Privacy policy
SOLID INFO PRIVACY POLICY
SOLID INFO, a company registered under the laws of Estonia with principal place of business at (please
insert an address) (herein referred to as the “SOLID INFO”, “we”, “us”, “our”) respect and realize
importance of protecting your privacy. SOLID INFO is committed to protecting your privacy rights to
the fullest possible extent.
Protecting user’s data and using it only in the way they expect from us is our highest priority. Thus, the
following Privacy Policy designed to inform you about the processing of your personal data, your rights
regarding this processing according to applicable data protection laws as well as to explain which
personal data concerning you we collect when you visit our website (the ”Website”) or engage with our
services, when and why we collect these personal data, how we use them, the conditions of our
disclosure to third parties, as well as how we secure the stored personal data.
We are the controller of your personal data, meaning that we are the organization that is legally
responsible for deciding how and for what purposes your personal data is used and therefore, responsible for the data processing explained herein.
By using this Website you accept this Privacy Policy and give us your consent to the processing of your
personal data described herein. This Privacy Policy will also apply in other cases, where we make a
specific reference to it, for example: a) in cases where we receive your personal data from third parties
and are obliged to notify you about our use of your personal data; b) in cases when we first communicate with you through e-mail or other means; c) in cases when we process you personal data on our events or events of our partners and make a specific reference to this Privacy Policy.
Please read the Personal Data Policy thoroughly in order to understand how we process your personal
data.
following Privacy Policy designed to inform you about the processing of your personal data, your rights
regarding this processing according to applicable data protection laws as well as to explain which
personal data concerning you we collect when you visit our website (the ”Website”) or engage with our
services, when and why we collect these personal data, how we use them, the conditions of our
disclosure to third parties, as well as how we secure the stored personal data.
We are the controller of your personal data, meaning that we are the organization that is legally
responsible for deciding how and for what purposes your personal data is used and therefore, responsible for the data processing explained herein.
By using this Website you accept this Privacy Policy and give us your consent to the processing of your
personal data described herein. This Privacy Policy will also apply in other cases, where we make a
specific reference to it, for example: a) in cases where we receive your personal data from third parties
and are obliged to notify you about our use of your personal data; b) in cases when we first communicate with you through e-mail or other means; c) in cases when we process you personal data on our events or events of our partners and make a specific reference to this Privacy Policy.
Please read the Personal Data Policy thoroughly in order to understand how we process your personal
data.
Personal Data We Collect
We may have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us or our partners, affiliates and
other third parties via email or other direct contact from you, information we receive from your use of our website and information we have obtained about you from publicly available sources for our marketing and recruitment activities, to fulfill contract obligations and other aims related to the mentioned above purposes.
If you visit the website of SOLID INFO, we collect and process the following personal data either
obtained directly from you or from publicly available sources: your name, phone number, email address, job title, company affiliation (if applicable), position within the company (if you are contacting us on behalf of an organization), photos (if uploaded to our website), passwords, and information about your interactions with our website, including pages visited, time spent on the site, and interaction patterns.
This data is collected and processed to facilitate engagement with our political reports, provide access to exclusive content, improve the user experience, and maintain website security. The processing is based on our legitimate business interest in analyzing audience engagement and providing tailored content, or your consent when you voluntarily provide personal data through website forms or direct
communication.We are committed to ensuring that all data processing adheres to the principles of fairness, transparency, accuracy, and confidentiality, giving visitors control over their data and clarity about how it is used.
If you are a contact person at a company that is our existing or potential client and/or partner, we
are collecting and processing the following personal data obtained either directly from you, or from
public sources (such as e.g. LinkedIn): your name, phone number, email address, location, LinkedIn
profile information, your role/position, history of your previous employment, data on our
communications with you. Such data is collected and processed to facilitate proactive client and/or
partner acquisition initiatives; for cultivating and nurturing strong, collaborative relationships with our
clients and partners, including, but not limited to, facilitating communication on projects, organizing
business trips and visits, and addressing any matters pertinent to the successful cooperation between us and our clients and/or partners. This processing is required for SOLID INFO business operations,
development, and growth, and ensures the efficiency and effectiveness of our client engagement
processes. In this respect we rely on our legitimate interests when we communicate with potential clients and/or partners to engage them or get new projects from existing clients and on the legal basis of contract conclusion and execution for data that is used to communicate with our clients and/or partners during the contract conclusion and execution.
Please note that we DO NOT collect personal data that is, by its nature, particularly sensitive. This is
genetic data, biometric data, data revealing racial or ethnic origin, information about political opinions,
sex life, sexual orientation, religion or other beliefs, data concerning health, trade union membership or
other sensitive information.
