PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated on 11 August 2023

At Pitch and Match SRL, we are committed to protect your personal data and thrive for efficiency and transparency, therefore we will try to explain what the acceptance of this Policy and the creation of your account on our platform entices in simple terms. Please read this document carefully as it explains why we need to collect and store your personal data, how we use it and what are your rights.

This Privacy Policy is addressed to all users of the platform available on the website www.pitchandmatch.biz (the “Website”). PitchandMatch collects and processes Personal Data related to two types of private persons: Account Managers (if You are using the Platform on behalf of your organization/employer) and Consultants (if You are using the Platform in your own name, as an expert in the IT industry). In this Privacy Policy we address both by “You” or “Yourself”.

Please note that this Privacy Policy is completed by our Generic Data Processing Agreement, available here, which lays out the obligations of Providers and Clients in using our Website. So, if You are the Account Manager of a Provider or a Client, please read it carefully since any violation could trigger the liability of said Client or Provider.

Pitch and Match SRL, owner of the Website, is committed to the protection of personal data and to the respect of the European Parliament and Council Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR” or the “Regulation”) and the Romanian law number 363/2018.

1.Definitions

The words starting with a capitalized letter have the meanings defined below or in the Terms of Use of the Platform. The definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether the defined terms appear in singular or plural.

“Account manager” means authorized employees or agents (private persons) of a User (a Client or a Provider, which are legal persons) that are given access by such User to use the Platform on its behalf.

“Consultant” means a private person with an expertise in IT and/or new technologies, whose personal information is made available by a User, that represents them on the Platform, and potentially completed by themselves.

“Company” means Pitch and Match SRL (also referred to as “PitchandMatch”), a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of Romania, registered with the Registry of Commerce of Bucharest under number J40/13333/2022 and whose registered address is Str. 11 Iunie 42, Sector 4, Bucharest, ROMANIA.

“Consent” means any free, specific, enlightened and unambiguous expression of will by which the person concerned (meaning You) accepts that their personal data will be processed.

“Cookies” means a text file that may be saved, subject to your agreement expressed in accordance with applicable European (and Romanian) laws, in a space dedicated to your navigation software on the hard drive of your device, when You consult Our Platform or when you install software or a mobile application. A Cookie allows its sender to identify the device in which it is stored, during the period of validity of registration of the Cookie.

“Client” means a legal person using the Platform in order to find relevant expertise (for project-based Pitches) and/or Consultants (for staff augmentation Pitches) in relation to their need for IT-related services.

“Personal Data” means, according to article 4 of the Regulation, any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person; Personal Data refers to all information relating to a private person identified or that could be identified.

“Platform” means the website available at www.pitchandmatch.biz and all of its sub-domains and components (e.g. user interface).

“Processing” means, according to article 4 of the Regulation, any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

“Provider” means legal persons registered on the Platform in order to offer their expertise and promote their own services, by, among other things, creating a profile for their available Consultants.

“Sensitive Data” means personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs; trade-union membership; genetic data, biometric data processed solely to identify a human being; health-related data; data concerning a person’s sex life or sexual orientation.

“Service” means the operation and the provision of the Platform (either through the Website or the Application) by the Company, which scope is to put in contact Providers and Clients to help said Clients find suitable Consultants (IT experts) or solutions for their needs.

“Terms” refers to the Terms of Service of the Platform, available here.

“Your Provider” means, for a Consultant, their employer or the company by which they are subcontracted, who is a User of the Platform and decided to create the Consultant profile (or inherited from it through a Transfer decided by the Consultant). Regarding Your personal data, Your Provider is the initial controller under the terms of this Privacy Policy. “

We are linked to Providers and Clients through the Terms of Use and with certain Providers with a Partnership Agreement as well.

2. Your data

2.1 Data provided by You (or by Your Provider for Consultants)

For the good provision of its Services, PitchandMatch needs to collect and process some personal information regarding the private persons using of the Platform, whether they are an Account Manager or a Consultant. PitchandMatch is therefore a Controller of Personal Data under this Privacy Policy.

For simple visitors, who do not create an account on the Platform, the only Personal Data collected is that mentioned in article 2.2 of the present Privacy Policy.

