Privacy Policy
Privacy Statement
Relationships matter to us, and it is always our intent to do the right thing, no matter what. While we don’t prefer the fuss of legal contracts, we want you to know we take your privacy seriously. Please review our Privacy Policy and contact us with any questions. Our full privacy policy is linked below.
This Privacy Statement explains how PointNorth Consulting, Inc. (“Company,” “we,” or “us”) collects, stores, uses, and transfers personal information, including when you (1) use our websites / applications / Values Sort, (2) visit our offices (3) engage with us on social media (4) attend events with us (5) apply for a job with us or (6) communicate with us. This Statement addresses specific disclosure requirements from various privacy laws and serves as our ‘notice at collection.’
1. Personal Information We Collect and Process
PointNorth Consulting, Inc. collects information about you in a number of ways. We collect information directly from you, such as when you: (1) subscribe to our newsletter, (2) register for our events (3) create a Values Sort account (4) use our services. We collect information automatically from you through the use of Cookies and Similar Technologies when you: (1) visit our websites (2) use our applications (3) engage with our emails (4) engage with our social media. We may also make inferences about you, such as: (1) topics / content / products / services that may interest you (2) security/policy inferences. This information includes:
Identifiers such as your real name, account name, alias, username, postal address, unique personal identifier, unique online identifier, IP address, email address, or other similar identifiers.
Demographic information, such as your market area (e.g., New York City Metropolitan Area) or information about your gender or age/age range.
Professional and employment-related information, such as your current employer and job title.
Education information, such as information about your academic qualifications.
Financial account information, such as the credit card information you provide for billing purposes.
Your preferences, interests, and affiliations, such as those indicated when you attend our events or express interest in certain types of content.
Communications, such as when you send us email or engage with us on social media platforms.
Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information, including photographs taken at our events.
Internet and electronic network activity, and your interactions, such as the information we automatically collect about your browser, device, or connection when you visit our websites, use our apps, or engage with our emails through the use of Cookies and Similar Technologies which often assign a unique identifiers.
Such information may include:
Unique identifiers
Date and time of your visit to our websites and duration of your visit
Date and time of your use of our app and the duration of that use
Your traffic patterns, use patterns, and clickstreams,
Type of device, web browser, and/or operating system used
Your IP address
The website from which you linked to our website
Other similar information about your use of our websites, applications or other services.
To learn more about information automatically collected, please see Cookie and Similar Technologies section below.
2. How We Use Your Personal Information
We use your information for a variety of purposes, including to: (1) provide our services (2) market our services, and conduct business generally. We combine information and we collect from different contexts and/or sources to provide you a more seamless and personalized experience, to make informed business decisions, and for other legitimate business purposes.
3. When We Transfer Your Personal Information
We transfer your information with others in a variety of circumstances. See the table below for more information on the types of third parties we share your information with, the types of personal information shared with those third parties, and why.
Category of Recipient/Scenario | Categories of Personal Information Transferred | Why
With your consent or at your direction | Any personal information categories | Our websites or the service enable social sharing features and other integrated tools which let you share with third parties. Your use of such features enables the sharing of information with a third-party platform, and your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the social sharing feature or integrated tool. For more information about the third party and scope of the third party’s data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please review the third party’s privacy statement providing these features.
Services Providers | Identifiers, including name, contact information, and other identifiers, Demographic information (which may contain sensitive information), Professional and education information, Commercial information, Financial account information, Your preferences, interests, and affiliations, Communications, Audio and visual information, Internet and Electronic Network Activity, and Interactions | We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include cloud service providers, data storage providers, staffing agencies, marketing vendors, etc. They only have access to the personal information needed to perform their functions. They may not use your personal information for purposes other than providing the services we’ve contracted with them to do.
Affiliated entities or subsidiaries | We share personal information among Company affiliates and subsidiaries
Others on our services | Any personal information categories | When you use social or communication features on our platform, other users may access your information.
Payment Processors | Identifiers, Financial account information, Internet and electronic activity and your interactions | When you initiate a payment transaction, your information will be shared with payment processors or others who help to complete the transaction.
Merger, Acquisition, or Sale | Any personal information categories | We might transfer your information to a third party, in the event of a sale or transfer of assets or other disposition of all or any portion of our business.
