Purpose and Scope

Botoff Consulting, LLC ("Botoff," "Botoff Consulting," "we," "our," or "us") respects privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly. This Website Privacy Policy ("Policy") explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit our website at www.botoffconsulting.com (the "Website"), submit information through the Website, register for online events or communications, purchase offerings through the Website if available, or otherwise interact with us online.

This Policy is a notice of our privacy practices and is not intended to create contractual rights or obligations except to the extent incorporated into a written agreement with Botoff Consulting. If a signed agreement, statement of work, nondisclosure agreement, data processing agreement, or separate privacy notice applies to a consulting engagement or other relationship with us, that agreement or notice controls for that relationship.

This Policy does not apply to:

·       Personal information we process under a client consulting engagement or other professional-services agreement, except where that agreement expressly incorporates this Policy.

·       Third-party websites, applications, platforms, social-media pages, content, advertising, analytics tools, or payment processors that may link to or from the Website.

·       Employment, job-applicant, contractor, or personnel information unless a separate notice says otherwise.

Personal Information We Collect

"Personal information" means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked with a particular person or household. It does not include information that is publicly available, deidentified, aggregated, or otherwise excluded from applicable privacy laws.

Depending on how you interact with the Website, we may collect the following categories of personal information:

·       Identifiers and contact information: name, business name, job title, mailing address, email address, telephone number, and similar contact details.

·       Account, event, and transaction information: information related to registrations, subscriptions, purchases, billing, fulfillment, and payment confirmations. Payment-card information is processed by our payment processor and should not be submitted to us outside secure payment channels.

·       Communications and submitted content: messages, form submissions, survey responses, feedback, requests, and other information you choose to provide.

·       Professional or business information: company affiliation, role, industry, professional interests, and related information that you provide in connection with business inquiries, events, or services.

·       Website, device, and usage information: IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring and exit pages, pages viewed, date and time of visits, search queries, cookie identifiers, and similar internet or electronic network activity information.

·       Marketing and preference information: newsletter subscriptions, communication preferences, event preferences, and information about your interaction with our communications.

·       Other information: any other information you choose to provide or that we collect with your consent or as permitted by law.

Please do not submit confidential, proprietary, regulated, or sensitive personal information through general Website forms unless we specifically request it and provide an appropriate secure channel or a governing agreement. We do not intentionally request sensitive personal information through general Website forms.

How We Collect Personal Information

We may collect personal information from the following sources:

·       Directly from you: for example, when you submit a Website form, contact us, register for communications or events, request information, or make a purchase if online purchases are available.

·       Automatically: through cookies, pixels, tags, logs, analytics tools, and similar technologies when you interact with the Website or our electronic communications.

·       From service providers and business partners: such as payment processors, event platforms, analytics providers, marketing vendors, and other third parties that support our Website and business operations.

·       From public or permitted sources: such as public websites, professional directories, social-media platforms, or other sources where permitted by law.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

The Website may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, tags, analytics tools, and similar technologies to operate the Website, remember preferences, understand Website usage, improve performance, measure communications, and help protect the Website.

You can usually set your browser to refuse or delete cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable cookies, some parts of the Website may not function properly. The Website may not recognize every browser-based "Do Not Track" signal. Where applicable law requires us to honor a recognized opt-out preference signal and our Website uses technologies subject to that requirement, we will honor the signal as required by law.

How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information for the following purposes:

·       To operate, maintain, improve, and secure the Website and our online communications.

·       To respond to inquiries, fulfill requests, provide information, administer events, process transactions, and deliver products or services you request.

·       To communicate with you about Botoff Consulting, our services, publications, events, thought leadership, and other offerings that may interest you, subject to your marketing choices and applicable law.

·       To personalize and improve your experience with the Website and our communications.

·       To analyze Website usage, troubleshoot issues, measure performance, and develop new or improved offerings.

·       To protect Botoff Consulting, our Website, our clients, and others, including by detecting, preventing, and responding to security incidents, fraud, misuse, or illegal activity.

·       To comply with legal obligations, lawful requests, court orders, subpoenas, regulatory inquiries, and recordkeeping requirements.

·       To enforce our agreements, terms, policies, and rights, and to pursue or defend legal claims.

·       To evaluate or complete a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale, transfer, or other corporate transaction involving all or part of our business or assets.

·       For any other purpose disclosed when you provide the information, with your consent, or as otherwise permitted by law.

We may also create or use aggregated, anonymized, or deidentified information for any lawful purpose, and we will not attempt to reidentify it except as permitted by applicable law.

How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients:

·       Service providers and contractors: vendors that provide hosting, marketing, customer relationship management, security, payment, event-management, professional, and other business-support services.

·       Payment processors: third-party payment processors, such as Authorize.net or its successors or affiliates, to process payments if payment functionality is offered through the Website. Their privacy practices are governed by their own notices.

·       Business partners: Business partners involved in events, publications, or services, where appropriate and consistent with applicable law.

·       Professional advisers: lawyers, auditors, insurers, consultants, and other professional advisers.

·       Legal, safety, and enforcement recipients: courts, regulators, law enforcement, government authorities, counterparties, and other recipients when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to comply with law, respond to legal process, protect rights, property, safety, or security, prevent fraud, or enforce agreements.

·       Transaction parties: actual or prospective buyers, lenders, investors, successors, or other parties in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, bankruptcy, sale, or transfer of all or part of our business or assets.

·       Recipients you authorize: other parties when you direct us to disclose the information, consent to the disclosure, or interact with features that make the disclosure apparent.

