This Privacy Notice provides information about how Dark Horse Solutions LLC, with office located at 634 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014, (“Dark Horse Solutions,” “we,” “our,” “us”) collects and processes the personal data of individuals (“you,” “your”) who visit and/or interact with our website [insert website] (the “Website”), purchase or use our services, and engage in subsequent correspondence or communications with us, whether by email, telephone, or otherwise.
If you are located in the European Union, Dark Horse Solutions is a “controller” of your personal data. This means that we are responsible for deciding the purposes and means by which we use the personal data we hold about you. “Personal data” is any information by which you or any living person can be individually identified either directly or indirectly, but does not include anonymized data. There are “special categories” of more sensitive personal data which require a higher level of protection.
As a controller, we are obliged to provide this Privacy Notice to you under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the “GDPR”). In brief, this Privacy Notice explains:
This Privacy Notice does not form part of any contract, or offer to enter into a contract, with us. It may be amended by us at any time. We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Notice at any time, for any reason, without notice to you, other than the posting of the amended Privacy Notice on the Website. We recommend that you check the Website often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the top.
It is important that you read this Privacy Notice so that you are aware of how and why we are using your personal data. Please see Section 12 (Your Data Protection Rights) and Section 14 (Contact Us and Queries) for further information about how to contact us, your rights, and how to exercise those rights.
This Privacy Notice applies to you when you access, browse, and use our Website (through various domains) and interact with us on our Website.
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different categories of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:
We do not collect any special categories of personal data about you (this includes personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual, or data concerning health or sexual orientation).
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under any terms we have agreed with you or your employer, and you do not provide that personal data when requested, you may not be able to subscribe for or use some of our services. We will inform you at the time of collecting your personal data whether the provision of personal data is required to receive certain services or whether it is optional.
We may receive your personal data through various means, including:
The GDPR permit specific legal bases to process personal data. The legal bases we may rely on to process your personal data are:
We have set out below a description of the ways we typically process your personal data and the legal grounds we rely on to do so:
To administer and protect our business, services, Website, and property hosted on or made available through the Website, including implementing and monitoring security measures and access authentication controls, troubleshooting, data and usage analysis, testing, system maintenance, and user support. We may also use the outcome of support services to improve and protect our services, networks, and systems. In some cases, we may anonymize personal data for statistical purposes or pseudonymous passwords for security purposes.
Necessary for the performance of a contract with you.
Necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
Necessary for our legitimate interests, including running our business, ensuring network and systems security, identifying and/or preventing unlawful activity or misconduct, managing disputes, and protecting our interests. We may also collate statistical information to enhance our services and business.
To use data analytics and other technologies to monitor usage of our Website, measure the performance of the Website and to optimise them, improve our services, marketing strategy and output, user interactions, relationships and experiences. We may also process information collected when you browse and use our Website to set default options for you (such as language and country).
Necessary for our legitimate interests to obtain insights into how our services are used; improve the services; identify technical issues; fix technical issues; keep our Website updated and relevant; balance web traffic; develop and manage our business and strategies for growth and marketing.
Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal grounds for processing personal data although we will request your consent before setting any non-essential cookies or similar technologies on your computer or other device.
To manage our relationships including to:
Necessary for the performance of a contract with you or in order to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
Necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
Necessary for our legitimate interests for responding to communications, attracting new clients and business, running our business, on-boarding our client, providing our services, providing service information and keeping records.
Conducting or exploring any re-organisation of some or all of our business and assets, merger or acquisition or other corporate deal.
Necessary for our legitimate interests to run our business, expand or otherwise restructure our business and assets; make corporate decisions, negotiate and enter into corporate transactions.
To deal with and manage complaints, claims and legal disputes involving our client, you and/or others; to identify and/or prevent fraud or other breaches of laws; conduct or assist with internal, government, regulatory, law enforcement and other investigations, inquiries or actions; comply with our insurance policies and to exercise or defend our legal rights or to comply with court orders or orders by applicable regulators.
Necessary for the performance of a contract with you.
Necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
Necessary for the purposes of obtaining legal advice or for the purposes of, or in connection with, legal claims, prospective legal claims, legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, or is otherwise necessary for the purposes of establishing, exercising or defending legal rights.
Necessary for our legitimate interests of managing our business including complying with our policies of insurance and complying with or cooperating with any regulatory requirement or matter.
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collect it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
Where you provide us with personal data relating to other people, you represent and warrant that you will only do so in accordance with applicable law, including the GDPR. You will ensure that before doing so, the individuals in question are made aware of the fact that we will hold information relating to them and that we may use it for any of the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice and where necessary you will obtain their consent to our use of their information. You will provide anyone that you provide us with personal data about with a copy of this Privacy Notice. We may notify those individuals that you have provided their details to us.
This Website may include links to other websites and other content from third party businesses and can offer direct interaction with external websites, networks or platforms that are outside our control. These third-party businesses may use cookies, web beacons or other similar technology to collect information about you. We do not have access to or control over these third parties or the cookies, web beacons or other technology that these third parties may use. We are not responsible for the security, privacy of the information collected by these third parties or the privacy practices of these third parties or the content on any third-party website. You are encouraged to review the privacy policies of the different websites you visit.
We reserve the right to disclose your personal data to third parties:
We may disclose your personal data for the purposes listed in Section 6 of this Privacy Notice to the categories of recipients described in this Section 8.
We require these parties to keep your personal data confidential and secure and to protect it in accordance with the law. They are only permitted to process your personal data for the lawful purpose for which it has been shared and in accordance with our instructions.
In connection with our business and for administrative, management and legal purposes, we may transfer your personal data to jurisdictions outside of the European Economic Area. Where we need to transfer your personal data, we shall ensure that the transfer is lawful and that there are appropriate security arrangements in place.
Dark Horse Solutions is committed to maintaining the security of your personal data it processes. We maintain appropriate physical, procedural, organisational and technical security measures intended to prevent loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, or modification of your personal data under our control. We also limit access to your personal data within our organisation and to third parties that need access to your information in providing services to us. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and are required to protect personal data. If you have reason to believe that your personal data is no longer secure, please notify us immediately using the contact information supplied in Section 14 (Contact Us and Queries).
Please be aware that when you transmit information to us or to our service providers over the internet or another telecommunications network this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. For any payments which we take from you or pay online we will use a recognised third party online secure payment system, and we are not responsible for the security of this system. You should contact these third parties for information about the security of these internet, telecommunications systems or payment systems if you need further information.
We cannot guarantee against any loss, misuse, unauthorised disclosure, alteration or destruction of data but we take reasonable steps to prevent this from happening. We have put in place measures to protect the security of your personal data and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, tax or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
If you are a resident of certain U.S. states, including California, Virginia, and Colorado, you may have specific privacy rights under applicable state laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), and the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA). These rights may include the following:
To exercise these rights, please contact us via email at concierge@entrepreneurstable.com . We may require additional information to verify your identity before we can process your request.
You have various rights under the GDPR, subject to certain exemptions, in connection with our processing of your personal data, including those set out in the table below.
You are responsible for notifying us of any changes to your personal data that you provide to us.
If you have any questions or wish to exercise any of your data protection rights, you should raise these with our data protection team by emailing concierge@entrepreneurstable.com . You may also raise complaints with the Data Protection Commission or another supervisory authority.
We will change this Privacy Notice from time to time and any changes will be contained in a revised Privacy Notice posted on the Website.