Purpose of Collecting your Personal Data
We will use your personal data for several purposes, which include:
to contact you in order to let you know about products and services that we offer, products and
services that our partners offer, to request the products and services you or your company offers.
to communicate with you, including to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us
including addressing any concerns related to our reports or services.
to ensure you can access, download, and engage with our content on political topics around the
world.
to inform you about updates and new content by sending newsletters, updates, or invitations
to events, discussions, or new research publications.
to improve website user experience
to improve our website by understanding how visitors interact with our content to enhance
readability, navigation, and accessibility.
to improve customer service
to analyze engagement and optimize content
to ensure website security and prevent fraud
to administer the contractual relationship
to comply with our legal obligations, or as necessary to perform tasks in the public interest, or to
protect the vital interests of our users and other people.Your personal data will be securely stored in our internal Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) system or other secured internal databases, with restricted access based on necessity and GDPR principles.
We will use your personal data for several purposes, which include:
to contact you in order to let you know about products and services that we offer, products and
services that our partners offer, to request the products and services you or your company offers.
to communicate with you, including to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us
including addressing any concerns related to our reports or services.
to ensure you can access, download, and engage with our content on political topics around the
world.
to inform you about updates and new content by sending newsletters, updates, or invitations
to events, discussions, or new research publications.
to improve website user experience
to improve our website by understanding how visitors interact with our content to enhance
readability, navigation, and accessibility.
to improve customer service
to analyze engagement and optimize content
to ensure website security and prevent fraud
to administer the contractual relationship
to comply with our legal obligations, or as necessary to perform tasks in the public interest, or to
protect the vital interests of our users and other people.Your personal data will be securely stored in our internal Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) system or other secured internal databases, with restricted access based on necessity and GDPR principles.
Lawful Basis for Processing
We process your personal data under the following lawful basis and for the following reasons
Your consent We rely on your consent when we use your personal data for sending you newsletters,
updates, and political analysis reports that you have subscribed to, optimizing and
enhancing the operation of our website, developing new features and services
(including when it is collected as a part to the aggregated data), providing you with
relevant advertising materials as long as it is allowed by your device or browser’s
personalization and privacy settings and analyzing your engagement with our website
(e.g., interaction with reports, time spent on articles) to improve content delivery, as
long as such analysis does not override your privacy rights. We also rely on this legal
basis when we respond to you upon you have contacted us, for example regarding
cooperation opportunities, our research or any other requests.
You have a right to withdraw consent to processing of your personal data. You may
enjoy this right at any time you wish. Please remember, that the withdrawal of consent
does not mean that the processing before the withdrawal is considered thus illegal.
Please also take into account that if you have withdrawn your consent to processing of
your personal data we may be limited in responding to you and/or providing you with
our services.
Compliance with our legal obligations
We rely on this legal basis to identify you and verify your identity (when relevant) or
to help prevent and detect fraud against you or us, to protect the security of systems
and data, or for disclosures and other activities necessary to comply with legal and
regulatory obligations that apply to our business.
All applicable laws depending on the relationship between you and us may affect the
scope of personal data we collect, the ways we process your personal data, our ability
to keep the confidentiality of your data and avoid their disclosure, duration of the
planned retention, etc.
For the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering a contract
We rely on this legal basis to provide certain services to you (e.g. restricted access to exclusive political reports, research materials, or paid content (if applicable)), to fulfill any contractual obligations related to subscriptions, paid reports, or consultancy services or to receive certain services from you.
To perform a task carried out in the public interest
We rely on this legal basis to report to the police or other competent enforcement agencies in case we discover fraud or any other violations of the applicable law or suspicious behavior or actions committed by you during your interaction with us, as well as in other cases when the disclosure of your personal data is required.
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party
We rely on this legal basis to contact you regarding potential cooperation between you
and/or the company your represent with us; to analyze an audience engagement with
our political reports to improve content and ensure relevance; to make non-marketing
related communications to you about changes to our terms or policies or to provide
other important notices; to ensure the proper operation of our Website,troubleshooting technical issues, and maintaining service availability; to enable or administer our business (quality control, consolidated reporting, customer service), transfer of ownership and so on.
We conduct legitimate interest assessments to ensure that your data protection rights are respected and that our processing does not unduly impact your privacy.
When we receive your explicit consent, we may run automated decision-making devices or software
including those based on all the data aggregated and may use personal information we collect about you for profiling.
Marketing Communications
Where you have opted in to receive marketing communications from us, we may use your personal data to send you marketing emails or messages about our services, updates, reports, including exclusive offers, promotions or new features. In using your personal data for such marketing purposes, we rely on your consent.
If a marketing email is sent to you, it includes information on how to opt out of receiving such email
notifications in the future.
