for your informed decision making. You will always be provided with the option to opt-out of any personal data collection activity. Personal data retention periods will also be maintained on eonetwork.org under the Privacy Tab.

CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICIES AND NOTICE UPDATES

We may amend the information contained in this Notice from time to time, when appropriate. If we update the Notice, We will use reasonable efforts to notify you of those changes through EO’s Platforms. For example, by means of a banner, a pop-up or a push notification when visiting EO’s Platforms. In certain cases EO might even send a notice directly to your e-mail address if the changes in question have a material impact on your privacy rights. That way, you will be able to review the changes and object to them or unsubscribe from any of the impacted Services. Regardless, EO suggests you occasionally review this Notice should We make minor changes to it or undertake any interactive improvement to Our Platforms or Site.

COOKIE POLICY

EO utilizes cookies to “remember” your online preferences on Our owned Website, eonetwork.org, including the number of results you wish displayed from a query. We also use cookies and similar devices to facilitate your browsing in Our Platforms, understand how you interact with Us, and, in certain cases, to be able to show you advertisements or provide other customized content to you in accordance with your browsing habits.

For your reference www.eonetwork.org uses both Google Analytics and Live Chat Inc. cookies to function properly.

WHY WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Depending on the purpose for which We process your data from time to time, as explained above, We generally need to process one or more of the following general categories of personal data:

• your identity data (for example, your name, surname, language and country from which you interact with EO, contact data, etc.);

• economic and transactions information (for example, your payment or card data, information on any transactions, payment of dues, refunds, reimbursable expenses, etc.);

• connection, geolocation and/or browsing data (if you interact with EO from your mobile phone, for example);

• commercial information (for example, if you have subscribed to any of EO’s newsletter(s) or other communications),

• information about your tastes, preferences, browsing habits;

• information about your business dealings, including any companies you may own or operate

When We ask you to provide your personal data to give you access to any functionality or service of any of Our Platforms, We will mark certain fields as compulsory, since this is information that We need to be able to provide the Service or give you access to the functionality in question. Please be aware that if you decide not to make such data available to EO, you may be unable to complete your member registration and unable to enjoy the Services EO provides.

Depending on how you interact with Our Platforms, i.e., if you are an EO member, if you are a website visitor, or if you are an EO event attendee as a member or guest, and generally, depending on the services, products or functionalities that you wish to enjoy, We will process your personal data for the following purposes:

SHARING WITH THIRD PARTIES

EO does not sell your personal data.

To achieve the purposes mentioned in this Notice, We must give access to your personal data to EO affiliate entities and to third parties that provide EO with support in the services that we offer, including, without limitation:

• EO chapters

• EO related entities

• Event venues

• Technological service providers, including Web hosts and communication service providers;

• Social media service providers

• Partners and service providers EO hires for marketing and advertising services (e.g., e-mail newsletter services);

• Merchandising and other related service providers;

• Logistic, transport and delivery partners and service providers;

• Providers of customer support related services;

• Financial institutions;

• Anti-fraud detection and prevention entities.

For efficiency and effectiveness of providing the Services, some of these providers are located in territories outside the European Economic Area, including territories that do not offer a level of data protection comparable to that of the European Union, for example, in the United States of America. In such cases, We inform you that We will transfer your data with adequate safeguards in place to keep your data safe. Such safeguards include the use of executed Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the EU Commission, the content of which you may review at the following link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/standard-contractual-clauses-scc_en

YOUR RIGHTS

We will use reasonable efforts to keep personal data confidential and to ensure that you may exercise your rights related to your personal data. You may exercise your rights free of charge by writing EO an e-mail at (DataProtectionOfficer@eonetwork.org) that informs EO of the reason for your request and the right(s) you are seeking to exercise. If EO considers it necessary to verify your identity you to process your request while also protecting your personal data, We may request you to provide a copy of a document evidencing your identity.

• General rights of all data subjects: notwithstanding the purpose or legal basis We use to process your data, you have the following rights:

  • To request access to your personal data that We hold. We remind you that where you are an EO member, you can review this information by visiting your online account.

  • To request that We rectify the personal data that We hold. For EO members, you may be able to access the relevant personal data section of your online account to change or update your personal data. In any case, please take into account that, on actively making your personal data available to Us through any procedure, you guarantee that they are true and accurate and you undertake to notify to Us any change or modification of your data. You will be liable for any loss or damage caused to the EO or Our Platforms or to the person responsible for the Platform or to any third party by reporting erroneous, inaccurate or incomplete information in the registration forms. Please remember that, as a general rule, you must provide Us only with your own data, not with those of third parties, other than to the extent otherwise permitted in this Privacy Policy.

  • To request that We erase your personal data to the extent that they are no longer necessary for the purpose for which We need to keep processing them, as We have explained above, or when We are no longer legally permitted to process them.

  • To request that We cancel or limit the processing of your personal data. In certain cases this will entail your right to request We temporally suspend the processing of the data or that We keep them longer than legally necessary.

• Rights of data subjects whose data is processed on the legal basis of their consent:

  • if you have given EO your consent to process your data for any purpose, you also have the right to withdraw such consent at any time.

• Rights of data subjects whose data is processed on legal basis of consent or fulfillment of a contractual obligation

  • When We are legally permitted to process your data due to your consent or to for the purposes of a contract, you will also have the right to request the portability of your personal data. This means that you will have the right to receive the personal data that you made available to Us in a structured, commonly used and machine-legible format, to be able to transmit them to another entity directly without impediments on Our part.

• Rights of data subjects whose data is processed on the legal basis of EO’s pursuit of its legitimate interests: where the processing of your data is based on EO’s legitimate interest, you will also have the right to object to any instance of the processing of your data.

• Right to complain to relevant authority: We also want to ensure we notify you that you have the right to file a complaint or a claim before the responsible data protection regulatory authority related to any EO violation related to EO’s processing your personal data.