Privacy policy

On this page, you will find our privacy policy.

At be-ahead, we prioritize confidentiality and data security. This privacy policy applies to our processing of personal information and sets out guidelines for how we handle your personal data, providing you with the information you are entitled to receive under applicable data protection laws. You should read the privacy policy before providing your personal information to us.

1. Data Controller and Contact Information

The data controller for your personal information is:

Be-ahead Aps

Store Kongensgade 40d, 4

1264 København

CVR-nr.: 39831120

E-mail: info@be-ahead.dk

Phone number: +45 78 79 11 46

2. If You Apply for a Job at Be-ahead

When you apply for a job at Be-ahead, we process your personal information in connection with the recruitment process. We recommend that your application does not contain your CPR number or sensitive personal information, such as information revealing racial or ethnic background, religion, trade union membership, sexuality, or health information.

Types of Personal Information

Be-ahead may collect, process, and store the following types of personal information about you:

  • Contact information such as name, email address, and phone number.
  • Information provided in your application, CV, and any attachments.
  • Relevant information that is publicly available on the internet and social media, including information about previous employment, activities, skills, performance, and general appearance.
  • Results of personality tests, if you complete them.
  • Results of conducted cases.
  • Criminal record, if necessary for the position you have applied for.
  • References from previous and/or current employers that you have listed in your application or given consent for us to contact.
  • Health information, if the position you have applied for has specific health-related requirements.
  • Other information you provide us during the recruitment process.

Purposes of Processing

Your personal information will be used to assess whether we want to offer you a position at Be-ahead.

Legal Basis for Processing

Be-ahead processes your personal information on one or more of the following legal bases:

  • Legitimate interests: We may process your personal information based on our legitimate interest in evaluating whether we want to offer you employment. This includes the information you provide in your CV, application, and any attachments, relevant information publicly available on the internet and social media, results of personality tests, references from reference persons you have provided in your application, and other information you provide during the recruitment process. Processing may also be necessary for our legitimate interest in defending or asserting legal claims (databeskyttelsesforordningens artikel 6, stk. 1, litra f).
  • Consent: If we wish to obtain references from previous and/or current employers whom you have not listed as references in your application, we will only do so if we have obtained your consent (databeskyttelsesforordningens artikel 6, stk. 1, litra a).
    If we need to review your criminal record as part of our assessment, we will request your consent (databeskyttelseslovens § 8, stk. 3).
    If the position you have applied for exceptionally has specific requirements related to health conditions, we will, after a specific assessment, request your explicit consent before processing such personal information (databeskyttelsesforordningens artikel 9, stk. 2, litra a og artikel 6, stk. 1, litra a).

Retention Period

If you are offered a position at Be-ahead, your application and additional relevant personal information collected during the hiring process will be stored in your personnel file with us.

If you are not offered a position, we will retain your application and any additional personal information collected during the hiring process for a period of 12 months after our rejection, unless you have given your consent for longer storage of such personal information.

You may revoke any consents you have given as part of our hiring process at any time. Revoking your consent will affect the future processing of your personal information but will not affect the legality of the processing based on your consent before the revocation. If you wish to revoke your consent, you can contact us as indicated below.

Criminal records will be deleted immediately after our review.

3. If You Are a Customer, Supplier, Business Partner, etc.

This section outlines Be-ahead’s policy for processing personal information about owners of sole proprietorships or contact persons at customers, suppliers, and other business partners who collaborate with Be-ahead.

Collection of Personal Information

Be-ahead may collect, process, and store your personal information in the following cases:

  • When your company or the company you work for enters into an agreement with Be-ahead.
  • When you have shown interest in Be-ahead’s products and services, for example, by providing Be-ahead with your business card.
  • When you collaborate and communicate with Be-ahead.

Types of Personal Information

Be-ahead may collect, process, and store the following types of personal information about you:

  • Name, email address, phone number, and similar contact information.
  • Organizational information such as the company’s name and address, job title, area of employment, primary workplace, and country.
  • Contractual information such as orders, invoices, contracts, and other agreements between your company (or your employer) and Be-ahead, which may include your contact information.
  • Financial information, such as payment terms and bank details (if it is a sole proprietorship).

Such information may be received directly from you (primarily through emails and other correspondence with you) or from a third party, such as your employer.

Purposes of Processing

Your personal information may be processed for the following purposes:

  • General planning, fulfillment, and administration of collaborations, including contracts.
  • Administration, such as payment processing, accounting, auditing, as well as providing support.
  • Newsletters and other marketing communications.
  • Handling inquiries from you.
  • General communication.
  • Product and service development.
  • Statistics and analysis.
  • Compliance with applicable laws and regulations, such as fulfilling our obligations to prevent illegal activities.
  • Conflict resolution.

Legal Basis for Processing

Be-ahead primarily processes your personal information on one or more of the following legal bases:

  • Contractual obligations: In certain cases, the processing of your personal information is necessary to fulfill a contract (databeskyttelsesforordningens artikel 6, stk. 1, litra b).
  • Legitimate interests: We may process your personal information based on our legitimate interests, such as managing day-to-day operations in accordance with lawful and fair business practices, including planning, execution, and administration of collaborations. We also have a legitimate interest in conducting statistics, analysis, marketing activities (where consent is not required), providing support, as well as improving and developing our products and services. Processing may also be necessary for our legitimate interest in preventing fraud or establishing, defending, or asserting legal claims (databeskyttelsesforordningens artikel 6, stk. 1, litra f).
  • Legal obligation: Processing your personal information may, in some cases, be necessary for compliance with legal obligations, such as our obligation to prevent illegal activities (databeskyttelsesforordningens artikel 6, stk. 1, litra c).

