This is the Privacy Statement and Policy (“Privacy Statement”) for Blakely Partners services, and the websites associated with them as defined below.

Blakely Consulting, LLC (DBA “Blakely Partners”) provide a variety of consulting and related services as described at www.blakelypartners.com (“Site”). Under this Privacy Policy, Blakely Consulting, LLC is referred to as “Blakely Partners” or “we, us, and/or our”.

Blakely Partners understands that your privacy is important. We are committed to protecting your privacy and personal information you provide or as you access and use materials on www.blakelypartners.com (the "Site"), including the Site subscription pages or other websites or apps that post a link to this Privacy Statement. In addition, information that you submit to Blakely Partners in response to an email request for information or other outreach from Blakely Partners will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT

Please read our Privacy Policy carefully prior to using our Services (as defined below), and/or submitting information through the Site or the Platform. This Privacy Policy is a legally binding agreement between you and Blakely Partners. If you do not consent to or understand all of the provisions of our Privacy Policy, you are not authorized to use the Site or the Platform, and you should stop using the Site and the Platform.

Information Collection and Use

Personal Data

When you provide Personal Data to us, we use it to provide you with access to the requested Services, content, or information. We may also use your Personal Data to:

·      Carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you, your employer, and us.

·      Provide technical administration and customer support.

·      Respond to your inquiries.

·      Send important notices, such as communications about purchases and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.

·      Deliver products and services you purchase or request.

·      Provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us.

·      Provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about.

·      Notify you about changes to our Site, Platform, or Services.

·      Ensure that the Platform is presented in the most effective manner for you.

·      Inform you about scheduled Site and Platform downtimes and new features.

·      Allow you to participate in interactive features of our Site and Platform when you choose to do so.

·      Keep our Services safe and secure.

·      Enforce legal agreements that we’ve executed with you.

·      Protect against or identify fraudulent transactions.

Organization & Feedback Data

We use Organization Data and Feedback Data to provide Services to you and your employer. We do not aggregate this data; however, we may use Organization Data specific to your organization to measure trends and behavior in connection with our Platform and improve the Services provided to you.

Anonymous Data

We collect, analyze and use Anonymous Data to help us provide you with a better user experience. For example, we keep track of how often or how many times an organization provides feedback on our Platform. When we use Anonymous Data, we do so in a way that keeps your Personal Data anonymous. By way of example, we use Anonymous Data to:

·      Analyze our audience size and usage patterns.

·      Develop, deliver, and improve our Services.

Information From Other Sources

We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

Disclosure of Your Information

Blakely Partners is not in the business of sharing or selling Personal Data. We consider this information to be a vital part of our relationship with you. However, in addition to specific consent provided by you, there are certain circumstances in which we may share Personal Data, Organization Data, and Feedback Data with third parties without further notice to you, as set forth below:

·      Business Transfers. As we develop our business, we may buy, sell or reorganize businesses or assets. In the event of such sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event, data we collect may be part of the transferred assets.

·      Affiliated Companies. We may also share data with our subsidiaries, affiliates and other related companies for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy and providing you with the Services.

·      Agents, Consultants and Service Providers. Blakely Partners, like many businesses, sometimes hires other companies to perform certain business-related functions. Examples of such functions include mailing information, maintaining databases, and processing payments. When we employ another company to perform a function of this nature, we only provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function, and we only allow them to process that information for the purposes the information was collected.

·      To Provide You Services. Our Platform, by its nature, shares Personal Data, Organization Data, and Feedback Data between employers and their employees or contractors. This is core to the Platform, and we cannot provide the Services without disclosing this data.

·      Legal Requirements. Blakely Partners may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation; (ii) enforce, protect or defend the rights or property of Blakely Partners our customers, or others; (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of this Site or the public; or (iv) protect against legal liability; (v) to enforce or apply our legal  agreements; (vi) for fraud prevention; or (vii) credit risk reduction.

Data Retention

Blakely Partners 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. When subscribing to our e-mail newsletters, you are given the opportunity to select which promotions, news, and information you would like to receive at the time of sign up, and you will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from such communications.

Cookies

We use cookies, beacons, or similar technologies on our Site to measure inbound traffic and understand how our Site is used and what’s driving traffic to our Site. The cookies we use are implemented by Squarespace, which details the cookies it uses for these purposes here: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507. 

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

·      To facilitate our Service;

·      To provide the Service on our behalf;

·      To perform Service-related services; or

·      To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

We want to inform our Service users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Security

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Third Parties

This Site may contain links to external sites which are not governed by this Privacy Statement. Blakely Partners 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.

In addition, if you are an employee or contractor of an organization that uses our Services, please be advised that Blakely Partners does not have control over how your employer chooses to use personal information you have disclosed to them, and this privacy policy only covers what we do with your information if disclosed to us by you or your employer. If you have questions about your rights with respect to personal information held by your employer, you should contact your employer directly.

Children's Privacy

Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 18. In the case we discover that a child under 18 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.

International Visitors

The Sites are hosted in and provided from the United States and are intended for those visiting the United States. If you use the Sites from the European Union (EU), Canada, or other countries or regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that you are transferring your Personal Information to the United States for storage and processing. The United States does not have the same data protection laws as the EU, Canada, and other countries or regions.

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. 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.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at contact@blakelypartners.com.

Last updated: March 10, 2022