We believe in the concept of universal basic human rights, for instance the right to work, perhaps through entrepreneurial activities, as well as the right to education and the right to privacy. To ensure that all Our Users’ privacy is treated equal, We implement the EU GDPR framework of individual data protection and privacy rights to all Our Users, no matter where in the world You live and access and/or use the Services, to the extent possible by local laws.

At Edventures, the importance of Your privacy is obvious to Us. We understand that You entrust Us with certain private information to help Us provide various features and services that help You grow and learn as an entrepreneur. That’s what Edventures is all about – taking You closer to making Your dreams come true. In order to do so, We need to handle a lot of data, and some of that data will be coming from You. It is therefore essential that You understand what kind of personal information We collect and why.

This Privacy Policy describes what kind of personal information We collect from You, the various purposes for which We may process Your personal data and how We handle that collected personal information. It also describes Your privacy and data protection rights and how You can exercise them. By using or accessing the Services in any manner, You acknowledge that You accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy and that You consent to that We will collect, use, and share Your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. Remember that Your use of the Services is at all times subject to Our Terms of Service, which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms We use in this Privacy Policy have the definitions given to them in Our Terms of Service.

Please note that We will never steal, copy, emulate or share Your business idea(s) submitted by You through the Services, with the purpose to execute any idea(s). Your idea is Your idea, and that is final. Our business is to support Your idea, which is where We put all Our efforts. However, please keep in mind that just having an idea does not get You far, and that the execution of an idea is what makes the difference. That is what the Services are purposefully built for — to help You increase Your chances to successfully launch and grow Your business idea(s) and project(s).

We only collect information You intentionally provide through the Services, such as Your profile information, business idea(s) and goal(s), as well as some technical information coming from Your Device(s). We do this to offer You the best possible Services and to support both Entrepreneurs and Coaches, to improve their chances of creating viable businesses together. We rely on You to ensure that Your personal information is complete, true, accurate and current to be able to provide You with the best possible experience of the Services.

For informational purposes, We think it is worth mentioning that Personal data is deemed to be any information that, directly or indirectly, relates to and can identify You as an individual. Encrypted information and various types of electronic identities are deemed as personal data if it can be related to You. To process personal data is deemed as any operation(s) which is performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means.

Information provided by You

There are several areas on the Services where You may be asked to enter both personal and non-personal information. To use the Services, You'll need to provide certain personal information which may include, without limitation, Your name, password, address and email address. We may also collect certain sensitive information from You including date of birth, gender, geographic location, business idea(s) and personal needs, interests and goals as well as other User Generated Content from conversations with Our Services, so that We can provide You with the best experience possible.

Information automatically collected

In order for Us to ensure that We are providing the best possible experience through the Services, We collect and track certain User and customer information, without limitation, such as IP address, geographic location as indicated by the IP address and Device information. We collect certain information from and about the Devices that You access the Services from, and We combine this information across different Devices You use. The device information also helps Us conduct user research across Our customer demographics, interests and behavior. None of this information may identify You personally.

When You access the Services, Our web servers sends a cookie to Your Device. This cookie stores a limited amount of information about Your site visit and tracks aggregate information on how the Services are being used. This includes, without limitation, session counts, navigation patterns, pages visited and geographic location as indicated by Your IP address. If You choose to set Your web browser to not accept cookies, We can’t guarantee that the Services will work as intended due to this lack of information required.

We utilise web logs to track aggregate information about how the Services are being used. Web logs track anonymous User information, including the number of visitors to the Services, operating systems, IP address (if publicly available), and browser type. Unlike cookies, web logs are maintained only on Our servers and do not store or place anything on Your computer.

From third party sources

If a User connects to the Services using credentials from a third party, for example Google, Facebook or LinkedIn, the User will provide Us with authentication information such as encrypted access credentials. We may also collect other information available on or through the User’s third party account, including, for example, name, profile picture and email address.

There are three different legal grounds on which We rely to use Your personal information. Our first legal ground is that the use of Your personal information, as described in this Privacy Policy, may be necessary to perform the Agreement You have with Us, for example to give You access to the Services, to register and maintain Your account, to enable advisory guidance and help, to help with support issues and to make sure that the Services performs as intended or to respond to Your requests. Our second legal ground is that Our processing of Your personal information may be necessary to serve Our legitimate interest, for example to improve and provide You with the best possible Services. Our third legal ground is that You have given Us Your consent in a certain situation, which You have the legal right to withdraw at any time.

If We collect and use Your personal information for Our, or Our third parties, legitimate interest, We will always rely on Our herein described legitimate interest to handle that information. For example, We rely on Our legitimate interest to analyse and improve the Services, to send You notifications about updates to or information about the Services or to use Your personal information for administrative or legal purposes.

If You do not provide personal information that We need to fulfill Our legal requirements or Our Agreement, We may not be able to enter or perform the Agreement with You. For example, We require You to provide Us with personal information in order to give You access to the Services, to register and maintain Your account, to offer guiding entrepreneurship information and support, to help with support issues and to make sure that the Services performs as intended.

