strand consulting Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy discloses how we gather, use, and protect your personal data.
This Privacy Policy applies to personal data collected by strand consulting through its website or, as described below, by other means during the course of its business.
1. Controller
Responsible data controller is:
strand consulting, [Address], [City, State, Zip], [Country]; Phone: [Phone Number]; E-Mail: [Email]; Website: [Website URL]
You can contact the data protection officer via email at [Data Protection Officer Email]
2. General Information
During the course of carrying out our business and performing our services, strand consulting collects personal data to conduct our business, provide and market our services, and meet our legal obligations. Likewise, we may also collect personal data for other purposes, which we will describe in more detail to you at the point we collect the personal data.
You may refuse to provide us with some or all of your personal data; however, this may limit the ways in which we can interact with you, including providing you with our services.
Your Rights
You have the following rights:
- Right of access: you have the right to request a copy of your personal data.
- Right to rectification or erasure: you have the right to have incorrect personal data corrected, or request your data be deleted in some circumstances.
- Right to restriction of processing: you have the right to prevent further processing for the time being if certain requirements are met.
- Right to object: you have the right to object to processing in some circumstances.
- Right to data portability: you have the right to receive your personal data in a machine-readable format in order to forward it or have it forwarded to another controller if certain requirements are met.
You can exercise these rights by sending us an email at [Data Protection Officer Email]
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the location of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the applicable data protection laws and regulations. If you are unsure who your supervisory authority is, please see [Link to Directory].
3. Logfiles
strand consulting collects personal data through our internet access logs. When you visit our website, your internet address is automatically collected and placed in our internet access logs. We also record the URLs of the pages you visit on our site, the times and dates of such visits, and information about the computer hardware and software you use.
This information may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and version, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, clickstream data, number of visits, websites from which you accessed our site (Referrer), and pages that are accessed by your system via our site.
The processing of this data is necessary for the provision and the security of our website. We do not link this data to certain individuals. After the processing for the mentioned purposes, the data will be deleted.
4. Contact
On our website, we use several contact forms which can be used to get in contact with us electronically. To handle your request it is necessary to provide us with a valid email address, and, in addition, we store your IP address and the time of your request to prevent any misuse of our contact forms. Alternatively, you may contact us via the e-mail addresses cited above. If you use one of these channels, the personal data transmitted will be stored automatically by strand consulting to handle our contact with you.
In some cases we may ask you for further information, such as name, occupation, address, or telephone number.
5. Registration on our website
If you make use of our website to register for certain services or events, or to download eBooks, or to submit a message on one of our contact forms, you will be asked to provide personal data. The information inserted in the respective registration form will be transmitted to strand consulting. This is necessary to provide you with the respective service.
All registration forms hosted on our website will be provided and managed by [Service Provider], as our service provider. The personal data you provide will be collected and stored on our behalf by [Service Provider] and shared with entities within the strand consulting group of companies as related to the underlying processing and subject to strand consulting ensuring that appropriate agreements are in place between the entities, which will include but is not necessarily limited to Model Clause agreements for any transfers between EU/EEA based entities and non-EU/EEA based entities (see listing of strand consulting various entity offices at [Link to Contact Page]).
In addition, [Service Provider] uses functional cookies for analytic purposes. Any non EU/EEA transfer of your personal data in conjunction with the processing by [Service Provider] is covered by Model Clause agreement(s). Upon your registration, your IP-address and date and time of your registration will be collected. This allows us to prevent misuse of our services.
6. Application for Jobs
strand consulting offers the opportunity to apply for jobs through our website. If you submit your personal data, including contact details, experiences, roles, etc., the information you provide will be transmitted to strand consulting.
Please be aware that application forms are provided and managed by [Your Job Application Service Provider], as our service provider. Therefore, the personal data you provide will be collected and stored on our behalf by [Your Job Application Service Provider] and shared with strand consulting for processing your application.
