Privacy Policy

V1.1 May 15, 2025

Our Commitment to Privacy

Thank you for visiting our website. We care about your privacy and the information you share with us, and want to ensure you understand how we use and protect information collected about or provided by visitors to our website. We are mindful of data privacy and have adopted best practices in compliance with applicable privacy law and regulations, including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

Use of this website

This website provides content and services for a professional audience.

If you are a European Union (EU) resident, please note that several provisions in this privacy policy apply uniquely to you.

This document describes:

What information we collect

We collect data about you that is limited to the information that can be found on a typical business card: first name, last name, job title, employer/company name, work address, work email and work phone number. In some cases, we may ask you to provide additional professional information, such as the size of the company you work for and the industry type.

To enhance and/or update any information provided, we may combine it with professional information or personal data collected from third-party sources. The personal data referred to in this document includes the personal and professional information you provide, as well as information we obtain from third-party sources, which are typically combined into one record.

This site also collects and stores certain information automatically using cookies and similar technologies, including IP addresses, the region or general location of a computer or device accessing the internet, browser type, operating system, page view history and other usage information. This helps us improve our website, and we only use this information for statistical analysis purposes.

However, to the extent that any cookie can uniquely identify a computer, mobile device or tablet (“Device”), or the person using that Device, and you are an EU resident, this is personal data under the GDPR. Therefore, this privacy policy shall apply to such personal data collected by AXFIN.CO.

How we collect it

Data may be collected when you register to receive any of the content or services offered by AXFIN.CO or undertakings such as publications, subscriptions, contests, newsletters, memberships, premium content, webcasts, video, white papers, online seminars, conferences and events.

What happens if you don’t provide personal data?

For us to provide requested content or services, your data is required. If you prefer not to provide any data, we will be unable to contact you regarding content or our services.

How do we safeguard your personal data?

Data Security

AXFIN.CO maintains safeguards, including technical and organisational security measures, to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised use, access, inadvertent disclosure, alteration, and destruction. We also require the third parties we contract with to support AXFIN to maintain these safeguards.

Security is tested and updated on an ongoing basis and your data can only be accessed by those at AXFIN.CO who need it in order to provide relevant content or services.

Data Storage

Your data may be stored using AXFIN.CO own secure on-site servers or other internally hosted technology. Your data may also be stored by third parties via cloud services or other technology, to whom AXFIN.CO has contracted with, to support our business operations (see “When and how we share your information” below).

These third parties do not have access to or permission to use your personal data other than for cloud storage and retrieval, and AXFIN.CO requires such parties to employ at least the same level of security that we use to protect your personal data (see “Data Security” above).

What we do with the personal data we collect

We use the personal data that we collect to communicate with you, consider you for professional opportunities, deliver your requests, improve the services we provide and present other relevant information and offers.

To communicate with you

Your data may be used to send important notices, such as communications about your registration, transactions and changes to AXFIN.CO’s terms and conditions, policies and/or other internal purposes.

To consider you for professional opportunities

We may use your data to perform our retained executive search or other services.

To deliver what you request

Your data may be used to provide content or services you request.

To improve our service

Your data may be used for auditing, data analysis and research to improve our content and services.

The legal basis we have for processing your personal data

GDPR requires data collectors, such as AXFIN.CO, to have a legal basis to use the personal data of EU residents. This section applies to any such data collected by AXFIN.CO.

We use the personal data that you provide to supply you with content and services as you request, to send important notices and for internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis and research to provide you with the information you need.

We may also use your personal data to offer you content or services that may be of interest to you based on your interests or the preferences you shared with us, and we may share your personal data with third-party clients to consider you for professional opportunities.

Per GDPR regulations, after May 25, 2018, in certain circumstances, we may otherwise possess your personal data if we have a legitimate interest in doing so and your rights and freedoms are not being infringed upon.

When AXFIN.CO processes your personal data for our legitimate interests, we will consider and balance any potential impact on you and your rights under data protection and any other relevant law. Our legitimate business interests do not override your interests. We will not use your personal data in circumstances where your rights and freedoms override our legitimate interests unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by contractor law.

