Chemonics ChemLink

EEA/UK Privacy Notice

Effective Date: June 2, 2025
Last Updated: June 2, 2025

Chemonics International, Inc., its affiliates, and subsidiaries (“Chemonics,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) values your privacy. This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) describes how Chemonics collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes personal information, as a controller, on or through the ChemLink platform.

If you are located in the United States, or outside of the EEA/UK, our General/US Privacy Notice applies and can be found https://www.chemonics.com/chemlink-privacy-notice/.

Chemonics has developed policies, procedures, controls and measures to ensure ongoing accountability with applicable data protection law including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2018/679 (the “EU GDPR”) and the EU GDPR as saved into UK law (“UK GDPR“), collectively referred to as “GDPR” within this Notice.

If you have any concerns regarding this Notice, please contact us at chemlinkhelp@chemonics.com or dataprivacy@chemonics.com.

1. Scope

Except as otherwise described, this Notice applies to our personal data processing activities relating to users and other individuals located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or United Kingdom (“UK”) who use the ChemLink platform, which is hosted and managed by our service provider Amihan Innovations, Inc. (referred to as the “Service”).

2. Personal Information Collected

We collect personal information directly from you, from third-party sources, and automatically through your use of the Service. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may combine the personal information we collect from publicly available or third-party sources. The personal information we collect varies depending upon your use of our Service and our interactions with you.

Personal Information Collected Directly. We may collect the following personal information directly from you:

  • Account and Profile Information. When you create an account on the Service, we ask you to provide basic account and profile information. This may include your name, email address, phone number, username, job title, location, skills, licenses, certifications, educational information, work experience and history, photo, prior assignments, new business, languages spoken, and any other information you choose to include in your profile. You may also choose to connect your LinkedIn account, which will pull all the publicly available information from your LinkedIn account and use it to populate your profile.
  • Communications and Interactions. If you communicate or interact with us or others using the Service, we may collect your name, work or personal email address, phone number, or other similar identifiers, as well as your message, the nature of your inquiry, and any other information you choose to provide.
  • Responses and Feedback. If you participate in surveys, questionnaires, or research activities or initiatives conducted by us, such as for market research, user satisfaction, or other similar purposes, we may collect your responses and feedback, and any other information you choose to provide.
  • Events and Registration Details. We also may collect personal information related to your participation in our events, as well as other requests that you submit to us related to our Service. For example, if you register for or attend an event that we host or sponsor, we may collect information related to your registration for and participation in such event.
  • Preferences and Other Requests. We may collect information about your preferences, including communications preferences and preferences related to your use of our Service, and any other preferences or requests you provide when interacting with us.
  • Business Development Information. To assess and pursue potential business opportunities, we may collect and receive personal information about current, former, and prospective business partners, and vendors and service providers, including contact information and other similar identifiers, company and professional-related information, and communications records.
  • Sensitive Personal Data. Chemonics does not collect any sensitive personal data by this Service.

Personal Information Collected from Third Parties. With your consent, our Service may collect publicly available information about you from professional social media platforms such as LinkedIn.

Personal Information Collected Automatically. We may automatically collect or derive personal information related to your use of our Service, including through the use of cookies, pixel tags, and other similar technologies. This may include:

  • Device and Browsing Information. When you use our Service, we may collect browser type, domain name, page views, access times, date/time stamps, operating system, language, device type, unique ID, internet service provider, referring and exiting URLs, clickstream data, and other similar device and browsing information.
  • Activities and Usage. We also may collect activity information related to your use of the Service, such as information about the links clicked, searches, features used, items viewed, time spent within the Service, your interactions with us within the Service, and other similar activity and usage information.
  • Location Information. We also may collect or derive general location information, such as through your IP address.

