Before you move on to the formal legal text — here is what truly matters to us.
Your data is well protected. We handle it with care — with strictly limited access within the team. Those not involved in serving you do not have access to your data.
Your data is not shared with third parties for their benefit. We do not sell it or use it to serve anyone's interests but yours.
At any time you can withdraw consent, request deletion, or export all of your personal data. No extra questions, no hidden conditions.
The full policy text is below. If anything is unclear — just reach out. We are always here to help.
HSE DAYS GLOBAL LLC¹ (also referred to below as "we", "us" and "our") is a privacy-conscious organization duly organized under the laws of the State of Wyoming. HSE DAYS GLOBAL LLC acts as the Data Controller for the personal information processed under this Privacy Policy. This Global Privacy Policy explains how we process your information collected from the web pages of the hsedays.com and any subdomains thereof, collectively referred to as the "Website" , as well as from downloadable applications accessed from mobile devices, referred to as "Mobile Apps," or any other mode of interacting with you relating to HSE DAYS communications, such as online or offline newsletters, digital magazines, and expert proceedings that reference this Global Privacy Policy, collectively referred to as "Communications". By using the Website or Mobile Apps, or continuing to receive Communications, you agree to the use of such information in accordance with this Global Privacy Policy. This Global Privacy Policy also applies to your personal information that we may have collected from professional data providers or public sources in connection with our marketing and analytical activities aimed at fostering professional safety communities.
The Website may also include web pages or digital resources provided by independent participants of the HSE DAYS Network, which may be designated according to their specific geographic location or specialized industry focus. These resources are provided by the designated entities and are not the legal responsibility of HSE DAYS GLOBAL LLC. Such web pages, as well as other third-party websites that may be linked to the Website, are not governed by this Global Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review the applicable privacy statements of such third parties before disclosing any personal information. As used in this Global Privacy Policy, "HSE DAYS Network" refers to HSE DAYS GLOBAL LLC and its affiliates, as well as independent partner firms and related entities participating in the platform's ecosystem, including but not limited to the HSE TOP 100 Rating, Benchmarking services, the Library of Best Practices, the Expert Blog, and automated services driven by artificial intelligence.
¹ In this notice, «HSE DAYS» refers to HSE DAYS GLOBAL LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company, and its respective affiliates.
We process your data based on your explicit consent, the necessity to perform a contract (e.g., providing benchmarking results), and our legitimate interests in fostering professional safety standards. We collect and use your personal information with your consent to provide you with access to the Website, Mobile Apps, and Communications, or where we have a legitimate business interest in, or other legal basis for, such collection and use. We collect information that you voluntarily provide when interacting with our platforms, including during account registration, participation in professional evaluation and industry ranking initiatives, utilization of our proprietary Benchmarking services, engagement with our artificial intelligence-driven tools, or through your use of any other features or services made available on our platform. This collection also includes information submitted when you register for or attend our professional events, forums, and conferences, participate in surveys, polls, or research initiatives, and when you provide feedback or inquiries to the HSE DAYS Network. The personal information you submit may be used to manage our relationship with you, including processing your requests, or to customize and improve the Website, Mobile Apps, and related services to better suit your professional interests.
As the owner and operator of these professional services, HSE DAYS GLOBAL LLC collects identifiers such as your full name, email address, contact details, and unique User ID, alongside professional attributes including job titles, corporate affiliations, industry sectors, and specific years of experience in both production activities and specialized Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) domains. In the context of the HSE TOP 100 Rating, we collect expanded candidate profiles containing detailed work histories, functional responsibilities, descriptions of implemented methodologies, and evidence of professional achievements, including copies of diplomas, certifications, and links to public scientific or industry publications. We also process your subjective professional insights and responses to open-ended inquiries regarding safety philosophy, legislative improvement proposals, and strategic career objectives, alongside full project descriptions covering results, required resources, and target audience impact. This process is supplemented by the collection of multimedia data, including video and audio recordings of expert interviews and your oral responses to jury members and the Expert Council.