Transfers of your personal data outside of the EU/EEA in conjunction with processing by [Your Job Application Service Provider] are governed by Model Clause agreements.
When you register on the job application portal, your IP address and the date and time of your registration are collected to prevent misuse of our services.
7. Unsolicited Special Categories of Personal Data
Aside from job applications, strand consulting does not typically seek to collect special categories of personal data through our site.
"Special categories of personal data" refer to the types of personal information identified by privacy law as needing special treatment, which in some cases requires explicit consent. These categories can include data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic or biometric data, health-related data, or data concerning a person's sexual orientation.
We advise you not to provide any unsolicited sensitive personal data. strand consulting employs HTTPS and other appropriate technical and organizational measures to secure the personal data transmitted over our website.
8. Newsletter
strand consulting may offer the option to sign up for a periodic email newsletter. You may be asked for additional information such as your name, occupation, address, or telephone number.
By subscribing to our email newsletter, your IP address and the date and time of subscription will be collected and stored. This is to prevent misuse of our services or your email address. The data is used only to distribute the newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions included in each newsletter.
9. Blogs
strand consulting's website features publicly accessible blogs. Please be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others. Our main blog channel is managed internally, and our personal blog channel is managed by [Your Blog Service Provider]. [Your Blog Service Provider] is a news aggregator that compiles news feeds from various online sources, which users can customize and share. We display aggregated blogs from our employees and alumni on our website. A widget is also displayed, which, when clicked, directs users to [Your Blog Service Provider]. More information about [Your Blog Service Provider]'s privacy practices can be found here.
10. Testimonials
strand consulting displays personal testimonials from satisfied clients on our site alongside other endorsements. With your consent, we may post your testimonial along with your name.
11. Cookies (General Information)
strand consulting’s websites utilize cookies to save and retrieve information about your visit. Cookies are small files that store information about your visit to a site within your internet browser, assisting in remembering your preferences and previous activity. For more information about cookies, please visit allaboutcookies.org.
We and our partners (such as marketing partners, affiliates, or analytics providers) use cookies and log files for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movements around the site, and gathering aggregated demographic information about our user base. We may receive anonymized reports from these technologies by our partners. The data also helps provide site content, ensure IT system functionality, and optimize our website. Log file data is stored separately from any other personal data you may provide.
You have the ability to control and refuse the use of cookies at the browser level. Cookies can be deleted if desired. To update your cookie preferences, you should first clear cookies from your browser and then adjust your preferences accordingly. Rejecting cookies may limit your ability to use some features or areas of our website. Cookie settings can be adjusted here.
When you visit our site, you may encounter the following categories of cookies:
11.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are vital for navigating and accessing features on a site. Without them, services you have requested cannot be provided.
11.2 Registered Visitor Cookie
Each registered user receives a unique identifier, which is used to recognize you anonymously throughout your visit and upon your return to the site.
11.3 Performance Cookies
These cookies collect anonymized information that allows us to analyze how visitors use our site and improve its functionality.
11.4 Functional Cookies
These cookies enable our websites and applications to remember choices you make (such as your username or region) and provide more personal features. The information from functional cookies is used to identify user behavior and serve content based on your user profile. They do not track your activity on other websites or collect information for advertising purposes or record your Internet history outside our site.
11.5 Targeting Cookies
To ensure our website services remain relevant, easy to use, and up-to-date, we use web analytics services to understand how people use the site. Cookies enable analytics services to recognize your browser or device and provide insights, such as if you have visited our site before, what you have viewed, and how you found us. The data collected is used for statistical purposes only, assisting us in identifying user activity patterns and interests to enhance user experience.
12. Third Party Applications
strand consulting respects and protects your privacy as outlined in this Privacy Policy. We only share your personal data with third parties in the ways described in this Privacy Policy and do not sell your personal data.
strand consulting shares your personal data with third parties, specifically non-Strand parties, only with your express consent or under another lawful basis for processing under applicable law.
We share your personal data with categories of non-Strand parties that include vendors such as hosting and cloud service providers, marketing and mailing agencies, and subcontractors involved in fulfilling our contractual obligations to our clients.
12.1 AddThis
Our website uses the bookmarking service AddThis by Clearspring Technologies Inc., providing functionality for sharing pages on social media platforms like Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pocket, and WeChat. AddThis uses cookies to collect anonymized data such as IP address, browser details, and page visit history to enable targeted advertising. To opt out of AddThis cookies, visit their privacy opt-out page at AddThis Opt-Out.
12.2 CloudFront
We utilize Amazon CloudFront by Amazon Web Services, Inc. to enhance content delivery speed. CloudFront serves content via a global network of edge locations, optimizing performance based on latency. System logs captured by CloudFront include IP address, geographic server location, country, and timestamp. For detailed privacy information, refer to AWS Privacy.
12.3 Facebook Conversion Pixels
strand consulting employs Facebook’s Custom Audience pixel to track user behavior post-ad interaction on Facebook, aiding in ad performance analysis. Data collection is anonymized. However, Facebook may associate this data with your account for targeted advertising in accordance with their privacy policy, accessible at Facebook Privacy. Consent withdrawal can be made via Facebook Ad Settings.
12.4 Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics for web analysis, employing cookies to track site usage data, which is stored by Google in the US. We activate the "anonymizeIp" extension to protect user privacy. Google may share this data under legal circumstances or with third-party processors. Full usage control can be maintained through Google’s browser add-on, detailed at Google Analytics Opt-Out.
12.5 Google Tag Manager (GTM)
Strand Consulting uses Google Tag Manager (GTM), a tag management system to manage JavaScript and HTML tags used for tracking and analytics on our websites. GTM helps in measuring traffic and visitor behavior, understanding the effect of online advertising and social channels, setting up remarketing and orientation towards target groups, and testing and optimizing websites. We include the following tracking tools using GTM:
- Google Analytics
- Marketo Munchkin
- Facebook Conversion Pixels
- Twitter Tailored Audience
If you have opted out of tracking, GTM respects this setting. More information about GTM’s privacy practices can be found at Google Privacy Policies and Google Tag Manager Use Policy.
12.6 Greenhouse Tracking Links
Strand Consulting uses Greenhouse Tracking Links to track the effectiveness of advertising and promotional channels for job applications submitted through our Greenhouse forms. These tracking links are URL parameters attached to inbound links to our job postings, allowing us to understand which channels are most effective in directing applicants to our job postings.
12.7 Libsyn
Strand Consulting uses Libsyn, an audio hosting service and publishing tool, to host our external-facing podcasts on platforms like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Play. We embed a Libsyn-generated web player onto our podcast landing pages. For more details on Libsyn’s privacy policy, visit Libsyn Privacy Policy.
12.8 LinkedIn Insight Tags
We use LinkedIn Insight Tags on our website to gather in-depth campaign reporting and insights about our website visitors. The LinkedIn Insight Tag collects data on members’ visits, including URL, referrer, IP address, device, and browser characteristics, and timestamps. The data is encrypted, anonymized, and deleted within 90 days. LinkedIn provides aggregated reports on website audience and ad performance and allows for retargeting of website visitors without identifying individual members. More information is in accordance with LinkedIn’s terms and Cookie Policies.
12.9 LinkedIn SlideShare
Strand Consulting uses LinkedIn SlideShare, a Web 2.0-based slide hosting service by LinkedIn Corporation, for sharing presentations and PDFs on our website. LinkedIn SlideShare’s plugins log usage data such as views, clicks, searches, and application updates. For more information, see LinkedIn SlideShare’s Privacy Policy.
12.10 Marketo Munchkin
Strand Consulting uses third-party marketing software from Marketo for email communications. Marketo, Inc., located at 901 Mariners Island Boulevard, Suite 500, San Mateo, CA 94404 USA, provides this service. We utilize identifiable Marketo cookies for tracking, enabling us to gather information on email open rates, click-through rates, and website activity. For registered users, this data may be linked to your user profile. More information on Marketo’s privacy and cookie policy can be found here.
