Privacy Policy

Introduction. This Privacy Policy explains how Female Founders Forum (F3) is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your information in an open and transparent manner. It also outlines how F3 will collect, handle, store and protect your personal information when you use our website or when we perform any other activities that form part of the operation of this website.

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This Privacy Policy also contains information about when we share your personal information with members of the F3 network and other third parties. Other websites that may be linked to this site are not governed by this Privacy Policy. Therefore, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties. Furthermore, any information you disclose on their sites is not subject to F3’s Privacy Policy. You should consult the privacy policy on any website that you visit before disclosing your personal information.

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Your Personal Data. F3 obtains and processes personal data in different ways depending upon the data subject, the purpose of the processing, and the way in which we obtained your personal data. Your data will only be processed by F3 or authorized third parties working with F3. You will be informed if we need to have your data processed elsewhere for any reason. You will also be notified if there are any privacy risks involved and what we have done to minimize those risks.

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At any time, you may ask us to provide you with information regarding the personal data of yours that we hold. You also have the right to request any of the following concerning your data:

• Erasure

• Correction if inaccurate

• Restricting the processing of

• Your data to be provided to you in a format which would allow you to transfer it digitally

• Withdrawal of any previously given consent

Why do we process your personal data? We process your data to enable us to contact you in your role within your organization and record any information that you provide. This contact could include a newsletter, emails, or marketing materials. We may also need to use your data in order to recommend you (or the goods and services of your organization) to others. Any questions or concerns regarding the processing of your data can be directed to info@goF3.org.

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Legitimate Interest. We have a legitimate interest in using your data for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. We do not need your consent. However, at any time you may request that all contact from F3 ceases and/or that you no longer wish to receive marketing materials.

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Where we get your personal data. The usual source of your data is you or your organization. On occasion, we may obtain it from your colleagues, mutual clients, others involved in a project, or from publicity material published by your organization or publicly available directories.

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How are we sharing your data? Some of our data, which could include your personal data, is stored off-site by third parties. We may, in connection with a project on which we are working with your organization, provide it to others working on the same project. We may also provide it to third parties seeking our recommendation of your organization or someone like you.

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Were F3 to be sold, all of your data would be transferred to the purchaser so that they could use it in the same way that we do now.

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Cookies. F3 uses a variety of technologies, including cookies, to collect information about your online/mobile activity when you visit our website. Cookies are small text files that a website server stores on your computer or device. Typically, they are used to remember your login account preferences, monitor website traffic, provide customer support (like live chat), and help us better customize our site for your individual preferences.

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If you accept cookies, they may remain on your computer for many years. However, they can be deleted from your computer at any time. You can disable cookies by making the appropriate selection from your browser options to inform you of when cookies are set and/or to prevent cookies from being set. However, if you choose to disable or delete cookies, you may also limit the functionality we can provide when you visit our website. Consult the Help function on your web browser to learn more about cookies.

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What types of cookies do we use? We may use the following types of cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. Our website requires the use of these cookies to properly operate or provide necessary functions relating to the service(s) you request.

• Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies allow us and our third-party service providers to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors navigate our website when they are using it. This helps us improve how our website works by ensuring that users can easily find what they need. These cookies aggregate statistics that are not associated with an individualized profile.

• Functionality cookies. These cookies enable helpful but non-essential website functions that improve your website experience. As an example, by recognizing when you return to our website, they may allow us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, or remember your preferences. These cookies may enable visitor identification across websites and over time.

• Tracking or targeting cookies. These cookies enable different marketing related functions. They may allow us to record information about your visit to our website, such as pages visited, links followed, and videos viewed so that we can make our website and the content displayed on it more relevant to your interests. These cookies may enable visitor identification across websites and over time. We may share the information with third parties for similar purposes. This website does not use targeting cookies to deliver targeted advertising on this website; however, these cookies may be used on third party websites on which we occasionally advertise, to track the success of those advertising campaigns. We may use web beacons (also known as pixel tags) to determine which users have come to this website after viewing an advertisement on a third-party website. We also work with third parties to collect data so that we can determine the effectiveness of our ads and serve ads targeted to your interests. The use of web beacons does not provide us with any personal information, and we do not use this technology to access your personal information. It is used only to compile aggregated data about users who visit this website and to gauge the effectiveness of our ads. Web beacons do not place information on your device but may work in conjunction with cookies to monitor activity. You cannot remove or block web beacons, but you can remove or block the cookies with which they work to block the collection of information about your user activity.

• Third-party cookies. Our website may contain helpful but non-essential features or plug-ins enabling third party services that use cookies. Examples include, but are not limited to social network connectors, maps, or web traffic analysis services. These cookies may enable visitor identification across websites and over time. We do not control any third party’s use of those cookies. You should review any third-party cookie policy before use.

Retention. Your contact information and other data will only be held for as long as you retain your role in your organization or, if it was relevant to a project, for so long as we retain the records of that project.

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Other Disclosures. In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may disclose information about you:

• To the extent that we are required to do so by law

• In connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings

• To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights

• To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset for which we are (or are contemplating) selling

• Except as provided in our Privacy Policy, we will never provide your information to third parties.

Security of Your Personal Data. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information. Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

Policy Amendments. We may periodically update this Privacy Policy by posting a new version on our website.

Updating Information. Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Contact. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our treatment of your personal data, please contact us at info@goF3.org.

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*The terms ‘we’ or ‘us’ or ‘our’ refer to F3 Female Founders Forum.  References to “website” or “site” in this Privacy Policy point to the specific web pages of gof3.org.

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**Broadly speaking, personal information (or personal data) is information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, either alone or when combined with other information that is linked or linkable to a specific individual.

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***We may collectively refer to handling, collecting, protecting, and storing your personal information as “processing” such personal information.