Privacy Policy for Keystone Ascent

At Keystone Ascent, we are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal data with transparency and care. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard personal information when you interact with our online platform and engage with our consulting services, including strategic planning, organizational development, management consulting, market analysis, operational efficiency, technology integration, talent management, and financial advisory.

By using our site or engaging with our services, you consent to the data practices described in this policy.

1. Information We Collect

We collect various types of information for different purposes to provide and improve our services to you.

• Personal Data:

  While using our site or services, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. This may include, but is not limited to:

  • Contact details (e.g., name, email address, phone number, physical address)
  • Professional information (e.g., job title, company name, industry)
  • Information you provide when submitting inquiries, requesting consultations, or subscribing to newsletters

• Usage Data:

  We may also collect information on how our site is accessed and used. This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

• Tracking & Cookies Data:

  We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

2. How We Use Your Information

Keystone Ascent uses the collected data for various purposes:

• To provide and maintain our services
• To notify you about changes to our services
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our services when you choose to do so
• To provide client support and respond to inquiries
• To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our services
• To monitor the usage of our services
• To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
• To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or inquired about, unless you have opted not to receive such information.

3. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data Under GDPR

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Keystone Ascent's legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

Keystone Ascent may process your Personal Data because:

• We need to perform a contract with you
• You have given us permission to do so
• The processing is in our legitimate interests and it's not overridden by your rights
• For payment processing purposes
• To comply with the law

4. Retention of Data

Keystone Ascent will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Keystone Ascent will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our services, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

5. Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. Keystone Ascent will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

6. Disclosure of Data

Keystone Ascent may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• To comply with a legal obligation
• To protect and defend the rights or property of Keystone Ascent
• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the services
• To protect the personal safety of users of the services or the public
• To protect against legal liability

7. Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

8. Your Data Protection Rights Under GDPR

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Keystone Ascent aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

• The right to access:

  You have the right to request copies of your personal data.

• The right to rectification:

  You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.

• The right to erasure:

  You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

• The right to restrict processing:

  You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

• The right to object to processing:

  You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

• The right to data portability:

  You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

  You also have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

9. Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our services ("Service Providers"), to provide the services on our behalf, to perform service-related services, or to assist us in analyzing how our services are used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

10. Links to Other Sites

Our site may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

11. Children's Privacy

Our services are not intended for anyone under the age of 18 ("Children"). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our site, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

• By mail: 2847 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 1200, Atlanta, GA, 30305, USA