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Strategic Decisions Group International LLC

Privacy Policy

 

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 21, 2017

Strategic Decisions Group International LLC (“SDG”) values your privacy. In this Privacy Policy (“Policy”), we describe how we collect, use, and disclose information that we obtain about visitors to our websites, www.sdg.com, www.sdgdecisioneducation.com, www.appliedstrategies.com, and any other SDG websites to which we have posted this Policy (collectively, the “Sites”); the SDG Decision Quest mobile application and other SDG applications to which we have posted this Policy (collectively, the Apps); and the services available through our Sites and Apps (collectively, the Sites, the Apps, and the services available through them are the “Services”).

By using any of our Services, you agree that any information, including personal information, that we collect from or about you through our Services will be handled as described in this Policy. Your use of our Services, and any dispute over privacy, is subject to this Policy and our Terms of Service, including its applicable limitations on damages and the resolution of disputes.

The Information We Collect

User Content

How We Use Your Information

How We Share Your Information

Cookies and Other Tracking Mechanisms

Do Not Track Disclosure

Third-Party Analytics

Third-Party Ad Networks

Third-Party Links

Security

Your Choices

Children Under 13

Contact Us

Changes to this Policy

The Information We Collect

We collect information about you directly from you, from third parties, and automatically through your use of our Services. We may combine information collected from or about you from these various sources.

Information We Collect Directly From You. We may collect information about you directly from you. For example, certain areas and features of our Services require registration, and to register you must provide your name, email, company, job title, city, and country. If you purchase services or merchandise from us, we may collect your name, payment card information, and billing address. We also may collect additional optional information from you, including phone number. We will also collect any other information that you provide to us through our Services, such as a shipping address, the contents of any message you submit to us through our Sites, and responses you provide via surveys on our Services.

Information We Collect About You from Third Parties. We may also collect information about you from third parties. For example, we may collect information available in your public Facebook profile when you “Like” us on Facebook.

Information We Collect Automatically. We automatically collect information about you through your use of our Services, including without limitation: domain name; browser type and operating system; web pages you view; links you click; IP address;

User Content

We invite you to post content on our Services, including your comments, discussions, pictures, and any other information that you would like to be available on our Services (collectively, “User Content”). If you post User Content to our Services, such information, along with other information such as your user name, will be available to all registered users on our Services. Your User Content may become public and SDG cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate this Policy, the Terms of Service, the law, or your personal privacy.

How We Use Your Information

We use your information, including your personal information and User Content, for the following purposes:

Providing and Improving Our Services. To provide and maintain our Services; to improve our Services; to develop new features, products, or services; to perform technical operations, such as updating software; and for other customer service and support purposes.

 

Tailoring Content. To tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you, to offer location customization, and personalized help and instructions, and otherwise to personalize your experiences while using the Services.

Marketing and Communications. To communicate with you about your account and use of our Services, including to send you product updates; to respond to your inquiries; to provide you with news and newsletters, special offers, promotions, and other information we think may interest you; and for other informational, marketing, or promotional purposes. Our communications with you may include communications via email. Please see our section regarding “Your Choices” for more information about how to change your communications preferences.

 

Research and Analytics. To analyze how you interact with our Services; to monitor and analyze usage and activity trends; and for other research, analytical, and statistical purposes.

 

Protecting Rights and Interests. To protect the safety, rights, property, or security of SDG, the Services, any third party, or the general public; to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues; to prevent or stop activity which SDG, in its sole discretion, may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, an illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity; to use as evidence in litigation; and to enforce this Policy or our Terms of Service.

 

Legal Compliance. To comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations, including as part of a judicial proceeding; to respond to a subpoena, warrant, court order, or other legal process; or as part of an investigation or request from law enforcement or a governmental authority.

How We Share Your Information

We may share your information, including your personal information and User Content, as follows:

Site Users. In certain Services, such as when you establish a user accounts on our education site sdgdecisioneducation.com, your user name and any information that you post, including, without limitation, reviews, comments, and text will be available to, and searchable by, users who are enrolled in the education-related Services.

 

Affiliates. We may disclose your information to current or future affiliates or subsidiaries for research, marketing, and other purposes consistent with this Policy.

 

Service Providers. We may disclose your information to our vendors, service providers, agents, or others who perform functions on our behalf.

 

Other Unaffiliated Third Parties.  We will not disclose your information to third parties who are not affiliated with SDG.

 

Business Transfers. We may disclose your information to another entity in connection with, including during planning for or negotiations of, an acquisition or merger, sale or transfer of a business unit or assets, bankruptcy proceeding, or as part of any other similar business transfer.

 

Protecting Rights and Interests. We may disclose your information to protect the safety, rights, property, or security of SDG, the Services, any third party, or the general public; to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues; to prevent or stop activity which SDG, in its sole discretion, may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, an illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity; to use as evidence in litigation; and to enforce this Policy or our Terms of Service.