If you are a Consultant, the initial provision of personal information is made by Your Provider. Under our Generic Data Processing Agreement, Your Provider has the obligation to obtain your consent in order to create you a profile on the Platform.

· For Consultants, collected data includes:

- If Your Provider decides to create an “Anonymized Profile” for You: country of residence, gender, details regarding Your current employer and position, Your mastery of certain technologies, years of experience, Your availability for professional missions and interviews with Clients interested in Your profile;

- If Your Provider decides to create a “Detailed Profile” for You: Your full name, home address, email address, date of birth, phone number, photo (if provided), login details, country of residence, place of birth, gender, details regarding Your current employer and position, professional and educational background and technical skills (as they would appear on a resume), nationality, Your availability for professional missions and interviews with Clients interested in Your profile.

In addition, We might collect and store links to your social networks if added on your Consultant profile. You, or the Provider representing You, should also upload Your resume on the Platform. Such resume, as it will be made available to the Clients in the matching process must be anonymized as much as possible, i.e. only contains information about Your professional and educational background as well as Your technical skills and availability; which means: no picture, no name, no contact details. It is your obligation and that of Your Provider to ensure that the resume contains such limited information. In no case could PitchandMatch be held liable if this obligation is not respected.

· For Account Managers, collected data includes: Your full name, (work) email address, (work) phone number, details regarding Your current employer and position.

This data will be stored and use to identify You, communicate with You (especially by email) in the frame of the performance of the Services (notifications regarding actions taken in relation to your profile or in link with your account on the Platform), to send You our newsletters if you elected so (and from which you will be able to unsubscribe at any time).

Even though PitchandMatch is linked to Your Provider with a contract for the provision of Services, (Terms of Service and a Partnership Agreement) since you are not a party to such agreement, the collection, storage and processing of Your Personal Data by PitchandMatch (and further by its own service providers and the Clients registered on the Platform) is entirely based on Your consent. Your consent must be collected by Your Provider before the creation of Your profile on the Platform. If Your Provider chooses to create a Detailed Profile, since it includes much more personal information, We will send You a link to connect on the Platform and accept the creation of Your account, as well as the present Privacy Policy.

At the time of Your first visit on the Platform, PitchandMatch has already been provided with some of Your personal information as described above. If Your Provider created a Detailed Profile for You, that is how we obtained your contact details and were able to send you a message in order for you to access the Website and accept the present Privacy Policy.

Your Personal Data required is necessary for the optimal performance of the Services, should you refuse the present Privacy Policy, any of Your personal information that might already be uploaded on the Platform will be deleted without undue delay and We will not retain it except as laid out in the present Privacy Policy. In addition, we will instruct our own service providers (Subprocessors) to delete it as well.

Furthermore, You can revoke Your consent at any time by sending us an e-mail at personaldata@pitchandmatch.biz or directly from Your Profile on the Platform by simply deleting your account on the Platform (since your personal information is necessary for the provision of the Services, your consent withdrawal is equivalent to a deletion of your account and vice-versa).

After You accept the Privacy Policy and validate the creation of Your account or profile You will be given a reference number (in the format Ref-initials-number) in order to pseudonymize Your Identity, allowing Us to maintain your identity hidden for Users who do not belong to Your company (especially to avoid any undue solicitation).

If, within a period of one month after We send You a message in order for You to access the Website and You do not access the Website and/or You do not accept the Privacy Policy, We will delete all Your Personal Information from the Website and will only allow Your Provider to use professional information in an anonymized way to offer their services (as if Your Provider had created an Anonymized Profile for You).

Please note that PitchandMatch will never ask for Sensitive Data and that it is strictly forbidden to introduce any such data on the Platform. As a consequence, in no case shall PitchandMatch be liable for Sensitive Personal Data that may be introduced on the Platform by You or Your Provider.

Also, PitchandMatch is not intended for use by children under the age of 18 years old and does not collect personal information from them. If PitchandMatch learns that We have collected personal information from a child, we will take reasonable steps to delete such information from our files as soon as is practicable.

2.2. Data produced by You

2.2.1 Usage Data

We may also collect information about how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data includes information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, language of the navigation software used by the terminal, the geographical area in which your terminal is located (geolocation) and other diagnostic data.