Safety of Your Personal Data
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing organizational and security measures to
protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information,
username, password, transaction information and data stored on our website. Personal data that we
process for any purpose(s) will not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose(s), including
compliance with legal requirements. If you revoked your consent, we may retain certain personal
information for the period required by the applicable legislation, to resolve disputes and/or enforce our
rights and agreements.
Data transfer
It is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal data to other countries of locating SOLID INFO
affiliate companies (including those outside the UK and EEA, e.g., U.S., Ukraine), clients, or service
providers. In those cases, we will comply with applicable laws designed to ensure the privacy of your
personal data.
Under data protection laws, we can transfer your personal data to third countries on the basis of an
adequacy regulation or, where such is not available, under legally-approved standard data protection
clauses recognised or issued under the applicable data protection laws. In the event we cannot or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at any time we will not transfer your personal data to third countries unless we can do so on the basis of an alternative mechanism permitted by data protection authorities.
Under GDPR, data transfers to third countries are only permitted when adequate safeguards are in
place to protect your personal information. We rely on the following legally recognized mechanisms:
Adequacy Decisions: if the European Commission has deemed a country to provide an
adequate level of data protection, we may transfer data based on this decision.
Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs): where no adequacy decision exists (e.g., for data
transfers to the U.S. or Ukraine), we use Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), which are legally
approved contractual terms ensuring that your data receives the same level of protection as
within the EEA. Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs): in cases where transfers occur within our corporate group, we may rely on Binding Corporate Rules to ensure compliance with EU data protection standards.
Other Lawful Mechanisms: if none of the above mechanisms apply, we will seek explicit
consent from you or rely on specific derogations permitted under Article 49 GDPR, such as the
necessity of the transfer for the performance of a contract.
In the event we cannot or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at any time we
will not transfer your personal data to third countries unless we can do so on the basis of an alternative
mechanism permitted by data protection authorities.
Whenever we transfer personal data outside the UK or EEA, we conduct a Transfer Impact Assessment
(TIA) to evaluate the level of data protection in the receiving country and implement additional security
measures where required.
By interacting with us you consent to the transfer of information that we collect about you, including
personal information, to any country in which we, our clients, or our service providers are located. These countries may not provide the same level of data protection as your home country. However, we take all necessary contractual, technical, and organizational safeguards to ensure your personal data remains secure and protected.
Sharing of your personal data
We may share your information with the following recipients: our affiliated companies, professional
advisers, third party service providers, partners, contractors, employees for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or notified to you.
We engage service providers that help us provide, support, and develop our business and the website and understand how it is used. They provide services such as cloud hosting, customer and technical support, payments, user login, background checks, marketing, analytics, etc. We share your personal data with these service providers as necessary to enable them to provide their service to us.
In addition, we may share your information with competent law enforcement bodies, regulatory,
government agencies, courts or other third parties where such disclosure is necessary for compliance
with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital
interests of another person.
Data Processing Agreement (DPA) for Business Customers
If you are a business customer operating within the EEA or the UK and require compliance with the
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you may request a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) with
SOLID INFO. The DPA outlines the rights and obligations of both parties regarding the processing of
personal data, ensuring compliance with GDPR.
The DPA may establish the scope, nature, and purpose of personal data processing, the categories of
personal data and data subjects covered, the responsibilities of SOLID INFO as a data processor and the business customer as a data controller, security measures, including technical and organizational
safeguards, implemented to protect personal data, provisions for data subject rights, data transfer
mechanisms in compliance with, including the use of Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) where
applicable, the obligations of both parties regarding data retention, deletion, and breach notification, etc.
Business customers requiring a DPA can request it by contacting SOLID INFO at [Your Contact Email].
Upon request, we will provide the agreement, ensuring it aligns with your data processing requirements.
Children’s privacy SOLID INFO services, products are not provided for use by children. We do not knowingly collect or solicit any personal information from children under the age of 13 or 16 (depending on the EU member state country requirements). If SOLID INFO finds out that child’s personal data is provided to us, we’ll delete it from our databases. If you are parent or guardian of a child and believe that we have collected such personal data, please contact us as indicated in the “Contact information” section below and we’ll delete it as soon as possible.
Information tracking
This website may automatically collect information about you in several ways, which includes tracking
your activities through your IP address, computer settings, most-recently visited URL, operating system, date and time, your preferences and choices and saved options subject to your browser settings. This website uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with its server, and to administer the website.
Third Party Links
Our website may contain links to third party websites. SOLID INFO shall not be held responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such third party websites.
We recommend that you review privacy statements and the terms and conditions of such websites. Changes to the Privacy Policy.
