Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how Gere Consulting Associates LLC handles the information learned and received from visitors to our website, prospective clients signing up for a complimentary consultation or contacting us via email.
Gere Consulting Associates LLC operates the following website www.gereconsulting.com (“our Website”) to which this Privacy Policy applies.
By visiting, using and/or submitting information to the our Website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy and the terms and conditions of Gere Consulting Associates LLC Agreement of Terms of Use located here.
Any personally identifying information provided to Gere Consulting Associates LLC is voluntary and used to fulfill a request or to assist in servicing those requests.
Collection of Personally Identifiable Information
Many of the features of our Website are available to you without providing personally identifiable information. However, the following are certain situations in which Gere Consulting Associates LLC may collect personally identifiable information from you:
- Registration for Newsletters. If you register online for one of Gere Consulting Associates LLC newsletters, we may request personally identifiable information such as your name, e-mail address, ZIP code, occupation, industry you work in, and other personal and/or demographic information.
- Forms. We may collect personally identifiable information from you if you choose to complete any of the forms, profiles, or surveys on our Website.
- Correspondence. If you send Gere Consulting Associates LLC personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send Gere Consulting Associates LLC correspondence about your activities on our Website, we may choose to collect and maintain such information in a file specific to you.
- Business Partners. GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC may receive your personally identifiable information from one of GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC’s business partners when you sign up for a joint webinar, a conference or any such event.
Use of Personally Identifiable Information
GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC may use your personally identifiable information to improve and customize the content you receive from the GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, and, to contact you about special offers and new products.
Your personally identifiable information may also be aggregated and used by GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC for market research, project planning, troubleshooting problems, detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other unlawful activity, to enforce GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC’s Terms of Use, for other internal purposes, and/or as otherwise described to you at the time of collection. GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC will obtain your consent for any use of your personally identifiable information beyond the original uses for which you provided your consent.
You agree that GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC may use personal information about you to improve GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC’s marketing and promotional efforts, analyze site usage, improve GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC’s content and product offerings, customize our Website content, layout, and services, and as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy. You also agree that GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC may use your personal information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, is specifically targeted to you, such as targeted banner advertisements, administrative notices, product offerings, and communications relevant to your use of our Website. By accepting the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information.
Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information
GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC does not currently share, loan, rent or sell your personally identifiable information However, the following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed in the normal scope of business to provide GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC services:
- External Service Providers. There are a number of separate services offered by third parties, including, without limitation, GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC affiliates, that GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC refers to as external service providers that may be complementary to your use of GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC Website). By using GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC you choose to disclose information to the external service providers, and/or grant them permission to collect information about you, then their use of your information is governed by their privacy policy. GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC does not disclose your personally identifiable information to external service providers unless it is a joint activity between Gere Consulting Associates LLC and its partners. With your consent, GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC may provide some of your personal information to the external service provider. To prevent GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC’s disclosure of your personally identifiable information to an external service provider, you can decline such consent or simply not use their services. You should evaluate the practices of external service providers before deciding to use their services.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC reserves the right and you authorize GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC to share or disclose your personally identifiable information when GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC determines, in its sole discretion, that the disclosure of your personally identifiable information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against you if:
- You are or may be violating this Privacy Policy or GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC’s Terms of Use;
- You are interfering with another’s rights or property, including, without limitation, GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC’s rights or property;
- You are violating any applicable law, rule or regulation;
- It is necessary or required by any applicable law, rule or regulation; and/or
- It is requested by authorized federal, state or other regulatory authorities in the event of any act of terrorism or instance of local, regional or national emergency.
Personally identifiable information and other personal information collected from you may also be transferred to a third party as a result of a sale, acquisition, merger, reorganization, other transfer or bankruptcy (a “Transfer”) involving GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC. GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC specifically reserves the right to transfer personally identifiable information collected from GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC Website, and any of its databases, together with any personally identifiable information contained therein, to a third party in connection with a Transfer, and nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to interfere with the ability of GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC to transfer all or part of its business and/or assets (including GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC Website) to independent third party at any time, for any purpose, without any limitation whatsoever.
GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC may be forced to disclose personal information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Therefore, although GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC uses industry standard practices to protect your privacy,
GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC does not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private.
Changes to Personally Identifiable Information and Use Preferences
You may, at any time, request a copy of GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC’s record of your personally identifiable information, change your personally identifiable information or use preferences, or opt-out of GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC’s use of your personally identifiable information by contacting GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC via any of the methods set forth below:
Telephone: 757-303-1635
Email: annelise@gereconsulting.com
Newsletters and CAN-SPAM Act Compliance
The GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC Website are fully compliant with the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (“CAN-SPAM Act”). GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC sends only verified, double-opt-in e-mail newsletters, specifically requested by GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC subscribers.
Subscriptions to GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC newsletters are verified by sending an e-mail confirmation to your e-mail address, which requires a positive response before an e-mail address is added to GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC’s list.
