INTRODUCTION
This is the Privacy Statement and Policy ("Privacy Statement") for BEANS S.A.C. and its affiliates ("BEANS"). This Privacy Statement was last updated in December 2023. BEANS understands that your privacy is important. BEANS is committed to protecting your privacy and personal information you provide or as you access and use materials on https://www.beans.lat. Additionally, information submitted to BEANS in response to an email request for information or other outreach from BEANS will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Statement. If you are a resident of California, please see the California Addendum at the end of this Privacy Statement for additional details on how we handle your information and how to exercise your rights. BEANS may, at its discretion, amend this Privacy Statement from time to time. To ensure you are informed about the information we collect and how we use it, material changes to our statement will be reflected here. This Site may contain links to external sites which are not governed by this Privacy Statement. BEANS is not responsible for the privacy practices of any third-party site we link to. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of such sites before submitting information there.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
Please read this Privacy Statement carefully. By browsing our site or giving your consent where required under applicable privacy laws, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Statement.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
What information do we collect?
BEANS collects information from you when you submit a request through our form, request copies of publications, subscribe to email newsletters and press releases, seek additional information regarding our services, and for BEANS-based marketing communications (via emails, social media platforms) based on your consent, where required under applicable privacy laws.
The personal information we collect includes names, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, IP, geolocation, areas of interest, and/or demographic information.
Surveys and events: BEANS collects information if you register for conferences and other events sponsored by BEANS, and/or participate in surveys conducted by BEANS. The personal information we collect includes names, email addresses, IP, unique personal identifiers, areas of interest, and/or demographic information. Additionally, we sometimes aggregate demographic information and types of systems and browsers of users. BEANS may also conduct surveys of users on the web or use technologies to provide BEANS with information in a range of areas, such as user identity, user viewing habits, whether users found what they were looking for, whether the content of the Site is relevant to user needs, and the like.
How do we use personal information?
The purposes and uses of your personal information will depend on the use of the Site and the personal information provided. We process your personal information:
For the purposes of safeguarding the legitimate business interests pursued by BEANS. This includes:
Communicating with you and managing your requests in relation to your account, BEANS newsletters subscriptions, publications, events, and survey participations.
Personalizing your experience on the Site with relevant materials from BEANS. Understanding the user population of the Site, identifying areas of interest, and determining if the Site is designed to work with the computer configurations of most of our visitors. Measuring and improving the effectiveness of BEANS marketing programs across different channels.
Improving our web content and navigation.
Informing you about service updates and notifying you about other products and services offered by BEANS that may be of interest to you, including information about publications and events, and tracking email engagement activity for internal use only.
Based on your consent where required under applicable privacy laws. To the extent that you have granted us consent to process personal information for specific purposes, the legality of such processing is based on your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
For the fulfillment of a legal obligation. This includes measures against fraud and money laundering, as well as tax and social security requirements.
HOW WE MAY SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
Third parties with whom we may need to share personal information to help us provide services and products to you and to run our Site include:
Our subsidiaries or affiliates.
Our advisors.
Our third-party service providers who process information on our behalf to help run some of our internal business operations including email distribution, IT services, Site security, and marketing and event services.
Our business partners for publications and events co-organized by BEANS and them.
Law enforcement bodies to comply with any legal obligation or court order.
BEANS may disclose your contact information in response to inquiries by bona fide rights owners in connection with allegations of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights that arise from information you have posted on the Site or otherwise provided to BEANS.
RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
BEANS retains your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide you with services (e.g., while you have an account with us or continue to use our services) and the length of time afterward during which we may have a legitimate need to reference your personal information to address issues that may arise.
If there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (e.g., certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period before we can delete them); or
If retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).
MARKETING
In our marketing communications with you, we monitor and comply with applicable data privacy laws and, at any time you prefer not to receive further communications from us in any or all forms, you will have the ability to unsubscribe from such communications by means of a link provided in every email we send to you. When subscribing to BEANS email newsletters, you are given the opportunity to select which promotions, news, and information you would like to receive at the time of registration, and you will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from such communications.
COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
BEANS may use cookies on this Site and in our communications with you to keep track of your visit to our Site and our communications with you. A "cookie" is a small amount of data sent from a web server to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive. Other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place small amounts of data on your devices to monitor your website activity to enable us to collect information about how you use our Site and our services. With most internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your computer. See your browser instructions or visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/ for more information. Once you have consented to use cookies, we store a cookie on your computer or device to remember this for the next time. If you wish to withdraw consent at any time, you will need to delete our cookies using your internet browser settings. Please note that certain sections or functionalities of the Site might be inaccessible to you if your browser does not accept cookies. Currently, we do not respond to do not track signals from browsers.
SECURITY PROCESSES
BEANS has in place appropriate technological and operational security processes designed to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized employees and contractors will have access to any data provided by you, and that access is limited by need. Each employee or contractor having access to any personally identifiable information is obligated to maintain its confidentiality. While we take steps generally accepted as industry standard to protect your personally identifiable information, BEANS cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will not become accessible to unauthorized persons and BEANS cannot be responsible for any actions resulting from a breach of security when information is supplied over the internet or any public computer network.
COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW
BEANS complies with all applicable data privacy laws. BEANS may be compelled to surrender personal user or customer information to legal authorities without express user consent if presented with a court subpoena or similar legal order, or as required or permitted by the laws, rules, and regulations of any nation, state, or other applicable jurisdiction. Additionally, in the event of a violation of the terms and conditions of use of the Site or a violation of any restrictions on use of materials provided in or through the Site, we may disclose personal user information to our affected business partners or legal authorities.