We process your personal data under the following lawful basis and for the following reasons
Your consent We rely on your consent when we use your personal data for sending you newsletters,
updates, and political analysis reports that you have subscribed to, optimizing and
enhancing the operation of our website, developing new features and services
(including when it is collected as a part to the aggregated data), providing you with
relevant advertising materials as long as it is allowed by your device or browser’s
personalization and privacy settings and analyzing your engagement with our website
(e.g., interaction with reports, time spent on articles) to improve content delivery, as
long as such analysis does not override your privacy rights. We also rely on this legal
basis when we respond to you upon you have contacted us, for example regarding
cooperation opportunities, our research or any other requests.
You have a right to withdraw consent to processing of your personal data. You may
enjoy this right at any time you wish. Please remember, that the withdrawal of consent
does not mean that the processing before the withdrawal is considered thus illegal.
Please also take into account that if you have withdrawn your consent to processing of
your personal data we may be limited in responding to you and/or providing you with
our services.
Compliance with our legal obligations
We rely on this legal basis to identify you and verify your identity (when relevant) or
to help prevent and detect fraud against you or us, to protect the security of systems
and data, or for disclosures and other activities necessary to comply with legal and
regulatory obligations that apply to our business.
All applicable laws depending on the relationship between you and us may affect the
scope of personal data we collect, the ways we process your personal data, our ability
to keep the confidentiality of your data and avoid their disclosure, duration of the
planned retention, etc.
For the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering a contract
We rely on this legal basis to provide certain services to you (e.g. restricted access to exclusive political reports, research materials, or paid content (if applicable)), to fulfill any contractual obligations related to subscriptions, paid reports, or consultancy services or to receive certain services from you.
To perform a task carried out in the public interest
We rely on this legal basis to report to the police or other competent enforcement agencies in case we discover fraud or any other violations of the applicable law or suspicious behavior or actions committed by you during your interaction with us, as well as in other cases when the disclosure of your personal data is required.
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party
We rely on this legal basis to contact you regarding potential cooperation between you
and/or the company your represent with us; to analyze an audience engagement with
our political reports to improve content and ensure relevance; to make non-marketing
related communications to you about changes to our terms or policies or to provide
other important notices; to ensure the proper operation of our Website,troubleshooting technical issues, and maintaining service availability; to enable or administer our business (quality control, consolidated reporting, customer service), transfer of ownership and so on.
We conduct legitimate interest assessments to ensure that your data protection rights are respected and that our processing does not unduly impact your privacy.
When we receive your explicit consent, we may run automated decision-making devices or software
including those based on all the data aggregated and may use personal information we collect about you for profiling.
Marketing Communications
Where you have opted in to receive marketing communications from us, we may use your personal data to send you marketing emails or messages about our services, updates, reports, including exclusive offers, promotions or new features. In using your personal data for such marketing purposes, we rely on your consent.
If a marketing email is sent to you, it includes information on how to opt out of receiving such email
notifications in the future.
Safety of Your Personal Data
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing organizational and security measures to
protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information,
username, password, transaction information and data stored on our website. Personal data that we
process for any purpose(s) will not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose(s), including
compliance with legal requirements. If you revoked your consent, we may retain certain personal
information for the period required by the applicable legislation, to resolve disputes and/or enforce our
rights and agreements.
Data transfer
It is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal data to other countries of locating SOLID INFO
affiliate companies (including those outside the UK and EEA, e.g., U.S., Ukraine), clients, or service
providers. In those cases, we will comply with applicable laws designed to ensure the privacy of your
personal data.
Under data protection laws, we can transfer your personal data to third countries on the basis of an
adequacy regulation or, where such is not available, under legally-approved standard data protection
clauses recognised or issued under the applicable data protection laws. In the event we cannot or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at any time we will not transfer your personal data to third countries unless we can do so on the basis of an alternative mechanism permitted by data protection authorities.
Under GDPR, data transfers to third countries are only permitted when adequate safeguards are in
place to protect your personal information. We rely on the following legally recognized mechanisms:
Adequacy Decisions: if the European Commission has deemed a country to provide an
adequate level of data protection, we may transfer data based on this decision.
Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs): where no adequacy decision exists (e.g., for data
transfers to the U.S. or Ukraine), we use Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), which are legally
approved contractual terms ensuring that your data receives the same level of protection as
within the EEA. Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs): in cases where transfers occur within our corporate group, we may rely on Binding Corporate Rules to ensure compliance with EU data protection standards.
Other Lawful Mechanisms: if none of the above mechanisms apply, we will seek explicit
consent from you or rely on specific derogations permitted under Article 49 GDPR, such as the
necessity of the transfer for the performance of a contract.
In the event we cannot or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at any time we
will not transfer your personal data to third countries unless we can do so on the basis of an alternative
mechanism permitted by data protection authorities.
Whenever we transfer personal data outside the UK or EEA, we conduct a Transfer Impact Assessment
(TIA) to evaluate the level of data protection in the receiving country and implement additional security
measures where required.
