Blavatnik Family Foundation Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
The Blavatnik Family Foundation (together with its affiliates, “the Foundation”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. The following policy (the “Privacy Policy”) describes our practices respecting the collection, storage, use, and processing of personal data that you share with us, including through this website (the “Site”).
Privacy Policy Updates
This Privacy Policy was last updated on December 4, 2023. It provides a general overview of the ways in which the Foundation uses your personal data and important information on electronic communication. This Privacy Policy may be changed at any time to reflect changes in the Foundation’s practices concerning the collection and use of personal data or where required to comply with applicable law. Any revised Privacy Policy will be effective immediately upon posting to this Site. The Foundation recommends checking this section of the Site frequently to view the latest updates.
The Type of Personal Data the Foundation May Collect
The Blavatnik Family Foundation may collect and use the following types of personal data, depending on our interactions with you:
How the Foundation Collects Personal Data
The Foundation collects personal data from the following sources:
How the Foundation Uses Personal Data
The Foundation may use your personal data for the following purposes:
Where required under applicable law, the Foundation is able to legally collect and use your personal data because:
Withdrawal of Your Consent
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you have the right to withdraw consent to the Foundation’s collection and use of your personal data at any time by emailing the Foundation Legal Department at legalnotices@accind.com. Please note that your withdrawal of consent will not be retroactive, and the Foundation may be legally required to retain some or all of your personal data notwithstanding your withdrawal of consent.
With Whom the Foundation Shares Personal Data
The Foundation may share your personal data with:
These parties may have the Foundation to your personal information but are permitted to use the information solely to provide the specific service or as otherwise permitted by law.
If you are a resident of the European Union (“EU”) or the European Economic Area (“EEA”), please note that the Foundation is located in the United States. The Foundation will ensure appropriate safeguards are in place as required by applicable law to adequately protect your personal data if it is processed by third parties outside the EU and EEA, including the execution of standard contractual clauses if the recipients are not located in a country with adequate data protection laws (as determined by the European Commission).
The Foundation may share your personal data with its affiliates that will treat your personal data consistent with this Privacy Policy. In the event that the Foundation goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition, liquidation, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, our users’ personal data will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
A “cookie” is a small data file that a website places on your computer when you first connect to the website. We use analytics cookies, as described below, to help us understand traffic to our site so that we can measure and improve the performance of our site. You can refuse these types of cookies either via the cookie banner you will see on the first page of the Site you visit, or by setting your browser to refuse cookies from the Site.
| Name | Category | Provider | Purpose | Expiry |
| _ga | Analytics | blavatnikfoundation.org | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 2 years |
| _gat | Analytics | blavatnikfoundation.org | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | 1 day |
| _gid | Analytics | blavatnikfoundation.org | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 1 day |
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Browser “Do Not Track” Signals
The Foundation does not honor “Do Not Track” (also known as “DNT”) signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by your web browsers. More information about browser tracking signals and Do Not Track signals can be found at http://allaboutdnt.org.
Retention of Your Information
The Foundation and its service providers will retain your personal data for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy as long as required for the purposes described above. In particular, and without limitation to the foregoing, the Foundation and its service providers have legal obligations imposed on them under applicable legal systems that require them to retain your personal data for certain minimum time periods.
Protection of Your Information
The Foundation endeavors to maintain appropriate administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect your information and data against loss, misuse, and alteration.
No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
Children’s Data
This Site is a general audience website and the Foundation does not knowingly collect or maintain personal data about children under the age of 13.
Rights Individuals May Have in Relation to Their Data
If you are a citizen or resident of the EU or EEA, the following rights may be available to you according to applicable data privacy laws:
Delete Personal Data: You can ask the Foundation to erase or delete all or some of your personal data (e.g., if it is no longer necessary to provide services to you).
Right to Rectification: You also have the right to ask the Foundation to change, update, or fix your personal data in certain cases, particularly if it is inaccurate.
Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Personal Data: You can ask the Foundation to stop using all or some of your personal data (e.g., if the Foundation has no legal right to keep using it) or to limit the Foundation’s use of it (e.g., if your personal data is inaccurate or unlawfully held).
Right to the Foundation and/or Take Your Data: You can ask the Foundation for a copy of your personal data and can ask for a copy of personal data you provided in machine-readable form.