We embed a Munchkin JavaScript snippet on our site. When visitors come to our site, a cookie is placed in their web browser to track web activity. Munchkin captures page visits, link clicks, IP addresses, referrers, and our cookie ID. If you prefer not to have this cookie placed, you can opt out using the Do Not Track (DNT) feature in your browser.
12.11 Salesforce
Salesforce.com, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a cloud-based software company. Salesforce offers interfaces for case and task management, automatic routing, and escalation of important events. It also includes a customer portal for case tracking, social networking plugins, analytical tools, and more.
For our marketing, personal data stored in Marketo is transferred to Salesforce, where it is managed by our sales team. More information about Salesforce’s privacy practices can be read at Salesforce Privacy.
12.12 Drift Email
Strand Consulting utilizes Drift Email by Siftrock, headquartered at 625 1st Avenue Suite 300, Seattle, WA 98104 United States, for managing and mining marketing email replies. This improves database hygiene and email reply management for marketing automation.
Siftrock helps us parse direct emails received by our marketing team and update sender information in Marketo and Salesforce. Details about Siftrock's policies for collecting and processing user information can be found at Siftrock Privacy.
12.13 SoundCloud
Strand Consulting uses SoundCloud, an online audio distribution platform by SoundCloud Limited, for sharing podcasts and integrating audio content on our website. This service allows users to upload, record, promote, and share their sounds. Interaction with SoundCloud plugins on our website provides SoundCloud with information about your site visits. SoundCloud's privacy practices can be found at SoundCloud Privacy.
12.14 SumoLogic
Strand Consulting utilizes Sumo Logic, a cloud-based log management and analytics service by Sumo Logic, Inc. This service is used for managing big data and providing real-time IT insights. Sumo Logic collects various types of information including IP addresses, session IDs, browser and version, and OS details for debugging and monitoring purposes. For more details, visit Sumo Logic Privacy Statement.
12.15 Twitter Tailored Audience
Strand Consulting uses Twitter’s tailored audience tool for remarketing campaigns and targeting existing users. This tool helps in targeting activities such as reaching out to users or visitors of the Strand Consulting website and retargeting previous customer lists. More details about Twitter's policies can be found at Twitter Policies for Conversion Tracking.
12.16 Urchin Tracking Module (UTM)
Strand Consulting uses UTM tags for marketing campaigns. UTM tags are part of URLs used in marketing programs to track user interactions like website visits, link clicks, or event sign-ups. The data collected helps in understanding marketing activity and improving audience engagement.
12.17 Wistia/Tencent
Strand Consulting uses Wistia for hosting and managing video content on our website. Wistia, provided by Wistia, Inc., offers features like CDN, quality control, and subtitle addition. Interaction with Wistia-hosted videos provides usage information to Wistia. For more information on Wistia's privacy practices, visit Wistia Privacy.
For users in China, we use Tencent for video hosting due to regional restrictions on Wistia. Tencent's privacy policy is available at Tencent Privacy.
12.18 Zoom Communications
Strand Consulting uses Zoom Video Communications for virtual events and webinars. The information collected during registration is shared with Zoom to facilitate user participation. More information on Zoom's data collection and processing can be found at Zoom Privacy and Legal.
12.19 TinyLetter
Strand Consulting Arts team employs TinyLetter, a newsletter platform by The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a Mailchimp, for sending newsletters and updates. TinyLetter, being a simplified version of MailChimp, is used for Strand Consulting Arts publications. More information can be found in the global privacy statement of Intuit family of companies, which includes MailChimp, at Intuit Privacy.
12.20 Demandbase One Tag
Strand Consulting uses the “Demandbase One Tag” by Demandbase, Inc. This tag is utilized for analyzing inbound traffic from Demandbase sources, optimizing the performance of our marketing campaigns, including retargeted advertising, measuring conversion performance, and attributing advertising spend. Demandbase reads IP addresses and cookies of our visitors to identify their company affiliations, allowing us to measure company-level interest. More information about Demandbase’s privacy practices can be found at Demandbase Privacy.