By interacting with us you consent to the transfer of information that we collect about you, including
personal information, to any country in which we, our clients, or our service providers are located. These countries may not provide the same level of data protection as your home country. However, we take all necessary contractual, technical, and organizational safeguards to ensure your personal data remains secure and protected.
Sharing of your personal data
We may share your information with the following recipients: our affiliated companies, professional
advisers, third party service providers, partners, contractors, employees for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or notified to you.
We engage service providers that help us provide, support, and develop our business and the website and understand how it is used. They provide services such as cloud hosting, customer and technical support, payments, user login, background checks, marketing, analytics, etc. We share your personal data with these service providers as necessary to enable them to provide their service to us.
In addition, we may share your information with competent law enforcement bodies, regulatory,
government agencies, courts or other third parties where such disclosure is necessary for compliance
with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital
interests of another person.
Data Processing Agreement (DPA) for Business Customers
If you are a business customer operating within the EEA or the UK and require compliance with the
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you may request a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) with
SOLID INFO. The DPA outlines the rights and obligations of both parties regarding the processing of
personal data, ensuring compliance with GDPR.
The DPA may establish the scope, nature, and purpose of personal data processing, the categories of
personal data and data subjects covered, the responsibilities of SOLID INFO as a data processor and the business customer as a data controller, security measures, including technical and organizational
safeguards, implemented to protect personal data, provisions for data subject rights, data transfer
mechanisms in compliance with, including the use of Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) where
applicable, the obligations of both parties regarding data retention, deletion, and breach notification, etc.
Business customers requiring a DPA can request it by contacting SOLID INFO at [Your Contact Email].
Upon request, we will provide the agreement, ensuring it aligns with your data processing requirements.
Children’s privacy SOLID INFO services, products are not provided for use by children. We do not knowingly collect or solicit any personal information from children under the age of 13 or 16 (depending on the EU member state country requirements). If SOLID INFO finds out that child’s personal data is provided to us, we’ll delete it from our databases. If you are parent or guardian of a child and believe that we have collected such personal data, please contact us as indicated in the “Contact information” section below and we’ll delete it as soon as possible.
Information tracking
This website may automatically collect information about you in several ways, which includes tracking
your activities through your IP address, computer settings, most-recently visited URL, operating system, date and time, your preferences and choices and saved options subject to your browser settings. This website uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with its server, and to administer the website.
Third Party Links
Our website may contain links to third party websites. SOLID INFO shall not be held responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such third party websites.
We recommend that you review privacy statements and the terms and conditions of such websites. Changes to the Privacy Policy.
We may update this Privacy Policy by publishing a new version on this website from time to time at our
sole discretion. Any changes we make to this Privacy Policy will be posted on the website so that you are always aware of what information we gather, how we might use that information and under which
circumstances we may disclose it.
The date of the last modification of this Privacy Policy is stated at the beginning of this document.
You are encouraged to review the last updated version of this Privacy Policy regularly as well as every
time you visit our website. We will also make reasonable efforts to notify you through email (in case we
have it) or by other means about material changes to this Privacy Policy.
sole discretion. Any changes we make to this Privacy Policy will be posted on the website so that you are always aware of what information we gather, how we might use that information and under which
circumstances we may disclose it.
The date of the last modification of this Privacy Policy is stated at the beginning of this document.
You are encouraged to review the last updated version of this Privacy Policy regularly as well as every
time you visit our website. We will also make reasonable efforts to notify you through email (in case we
have it) or by other means about material changes to this Privacy Policy.
Cookie Policy
As most websites, our website uses cookies to help us provide you with the best possible browsing
experience.
Cookies are chosen data stored on your computer which help us to immediately recognize your PC at
your next visit. Cookies automatically (i.e., not by registration) compile collective non-personal data
(such as Internet browsers, operating systems, domain names, website visits, average visit time, pages
per visit).
There are two main kinds of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date.
Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more information.
As most websites, our website uses cookies to help us provide you with the best possible browsing
experience.
Cookies are chosen data stored on your computer which help us to immediately recognize your PC at
your next visit. Cookies automatically (i.e., not by registration) compile collective non-personal data
(such as Internet browsers, operating systems, domain names, website visits, average visit time, pages
per visit).
There are two main kinds of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date.
Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more information.
Remarketing
Cookies are also used to display remarketing advertisements, based upon the user’s previous visits
to https://solid.info/sign-up, across the internet.
Remarketing advertisements are displayed through the Google Display Advertising Network. Users may
opt out of Google’s use of cookies at any time by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager..
Third-party services We may collect analytics information, or use third-party analytics tools, to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the service and to understand about the demographics and behaviors of our users, how users interact with our services.
