COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Wise Consulting Associates website visitors are not required to provide personal information, but Wise Consulting Associates may ask that visitors register with the website to obtain certain content and materials. Through the registration process, Wise Consulting Associates may ask for information such as your email address, name, work address, and telephone number.

Wise Consulting Associates may also collect and track information about your interaction with the Wise Consulting Associates website. Wise Consulting Associates may use website analytics tools to retrieve information from your browser, including the referring site, the search keywords you use to find our site, and the pages you view within our site.

Wise Consulting Associates uses "cookies'' to collect information about our web visitors. Cookies are small files that websites place on your hard drive to store and track user information in an effort to customize your experience on the associated web site.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Wise Consulting Associates collects personal information for the purpose of identifying its web visitors, and Wise Consulting Associates may deliver content and services that are designed specifically for visitors based on their profile. Wise Consulting Associates follows the regulatory guidelines of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ISO 27001 requirements to protect your personal data and information security. GDPR regulation focuses on protecting personal data, data confidentiality, and managing the risks to the rights of EU citizens, residents and US entities which transfer data between the EU. ISO 27001’s framework offers guidance on how organizations can implement clear and actionable policies for reducing risks that generate security incidents.

Wise Consulting Associates may also use your personal information to deliver email or standard mail communications. For example, Wise Consulting Associates may distribute emails to website visitors that contain information about Wise Consulting Associates products and services. Additionally, Wise Consulting Associates purposes of using your personal data includes:

  • Providing our Services and related support
  • Analyzing and improving our Services
  • Communicating with you
  • Advertising, marketing and promotional purposes (see Use of Remarketing for Google Analytics)
  • In support of our general business operations
  • Securing and protecting your data protection and security rights

Wise Consulting Associates will only share your information within its organization and its subcontractors. Your data will not be shared with third parties or other countries.

OPTIONS FOR WEBSITE VISITORS

Registration is not required to access the website. Website visitors can choose to bypass the registration process. For visitors that register and receive email communications, you may opt-out of these communications by selecting the corresponding action on a delivered email. You can also choose to delete your browser cookies which will remove the information collected by the Wise Consulting Associates website. Refer to your browser help files for instructions on how to delete cookies.

Your use of the Wise Consulting Associates web site is subject to this Privacy Policy. Wise Consulting Associates reserves the right to modify this policy, and changes will be posted to this Privacy Policy page. Registered users may receive Privacy Policy updates via email. If you have questions, please send a message via the contact form by selecting “I am interested in discussing” - Privacy concerns.

YOUR RIGHTS

Users have the right to request that their personal data be erased, however; Wise Consulting Associates maintains information on behalf of its clients and in most circumstances cannot delete individual records or erase data about a particular individual due to its legal and contractual obligations. Users have the right to make and receive a response to a data erasure request.

Registered users can:

  • Request access to our organization for copies of your personal data.
  • Request corrections to any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete, such as an update to your email address.
  • Request that your information is erased, under certain conditions.
  • Request restrictions to the processing of your data, under certain conditions.
  • Request objections to processing of your data, under certain conditions.
  • Request that your information is transferred to another organization or directly to you, under certain conditions.

USE OF REMARKETING FOR GOOGLE ANALYTICS

Wise Consulting Associates collects cookies on our Web site to capture anonymous information about page visits. We use this information internally to deliver the most effective content to our visitors. Information from cookies is used to analyze traffic patterns on our Web site and to ensure we are adequately serving our visitors’ needs according to GDPR and ISO 27001 standards. We use certain third-party vendors, including Google, who use cookies, to display online advertisements to visitors on other Web sites based on past visits to our website. To opt-out of receiving advertising like this from Google, visit the Google Ads Preferences Manager or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page to manage your settings.

Privacy Policy Update: January 2023