PRIVACY POLICY

Introduction

Welcome to https://alignmentgrowth.com/. This site is owned and operated by Alignment Growth Management LLC and its subsidiary and affiliates entities (“AGM,” “we,” or “us”). This Privacy Policy governs your use of our website, email, and other forms of electronic messaging ,here after referred to as the “Site”. This policy does not govern any information gathered through our offline activities or any information collected from a third party, other than as expressly stated in this Privacy Policy.

We understand that your data is important to you and that you care about how your information is collected and used. To protect your privacy and help you to make informed choices, this Privacy Policy explains our information practices, how you can choose how we use your data, and your rights regarding your data. If you do not agree with our policies or practices, regarding our treatment or use of your information, your choice is not to use the Site.

About Us

Alignment Growth Management LLC is a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Delaware. Our offices are located at: 810 7th Avenue, 22nd Floor, New York, NY 10019. We are a data controller.

You may contact us about any questions you have regarding this Privacy Policy at either our postal address above, or by e-mail directed to compliance@alignmentgrowth.com.

Information We Collect

Defining Personally Identifiable Information

Personally, identifiable information also referred to as personal data, is any information collected by us or provided by you that with reasonable efforts could be used to identify you (“Personal Information”). Personal Information includes the information you give to us directly, the information we automatically collect, and where applicable, the information supplied to us by third parties.

The Personal Information we collect via the Site may include the following types of information:

  • information that directly identifies you such as your name, organization name and position, postal address, email address, and phone number;
  • information regarding your requests for meetings, services, or assistance;
  • certain technical information about your equipment and browsing actions, including your browser type and the Internet Protocol (IP) address used; and
  • any other information you may provide to us in communications via the Site.

The Site does not access geolocation information about where you are when using the Site on a device.

The Site is not intended to store or transmit “special categories” of Personal Information, such as details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions,  information, or criminal convictions and offenses.

How We Collect Your Information

We may collect this information in the following ways: (a) directly from you; (b) from third parties; and (b) automatically as you navigate the Site.

Information Directly From You

As you use the Site, information we collect directly from you includes information provided in response to our direct request for your name, email address, and phone number in the “Contact Us” form. We may also collect information that you provide in the message of the “Contact Us” form or in other correspondence with AGM. In addition, when you fill out a form, complete a survey, sign up for an email list, or engage in other similar interactions, you are directly providing us with your Personal Information.

Information From Third Parties

In some instances, we may receive information from our third-party partners and vendors. This may be (a) information about our Site users from our website hosts; or (b) information about webinar registration and attendees where our online events are hosted by a third-party vendor.

Information Automatically Collected as you Navigate the Site

We may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment and browsing actions including your browser type and the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet. We collect this data using cookies and similar technologies. We currently use cookies as detailed further below.

Do Not Track

Browsers and devices allow individuals to send “do not track” signals to websites. At this time, we do not track our Site users and therefore do not take actions to respond to “do not track” signals.

Cookies

Cookies Explained

Cookies are small, encrypted data files stored on your computer’s hard drive when you visit a website. They allow a site to capture data on the Site and store it for later retrieval. Cookies are most often used to capture information about things like your user preferences and decisions. By storing cookies, website owners are able to understand your online practices and create time-saving options to enhance your overall browsing experience. We use cookies on our site for the following purposes:

Cookie name

What it is used for

Elementor

This cookie is used by the website’s WordPress theme. It allows the Site’s owner to implement or change the Site’s content in real-time.

Third Party Cookies

There are currently no third-party cookies when you visit our Site.

