Privacy Policy of Data Action Mentor

Last Updated: April 17, 2024

1 Introduction

Welcome to dataactionmentor.com (the “Website”)

This Privacy Policy explains the types of information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can manage, update, or delete your information. The Data Controller is Sebastian Hewing Consulting LLC, 3833 Powerline Road, 33309 Fort Lauderdale, Suite 101, Florida, United States

2 Information We Collect

We collect the following information based on your consent:

Personal Information: This includes your name, email address, phone number, and other details you provide during registration, inquiries, or service use.

Profile Information: This includes your job title, your data challenges, and other details you provide during registration, inquiries, or service use.

Based on our legitimate interest, we collect:

Usage Data: We collect data on your interactions in our Slack community, bookings of Mentor calls, and other relevant information during your website visit, when you contact us, or when you make use of our platform, community, or online services.

Our website deploys "cookies," which are diminutive text files that do not cause any harm to your device. These cookies are stored on your device either temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted upon the conclusion of your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your device until you elect to delete them or until they are automatically eradicated by your web browser.

In certain instances, cookies from third-party companies may also be stored on your device upon accessing our site (third-party cookies). These enable us or you to utilize specific services offered by the third-party company (e.g., cookies for processing payment services).

Cookies serve various functions. Numerous cookies are technically indispensable as certain website functionalities would not operate without them. Other cookies are utilized to analyze user behavior or to display advertising.

Cookies that are necessary for the execution of the electronic communication process (essential cookies) or for the provision of certain functionalities you desire (functional cookies, e.g., for the shopping cart functionality) or to optimize the website (e.g., cookies for web audience measurement) are stored on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, unless a different legal basis is specified. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. If consent has been requested for the storage of cookies, the storage of the pertinent cookies is based solely on this consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR); consent may be revoked at any time.

You may configure your browser to notify you about the setting of cookies and to allow cookies only on a case-by-case basis, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

To the extent that cookies from third-party companies or for analysis purposes are used, we will separately inform you within this data protection declaration and, if necessary, ask for your consent.

Consent with Cookiebot

Our website utilizes the consent technology of Cookiebot to obtain your consent for the storage of certain cookies in your browser or for the use of specific technologies and to document this in a data protection-compliant manner. The provider of this technology is Cookiebot by Usercentrics

The deployment of the Cookiebot Technology is conducted to obtain the legally required consents for the use of cookies. The legal basis for this is Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR. Google Analytics

Based on your consent, we use Google Analytics to analyze website behavior and enhance service personalization.

3 How We Use Your Information

Service Provision: We use your information to deliver, maintain, and enhance our services, including processing transactions.

Communication: Your information may be used to contact you for updates, marketing, or promotional materials.

Analytics: We analyze web traffic and user interaction patterns to optimize our Website anonymously with Plausible.io.

4 Sharing of Information

We do not sell your personal data to third parties. However, it may be shared in these scenarios:

Legal Obligations: To comply with legal requirements, defend our rights, or address potential misconduct.

Service Providers: We share data with third-party entities that perform services on our behalf, under strict confidentiality agreements. We share data with the following Service Providers:

Stripe, Inc.: We share payment information to process payments and manage subscriptions.

Slack Technologies LLC, a Salesforce Company: We use Slack as software for communication and messaging.

OpenAI: We share profile information with OpenAI to improve matching between Mentors and Mentees.

Business Changes: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your information may be part of the transferred assets.

Mentor-Mentee Matching: We may share Mentee profile information with Mentors to facilitate better service provision and enhance the quality of our service. By joining the services you consent that your voluntarily provided profile data is shared with Mentors to improve the service with you.

5 Storing, Protection, and Retention

Storing: your data may be stored outside the European Economic Area, due to main location of the company. By signing up for our services you agree that your data may be transferred.

Protection: we aim to protect your data with utmost security measures, including during any data transfer and sharing. At all times we will ensure that contractual confidentiality clauses are in place, that we have vetted our tools and sub-processors, and that our devices are secured and up to date.

Retention: we may keep your data for as long as you are using our services. Each year we shall review if we need to keep your data for legal obligations such as tax purposes. In such instances we will only keep the minimum of personal data to comply with the law.

6 Your Rights

You have the right to:

Access: Request copies of your personal data that is processed

Rectification: Correct any inaccuracies in your data.

Restrict processing: request to restrict specific processing activities

Erasure: Ask us to delete your personal data (“to be forgotten”)

Object to processing: request to stop processing any further personal data

Portability: request a commonly-used, machine-readable format of the data that we have collected and processed about you

Not be subject to automated decision-making: and request that you are assisted by a human.

We shall respond to any data protection claim within thirty (30) days and inform whether we can or cannot comply. In the event we must comply with a legal obligation that requires processing of your personal data, by a request vested in official authorities, or for reasons of public interests, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, your data protection right may not be able to be executed.

Should you wish to report a complaint or feel we have not addressed your concerns in a satisfying manner, you may contact the Data Protection Authorities in your country of residence.

Your data subject right claim may be subject to a reasonable administration fee to which you shall be updated beforehand.

7 External Website Links

Our Website may include links to other sites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices, but refer to the third-party website policies.

8 Policy Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy and encourage you to regularly review this Policy. This policy was last updated: in December 2023.

9 Contact Us

For questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at sebastian (at) dataactionmentor.com.