For our Benchmarking and analytical services, we process granular corporate and professional data points provided by users to generate comparative industry insights, including organizational identifiers such as entity type, tax identification numbers, ESG report links, and annual revenue figures, as well as operational data regarding total workforce headcount and contractor staffing levels. We further collect information concerning your organization’s strategic management systems, including the presence of climate strategies, carbon neutrality goals, anti-corruption policies, and whistleblower mechanisms. A critical component of our benchmarking involves the processing of specialized safety metrics, including Lost Time Injury Frequency Rates (LTIFR) per million hours worked, fatality records, total safety training hours, and safety culture maturity levels as measured by the Hudson scale or similar methodologies. Furthermore, we collect information regarding budgetary expenditures for occupational health and safety measures, the procurement of personal protective equipment (PPE), and industrial medicine programs, alongside other specific indicators prescribed by the methodology of a particular benchmark aimed at comparing the effectiveness of safety processes, including but not limited to data on technical equipment, incident specifics, and the adoption of digital services.
To facilitate the Library of Best Practices and the development of our digital repository of expert knowledge, we collect and process identification and portrait data of Speakers—including full names, company affiliations, and avatars—as well as detailed professional attributes such as qualifications, expert experience, specializations, academic degrees, and professional awards. This collection extends to full video and audio recordings of speeches, interviews, and fragments of professional commentary, alongside report theses, presentations, checklists, methodological guides, and other supplementary materials provided by Speakers to ensure knowledge continuity and popularize innovative safety approaches. Similarly, for the Expert Blog and related author promotion services, we collect identification and professional data of Authors, as well as the full content of analytical materials, including expert articles, headlines, theses, and illustrative materials provided for publication. We also record thematic rubrics, tags, and publication timestamps, as well as the content of user comments and reviews left under specific publications to foster public professional discussion.
We may also use your personal information for marketing purposes, including the delivery of promotional materials or communications regarding services provided by us or the HSE DAYS Network that we believe may be of interest to you. We may contact you to seek feedback on our services or for market research purposes. You may at any time request that we discontinue sending you Communications, emails, or other correspondence. Your personal information may also be used to protect our rights or property and that of our users. To the extent that we possess any personal information about you that has been de-identified, we maintain and use such de-identified information without re-identifying it, ensuring such data is not subject to the identifiable terms of this Privacy Policy.
We also collect technical information regarding your interaction with our digital platforms, including IP addresses, browser types, and usage patterns gathered through web analytics to ensure platform security and optimize user experience. When using our Mobile Apps, we or our service providers may collect information relating to your device, including the device model, operating system, unique device identifiers, mobile network carrier, and location data. We do not usually seek to collect sensitive personal information, such as data relating to your racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, genetic or biometric data, or precise individual medical conditions. By utilizing our automated and AI-driven services, you acknowledge that we record the verbatim content of your text queries and associated metadata to facilitate technical optimization and improve response generation. By contributing any materials, corporate metrics, or personal data to the Website, you represent and warrant that you possess the necessary authorizations to share such information and that its provision does not violate any confidentiality obligations, third-party privacy rights, or intellectual property laws.
The Website and Mobile Apps collect standard Internet log information including your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring website addresses. To ensure that the Website, Mobile Apps and Communications are well managed and to facilitate improved navigation, we or our service provider(s) may also use cookies (small text files stored in a user's browser) or web beacons (electronic images that allow us to count users who have accessed particular content and to access certain cookies) to collect aggregate data. Additional information on how we use cookies and other tracking technologies and how you can control these can be found in our Cookie Notice. Our Website currently does not respond to "Do Not Track" signals from your browser.
We retain your personal information on our systems for the longest of the following periods: (i) as long as is necessary for the relevant activity or services described in this Privacy Policy; (ii) any retention period that is required by law; or (iii) the end of the period in which litigation or investigations might arise in respect of the services. We maintain and use de-identified and aggregated information, particularly in connection with our Benchmarking and analytical repositories, for as long as it serves our legitimate interest in providing industry insights, ensuring that such data can no longer be associated with an identifiable individual. Expert contributions to the Library of Best Practices and the Expert Blog are retained to ensure knowledge continuity within the HSE DAYS Network, unless a specific request for removal is made in accordance with your rights as described herein.