3. How We May Use Personal Information and Our Lawful bases for Doing So

We may collect, use, disclose and otherwise process personal information for the following purposes and upon the specified legal bases under the GDPR:

  • ChemLink Profile and Account Creation and Management. To create ChemLink profiles and enable account creation and management, including allowing you to manage your profile and set preferences.
    • Lawful Basis: based on your consent, which you may withdraw at any time by deleting your profile and account.
  • Professional Opportunity Matching. To match users with professional opportunities.
    • Lawful Basis: based on our legitimate interest in more efficiently matching our current and former personnel to professional opportunities they may be most suited for (which is also in the interests of the users of our Service).
  • Service and Support. To enable our Service, communicate with you about your use of the Service, provide troubleshooting, technical support, and for similar support purposes, respond to your inquiries, fulfill your requests, and to otherwise run our day-to-day operations.
    • Lawful Basis: based on our legitimate interest in providing an efficient and effective Service (which is also in the interests of the users of our Service).
  • Analytics and Improvement. To better understand how users access and use the Service, and for other research and analytical purposes, such as to evaluate, develop, and improve our Service and business operations, and for internal quality control and training purposes.
    • Lawful Basis: based on our legitimate interest in improving the Service for all users.
  • Research and Surveys. To administer surveys and questionnaires, such as for market research or user satisfaction purposes.
    • Lawful Basis: based on our legitimate interest in understanding how users use the Service, obtaining insights into projects or opportunities on which users of the Service work, and for other research-related reasons.
  • Compliance and Legal Process. To comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations, including as part of a judicial proceeding, to respond to a subpoena, warrant, court order, or other legal process, or as part of an investigation or request, whether formal or informal, from law enforcement or a governmental authority.
    • Lawful Basis: based on our need to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject.
  • Auditing, Reporting, and Other Internal Operations. To conduct financial, tax and accounting audits, audits and assessments of our operations, including our privacy, security and financial controls, as well as for risk and compliance purposes. We may also use personal information to maintain appropriate business records and enforce our policies and procedures.
    • Lawful Basis: based on both our need to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject, as well as our legitimate interest in running our internal business operations.
  • General Business and Operational Support. To assess and implement mergers, acquisitions, reorganisations, bankruptcies, and other business transactions such as financings, and to administer our business, accounting, auditing, compliance, recordkeeping, and legal functions.
    • Lawful Basis: based on both our need to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject, as well as our legitimate interest in growing our business

4. Disclosures of Personal Information

We may disclose the personal information we collect for the purposes described above and as follows:

  • Other ChemLink Platform Users. To enable the platform’s functionality, we disclose personal information contained within user accounts to other users of the ChemLink platform. This information may also be searchable on the platform. You may adjust your profile settings to restrict what information is made available to other users.
  • Vendors and Service Providers. We may disclose personal information we collect to our service providers, processors, and others who perform functions on our behalf. These may include, for example, IT service providers, help desk, analytics providers, consultants, auditors, and legal counsel.
  • Affiliates and Subsidiaries. We may disclose personal information we collect to our affiliates or subsidiaries who will use and disclose this personal information in accordance with this Notice.
  • Compliance and Legal Obligations. We may disclose personal information to third parties to comply with our legal and compliance obligations and to respond to legal process. For example, we may disclose information in response to subpoenas, court orders, and other lawful requests by regulators and law enforcement, including responding to national security or law enforcement disclosure requirements.
  • Security and Protection of Rights. We may disclose personal information where we believe it is necessary to protect the Service, our rights and property, or the rights, property and safety of others. For example, we may disclose personal information in order to (i) prevent, detect, investigate and respond to fraud, unauthorized activities and access, illegal activities, and misuse of the Service, (ii) situations involving potential threats to the health, safety, or legal rights of any person or third party, or (iii) enforce, and detect, investigate and take action in response to violations of, our Terms of Service. We may also disclose information, including personal information, related to litigation and other legal claims or proceedings in which we are involved, as well as for our internal accounting, auditing, compliance, recordkeeping, and legal functions.
  • Aggregate and Deidentified Information. Notwithstanding anything else in this Notice, we may use, disclose, and otherwise process aggregate and deidentified information related to our business and the Service with third parties for quality control, analytics, research, development, and other purposes.

