McClain Consulting Services, Inc (MCSI) and our subsidiaries and affiliates (“MCSI” or “We”) respect your privacy and commit to protecting it through our compliance with the practices described in this notice.

This notice describes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing the personal information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our websites or other digital properties, communications, or forms that link or refer to this notice (our “Website”). This notice applies to the personal information collected through our Website, regardless of the country where you are located.

The Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, services, social networks, or applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow the third party to collect or share information about you. We do not control these third-party websites, and we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

Please read this notice carefully to understand our policies and practices. By engaging with our Website, you accept and consent to the practices described in this notice. This notice may change from time to time. Your continued interaction with our Website after any revisions indicates that you accept and consent to the changes, so please check the notice periodically for updates.

Information We May Collect About You

We collect and use different types of information from and about you including:

  • Personal information that we could reasonably use to directly or indirectly identify you, such as your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, username or other similar identifier, or any other identifier we may use to contact you online or offline (“personal information”). For job or independent contractor applicants, we may collect and use additional personal information that we could reasonably use to directly or indirectly identify you, such as your education and professional background, contract engagement details, and financial information.
  • Non-personal information that does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity or directly relate to an identified individual, such as demographic information, statistics, or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal information. For example, we may aggregate personal information to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Website feature.
  • Information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

How We Collect Information About You

We use different methods to collect information from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions. You may give us information about you by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you sign up for our mailing list, participate using other social media functions on our Website, apply for jobs or other roles, and when you report a problem with our Website.
  • Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns as specified above. We collect this information by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies
  • Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive information about you from third parties including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies, data brokers, or aggregators.

Cookies and Automatic Information Collection Technologies

Our Website uses cookies (small files placed on your device) or other automatic information collection technologies to distinguish you from other Website users. This helps us deliver a better and more personalized service when you browse our Website. It also allows us to improve our Website by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store your preferences so we may customize our Website according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Website.

You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, certain parts of our Website may become inaccessible and certain features may not work correctly. Unless you adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies, our system will issue them.

Our Website pages and emails may contain web beacons (small transparent embedded images or objects, also known as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count website page visitors or email readers, or to compile other similar statistics such as recording Website content popularity or verifying system and server integrity.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications on the Website are served by third parties, including Google Analytics or application/analytics providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. They may associate the information collected with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites or other online services.

We do not control how these third-party tracking technologies operate or how they may use the collected information. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. 

How We Use Your Personal Information

We use your personal information to offer you services, communicate with you, deliver advertising and marketing, or to conduct other business operations, such as using information to improve and personalize your experiences.  Examples of how we may use the personal information we collect include to:

  • Present our Website and provide you with the information, services, and support that you request from us.
  • Meet our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts with you, including for billing or collections, or comply with legal requirements.
  • Fulfill the purposes for which you provided the information or other purposes that were described when it was collected.
  • Notify you about changes to our Website, products, or services.
  • Ensure that we present our Website content in the most effective manner for you and for your device.
  • Administer our Website and conduct internal operations, including for troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes.
  • Improve our Website, products or services, marketing, or customer relationships and experiences.
  • Enable your participation in our Website’s interactive, social media, or other similar features.
  • Protect our Website, employees, or operations.

We may also use personal information to contact you about our services that may be of interest to you. 

We may use non-personal information for any business purpose.

When We Disclose Your Personal Information

We may share your personal information with:

  • Any member of our corporate group, which means our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • Business partners, suppliers, service providers, sub-contractors, and other third parties we use to support our business (such as analytics and search engine providers that assist us with Website improvement and optimization). We contractually require these third parties to keep that personal information confidential and use it only for the contracted purposes.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purposes that we disclose when you provide the information.
  • With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, where one of the transferred assets is the personal information we hold.
  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply your obligations under our contracts or other agreements.
  • To protect the rights, property, or safety of our business, our employees, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of cybersecurity, fraud protection, and credit risk reduction.

We may share non-personal information without restriction.

Consent to Personal Information Transfer

We are based in the United States. We may process, store, and/or transfer the personal information we collect, in and to a country outside your own, with different privacy laws that may or may not be as comprehensive as your own.

By submitting your personal information or engaging with our Websites, you consent to this transfer, storing, or processing.

Your Personal Information Use Choices 

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal information uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.  We have established the following personal information control mechanisms:

  • Promotional Offers from MCSI. If you do not want us to use your contact information to promote our own services, or the services of limited third party business partners, such as if we give a joint seminar, you can opt-out by sending us an email with your request to info@consultmcclain.com. You may also opt-out of further marketing communications by replying to any promotional email we have sent you or following the opt-out links on that message.
  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may become inaccessible or not function properly. 

Our Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partners or include plug-ins enabling third-party features.  If you follow a link to any third-party website or engage a third-party plug-in, please note that these third parties have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal information to these third parties.

Our Website is not designed to respond to “do not track” signals received from browsers.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see the Section California Privacy Notice below for more information.

Jurisdiction Specific Rights

California Privacy Notice

In addition to disclosures made elsewhere in this Privacy Notice, California law requires businesses to disclose certain information related to our privacy practices.  This Section of our Privacy Notice (“California Privacy Notice”) serves to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Section.

Our California Privacy Notice supplements the information contained in our Privacy Notice and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who are residents of the State of California.

Information We Collect

As described in our general Privacy Notice, we collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device (“personal information”).  For purposes of this California Privacy Notice, personal information does not include:

  • Publicly available information from government records.
  • Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
  • Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, like:
    • health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (“CMIA”), clinical trial data, or other qualifying research data;
    • personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (“FIPA”), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

Ownership

In general, information presented on this web site, unless otherwise indicated, is considered property of MCSI. It may not be distributed or copied as permitted by law. However, MCSI may make use of copyrighted data (e.g., photographs) which may require additional permissions prior to your use. In order to use any information on this web site not owned or created by MCSI, you must seek permission directly from the owning (or holding) sources.