We may disclose your personal information to service providers who process information on our behalf to facilitate the operation of the Website, Mobile Apps, and Communications, or to support the professional services provided by the HSE DAYS Network. These service providers include entities that offer technical infrastructure, cloud hosting, payment processing, data analytics, and email delivery services. In connection with our automated and AI-driven services, we may disclose query content and associated metadata to specialized technology providers to facilitate response generation and technical optimization of machine learning models. Furthermore, to facilitate the HSE TOP 100 Rating and related professional evaluations, your personal and professional information, including career histories and multimedia recordings, may be disclosed to jury members and the Expert Council for the purpose of objective assessment and ranking.
Personal information may also be disclosed to other participants of the HSE DAYS Network or third parties in order to respond to your inquiries, comply with legal obligations, or protect the rights and safety of our users. In the context of our Benchmarking services, we may disclose industry insights and comparative analytics derived from your data to other participating organizations; however, such disclosures are limited to de-identified and aggregated formats that do not reasonably identify any specific individual or organization, unless explicit consent for identified disclosure is obtained.
We may also disclose your personal information to law enforcement, regulatory, or other government agencies, or to other third parties as required by, and in accordance with, applicable laws or regulations. This may include disclosures outside of your country of residence. For users in the European Economic Area (EEA), whenever we transfer your personal information out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission is implemented. We do not disclose your personal information to third parties for their own secondary or unrelated marketing purposes without your prior and explicit consent. Your personal information may also be disclosed to third parties in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a sale, merger, reorganization, or joint venture, provided that the receiving party agrees to treat your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
The HSE DAYS Network operates as an open professional ecosystem the creation of a user account on the Website or Mobile Apps results in the generation of a public professional profile, unless otherwise selected in your privacy settings, accessible to the general public and all visitors to our Website. This public profile is a core functional component of the platform designed to facilitate professional networking and industry recognition. The information displayed in such profiles is limited to your first and last name, current job title, and corporate affiliation, alongside platform-generated records of your professional achievements within the HSE DAYS ecosystem, including a comprehensive list of wins in the HSE TOP 100 Rating, records of speeches and presentations delivered at HSE DAYS events, and authored publications hosted on our platform. Furthermore, the public profile may include information that you voluntarily choose to disclose through customizable fields, such as "About Me," "My Expertise," and "I am Looking For," allowing you to control the depth of your professional representation.
We explicitly distinguish between these public profiles and the detailed candidate applications submitted for the HSE TOP 100 Rating. Internal data provided during the rating application process – including full work histories, specific functional responsibilities, descriptions of implemented methodologies, professional achievements, and copies of diplomas or external certifications—remains confidential and is disclosed strictly to jury members and the Expert Council for evaluation purposes only. Public disclosure of rating results is restricted to the identity of winners and leaders, their industry rankings, and summarized highlights of their expertise. Multimedia content, including video and audio recordings of your speeches and professional commentary, is made available to any internet user through the Library of Best Practices to ensure the continuity of professional knowledge. To support the global reach and accessibility of these professional resources, you acknowledge that we may utilize automated services and artificial intelligence tools to process anonymized or pseudonymized expert materials for the purposes of translation, summarization, and analytical grouping. Please be advised that all information in your public profile and your contributions to the knowledge base may be indexed by third-party search engines and remain accessible to an unrestricted number of individuals.
Given the complex nature of our archival repositories, you acknowledge and agree that if your personal information – including your name, image, voice, and professional title – is incorporated into complex audiovisual or textual objects, such as edited video proceedings, produced interviews, published rating results, or structured case studies, the withdrawal of your consent or a request for data deletion will not obligate us to remove your information from these previously published archive materials. In such instances, the cessation of processing will apply only to the future creation of new informational resources and the deactivation of your active, editable public profile. HSE DAYS GLOBAL LLC is strictly prohibited from selling your personal information to third parties and does not utilize your multimedia data for biometric identification or automated facial recognition.