2.2.2 Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

⦁ Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.

⦁ Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

⦁ Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Such data can be used to provide, maintain and secure the Platform (certain data must legally be retained to enable Us to ensure the security of our Platform and to detect, prevent, or track attempts at malicious computer intrusion or infringement of the Terms); to register your acceptance of the present Privacy Policy; to manage the requests You send Us; to communicate with You.

For more information about Cookies management, please check article 9 below.

3.Initial recipients of Personal Data

Personal Data may be accessed and processed by the Account Managers or by PitchandMatch’s authorized employees or service providers (PitchandMatch’s authorized services providers are listed in Article 4.1 of the present privacy policy). PitchandMatch keeps track of all the movements of data occurring on the Platform in order to ensure the protection of Personal Data (and to be able to answer your questions about the transfers of Your Personal Data).

As soon as some of Your Personal Data is provided on the Platform (by You or Your Provider), PitchandMatch’s providers, mentioned hereunder, will have access to Your Personal Data and will process it as described. PitchandMatch needs to share Your Personal Data with its service providers in order to permit, monitor and/or analyze the use of the Platform and the performance of the Services, as well as to help Us support and maintain the Platform.

Some of our service providers whose principal establishment is based in a country outside of the EU may have to keep, process or transfer your Personal Data in said country. In this case, we make our best efforts to ensure that they respect their obligations in relation to the protection of Your Personal Data and put in place, when possible, “transfer tools” such as, for example, contractual clauses equivalent to Standard Contractual Clauses issued by the European Commission. These tools, when put in place, are also described below.

The precise scope of the processing of Your Personal Data by PitchandMatch’s providers is described hereunder:

- Formagrid Inc., doing business as AirTable, based in the United States of America. Airtable is the database provider for PitchandMatch, on which all the information concerning a user of the Services (Account Manager and Consultant) is stored. As such, all the information about You provided on the Platform (Professional Information and Personal Data) is accessible and stored by them on their server in the United States. Their privacy policy is available at: https://www.airtable.com/privacy

Please note that we have signed a data protection agreement based on the Standard Contractual Clauses with them.

HOWEVER, WE WOULD LIKE TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT AIRTABLE IS BASED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE (ECJ) RULED THAT THE PRIVACY SHIELD FRAMEWORK, WHICH HAD PREVIOUSLY ALLOWED DATA TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL DATA FROM THE EU TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DID NOT PROVIDE SUFFICIENT SAFEGUARDS FOR THE PROTECTION OF EU CITIZENS PERSONAL DATA, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THE LAWS OF UNITED STATES AUTHORIZE LOCAL PUBLIC AUTHORITIES TO ACCESS PERSONAL DATA TRANSFERRED FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION TO THE UNITED STATES, THESE LAWS NOT BEING COMPATIBLE WITH THE EU GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION. THEREFORE, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ARE CURRENTLY CONSIDERED AS A NON-ADEQUATE COUNTRY FOR THE PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA.

- ClickSend, based in Australia. ClickSend is the intermediary used to send you an SMS when Your account (Consultant profile) is created for You to connect to it. As such, they have access and store the following information: first name and phone number. Their privacy policy is available at: https://www.clicksend.com/eu/legal/privacy-policy/

Please note that they provide their users with a data protection agreement based on the Standard Contractual Clauses.

HOWEVER, WE WOULD LIKE TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT CLICKSEND IS BASED IN AUSTRALIA, AND THEREFORE OUTSIDE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. THE SAME WARNING AS FOR THE UNITED STATES APPLIES.

- Softr (Softr Platforms GmbH), based in Germany. Softr is used for the interface of the Platform. As such they have access all the information about You provided on the Platform. As a consequence, they process Personal Data in accordance to EU laws. Their privacy policy is available at: https://www.softr.io/policy

- Make (formerly Integromat), based in Czech Republic. Make is the MiddleWare between AirTable and Softr. They have access to all of Your information (Professional Information and Personal Data). Their privacy policy, made by Celonis, Inc., is available at: https://www.make.com/en/privacy-notice

