PRIVACY POLICY – CHERTOFF GROUP, LLC
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains how information about you is collected, used and disclosed by your access or use of the website (“Site”) of Chertoff Group, LLC, d/b/a The Chertoff Group (such Site defined as “chertoffgroup.com” and its subdomains) or otherwise as a result of your interactions with us through our Site. By visiting this Site directly or through another site, you accept the terms and conditions of this Policy. This Policy applies to this Site. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices on any website not operated by us to which this Site links or that links to this Site.
Information Collection
We collect information from you in several different ways on this Site.
Downloading Content or Submitting a Contact Form
Before using certain portions of this Site or requesting information, you may be required to complete an online form. When filling out a form, you will be asked to provide to us certain personal information, including but not limited to your name, email address, job title, company name, phone number and in certain cases, other information. These kinds of personal information are used to communicate with you about your request, and for internal marketing purposes. If we encounter a problem when processing your request, your personal information may be used to contact you.
Information We Collect Automatically
We may also automatically collect information about you when you access or use the Site or transact business with us, including:
- Transaction Information: When you fill out a form, we collect information about the exchange, such as the form fields you willingly submit to us like your name, company information, phone number and email address.
- Log Information: We obtain information about your use of our website, including the type of browser you use, access times, pages viewed, your IP address and the page you visited before navigating to this Site.
- Device Information: We collect information about the computer or mobile device you use to access our services,
- Location Information: We may collect information about the precise location of your device when you consent to the collection of this information. We may also collect information about your approximate location each time you access this Site.
- Information Collected by Cookies and other Tracking Technologies: We may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about you and your interaction with this Site, including information about your browsing behavior, purchase behavior, and other engagement with the Services. We use this information in one or more of the ways described in the “Use of Information” section below. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default, but you can usually change your browser settings to remove or reject cookies.
Information We Collect from Other Sources
We may also receive information about you from other sources and combine or link that with information we have about you. For example, we may collect demographic and change-of-address information from third party sources and information from third party social media platforms (such as LinkedIn) if you visit using your social media account credentials or if you make certain content and information publicly available, such as photos, videos, and profile information.
Cookie Policy
Cookies are text files containing a small amount of data, usually a unique string of letters and numbers. They are commonly used throughout the Internet and are stored on and accessed from your device when you visit a website (including the Sites). This allows the website to recognize your visit from those of other users of the website. You can find more information at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
How do our Sites use cookies?
The Sites use the following cookies for the following purposes:
Performance Cookies
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
- These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site, 3rd-party audience data (such as age, gender, and interests, and the pages they visited. We use the information to compile reports of our users’ browsing patterns so that we can improve the Site. You can opt-out of Google Analytics tracking by visiting their ad settings page: https://www.google.com/settings/ads.
Sales and Personalization Cookies
SALESFORCE
- This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use our Site and email communications. The cookie collects information including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from (including, where applicable, which email communications they clicked on) and the pages they visited. We use the information to compile statistic reports of our users’ browsing patterns so that we can improve the Site. The information from this cookie may be also combined with your personal information, if you consent, to help us know when to contact you and tailor our communications to you based on pages you have visited. See the “Combining the cookie information with other data” section below.
Please note that Chertoff Group may use IP addresses to help identify you when we determine, in our sole discretion, that it is necessary to enforce compliance with the terms of use of the Sites (including the privacy notices), to protect its services, website, systems, information, employees, business partners, subsidiaries, affiliates, users, customers or others, or when required by law or for law enforcement purposes.
In addition, where we have obtained your consent to use the information we collect via cookies in this manner (see below), we may:
- Combine the information we collect via the Salesforce Personalization cookie with your IP address and use the publicly available information available from ‘Domain Name Service’ registries to determine the company associated with that IP address (if any). We may use this information to contact your company and to tailor this contact based on the pages you have viewed on our site;
- If you provide us with personal information when you use the Site, for example, when you complete a form on our Site, or you have provided your email address to us via other sources and you respond to one of our emails by clicking through to our website, we may combine the data we collect via the Salesforce cookie above so that we can contact you and to tailor the communications we send you;
Your consent to the use of cookies
By using this Site, you agree that we can store and access ‘Performance Cookies’ on your device. You also agree that we can store and access ‘Sales and Personalization Cookies’ on your device but only to produce statistical reports in an anonymous form of our users’ browsing patterns so that we can improve the Site.
We will only use the information gathered from ‘Sales and Personalization Cookies’ to contact you and to tailor the communications we send you if we have obtained your consent to do so. We will usually obtain this consent on the Site at the point you provide us with your personal information. If we have provided you with a choice whether or not you wish use to use the ‘Sales and Personalization Cookies’ for this purpose and you continue to use the Site, we will assume from your use that you agree that we can store and access ‘Performance Cookies’ on your device for this purpose.
Refusing or withdrawing your consent to the use of cookies
Consent may be withdrawn by you at any time but you will need to take specific actions to prevent cookies from being set and to ensure that all cookies from the relevant Chertoff Group site are deleted from your computer. If you do not delete the cookies they will remain on your computer.
When you return to the Site, you may be asked again whether or not you agree to the use of Sales and Personalization Cookies to contact you and to tailor the communications we send you. You should indicate that you do not agree in order to refuse consent to such use of these Sales and Personalization Cookies.
If you object entirely to our use of cookies on our Site (including the use of Performance and Sales and Personalization Cookies to help improve the Sites), you may refuse to accept cookies by altering the settings on your internet browser. For further information about how to do so, please refer to your browser ‘help’ section or see http://www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that if you adjust your internet browser settings to refuse the setting of cookies, you may be unable to access or fully use certain parts or functionality of the Site.
Information Use and Disclosure
Communications with You
We will use your personal information to communicate with you about this Site and, if applicable, your work with us. In addition, we may send you a confirmation email when you sign up for emails or download content from us. We may send you company announcements on the rare occasions when it is necessary. Also, you may submit your email address for reasons such as to sign up for email newsletters or other content. If you submit your email address, we use it to deliver the information to you. We always permit you to unsubscribe or opt out of future emails.
External Use
Except as otherwise set forth below, we do not sell, rent, trade, license or otherwise disclose your specific personal information or financial information to anyone.
We may disclose information to third parties that perform specific functions on our behalf. However, we will only disclose the information that is necessary for them to perform their services.
We may disclose personal information in response to requests from law enforcement officials conducting investigations, subpoenas, a court order, or if we are otherwise required to disclose such information by law.
We may share non-personal information (such as the number of daily visitors to a particular web page, with third parties such as advertising partners. This information does not directly personally identify you or any user.
Data Security
We take reasonable measures, including administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, to protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
Opt-Out/Corrections
Upon your request, we will (a) correct or update your personal information; (b) stop sending emails to your email address; and/or (c) disable your account to prevent any future purchases through that account. You can make these requests by emailing us at info@chertoffgroup.com
Offline Collection Use and Disclosure
We also may collect information offline. We will treat any information collected offline in a manner that is consistent with this Policy. One example involves someone calling us to ask questions. When someone calls, we will ask only for the personal information we need in order to answer the question or provide you with a quote for services. When we need to store information, we will enter it into our database.
Updates to this Policy
If we change or update this Privacy Policy, we will post changes and updates on the Site so that you will always be aware of what information We collect, use and disclose. We encourage you to review this Policy from time to time so you will know if the Privacy Policy has been changed or updated. If you have any questions about the Policy, please contact us at info@chertoffgroup.com.