This policy is effective as of October 1, 2009.

Welcome to LinoLounge, a portal that allows you to access information on European lobbying, post your profile, place ads for job or mission searches and connects you with the business people active in lobbying and European affairs and regulation around you. The LinoLounge services and network (collectively, "the Service") are operated by N-square Consulting, part of KDC Group BVBA, vested Kreupelstraat 33, 1703 Dilbeek, Belgium, with Reg N° BE 0887 992 240 (also referred to a, "us", "we" or "the Company").

Your privacy is our top concern. We work hard to earn and keep your trust, so we adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy:

• We do not rent or sell your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes.
• Any personally identifiable information that you provide will be secured with industry standard protocols and technology.

By accessing or using our web sites or the mobile version thereof (together the "Site"), you (the "User") signify that you have read, understand and accept this Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy" or "Policy"). We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or delete portions of this Policy at any time without further notice. If we do this, we will post the changes to this Policy on this page and will indicate at the top of this page the date these terms were last revised. Your continued use of the Service or the Site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Policy. If you do not agree to abide by these or any future Privacy Policies, do not use or access (or continue to use or access) the Service or the Site. It is your responsibility to regularly check the Site to determine if there have been changes to this Policy and to review such changes.

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY AS THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND OBLIGATIONS. THESE INCLUDE VARIOUS LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS, AND A DISPUTE RESOLUTION CLAUSE THAT GOVERNS HOW DISPUTES WILL BE RESOLVED.

Personal Information Collected

One of the purposes of the Site is to permit Users to voluntarily provide information about themselves for the purposes of developing, maintaining and enhancing a network of professional contacts. You willingly provide us certain personal information, which we collect in order to allow you to benefit from the Site.

If you have any hesitation about providing such information to us and/or having such information displayed on the Site or otherwise used in any manner permitted in this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use, you should not register for our Services.

We collect your personal information in the following ways:

• Registration: In order to become a User, you must first create an account on our website. To create an account you are required to provide the following contact information, which you recognize and expressly acknowledge is personal information allowing others, including the Company, to identify you: name, email address, country, ZIP/postal code, and a password chosen by you.
  
• Profile Information: Once you become a User, you may provide additional information within the LinoLounge Service, describing your skills, professional experiences, and networking objectives. Any information you provide at registration or in the Profile section that is not personally identifiable may be used in the same manner and extent to which other information that is not personally identifiable is permitted to be used hereunder, including for the purpose of serving advertisements through the service. If you opt-out you may lose the potential benefit of being a User, including receiving ads that are more targeted to your interests.
  
• Customer Service: The Company may collect information through the Site or through Customer Service in order to, among other things, accurately categorize and respond to a customer’s inquiry and deliver appropriate service levels.
  
• Cookies: Like most websites, this Site uses cookies and web log files to track site usage. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer which allows the Site to recognize you as a User when you return to the website using the same computer and web browser. If your browser settings do not allow cookies, you may not be able to use this Site. Like the information you enter at registration or in your Profile, cookie and log file data is used to customize your experience on our website.
  
• Web Beacons: We may allow other companies, called ad networks, to serve advertisements to Users. Ad networks include third party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors and research firms. The Company may “target” some ads to Users that fit a certain general profile – for example, “agriculture lobbyist in Prague.” The Company does NOT use personally identifiable information to target ads.
  To deliver these ads properly, the Company may include a file, called a web beacon, from these ad networks within pages served by the Company so the networks may provide anonymised, aggregated auditing, research and reporting for advertisers as well as to target ads to you while you visit other websites.
  
• Log files, IP addresses and information about your computer: Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit this Site, we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave this Site. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, email patterns, as well as the name of your ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve our service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is not shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.
  
• Consent to the Company Processing Information About You: Certain information you provide to the Company may reveal, or allow others to identify, your nationality, ethnic origin, religion or other aspects of your private life, and more generally about you. Please be aware that in providing information to the Company for the purposes of opening your user account, you are expressly and voluntarily accepting the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and the Company’s Terms of Use. The supplying of all such information by you to us, including all information deemed “sensitive” by applicable law, is entirely voluntary on your part. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy, but please note that your withdrawal of consent will not be retroactive.
  
• Rights to Access, Correct and Eliminate Information About You: You have a right to access, modify, correct and eliminate the data about you which has been collected pursuant to your decision to become a User.

We take your rights seriously and encourage you to use them if you deem this to be appropriate. You may exercise these rights by emailing us at customerservice@lobbyplanet.eu or by contacting us at:

LobbyPlanet

Attn: Privacy Policy Issues

Kreupelstraat 33

1703 Dilbeek

Belgium

Collection, Storage and Use of personal information

The Company is an online service dedicated notably, through its LinoLounge service, to helping all types of professionals more effectively connect with one another. The personally identifiable information you choose to provide on our website is used to help you describe yourself to other Users (both experts and recruiters). Other information, that does not personally identify you as an individual, is collected by the Company from Users (such as, for example, patterns of utilization) and is exclusively owned by the Company. This information can be utilized by the Company in such manner as the Company, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.