Moreover, when creating a Consultant profile, Your Provider can choose to fill-in the necessary information manually or to use an API to OpenAI (OpenAI, LLC, with registered office at 3180 18th St., San Francisco, CA 94110) available on the Platform. Such API allows the automatic extraction of information from Your resume and the aggregation of the necessary information in the Platform’s format. This tool makes it easier and faster to create a Consultant profile. HOWEVER, OpenAI is based in the United States of America, so, even though we have signed a Data processing Agreement with them, the same warning as before applies. Since it is an optional tool, Your Provider will be fully liable if using it without Your Consent (We have added a disclaimer on the Platform to ensure they are aware of this). In any case, the resume dragged and dropped should not contain any of your contact details (name, surname, phone number and email address) as it is the most sensitive Personal Data that can be provided. OpenAI’s privacy policy can be consulted here: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy

As a result of a subpoena, court order, warrant, or other legal process, We may disclose Personal Data and other related information as necessary. We may also choose to exercise Our legal rights against any such action.

PitchandMatch’s service providers mentioned above may send you marketing emails or calls.

To see who the further recipients of the Data in the frame of the Services are, read article 4 below.

4. Processing of Data in the frame of the Services

Your Personal Data will be processed confidentially within the Company. Regarding other transfers, please read the sub-sections below.

4.1 Personal Data transfer to Clients

For the purpose of the Services, Personal Data may be transferred to other users of the Platform, especially towards Clients if You are a Consultant (at the initiative of Your Provider). It is therefore, again, the responsibility of Your Provider to ensure that You have consented for the creation of Your profile on the Platform and the submission of Your profile to the relevant Clients.

As an Account Manager, Your Personal Data will be made available to another Provider of Client if they, respectively, submitted a Consultant profile you confirm You are interested in or confirm that they are interested in one of Your Consultant. (Indeed, when there is a “match” of interests, a common e-mail is sent to both the Provider’s and the Client’s Account Manager, in order to allow them to communicate with each other).

Once a Consultant profile is created, such Consultant’s Provider can submit Consultant’s profile to one or more Clients registered on the Platform. The Client will have access to limited Personal Data (Professional Data of the Consultant) but if Consultant’s resume is uploaded on the Consultant’s Portal, it will also be transferred to the Client, that is why it is HIGHLY IMPORTANT to upload only anonymized versions of Consultant’s resumes. Moreover, if Provider wants to use the OpenAI API in order to extract information from a Consultant’s resume as mentioned above, We reiterate that it is HIGHLY IMPORTANT not to use a resume containing the most Personal Data of said Consultant (i.e. name and contact details) as such information will be made available to OpenAI, which is based in the United States of America. Consultant’s name and contact details shall be added manually by Provider after the extraction of the resume’s other information. If as a Consultant you do not wish Your personal information to be transferred to specific Clients We advise you to inform Your Provider of such choice in the first place. However, you can also inform Us (at personaldata@pitchandmatch.biz) and we will take technical measures to ensure that Your personal information is not transferable to such Client.

4.2 Data transfer to PitchandMatch’s service providers

4.2.1 Continued transfer to initial recipient of Data

The acceptance of the present Privacy Policy furthers Your Consent for the continued transmission of Your Personal Data towards PitchandMatch’s service providers already mentioned as initial recipients of Personal Data in article 3 above, as well as to Clients registered on the Platform. In any case, as mentioned above, it is first the responsibility of Your Provider to obtain Your Consent prior to the creation of Your Consultant profile.

4.2.2 Additional features/services accessible through the Platform

In addition to PitchandMatch’sproviders already mentioned above, Your Personal Data may be transferred to other Service Providers, but such transfers being only optional (it will not prevent the provision of the Services by PitchandMatch) and is conditioned by Your further specific consent. You can find hereunder the identity of PitchandMatch’s other service providers and the optional services they provide. For each of them you cand find information about their role, country of establishment, description of Your information accessible by them as well as the link to their own privacy policy:

- If you decide (and only if you do so) to subscribe to our newsletters, some of Your Personal Data (full name and email address) will be collected, processed and stored by MailChimp in order to send you said newsletters. MailChimp is based in the US. Their privacy is policy available at: https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/