You possess specific rights regarding your personal information under applicable data protection laws, including the right to request access to the information we hold about you and to receive a copy of such data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. You have the right to request the rectification of any inaccurate or incomplete personal information and to request the restriction of processing under certain circumstances. You may also object to the processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes at any time, and we will promptly cease such activities upon receiving your request. Furthermore, you have the right to request the erasure of your personal information, commonly referred to as the "right to be forgotten," and to withdraw any previously provided consent for data processing. To exercise these rights, you may submit a formal request to our dedicated privacy contact at info@hsedays.com.
In accordance with our operational procedures, upon receiving a valid request for the withdrawal of consent or data erasure, we aim to take steps to hide your public profile within 3 (three) working days, and in any event, within the timeframes mandated by applicable law (e.g., 30 days under GDPR). However, please be advised that the right to erasure is not absolute.
Given the complex nature of our archival and educational repositories, you acknowledge and agree that if your personal information—including your name, image, voice, or professional title – has been incorporated into complex audiovisual or textual objects, such as edited video proceedings from the Library of Best Practices, produced interviews, or published historical results of the HSE TOP 100 Rating, our obligation to delete such data does not extend to these previously created and distributed materials. In such instances, your request will be honored only by terminating the processing of your data for the creation of new informational resources and the deactivation of your active, editable profile. We will respond to all legitimate requests within the timeframes mandated by applicable law and will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights.
For residents of California, you have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). We do not "sell" or "share" your personal information, as those terms are defined under California law, and we have not done so in the preceding 12 months. You have the right to request information regarding the categories of personal information we collect, the sources of that information, and the business purposes for which it is used. To exercise your California privacy rights, please contact us at info@hsedays.com.
HSE DAYS GLOBAL LLC has implemented robust administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. We utilize industry-standard security protocols, including advanced encryption for data at rest and in transit, to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of professional identifiers, corporate metrics, and candidate evaluation profiles. Access to personal information is strictly limited to authorized personnel, jury members, and service providers who require such access to perform their designated functions, and such individuals are bound by rigorous confidentiality obligations. For our Benchmarking and analytical services, we employ specialized data isolation and aggregation techniques to prevent the unauthorized identification of specific corporate safety performance metrics. While we maintain a comprehensive security program aimed at mitigating risks, you acknowledge that no method of electronic transmission or storage is entirely secure, and we cannot provide an absolute guarantee of information security. While we maintain a comprehensive security program aimed at mitigating risks, you acknowledge that no method of electronic transmission or storage is entirely secure, and we cannot provide an absolute guarantee of information security. In the event of a significant data breach, we will notify affected users and relevant regulatory authorities within the timeframes required by applicable law. We regularly review and enhance our security measures in response to evolving technological threats and industrial safety standards to maintain the highest level of protection for the HSE DAYS Network ecosystem.
The HSE DAYS Network is a professional ecosystem strictly intended for use by individuals who have reached the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence, and in no event is it intended for anyone under the age of 18. The Website, Mobile Apps, and Communications are not designed for, or intentionally targeted at, minors. It is our strict policy not to collect or maintain information about anyone known to be under the age of 18. By accessing or using our platforms, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age. If we obtain actual knowledge that we have received personal information from an individual under the age of 18, we will take immediate steps to permanently delete such information from our systems.
HSE DAYS GLOBAL LLC reserves the right to amend or modify this Global Privacy Policy at our sole discretion and at any time. When modifications are made, we will update the revision date at the top of this page, and such revised terms shall become effective as to you and your information immediately upon posting. We encourage you to periodically review this Global Privacy Policy to remain informed about the evolution of our data protection practices. In the event of material modifications that significantly alter your rights or the fundamental nature of our data processing activities, we may, at our discretion, provide a more prominent notification, such as through a service-wide administrative email or a dedicated notice on the Website’s homepage, prior to the changes taking effect. Your continued use of the Website, Mobile Apps, or Communications following the publication of any changes constitutes your full and unconditional acceptance of the revised Global Privacy Policy and your agreement to be bound by its updated terms.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Global Privacy Policy or the manner in which your personal information is handled by the HSE DAYS Network, please contact our privacy team. We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution of any complaint or concern about privacy.