The Bloodhound Group Website Privacy Policy, July 13, 2021

The Bloodhound Group (Bloodhound Branding, “BHG,” or “We”) is a brand consultancy and full-service marketing agency with its primary office at 11948 Straight A Way Lane, Raleigh, NC 27613-7105, USA.

This website is owned by The Bloodhound Group, LLC. BHG is committed to being transparent about your privacy and security on its website, www.bloodhoundbranding.com. We want you to understand how we collect, use, process and share user information, and we have created this Privacy Policy to serve as a guide.

What personal information we collect and process about you

The types of personal information we collect includes your name, mailing address, phone numbers (including mobile phone numbers) and email addresses. We may automatically receive personal information about you when you visit and use this website, including your internet protocol (IP) address, device ID, cookie information, browser information and other technology tags such as the date and time you visited this website and which website you visited just before this one. This type of personal information is collected by “cookies.” More information about internet cookies we use and how to opt out of cookies is below. We also automatically receive personal information about you when you visit, access or use our pages on social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

The purposes for which we use and process personal information about you 

We take reasonable steps to ensure that the Personal Information we collect from you is relevant and reliable for our processing and use, accurate, complete and current as necessary for our uses. We will not process your Personal Information in a way that is inconsistent with the purposes for which we have collected it or for which you have given us your consent.

In general, we use and process personal information about you to:

• Market our products and services to you such as through online advertisements and email;
• If you consent, to email you about other products and services you may be interested in;
• For protection of our data security and to prevent fraud;
• To communicate with you when you voluntarily submit a question, provide feedback to us or submit a comment;
• To provide you customer service and technical support.

BHG also uses personal information for research and to analyze data, to develop new services based on user trends and to enhance and improve our website by providing more useful features based on user patterns.

We use personal information collected from our website and for our business purposes to:

• Protect the safety, security and legal rights of our agency, website and clients;
• Improve our products and services;
• Enhance your experience when using our website, to display personalized content;
• Conduct research and analysis to improve the operation of our website;
• If you consent, track your use on our website and personalize your visits to our website for marketing purposes.

How we share personal information about you

Any time sharing of personal information may be necessary, we will carefully consider all options and will strive to share as little as possible.

We share your personal information:

• With service providers, consultants and contractors who help us with: development, maintenance and support of our website; marketing research and analysis; communications and customer service. We do not authorize these service providers to use or disclose your personal information except as necessary to perform tasks we have asked them to do for us or to comply with legal requirements.
• To comply with laws or to cooperate with a legal investigation or a request from a government authority.
• To protect our legal rights and legitimate interests and those of our business partners and service providers.
• To protect the legal rights, safety and security of users of our website.
• To prevent fraud.
• As a business asset in connection with a sale, merger or other transaction of The Bloodhound Group.
• In a form that does not personally identify you, such as statistics.
• With your consent.

We will not share your information for marketing purposes with companies outside The Bloodhound Group.

Email communications

The Bloodhound Group communicates with people interested in BHG and its business partners through email. The Bloodhound Group protects its email address lists, data and other personal information used in email correspondence with the same reasonable practices it uses to protect personal information collected through this website. If you receive an email from The Bloodhound Group, you are someone who has either:

• Expressly provided your email address to us so we can send you information about products or services (“opt-in”), or
• Provided your email address to us through an existing relationship.

Our emails are sent with an automatic unsubscribe option if you would like to stop receiving emails from us. When we send emails, The Bloodhound Group sometimes tracks who has opened or clicked through the email contents. We track this information to measure interest in a subject, monitor an email campaign’s performance or better understand user trends so we can improve your BHG experience.

We do not share, sell or disclose your personal information to third parties for promotional use without your prior consent.

We would like to send you information about products and services of ours that you may be interested in. If you have consented to receive marketing messages from us, you may opt-out at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe button on the bottom of our email.

Internet cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer by websites to collect standard log information and visitor behavior information. Our service providers and we use cookies on our website. Information from cookies is used to track your use on our website and to make statistical reports on activity on our website. For more information about cookies visit www.aboutcookies.org.

For more information about the specific cookies we use when you visit our website, their purpose, information they collect when you visit our website and third-party sites, how to opt out and a link to a website where you can withdraw consent to being tracked by third parties, please visit our About Cookies information page here. [Add link to Cookie Policy page.]

You can set your browser to reject cookies, and www.aboutcookies.org tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. In a few cases, some of our website features may not work when your browser does not accept cookies.

We use Google Analytics to help us measure visitors and trends for our website. For more information about how Google collects, uses and shares your information, please visit the Google Privacy Policy-Partners website at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Opt out of Google Analytics

To prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, click here for instructions.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you live in California, California law allows you to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed your personal information (if any, and as defined under California law) for the third party’s direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year, as well as the type of your personal information disclosed to those parties. If you live in California and would like to request this information, please send your request in an email to privacy@bloodhoundbranding.com.

Other websites and social media

Our website contains links to other websites. This Privacy Policy only applies to The Bloodhound Group’s website, so when you visit or use other websites you should read their specific privacy policies.

Our website and communications may contain links to social media websites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc., and social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” and “Share” buttons. Social media sites and features may collect and use personal information from you. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy practices, policies or content of any social media websites or features, even if you link to them from, or use them on, The Bloodhound Group’s website. Please review Facebook’s privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update. Please review LinkedIn’s privacy policy at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. Please review Twitter’s privacy policy at https://twitter.com/privacy.

We are not responsible for information, content and/or the privacy practices of third parties operating websites that may link to this website. The inclusion of a link on this website does not imply endorsement of the linked site by us or by our affiliates or business partners.

Internet blogs

Our website may offer public blogs. Any information, including personal information, you share or post on those blogs may be public. We are not responsible for the results of your blog postings.

Children

The website is not intended for use by children under the age of 16, and there is no assumption that children will be using these website services at any time. If we become aware that a child has submitted personal information on the website, we will immediately delete the information from our records.

Security of your personal information

We use reasonable data security techniques to protect your information from unauthorized access, use and/or disclosure. While The Bloodhound Group is diligent about user security on our website, no data security technique is 100% secure, so The Bloodhound Group cannot guarantee that your personal information will never be accessed, used or disclosed. If you have questions about our internet, data or information policies, please contact us.

Applicable law

This website is created and controlled by The Bloodhound Group, LLC, in the State of North Carolina, USA. As such, the laws of the State of North Carolina will govern these disclaimers, terms and conditions, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws. We reserve the right to make changes to our website, this Privacy Policy and these disclaimers, terms and conditions at any time.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We keep this Privacy Policy under regular review, and if we have your email address, we will email you when we make changes in the future. We will also place any updates on our website. This privacy policy was last updated on July 9, 2021.

How To contact us

Please contact us if you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or information we have about you:

BHG Privacy Officer
11948 Straight A Way Lane
Raleigh, NC 27613-7105
USA
(919) 616-5705