Consent

In registering to our services or filling in a contact form on our website, you agree and accept that we may gather, process, store and/or use the personal data submitted in accordance with the rules set forth below.

By giving your consent to us, you also retain the right to have your personal data rectified, to be forgotten and/or to be erased.

Topics:

• What information do we collect about you?
• How will we use the information about you?
• Access to your stored information, correction and opting-out
• Marketing
• Cookies
• Other websites
• Security
• Changes to our privacy policy
• How to contact us

1. What information do we collect about you?

We collect information about you when you register with us.

Such information will be complemented by additional information, publicly available or generated through other interactions with you (email, phone) in connection with potential or actual participation in any consultation.

We also collect information when you voluntarily complete customer surveys and provide feedback.

Website usage information is collected using cookies.

In specific, we may collect the following information for:

Experts

Experts registering with us are required to provide personal information, including title of respect, name, phone number, email address, timezone, as well as detailed information in respect of their professional background and employment history. If you are engaged in a consultation, we will also require your payment details to be able to effect payment to you for the consultation.

Clients

When a client wishes to enquire or register with us, we will collect their contact details (e.g. title of respect, name, phone number, email address, position, timezone).

2. How will we use the information about you?

We may use the information we obtain for the following purposes:

– to provide our services,

– to market, improve our services, and other legitimate business interests,

– to comply with applicable law.

We will keep your personal information for 5 years from your last contact with us.

In specific, we may use personal information for:

Experts

Xperts Council uses your information in order to identify consultations which may be within your field of expertise and of interest to you, to offer you to participate to the adequate consultations, to facilitate and process your participation in current and potential projects and organize consultations.

We may share your information with Clients who may wish to consult with you. This may include biographical information. Our Clients are deemed to keep your name confidential

We may disclose some of your professional information to prospective Clients to demonstrate the quality and coverage of our network but keep your name/email/phone number/anonymous.

In addition, we use the information we collect about you to:

• monitor, improve and develop our business/offering to you;
• inform you about services offered by Xperts Council;
• send you direct (e)mail such as offers, requests or notices from Xperts Council
• provide your information to facilitate payments owing to you;
• share with any associated third parties or suppliers that process data on our behalf

In addition, we may disclose your information to third parties if required by law, court order or by a competent regulatory authority.

Clients

Xperts Council uses the information which we collect about you in order to understand your needs and provide you with a better service.

In addition, we use the information we collect about you to:

• identify events, actual and potential projects of interest to you;
• improve our products and services;
• communicate about new services or other information which we think you may find interesting;
• operate, evaluate and improve our business.

In addition, we may disclose your information to third parties if required by law, court order or by a competent regulatory authority.

3. Access to your stored information, correction and opting-out

You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email or write to us (see contact details at the bottom of that page).

We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate. As a Registered Expert (as a Member of our Circle of Experts) you are required to regularly update your biographical and employment information, which you warrant to be true and up to date as per the Terms and Conditions. You may review the information you have provided and update such information at any time by logging on to your dashboard on the website. We may also revise your information using data obtained from public sources.

You may elect to opt-out of our services at any time by providing us with written or electronic notice. Upon receipt of such notice, we will cease contacting you and sharing information concerning you. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, we will be unable to provide you with our services.

You should also note that we may require retention of certain information to prevent fraud or for any legitimate purposes subject to any and all such retained information continuing to be subject to this Privacy and Cookie Policy you have previously agreed to.

4. Marketing

We would like to send you information about our services which may be of interest to you. If you have consented to receive our newsletters, you may opt out at a later date.

You have a right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please email or write to us (see contact details at the bottom of that page).

5. Cookies

While browsing on the website www.expertscouncil.com, a cookie is installed on the computer’s hard drive. This cookie is to record information about the navigation on the website (visiting date & time, viewed pages, clicking date & time, localization of the click…). That information allows XPERTS COUNCIL to customize the website, and to facilitate access to topics. XPERTS COUNCIL can also treat your personal information to inform you of special or new offers, unless you opposed receiving this kind of information.

We inform you that you can refuse the cookies record by configuring your browser as follows:

For Microsoft Internet Explorer:

1. Select the “Tools” menu (or “Outils”), then ” Internet Options ” (or “Options Internet”);
2. Click on the “Privacy” tab (or “Confidentialité”);
3. Select the desired level using the cursor

For Firefox:

1. Select “Tools” > “Options”;
2. Click on the “Privacy” option;
3. “Cookies”

For Chrome :

1. Choose “Edit” > “Preferences”;
2. Click on “Personal Data”;
3. “Cookies”

For Safari :

1. Choose “Edit” > “Preferences”;
2. Click on “Personal Data”;
3. “Cookies”

6. Link to other websites

Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.

XPERTS COUNCIL may provide links from its website to other affiliated or non-affiliated websites. These websites are independent; XPERTS COUNCIL does not publish or control these websites. The links to such websites do not constitute in any way an endorsement or partnership between XPERTS COUNCIL and these websites. Therefore XPERTS COUNCIL cannot be responsible for their contents, products, advertising or any elements or services presented on these websites. We remind you that affiliated or non- affiliated websites are subject to their own terms of personal data using and protection.

7. Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We cannot, however, guarantee the security of our servers or transmissions between our servers and your computer. Accordingly, all information which you provide to us is supplied at your own risk. Please help us keep your information secure by keeping your password and other account details confidential.

We have a global network of Experts and our Client base is international. Accordingly, in the course of our business your information may be transmitted across borders both inside and outside the European Economic Area.

8. Changes to our privacy policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page.

You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

We will also take all reasonably practical steps to notify you specifically of any changes that materially affect the ways in which your information may be used or shared.

9. How to contact us

We welcome any comments, requests and queries relating to this Privacy Policy or our use of information we hold about you.

All such communication should be directed to
contact@xpertscouncil.com
Or call us at +33 01 74 62 44 63
Or write us at EXPERTS COUNCIL SAS
28, rue Guynemer
75006 Paris
France

This privacy policy was last updated on: May 15th, 2018