Privacy Policy

Last modified: August 1, 2022

Data protection principles

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect from users and visitors to https://7be.io and related research and review services (the "Services"). By using the Services or otherwise agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure and other treatment of your information as described below.

If you have any concerns about providing information to us or displaying it on the Services or otherwise using it in any way permitted by this Privacy Policy, you should not use the Services.

1. Information we collect.

Information provided by you

Information about you. We collect information about you when you participate in our research process and use the Services in a variety of ways:

  • When you create an account, you provide us with information such as your name and email address, either directly or through your LinkedIn account. We may also ask for your credit card or other banking information if you purchase certain 7BE Services. You may provide additional information to improve your profile, such as your location, industry, bio, photo, and phone number. If you believe that someone has created an unauthorized account with your image or likeness, you can request that it be removed by contacting us .
  • In the process of submitting reviews, we will collect your name, company name, phone number, and email address for our records, but this information will not be made available to the public.
  • When posting reviews, you will have the option to either remain anonymous (for example, only your general job title, company description, industry, company size, and location will be included with the review) or attribute your comments with details such as your name, title company, project details and your photo. If you choose to attribute your feedback, you agree that we may publicly display such information in connection with your feedback through the Services.
  • When you complete a survey, your responses remain anonymous and we only display the results along with the general title of job title, department, industry, company size, and location.
  • When you submit a project request form or consultation form, it is important to be as specific as possible and include as much relevant information as possible. The more information you provide; the more suitable the recommended service providers will be for your project. We will need, at a minimum, your name, company name, project details, email contact information, and your preferred method of contacting you. Please note that your email address, phone number and other information provided will be shared with the service providers and affiliate network and service provider partners that can best suit your project's needs.

Information about other persons. You may provide information about other individuals (such as customers), including their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and companies, to support our background check and review process. You must obtain the consent of others before providing 7BE with their information. The information you provide about others is used only in the background check and analysis process.

Information from third parties

We may collect, process and store your user ID associated with any social media account (such as your LinkedIn account) that you use to log into the Services, connect to the Services or use the Services. When you sign in to your account using your social media account information or otherwise connect to your social media account using the Services, you consent to the collection, storage and use by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy of information that you choose to provide us through the social network interface. This may include, without limitation, any information that you have made public in connection with your social media account, information that the social media service shares with us, or information that is disclosed as being provided during the registration process. Please see your social media provider's privacy policy and help center for more information on how they share information when you choose to connect your account.

We may also obtain information about you if it is contained in user-generated content that other users post on or on our Services. For example, a user may include information about you in a review they post.

Automatically collected information

We and third parties may use automated means to collect information about you, your computer or other device, and your use of the Services. These automated tools include technologies such as cookies, web server logs, web beacons, and JavaScript.

Cookies are files that websites and online services create and access on your computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify your browser or store information or settings on your device to help us recognize you, improve your experience, enhance security, and measure your use of our Services. Our Services may use HTTP cookies, HTML5 cookies, Flash cookies, and other types of local storage (such as browser or plugin-based local storage). Your browser can tell you how to be notified when you receive certain types of cookies and how to restrict or disable certain cookies. You can also delete Flash cookies or change your Flash cookie preferences by visiting the Adobe Flash Website Storage Preferences Manager following Adobe's instructions here (link is external) (instructions vary depending on your operating system and version of Flash). However, please note that without cookies or local storage, you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Services.

In connection with the collection of information through cookies and other automated means, web servers may log information such as your device type, operating system type, mobile device ID provided by your mobile device operating system), browser type, domain, and other system settings. , the name of your ISP or mobile operator, the language your system uses, and the country and time zone in which your device is located. Web server logs may also record information such as the address of the web page that referred you to our Services and the IP address of the device you are using to connect to the Internet. They may also record information about your interactions with our Services, such as which pages you visit. To control which web servers collect information automatically, we may place tags on our web pages called "web beacons", which are files that link web pages to specific web servers and their cookies. We may also include web beacons in email messages. We or third parties may also send instructions to your device using JavaScript or other computer languages to store or collect other information about your interaction with the Services.

We may also collect various types of information about your location, including general information (such as IP address, zip code) and more specific information (such as GPS features on mobile devices used to access the Services), and may use this information to customize the Services with information, advertising and location-based features. For example, if you enter a zip code that indicates that you live in New York City, the Services may be customized with New York City-specific information and advertising. To do this, your location information may be shared with our agents, service providers or advertisers. If you use the Services with a mobile device and do not want your device to share GPS location tracking information with us, you can disable GPS or other location tracking features on your device if your device allows you to do so. For more information, see your device manufacturer's instructions.