5. External Links and Features

Our Service may contain links to third-party websites or features or provide certain third-party connections or integrated services. Any access to and use of such linked websites, features, or third-party services is not governed by this Notice. We are not responsible for the information practices of such third parties, including their collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information. You should review the privacy policies and terms for any third parties before proceeding to those websites or using those third-party features or services.

6. International Data Transfers

We may transfer personal data outside the EEA/UK to any country where we have operations or where we engage service providers (e.g. the US), or as otherwise required or permitted by law, in connection with the purposes described above (see section 3).
Some transfers may be to countries which do not have protections equivalent to those under the GDPR, and, in that case, we will use reasonable efforts to implement contractual protections for the transferred personal data. While this may not always be possible, any transfers will be done in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including through the implementation of appropriate or suitable safeguards, including Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the EU / UK, in accordance with such applicable data protection laws.

7. Security

We have implemented safeguards intended to protect personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Please be aware that despite our efforts, no data security measures can guarantee security.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal data about you for as long as necessary to provide you with the Service. In some cases, we retain personal data for longer if doing so (1) is aligned with your expectations (e.g., for our alumni, we maintain personal data within your account until you instruct us to delete it), (2) is necessary to comply with our legal obligations or resolve disputes, or (3) is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule, or regulation. We will hold this information until you instruct us to delete your account, unless we are obliged to hold it for a longer period under law or applicable regulations. We may further retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form where that information would not identify you personally.

9. Automated Decisions

Automated decisions are defined as decisions about individuals that are based solely on the automated processing of data and that produce legal or similarly significant effects that affect the individuals involved. We do not make such automated decisions using the Service in relation to you or to your personal data. If such automated decisions are made, we will provide you an opportunity to object and have a human review the decision.
10. Changes to this Notice

This Notice is current as of the effective date set forth above. We may change this Notice from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any updates to this Notice on this page. If we make material changes to how we collect, use, or disclose the personal information we have previously collected, we will endeavor to provide you prior notice, such as by emailing you or posting prominent notice on our website (https://www.chemonics.com/chemlink-privacy-notice-eu/) or within the Service.

11. Your Privacy Rights

Please note that the Service is intended to be self-serve and as such, offers the ability to review, update, and delete some of the personal information we maintain about you by logging into your account and updating your profile information directly within our Service.

The GDPR provides individuals located in the EEA/UK with certain rights regarding personal data. Subject to certain conditions and exceptions, you have the following rights:

1. Right to Access & Portability. You have the right to request a copy of your personal data, and in a readily usable format (if feasible).

2. Right to Correct. You have the right to request we correct inaccurate personal data.

3. Right to Delete. You have the right to request we delete your personal data.

4. Right to Object. You have the right, in certain circumstances, to object to our processing of your personal data.

5. Right to Restrict Processing. You have the right, in certain circumstances, to request we restrict our processing of your personal data.

6. Right to Withdraw Consent. If we process your personal data based on your consent (as indicated at the time of data collection), you have the right to change your mind and withdraw your consent to future processing of personal data. This does not impact the personal data we have already processed based on your consent.

7. Right to File a Complaint. You have the right to lodge a complaint about our data handling practices with the supervisory authority in your country. A list of EEA supervisory authorities is available here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en. You can contact the UK Information Commissioner’s Office here: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/.

Exercising Your Privacy Rights. If you would like to exercise your GDPR rights, you may do so by contacting us using the details below (see ‘Contact Us’ below).

12. Data Protection Officer

Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted as follows:

  • Email: dataprivacy@chemonics.com.
  • Mail: 1 Benjamin Street, Farringdon, London, EC1M 5QL.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Notice or our privacy practices, you may contact us at chemlinkhelp@chemonics.com or dataprivacy@chemonics.com.