Disabling and Deleting Cookies

You can manage, block, or delete cookies by adjusting your cookie preferences in your browser settings. However, please note that disabling certain cookies could impact your user experience. Specific instructions for managing cookies in a selection of browsers are provided at the links below:

How We Use Your Information

We collect and use information from you for the following purposes:

  • to operate and maintain our site
  • to present our content to you through our site
  • to communicate with you
  • to fulfill our obligations to you as presented when you provided the information
  • to perform our contracts with you
  • to enhance and optimize your experience
  • to pursue our legitimate interests
  • for any other purpose within your consent

We do not need your consent to process your Personal Information where we have another legal basis to do so. However, if we do need to seek your consent to the processing, we will provide you with reasonable details of the information that we would like and the reason we need it so that you can carefully consider whether you wish to consent. Where you have given consent, this can be withdrawn at any time by contacting us as set out above.

How We Share Your Information

Though we do not sell or disclose the Personal Information we collect in the ordinary course of our business, we may share your data with third parties in accordance with the purposes described above. At this time, we do not share your Personal Information with third parties other than our trusted information technology providers, such as websites, online events, and mailing list hosts.

When we share your information with our service providers, we will take commercially reasonable steps to help ensure that your data is kept secure and used only in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Additionally, in the course of business, if we buy or sell business assets or participate in a company sale, merger, reorganization, or dissolution, the data we have collected may be part of such business transfers.

We may share Personal Information when we believe it is necessary to comply with the law, regulation, or legal request (including a court order or government investigation or inquiry), to detect, investigate and defend against the fraudulent or unlawful activity, enforce or apply our agreements, in the context of a company reorganization, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of AGM, our employees, contacts or others.

How We Protect Your Information

As an organization, the protection of your information is important to us. We have designed and adopted technological and organizational procedures to safeguard your data. It is important to note that while we make efforts to protect your data, security measures are not impenetrable and the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of any information collected or transmitted to our Site. By using our Site, you consent to the transmission of your data at your own risk.

Age Limits for Children

Children under the age of 13 are prohibited from accessing the Site. Additionally, we do not use our site to knowingly collect Personal Information from children. Please contact us if you learn or have reason to suspect that a child under the age of another is using the Site. We will take prompt action to delete any Personal Information about the child.

Third Party Links

The Site may contain links to other websites whose information practices may be different than ours. Please consult all third-party Sites’ privacy notices. We have no control and disclaim any and all responsibility and liability in connection with information that is submitted to, or collected by, third parties.

Correcting or Updating Your Information

If you discover that inaccurate information about you has been collected, or if you would like to update the information we currently have, please contact us via email at compliance@alignmentgrowth.com, or by mail to Alignment Growth at 810 7th Avenue, 22nd Floor, New York, NY 10019.

How Long We Keep Personal Information

We will retain your Personal Information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of that Personal Information, the purposes for which we processed the data, and whether we those purposes may be achieved by another means, and the applicable legal requirements.

We will retain your Personal Information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Specific California Resident Rights

This section is only applicable to individuals who reside in California and should be read in conjunction with our entire Privacy Policy. If you are a California resident, you have the right to:

  • obtain additional information about “personal information” (as defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA));
  • request that we disclose certain information collected, used, disclosed, and sold about you;
  • request deletion of your Personal Information; and
  • opt out of the sale of your Personal Information.

The information covered by these specific rights is information that could be reasonably linked to you. It excludes information that cannot be reasonably linked to you. Individuals receive equal service and are not discriminated against for exercising their privacy rights. 

To help you better understand our practices, the chart below describes the categories of Personal Information we may collect, where you provide it to us or to a third party vendor acting on our behalf, the sources of this information, how we use this information, and with which third parties we have shared this information within the past twelve months.

Categories of Information Collected

Sources of Information

How we use this information

Third parties to which we have disclosed this information

Identifiers

Directly from you

To fulfill our obligations to you as presented when you provided the information

To inform you of opportunities you may find valuable

Device technologies

Personal information records

Directly from you

From third parties only as set out in this Privacy Policy

To fulfill our obligations to you as presented when you provided the information

To inform you of opportunities you may find valuable

Device technologies

Commercial information

Directly from you

To fulfill our obligations to you as presented when you provided the information

To inform you of opportunities you may find valuable

Device technologies

Professional or employment information

Directly from you

From third parties only as set out in this Privacy Policy

To fulfill our obligations to you as presented when you provided the information

Device technologies

Personal Information does not include:

  • Publicly available information from government records;
  • Deidentified or aggregated consumer information; or
  • Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope.

