Privacy Policy
Introduction
This privacy policy (the “Policy”) describes what personal information The Stewardship Group, LLC ("The Stewardship Group," "we," "us," or "our”) collects, how we use and protect your information, and with whom we may share it.
This Policy applies when you visit stewardshipgroup.co (the “Website”) and interact with us to learn more about our services. The Policy does not apply to information we collect if you work with us.
In addition to this Policy, we may separately provide you with other specific notices regarding your information, depending on the nature of our relationship with you and the context in which we collect your information. Any such separate notice should be read in conjunction with this Policy and, to the extent there is any conflict between such separate notice and this Policy, such separate notice shall control.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Policy or if you have a disability that prevents you from accessing this Policy electronically in this format, you may contact us by email at privacy@stewardshipgroup.co or by mail at:
The Stewardship Group, LLC
921 H Street NE, #338
Washington, DC 20002
Changes
We may update portions of this Policy from time to time and will alert you that changes have been made by indicating on the Policy the date it was last updated unless otherwise required by law. You can find the date of the last update at the top of the Policy. Keep in mind that your use of the Website means that you accept the current version of this Policy as posted on the Website at that time. We encourage you to revisit this Policy on occasion to learn of any changes.
Information We Collect and How We Use It
When you visit the Website, The Stewardship Group collects information when you voluntarily provide it to us, and certain information is automatically collected from you.
Inquiries and Online Tools
When you email us, submit a contact form, or request a conversation, we collect the information you choose to provide. This may include your name, email address, telephone number, organization, role, and message.
When you use the Pulse Check, we collect certain information about your business but do not ask for information that directly identifies you. After you complete the Pulse Check, we generate a reading code that you may choose to share with us so we can access and discuss your reading. Otherwise, we do not link the code to you personally.
When you use The Code of Conduct Builder, we collect information about your organization to help generate the materials you request. This may include your company name, mission, values, brand colors and logo, as well as information about your industry, geographic reach, workforce characteristics, risk profile, desired Code topics, reporting channels, and the job roles used in workplace scenarios. You may build and read your materials on screen without providing your name or email address. We collect your email address if you want to download your materials. We use your email address to provide your requested materials.
We use the information about you to respond to your inquiry, provide information you requested, better understand the needs of your organization, schedule a conversation, answer your questions, and maintain appropriate business records. We also use this information in connection with our potential and existing business relationships with you, including to provide you with relevant information about our services.
We may send direct marketing materials in accordance with applicable laws. If you want to stop receiving marketing communications from us, you may unsubscribe at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions that we include in any marketing communications we send you. You may also contact us by emailing privacy@stewardshipgroup.co.
Website and Technical Information
When you visit the Website, we may automatically collect information that is linked to your computer or device but does not directly identify you personally. We use this information to administer the Website, improve the Website’s functionality, gather broad demographic information, analyze trends and for security and troubleshooting. This information includes your IP address, the type of browser or device that you are using, your country, access time and duration, page views, and technical logs.
Consistent with most websites, we use cookies and pixel tags to collect internet activity information about your interaction with the Website. Cookies are small text files used to collect information and pixels are transparent images that allow us to understand how users interact with our Website. The Website uses necessary cookies and analytics cookies. Depending on the type of browser you use, you can set the browser to accept or reject all or certain types of the cookies at any time including after you have consented to our use of cookies by using the Website.
If you set your browser to not accept cookies, this may limit certain functionalities on the Website.
Other Purposes
We may also use any of the information we collect for the following purposes:
- to detect misuse and protect our website, systems, rights, and users;
- to comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes; and
- for any other purpose you request or for which you provide consent.
Disclosure and Transfer of Your Information
We do not sell your information, and we do not share your information with third parties for those third parties’ own direct marketing purposes. However, we may disclose your information to our service providers that help us with our business activities such as maintaining the Website, generating results from our online tools such as the Code of Conduct, maintaining our database and application infrastructure, email and document management, scheduling conversations, and preventing misuse of our online tools.
We may also disclose your information for the following purposes:
- to comply with applicable law or legal process;
- to investigate fraud;
- as part of or in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or other corporate change; and
- when you direct or authorize us to do so.
Data Retention
We will retain your personal information for as long as reasonably required to satisfy the purpose for which you submitted the information or to satisfy applicable legal, tax, accounting, contractual, and record-keeping obligations.
Security
We use administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect your information within our organization from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access. However, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any personal information during their transmission to the Website or to us.
Your Choices
If you would like to update your contact information or preferences, have your information removed from one or more of our contact lists, or if you have comments or questions about the administration of the Website or this Policy, please contact us at privacy@stewardshipgroup.co.
You may have certain rights in relation to your information under applicable laws. These rights may include the right to access, delete, correct, move (or port), object to the processing and limit the processing of your information as well as the right to lodge a complaint with a regulator. You are not obligated to provide us your information. However, if the information is necessary to reply to your requests or answer your questions, we may not be able to assist you without it.
If you would like to submit a request regarding your personal information, please send it to privacy@stewardshipgroup.co. To the extent required by applicable laws, we will process your request, and if applicable, we may ask you for additional information to verify your identity.
International Transfers
We store and process your information in the United States, which may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you reside.
Links to Other Web Sites
This Policy applies only to the Website. As a convenience to you, the Website may contain links to other sites that may provide useful information or link with other platforms. We do not control these third-party sites and are not responsible for their privacy practices or content. You should refer to the privacy statements of such third-party sites to find out how they collect and use your information.
Children
The Stewardship Group does not knowingly collect or sell any information from or about children under the age of sixteen. If you are under the age of sixteen, do not provide personal information of any kind.
If you believe that we have received information of a child, please contact us at privacy@stewardshipgroup.co.
Do Not Track Signals
The Stewardship Group does not track its users over time or across third party websites to provide targeted advertising and, therefore, does not respond to Do Not Track signals.