Cookie Technology
“Cookies” are alphanumeric identifiers in the form of text files that are inserted and stored by your web browser on your computer’s hard drive. GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC may set and access cookies on your computer to track and store preferential information about you. GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC gathers anonymous information about its users through cookie technology on an aggregate level only. Such aggregated information is used solely within GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC’s internal organization, including its internal service providers, and is not shared with other third parties.
Web Beacons
“Web beacons”, also called single-pixels (1×1) or clear GIFs, are electronic images that allow a website to access cookies and help track marketing campaigns and general usage patterns of visitors to those websites. Web beacons can recognize certain types of information, such as cookie numbers, time and date of a page view and a description of the page where the Web beacon is placed. No personally identifiable information about you is shared with third parties (other than internal service providers) through the use of web beacons.
- Internal use of web beacons. GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC may use web beacons internally to count users and recognize users through cookies. Access to cookies helps GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC personalize your experience when you visit GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC Websites.
- Email. GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC may include web beacons in HTML-formatted email messages that GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC, its affiliates or agents send. Including web beacons in email messages helps GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC determine the effectiveness of such emails.
- External use of web beacons. GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC may also use web beacons externally. For example, GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC may report aggregate information about GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC website users, such as demographic and usage information, to its partners and other third parties. GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC may also include other company’s web beacons within GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC Websites.
Security
Personally identifiable information you submit to GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC is password-protected for your privacy and security. In the unlikely event that an unauthorized third party compromises GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC security measures, GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC will not be responsible for any damages directly or indirectly caused by an unauthorized third party’s ability to view, use or disseminate such information.
Links to Other Websites
GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC Website may include links to other third party Web sites. Such links are not an endorsement by GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC of those Web sites and/or the products or services offered at such Web sites. Third party Web sites may have different privacy policies and GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC is not responsible for the practices of those third party Web sites. If you click on a link to a third party Web site, GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC encourages you to check the privacy policy of that Web site, as it may differ substantially from that of this Privacy Policy.
Access and Use of GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC Websites
GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC Website is intended to be accessed and used only by adults and are not directed to children under the age of 18. GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC does not knowingly permit registration or submission of personally identifiable information by anyone under the age of 18.
DATA RETENTION
We retain your information for as long as necessary to permit us to use it for the purposes that we have communicated to you.
TRANSFER TO US OR OTHER COUNTRIES
Your information may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country where GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC has facilities, and by subscribing to and/or using our publications, you consent to the transfer of information outside of your country.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California Law permits our customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please write to us at: annelise@gereconsulting.com.
Please include your name and the address to which you would like us to respond.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC reserves the right to update, amend and/or change this Privacy Policy at any time in its sole discretion and without notice. Updates to this Privacy Policy will be posted here. Any information GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC collects from you online is subject only to GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC’s most current Privacy Policy. You are encouraged to revisit this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to review any changes that have been made. GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC’s last update was February 2018.
Your continued access and use of GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC’s Websites following the posting of any such changes shall automatically be deemed your acceptance of the same.
Questions or Concerns
If you have questions, comments, concerns or feedback regarding this Privacy Policy, please send an e-mail to annelise@gereconsulting.com.
Governing Law; Arbitration
This Privacy Policy is to be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without regard for principles of conflicts of laws. Any civil action, claim, dispute or proceeding arising out of, or relating to, this Privacy Policy shall be referred to final and binding arbitration, before a single arbitrator, under the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association in Newport News, VA. You and GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC shall select the arbitrator, and if you and GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC are unable to reach agreement on selection of the arbitrator within sixty (60) days after the notice of arbitration is served, then the American Arbitration Association shall select the arbitrator. Arbitration shall not commence until the party requesting it has deposited Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) with the arbitrator as a retainer for the arbitrator’s fees and costs. The party requesting arbitration shall advance such sums as are required from time to time by the arbitrator to pay the arbitrator’s fees and costs until the prevailing party is determined or the parties have agreed in writing to an alternate allocation of fees and costs.
Judgment upon any award rendered by the arbitrator shall be final, binding and conclusive upon you and GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC, and your and GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC’s respective administrators, executors, legal representatives, successors and assigns, and may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, in no event shall either you or GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC be entitled to punitive, special, indirect or consequential damages, and both you and GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC hereby waive your rights to any punitive, special, indirect or consequential damages, including, but not limited to, damages for any loss of profit, revenue or business.
Miscellaneous
If any portion of this Privacy Policy is deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable by any arbitrator, this Privacy Policy as a whole shall not be deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable, but only that portion of this Privacy Policy that is unlawful, void or unenforceable shall be stricken from this Privacy Policy.
The headings contained in this Privacy Policy are for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part of this Privacy Policy, and shall not limit or otherwise affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Privacy Policy.
All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made in this Privacy Policy, as may be amended by GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC from time to time, shall survive your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use represent the entire understanding and agreement between you and GERE CONSULTING ASSOCIATES LLC regarding the subject matter of the same, and supersede all other previous agreements, understandings and/or representations regarding the same.