Retention Period

Your personal information will be retained for 3 years from the termination of the collaboration. However, the information may be stored for a longer period in anonymized form.

4. If You Visit Our Social Media Profiles

This section outlines Be-ahead’s policy for processing personal information collected through Be-ahead’s profiles or pages on social media.

Be-ahead and the providers of social media are joint data controllers for the processing of personal information collected when you visit Be-ahead’s profile or page on the respective social media platform. Be-ahead complies with the guidelines of the Data Protection Authority on joint data controllership and seeks, using available tools and means, to ensure that you receive information about the processing of your personal information when you visit Be-ahead’s profiles or pages on social media.

Be-ahead has profiles or pages on the following social media platforms:

  • LinkedIn (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company)
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    • You can customize your privacy settings on LinkedIn here

Collection of Personal Information

When you visit or interact with our profiles on social media, Be-ahead and the provider of the respective social media platform may collect, process, and store the following types of personal information about you:

  • Information available on your profile, including your name, gender, marital status, workplace, interests, and your city.
  • Whether you ‘like’ or have used other reactions on our profile.
  • Comments you leave on our posts.
  • That you have visited our profile.

Purposes of Processing

Be-ahead processes your personal information for the following purposes:

  • Improving our products and services, including our profiles and pages on social media.
  • Statistics and analysis.
  • To be able to communicate with you if you comment on a post, provide a review, or send us a message.
  • Marketing in general.

The providers of social media, among other things, process your personal information for the following purposes:

  • Improving their advertising systems.
  • Providing statistics to Be-ahead, which the social media providers compile based on your visit to our profiles and pages.
  • Advertising and customization of activities on the platform.

Legal Basis for Processing

The processing of your personal information is based on the following legal bases:

  • Legitimate interests: Be-ahead bases the processing of your personal information on our legitimate interests in being able to communicate with and market to you on our profiles on social media, as well as our legitimate interest in improving our products and services (databeskyttelsesforordningens artikel 6, stk. 1, litra f). The providers of social media base the processing of your personal information on their legitimate interests, including their interest in improving their advertising system and providing statistics to Be-ahead, which the social media provider compiles based on your visit to Be-ahead’s profile or page on the social media platform. Additionally, the providers of social media have a legitimate interest in providing an innovative, individually tailored, secure, and profitable service (databeskyttelsesforordningens artikel 6, stk. 1, litra f).
  • Consent: The providers of social media process certain of your personal information in accordance with your consent, which you can withdraw at any time through your privacy settings on the social media platform (databeskyttelsesforordningens artikel 6, stk. 1, litra a).

Retention Period

Your personal information will be retained for 1 year.

Who Do Social Media Providers Share Your Personal Information With?

Social media providers may, among other things, share your personal information with the following categories of recipients:

  • Other entities within the group to which the social media provider belongs.
  • External partners who provide analysis and research services.
  • Advertisers.
  • Other individuals who visit our profile or page on the social media platform (to the extent your information is publicly available).
  • Researchers and other academics.

You can find more information about who social media providers share your personal information with in the individual provider’s privacy policy.

Social media providers may transfer your personal information to recipients outside the EU/EEA in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can learn more in the individual provider’s privacy policies.

You can learn more about who Be-ahead shares your personal information with in the section ‘Disclosure to Other Data Controllers and Assignment to Data Processors.'”

5. Disclosure to Other Data Controllers and Assignment to Data Processors

To fulfill the purposes described above, we may grant third parties access to your personal information, who, based on a contractual relationship with Be-ahead, provide relevant services. This may include IT providers, email providers, and providers of IT solutions. Such service providers will only process personal information in accordance with our instructions as per the data processing agreements in place.

In addition to what is described above, your personal information will generally not be disclosed to a third party without your permission. However, under certain circumstances and in accordance with the law, it may be necessary to disclose your personal information to:

  • The police
  • Lawyers
  • Auditors
  • Courts
  • Public authorities

If your personal information is transferred to data processors or data controllers established in countries outside the EU/EEA that do not provide an adequate level of protection, such transfer will be based on the EU Commission’s standard contractual clauses.

9. Your Rights

  • You have the right to access the personal information we process about you.
  • You have the right to object to our collection and further processing of your personal information.
  • You have the right to rectification and erasure of your personal information, subject to certain statutory exceptions, including the Accounting Act.
  • You have the right to request us to restrict the processing of your personal information.
  • Under certain circumstances, you may also request to receive a copy of your personal information as well as request the transmission of the personal information you have provided to us to another data controller (data portability).
  • You can withdraw any consents you may have given at any time. We will then delete your personal information unless we can continue processing on another legal basis. You can unsubscribe from our newsletter by clicking the link at the bottom of the newsletter.

10. Questions and Complaints

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or if you wish to complain about the way we process your personal information, please feel free to contact us:

be-ahead ApS

Store Kongensgade 40D, 4

1264 København K

E-mail: info@be-ahead.dk

Phone number: +45 78 79 11 46

If your complaint is not resolved by us, and you wish to escalate the matter, you can complain to the Data Protection Authority:

Datatilsynet

Carl Jacobsens Vej 35

2500 Valby

Phone number: +45 33 19 32 00

E-mail: dt@datatilsynet.dk