We collect, store and use your personal information notably for the following purposes:

• Communications: the Company will communicate with you through email and notices posted on the Site or through other means available through the service, including text and other forms of messaging. If we send any communications to you via the carrier service with which you have a mobile communications subscription or otherwise have access, you understand you will pay any service fees associated with any such access (including text messaging charges for messages to your mobile device). Please be aware that you will always receive certain emails from the Company related to the proper functioning of your account, such as email notices when another User in your network sends you an opportunity. The Company may send you promotional information unless you have opted out of receiving such information. You can change your e-mail and contact preferences at any time by logging into your ‘Account & Settings and amending your email notification choices.
• Customized Content: Information provided to the Company (or to third parties with whom it offers combined services) may also be used to customize your experience on our website.
• Sharing Information with Third Parties: We take the privacy of Users very seriously. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes. We will only share your personally identifiable information with third parties to carry out your instructions or to provide specific services or information. For instance, we use a credit card processing company to bill recruiters for subscription fees. These third parties do not retain, share, or store any personally identifiable information except to provide these services and they are bound by confidentiality agreements which limit their use of such information. We may also provide aggregated anonymous data about the usage of our services to third parties for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate, including to prospective advertisers on the site. We may segment our Users by role (i.e. regulatory managers, vice presidents), industry, geographic location, or company. We obviously allow experts and recruiter sto see your data, as this is at the core of our Service.
• Teaming with Other Organizations to Offer Combined and Other Services: We may offer our services in connection with other websites or may team with other online services to give you the combined results of both services or additional services and benefits.
• Surveys and Polls: As a User, you may receive requests to participate in market research including polls and surveys submitted by us or other Users. If you participate in surveys and polls offered through our website, the information you provide may be visible to others using the Site.
• Forums/Chats/Blogs: If you use a forum, import a blog, or participate in a chat room, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you choose to provide there can be read, collected, or used by other Users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. The Company is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
• Testimonials and Advertisement Communicated to the Company: If you provide any testimonials about the Company’s service or Site, or place advertisements on our Site, we may post those testimonials and examples of advertisements you place in connection with our promotion of our service to third parties, which testimonials and advertisements may include your name and other personal information that you have provided.
• Communications to other Users: Many emails you initiate through our Site, e.g., an invitation sent to a non-User, will list your email address and name in the header of the message.
• Legal Disclaimer: It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law, such as responses to civil or criminal judicial requests, or other requests by law enforcement personnel. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, subpoena, or other legal process or request to the Company brought in any country throughout the world, or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
• Disclosures to others: We may also disclose your personal and other information you provide, to another third party as part of a reorganisation or a sale of the assets of the Company. Any third party to which we transfer or sell our assets will have the right to continue to use the personal and other information that you provide to us, but will be bound by the obligations laid down in this policy.

Your Information Choices

Accessing and Changing Your Account Information

You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired changes to the information you publish, or to the settings for your account including your email, and contact preferences, at any time by logging in to Account & Settings on the Site. Please be aware that even after your request for a change is processed, the Company may, for a time, retain residual information about you in its backup and/or archival copies of its database.

Closing your account

You can also close your accountby emailing us at customerservice@lobbyplanet.eu . If you close your account, we will remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our publicly viewable database. We may retain certain data contributed by you if we believe it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law.

Your Obligations

As a User, you have certain obligations toward the other Users with whom you will be communicating. Certain of these obligations are imposed by applicable law and regulations, and others have become commonplace in user-friendly communities of like-minded members:

You must, at all times, respect the terms and conditions of the then-current Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. This includes respecting all intellectual property rights which may belong to third parties (such as photographs).

You must not download or otherwise disseminate any information which may be deemed to be injurious, violent, offensive, racist or xenophobic or which may otherwise violate the purpose and spirit of the Site and its community of Users.

You must not provide information to the Company and /or other Users which you believe might be injurious or detrimental to your person, professional or social status.

Any violation of these guidelines may lead to the restriction, suspension or termination of your account by the Company.

Important Information

Children

Children are not eligible to use our service and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us or use the service.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

The Company may update this privacy policy at any time, with or without advance notice. In the event there are significant changes in the way we treat your personally identifiable information, we will display a notice on the Site or send you an email, as provided for above. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

If you use this Site or Service after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on our site, you hereby provide your consent to the changed practices.

Security

In order to secure your personal information, access to your data on euXplore and LinoLounge is password-protected, and sensitive data (such as credit card information) is protected by SSL encryption when it is exchanged between your web browser and our Site. It is your responsibility to protect the security of your login information. Please note that emails and instant messaging and similar means of communication with other users of the Site are not encrypted and we strongly request you not to communicate any confidential information through these means.

How to contact us

If you have questions or comments about this privacy policy, please email us at customerservice@lobbyplanet.eu or contact us via mail or courier at LobbyPlanet, Attn: Privacy Policy Department, Kreupelstraat 33, 1703 Dilbeek, Belgium. Any notices that you provide without compliance with this Section shall have no legal effect.