This policy pertains to the HBSC Strategic Services website(s) hosted in the United States by HBS Consulting, Inc. (“HBSC”), a company that is headquartered in Brisbane, California, USA. This includes the websites at www.hbsconsulting.com and www.hbsconsult.com URLs (together, the “Site”).
At HBS Consulting, Inc., we take user privacy seriously because we know that privacy is important to all members of our HBSC community. HBS Consulting, Inc. has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and security in order to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, or destruction. Despite these precautions, HBS Consulting, Inc. cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personally identifiable information. HBS Consulting, Inc. reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to alter and update this Privacy Policy; therefore, we urge visitors to our Site to review the Privacy Policy each time they return to our Site.
When you request information from HBS Consulting, Inc. and/or supply information through our Site that personally identifies you and/or allows us to contact you including all materials submitted by you in connection with applying to HBS Consulting, Inc. for employment, including but not limited to, when you fill out a subscription form or opt in to receive emails from HBS Consulting, Inc., you are agreeing to share such information, including your name, e-mail address, title, occupation, company or university affiliation, industry, region, relationship to HBS Consulting, Inc., reason for contacting HBS Consulting, Inc., and any message you submit, with HBS Consulting, Inc., its agents, representatives and affiliates, and you should know that HBS Consulting, Inc. may disclose such information to its agents, representatives and affiliates for marketing and promotional purposes.
HBS Consulting, Inc. may aggregate personally identifiable information and may disclose such information in aggregate for marketing and promotional purposes. We may collect the e-mail addresses of those who send us e-mail messages; however, we will not send unsolicited e-mail to any of the addresses we collect or share those addresses with any unaffiliated third party, except in the limited circumstances set forth below. Note, however, that you will have the ability to opt out of receiving future emails from HBS Consulting, Inc., by unsubscribing via an unsubscribe button on all emails. We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) comply with law or comply with legal process served upon us or our agents, representatives and affiliates, (2) protect and defend our rights or property or those of our users or (3) protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
If you elect to submit an employment application to us online through our Site, all of the information you submit becomes the property of HBS Consulting, Inc. and may be used for any and all purposes associated with processing an employment application, as well as for promotional purposes.
We may use cookies or other technology to obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses our Site. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Our Site may use cookies and other technology to store pertinent user information during a session to speed navigation and keep track of items and to collect anonymous traffic data that we may use to enhance our Site. The “help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies and how to disable cookies altogether.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you may disclose publicly in any chat rooms, message boards, or similar web pages, including those hosted on or linked to our Site. You should keep in mind that whenever you publicly disclose information about yourself online—for example, via message boards or chat rooms—that information could be collected and used by people whom you do not know. In addition, certain message boards and similar user forums may display IP addresses along with the message poster’s name and message. HBS Consulting, Inc. bears no responsibility for any action or policies of any third parties who collect any information users may disclose on the message boards, chat areas or other user forums, if any, on the Site.
This Site is not directed at children 13 years of age or younger. HBS Consulting, Inc., therefore, will not intentionally collect information about anyone under the age of 13, and requests that no such information be submitted to us.
Last Updated: March 30, 2017