This is the Privacy Statement and Policy (“Privacy Statement”) for Giscombe & Associates (“G&A”). This Privacy Statement was last updated in September 2020.
G&A understands that your privacy is important. G&A is committed to protecting your privacy and personal information you provide or as you access and use materials on https://giscombeassociates.com/ (the “Site”). In addition, information that you submit to G&A in response to consulting work, speaking engagements, and coaching services will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
G&A may, in its discretion, amend this Privacy Statement from time to time. To ensure you are able to remain informed about the information we collect and how we use it, material changes to our statement will be reflected on Giscombe & Associates website.
This Site may contain links to external sites which are not governed by this Privacy Statement. G&A does not take responsibility for the privacy practices of any third-party sites to which we link. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any such sites before you submit information there.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
Please read this Privacy Statement carefully. By browsing our website you agree to be bound by this Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement may also be incorporated into a consulting agreement.
INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT, AND HOW WE USE IT
What information do we collect?
G&A collects information from you when you request copies of publications, seek additional information regarding our services or employment opportunities, or register for conferences and other G&A-sponsored events. This Privacy Policy describes how G&A handles and protects your personal information in connection with the hosting of this website, and the provision of its consulting and advisory services in the fields of research, consulting and implementation, speaking engagements, and coaching with regard to the subject areas of organizational climate, talent management, and diversity and inclusion (“Services”), as explained in more detail here: https://giscombeassociates.com/services/.
If you do not provide such information, you will not be able to create an account for the Site, or request copies of publications, seek additional information regarding our services or employment opportunities.
Personal information that we collect includes names, addresses, company names, e-mail addresses, job titles, phone numbers, and subject areas of interest.
How do we use personal information?
The uses of your personal information will depend on the use of the Site and/or Services and the personal information provided. We process your personal information:
(i) for the purposes of safeguarding the legitimate interests pursued by G&A. This includes:
- Informing you about updates to the Services and notifying you about other products and services offered by G&A that may be of interest to you, including information regarding publications and events
- Tailoring your experience at the Site with relevant G&A materials
- Understanding the Site’s user population, identifying subject areas of interest, and determining whether the Site is designed to work with the computer settings of a majority of our visitors
- Measuring and improving the effectiveness of G&A marketing across different channels.
- Improving our web content and navigation.
(ii) on the basis of your consent. Insofar as you have granted us consent to the processing of personal information for specific purposes, the lawfulness of such processing is based on your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
(iii) for compliance with a legal obligation. This includes anti-fraud and anti-money laundering measures as well as tax and social security requirements.
We will not sell, share, or rent or otherwise make available your personal information to other parties, except that we may disclose the information to third parties who perform services on our behalf and have a need to access the information in connection with those services. Any third parties will only process this information to the extent to which and within the limits that G&A itself is permitted to process that data.
HOW WE MIGHT SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
The third parties with whom we may need to share personal information to help us provide Services and products to you and to run our Website include:
- our advisors;
- our third-party service providers who process information on our behalf to help run some of our internal business operations including IT services and marketing and events services;
- our business partners for publications and events co-organized by G&A and them;
- law enforcement bodies in order to comply with any legal obligation or court order.
RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
G&A retains your personal information for so long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected. We may retain your personal information for longer if they may be the subject of a legal claim or may otherwise be relevant for future litigation.
MARKETING
If, at any time, you prefer not to receive further communications from us in any or all forms you will have the ability to unsubscribe from such communications by means of a link provided in every e-mail that is sent to you by us.
COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
G&A may use cookies on this Site and in our communications with you to keep track of your visit to our Site and our communications with you.
COOKIE POLICIES
We may request cookies to be set on your device. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our website, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website.
Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our website and the services we are able to offer.
Essential Website Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features.
Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site.
We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain.
We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. You can check these in your browser security settings.
Check to enable permanent hiding of message bar and refuse all cookies if you do not opt in. We need 2 cookies to store this setting. Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab.
Google Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience.
If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here:
Other External Services
We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address, we allow you to block them. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. Changes will take effect once you reload the page.
SECURITY PROCESSES
G&A has in place appropriate technological and operational security processes designed to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Only authorized employees and contractors will have access to any data provided by you, and that access is limited by need. Each employee or contractor having access to any personally-identifiable information is obligated to maintain its confidentiality. Although we take steps that are generally accepted as industry standard to protect your personally-identifiable information, G&A cannot guarantee that your personally-identifiable information will not become accessible to unauthorized persons and G&A cannot be responsible for any actions resulting from a breach of security when information is supplied over the internet or any public computer network.
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES
Our website contains links to other Web sites not operated by G&A.
G&A is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any non-G&A web sites to which we link from the Site. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide whilst visiting other websites and sites not governed by our Privacy Statement. We cannot control the content or security of such websites. We cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage incurred by a user as a result of visiting such websites. No links are intended to be, nor should be construed as, an endorsement of any kind by us of that other website.
COMPLIANCE WITH LAW
G&A complies with all applicable privacy laws and regulations. G&A may be compelled to surrender personal user or customer information to legal authorities if presented with a court subpoena or similar legal or administrative order, or as required or permitted by the laws, rules and regulations of any nation, state or other applicable jurisdiction. Also, in the event of a violation of the terms and conditions of use of the Site or a violation of
any restrictions on use of materials provided in or through the Site, we may disclose personal user information to our affected business partners or legal authorities.
ACCESS RIGHTS
In accordance with applicable data protection laws, including but not limited to the GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you have a right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and details of how we use that information by emailing us at kg@giscombeassociates.com. If any of the information held about you is incorrect or out of date, you have the right to amend or rectify it, please follow the process outlined below and we will amend our records where appropriate. You also have the right to require us to erase your personal data, stop processing your personal data, restricting the processing of your personal information, right of portability of your personal information and/or to withdraw your consent to processing. This may not apply if there are other legal justifications to continue processing. If you think we may have incorrect personal information, or would like a copy of the personal information we hold on you, or to exercise any other data protection right, please contact us. Please note that we need you to prove who you are before we can provide you with any information.
You also have a right to lodge a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority.
CHILDREN
G&A understands the importance of protecting children’s privacy, particularly in their online interactions. This Site is not designed for and does not intentionally target or solicit to children 17 years of age and younger.
Last updated: September 22, 2020