We use personal information to, without limitation, provide, operate, support and improve the Services, to ensure that You get the best experience possible. This processing is necessary for the performance of the Agreement We have with You, as well as to serve Our legitimate interest, and aims to benefit You in both the long and short term.

Categories of recipients of Your personal information

We might share personal information with Users affiliated to Your account, potential customers and business partners, investors, payment processors, marketing service providers, and if or when the law requires, judicial institutions.

To communicate with You

We use the data We collect to deliver and personalise Our communications with You. For example, We may contact You by email or other means of electronic communication (including through the Services) to, without limitation, inform You about feature, security and/or Software updates. This processing is necessary to serve Our legitimate interest to give You the best possible experience of the Services.

For Entrepreneurs

Your User Generated Content, created while using the Services, might only be shared with Affiliated User(s), that You have consented to by requesting to be affiliated with, through summaries and excerpts generated from Your User Generated Content. This sharing of personal information will only happen if You have any affiliations to Coach(es) on the Services. Rest assured that We will never sell Your personal data or conversation history to any third party not affiliated with You. This processing is necessary to perform the Agreement We have with You.

For Coaches

Your User Generated Content, such as comments on affiliated Entrepreneur(s)’ projects, created while using the Services, might only be shared with Affiliated User(s), that You have consented to by accepting to be affiliated with. This processing is necessary to perform the Agreement We have with You.

To tailor the Services

What makes Our Services unique is that We offer tailored information about entrepreneurship topics, to support Your business idea(s) and project(s). For this purpose, We need personal information from You about Your business idea(s), need(s) and goal(s) in combination with Your User Generated Content, in order to perform the Agreement We have with You, as well as to serve Our legitimate interest to provide You the best possible experience of the Services.

To improve the Services

We use aggregated information to make the Services better, to conduct research, for statistical and analytical purposes as well as for marketing and sales purposes. For these purposes, We use aggregated information to classify and categorise Users, for example by their age, gender, geographic location, business idea(s) and business needs. This aggregated overview helps Us to better understand Our Users and to create general personas, which We use to meet the requests, inquiries and expectations of Our Users, which is in Our legitimate interest to improve the Services. In short, We aggregate anonymised personal information and categorise it. For example, if You submit to the Services that You have a business idea about a SaaS for horse management, We only categorise that piece of information at an industry level, which is necessary for the Services to provide relevant information and ask supplementary questions.

To protect Your, Our or others’ rights

We might disclose account or other personal information when We have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with Our rights or property, other Users or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. This processing is necessary to serve Our legitimate interest to ensure the safety of, as well as to protect Your, Our and others’ rights.

Automated decision making, including profiling

If You voluntarily register for Our newsletter, Your personal information will be processed in order for You to be able to receive Our newsletter. Please note that this processing will be automated. We may use aggregated information to better tailor Our newsletters to Our various users groups. Please note that We will not use the information to analyse private individuals, but to get an overview of Our Users.

It is necessary for Us to use third party services to be able to provide You with the Services. These third party services will need to process information about You. Please note that We are always responsible for Your Personal Information and other information, to the extent stated in this Privacy Policy, and that no third party service is granted any additional rights than We obtain under this Privacy Policy.

Advertisements

For the Free Plan, the Services will contain links to other sites operated by third parties in the form of advertisements. Anytime You click on links (e.g. advertising banners), which take You to third party websites, You will be subject to the third parties’ privacy policies. We do not control such other sites and are not responsible for their content, their privacy policies, or their use of personal data. Our inclusion of such links does not imply any endorsement of the content on such sites or of their owners or operators, except as disclosed on the Services. Any information submitted by You directly to these third parties is subject to that third party’s privacy policy.

To communicate with You

We use the data We collect to deliver and personalise Our communications with You. For example, We may contact You by email or other means of electronic communication (including through the Services) to, without limitation, inform You about feature, security and/or Software updates. This processing is necessary to serve Our legitimate interest to give You the best possible experience of the Services.

Payment Processor

Unaffiliated and Affiliated User(s) Purchasing a Paid Subscription, will need to process their payments for their Paid Subscription(s) through Our chosen Payment Processor. We do not control, and are not responsible for, any of the personal information submitted to such third party, their privacy policy, or their use of personal data, including any personal or financial information collected by Our Payment Processor to process payments for subscription purchases.

Links to other websites

The Services may contain links to other websites that are owned and operated by third parties that are not affiliated with Us. This Privacy Policy applies only to Our Website and Services and does not govern activities on linked websites or applications. We are under no circumstances responsible or liable for any personal information You may share with any third party outside of Our Website or Services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage Users to be aware when they leave the Services to learn about the privacy statements of other websites and services that collect personally identifiable information.

Transfer to third countries outside of the EU/EEA

We use Google Cloud Platform servers located within the EU and We aim to keep all Our data, from all Our Users, within the EU. If We, however, should transfer Your personal data to other countries, outside the EU and EEA, We do this in order to provide the Services. Your personal data, consequently, might be processed in countries outside the EU/EEA and subject to different privacy laws. In case Your personal data is subject to transfer outside the EU and EEA, or to a country whose privacy laws are not considered to ensure an adequate level of protection, We guarantee that appropriate safety measures are taken for such transfer and processing, and ensure equivalent compliance to that of EU/EEA regulations.

