Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how ETA Intel handles personal data. It applies to the ETA Intel network, meaning etaintel.com and the individual titles published under it (together, "ETA Intel", "we", "us", "our").

We handle personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Dutch implementation act (UAVG).

Who is responsible

The controller for your personal data is:

For any question about this policy or your personal data, contact legal@etaintel.com.

What this policy covers

We designed our services to collect as little personal data as possible. You do not need an account to read the website or to use the directories. This policy describes the data we do collect, why we collect it, on what legal basis, how long we keep it, and who we share it with. It also describes your rights.

The personal data we collect and why

Briefing subscribers

When you subscribe to a briefing, we collect your email address and, if you choose to provide it, your role. We use this to send you the briefings you subscribed to and to understand, in aggregate, the make-up of our readership.

Legal basis: your consent. You can withdraw it at any time using the unsubscribe link in every briefing, or by contacting us.

We keep this data until you unsubscribe.

Forms

When you use a form on the website, for example to contact us, to submit or verify a company, to post a job, or to request a correction or removal, we collect the information you enter. This usually includes your name, your work email address, your role or relationship to the company where relevant, and the content of your message or request.

Legal basis: for commercial requests, taking steps at your request before entering into an agreement, and our legitimate interest in handling your request. For editorial contact and corrections, our legitimate interest in running the publication and keeping it accurate.

We keep form submissions for as long as we need them to handle your request and for a reasonable period afterwards, and then delete them. As a default we remove them within 24 months, unless we need them longer for an ongoing relationship or to handle a legal claim.

Company directory listings

Our directories list companies active in the markets our titles cover, based on publicly available business information. This information is about companies, and in most cases it is not personal data. We do not add contact persons to directory listings.

Where a listing unavoidably contains personal data, for example a company that trades under an individual's name, we rely on our legitimate interest in providing an accurate market directory, balanced against the rights of the individual. You can ask us to correct or remove such information at any time, through the request path on the company's profile page or at legal@etaintel.com.

People on a company profile

A company with a Verified or Featured listing supplies a limited number of its own people to appear on its profile: one person on a Verified listing, and up to three on a Featured listing. For each person we process their name, their role, any contact details the company chooses to provide, and a work email address on the company's domain.

The person's name and role, and any contact details provided, are shown on the public company profile. The work email address is used as verification context and to give response access: only the specific addresses the company supplies can request a one-time link to respond to articles as that company's voice. There is no domain-wide access, and there is no self-service login. The people are supplied by the company and placed by our editors.

Legal basis: our and the company's legitimate interest in a directory of identified, verifiable voices, together with the company's provision of these details for that purpose. We keep this data while the listing is active and the person represents the company, and we remove it on request or when the company tells us the person no longer represents it.

Server logs and analytics

Like any website, our hosting provider (Vercel) keeps technical logs that may include your IP address, for security and to keep the website running. We use these for a limited period.

We measure how the website is used with privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics that we host ourselves. This produces aggregate statistics about pages and visits. Because the analytics is self-hosted, the visitor data stays within our own environment and is not shared with an external analytics provider. It does not use tracking cookies and does not build a profile of you as an individual.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in the security, operation, and improvement of the website.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell your personal data. We share it only with service providers who process it on our behalf, under a data processing agreement, and only for the purposes described above. These are:

• Vercel, our hosting provider, which runs the website and keeps technical server logs that may include your IP address;
• Google Workspace, which receives the email messages you send us;
• Resend, which delivers our transactional and system emails, such as confirmations and one-time response links;
• n8n Cloud, which receives, processes, and routes the submissions you make through our forms.

Our analytics is self-hosted and cookieless, so the visitor data it produces stays within our own environment and is not passed to an external analytics provider.

Some of these providers, including Vercel, Google Workspace, Resend, and n8n Cloud, may process data outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States. Where that is the case, the transfer is covered by appropriate safeguards, in particular the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.

How long we keep your data

We keep personal data only as long as we need it for the purposes described above, or as long as the law requires. The retention periods are set out per category above. When a period ends, we delete or anonymise the data.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to ask us to give you access to your personal data, to correct it, to delete it, to restrict how we use it, to object to our use of it, and to receive it in a portable form. Where we rely on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of what we did before.

To exercise any of these rights, contact legal@etaintel.com. We respond within one month.

If you believe we handle your personal data incorrectly, you can also lodge a complaint with the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl).

Security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against loss and unauthorised access. No system is completely secure, but we work to keep the risk low and to act quickly if something goes wrong.

Children

The website is a professional publication and is not intended for children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. The version published on this page applies. Where a change is significant, we will make that clear.

Contact

For any question about this policy or your personal data, or to exercise your rights, contact legal@etaintel.com.