YOUR RIGHTS
In accordance with applicable data privacy laws, including but not limited to the GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), you have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and details of how we use that information. If any of the information we hold about you is incorrect or out of date, you have the right to amend or rectify it; follow the process outlined below, and we will amend our records when appropriate. You also have the right to request that we erase your personal information, stop processing your personal information, restrict the processing of your personal information, and provide your personal information in a portable format. Where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent to the processing. This may not apply if there are other legal justifications for continuing processing. If you believe we may have incorrect personal information, or would like to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you, or exercise any other data protection right, please contact us. Please note that we need to verify who you are before we can provide you with any information. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority.
CHILDREN
BEANS understands the importance of protecting the privacy of children, particularly in their online interactions. This Site is not designed for and does not intend to attract children under the age of 18.
USE OF BEANS WEBSITES
Your access and use of the Site are subject to this Privacy Statement and certain other terms and conditions, contained in our Terms and Conditions of Use.
CONTACT US
For further questions, you may contact the appropriate data protection contact point:
Data Protection Office
BEANS S.A.C.
Calle José Gregorio Paredes 215, Pueblo Libre Department 201
Lima, Peru
CALIFORNIA ADDENDUM
This California Addendum applies to California residents and supplements the information provided above in the Privacy Statement. This Addendum does not apply to our job applicants, employees, or contractors when the personal information we collect about those individuals relates to their current, former, or potential role with us.
Collection, Disclosure, and Sharing of Personal Information
The following list details the categories of personal information we collect and process both online and offline, as well as the categories of personal information we disclose to third parties for our operational business purposes, including within the 12 months prior to the date this Privacy Statement was last updated. The list also details the categories of personal information that we "share" for the purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising, including within the 12 months prior.
We may share the following information with advertising networks for cross-context behavioral advertising:
Identifiers, such as IP address and online identifiers
Geolocation data, such as the approximate location derived from IP address
Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as BEANS site browsing history, assets or previous visits, and interactions with our online properties
Inferences drawn from any of the personal information mentioned above to create a profile about, for example, an individual's preferences or characteristics
We may share the following information with our affiliates and subsidiaries; third-party service providers; advertising networks; external legal advisors, financial and other professionals; legal authorities for operational business purposes:
Identifiers, such as name, IP address, and online identifiers, contact information, unique personal identifiers
Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as BEANS site browsing history, assets or previous visits, search history, and interactions with our online properties Geolocation data, such as the approximate location derived from the IP address Inferences drawn from any of the personal information mentioned above to create a profile about, for example, an individual's preferences or characteristics or for visitor statistics and tracking
Browser fingerprint and IP address
Audio/Video Data. Audio, electronic, visual, and similar information
We may share your following information with our joint business partners for co-organized publications and events:
Identifiers such as name and contact information
We may also disclose your personal information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, financing transaction, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or part of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
We do not sell and have not sold personal information, including your sensitive personal information, in the past 12 months. Without limiting the foregoing, we do not sell personal information, including sensitive personal information, of minors under 16 years of age.
Sources of Personal Information
We collect this personal information directly from you and from third-party sources such as public databases, joint marketing partners, and social media platforms, where permitted under local applicable laws.
Purposes for the Collection and Use of Sensitive Personal Information
We may use sensitive personal information of account login, password, or credentials that allow access to an account that qualifies as sensitive personal information for purposes of performing services for our business, providing goods or services as requested by you, ensuring safety and integrity, short-term transient use such as displaying non-personalized first-party advertising, order processing and fulfillment, account servicing, providing service, verifying customer information, and activities related to quality assurance and security or product improvement.
Individual Requests
You may, subject to applicable law, make the following requests:
You may request that we disclose the following information to you:
The categories of Personal Information we collect about you and the categories of sources from which we collect such personal information
The business or commercial purpose for collecting or sharing personal information about you The categories of personal information about you that we share (as defined under applicable privacy law) and the categories of third parties to whom we share such personal information; and
The categories of personal information about you that we otherwise disclose, and the categories of third parties to whom we disclose such personal information (where applicable)
You may request to correct inaccuracies in your personal informationYou may request that your personal information be deleted
You may request to receive specific pieces of your personal information, including a copy of the personal information you provided to us in a portable format
You may request to opt out of sharing your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes
We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising your rights under applicable privacy law. To make a privacy request, please contact us via sale@beans.lat or call +51 940 266 763. We will verify and respond to your request in accordance with applicable law, taking into account the type and sensitivity of the personal information subject to the request. We may need to request additional personal information from you, such as a copy of your driver's license or utility bill, to verify your identity and protect against fraudulent requests. If you make a deletion request, we may ask you to confirm your request before deleting your personal information.
Authorized Agents
If an agent wishes to make a request on your behalf as permitted under applicable law, the agent may use the submission methods outlined in the section titled "Individual Requests." As part of our verification process, we may request that the agent provide, as appropriate, proof relating to their status as an authorized agent. Additionally, we may require that you verify your identity as described in the "Individual Requests" section or confirm that you provided the agent permission to submit the request.
Deidentified Information
Where we maintain or use deidentified information, we will continue to maintain and use the information in a deidentified manner and will not attempt to reidentify the information.
Unless subject to your consent where required under applicable privacy laws.
The CPRA defines sensitive personal information as personal information that reveals a person's social security number, driver's license, state identification card, or passport number; account login, financial account number, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any security or access code, password, or credentials that allow access to an account; precise geolocation; racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, citizenship, immigration status, or union membership; the contents of mail, email, and text messages unless BEANS S.A.C. is the intended recipient of the communication; genetic data; the processing of biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying a person; personal information collected and analyzed about an individual's health; and personal information collected and analyzed about a person's sex life or sexual orientation.