While no system is completely secure, We take precautionary measures to help prevent loss, theft, misuse and unauthorised access of any data and personal information. We will retain Your personal information for as long as We deem it necessary to enable You to use the Services, to provide the Services to You, to comply with applicable laws, including those regarding document retention, resolve disputes with any parties and otherwise as necessary to allow Us to conduct Our business. If processing Your personal information will no longer be necessary for Our legitimate business interests, We will delete or anonymise it.

When You enter any information through Our Services, We encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). We use 128-bit data security encryption so all information sent between Your Device and the Services remains private and secure. We use market-leading cloud service providers to ensure that We offer the best possible protection of Your information.

We want to ensure You that You are always in control of the information We have about You. Below We describe Your rights and how You may exercise them.

Right to access

You have the right to access any information We have about You. If You would like to access the personal information We have about You, You can, at any time, see and download a machine-readable file of the information We hold about You by visiting Your profile in the Services.

Right to rectification

You have the right to, at any time, obtain rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning You. You also have the right to complete incomplete personal information. You can always edit the information You have submitted when creating Your User Account, simply by visiting Your profile on the Services.

Right to deletion

You have the right to have personal information that We process deleted, if:

(a) the personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purpose for which it was collected or otherwise processed,

(b) You object to processing based on a legitimate interest and Your reason for objection weigh heavier than Our legitimate ground,

(c) You object to processing for direct marketing purposes,

(d) the personal data have been unlawfully processed, or

(e) the personal data must be, by law, deleted for compliance purposes.

You also have the right to terminate Your User Account at any time. At that point all information connected to Your account will be anonymised. However, binding legal requirements may require that We store certain information for various periods of time. In order to comply with these regulations, We may be unable to delete information from Our databases.

Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to restrict Us from processing Your personal information, if:

(a) You object that the personal information We process is correct. We will then restrict the processing of Your information for as long as it takes for Us to verify the accuracy of it, and if necessary correct the information,

(b) the processing is unlawful and You object to delete the personal data and requests the restriction of their use instead,

(c) We no longer need the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but You require the data to the establish, exercise or defend legal claims, or

(d) You have objected to a balance of interest We have performed based on a legitimate interest, and You are pending the verification whether Your reason for objection weigh heavier than Our legitimate ground.

Right to data portability

You have the right to receive the personal information You have provided to Us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit the data to another controller, if:

(a) the legal ground is Your consent, or

(b) the legal ground is Our Agreement, and

(c) the processing is carried out by automated means

Right to object

Under some circumstances You have the right to object to processing of Your personal information. If the processing is based on Our legitimate interest or the public interest, We might cease processing. If You object that Your personal information is processed for direct marketing purposes, which include profiling and occur for such direct marketing purposes, We must cease processing.

Right to withdraw Your consent

You have the right to withdraw Your consent at any time if the legal ground of processing Your personal information is consent. If any processing is based on Your consent, We ensure that You have been well informed about that and that the request for Your consent has been presented in a clear manner based on Your freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent to processing Your personal data. If You withdraw Your consent, it will not affect the lawfulness of any processing being performed before Your withdrawal. You can, at any time, withdraw Your consent by contacting Us by email at hello@edventures.ai.

Right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority

We are committed to handle any request, complaint or concern that You may have about Our use of Your personal information in a fair and transparent way. If, however, You believe that We have not been able to assist with Your complaint or concern, You may have the right to file a complaint with the data protection authority in Your country (if one exists in Your country) or supervisory authority.

Children are not eligible to use Our Services and We ask that individuals under the age of sixteen (16) to not submit any personal information to Us or use the Services. Although visitors under the age of sixteen (16) are prevented from accessing the Services, We cannot guarantee that individuals under the age of sixteen (16) might still access the Services by providing inaccurate and false information upon registration. We do not knowingly collect or request personal information from those under the age of sixteen (16) without parental consent.

If, following a notification from a parent, guardian or discovery by other means, a child under sixteen (16) has been improperly registered on Our Services by using false information, We will cancel the child's User Account and delete the child's personal information from Our records. Other age restrictions may be set forth in Our Terms of Service from time to time.

Edvntrs Technologies AB, company registration number 559332-3438, is the data controller of Our processing of the personal information described in this Privacy Policy.

Occasionally We may make changes to this Privacy Policy, for example to reflect changes in the Services or regulatory requirements. When We update this Privacy Policy, We will update the date this Privacy Policy was last revised, which You will find at the top of the page. If there are major changes to the Privacy Policy, or in how We use Your personal information, We will notify You about the changes either through the Services’ interface, in an email notification or through other reasonable means. We encourage You to regularly review this Privacy Policy to learn more how We are using and protecting Your information.

If You have any questions about the use of Your personal information, please send Us an email to hello@edventures.ai.