Third-party analytics tools and retargeting cookies are used to collect information about user activities
on our website for analyzing information about user web browsing behavior, for providing users ads that they are interested in, and for measurement of the effectiveness of remarketing and ad campaigns.
Google Analytics and IP Anonymization
We use Google Analytics to collect statistical information about website visits and user interactions. To
enhance privacy protection, we have enabled IP anonymization, which ensures that Google shortens
your IP address before storing it within the European Union (EU) or other jurisdictions compliant with
GDPR. This means that your full IP address is never stored or processed, reducing the risk of tracking
across websites.
If you wish to opt out of Google Analytics tracking, you may do so by using the Google Analytics Opt-
Out Browser Add-on or adjusting your cookie settings in our Cookie Consent Banner.
Facebook Ads and IP Addresses.
Cookies are also used to display remarketing advertisements, based upon the user’s previous visits
to https://solid.info/sign-up, across the internet.
Remarketing advertisements are displayed through the Google Display Advertising Network. Users may
opt out of Google’s use of cookies at any time by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager..
Third-party services We may collect analytics information, or use third-party analytics tools, to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the service and to understand about the demographics and behaviors of our users, how users interact with our services.
Third-party analytics tools and retargeting cookies are used to collect information about user activities
on our website for analyzing information about user web browsing behavior, for providing users ads that they are interested in, and for measurement of the effectiveness of remarketing and ad campaigns.
Google Analytics and IP Anonymization
We use Google Analytics to collect statistical information about website visits and user interactions. To
enhance privacy protection, we have enabled IP anonymization, which ensures that Google shortens
your IP address before storing it within the European Union (EU) or other jurisdictions compliant with
GDPR. This means that your full IP address is never stored or processed, reducing the risk of tracking
across websites.
If you wish to opt out of Google Analytics tracking, you may do so by using the Google Analytics Opt-
Out Browser Add-on or adjusting your cookie settings in our Cookie Consent Banner.
Facebook Ads and IP Addresses.
We use the Facebook Pixel to measure and optimize the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. As part of this service, Facebook may collect and process users' IP addresses and other tracking data.
To manage how Facebook processes your data and controls personalized advertising settings, you can
adjust your privacy preferences through the Facebook Ads Preferences Manager. Additionally, you can
opt out of tracking cookies by modifying your cookie settings in our Cookie Consent Banner.
To enhance user experience, optimize our services, and ensure seamless access to political reports, our Website may also use third-party tools for payment processing and authentication.
We only allow certain third-party providers to collect personal data directly, strictly for essential
services. We currently use:
Stripe which collects and processes payment details for visitor subscriptions and paid content
access.
Facebook Developer Account and Google that collect personal data for user authentication,
registration and login functionality (e.g., Single Sign-On).
These third parties process data in accordance with their own privacy policies and GDPR compliance
frameworks. Users should review their respective privacy policies before using these login and payment services. Users should also review the respective privacy policies of the third-party providers before using these login and payment services.
While some of our services do not collect personal data directly, they process user interaction data (e.g., pages visited, time spent on site) for analytical and operational improvements. We currently use:
AWS (Amazon Web Services) – cloud infrastructure for secure hosting.
Algolia – service for enhancing website search functionalities.
ElevenLabs – service for provideing AI-generated voice functionalities for content accessibility.
Firebase – service for support of website authentication, security, and performance monitoring.
All the above-mentioned third-party providers are contractually bound to process personal data
exclusively for the purposes outlined in DPAs concluded with them. These providers process data strictly as data processors under our DPAs, ensuring compliance with GDPR Articles 28 and 44-49 for secure data handling.
For more information on our DPAs and security commitments, you may contact us at [Your
Contact Email].
Data Storage
To manage how Facebook processes your data and controls personalized advertising settings, you can
adjust your privacy preferences through the Facebook Ads Preferences Manager. Additionally, you can
opt out of tracking cookies by modifying your cookie settings in our Cookie Consent Banner.
To enhance user experience, optimize our services, and ensure seamless access to political reports, our Website may also use third-party tools for payment processing and authentication.
We only allow certain third-party providers to collect personal data directly, strictly for essential
services. We currently use:
Stripe which collects and processes payment details for visitor subscriptions and paid content
access.
Facebook Developer Account and Google that collect personal data for user authentication,
registration and login functionality (e.g., Single Sign-On).
These third parties process data in accordance with their own privacy policies and GDPR compliance
frameworks. Users should review their respective privacy policies before using these login and payment services. Users should also review the respective privacy policies of the third-party providers before using these login and payment services.
While some of our services do not collect personal data directly, they process user interaction data (e.g., pages visited, time spent on site) for analytical and operational improvements. We currently use:
AWS (Amazon Web Services) – cloud infrastructure for secure hosting.
