Privacy
Policy

ADTECH HOLDING LTD, a company registered in accordance with the legislation of Cyprus under registration number HE 353566 and having its registered office at Zinonos Rossidi, 11, 3082, Limassol, Cyprus (hereinafter – the “Organizer”, “We”, “Our”, etc.), being the owner and organizer of “HackTech” Hackathon, taking place at Warehouse by ITQuarter, Limassol, Cyprus from 15th November, 2025 09:00 a.m. to 16th November, 2025 23:00 p.m. (hereinafter – the “Hackathon”), as well as being the owner of any and all the Hackathon’s domains, and of all content available therein (hereinafter – the “Website”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and handling your personal data in an open and transparent manner.  Accordingly, we have developed this privacy policy for you to understand how we collect, use, process, disclose, store the personal data you provide us with, your rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the use of cookies on the Website.

It is recommended that you read this privacy policy carefully. If you have additional questions or would like further clarification and information on this topic or wish to exercise any of your rights set out herein, please contact us via email at: dpo@adtechholding.com.

TO WHOM DOES THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLY?

This privacy policy applies when you visit and use the Website, when you register in the Hackathon and further to your registration within the Hackathon arrangement and carrying out (e.g., for the purposes of forming the participants lists, forming the participating teams, communication, etc.). It does not apply when using any advertising services as a customer. This privacy policy also does not apply to any products, services, websites, or content that are offered by third parties or have their own privacy notice.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR DATA

We obtain your personal data mainly through any information you provide directly to us, including when you enter and use our Website, including when you register for/participate in/attend the Hackathon, when you accept our Terms and Conditions, when you contact us for any enquiries, complaints or for any other reason.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND WHAT ARE THE LEGAL GROUNDS

When accessing and using the Website, we may collect, use and process your personal data for specific purposes and on valid legal bases as follows:

  • Server Log Files - We automatically collect generated data about your use of the Website such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, website navigation paths, timing, frequency, pattern of your service use. It is necessary for us to collect and process this information for our Website to work as optimally as possible, meaning for our legitimate interests.
  • Profile Data - This is personal information such as your full name, telephone number, email address, position, place of work, your social media links, accounts and information, as well as other information you may provide when accessing and using the Website, as also during your participation and attendance in Hackathon. We collect and process this information as it is necessary for the operation and proper administration of the Website, for arrangements, performance of Terms and carrying out Hackathon and for you to receive more relevant ads.
  • Correspondence Data - This is the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. The collection of this data is necessary to provide you support and/or to respond to any inquiries you may submit. The processing of these personal data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests and in specific to serve you efficiently and to optimize the support we provide to you.
  • Notification Data - his is personal information we receive and/or use upon your consent, necessary for us to proceed with sending you newsletters/offers/promotional and other marketing material/potential job offers, updates and information in relation to Hackathon including to your participation and attendance and other relevant HR notifications. If, at any moment, you do not wish to receive this type of notifications anymore, you can unsubscribe by using the opt-out option or by sending an email to dpo@adtechholding.com.
  • Any other personal data identified under this privacy policy - Any data, including inquiry data, that we may inquire and/or otherwise receive from you which may be necessary for the fulfillment of our legal or contractual obligation and for the protection and exercise of our/yours/third parties’ legal rights and/or which may be used for/at any court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. This data is therefore used for our legitimate interests.

Please note that if we need specific personal data to comply with a legal basis, your refusal to provide such data may result in the inability for you to use the Website and to participate and attend in the Hackathon.

DATA WE MAY SHARE OR TRANSFER TO THIRD PARTIES

We may disclose your personal data to the third parties listed below. When we do so, we require those third parties to have appropriate technical and organizational measures in place to protect your personal data. We will not share any of your personal data for any purpose other than the purposes described in this privacy policy.

  1. Any third parties engaged in the Hackathon arrangement, performance and conduct, e.g. the Hackathon Committee and management;
  2. Any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes, set out in this privacy policy;
  3. To our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure;
  4. Governmental and regulatory bodies, including law enforcement authorities, in connection with enquiries, proceedings or investigations by such parties or in order to enable us to comply with our legal and regulatory requirements;
  5. Partners and contractors and/or vendors in order to perform any contract we have with you;
  6. To partners and our affiliates for their promotion and marketing purposes as well as for potential HR matters.