- If you decide to get in touch with us through the Chatbot available on the Platform, please note that the Chatbot is owned and provided to Us by Drift. As such, they have access only to the information you may provide in the chat as well as your IP address. Please note that Drift is based in the US. Their privacy policy available at: https://www.drift.com/privacy-policy/ Should you not wish your Personal Data to be accessible and processed by Drift you should rather get in touch with us by writing at contact@pitchandmatch.biz

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ABOVE-MENTIONED PROVIDERS ARE ALL BASED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AS MENTIONNED BEFORE, THAT YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS NOT AS SAFE IN THE US AS IT IS IN THE EU, BY USING THESE OPTIONAL FEATURES AND/OR SERVICES PERFORMED BY THESE PROVIDERS YOU ACCEPT NOT ONLY THAT YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO THEM BUT ALSO THAT THEIR PRIVACY POLICY WILL FULLY APPLY, THAT YOUR PERSONAL DATA MIGHT NOT BE AS PROTECTED AS UNDER EU REGULATION AND THAT PITCHANMATCH CANNOT GUARANTEE ITSELF THE GOOD PERFORMANCE OF YOUR RIGHTS (AS INCLUDED IN ARTICLE 6 HEREUNDER) SHOULD YOU WISH TO EXERCISE THEM.

4.2.3 Potential further transfers of Personal Data in specific circumstances

In the event of a transfer of assets or rights, or of fundraising: We may share or transfer your Personal Data in connection with, or during the course of negotiating any merger, sale of Company’s assets, financing or acquisition of all or part of the Company to another company. In this case, the data would be transferred to our investors, accountants, lawyers and external auditors.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy following the validation of your personal information represents your agreement to such transfer.

Under no circumstance will We ever communicate or make your Personal Data available to other third-parties for commercial purposes or profiling.

We will not share, sell, rent or disclose your Personal Data to third parties other than those mentioned in the present Privacy Policy without your prior consent. We may, however, need to disclose certain Personal Data about You at the request of the competent administrative or judicial authorities to comply with Our legal and regulatory obligations, or to protect and defend Our rights and interests and/or to prevent any abuse, misuse or unauthorized use of the Platform. We will take all measures reasonably necessary to ensure your Personal Data is processed securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the applicable laws and regulations.

4.3 Matchmaking tool (automatic decision making).

Please note that for the good provision of he Services, PitchandMatch has included a matchmaking tool which will analyze the technical requirements of the Clients to suggest automatically the Consultant profiles that best answer their requirements. This matchmaking tool decision is based on the following criteria: Consultant’s mastery of the desired technologies and languages, experience in a specific industry, location,availability and daily rate set by the Provider for said Consultant. However, this tool is only a support to help sorting through the numerous Consultants profiles on the Platform but your Provider can at any time submit Your profile to a Client even though it is not pre-selected by the matchmaking tool. The matchmaking tool will only have access to the abovementioned information and not to any Personal Data such as name, contact details, former companies in which a Consultant has worked, etc.

5. Retention of Your Personal Data

We will only keep Your Personal Data for the time necessary to fulfill the above-mentioned purposes, unless you have exercised your right to delete said data before the expiry of this period. We will retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes and to enforce our rights, agreements and policies. We undertake to archive your Personal Data as soon as it is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and processed.

One year after the last action performed on/with your Consultant Portal, you will be invited, by email to renew Your consent to the present Privacy Policy. Also, in case of substantial modification of the present Privacy Policy, we will also send you a notification by email in order for you to give your consent to the new content. If you do not renew your Consent within one month following our notification (for renewal or acceptance of modification), Your Consultant Profile will be erased and all Personal Information linked to it will be deleted, except for the information we need to comply with our legal obligations (notably being able to prove that you have accepted the present Privacy Policy and the Processing of your Personal Data at some point in time).

6. Your rights regarding your Personal Data

First of all, you have the right to be informed about the processing of Your Personal Data, this is why we have drafted this detailed policy. In addition, at all time, You can, on the Platform:

- access all the personal information that we have stored about You (this is your right to access your Personal Data);

- correct, update and modify your personal information (You are invited to do so promptly if any change occurs);

- request the limitation of the Processing of your Personal Data;

- decide to delete your Consultant Profile or withdraw Your Consent to the Processing of your data, in such case we will erase all your Personal Data (and enabled your Consultant Profile) within maximum one month after you so request;

- extract all the personal information available on Your Consultant Portal as a PDF document as well as the history of the activity of your account (including information about whom your personal information has been transmitted, even though you are also notified by email each time).