Algolia – service for enhancing website search functionalities.
ElevenLabs – service for provideing AI-generated voice functionalities for content accessibility.
Firebase – service for support of website authentication, security, and performance monitoring.
All the above-mentioned third-party providers are contractually bound to process personal data
exclusively for the purposes outlined in DPAs concluded with them. These providers process data strictly as data processors under our DPAs, ensuring compliance with GDPR Articles 28 and 44-49 for secure data handling.
For more information on our DPAs and security commitments, you may contact us at [Your
Contact Email].
Data Storage
We ensure that the personal data are not retained longer than necessary in relation to the purpose for
which they are processed. In order to ensure compliance with this principle, we define the retention
periods applicable to each processing operation. The following elements are considered when determining the retention period:
legal obligations;
recommendations of supervisory authorities;
best practices;
our operational needs
Different retention periods apply depending on the nature of the data and regulatory requirements: for
different types of personal data.
Active Accounts. If you maintain an active account, we will store your personal data
indefinitely, as long as you continue using our services, unless you request deletion.
Deleted Accounts. If you request the deletion of your account, we will erase or anonymize your
personal data within two months from the date of deletion.
Financial Transactions. In accordance with EU financial regulations, financial transaction data must be retained for at least five (5) years for accounting and anti-fraud purposes. This data is stored securely on Stripe's servers in compliance with GDPR and financial regulations.
The criteria applied to determine the data retention period will depend on the legal requirements of
specific jurisdictions. Following the end of the relevant retention period, we will delete or anonymise
your personal data., ensuring that it is no longer identifiable or linked to any individual.
Your Privacy Rights
Your principal privacy rights include: right to be informed about collection and use of personal data,
right to access your personal data, right to rectification, right to erasure, right to restrict processing, right to object to processing, right to data portability, right to complain to a supervisory authority and right to withdraw consent.
To exercise your rights, please contact us (see “Contact Information” section below). When you send
us a request to exercise a right, you are asked to specify as far as possible the scope of the request, the type of right exercised, the personal data processing concerned, and any other useful element, in order to facilitate the examination of your request. In addition, in case of reasonable doubt, you may be asked to prove your identity.
We will do our best to answer to your requests as soon as possible or within a reasonable period taking
into account the complexity of the request, typically within 30 days from the date of request submission, unless the request is particularly complex or we are processing a high volume of requests. In such cases, we may extend this period by an additional two months, and will inform you accordingly.
If at any point you believe the information we process on you is incorrect or incomplete you can submit a request to see this information and even have it corrected, ported to you or deleted by contacting us
at (please insert an e-mail address). Requests for data deletion or export will generally be processed
which they are processed. In order to ensure compliance with this principle, we define the retention
periods applicable to each processing operation. The following elements are considered when determining the retention period:
legal obligations;
recommendations of supervisory authorities;
best practices;
our operational needs
Different retention periods apply depending on the nature of the data and regulatory requirements: for
different types of personal data.
Active Accounts. If you maintain an active account, we will store your personal data
indefinitely, as long as you continue using our services, unless you request deletion.
Deleted Accounts. If you request the deletion of your account, we will erase or anonymize your
personal data within two months from the date of deletion.
Financial Transactions. In accordance with EU financial regulations, financial transaction data must be retained for at least five (5) years for accounting and anti-fraud purposes. This data is stored securely on Stripe's servers in compliance with GDPR and financial regulations.
The criteria applied to determine the data retention period will depend on the legal requirements of
specific jurisdictions. Following the end of the relevant retention period, we will delete or anonymise
your personal data., ensuring that it is no longer identifiable or linked to any individual.
Your Privacy Rights
Your principal privacy rights include: right to be informed about collection and use of personal data,
right to access your personal data, right to rectification, right to erasure, right to restrict processing, right to object to processing, right to data portability, right to complain to a supervisory authority and right to withdraw consent.
To exercise your rights, please contact us (see “Contact Information” section below). When you send
us a request to exercise a right, you are asked to specify as far as possible the scope of the request, the type of right exercised, the personal data processing concerned, and any other useful element, in order to facilitate the examination of your request. In addition, in case of reasonable doubt, you may be asked to prove your identity.
We will do our best to answer to your requests as soon as possible or within a reasonable period taking
into account the complexity of the request, typically within 30 days from the date of request submission, unless the request is particularly complex or we are processing a high volume of requests. In such cases, we may extend this period by an additional two months, and will inform you accordingly.
If at any point you believe the information we process on you is incorrect or incomplete you can submit a request to see this information and even have it corrected, ported to you or deleted by contacting us
at (please insert an e-mail address). Requests for data deletion or export will generally be processed
within 30 days from the date of submission. If additional time is required due to complexity, we will
notify you accordingly.
