Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

GCC Ecosystem Empower ("GCC E²", "we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting the privacy and personal data of our delegates, speakers, sponsors, ecosystem partners, and website visitors.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our website (gcce2.events) or purchase delegate passes for the GCC E² Summit to be held on 30 October 2026 at HY-ONE, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

2. Information We Collect

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when registering for the summit, expressing speaker interest, applying for sponsorship, or interacting with our platform:

• Identity & Contact Data: Full name, professional designation, corporate email address, mobile number, organization name, LinkedIn profile URL, and city/country.
• Event Attendance & Badge Data: Delegate category (Delegate, Speaker, Sponsor, VIP), dietary preferences, session bookmarks, and QR code digital pass records.
• Payment & Transaction Data: Payment transaction ID, invoice details, pass selection, and amount paid. (Note: Complete credit/debit card numbers or bank credentials are processed directly by our PCI-DSS certified payment gateway partner, Razorpay, and are never stored on our servers.)
• Technical & Analytics Data: IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, pages visited, and session duration.

3. How We Use Your Information

We utilize your personal information for the following business and operational purposes:

• Processing delegate pass applications, issuing invoice confirmations, and generating official QR digital event passes.
• Facilitating 1:1 executive meeting scheduling and networking requests during the summit.
• Sending important event updates, venue entry instructions, agenda notifications, and post-summit proceedings.
• Complying with statutory accounting, tax, and Razorpay payment processing requirements under Indian law.
• Preventing fraudulent registrations and maintaining website security.

4. Payment Security & Processing (Razorpay)

All financial transactions on our platform are processed securely via Razorpay Software Private Limited.

Razorpay adheres to the highest level of security standards, including PCI-DSS Level 1 compliance and 256-bit SSL encryption. We do not store financial credentials (such as card PINs, CVVs, net banking passwords, or UPI PINs) on our infrastructure.

For more information on Razorpay's data security practices, please refer to the Razorpay Privacy Policy.

5. Information Sharing & Disclosure

We respect your privacy and do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data to third-party marketers. Data is shared only under the following limited circumstances:

• Authorized Service Providers: Payment processors (Razorpay), cloud hosting infrastructure, and email delivery services operating under confidentiality agreements.
• Venue & On-Site Badging Partners: HY-ONE Hyderabad venue security teams and digital badge printers for verified venue access control on 30 October 2026.
• Legal & Regulatory Compliance: When required by Indian law enforcement, statutory authorities, or court orders.

6. Cookies & Advertising Measurement

We advertise this summit on LinkedIn, and we measure which of those advertisements actually lead to delegates attending. Two mechanisms are involved:

• LinkedIn Insight Tag (your choice): a small script that records website visits and sets LinkedIn cookies in your browser. It loads only if you accept advertising cookies when asked. If you decline, or simply do not answer, it is never loaded. It does not read the contents of forms.
• Campaign parameters: when you arrive from an advertisement or a direct invitation, the link carries identifiers (such as utm_source and LinkedIn's click identifier li_fat_id). The LinkedIn click identifier is stored only with advertising consent. Campaign labels supplied with your application help identify its source.
• Confirmed paid registrations: only with recorded advertising consent, when a delegate pass is paid for and verified, we report that purchase to LinkedIn so the advertisement can be credited. That report contains an hashed version of your email address, which LinkedIn can use for matching — together with the amount paid and your name, job title and company to help LinkedIn match the purchase to the advertisement you saw.

We do not report unpaid applications, complimentary passes, speaker passes or sponsor passes to any advertising platform. Only a verified, paid delegate pass is ever reported.

Declining changes nothing about your attendance. Your registration, your payment, your delegate pass and your QR entry code all work identically whether you accept or decline. We will never withhold anything you have paid for on the basis of a cookie choice.

Use Advertising choices to decline tracking. In the browser used to register, this also withdraws permission for future purchase sharing. Previously sent data cannot be recalled by this switch. To object to the reporting of a confirmed paid registration, or to have your data excluded from it, write to [email protected] and we will action it. You can also manage advertising preferences directly in your LinkedIn account.

7. Data Retention & User Rights

We retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy and satisfy accounting, legal, or reporting obligations.

Under applicable Indian privacy frameworks (including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act), you have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data. You may also opt out of promotional communications at any time.

8. Contact & Grievance Officer

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or data processing practices, please contact our Privacy & Legal Desk: