InvestCEE Tanácsadó Kft. (“InvestCEE”), the owner of this site, is a business consulting firm. Through this website, InvestCEE operates as an information platform: we connect legal technology service providers with end-user adopters, host demo workshops to enable the use of technology tools and advise on legal innovation projects. InvestCEE is not a law firm and does not provide legal representation or advice to clients. Any attorneys cooperating with InvestCEE are independent and InvestCEE is not responsible for their respective work product. InvestCEE is not a financial advisory firm or a funding portal and does not provide any investment-related advice to clients. Any financial advisors cooperating with InvestCEE are independent and InvestCEE is not responsible for their respective work product.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY POLICY
We are committed to protecting the confidentiality of any personal data provided to us via this website and delivering high-quality services. Any information you provide via this website will be used to identify your business consultancy needs and to enable us to properly serve you. We will not rent, sell or trade your personal or organizational information to others.
This Privacy Policy sets out the principles InvestCEE follows when we collect and process personal data through your use of our website or when you otherwise engage with InvestCEE and it applies to our clients, suppliers, website users, candidates and anyone who subscribes to our newsletters or participates in our public programs, meetups, workshops, trainings or similar activities. If we need your consent to process any personal data differently, we will seek permission in advance.
This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time so please visit this page occasionally to ensure that you understand any amendments.
DATA CONTROLLER ENTITY & CONTACT DETAILS
Unless specified otherwise in this Privacy Policy, InvestCEE is the controller of any personal data provided to us via this website and in relation to delivering our services, which means that InvestCEE decides why and how personal data is processed. InvestCEE is officially registered with the Hungarian Data Protection Authority as the controller of data collected from this website.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise any of your legal rights, please contact us by using the details set out below.
Full name of legal entity: InvestCEE Tanácsadó Kft.
Registration No. with the Hungarian Data Protection Authority: NAIH-128029/2017
Address: 1124 Budapest, Korompai utca 21-23
Email address: “orsolya.szabo @ investcee.hu”
Telephone number: +36 70 4585218
PERSONAL DATA COLLECTING AND PROCESSING BY INVESTCEE
“Personal Data” is any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. Personal Data may include name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, company, title, site username or site password. It excludes data where specific references to a certain identity have been removed (anonymous data).
We collect, store and process Personal Data by different methods depending on whether you are a client, supplier or website user.
| SOURCE OF PERSONAL DATA | HOW WE COLLECT YOUR DATA | WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT | LEGAL BASIS |
| Clients: upon enquiring about or using our services. We may collect and use the information to understand client requirements, agree on project specifications, propose team members, discuss our service contract, provide training or consultancy services or share relevant InvestCEE content or materials which may be relevant and useful to you. | By email, telephone, online meetings, face to face (in person) discussions or through our website (contact forms). Alternatively, we may collect Personal Data from your colleagues, social media, our network of contacts, others who may know you or event delegate lists (like conference attendee lists from events that we attended). | Personal Data of individual client contacts. Data requested via our website contact forms only includes name and e-mail address. Also, we may have access to personal data voluntarily provided to us, including job title, management level, business relationships, memberships, work history, work address, telephone numbers or written records of our conversations or meetings. |
Necessary for entering into, or performing, a contract – to perform obligations that we undertake in providing a service to you, or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract with us.
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| Suppliers: when supplying services to InvestCEE or contracting with us we need certain information so that we can receive and pay for the services you provide. |
By email, telephone, online meetings, face to face discussions or through our website. Alternatively, we may collect Personal Data from public websites, social media, from our network contacts or event delegate lists (like conference attendee lists). |
Personal Data of individual supplier contacts. Data requested via our website contact forms only includes name and e-mail address. Also, we may have access to personal data voluntarily provided to us such as job title, work address, telephone numbers or written records of our conversations or meetings. | Necessary for entering into, or performing, a contract – to perform obligations that we undertake in providing a service to you, or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract with us. |
| Website users: when using our website, downloading InvestCEE content or contact us via our website. |
By completing online registration forms. We also collect Personal Data automatically via cookies. In line with our Cookie Policy, we use: (1) fully anonymized cookie collection via Google Analytics in its basic form to monitor traffic on our site; (2) the cookie collection of HubSpot in its basic (free) form to monitor the use of our website; and (3) the cookie collection of MailChimp in its basic (free) form to monitor our e-mail subscription (newsletter) service. |
We collect information provided via our website contact forms which only includes the name and email address. Also, we may have access to personal data voluntarily provided to us, such as contact details, telephone number, address, job title, or any inquiries submitted to us online. Also, we collect a limited amount of user data which we use to help us to improve your experience when using our website and to help us manage the services we provide. This includes information on how you use our website and how you interact with our online services, including the location you view our website from (IP address). |
Consent – in submitting contact forms on our website, we ask for your consent to process your Personal Data. Necessary for Legitimate Interests – including responding to requests and inquiries from you, optimizing our website and customer experience, informing you about our products and services and ensuring that our operations are conducted appropriately and efficiently. |
How We Use Personal Data
Our Personal Data collecting and processing activity is subject to Hungarian law (Act CXII of 2011 on the Right of Informational Self-Determination and on Freedom of Information). We collect, process or disclose Personal Data for our legitimate business purposes including:
- To provide our services to clients, potential clients or web users or to fulfill our contractual obligations;
- To maintain our business relationships;
- To market events, workshops, webinars, reports, our services, news or relevant industry updates. We will always provide you with an option to “opt-out” with each marketing communication;
- To market our services provided in collaboration with our partners (legaltech vendors and law firms);
- To manage career applications submitted by candidates;
- For our business purposes, such as data analysis and audits;
- To develop new products, services and offerings, or to enhance, improve or modify our products and services;
- To record your usage of our website per our Cookie Policy; or
- As required by applicable law or regulation.