To exercise your right to make requests regarding your Personal Information, please contact us via email at compliance@alignmentgrowth.com, or by mail to Alignment Growth at 810 7th Avenue, 22nd Floor, New York, NY 10019. We may take steps to verify your identity before providing the requested information

Special General Data Protection Regulation Rights

This section is only applicable for individuals who are data subjects falling under the scope of GDPR or UK equivalent (as defined below) and should be read in conjunction with our entire Privacy Policy.

This Site is hosted on servers located in the United States. We endeavor to meet those data protection laws and regulations (including the European Union Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”)); (ii) the national laws of each EEA member state implementing any EU directive applicable (in whole or in part) to the processing of personal data (such as Directive 2002/58/EC (the “e-Privacy Directive”); (iii) the GDPR as it forms part of UK law and the UK Data Protection Act 2018; and (iv) where applicable, the California Consumer Protection Act of 2018 as noted above) to which we may be subject.

In respect of transfers outside of AGM, if we receive information subject to GDPR or the UK equivalent and later transfer it to a third party outside of the EEA/UK we either implement the Standard Contractual Clauses pursuant to Commission decision 2004/915/EC or 2010/87/EU (as appropriate and where required by applicable law) with the recipient of your Personal Information; and/or ensure that there is another lawful transfer mechanism in place to protect your Personal Information (as appropriate and where required by applicable law).

AGM does not share your Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties for direct marketing purposes.

Where you are a data subject falling under the scope of the GDPR or UK equivalent, you can exercise the below rights. Please note that these rights are not absolute, and limitations or exceptions may apply.

  • Right of access: Individuals can ask for a copy of the Personal Information retained about them and an explanation of how it is being used.
  • Right to rectification: Individuals have the right to correct, revise or remove any of the Personal Information retained about them at any time.
  • Right to erasure: Individuals can ask to delete their Personal Information where there is no good reason for us to continue to process it. At your request, we will remove your contact information from the system, and we will not contact you again.
  • Right to restrict processing: If an individual believes, for example, that their Personal Information is inaccurate or collected unlawfully, the individual may request limited use of their Personal Information.
  • Right of portability: Individuals have the right to receive their Personal Information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
  • Right to object: Individuals have a right to object to the processing of their Personal Information(a) where we are relying on our own legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground; or (b) where an individual previously gave consent but later decides that they no longer wish to allow their Personal Information to be used in that way (e.g. included in analytics or to receive direct marketing emails or other personalized (targeted) marketing content) at any time, the individual may withdraw consent to use of their data for these purposes.

We may take steps to verify your identity before providing the requested information.

If you have received an email from us with information about AGM or any of our services, events, or updates, you are entitled to be removed from our mailing list. You can do that by updating your preferences by clicking the link in any email that we send you (where applicable) or by contacting us as set out above.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority. We would, however, be grateful if you would contact us in the first instance so we can endeavor to deal with your concerns direct. You can obtain further information in this respect by contacting us as set out above.

Updates to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. If any updates are made to this policy, they will be posted here. Additionally, if material changes are made to this policy, we will notify you via a notice to this Site. Please check this page frequently for updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your Personal Information.

Effective Date: July 15, 2022

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

If you’re a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) permits you to request to opt out of the “sale” of your personal information to third parties. Although we don’t sell your personal information in the traditional sense, we may share your personal information with third parties, including our affiliates. This may be considered “selling” under California’s privacy laws. Please provide the following information that is associated with your interactions with us. It’ll help us to expedite and properly process your opt-out request. This information is only used to process your request and not stored for other purposes.

I am a California resident and certify that the information provided is true and accurate