Briefcase Coach Privacy Policy
Effective Date: May 21, 2018
Last Updated: January 10, 2025
Introduction
The Briefcase Coach (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://briefcasecoach.com website (the “Service”). This policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose your personal data when you use our Service. By using the Service, you agree to the practices described in this policy.
Definitions
- Service: The https://briefcasecoach.com website.
- Personal Data: Information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Usage Data: Information automatically collected about your use of the Service, such as your IP address, browser type, pages visited, and time spent on pages.
- Cookies: Small data files stored on your device.
Information Collection and Use
We collect several types of information for various purposes:
To Fulfill Legal Obligations: We may process your data to comply with applicable laws and regulations.
To Provide and Improve the Service: This includes providing career coaching services, responding to inquiries, and analyzing user behavior to enhance our website and offerings.
To Communicate with You: This may include sending you newsletters, marketing materials, and other information that may be of interest to you. You can opt-out of these communications at any time.
Types of Data Collected
- Personal Data: This may include your email address, first and last name, phone number, address, and other information you provide to us.
- Usage Data: We collect information about how you use the Service, such as your IP address, browser type, pages visited, and time spent on pages.
- Cookies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data
Our legal basis for collecting and using your personal data depends on the specific context in which we collect it:
- To Perform a Contract: We may process your data to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, such as providing career coaching services.
- With Your Consent: We may process your data based on your consent, such as sending you marketing communications.
- For Legitimate Interests: We may process your data for our legitimate interests, such as improving our Service and preventing fraud.
- To Comply with the Law: We may process your data to comply with applicable laws and regulations.
Data Retention
We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as 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, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Data Transfer
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. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Data Disclosure
We may disclose your Personal Data:
- To Comply with the Law: We may disclose your data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
- To Protect Our Rights: We may disclose your data to protect and defend our rights or property, or to prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing.
Data Security
The security of your data is important to us, but 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.
Text Message Communications
By providing your mobile phone number to Briefcase Coach, you consent to receive text messages related to your job search efforts. This may include appointment reminders, session preparation materials, and career tips. You can opt-out of receiving text messages at any time by replying “STOP” to any message.
No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data, such as the right to access, correct, or delete your data. To exercise these rights, please contact us.
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services, or assist us in analyzing how our Service is 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.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service Providers, such as Google Analytics, to monitor and analyze the use of our Service. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.