2. How we use information.

What legal basis do we rely on when processing your Personal Data?

  • Consent - when you receive our promotional materials, you consent to our processing of your personal data, and we rely on this consent. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time. We will stop processing data after the withdrawal of consent, if consent is the only legal basis for processing.
  • When you perform a contract - We will process your personal data when you take steps to enter into a contract with us, such as signing up for a free trial, using or purchasing our services or products, or to perform a contract you have entered into with us.
  • Legitimate interest - we process your data when it is in our legitimate interests and when these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.
  • Legal obligations - we may process your personal data to fulfill our legal and regulatory obligations, such as preventing, investigating and detecting crime, fraud or anti-social behavior, and prosecuting offenders, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities. Your data may be processed in order to comply with applicable law or a valid government request. We use the information we collect about you to:
    • Create your account and provide the Services;
    • Fulfill your requests and provide you with personalized content;
    • Communicate with you via email, notices posted on the website and other means available through the Services.
    • Create, tailor, deliver and study the effectiveness of advertising and promotional materials both on and off the Services and for analytics (including as described in the "Online Analytics, Advertising and Do-Not-Track" section below);
    • Improve the Services and research and develop innovative features and new services;
    • Provide feedback to third-party businesses that are listed in the Services; and
    • Investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal or harmful activities, including potential threats to human physical safety, potential fraud, and violations of our Terms and Conditions.

Please note that we may anonymize and/or de-identify information collected through the Services or through other means so that it is no longer relevant to you. If we have properly anonymized and/or de-identified information such that it no longer personally identifies you, our use and disclosure of such information is not subject to this Privacy Policy and may be used and disclosed to others without restriction.

3. How we share information.

Information about you may be provided for the following purposes:

  • Any information included in your user profile and any content you post on 7BE (such as your reviews) may be visible to other people. When you post a review, your content, including your name as the reviewer (if the review is not anonymous), may also appear in search engine results.
  • If you provide any testimonials or testimonials about 7BE or service providers covered by our study, we may publish those testimonials or testimonials, or portions thereof. Testimonials or testimonials and advertisements may include your name (unless the testimonial is anonymous), job title, company, and other information you have provided.
  • When we have your consent or when it is necessary to carry out your instructions;
  • If necessary to provide you with the features and functionality of 7BE; We may share your information with third party service providers or business partners who provide services on our behalf, which may include analytics, customer service, survey providers, payment processing, marketing, and fraud prevention. We may also authorize third party service providers to collect information on our behalf, including as necessary to operate features of our Services. Third party service providers have access to and may collect information only as necessary to perform their functions and may not share or use the information for any other purpose.
  • In connection with significant corporate events (for example, we may share or disclose information we have about you in the event of a sale or transfer of all or part of our business or assets - for example, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, dissolution or liquidation - or take steps in advance of any such event);
  • when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding possible illegal activity or to comply with legal process or other legal requirements; when we believe disclosure is appropriate in situations involving the potential threat to the physical safety of any person, potential violations of our terms, or allegations of infringement of the rights of third parties; or when we believe disclosure is appropriate to protect the rights, property, and safety of us, our employees, users, or other individuals or entities (the disclosures described here may involve sharing your information with, for example, law enforcement, government agencies, courts, or other parties).

4. Online analytics, advertising and Do-Not-Track.

Online Analytics Service Providers

To help us better understand how you use the Services, we may use third party analytics. These third parties use the technologies described above in the Automatically Collected Information section. Information collected through these technologies will be disclosed or collected directly by these service providers.

Advertising Technology Providers

Data about your activity on our Services may be collected by us or by ad technology providers for use in delivering online advertising tailored to your individual characteristics, activities, interests and other factors. These advertising services may track your online activities over time by collecting information by automated means, including through the various technologies described above, and they may use this information, as well as other information they receive from us or other sources. , to deliver advertisements to you on our website, in our emails and on other websites. We and third party service providers may use first party cookies and third party cookies together, as well as other automated technologies and in some cases additional information, (i) to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past visits to our Services or other factors and (ii) to compile reports on how ad impressions, other uses of advertising services, and interactions with those ad impressions and advertising services are related to visits to our Services or other factors.

