Bloomberg, or where relevant, a designated service provider or third party, may collect the following personal information through this Site:

Personal information provided by you or your employer:

• Account information: including your name, phone number, email address, postal address, geographic information, password and billing information.
• Professional information: including job title, industry, employment, company, or other professional details.
• Communication information: including information that you provide to us when contacting us such as via a webform, email or other means.
• Audio, electronic or visual information: including pictures and videos.
• Other personal information: from time to time, we may collect other information that you provide to us.

Personal information collected automatically:

• Usage information: including Internet or other electronic network activity information such as browsing history, last login date, search history, user preferences and information and metadata in connection with your interaction with the Sites.
• Information collected through cookies or other similar technologies: including online identifiers, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser and device information, location or demographic information, or other similar identifiers. These cookies may also provide us with your internet or other electronic network activity information, including user preferences, the websites you visited immediately before and after visiting this Site, and information regarding a user’s interaction (including reading habits) with an Internet website, application, or advertisement. For more information see Use of Cookies and Other Electronic Technologies section below.

Personal information from other sources:

• We may process personal information from other sources including your employer or from third parties who provide us with information that may contain your personal information. We may combine this information with information provided by you.

If you do not provide certain personal information, not all functionality on this Site will be available.

If you submit personal information about others, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so and that you have received authorization from the person about whom you are providing the information and that person has agreed to have all information used, disclosed, and transferred in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Bloomberg uses this information for the following purposes:

• to provide and operate our products and services and systems, including this Site
• to enhance your experience with this Site, including to tailor your Site experience and provide relevant content, and to save your preferences and login information
• to communicate with you
• to improve, upgrade, or enhance our products and services and develop new products and services
• to provide support for our products and services
• to maintain the quality and safety of our products and services and for internal quality control purposes including debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality
• to provide you with offers and promotions about services and products of Bloomberg or of other parties that may be of interest or relevant to you
• to analyze website usage and analyze use of this Site
• to review and detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity
• to protect the interests, rights, safety, or property of Bloomberg or others and to monitor compliance with and enforce any agreement with Bloomberg and enforce any restrictions or limitations on the use of the services or products on this Site.

You may instruct Bloomberg at any time not to use your personal information collected through this Site to provide you with offers or promotions by contacting privacy@bloomberg.com.

You can also update your settings for receiving offers and promotions by clicking here. Please note that it may take some time to process your request, consistent with applicable law. Please note that if you exercise choice in this manner, you will continue to receive communications concerning your account and products and services you requested, and in response to any requests for information from you.

To assist us with the uses described in this Privacy Policy, information we or our designated service providers have collected about you through this Site, including your use of this Site, may be combined, aggregated, analyzed or enhanced with personal or other information about you that we have from other sources.

Some laws require Bloomberg to describe the lawful reason for processing your personal information. Depending on the circumstances and the jurisdiction you are in, Bloomberg relies on the following legal bases when processing personal information for the purposes described above:

• where the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract;
• where the processing is necessary so that Bloomberg can comply with its legal obligations, and/or exercise its legal rights;
• where the processing is necessary for Bloomberg to pursue our legitimate interests; and/or

• where we have obtained your consent.

Bloomberg, a designated service provider or a third party may place, view, and use different pixels, trackers, web server logs, or other electronic technologies (collectively, “cookies”) to collect information about you and your use of this Site and the services provided on this Site.

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies: cookies that are strictly necessary to make the Site available to you; for example, to perform your login functionality and for user authentication and security. We cannot provide you with the Site without this type of cookie.
• Personalization cookies: cookies that are used to recognize you when you return to this Site. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, to store your account details).
• Analytics cookies: cookies that help us to operate, maintain, and improve this Site. We use third party analytics providers to help us understand how users engage with this Site. This information is used to compile reports and help us improve this Site. We use Matomo. Further information on how Matomo collects and processes personal information can be found here.

You may be able to set your browser to disable cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. The help function on most browsers contains instructions on how to set your browser to notify you before accepting cookies or to disable cookies entirely. However, note that this Site will not function properly if you disable certain cookies.