You also have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority in charge of the respect of the obligations as regards Personal Data. In Romania, for example, the competent authority is the “Autoritatea Naţională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal” (website: https://www.dataprotection.ro/). You can find the list of national authorities within the EEA here.

To make use of the aforementioned rights, you can alternatively send an email to the following address: personaldata@pitchanadmatch.biz. Your request will be dealt with within maximum 1 (one) month after it is received. In case of doubt regarding Your identity in relation to such request, We reserve the right to ask for a relevant proof of identity.

7. Data security

We are committed to ensure the highest level of Personal Data protection in accordance with our legal obligations (and especially the Regulation).

As a consequence, We have defined technical and organizational measures allowing to protect your Personal Data in an appropriate way according to their nature, the extent of their Processing and their accessibility. Such measures include: the verification of your phone number and email address (and the use of your phone number as your unique identifier), the anonymization of your Personal Data as much as possible in the performance of the Services, a proper management of access rights, training of Our authorized staff, the signing of data processing agreements with our service providers and the other users of the Platform when necessary and possible, etc.

As already indicated, Your data is stored on Airtable’s servers. Airtable servers are located in the US and hosted using US-based AWS servers (US-East-1).

8. Cookie management

8.1 General

When You visit or use the Platform, information relating to the navigation of your device (i.e. computer, laptop, smartphone, etc.) may be recorded in the form of Cookies installed on said device, subject to the choice you have made regarding Cookies. You can modify said choice and customize certain settings regarding Cookies by configuring your browser software’s parameters. You can consult the help menu of your browser for further information.

Please note that if You accept the recording of Cookies (in your browser software), the Cookies integrated in the pages and contents that you have consulted may be temporarily stored in a dedicated space of your device. They will be only readable by their sender.

However, if You refuse the recording of Cookies or if you do not make a choice regarding the collection of Cookies, We will not collect Cookies. As such, or if you delete Cookies already saved, You will no longer be able to benefit from certain functionalities, which are nevertheless necessary to access and navigate certain areas of the Platform (e.g. access to content or services that require to identify yourself).

Where applicable, we decline all responsibility for the consequences related to the degraded operation of our services resulting from the impossibility for Us to record or consult the Cookies necessary for their operation and which you would have disabled, refused or deleted.

8.2 Use and purpose of Cookies

Only the issuer of a Cookie is likely to read or modify the information contained therein.

When You connect to the Platform, We may be led, subject to your preferences, to install various Cookies on your device allowing us to recognize its browser during the validity period of the Cookies concerned. Depending on the settings you have opted for, the Cookies we issue are used for the following purposes:

- To establish statistics and volumes of frequentation and use of the Platform and its features;

- To adapt the display and presentation of the Platform in relation to the preferences of your device (language, resolution, operating system used, etc.)

- To store information relating to a form that you may have filled on the Platform (registration, access to your User account (as a Provider’s or Client’s employee, agent and/or representative) or Consultant Profile, etc.

8.3 Categories of Cookies

Cookies can be “persistent Cookies”, which remain on your device when you log out, or “session Cookies”, which are deleted whenever you close your web browser. We use both categories of Cookies for the following purposes:

Session Cookies are essential Cookies, administered by Us in order to enable You to use the features available on the Platform.

Persistent Cookies as feature Cookies, which are administered by Us in order to allow Us to remember the choices you have made regarding You use of the Platform to provide you with a personalized experience (e.g. language preference).

9. Links to other websites

The Platform may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If you click on a third-party link, You will be redirected to their website. In such case, we advise You to consult their own privacy policy, cookie policy and terms of use.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party websites and services.

10. Amendments

We reserve the right to amend and modify this Privacy Policy at any time and in our sole discretion. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any change. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. In case of any substantial change, we will notify you by email or on Your account/Consultant Profile as well.

11. Contact Us

Should you have any question regarding the present Privacy Policy and the Processing of Personal Data, please contact us at: personaldata@pitchandmatch.biz.