PRIVACY POLICY

PepTalk understands that protecting your personal data is important. This Privacy Policy sets out our commitment to protecting the privacy of personal data provided to us, or otherwise collected by us when providing our strategic learning services, including connecting Expert Speakers to businesses, conducting live sessions, online and in-person workshops and ‘PepTalk On-Demand’ offering (Services) or when otherwise interacting with you.  

In this Privacy Policy, when we say we, us or our, we are referring to relevant entity in the PepTalk group which is responsible for processing your data, which may include:

  • Get a PepTalk Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, with company number 12933624; and
  • The Peptalk Co, a company registered in New York, with offices at 188 Grand Street, Unit 241, New York, NY 10013.

Get a PepTalk Limited is the controller of, and responsible for, any personal data submitted through this website.

It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other detailed privacy notices we may provide when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you understand our privacy practices in relation to your data.

The information we collect

Personal data: is information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

We may collect, use, store and disclose different kinds of personal data about you which we have listed below:

  • Identity Data including first name, last name, job title and company you work for.
  • Contact Data including billing address, address for speaking engagement, email address and telephone number.
  • Financial Data including bank account and payment card details (through our third party payment processor, Stripe or PayPal).
  • Transaction Data including details about payments from you to us and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
  • Technical and Usage Data including internet protocol (IP) address, your browser session and geo-location data, device and network information, statistics on page views and sessions, acquisition sources, search queries and/or browsing behaviour, information about your access and use of our website, including through the use of Internet cookies, your communications with our website, the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using and the domain name of your Internet service provider.
  • PepTalk on Demand Profile Data including your username and password for PepTalk on Demand, support requests you have made, content you view through our platform, and your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
  • Expert Data including your professional experience, areas and topics of expertise, contact information, the city you live in, and details of your availability.
  • Interaction Data including information you provide to us when you participate in any interactive features of our Services, including during our live events and workshops.
  • Marketing and Communications Data including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
  • Professional data including where you are applying for a role with us, your professional history such as your previous positions and professional experience.
  • Special Categories of Personal Data is a special category of personal data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. In the course of providing our Services, we may collect, or come across such special categories of personal data, in different situations including
    • when reviewing your application for a role with us; and
    • where we ask for your dietary or access requirements if we are arranging catering for you, including at an event operated by PepTalk.

The types of special categories of data we may collect in these circumstances include disability information, and allergy and dietary requirements (which may imply a health condition).

‍How we collect personal data

We collect personal data in a variety of ways, including:

  • Directly: We collect personal data which you directly provide to us, including through the ‘talk to us’ function on our website or when you request our assistance via email, or over the telephone.
  • Indirectly: We may collect personal data which you indirectly provide to us while interacting with us, such as when you use our website, in emails, over the telephone and in your online enquiries.
  • From third parties: We collect personal data from third parties, such as from your employer where they invite you to access our Services, and details of your use of our website from our analytics and cookie providers and marketing providers. See the “Cookies” section below for more detail on the use of cookies.
  • From publicly available sources: We collect personal data from publicly available resources such as Companies House, professional networking sites such as LinkedIn, and other informational websites.

Peptalk on Demand - End User Data

Where your personal data is input into our PepTalk on Demand Services, or where our Services are made available to you through a third party (e.g. your employer), that business is the ‘controller’ of any personal data input into the Services (End User Data), and we act as a ‘processor’ to process End User Data on behalf of the controller. The controller is responsible for complying with any regulations or laws that require providing notice, disclosure, and/or obtaining your consent prior to transferring the End User Data to us to process on their behalf, and therefore End User Data is not covered by this Privacy Policy. You should view the controller’s privacy policy and/or contact the controller to understand their privacy practices in relation to your End User Data.  

