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The results of this survey are not anonymous. Although your responses will be treated confidentially, your individual responses will be made available to: (i) Accenture’s Black Founders Development Program and related teams, and (ii) a team processing the survey based in India, who will collect all the identifiable responses and aggregate them.

All parties that have access to your individual survey responses or are involved in creating reports/data analysis will be subject to strict confidentiality obligations in relation to access and use of the data and will be given adequate training on how to handle the data confidentially.

This survey is being administered by Accenture who is the data controller in respect to the processing under this survey. More information about how Accenture will process your personal data, about how you can contact the data controller and our data protection officer and about your rights under data privacy laws, can be found in our external privacy statement.

Accenture is also using a vendor called Confirmit to run the survey who will host your identifiable responses with their hosting provider Rackspace, in their servers in the U.S. for up to three years. This data will be backed up for a further 1 year by another vendor called Iron Mountain, also based in the U.S. All such vendors are subject to contractual obligations in relation to the processing of your personal data. All identifiable responses to the survey will be stored by Accenture for a reasonable time to fulfill the above-mentioned purposes, and in accordance with internal Accenture retention policies, (the maximum time such identifiable responses may be stored by Accenture is 3 years, after which the data will be deleted, destroyed or otherwise rendered unidentifiable), unless stated otherwise in this statement.

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