By using our website, inputting personal information into contact forms (name and e-mail) or using our services, you consent to the collection and use of your Personal Data for the above purposes per this Privacy Policy.
We will only use your Personal Data for the purposes for which we collected it unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your Personal Data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so or seek your consent, providing you with a clear, conspicuous and readily available mechanism for you to exercise choice.
Please note that we may process your Personal Data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.
All information you provide to us via our website is stored on secured servers of wordpress.com and/or tarhelypark.hu.
Our Data Retention Practices
Where we collect your Personal Data, the length of time for which we retain it depends on the type of data, the purpose for which we use that data and our accounting, regulatory and legal data retention obligations.
We will retain Personal Data on our systems throughout the term of a contract and for 5 years following its termination. If we did not enter into a contract with you, we will delete your Personal Data from our systems unless we have had any meaningful contact with you (or, where appropriate, the company you are working for or with) for two years (or for such longer period as we believe in good faith that the law, statute or relevant regulators require us to preserve your data). After this period, it is likely your Personal Data will no longer be relevant for the purposes for which it was collected and we will delete or destroy it.
In the limited circumstances where you have provided your consent to the collection of Personal Data, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please send us an email at the e-mail address provided above. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate legal basis for doing so.
How We Share Personal Data
In certain circumstances (for instance where we co-organize public events with our partners), we may share your Personal Data with other parties. In cases where we share Personal Data with third party entities, we are acting as joint controllers or processors. We do this to provide sales and marketing services, to fulfill client engagements, for business development purposes, to improve our client service and to make our services more valuable to you.
We may share your Personal Data with the following third parties:
- Service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services, including WordPress, MailChimp, HubSpot and Tarhelypark Kft.;
- Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers;
- Regulators and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers who may require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
- If a change happens in the ownership structure of our business, third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. In this case, the new owners may use your Personal Data in the same way as set out in this Privacy Policy.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your Personal Data and to treat it per applicable laws. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your Personal Data for their purposes and only permit them to process your Personal Data for specified purposes and per our instructions.
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for our partners or one of our service providers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfillment of services you requested from us or the provision of support services. You may request at any time information regarding the categories of our service providers. We only work with third-party service providers that are committed to protecting personal information in a manner that is consistent with this policy.
By submitting Personal Data through our website or by using our services, you agree to the transfer, storing or processing of information per this Privacy Policy.
COOKIE POLICY
InvestCEE’s website (including its mobile version) uses cookies to track the interests of our users and to enhance their user experience on our site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s system that help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site.
Except where contacts elect to identify themselves for purposes of receiving information from InvestCEE or inquiring as to a business relationship with InvestCEE, cookies are not linked to any personally identifiable information. Accordingly, visitors who simply read information published on our website remain fully anonymous. Cookies are used in the following ways on our website:
- Google Analytics – we only use fully anonymized cookie collection via Google Analytics in its basic form to monitor traffic on our site. We use this information to compile statistics and to help us to improve our website and the services we offer. Google uses cookies as part of this process to collect anonymous information, including the number of visitors to the website, where they have come to the website from, the pages they visit and the length of time they have spent on the website. You can read the Google Analytics privacy policy HERE.
- Jetpack via WordPress.com – we only use fully anonymized cookie collection to track how many visits our website gets, and what posts and pages are the most popular. With this feature, none of data explicitly identifying a specific user (IP address, WordPress.com ID, WordPress.com username, etc.) is visible to InvestCEE as the site owner. You can read the Jetpack cookie policy HERE.
- HubSpot – we use the cookie collection enabled by HubSpot to monitor website user activity on our site. We use this information to better understand user statistics and improve our services. HubSpot uses cookies to track information about interactions with our website, including the number of visitors to the website, where they have come to the website from, the pages they visit and the downloads they made on the website. You can read HubSpot Cookie Security and Privacy Policy HERE.
