Please READ the data privacy policy for the processing of your personal data that we collect through this form.This form is collected by the company “KNOWCRUNCH INC” (“Company”, “KNOWCRUNCH” “us”, “we”). We respect the protection of our students and alumni (“you”, “your”) personal data and their privacy and comply with the applicable data protection and privacy laws. This Notice explains how we process your personal data when you fill this form, and subsequently give us your consent to process your data. We have written this Notice in plain language to facilitate its understanding and help you decide whether you want to provide us with your data voluntarily and freely.Who is the data controller?The Data Controller is “KNOWCRUNCH INC.”, a company with its registered seat in Delaware, USA, 2035 Sunset Lake Road, Suite B2, Newark, 19702. Company is the Data Controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”).

What personal data do we collect and why?

Company collects and processes personal data that you voluntarily provide by filling in and submitting this form, for specified purposes and always under a specified legal basis. In particular, we collect the personal data that you provide us with, filling the form.Your data is stored in a Google form which is shared every three months with the agencies and companies we collaborate with, for the purpose of facilitating contact between you and potential employers/clients.The legal basis for this processing is your consent (Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR) that you give by ticking the checkbox, thus accepting the present Privacy Policy, before you submit the form.In the rare case when it may be necessary to disclose your personal data to the competent national authorities, the legal basis for this processing would be our legal obligations or legitimate interests, such as potential litigation (Article 6 (1) (c) or (f) GDPR).

Who do we share your personal data with?

Your data shall not be disclosed to any third party, apart from the following:(a) Authorized employees of Company who have access to personal data only when this is necessary (e.g., to create the file that contains your data, to update/correct the information as per your potential request, to share this file with the agencies/companies we collaborate with). The authorized personnel having access to your personal information is bound by non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements.(b) Partners and third parties providing certain services who are required to have access to the content of our database to provide such services (Google and other IT services providers, and website development agency). We ensure you that we have explicitly asked for the maximum safeness and confidentiality for your data from our partners and third parties and that further transfer from them to others is strictly prohibited.(c) Agencies and companies for the purpose of facilitating contact between you and potential employers/clients. The very purpose of this form is to facilitate the contact between you and possible employers or clients. For this reason, we will disclose your data to them, according to this policy. (d) National Authorities. We will disclose personal data when it is necessary to comply with applicable laws or a legal process, to respond to requests from public and government authorities, to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, to protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of our own, you or others and finally, to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain. The legal basis for this processing would be our legal obligations or legitimate interests (Article 6 (1) (c) or (f) GDPR (e) Third-party partners setting cookies. Some Cookies are put in place by third-party service providers. Therefore, these partners have access to cookie related information (for more information about cookies, see our Cookies Notice).

How long do we keep your data?

We will retain your personal data for a year after the submission of this form. After this period of time, we consider them to be obsolete and we will delete them, unless you resubmit this form, in which case the time period of retention will be renewed for one more year. In other cases, we keep your data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:(a) Whether or not you have chosen to withdraw your consent for this processing. In such case we will delete your personal data. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.(b) Whether retention is advisable considering our legal position (such as, our legal obligations, or potential litigation).

Data security in our servers

We very thoroughly consider the security and privacy of your personal data and other information we collect. We have adopted measures of a technical and organizational nature required to guarantee the security of your data and prevent them from being lost, processed, or accessed illegally. Our own servers are located within the European Economic Area (EEA). For service efficiency purposes, we use Google LLC’s services, a third-party provider that may hold servers outside the EEA. We inform you that this data is transferred with adequate safeguards and is always kept safe, as Google abides by Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the European Commission according to Art. 46 par. 2 c GDPR.

What are your rights on your data?

We want to ensure that you can exercise your rights enshrined under the applicable laws. To this end, for as long we retain your data you may exercise your rights free of charge. However, we may charge a reasonable fee in case of manifestly unfounded, disproportionate or repeated requests. In particular, you have the following rights:•    to access your personal data;

• To correct or edit your data yourself;
• To request erasure of your personal data to the extent that it is no longer necessary for the purpose for which we need to keep processing it, as explained above, or when we are no longer legally permitted to process it;
• To request that we limit the processing of your personal data, which entails that in certain cases you can request us to temporally suspend the processing of data or that we keep it longer than necessary;
• To withdraw your consent for the processing at any time. In the event that you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the legality of the processing carried out previously;
• To receive your data in digital form (right of portability);
• To object to the processing (when the processing of your data is based on our legitimate interest).

You can exercise the above rights via the website or our mobile apps or by contacting us.Finally, we inform you that you have the right to lodge a complaint if you believe that we have violated your rights regarding the processing of personal data before the Data Protection Authority.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may amend the information contained in this Privacy Notice when we consider this appropriate having regard the applicable laws. In case of a substantial amendment, we will notify you by various procedures through our Website or we may even send you a notice to your email address.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, please just send us an email or contact us: KnowCrunch INC, 651 N. BROAD ST. SUITE 206, MIDDLETOWN, DE 19709, USA