12.21 ZoomInfo WebSights
Strand Consulting employs “ZoomInfo WebSights” by ZoomInfo Technologies LLC. This tool is used to understand which companies visit our website and their interest in our services. It collects IP address and email domain information from visitors who accept optional cookies and processes this data at the company level. For more details, visit ZoomInfo Privacy Policy.
12.22 Coveo Library
Strand Consulting uses “Coveo Library” by Coveo Software Corp. for in-site search term analytics. Coveo Library uses an optional performance cookie and anonymizes collected search term information to train our machine learning algorithms for improving in-site search. For more information, see Coveo Privacy Policy.
12.23 StackAdapt
Strand Consulting uses ‘StackAdapt’ by StackAdapt Inc. for online advertising effectiveness reporting and personalizing interest-based advertising. StackAdapt collects information such as user IP Address, unique identifiers, and referral web pages. More details about StackAdapt’s privacy practices can be found at StackAdapt Privacy Policy.
12.24 Microsoft Ads User Engagement Tracking
Strand Consulting utilizes Microsoft Ads' User Engagement Tracking (UET) to gain insights into website visitors, track digital advertising performance, and deliver targeted ads. Microsoft provides aggregated reports about the audience and ad performance and enables retargeting without identifying individuals. More information about Microsoft’s privacy practices is available at Microsoft Legal Privacy and Security.
12.25 ReverseAds
Strand Consulting utilizes ‘ReverseAds’ by ReverseAds Pte Ltd for targeted digital advertising campaigns. ReverseAds collects information like IP addresses, device information, and location data. Personal information such as names, phone numbers, email addresses, and job titles may also be collected. This data is used for sales and marketing purposes and to evaluate the performance of our advertising campaigns. More details can be found at ReverseAds Privacy Policy.
12.26 Albacross
Strand Consulting uses Albacross for visitor identification and ad targeting services. Albacross processes information collected from optional targeting cookies set on visitors' devices. The data collected is used to improve our services and for targeted advertising towards companies. More information on Albacross's data processing can be found in Albacross’ Privacy Policy.
12.27 Qualtrics
Strand Consulting employs “Qualtrics” for various types of surveys, which may collect personal data and survey responses. A Strictly Necessary cookie is required for the proper functioning of Qualtrics surveys. We may store and use survey response data for analytics purposes and, in some cases, transfer data to our Marketo and Salesforce systems with user consent. More information about Qualtrics’ privacy practices can be found here.
12.28 Microsoft Clarity
Strand Consulting uses “Microsoft Clarity” to capture user interactions on our website for behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay. Data collected includes device and browser information, interaction data, and referral URLs. This information is used to analyze user behavior, identify errors, and improve the web experience. No personally identifiable information is collected in this process. More details about data collection can be found here, and Microsoft's privacy statement is available here.
13. Adobe Experience Cloud
Strand Consulting uses Adobe Experience Cloud solutions to personalize and improve the performance of our website and social media pages. It collects and analyzes visitor interactions, such as clicks, to deliver more relevant messages in our marketing campaigns. More information on Adobe Experience Cloud can be found here.
Social Media Links
You can find Strand Consulting on the following social media platforms:
- Youtube
These social media providers are responsible for the data processing activities on their respective platforms.
14. Deletion and Term of Storage
Strand Consulting processes and stores personal data only as long as necessary for the purpose stated in this Privacy Policy and as permitted by applicable laws or regulations. Once the purpose for data storage is achieved, or the relevant term of storage expires, your personal data will be deleted in accordance with this and any other applicable Strand Consulting policies, unless required for contract formation or performance.
15. Changes to the Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically. In the event of significant changes, we will endeavor to provide a more prominent notice of the changes.