We, Gajona Consulting Services, United States, and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “GCS,” “us,” or “we”) understand that your privacy is important to you. We are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data. This privacy notice describes how we handle and protect your personal data (the “Privacy Notice”) when we collect it through GCS’s websites, applications, and digital assets (collectively, our “Sites”) and through our externally facing business activities, such as service offerings, events, surveys, and communications, when we interact with you and collect data from you for use by and on behalf of GCS (i.e., when GCS is acting as a data controller or similar term under applicable privacy law).

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You are not required to share your personal data with us, but failing to do so may result in GCS being unable to properly provide you with our full range of services or a good user experience with our solutions, websites services or newsletters.

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Generally speaking, a Privacy Policy often addresses these types of issues: the types of information the website is collecting and the manner in which it collects the data; an explanation about why is the website collecting these types of information; what are the website’s practices on sharing the information with third parties; ways in which your visitors an customers can exercise their rights according to the relevant privacy legislation; the specific practices regarding minors’ data collection; and much much more. 

To learn more about this, check out our article “Creating a Privacy Policy”.

GCS collects personal data in the course of our business activities directly from you and from third parties:

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• GCS collects personal data about you in the course of our routine business activities:​​

  • When you create or log into a user profile in our Sites;

  • When you register to receive GCS  newsletters and alerts and when you interact with those newsletters and alerts.

  • When you sign up for and participate in GCS  conferences and events;

  • When you participate in public content posting areas, such as bulletin boards, discussion forums, and McKinsey social media sites;

  • When you participate in a survey, panel discussion, or individual discussion conducted by GCS 

  • When you interact with GCS  or its employees on its Sites, by email, or telephone, to ask a question, request information, or otherwise seek a response from McKinsey.

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GCS  may also receive personal data about you from third parties, including service providers and data vendors in the course of our business activities. When we collect personal information from third parties, the data consists primarily of publicly available personal information compiled from business websites, public-facing social media platforms, and other widely used public sources. .

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Sensitive personal data – We may also collect sensitive personal data directly from you, for instance when you respond to a survey or panel discussion conducted by GCS  and provide us with demographic or other personal data or when you provide information to permit us to accommodate your specific request at a conference or event. We use sensitive personal data only with your consent unless another legal basis exists (e.g., public health requirements).

 

When we collect and use sensitive personal data for research, data analysis, and statistical purposes, we use it to produce reports and publications based on deidentified datasets.