Bloomberg may disclose your personal information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy to the following categories of recipients:

• our affiliates, subsidiaries, and other entities within the Bloomberg corporate group;
• our service providers;
• our event partners, sponsors and other event attendees when you sign up for or attend BNEF events. For information on how our event partners process your personal information, please read their privacy policies;
• the party who authorized your use of this Site, such as your employer
• other users of this Site as part of the services available on this Site
• with your agreement, to a sponsor or other third party (“Third-Party Providers”) that may provide you with offers or promotions that may be of interest to you. You may instruct Bloomberg at any time not to share your personal information with such Third-Party Providers by contacting privacy@bloomberg.com. Please note that: (i) this process may take some time to complete, consistent with applicable law; and (ii) even after such process is completed, your personal information may continue to be shared with our affiliates (including affiliated websites and other products under common ownership and control) and designated service providers. The collection, further use and/or disclosure of your information by Third Party Providers is not the responsibility of Bloomberg. Rather, such use and/or disclosure is governed by the Third- Party Providers’ privacy policies.
• Law enforcement authorities, regulators and other governmental agencies, pursuant to lawful requests, or if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to: (a) comply with any applicable law, rule or regulation or in response to a subpoena, court order, or other legal process, subject to Bloomberg’s Law Enforcement Data Request Statement; (b) protect the interests, rights, safety, or property of Bloomberg or others; (c) monitor compliance with and enforce any terms of service on this Site; (d) provide our services or products (including allowing a purchaser of Bloomberg to continue to serve you); (e) perform other activities related to this Site, including billing and collection; and (f) operate the systems that provide the services and products of Bloomberg properly.

Please be aware that certain features of this Site may make information you disclose available to others; for example, to your employer or other authorized users of this Site as designated by your employer.

Any personal information you provide to Bloomberg is kept on secure servers. Bloomberg uses security measures appropriate to the provision of the relevant product or service, such as reasonable administrative, technical, personnel, and physical measures (a) that are designed to safeguard personal information against loss, theft, unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification; and (b) to ensure the integrity of the personal information. To help us protect your privacy, you should maintain the secrecy of the logon ID and password you may have set up in connection with your participation in this Site’s services.

Personal information is retained for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) described in this Privacy Policy, or as may be permitted under applicable law. For example, personal information is retained if the information is reasonably necessary to manage your relationship with us or to provide our products and services to you. To determine the appropriate retention period, we will generally consider the following criteria: the length of time needed to achieve the purpose your information was collected for or applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

Certain databases available to registered users of this Site may contain personal information received from third-party data suppliers. This personal information is contained in public records, publicly available information, and non-public information (collectively, “public records information”). Your use of this information is restricted to specific, legitimate purposes, and such information may not be used to violate any applicable laws, rules, or regulations.

Depending on the jurisdiction, you may have the following rights with respect to your personal information

• to access and request certain information about the processing of your personal information
• to obtain a portable copy of your personal information
• to correct personal information
• to delete personal information
• to restrict processing certain personal information
• to object to the processing of personal information
• to withdraw consent, where this was the lawful reason for processing
• to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority
• to exercise a right related to your personal information, please contact us by clicking here or by e-mailing us at privacy@bloomberg.com. Please bear in mind that if you exercise such rights this may affect our ability to provide our products and services. While Bloomberg will make reasonable efforts to accommodate your request, we also reserve the right to impose certain restrictions and requirements on such requests, if allowed or required by applicable laws.

Please note that it may take some time to process your request, consistent with applicable laws.
If you choose to exercise these rights, we may ask that you provide sufficient information, including the products and services you have used in the past, your state and country of residence, and contact information, in order for us to verify your identity and process your request. Depending on the types of requests, we may ask for additional information.

You may use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf related to your personal information. If you choose to use an authorized agent, you should supply your agent with written permission to act on your behalf in relation to your request, and your agent must provide us with proof of such authorization before we process your request.
If you wish to access, correct, delete, or restrict use of your personal information contained in public records information, you will need to contact the third-party supplier of the information directly. If you have any questions regarding public records information on this Site, please contact us at privacy@bloomberg.com.

Some of the uses and disclosures mentioned in this privacy policy may involve the transfer and processing of your personal information to and in various countries that may have different levels of privacy protection than your country. Personal information may be accessed by Bloomberg offices worldwide, including in the United States and the United Kingdom. By using our products and services, you acknowledge and agree to such transfers and processing of this information in various other countries. We implement appropriate safeguards to protect such personal information, which may include (without limitation) European Commission approved standard contractual clauses or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and its UK Extension and the Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework. For more information, see our Data Privacy Framework Notice here. Bloomberg’s International Transfer Statement provides additional information about Bloomberg’s personal data protection, security and transfer practices and explains how those practices ensure there are appropriate safeguards in place to protect personal information and is available here. More information concerning the safeguards (including copies and information on data importers, if relevant) can be obtained by contacting us.

Bloomberg may provide links to third-party websites or other digital properties. Since we do not control third-party sites and digital properties and are not responsible for any information you may provide to those sites or digital properties, we encourage you to read the privacy policies on those web sites before providing any of your information on such sites.