We will only process your personal data when the law allows us to and when and as expressly authorized through the Hackathon Terms and Conditions.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF DATA

We may transfer your personal data to our offices and/or the offices of the companies belonging to our holding, where the European Commission has determined that the territory provides adequate protection for the privacy rights of individuals. We will only do so when it is necessary for one of the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

To comply with EU data protection laws around international data transfer, we only allow our partners outside the EEA to process your personal data in accordance with a contract entered into between the Organizer and/or its affiliate and the partners, incorporating the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, which ensure that adequate data protection arrangements are in place. For more information on where and how the relevant document may be accessed or obtained, please contact us.

YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights with regards to your personal data:

  • Right to be informed
    We publish this privacy policy to keep you informed as to what we do with your personal data. You can ask us for information regarding any data of yours that we keep at any time. This information concerns, among other things, the data categories we process, for what purposes we process them, the origin of the data if we did not acquire them directly from you and, if applicable, the recipients to whom we have sent your data.
  • Right to access
    You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether your personal data are being processed, and, if so, access to your personal data and additional information about the processing of your personal data.
  • Right to rectification
    You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate personal data.
  • Right to be forgotten
    You have the right to ask us to erase your personal data for example if the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected; or the personal data have been unlawfully processed.
  • Right to restriction
    You have the right to obtain restriction of processing of your personal data, for example when you have contested the accuracy of your personal data.
  • Right to Data portability
    You have the right to receive your personal data which you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller, where the processing is based on your consent or on a contract.
  • Right to object
    You have the right to object to processing of personal data which is based on our legitimate interests. We shall no longer process the personal data unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.  Where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you always have the right to object to processing of personal data for such marketing. In that case, we shall no longer process your personal data for such purposes.
  • Right to withdraw consent
    Where the processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
  • Right to complaint
    We take your rights very seriously. However, if you are of the opinion that we have not dealt with your complaints adequately, you have the right to submit a complaint to the data privacy protection authorities responsible.

If you have any questions about our privacy policy or wish to obtain more details in relation to the process of your personal data or wish to exercise any of your rights set herein, please contact us via email at:dpo@adtechholding.com .

We endeavor to address all your requests promptly.

IS IT YOUR OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE PERSONAL DATA?

Please, kindly note that you are not under obligation to provide the personal data to the Organizer. However, provision of the personal data by you and its processing by the Organizer are necessary for the purposes named under the present Privacy Policy, in particular to allow the Organizer to lawfully fulfil its respective rights and obligations under the Hackathon’s Terms and Conditions and allow your participation in the Hackathon. Therefore, failure to provide the personal data to the Organizer (or your withdrawal of the consent to process the personal data as described herein), may lead to illegality, impracticability and impossibility of cooperation between the Organizer and you, as well as may lead to impossibility to allow you to participate in the Hackathon.

Hence, in making the decision on whether to provide the personal data we expect and rely on you to take it on fully your own initiative without any compelling from any side. However, please kindly note that if you decide not to provide the personal data or later wish to withdraw it, we will execute your legal right as prescribed hereunder, however, we will be forced to stop your participation in Hackathon, and in such a case we release ourselves from all and any obligations and/or responsibility under the Terms and Conditions of the Hackathon, as well as we reserve all and any rights we may have in this connection under the named Terms and Conditions and the applicable law.

RETAINING AND DELETING PERSONAL DATA

We will keep your personal data for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which we initially collected them. Once such period has ended, we will keep your personal data for the longest of the following periods: a) any retention period set out in our retention policy which is in line with regulatory requirements relating to retention; or (b) the end of the period in which legal action or investigations might arise in respect of the services provided.

Once the retention period of your personal data lapses, we will ensure that your personal data are either irreversibly anonymized or securely destroyed.

CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY

We deploy various security measures such as encryption and authentication tools in line with the current state of the art to protect and maintain the security, integrity and availability of your personal data.

100% protection against unauthorized access in the case of data transfers across the internet or a website cannot be guaranteed, but we and our service providers and business partners do our utmost to protect your personal data in line with the prevailing data protection legislation by means of physical and electronic physical precautions. Among other things, we use the following measures:

  • Strict criteria for authorization to access your personal data on a “need-to-know” basis only and exclusively for the specified purpose;
  • Transfer of acquired data in secured form;
  • Storage of confidential data in our secure servers;
  • Firewall safeguarding of IT systems to provide protection against unauthorized access, and
  • Continuous monitoring of access to IT systems to detect and prevent the misuse of personal data.

COOKIES

When using the Website, various cookies are saved on your computer, mobile device and/or tablet, which can then be accessed. We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our Website.  For more information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, please see our Cookies Policy at https://thehacktech.com/cookies-policy.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this privacy policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our Website.

Last update: October 6th 2025