Legal notice, Cookies policy & Privacy policy

At World Entrepreneurs, accessible from https://worldentrepreneurs.org/, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors, users, clients and partners. This Privacy Policy notice contains types of information that is collected and recorded by World Entrepreneurs and how we use it, following the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the protection of individuals regarding the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.

This Privacy Policy applies to all interested parties collaborating and/or doing business with World Entrepreneurs as well as the visitors to our website, with regards to the information that they share with and/or collect in World Entrepreneurs.

If you require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

DATA CONTROLLER

World Entrepreneurs (Sàrl) is responsible for the processing of your data.

CONSENT

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms. Likewise, the completion and sending of forms, data and information, in both off-line and web format, implies the express consent of the user of this web and/or the interested party to our Privacy Policy.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The information we collect consists of all data obtained through this website and in any off-line format provided by the visitor to this website and/or by the interested party itself.

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, in both off-line or on-line format, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an account or a web subscription, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, telephone number, your sector, your country, the services and solutions that you provide, and any other related information in connection to the purpose for which the information is collected.

ORIGIN OF THE DATA

The data we collect are provided by the visitors to this website and/or the interested parties themselves through both off-line and/or on-line format, including:

• Web form
• Email address
• Account registration
• Web subscription
• Business card
• Contract or agreement
• Personal data collected from publicly available resources
• Personal data collected and provided by a third party through contract or agreement.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

The purpose of the information we collect in various ways includes:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website;
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website;
• Statistical purposes, understand and analyse how you use our website;
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality;
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners or collaborators, including for the provision of services and the facilitation of updates and other information relating to this website, as well as for marketing, visibility and promotional purposes that foster international cooperation, project and business opportunities that are of relevance for our visitors, interested parties and our mission;
• Send you emails, answer any queries you may have about this website, provide you with information you have requested (including through subscription); and inform you about activities and events that may be of interest to you, unless you inform us otherwise;
• Conduct all administrative tasks that are required by all and any activity carried out by World Entrepreneurs;
• Find and prevent fraud; and
• Comply with legal requirements and regulations.

PROCESSING OF DATA

• Legitimate interest: The processing of data is necessary to fulfil the legitimate interests pursued by the controller. Those interests are not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject that require the protection of personal information.
• Obtaining consent: Consent constitutes a legitimate basis for the processing of personal data. The use of this website, the completion of forms and sending of information and data, in both off-line and web formats, implies the consent of the user of this Web and /or interested party to our Privacy Policy for the indicated purpose.
• World Entrepreneurs is not responsible for the use of false, inaccurate, incomplete and/or outdated data provided.
• Retention period: World Entrepreneurs retains the personal data collected for as long as it is required or permitted by law and regulations. 
• Transfer and communication of data: For the purposes mentioned above World Entrepreneurs may transfer or disclose your personal data to:

1. Its authorized partners, collaborators and third parties for the fulfilment of an agreement, contractual or legal obligation, including for the provision of services and solutions and the execution of projects and activities in connection to our agency’s services offering and relationship with you;
2. Third parties that provide IT services to World Entrepreneurs, and which process your data for the exclusive purpose of such services (e.g., hosting, IT maintenance, support services); and/or
3. Third parties in connection to complying with legal requirements and regulations.
4. In all cases, World Entrepreneurs takes measures for the appropriate use and protection of your personal data, in accordance with its privacy policy and for its indicated purpose.

• Withdrawal of your consent: You have at any time the right to revoke your consent with effect for the future, for instance with the “Cancel my subscription” link in e-mails.

LOG FILES

World Entrepreneurs follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS

Like any other website, World Entrepreneurs uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information. Learn more about our Cookies Policy.

THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISERS

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on World Entrepreneurs, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that World Entrepreneurs has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

THIRD-PARTY PRIVACY POLICIES

World Entrepreneurs’ Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites.

From this Website you may be able to obtain access to websites operated by third parties (external websites). This Privacy Policy does not apply to external websites or third-party ad servers. The latter are not monitored or maintained by World Entrepreneurs, and we are not responsible for their privacy policies. 

Thus, we advise you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers and external websites for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

GDPR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights according to the EU’s GDPR, by which every web user and/or interested party is entitled to the following:

• The right to access: the right to obtain confirmation of whether or not personal data concerning your person has been processed, as well as to access your personal data.
• The right to rectification: the right to the rectification of inaccurate or incomplete information concerning your personal data
• The right to withdrawal: the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions
• The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions
• The right to object to processing: the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability: the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

World Entrepreneurs does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY NOTICE

World Entrepreneurs may update this Privacy Policy Notice from time to time to reflect any changes over time.

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