Purposes and legal bases for processing

We collect and process personal data about you only where we have legal bases for doing so under applicable laws. We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate. Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please reach out to us if you need further details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

Purpose of use / disclosure Type of Data Legal Basis for processing
To provide our Services to you, including to register your attendance at our events, and to book an Expert Speaker for you.
  • Identity Data
  • Contact Data
  • Performance of a contract with you
To determine whether to list you as an available Expert Speaker on our website, and to manage any bookings on your behalf.
  • Identity Data
  • Contact Data
  • Expert Data
  • Performance of a contract with you
  • Legitimate interests: to ensure we have all information on file to promote your services.
To contact and communicate with you about our Services, including in response to any support requests you lodge with us or other enquiries you make with us.
  • Identity Data
  • Contact Data
  • PepTalk on Demand Profile Data
  • Performance of a contract with you
To enable you to access and use our PepTalk on Demand service, including to provide you with a login.
  • Identity Data
  • Contact Data
  • PepTalk on Demand Profile Data
  • Performance of a contract with you
To contact and communicate with you about any enquiries you make with us via our website.
  • Identity Data
  • Contact Data
  • Legitimate interests: to ensure we provide the best client experience we can offer by answering all of your questions
For internal record keeping, administrative, invoicing and billing purposes.
  • Identity Data
  • Contact Data
  • Financial Data
  • Transaction Data
  • Performance of a contract with you
  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • Legitimate interests: to recover debts due to us and ensure we can notify you about changes to our terms of business and any other administrative points
For analytics, market research and business development, including to operate and improve our Services, associated applications and associated social media platforms.
  • PepTalk on Demand Profile Data
  • Technical and usage Data
  • Legitimate interests: to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business, improve our Services and to inform our marketing strategy
For advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our events and experiences and information that we consider may be of interest to you.
  • Identity Data
  • Contact Data
  • Technical and usage Data
  • PepTalk on Demand Profile Data
  • Marketing and communications Data
  • Legitimate interests: to develop our Services and grow our business
If you have applied to work with us; to consider your application.
  • Identity Data
  • Contact Data
  • Professional Data
  • Legitimate interests: to consider your employment application
To comply with our legal obligations or if otherwise required or authorised by law.
  • All relevant Personal Data
  • To comply with a legal obligation
If you have consented to our use of data about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place. Where we are using your data because we or a third party have a legitimate interest to do so, you have the right to object to that use though, in some cases, this may mean no longer using our services. Further information about your rights is available below.
Our disclosures of personal data to third parties

We may disclose personal data to:

  • our employees, contractors and/or related entities;
  • IT service providers, data storage, web-hosting and server providers such as:
    • Google Suite
    • Google Cloud
    • Slack
    • Zoom
    • Dropbox
    • AWS Servers
    • Airtable
    • Front
    • NativeForms
    • Tally
    • Make
    • Addevent
    • MeetGeek
    • Fireflies
    • Quickbooks
  • marketing or advertising providers such as:
    • Intercom
    • Mailtrack
    • Pipedrive
    • Apollo
    • Sendgrid
    • ActiveCampaign
    • Impact
    • Hotjar
    • Leadfeeder
    • Doubleclick
    • Linkedin
  • professional advisors, bankers, auditors, our insurers and insurance brokers;
  • payment systems operators such as:
    • Chargebee
    • GoCardless
    • Stripe
    • Telleroo
  • where you are an Expert Speaker, we may share your personal data with the client who has requested you to perform services for them;
  • our existing or potential agents or business partners;
  • sponsors or promoters of any promotions or competition we run;
  • anyone to whom our business or assets (or any part of them) are, or may (in good faith) be, transferred;
  • courts, tribunals and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you;
  • courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities and law enforcement officers, as required or authorised by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights;
  • third parties to collect and process data, such as Google Analytics (To find out how Google uses data when you use third party websites or applications, please see www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ or any other URL Google may use from time to time), Meta Pixel or other relevant analytics businesses; and
  • any other third parties as required or permitted by law, such as where we receive a summons.