 

Legal Compliance. We may disclose your information to comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations, including as part of a judicial proceeding; in response to a subpoena, warrant, court order, or other legal process; or as part of an investigation or request from law enforcement or a government official.

 

Aggregate and De-Identified Information. We may disclose aggregate, anonymous, or de-identified information about users for marketing, advertising, research, compliance, or other purposes.

Cookies and Other Tracking Mechanisms

We and our third-party service providers use cookies and other tracking mechanisms to track information about your use of our Services. We may combine this information with other personal information we collect from you (and our third-party service providers may do so on our behalf).

Cookies. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser for record-keeping purposes. Some cookies allow us to make it easier for you to navigate our Services, while others are used to enable a faster log-in process or to allow us to track your activities while using our Services.  Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your computer from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Visitors to our Services who disable cookies will be able to browse certain areas of the Services, but some features may not function (e.g., you may not be able to stay logged into your account).

Clear GIFs, pixel tags and other technologies. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on your computer’s hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web pages. We may use clear GIFs (also referred to as web beacons, web bugs or pixel tags), in connection with our Services to, among other things, track the activities users of our Services, help us manage content, and compile statistics about usage of our Services. We and our third party service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML emails to our customers, to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.

Do Not Track Disclosure

Our Services do not respond to Do Not Track signals. For more information about Do Not Track signals, please click here. You may, however, disable certain tracking as discussed in the “Cookies and Other Tracking Mechanisms” section above (e.g., by disabling cookies).

Third-Party Analytics

We use automated devices and applications, such as Google Analytics and Lead Forensics, to evaluate usage of our Services. We also may use other analytic means to evaluate our Services. We use these tools to help us improve our Services, performance, and user experiences. These entities may use cookies and other tracking technologies to perform their services.

Third-Party Ad Networks

We use third parties such as network advertisers to display advertisements on our Services, to assist us in displaying advertisements on third-party websites, and to evaluate the success of our advertising campaigns. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits to our Sites as well as other websites. This enables us and these third parties to target advertisements by displaying ads for products and services in which you might be interested.

You may opt-out of many third-party ad networks, including those operated by members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”). For more information regarding this practice by NAI members and DAA members, and your choices regarding having this information used by these companies, including how to opt out of third-party ad networks operated by NAI and DAA members, please visit their respective websites: www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp (NAI) and www.aboutads.info/choices (DAA).

Opting out of one or more NAI member or DAA member networks (many of which will be the same) only means that those members no longer will deliver targeted content or ads to you. It does not mean you will no longer receive any targeted content or ads on our Services or other services. You may continue to receive advertisements, for example, based on the particular website that you are viewing (i.e., contextual advertising). Also, if your browsers are configured to reject cookies when you visit an opt-out page, or you subsequently erase your cookies, use a different computer or change web browsers, your NAI or DAA opt out may no longer be effective.

Third-Party Links

Our Services may contain links to third-party websites  or Services. Any access to and use of such linked websites is not governed by this Policy, but instead is governed by the privacy policies of the third-party operators of websites or services. We are not responsible for the information practices of such third parties. For example, if you fill out a survey on SurveyMonkey, your survey responses and other information you may provide are governed by the SurveyMonkey Privacy Policy.

Security

We have taken steps to protect the personal information we collect from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Please be aware that despite our best efforts, no data security measures can guarantee 100% security.

You should take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your password, phone, and computer by, among other things, signing off after using a shared computer, choosing a robust password that nobody else knows or can easily guess, and keeping your log-in and password private. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen, or compromised passwords or for any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity.

Your Choices

Accessing, Modifying, or Deleting Your Personal Information. You may access, modify, or delete the personal information that you have provided to us by logging into your account settings or emailing us at webmaster@sdg.com with what you would like updated. Please note that we may retain certain information about you as required by law or as permitted by law for legitimate business purposes. For example, if you request that we delete your information but we believe that you have violated our Terms of Service we may retain information about you in order to attempt to resolve the issue before deleting it.   

Opting out of Marketing Emails. We may send periodic promotional or informational emails to you. You may opt out of such communications by following the opt-out instructions contained in the email. Please note that it may take up to ten (10) business days for us to process opt-out requests. If you opt out of receiving emails about recommendations or other information we think may interest you, we may still send you e-mails about your account or any Services you have requested or received from us.

Children Under 13

Our Services are not targeted to children under thirteen (13) years of age and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will promptly delete such personal information from our systems.

Contact Us

If you have questions about the privacy aspects of our Services or would like to make a complaint, please contact us at webmaster@sdg.com.

Changes to this Policy

This Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. We may change this Policy from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any changes, including material changes, to this Policy on our Sites. If we make any changes to this Policy that materially affect our practices with regard to the personal information we have previously collected from you, we will endeavor to provide you with notice in advance of such change by highlighting the change on our Sites.