At any time you may withdraw your consent or object to data processing by contacting us at (please
insert an e-mail address). In case you withdraw your consent it will not affect the lawfulness of
processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
At any time you may withdraw your consent or object to data processing by contacting us at (please
insert an e-mail address). In case you withdraw your consent it will not affect the lawfulness of
processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Contact Information
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us directly:
Name: Please indicate the name of the Company
Postal address: Please indicate the address of the Company
Email: Please insert an e-mail address
Phone number: Please insert a phone number
Data Protection Officer: Please define the Data Protection Officer and indicate their name and e-mail
address
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us directly:
Name: Please indicate the name of the Company
Postal address: Please indicate the address of the Company
Email: Please insert an e-mail address
Phone number: Please insert a phone number
Data Protection Officer: Please define the Data Protection Officer and indicate their name and e-mail
address
How To Complain
Please contact us if you have any query or concern about our use of your information (see below
“Contact Information”).
For official legal escalation you have the right to lodge a formal complaint with UK or EU official
bodies:
the Information Commissioner in the UK if you are a website user from UK;
a relevant data protection supervisory authority in the EEA state of your habitual residence, place of work or of an alleged infringement of data protection laws in the EEA.
The UK’s Information Commissioner may be contacted at Link or by telephone: 0303 123 1113.
For a list of EEA data protection supervisory authorities and their contact details see here.
Notice For California Residents
Please contact us if you have any query or concern about our use of your information (see below
“Contact Information”).
For official legal escalation you have the right to lodge a formal complaint with UK or EU official
bodies:
the Information Commissioner in the UK if you are a website user from UK;
a relevant data protection supervisory authority in the EEA state of your habitual residence, place of work or of an alleged infringement of data protection laws in the EEA.
The UK’s Information Commissioner may be contacted at Link or by telephone: 0303 123 1113.
For a list of EEA data protection supervisory authorities and their contact details see here.
Notice For California Residents
If you are a California resident, provisions of the Privacy Policy will apply to you subject to several
additional things you need to know about processing of your personal data pursuant to California
Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which went into effect on January 1, 2020.
Your Rights
additional things you need to know about processing of your personal data pursuant to California
Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which went into effect on January 1, 2020.
Your Rights
Under CCPA, you have the following rights regarding your personal information:
Right to know what personal information we collect about you and the purposes of that collection,
as well as know how your personal information is used: you have the right to know what personal
information about you we collect, the sources from which it is collected, and the purposes for which we
collect it.
Right to know with whom we share your personal information: you have the right to know whether
we share your personal data with any third parties. We may share your personal information with third
parties who help us run our business.
Right to know whether any of your personal information is sold: we do not sell or rent out your
personal information.Right to “Opt-Out of Sale” of your personal data: we do not sell your personal data to third parties and therefore do not offer an “opt-out” mechanism.
Right to access, request, and receive personal information: you have the right to request which
personal data was collected about you and receive a copy of such information. We will disclose and
deliver the required information to you in the manner described in the CCPA after receiving a verifiable
request from you.
Right to request deletion of your personal data: you have the right to request deletion of your data
from our systems to the extent provided by the CCPA.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Please contact us if you
have any further questions regarding your rights under the CCPA (see the “Contact Information” section for contact details). This should be a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information.
The verifiable consumer request must provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify
that you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative
and describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and
respond to it. All requests must be labeled “California Resident Request” on the email subject line.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your
identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. We will
only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request. We will reply within 45 days of request receipt. If we need more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response electronically.
Right to know what personal information we collect about you and the purposes of that collection,
as well as know how your personal information is used: you have the right to know what personal
information about you we collect, the sources from which it is collected, and the purposes for which we
collect it.
Right to know with whom we share your personal information: you have the right to know whether
we share your personal data with any third parties. We may share your personal information with third
parties who help us run our business.
Right to know whether any of your personal information is sold: we do not sell or rent out your
personal information.Right to “Opt-Out of Sale” of your personal data: we do not sell your personal data to third parties and therefore do not offer an “opt-out” mechanism.
Right to access, request, and receive personal information: you have the right to request which
personal data was collected about you and receive a copy of such information. We will disclose and
deliver the required information to you in the manner described in the CCPA after receiving a verifiable
request from you.
Right to request deletion of your personal data: you have the right to request deletion of your data
from our systems to the extent provided by the CCPA.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Please contact us if you
have any further questions regarding your rights under the CCPA (see the “Contact Information” section for contact details). This should be a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information.
The verifiable consumer request must provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify
that you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative
and describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and
respond to it. All requests must be labeled “California Resident Request” on the email subject line.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your
identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. We will
only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request. We will reply within 45 days of request receipt. If we need more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response electronically.