Privacy Notice

Last reviewed or revised: January 29, 2024

We, eSterna, United States, and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “eSterna,” “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 explains how we handle and protect your personal data when we collect it through:

  • eSterna websites, applications, and digital assets (collectively, our “Sites”)
  • Externally facing business activities such as services, events, surveys, and communications

This applies when eSterna acts as a data controller or similar role under applicable privacy laws.

Contents

  1. Data Controller
  2. How Do We Collect Your Personal Data?
  3. Why and How Are We Using Your Personal Data?
  4. What Do We Not Do When We Collect and Process Your Personal Data?
  5. Who Has Access to Your Personal Data?
  6. Security
  7. How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Data?
  8. Data Collection from Children
  9. Your Data Protection Rights

1. Data Controller

When eSterna collects and processes your personal data, we do so as a data controller or joint controller, meaning we determine how your data is collected, used, protected, disclosed, and disposed of.

Depending on your location or point of contact, a local eSterna entity may be your primary data controller.

2. How Do We Collect Your Personal Data?

eSterna collects personal data directly from you and from third parties.

Data Collected Directly From You

We collect personal data when you:

  • Interact with our Sites or manage cookie preferences
  • Use eSterna Insights or other mobile apps
  • Create or log into a user profile
  • Subscribe to newsletters or alerts
  • Register for or attend events and conferences
  • Participate in public forums or social media
  • Complete surveys or panel discussions
  • Contact eSterna by email, phone, or online forms

Data Collected From Third Parties

We may receive personal data from service providers and data vendors, primarily consisting of:

  • Publicly available business or professional information
  • Public-facing social media data
  • Deidentified datasets maintained in deidentified form

3. Why and How Are We Using Your Personal Data?

eSterna processes personal data for business, operational, legal, and analytical purposes, including:

  • Managing business relationships
  • User accounts on eSterna.com
  • Newsletters and alerts
  • Conferences and events
  • Public postings and surveys
  • Benchmarking and analytics
  • Service delivery and security
  • Legal compliance
  • Marketing communications
  • Data aggregation, anonymization, and deidentification

eSterna does not use automated decision-making that has legal or significant effects on individuals.

4. What Do We Not Do When We Collect and Process Your Personal Data?

We do not:

  • Use deidentified data to identify or reidentify individuals
  • Allow others to reidentify deidentified data

California residents: We do not sell or share personal data as defined by California law.

5. Who Has Access to Your Personal Data?

Personal data may be shared with:

  • eSterna subsidiaries, affiliates, and personnel
  • Service providers and professional advisors
  • Government authorities, where legally required
  • Third parties to protect legal rights, prevent fraud, or ensure compliance
  • Successor entities in business transactions

6. Security

We use industry-standard technical and organizational measures to protect personal data and require equivalent protections from our partners. Access is limited to authorized personnel only.

7. How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Data?

We retain personal data only as long as necessary to fulfill business, legal, or contractual obligations and in line with our data retention policies.

8. Data Collection from Children

eSterna does not knowingly collect personal data from individuals under 16 years of age without legally required consent.

9. What Are Your Data Protection Rights?

9.1 Your Data Protection Rights

You may:

  • Access your personal data
  • Request copies or portability
  • Correct inaccurate data
  • Request deletion or restriction
  • Withdraw consent
  • Object to processing
  • File complaints with data protection authorities

9.2 How Do You Exercise Your Data Protection Rights?

9.3 How to Unsubscribe to eSterna Newsletters and Alerts

You may unsubscribe by:

  • Clicking the unsubscribe link in emails
  • Updating preferences in your essterna.com account
  • Emailing: [email protected]
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