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F&L Competition Law Compliance Policy

F&L’s competition laws and antitrust policy can be seen here.

All F&L activities take place within this policy.  

Chatham House Rule

F&L events are in principle governed by a tailored “Chatham House Rule”. That Chatham House Rule helps to create a trusted environment to understand and resolve complex matters. When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the tailored Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) in relation to his/her particular content may be revealed externally. Speaker presentations /materials can however be shared with F&L members and participants to the F&L event but should not be shared externally without the consent of the speaker or without his/her anonymization.

F&L Articles of Association

All members abide by the F&L Articles of Association.

F&L Privacy Policy

What data do we collect?

To carry out its business, F&L may collect the following data:

Personal identification information (such as, for example, first name, surname, company, job function, picture)
Contact data (such as address, e-mail, phone number)
User account information (login details, username, password)
Information about use of F&L services
Relation to F&L and areas of interest in F&L
Enquiries and complaints submitted

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide F&L with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

Subscribe to F&L membership
Register to and/or participate in activities of F&L
Fill in questionnaires and feedback surveys of F&L
Give recommendations / feedback to F&L
Allow to be recorded (e.g. picture taken) during or in preparation of F&L events
F&L may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:

If the entity with whom you are affiliated or a colleague of yours therein provides to F&L data through the previous bullet points.

How will we use your data?

F&L processes personal data with a view to:

Organizing, improving & conducting highly reputed F&L meetings and F&L events;
Develop and improve F&L memberships and conduct F&L membership administration; and
Conduct marketing towards future F&L events and F&L memberships.
Apart from marketing materials F&L does in principle not share your personal data with non-F&L members. Presence / registration lists for F&L events can be shared with F&L members and other participants /registrants for such event. F&L reserves the right to access, read, preserve and disclose all data necessary to comply with law or court order; to enforce or apply our agreements with you and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property or safety of F&L, of our employees, our users or others (for example our members).

Disclosure to law enforcement: in certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your personal data in response to valid and binding requests from public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

F&L events are in principle governed by a tailored “Chatham House Rule”. That Chatham House rule helps to create a trusted environment to understand and resolve complex matters. When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the tailored Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) in relation to his/her particular content may be revealed externally. Speaker presentations /materials can however be shared with F&L members and participants to the F&L event but should not be shared externally without the consent of the speaker or without his/her anonymization.

“Here I find the connections & the interest/support to help make things happen”

“Looking in your own business doesn’t tell you what’s around; it is my competitive advantage to know what is happening elsewhere and use that to enhance our strategy”

“These discussions open my mind and that’s when the good ideas come”