Law enforcement, government agencies, or other officials | Any personal information categories | We might disclose your information to any third party, without your consent and without notice to you, if we believe we are legally obligated to do so; if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect, establish, or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; or if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, property, and safety, and those of others.
Other professionals | We may share your information with attorneys, accountants, or other professionals as necessary for legitimate business purposes.
4. Control of Your Personal Information
You can make choices regarding PointNorth Consulting, Inc.’s collection and processing of your information through various methods and tools. For example, you can:
Use browser controls. Most browsers provide settings to control your interactions with cookies, which will impact the information processed by cookies on our digital properties. Please refer to your browser for information on how to access these settings. Your settings may impact your experience with our digital properties and the functionality available to you.
Unsubscribe. With each marketing communication, you will be given the opportunity to opt-out of receiving future marketing notices. You may also opt-out of receiving future marketing notices by contacting us at letstalk@pointnorthinc.com. If you request that we not contact you for marketing purposes (either by using the unsubscribe mechanism or by sending us an email), we reserve the right to contact you for non-marketing purposes.
5. Cookies and Similar Technology
Our websites, applications, emails, and other services use cookies and similar technology to automatically collect personal information about your use and interactions.
Cookies are small files placed on your device to store information, often consisting of a unique personal identifier, for a variety of purposes.
Web beacons are small tags placed in digital content, for example on a website or email, to track how the user interacts with the content. Such interaction will trigger a transfer of information that can be used to gain insight, such as how many people have viewed the content.
Pixels and web tags are encoded in digital content to enable functionality and/or to track engagement with digital content across contexts.
SDKs. A software development kit (SDK) is a developer tool embedded in an application often used to collect information about use of the application, as well as the device running the application.
Fingerprinting. Device fingerprinting is used to identify unique devices by collecting information about various aspects of the device’s hardware, software, and connection.
6. Your Privacy Rights
We process your personal information in accordance with applicable U.S. data privacy laws including the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act. This section of our privacy statement contains information required by such laws. Depending on where you live, you may have all or some of the following rights and choices regarding your information:
The right to request that we disclose to you the personal information we collect, use, disclose, share, and sell.
The right to request that we delete your personal information.
The right to correct your personal information
The right to port your personal information in a useable format
The right to restrict our disclosure and/or processing of certain personal information, for example by opting-out.
We may request additional information, as necessary, to verify your request or to verify the authority of your authorized representative to act on your behalf.
7. Children’s and Teens’ Data.
We do not knowingly collect or use personal information from children. If you're a parent or guardian of a child and become aware that your child has provided personal data to us, contact letstalk@pointnorthinc.com. If we learn that we've collected the personal data of a child in violation of applicable law, we'll take reasonable steps to delete the personal data.
8. Securing your Information
We use commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial security measures to assist in protecting against the loss, misuse, and unauthorized alteration of your information that is under our control. Unfortunately, no data storage system, or system of transmitting data over the Internet, can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the security of our network, the means by which personally information is transmitted between your computer and our network, or any personally information provided to us or to any third party through or in connection with the Site.
9. Retention and Storage
We consider the following factors when determining how long we retain and store your information:
Our legal and contractual obligations
Our professional and ethical responsibilities
The purpose for which your information was collected or processed,
Your requests to delete the information
Retention periods in applicable laws and regulation
Our legitimate business purposes. We may retain your data to the extent it is necessary to prevent fraudulent activity, to protect ourselves against liability, and to allow us to enforce our contractual or other rights and to pursue available remedies and limit any damages we might sustain.
Company stores personal information in the United States and other jurisdictions where do business. We take steps to process the data that we collect in accordance with this Statement’s provisions and the requirements of applicable law, including those related to the cross-border data transfers.
10. Links to Third-Party Websites, Products, and Services
This Privacy Statement applies only to the information Company collects and processes.
11. Updates.
We may revise this Privacy Statement at any time to enhance transparency. We may also update the Statement, as necessary or as useful, in response to (1) changes in applicable laws, regulations, or standards (2) changes to our processing of personal information or (3) changes to our business operations.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement or the use of your information, please contact us at:
Lisa Keohokalole Schauer, President
1251 Officers Row
Vancouver, WA 98661