Privacy Policy

Introduction

This website is owned and managed by The Segal Groups which includes Segal Benz and Segal Advisors. These companies will be collectively referred to as “Segal,” “our,” or “we” throughout this policy.

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding how we may collect, use, maintain, protect, and disclose your information. By accessing or using this website you are agreeing to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance with this policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you may choose not to use our website, or you may choose to exercise your rights as disclosed in this policy.

This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check for periodic updates.

This policy applies to information we collect:

Information we collect

When you visit our website, we may collect two types of information: if you provide it to us, personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you browse our website.

Personal information you choose to provide

  • Registration information. You may provide us with your name, company/ employer name, email address, title, employer size, and your profession to sign up for blog alerts, email updates, or to unlock our free resources. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to our service(s) or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our website.
  • Email information. If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email addresses and our responses.

Segal maintains a separate Privacy Policy that describes our collection of information from applicants, employees and independent contractors who are California residents.

Information collected through automatic data collection technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your device, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the website.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information collected may include personal information that is associated with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. The information helps us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our website according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our website.

Our website utilizes standard technologies called “cookies” and similar technologies, such as tracking pixels, to understand how you navigate through and interact with our website. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our website.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of our website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity). We and our vendors also use these technologies and the information collected by them for data analytics purposes.

We are required to disclose how we respond to web browser “do not track” signals or other similar mechanisms. These signals provide consumers with the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personally identifiable information about individual consumer’s online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services. Our website is not designed to respond to “do not track” signals received from browsers or to track your personally identifiable information across third-party websites.

How we use personal information

Segal may use the personal information that we collect about you or that you provide to us for one or more of the following purposes:

  • To fulfill or meet the purpose for which you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. We may also save your information to facilitate new services offered to or requested by you.
  • To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
  • To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments, and provide related products or services or to prevent transactional fraud.
  • To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
  • To provide you with notices about your account or blog subscriptions, including expiration and renewal notices.
  • To provide, support, personalize, and develop our website, products, and services.
  • To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
  • For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our website, products, and services.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

We will not use your information for any materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

How we disclose your personal information

We do not sell personal information. We will not share, rent, lease or sell your personal information with any third party for their independent use or benefit.

Sharing among Segal affiliates

Segal may share your personal information among its affiliated entities in order to support our business operations, to provide products and services to you, and for any other purpose described in this policy. Segal and its affiliates may share your personal information with one another to enhance and personalize your experience on our websites, to conduct research and analyze the use of our products and services, and to develop new products or services.

Sharing with third parties

We may disclose your information to third parties for one or more of the following Segal business purposes:

  • Performing services or servicing accounts.
  • Processing or fulfilling orders and transactions.
  • Providing employee benefits or analytic services.
  • Maintaining or improving the quality of products or services we offer.
  • Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious activity, and prosecuting those responsible.

We only make these business purpose disclosures to third parties pursuant to written contracts specifying the purposes of the disclosure, requiring the recipient to keep the personal information disclosed confidential, and prohibiting use of the disclosed information for any purpose except under the contract. We may disclose aggregated information that does not identify any specific individual, without restriction.

Other disclosures

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • To comply with any court order, law, subpoena or other legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply any agreements between The Segal Group and you, if applicable.
  • To protect and defend our rights and property, our website, the users of our website, and/or our affiliated parties.
  • As we believe is necessary to protect the safety of Segal, users of our website, our customers, or others.
  • In the event of sale (of some or all of our assets), transfer, merger, reorganization, dissolution, or similar event involving our business (including in contemplation of such transactions), your information may be among the shared or transferred business assets. If such transfer is subject to any mandatory restrictions under applicable laws, we will comply with those restrictions.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • With your consent.

We may also provide aggregated information (consisting of combined information elements of a number of individuals) to third parties, who may use such information to analyze patterns or statistics regarding use of our products and services.

How we protect your information

Protecting your personal information is important to us. Segal restricts access to your personal information to individuals with a specific need to access the information to provide products and services to you. We educate our employees about the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy. We require all third parties with a business need to access your personal information to adhere to stringent privacy policies and agree to maintain the information in confidence and safeguard if against unauthorized access or disclosure.

We maintain commercially reasonable safeguards to help protect your personal information against accidental loss or unauthorized use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. We periodically review our data security practices and consider appropriate new technology methods to ensure compliance with federal and state data privacy and security regulations. We subject our applications and systems to simulated intrusion tests, however, no method of transmitting or storing electronic data is ever completely secure or impenetrable. In the event that your information is accessed or disclosed in an unauthorized manner we will notify you as required by applicable law.

Your rights and choices

Segal strives to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly. Learn how to manage the cookies in your browser below:

Marketing and E-mail. Segal respects the rights users give us when opting to receive email communications and enforces internal policies to preserve those rights. It is our objective to retain the long-term ability to continue to communicate with our users. If you do not want Segal or Segal’s representatives to contact you, you may “opt out” of this preference at any time, whether online or by contacting Segal directly. As part of your preference flexibility, you’ll always have the option to opt back in and have Segal contact you based on your previous or new preferences.

Opting Not to Register or Provide Personal Information. If you choose not to register or provide personal information, you can still visit most areas of the Segal website; however, you will not have access to areas that require personal identification.

In the event that we wish to use your information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you in advance and request your permission to use your personal information in this new manner. If we do not receive your permission, we will use the information in accordance with the privacy statement under which the information was collected.

You may also have the right to access to your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database, or to request that your personal information be removed from this database. See the “For More Information” section below.

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information.

What about other websites linked to our website?

We are not responsible for the practices employed by external websites that link to our website or the information or content contained therein. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our website, are subject to that website’s own rules and policies. Please read the rules and policies for that specific third-party website.

What About Links from Us to Other websites?

Throughout our website, we often link to third-party websites. Segal assumes no responsibility for the information or privacy policies or practices of websites for which we provide links on our site. Often, links to other websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be of interest to users of our site. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our website and welcome feedback about these sites to which we provide links. Feedback can be sent to Privacy@segalco.com.

Please be aware that when you visit third-party websites, Segal’s privacy practices and the terms and conditions of this privacy policy no longer apply. You should review each third-party website’s privacy and security policies to determine such practices and whether you wish to disclose personally identifiable information on them.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

If we change our privacy policies or procedures, we will post those changes on our website to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we may disclose it. Future changes to this policy may be made by Segal at any time by posting notice of the changes on our website. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

For More Information

To ask questions about this policy, to request access to your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database, or to request that your personal information be removed from this database contact us at Privacy@segalco.com or call us at 866.626.4690.