·       Aggregated or deidentified recipients: recipients of information that does not identify and cannot reasonably be linked to a particular person, as permitted by law.

We do not sell personal information for money. We do not knowingly sell or share personal information of individuals under 16. If our use of analytics, advertising, or similar technologies is considered a "sale," "sharing," or targeted advertising under an applicable privacy law, we will provide the notices and choices required by that law.

Your Choices

·       Marketing communications: You may opt out of marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link in an email or by contacting us at info@botoffconsulting.com. Even if you opt out of marketing messages, we may continue to send administrative, transactional, legal, or service-related communications.

·       Cookies: You may manage cookies through your browser settings and, where available, through Website cookie tools or preference mechanisms.

·       Updating information: You may contact us to request that we update or correct personal information you previously provided.

Privacy Rights Requests

Depending on your location and the laws that apply to us and to your personal information, you may have rights to:

·       Request access to or a copy of personal information we maintain about you.

·       Request information about the categories of personal information we collect, use, disclose, sell, share, or otherwise process.

·       Request correction of inaccurate personal information.

·       Request deletion of personal information, subject to legal exceptions.

·       Request portability of certain personal information.

·       Opt out of targeted advertising, or certain profiling, where those activities occur and the applicable law provides such rights.

·       Limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information, where applicable.

·       Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent, without affecting processing that occurred before withdrawal.

·       Appeal a decision we make about a privacy request, where applicable law provides an appeal right.

·       Not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights.

To exercise a privacy right, email us at info@botoffconsulting.com with the subject line "Privacy Request." We may need to verify your identity and authority before fulfilling a request. You may use an authorized agent where applicable law allows, but we may require proof of authorization and may ask you to verify your identity directly with us. We will respond within the time required by applicable law and may deny, limit, or charge a fee for requests where permitted by law, including where a legal exception applies or where a request is excessive, repetitive, unfounded, or unverifiable.

Additional Notice for Certain U.S. State Residents

This section applies only to residents of U.S. states whose comprehensive privacy laws apply to our processing of their personal information. It supplements the rest of this Policy and does not limit any broader rights you may have under applicable law.

During the 12 months before the effective date of this Policy, we may have collected the categories of personal information described in Section 2, from the sources described in Section 3, for the purposes described in Section 5, and disclosed them to the categories of recipients described in Section 6. We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information through general Website forms, and we do not use sensitive personal information collected through the Website to infer characteristics about you.

We do not currently sell personal information for money. We do not disclose personal information for third parties’ own direct marketing purposes. If we engage in targeted advertising, cross-context behavioral advertising, or any activity treated as a sale or sharing under an applicable state privacy law, we will provide any required opt-out mechanism.

Children’s Privacy

The Website is intended for a general business audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13. The Website is not intended for individuals under 16, and we do not knowingly sell or share personal information of individuals under 16. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us through the Website, please contact us at info@botoffconsulting.com and we will take appropriate steps to delete the information or otherwise comply with applicable law.

Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information in our possession from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. No website, system, network, or transmission is completely secure. You are responsible for using secure networks and devices and for protecting any account credentials or communications you send to us.

Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including to provide the Website and requested services, maintain business records, comply with legal, tax, accounting, contractual, and recordkeeping obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, maintain security, and pursue legitimate business purposes. The applicable retention period depends on the nature of the information, the purpose for which it was collected, operational needs, legal requirements, and applicable limitation periods. When personal information is no longer needed, we will delete, deidentify, aggregate, or otherwise handle it in accordance with our retention practices and applicable law.

International Visitors and Transfers

Botoff Consulting is based in the United States. If you access the Website or provide personal information from outside the United States, your personal information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other jurisdictions that may not provide the same level of data protection as your jurisdiction. Where required, we rely on legally recognized transfer mechanisms, such as adequacy decisions, standard contractual clauses, contracts, consent, or other safeguards or derogations recognized by applicable law. We do not claim participation in any transfer-certification program unless we expressly state that participation in a separate notice or certification listing.

Additional Notice for EEA and UK Individuals

If you are located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom and the GDPR, UK GDPR, or similar law applies to our processing of your personal information, Botoff Consulting, LLC is the controller of personal information collected through the Website unless a separate agreement states otherwise.

Our lawful bases for processing may include: legitimate interests in operating and improving the Website, responding to inquiries, communicating about our business, protecting security, and managing our business; performance of a contract or steps taken at your request before entering into a contract; compliance with legal obligations; and consent where required for certain communications, cookies, or other processing. You may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to processing of your personal information; withdraw consent; and request portability of certain personal information. You also may have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. You are generally not required by law to provide personal information through the Website, but we may not be able to respond to requests, provide communications, process transactions, or administer events without certain information.

We do not make decisions based solely on automated processing of Website personal information that produce legal effects or similarly significant effects concerning you.

Third-Party Links and Services

The Website may contain links to third-party websites, content, applications, platforms, or services. We are not responsible for the privacy, security, or content practices of third parties. Review the privacy notices of those third parties before providing information to them.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will take reasonable steps to provide notice as required by law, such as posting the updated Policy on the Website and updating the "Last Updated" date. The updated Policy applies to personal information collected or processed after the effective date of the update, and to prior information to the extent permitted by law.

Contact Us

To ask questions about this Policy or our privacy practices, or to submit a privacy request, contact us at:

Botoff Consulting, LLC

Email: info@botoffconsulting.com

Website: www.botoffconsulting.com