To make any requests as listed above, to the extent permitted by applicable law, please contact the Foundation by emailing the Foundation Legal Department at legalnotices@accind.com. The Foundation will respond to any requests relating to your rights above within one month of receipt of your request, or within three months of receipt of your request where the request is more complex.
Making a Complaint
If you would like to make a complaint about the way the Foundation has collected, used, or retained your personal data, please contact the Foundation Legal Department at legalnotices@accind.com.
If you are a citizen or resident of the EU or EEA, then you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in the EU Member State of your habitual residence or place of work or in the place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you carried out by the Foundation or its service providers infringes applicable data privacy laws.
Further Information
The examples contained within this Privacy Policy are illustrations and are not intended to be exclusive. You may have additional rights under other foreign or domestic privacy laws in addition to those that are described above. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
The Blavatnik Family Foundation, 40 West 57th Street, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10019, telephone: (212) 247-6400, legalnotices@accind.com.
Additional Information for California Residents
The following information is provided for California residents pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act. This information supplements the foregoing Privacy Policy for individuals who have rights pursuant to California law and shall not be construed as creating any right or duty that is not otherwise provided by law.
In the last 12 months, we have collected the following categories of Personal Information for the purposes as set out in the table below.
| Categories of Personal Information | Specific Types of Personal Information Collected | Business Purpose for Processing |
| Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers) | Real names, postal addresses, email addresses, Internet Protocol addresses, online identifiers. | To operate and improve our Site, such as resolving technical issues, supporting security, analyzing user trends, detecting fraud or other types of abuse, and gathering broad demographic information for aggregate use; To comply with our legal obligations; To exercise our legal rights where it is necessary to do so, such as to detect, prevent, or respond to fraud claims, intellectual property infringement claims, or violations of law or misuse of information or our Site; To communicate with you and provide you with information we believe may be of interest to you. |
| Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement) | Browser type and version, device identifier, location and time zone setting, network and/or service provider, operating system and platform, page response times and download errors, browsing history, search history, length of visits to certain pages of websites | To operate and improve our Site, such as resolving technical issues, supporting security, analyzing user trends, detecting fraud or other types of abuse, and gathering broad demographic information for aggregate use; To comply with our legal obligations; To exercise our legal rights where it is necessary to do so, such as to detect, prevent, or respond to fraud claims, intellectual property infringement claims, or violations of law or misuse of information or our Site. |
| Professional or employment-related information | Title, business contacts. | To communicate with you and provide you with information we believe may be of interest to you; To comply with our legal obligations; To exercise our legal rights where it is necessary to do so, such as to detect, prevent, or respond to fraud claims, intellectual property infringement claims, or violations of law or misuse of information or our Site. |
In the preceding 12 months, the Foundation has not sold, shared for cross-contextual behavioral advertising, or disclosed any personal information except for with its service providers.
The Foundation has not knowingly sold or shared for cross-contextual behavioral advertising the personal information of consumers under the age of 16.
If you are a California resident, the CCPA and other applicable California data privacy laws provide you with the following rights:
Right to the Foundation: On receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will disclose the personal information we have collected about you, their sources, the business purposes for the collection, and the categories of third parties with whom we have disclosed your personal information, if any.
Right to Delete: On receipt of a verifiable request from you, subject to certain exceptions permitted under applicable law, we will delete your personal information from our records; and direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.
Right to Correction: On receipt of a verifiable request from you, subject to certain exceptions permitted by applicable law, we will correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
Right to Nondiscrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights.
To make any the Foundation, deletion, or correction request requests as listed above, to the extent permitted by applicable law, please contact the Foundation by emailing the Foundation Legal Department at legalnotices@accind.com or at (212) 247-6400. You will need to provide us with enough information to identify you, proof of your identity and address, and a description of what right you wish to exercise. Please note that you may only make a data the Foundation request twice within a 12-month period.
California residents are also entitled once per year to request and obtain certain information regarding the Foundation’s disclosure, if any, of your personal data to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately prior calendar year. To make such a request, please send an email to the Foundation Legal Department at legalnotices@accind.com with your full name, email address, and postal address in your message. In response to your request, the Foundation will provide you with a notice describing the cost-free means to opt-out of our sharing your personal data with third parties with whom the Foundation does not share the same brand name, if the third party will use it for their direct marketing purposes.
You can contact the Foundation at: The Blavatnik Family Foundation, 40 West 57th Street, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10019, telephone: (212) 247-6400, legalnotices@accind.com.
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