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Email briefings
When you subscribe, we retain your email address for delivery and account administration. You may unsubscribe at any time. Subscriber data is not sold to advertisers.
Signal experience and Web Summit
The optional questionnaire records the profile, assets, locations, travel and declared insurance you choose to provide. Confirming your email saves the experience profile for 30 days. A separate, optional consent lets us keep an encrypted copy linked to that verified email until Signal access is activated or you withdraw permission. On activation, the answers become available in your Signal profile. Existing Signal data is preserved; agency and insurer client scenarios stay separate from their own assets. You can manage reuse permission in the verified experience profile or in Signal. This does not grant marketing permission. Unconfirmed experience requests expire after 24 hours and confirmation links after 20 minutes.
Public early-access registration
When public registration is open, choosing Signal early access and confirming your email creates an individual access authorisation. That authorisation continues after new registrations close, until cancellation or revocation. Downloading a PDF alone does not grant access. Re-entry uses a new email link, not a shared password.
Operational records
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Contact
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