- MailChimp – we use the email subscription cookies enabled by MailChimp in our newsletter service to track recipients’ interaction with our newsletter email updates and to facilitate our online subscription manager website. You can read the MailChimp cookie policy HERE.
The use of cookies in these ways is to improve the functionality of our website and your experience when using it. Cookies can be disabled by changing the settings on your browser. If you do decide to disable cookies, you may not be able to access some areas of our website. By continuing to use our website without changing your settings, you consent to our use of cookies as described above.
You can learn more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
SECURITY OF DATA AND PROCESS
We take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and per this Privacy Policy. InvestCEE uses industry-standard physical, technical, and administrative controls to protect your Personal Data by:
- Limiting the amount of data we collect via our website;
- Not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data;
- Protecting Personal Data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access and disclosure. Any contractors or third parties who are so authorized act on our instructions and are subject to a duty of confidentiality;
- Keeping Personal Data up to date;
- Storing and destroying it securely;
- Ensuring that appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards are in place to protect Personal Data.
- Regularly reviewing our information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures.
Although we do our best to protect Personal Data, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site. Any transmission of personal data through our site is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we use strict procedures and security features to prevent unauthorized access.
You should note that InvestCEE’s website includes links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their content or privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS
Under applicable law, you are entitled to:
- Request access to your personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it;
- Request correction of the personal information that we collected about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected;
- Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request;
- Object to processing your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes;
- Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example, if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it; and/or
- Request the transfer of your personal information to another party.
At your request, we will (i) provide you with a copy of any personal information that we are holding about you at no cost (although we will require you to prove that you are the person who is the subject of the information that we are holding before disclosing it to you), (ii) correct or delete any inaccurate information that we are holding about you that is brought to our attention, and (iii) provide you with information on our data processing suppliers that may receive your personal data. Where Personal Data is no longer necessary for the provision of our services, at your request, we will delete without undue delay any information that we are holding about you.
If a security breach causes an unauthorized intrusion into our system that materially affects you, we will notify you as soon as possible and later report the action we took in response. If you are unsatisfied with our response to a privacy matter then you may contact the Hungarian Data Protection Authority for additional help. We will provide our full cooperation if you pursue this course of action.
If you want to review, verify, correct or request the erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your Personal Data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact us at the email address provided above.
NO ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP
By providing information to InvestCEE via this website or otherwise communicating information to us, you are not establishing an attorney-client relationship and the information you provide to us will not be afforded legal protection as an attorney-client communication. This means that while InvestCEE is committed to protecting the confidentiality per the above policy, the information you provide is not protected under the laws relating to attorney-client privilege and InvestCEE may be compelled to disclose information you provide in certain legal proceedings. Accordingly, you should not provide any information concerning your consultancy needs that you wish to be protected by the attorney-client privilege.
THIRD-PARTY INFORMATION
Any third-party information that can be accessed via hypertext links presented on this site are provided for your convenience only and are not under InvestCEE’s control. InvestCEE is not responsible for any of these third-party resources. The Privacy Policy stated above only applies to this site and not to any other site that you may access via hypertext links.
AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE
InvestCEE collaborates with many legal technology focused services and products. Links on this site may be affiliate links and InvestCEE may earn commissions for purchases that are made by visitors to the site. These may be promotional links that can be used to track a visitor’s purchase and credit it to InvestCEE. This comes at no additional cost to our website visitors and our goal is to provide the very best reviews and recommendations from our experience. If you have any questions, please contact us.
DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY
This Legal Statement has provided information about the applicable law designed to help our readers better understand the legal issues surrounding the use of our online services. But legal information is not the same as legal advice — the application of the law to an individual’s or a business’ specific circumstances.
Although we have conducted research to better ensure that our information is accurate and useful, we insist that you consult a lawyer if you want professional assurance that our information, and your interpretation of it, is accurate. To clarify further, you may not rely upon any information you receive from InvestCEE as legal advice, nor as a recommendation or endorsement of any particular legal understanding or solution, and you should instead regard these as intended for information purposes only. By your use of this site and any related software and/or services you assume all risks related to your activities initiated via this site.
InvestCEE makes no warranties, representations, or claims of any kind concerning the information presented on or through this site. InvestCEE shall not be responsible for any loss, injury, demand, claim, liability, or damage of any kind and nature, whether known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, disclosed or undisclosed, arising from use of the site, whether from errors or omissions in the content of this site or any other linked site, the site being down, or any other use of the site.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
This site was created and designed by InvestCEE and is ©2017-2021 by InvestCEE Tanácsadó Kft. All rights are reserved. It is not permitted to reproduce and distribute any pages, downloads or other information from this website without the prior written consent of InvestCEE.
By accessing this site or any pages on this site, you agree to be bound by our Legal Statement, which may be amended from time to time without notice or liability. Your continued use of this site following any posted changes to the Legal Statement constitutes your acceptance of any such new terms.
Update effective: December 29, 2021