You can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s Consumer Opt-Out page (external link) or the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Opt-Out page (external link) to opt out of receiving tailored advertising based on your online activities from companies that participate in these programs. Some of our advertising activities may include the services of companies that do not participate in these programs. For example, we use the Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third party sites (including Google) for previous visitors to our Website. You can set preferences for how Google will serve ads for you using the Google Ad Preferences page (external link). Ad opt-outs only apply to the browser in which you set them up. For example, if you set up an ad opt-out in Firefox and then use Chrome, the ad opt-out will not be active in Chrome. To opt out in Chrome, you'll have to repeat the opt-out process.

The opt-out described in this Privacy Policy does not block or delete cookies, or prevent the use of cookies or other technologies for purposes other than selecting advertising based on your interests as determined by your online behavior. If you opt out, data about your online activity will still be collected and you will still see ads. Ads may be served based on other factors, such as the content of the web page on which they appear or demographic information obtained through other means.

Disclosure of Do Not Track Information

Do Not Track ("DNT") is a privacy preference that users can set on certain web browsers to tell websites and services that they do not want certain information about their web page visits to be collected for a certain amount of time and across different websites or online services. However, we do not recognize or respond to browser-initiated DNT signals as the Internet industry is still working on defining what DNT stands for, how to comply with DNT, and how to create a common approach to responding to DNT.

5. Access, correction and deletion of information.

You have the right to (1) access, change, correct or delete certain aspects of your user profile information and (2) close your user account. You may also contact us regarding any account information that is not on your profile or is readily available to you. If you close your account, your information may be removed or unpublished from the Services for a reasonable period of time.

Once you have submitted a review and it has been approved for publication, it cannot be edited or deleted. You will have the option to submit an edit that will appear below your original post and revise your star rating.

Please note that information that others have copied may remain visible and you may not be able to access, correct or delete any information about you that others have copied or exported from 7BE as this information may not be under our control. Your information may appear in search engine results until the search engine updates its cache.

Saving data

We retain your information for as long as your account is active, or as long as it is necessary to provide services to you, or because we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so. We also retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We keep your information for as long as necessary for the purposes for which we collected it. If we do not have an ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if possible (for example, your personal information is kept for backup), store your personal information securely and isolate it from any further processing until deletion/removal becomes possible.


6. Safety.

We use various technical, administrative and physical safeguards to protect your information. These safeguards depend on the sensitivity of the information in question.

7. Links and services of third parties.

The Services may contain links to websites, applications and services of third parties, including social networking services, as well as embedded images or other content and features of third parties. Your use of these features may result in the collection, processing or transfer of information about you, depending on the feature. We are not responsible for the content, features, security or practices of third parties. We do not review, endorse or make any representations about third parties or their websites, applications or services. Information that you provide to third parties or that is collected by those third parties is not subject to our Privacy Policy.

8. Changes to this Policy.

This Privacy Policy may change from time to time as our business practices and legal requirements evolve. If changes are made to this Privacy Policy, we will send a corresponding notification about this, as well as indicate the date the changes take effect. Please read the changes carefully. If you do not agree to the Privacy Policy, you must stop using the Service. If you continue to use 7BE after we post or provide notice of any changes to this Privacy Policy, you agree to those changes.

9. Children's privacy.

The Services are not intended for use by children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect (and do not knowingly allow third parties to collect) personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If we become aware that personal information has been collected from a person under the age of 13, we will delete that information and terminate that person's account as soon as possible.

10. International users.

The Services are hosted in the United States and are governed by the laws of the United States. If you use the Services from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States, where our databases operate, or in Canada, where our servers are located. Data protection and other laws in the United States and Canada may not be as comprehensive as in your country. By using the Services, you consent to the transfer of your information to our facilities and the facilities of third parties with whom we share it, as described in our Privacy Policy.

11. Your California Privacy Rights.

We do not disclose your personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes without your consent. If you have questions regarding this policy or would like to change your preferences, you can contact us using the information in section 13 below.

12. Your rights in the EU

When you use our services within the EU, the following rights apply to your user account:

Right to be informed, Right to access, Right to rectification, Right to erasure, Right to restriction of processing, Right to data portability, Right to object and rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling.

If you would like to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us using the contact details below. To protect your privacy and security, our data protection team will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your identity is verified before access, correction or deletion.

13. Absence of rights of third parties.

This Privacy Policy does not create rights that are enforceable by third parties.

14. How to contact us.

If you reside in the EU, your data controller is 7BE, whose principal place of business is 2055 Limestone Rd STE 200-C, Wilmington, DE, New Castle, US, 19808.

If you have any queries, questions, comments or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy or practices, please contact us here.