Google Analytics: We have enabled Google Analytics Advertising Features. We and third-party vendors use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) or other first-party identifiers, and third-party cookies (such as Google advertising cookies) or other third-party identifiers together.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics Advertising Features including using a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser add-on found here. To opt-out of personalised ad delivery on the Google content network, please visit Google's Ads Preferences Manager here or if you wish to opt-out permanently even when all cookies are deleted from your browser you can install their plugin here. To opt out of interest-based ads on mobile devices, please follow these instructions for your mobile device: On android open the Google Settings app on your device and select "ads" to control the settings. On iOS devices with iOS 6 and above use Apple's advertising identifier. To learn more about limiting ad tracking using this identifier, visit the settings menu on your device.

Overseas transfers

Where we disclose personal data to the third parties listed above, these third parties may store, transfer or access personal data outside of the United Kingdom, including the United States of America and Australia. The level of data protection in countries outside of the United Kingdom may be less comprehensive than what is offered in the United Kingdom. Where we transfer your personal data outside of the United Kingdom, we will perform those transfers using appropriate safeguards in accordance with the requirements of applicable data protection laws and we will protect the transferred personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This includes:

  • only transferring your personal data to countries that have been deemed by applicable data protection laws to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data; or
  • including standard contractual clauses in our agreements with third parties that are overseas.

Data retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

Your rights and controlling your personal data

Your choice: Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you provide personal data to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You do not have to provide personal data to us, however, if you do not, it may affect our ability to provide our Services to you and your use of our Services.

Information from third parties: If we receive personal data about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal data about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal data to us.

Access, correction, processing and portability: You may request details of the personal data that we hold about you and how we process it (commonly known as a “data subject request”). You may also have a right in accordance with applicable data protection law to have your personal data rectified or deleted, to restrict our processing of that information, to object to decisions being made based on automated processing where the decision will produce a legal effect or a similarly significant effect on you, to stop unauthorised transfers of your personal data to a third party and, in some circumstances, to have personal data relating to you transferred to you or another organisation.

Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our e-mail database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details below or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication.

Withdraw consent: Where we are relying on consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

Complaints: If you wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the complaint. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk), or to your local regulator where you are based outside the United Kingdom. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

Children’s Data

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act 1998 (US) requires that online service providers obtain parental consent before they knowingly collect personally identifiable information online from children who are under thirteen (13). We do not knowingly collect or solicit personally identifiable information from children under thirteen (13). If you are a child under thirteen (13), please do not attempt to register with or otherwise use the Site or send us any personal information. If we learn that we have unwittingly collected personal information from a child under thirteen (13), we will promptly delete that information. If you believe that a child under thirteen (13) may have provided us with personal information, please contact us using the contact details at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

California specific privacy rights

We do not share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes without your express consent. Please contact us using the contact details at the bottom of this Privacy Policy to request any personal data held by us, in accordance with your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).

Storage and security

We are committed to ensuring that the personal data we collect is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures, to safeguard and secure personal data and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.

We implement the following measures to protect personal data, including:

  • secure storage using modern and up-to-date software;
  • ensuring that personal data can only be accessed by our personnel who need access;  
  • safe deletion of data to ensure it cannot be recovered;  
  • implementing back-up and disaster-recovery solutions; and
  • implementing internal procedures and policies to protect your information from unauthorised access and use, accidental loss and/or destruction.

While we are committed to security, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk.

Cookies

We may use cookies on our website from time to time. Cookies are text files placed in your computer's browser to store your preferences and to provide a better user experience. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information. If you choose to provide our online services with personal data, this data may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. Where required by law, we will always seek your consent before placing any non-essential cookies on your device. For more information about how we use cookies, please see our Cookie Policy available at https://www.getapeptalk.com/cookie-policy.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other party’s websites. We do not have any control over those websites and we are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any personal data which you provide whilst visiting those websites. Those websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy.

Amendments

We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. We will notify you if we make a significant change to this Privacy Notice, by contacting you through the contact details you have provided to us and by publishing an updated version on our website.  

For any questions or notices in relation to this Privacy Notice, please contact us at:

Enquiries: contact@getapeptalk.com

Last update: 03 June 2025

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