Privacy Policy

We, SEC Partners, and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “SEC Partners,” “us,” or “we”) understand that your privacy is important to you. We are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data. This privacy notice describes how we handle and protect your personal data (the “Privacy Notice”) when we collect it through SEC Partners’s websites, applications, and digital assets (collectively, our “Sites”) and through our externally facing business activities, such as service offerings, events, surveys, and communications, when we interact with you and collect data from you for use by and on behalf of SEC Partners (i.e., when SEC Partners is acting as a data controller or similar term under applicable privacy law).

Depending upon the nature of your relationship with SEC Partners, additional or different privacy notices may apply to you as described below:

Our Recruiting Privacy Notice, if you are applying for a position with SEC Partners.
Our Alumni Privacy Notice for SEC Partners alumni.
Our Solutions Privacy Notice, if you are using SEC Partners solutions on your employer’s behalf.

If you are an employee of a SEC Partners client or a SEC Partners service provider, we may receive your personal data from your employer. Our use of your personal data is governed by our agreement with your employer.

If you are a resident of jurisdictions with specific privacy laws (e.g., California), please see our specific privacy information for you below.

You are not required to share your personal data with us, but failing to do so may result in SEC Partners being unable to properly provide you with our full range of services or a good user experience with our solutions, websites services or newsletters.

Please see our terms of use for more information about other terms and policies applicable to the use of our Sites.

Data controller
How do we collect your personal data?
Why and how are we using your personal data?
What do we not do when we collect and process your personal data?
Who has access to your personal data? Data recipients and international data transfers.
Security
How long do we keep your personal data?
Data collection from children
What are your data protection rights, and how can you exercise them?
9.1. Your data protection rights.
9.2. How do you exercise your data protection rights?
9.3. How to unsubscribe to SEC Partners newsletters and alerts?

1. Data controller

When SEC Partners collects and processes your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Notice, we do so as authorized under applicable data privacy laws, whether as data controller or joint controller (similar terms may be used under applicable law), which means that we determine and are responsible for how your personal data is collected, used, protected, disclosed, and disposed of.

Depending on the jurisdiction you are located in or made contact with SEC Partners, the local SEC Partners entity may be your main data controller.

2. How do we collect your personal data?

SEC Partners collects personal data in the course of our business activities directly from you and from third parties:

SEC Partners collects personal data about you in the course of our routine business activities:

When you interact with our Sites, including when you manage your cookie preferences, as described in our Cookie Notice.
When you create or log into a user profile in our Sites.
When you register to receive SEC Partners newsletters and alerts and when you interact with those newsletters and alerts.
When you sign up for and participate in SEC Partners conferences and events.
When you participate in public content posting areas, such as bulletin boards, discussion forums, and SEC Partners social media sites.
When you participate in a survey, panel discussion, or individual discussion conducted by SEC Partners.
When you interact with SEC Partners or its employees on its Sites, by email, or telephone, to ask a question, request information, or otherwise seek a response from SEC Partners.

SEC Partners may also receive personal data about you from third parties, including service providers and data vendors in the course of our business activities. When we collect personal information from third parties, the data consists primarily of publicly available personal information compiled from business websites, public-facing social media platforms, and other widely used public sources. We also acquire deidentified datasets from certain service providers that we maintain in deidentified form. In each instance, we do our best to confirm that the third party has lawfully collected the data from appropriate sources and is authorized to share the data with SEC Partners.

Sensitive personal data – We may also collect sensitive personal data directly from you, for instance when you respond to a survey or panel discussion conducted by SEC Partners and provide us with demographic or other personal data or when you provide information to permit us to accommodate your specific request at a conference or event. We use sensitive personal data only with your consent unless another legal basis exists (e.g., public health requirements). When we collect and use sensitive personal data for research, data analysis, and statistical purposes, we use it to produce reports and publications based on deidentified datasets.

We may combine personal data that we receive directly from you with personal data that we receive from third parties, to the extent that all such collection and use of personal data and sensitive personal data is consistent with this Privacy Notice.

3. Why and how are we using your personal data?

SEC Partners uses your personal data for different purposes and may combine data from multiple sources to accomplish those purposes. Examples include:

Managing our business relationship with you.
Maintaining accounts and providing access to newsletters and alerts.
Managing event participation.
Conducting surveys and forums.
Analytics, benchmarking, and research.
Providing services to clients.
Legal compliance and fraud prevention.
Improving security and performance of Sites.
Marketing communications (with consent).

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4. What do we not do when we collect and process your personal data?

We do not attempt to re-identify deidentified data.
We do not sell your personal data as defined under certain privacy laws.

5. Who has access to your personal data?

Personal data collected in the course of SEC Partners business activities may be transferred and made available to SEC Partners entities, service providers, and third parties as necessary to accomplish the specific business purposes. Categories include:

Subsidiaries and affiliates.
Service providers.
Legal and professional advisors.
Government or law enforcement authorities where required.
Successors in the event of reorganization or merger.

International transfers of data are made in compliance with applicable laws.

6. Security

SEC Partners uses accepted standards of technical and operational security to protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Access is restricted to authorized personnel.

7. How long do we keep your personal data?

We keep your personal data only as long as necessary for the business purposes for which it was collected and in compliance with applicable legal obligations. We securely delete personal data when it is no longer needed.