Privacy Policy UK - Entrepreneur Media, LLC

This Privacy Notice tells you what to expect us to do with your Personal Information. We use the term "Personal Information” to refer to information that reasonably identifies, relates to, describes, or can be associated with you. Entrepreneur Media, LLC ("we", "our", or "us") understands that privacy is very important to the visitors to our Website and users of our Services (collectively, “Website Visitors”). (As used in this Privacy Notice, “our Services” include without limitation our print magazine subscriptions, and our digital Services such as editorial and sponsored content, advertising, newsletters and other subscription programs, streaming videos, and other communications, offered and provided to you through our website located at www.entrepreneur.com, together with any related subsites, sub-domains, and mobile and software applications, including www.entrepreneur.com/bookstore, www.entrepreneur.com/green-entrepreneur and www.entrepreneur.com/franchise500 (collectively, “our Website”).

This Privacy Notice, which is part of our Terms of Service at www.entrepreneur.com/terms-of-service, describes how we collect, use, share and protect your Personal Information, when you access and use our Services. (As used in the Privacy Notice, “you” refers to you as a Website Visitor.) This Privacy Notice also tells you about the rights and choices you have with respect to your Personal Information, how you can assert those rights, and how you can contact us to get answers to your questions.

Contact details

Mailing Address:
1651 East 4th Street, #125, Santa Ana, CA, 92701, United States of America

Email Address:
legal@entrepreneur.com

What Personal Information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following Personal Information to provide services and goods, including delivery:

Names and contact details
Addresses
Purchase or account history
Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)
Website user information (including user journeys and cookie tracking)
Identification documents
Information relating to compliments or complaints
Information relating to sponsorship

We collect or use the following Personal Information for the operation of customer accounts and guarantees:

Names and contact details
Addresses
Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)
Purchase history
Account information, including registration details
Information used for security purposes
Marketing preferences

We collect or use the following Personal Information to prevent crime, prosecute offenders, or defend against legal action:

Names and contact information
Customer or client accounts and records
Financial transaction information

We collect or use the following Personal Information for service updates or marketing purposes:

Names and contact details
Addresses
Marketing preferences
Location data
Purchase or viewing history
IP addresses
Website and app user journey information
Information relating to sponsorship
Records of consent, where appropriate

We collect or use the following Personal Information for research or archiving purposes:

Names and contact details
Addresses
Location data
Purchase or viewing history
IP addresses
Website and app user journey information
Personal Information used for administration of research
Personal Information used for the purpose of research
Records of consent, where appropriate

We collect or use the following Personal Information to comply with legal requirements:

Name
Contact information
Identification documents
Financial transaction information

Lawful bases

Our lawful bases for collecting or using Personal Information to provide services and goods are:

Consent
Contract
Legal obligation
Public task

Our lawful bases for collecting or using Personal Information for the operation of customer accounts and guarantees are:

Consent
Contract
Legal obligation
Public task

Our lawful bases for collecting or using Personal Information to prevent crime, prosecute offenders or defend against legal action are:

Consent
Contract
Legal obligation
Public task

Our lawful bases for collecting or using Personal Information for service updates or marketing purposes are:

Consent
Contract
Legal obligation
Public task

Our lawful bases for collecting or using Personal Information for research or archiving purposes are:

Consent
Contract
Legal obligation
Public task

Our lawful bases for collecting or using Personal Information for legal requirements are:

Consent
Contract
Legal obligation
Public task

Where we get Personal Information from

People directly
Publicly available sources

How long we keep Personal Information

We will retain your Personal Information for as long as we have an ongoing legitimate business need to use that Information (for example you have an active account with us or to comply with applicable tax, legal, or accounting requirements). When there is no longer such a need, we will delete it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your Personal Information has been stored in back-up archives), then we will securely store your Personal Information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. We will also delete certain Personal Information we may retain about you upon your request.

Who we share Personal Information with

Data processors

Google Inc.

This data processor does the following activities for us: Uses Personal Information (i) to inform a prospective advertiser that the user is visiting our Website, so that the Website can solicit bids for the opportunity to show an ad to the user, and (ii) to record the number of times the user views each ad, so as to prevent a single ad from being shown to the user too frequently.

Integral Ad Science, Inc. and Oracle (Moat Analytics)

These data processors do the following activities for us: Use Personal Information to verify that the user is "human" and not a "bot" attempting to defraud the advertiser.

Others we share Personal Information with

Organizations we need to share Personal Information with for safeguarding reasons
Professional or legal advisors
Financial or fraud investigation authorities
Publicly on our website, social media or other marketing and information media (where appropriate)

Sharing Personal Information outside the UK

Where necessary, we may transfer Personal Information outside of the UK. When doing so, we comply with the UK GDPR, making sure appropriate safeguards are in place. Please contact us for more information.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your Personal Information.

Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify Personal Information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your Personal Information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the Personal Information you gave us to another organization, or to you, in certain circumstances.

Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent.

You don’t usually need to pay a fee to exercise your rights. If you make a request, we have one calendar month to respond to you.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your Personal Information, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”).

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Last updated:

30 August 2024

Entrepreneur Media, LLC Website Visitor Privacy Notice