Idealist Consulting Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit our website, interact with our social media accounts, and engage with our emails and chatbot.
Here's the personal information we collect.
When you visit the Idealist Consulting website, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse our site, we collect information about the individual web pages that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to our website, and information about how you interact with the web pages you view. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
- “Log files” track actions occurring on our website, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
- “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse our website and interact with other digital assets, like emails.
Additionally when you fill out of a form on our site or contact us through our website, we collect certain information from you, including your name, email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Personal Information”.
Here's how we use your personal information.
We may use Personal Information that we collect may be used for shipping on select occasions, and providing invoices when appropriate. Additionally, we use this Personal Information to:
- Communicate with you; and
- When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our website (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the website, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns). We may also use Device Information for advertising or retargeting purposes.
Here's how we might share your personal information.
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use our website. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. We also use Salesforce Pardot for email marketing, segmentation, and automation.
Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
We do not sell your Personal Information or share it with other companies for external marketing purposes, nor do we purchase marketing data/lists.
BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by: GOOGLE - google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: optout.aboutads.info.
We respect "Do not track"
Please note that we do not alter the data collection and use practices of our website or other digital asset when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
We won't retain your data if you don't want us to.
When you fill out a form on our website, we will maintain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
Our commitment to the ethical use of AI technology.
Our consultants will adhere to our comprehensive AI in the Workplace Policy which governs the ethical use of artificial intelligence technologies, ensuring client privacy, data security, and appropriate disclosure of AI usage in our consulting work. View our full AI policy here.
We'll keep working to keep our privacy policies and practices up to date and inline with common practice.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
We're here to listen; contact us any time.
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at marketing@idealistconsulting.com or by mail:
Idealist Consulting
4076 N Mississippi Ave
Portland, OR, 97217
United States