When and how we share your personal data

We may share your personal data to deliver content and services for business operations with clients or to comply with valid legal processes.
No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All other categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

If you are an EU resident, we will only share your personal data with third parties outside of AXFIN.CO with your consent or based on entering into a contract or contracts.

For content and services that may interest you or that you request

As mentioned above, your personal data may be shared within AXFIN.CO to provide you with information about content and services that might interest you and for internal analytical and business development purposes. We may also share your personal data with third parties, such as clients, to allow for participation in the recruitment process.

For business operations

We may also share your personal data with third parties we have contracted with to support AXFIN.CO business operations, including delivery, fulfilment, payment processing, email deployment, suppression list management and data processing.

As required by law

Your personal data may be shared when authorised by law or necessary to comply with a valid legal process.

In the event of new ownership

If part or all of the ownership of AXFIN.CO or any of its subsidiaries or services are sold or transferred, your personal data will be transferred to the new owner.

How long we keep your personal data

We retain your personal data for the duration of your business relationship with us, and we hold your information only as long as necessary for each purpose we use it, unless we have obtained your consent to use for another or similar purpose.

Your rights and preferences

If you inform us that you want your personal data erased (if you are an EU resident), or that you no longer wish for us to communicate with you for marketing purposes, or to otherwise restrict AXFIN.CO’s processing of your personal data, we may retain some basic information in order to avoid sending you unwanted materials in the future, and to keep a record of your request and our response.

Your Rights

Revocation of your consent to the processing of your data

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. An informal e-mail making this request is sufficient. Withdrawing a consent may lead to fewer possibilities to use the services proposed on the website (registration to the newsletter mailing list). The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Right to file complaints with regulatory authorities

If there has been a breach of data protection legislation, the person affected may file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities. In case website visitors consider our processing of personal data to be inconsistent with the applicable data protection laws, a complaint may be lodged with the local supervisory authority for data protection. The competent regulatory authority for matters related to data protection legislation is the data protection officer of the country/state in which our company is headquartered. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following links:

for Austria: www.dsb.gv.at

for France: www.cnil.fr

for Germany/Bavaria: www.lga.bayern.de

for Germany/State of Hessen: www.datenschutz.hessen.de

for Netherlands: www.auoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en

for Romania: www.dataprotection.ro

for the United Kingdom: www.ico.org.uk

Right to data portability

Website visitors have the right to receive their personal data that they have provided to us in a structured and commonly used format (Excel file) and to transmit that data to a third party independently. If you require the direct transfer of data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent technically feasible.

Rights to access, rectification, erasure and restriction of processing

You can receive free of charge any of your data that is stored, as well as its origin, the recipient and the purpose for which it has been processed. You can contact us at any time using the address given herein if you have further questions on the topic of personal data.

Website visitors have the right to have incorrect or incomplete personal data we have stored corrected or completed.

Website visitors may also request that we delete their data from our systems. We will comply with such requests unless we have a legitimate reason not to delete the data.

Right to object

Website visitors may object to the processing of personal data if such data is processed for purposes other than those necessary for the performance of services on the website or for compliance with a legal obligation. In case we do not have legitimate grounds to continue processing such personal data, we shall no longer process the personal data after your objection.

We will not use your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

Confirming your personal data

This section shall apply to any personal data collected by AXFIN.CO from EU residents.

To confirm that AXFIN.CO is processing your personal data, or to access, update or correct the personal data we hold about you, or to obtain a copy to reuse for your own purposes, please email info@axfin.co.

Erasing your personal data

This section shall apply to any personal data collected by AXFIN.CO from EU residents.

If you want your personal data erased, please email info@axfin.co

To opt out of marketing communications

If you want AXFIN.CO to stop communicating with you for marketing purposes, please email info@axfin.co

To restrict processing of your personal data

If you want to restrict AXFIN otherwise.CO’s processing of your personal data, please email info@axfin.co.

Help

Questions, concerns or complaints:

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about AXFIN.CO’s personal data practices or this Privacy Policy, you can get in touch with our data protection officer.

If you believe you have suffered harm due to a breach of your rights by AXFIN.CO under this Privacy Policy, and we have not handled your complaint in a reasonably sufficient manner, any EU resident may also file a complaint with the applicable supervisory authority.