Effective Date: January 1, 2020.
Tuscany Strategy Consulting, LLC (“Tuscany”, “us” or “we”) understands the importance of your privacy. We respect your right to privacy and committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy describes how Tuscany protects and manages personal data related to client services, conferences, events, websites, and communications.
Collection of Data
Tuscany collects personal data in the course of client services, business and pro bono activities, and recruiting communications, websites, conferences, and events. Tuscany may also collect personal information from third parties, such as data brokers, in the course of its business and pro bono activities. When working with third party data brokers, we always seek to confirm that the third party has clear information about its use of data including its compliance with legal requirements. Collected data may include professional, demographic, and other information that is publicly available online, including information that you may make public through social media and other public online platforms.
Uses of Personal Data
Tuscany uses personal data to process requests to participate in recruiting events, to analyze site performance, to distribute communications, to evaluate and improve our services, recruit job candidates, enforce our terms of use, comply with applicable laws, enforce Tuscany agreements, and accomplish other items that you may request. Tuscany may also use personal data in the course of business activities, including client services, for example, to provide certain services such as benchmarking or other research. We may keep any of your personal data on file and use it to contact you.
Tuscany and its service providers may use first and third party Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to manage our Sites and our services and collect analytics about how you use them. This may include the collection of information about whether you open or click any links in the communications that we send to you. Our Sites do not track you by collecting personal data about your online activities over time and across third party websites or online services.
Our processing of personal data is based, in part, on our legitimate interests in promoting and protecting Tuscany, building and maintaining relationships, recruitment, and providing our services.
Disclosure and Transfer
Tuscany will not intentionally disclose or transfer and takes reasonable steps to prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure of personal data to third parties without your consent or as otherwise permitted by law, except as follows. Tuscany may provide access to personal data to third party service providers engaged by Tuscany to provide services related to its websites and or related to Tuscany’s business activities related to client services, following practices agreed upon in our client services agreements. Tuscany’s data privacy processes are designed to ensure that any processing of personal data by third party service providers is consistent with this Privacy Policy and protects the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of any personal data. Tuscany may share personal data with third party providers who perform services and functions on Tuscany’s behalf to support our interactions with you, including, for example, processing recruitment materials, administering surveys or contests, or communicating with you.
In addition, Tuscany may disclose personal data when:
If we are required to do so by law or legal process;
To law enforcement authorities or other government officials;
When we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity;
If disclosure is necessary to protect the vital interests of a person;
To enforce our Terms of use;
To protect our property, services and legal rights;
To prevent fraud against Tuscany;
To support auditing, and compliance functions; or
To comply with any and all applicable laws.
Link to third party sites
Tuscany may provide links to third party websites or information as a service to our users. If you use these links, you will leave the Sites. Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by Tuscany of the third party, the third party website, or the information contained therein, and Tuscany shall not be responsible or liable for your use thereof. Such use shall be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to those sites.
Social Networking
The Sites may allow you to sign into and associate your social network accounts including, but not limited to LinkedIn, with Tuscany. By associating your social network account with Tuscany you give us permission to access information that you have made available in your public profile for that social network account. The information available in your public profile varies based on the social network and your settings, but may include your email address, real name, profile picture, gender, and location. We use the information we receive from your social network account in accordance with the social network’s terms of use and this Privacy Policy. Please refer to the privacy settings in your social network account for information about what data is shared with Tuscany and other connected applications and to manage the data that is shared through your account, including information about your activities using our Sites. If you would like to disconnect a social media account from us, refer to the settings of that social network account and its provider.
Security
Tuscany has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personal data from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized Tuscany personnel and third party service providers are provided access to personal data, and these employees and service providers are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions however, Tuscany cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal data.
Data retention
Tuscany retains personal data, as necessary, for the duration of the relevant business relationship.
We may also retain personal data for longer than the duration of the business relationship should we need to retain it to protect ourselves against legal claims, use it for analysis or historical record-keeping, or comply with our information management policies and schedules. If you request that we delete your personal data, Tuscany will make reasonable attempts to delete all instances of the information in their entirety. For requests for access, corrections, or deletion, please refer to the “Your Rights” section of this Privacy Policy.
Children
The Sites are not designed for or directed at children 16 years of age or younger, and Tuscany does not intentionally collect or maintain personal data about anyone under this age.
Your rights
Where granted by applicable law, you may have the right to request access to the personal data that we have collected about you for the purposes of reviewing, modifying, or requesting deletion of the data. You may also have the right to request a copy of the personal data that we have collected about you and to have any inaccuracies in that data corrected. In certain circumstances, you may also request that we cease processing your personal data.
If you would like to make a request to access, review, or correct the personal data we have collected about you, or to discuss how we process your personal data, please contact us at [email protected]. To help protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access to your personal data. We will make reasonable attempts to promptly investigate, comply with, or otherwise respond to your requests as may be required by applicable law. Different laws may prevent us from providing access to your personal data or otherwise fully complying with your request depending upon the circumstances and the request, such as for example, where producing your information may reveal the identity of someone else. We reserve the right to charge an appropriate fee for complying with your request where allowed by applicable law, and/or deny your requests where they may be manifestly unfounded, and/or excessive, or otherwise objectionable or unwarranted under applicable law.
In addition, and where granted by local law, you have the legal right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority.
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Consent and Changes to Privacy Policy
By using the Sites, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your personal data by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Sites. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that increase our rights to use personal data that we have previously collected about you, we will obtain your consent either through an email to your registered email address or by prominently posting information about the changes on our Sites.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Tuscany Strategy Consulting, LLC
3000 Chestnut Ave, Suite 301
Baltimore, MD 21211
