Our Privacy Policy
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This website is owned and operated by Bluestone Consulting Group LLC (“Bluestone” or “Bluestone CG”).
This Privacy Policy covers the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information and other data that may be collected by Bluestone anytime that you use our Services, such as when you visit our website or contact our customer service personnel. Please take a moment to review our Privacy Policy to learn about the type of information we collect, how it is used and for what purposes, to whom we disclose the information, and how we protect your personal information.
Our Privacy Policy applies to all of the services offered by Bluestone. Your privacy is a priority at Bluestone, and we go to great lengths to protect it.
If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, please feel free to email us or write to us at the address given below.
What Information We Collect and How We Use It
We offer many services that do not require you to register or otherwise provide personal information to us. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:
- Information That You Provide – When you create a user account by registering on Bluestoneconsultinggroup.com, we request personal information such as your name, email address, telephone number, home or office address, and an account username and password. We may combine the information you submit under your registration account with information from other Bluestoneconsultinggroup.com website services so that we can provide you with a better overall experience.
- User Communications – When you send communications to Bluestone such as via email or faxes, we will typically retain your communications so we may process your inquiries, respond to your requests, and improve our service offerings.
- Cookies – When you visit our website, we send one or more cookies to your computer so that we may uniquely identify your browser and your user session. Cookies are small files containing bits of information such as a session ID. We employ cookies in order to improve the overall quality of our service.
- Website Statistics – When you access our Services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website. The logged data may include information such as your web request, browser type, IP address, a date/time stamp, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use this data to improve our own services.
- Other Sites – The Bluestoneconsultinggroup.com website links to numerous other websites. This Privacy Policy applies specifically to Bluestone Consulting Group LLC and the Bluestoneconsultinggroup.com website. We have no control over the websites that we link to. Nor do we have control over sites that link to Bluestoneconsultinggroup.com. These other sites may collect data about you when you access their services, and may place their own cookies or other files on your computer during your visit. We offer some of our Services in close association with certain other websites. Information that you provide to these closely associated websites may be sent to Bluestoneconsultinggroup.com in order to deliver the service. We process all such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Since these other sites frequently have somewhat different privacy practices, we encourage you to review their own privacy policies.We only process personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. In addition to the above, such purposes include auditing, research, and analysis so that we may maintain, protect and improve our services, our equipment and our network, and so we may develop new services in the future.
Your Personal Information Choices
If you post information to our website such as article or blog commentary, you should be aware that information you provide in your comments is visible to other users. Personal or company information that you submit to Bluestoneconsultinggroup.com may be collected or otherwise used by third parties to call you or send you solicited or unsolicited messages. Bluestone is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit to these various forums.
When you register on Bluestoneconsultinggroup.com, we ask you to provide personal information. If we propose to use such information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy, we will provide you with a convenient means for opting out of its use for those other purpose.
Most browsers are configured to accept cookies by default. However, you can modify your browser settings so it will refuse all cookies or notify you when a cookie is being sent. However, some website features will not function correctly and some services will not be usable if your browser’s cookies are disabled.
You can always decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case Bluestone may not be able to provide those services to you. For example, we will be unable to create a user account for you if you opt to not provide the requested personal information during registration. Some of the services offered on Bluestoneconsultinggroup.com require users of those services to be registered and logged in.
Information Sharing
Bluestone takes your privacy very seriously and does not sell or rent your contact information to other marketers. Bluestone only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Bluestone in the following limited circumstances:
- When we have your consent to do so. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
- We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliates, or other trusted businesses or persons for the purposes of processing personal information on our behalf. Bluestone requires that these companies or individuals agree to process such information in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality agreements and security measures.
- We may be required by law or by litigation to disclose your personal information. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that for issues of public importance such as for national security or law enforcement, disclosure is necessary.
If Bluestone becomes involved in a sale of some or all of its assets such as in the case of a merger or acquisition, Bluestone will notify you prior to transferring your personal information and prior to such information becoming subject to a new privacy policy.We may share with third parties certain aggregated, non-personal information such as click and impression data associated with Bluestoneconsultinggroup.com user searches. However, such information does not identify you individually or specifically.
Information Security
Bluestone takes appropriate precautions (including administrative, technical, and physical measures) to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as against unauthorized alteration, disclosure, and destruction.We restrict access to personal information to Bluestone employees, contractors, and agents who need said information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
We encourage you to take the necessary precautions to protect your personal data whenever you use the Internet. Change your passwords often using a combination of mixed-case letters, numbers, and special characters, and don’t share your password with anyone. Bluestone employees will never ask you for your account password. Never.
Accessing and Updating Personal Information
Bluestone has safeguards in place to keep your personal information accurate and complete for the purposes for which it is used, but we depend on our users to keep their personal information up to date and correct when necessary. You always have the right to access and correct the personal information you have provided to Bluestone, and you can request a copy of your personal information, your registration history, and your interactions with our customer service personnel by writing to us at the address listed below or by emailing us.We ask individuals to identify themselves and the information which they may request to be accessed, corrected, or removed prior to processing such requests. Bluestone may decline to process requests that require a disproportionate amount of technical effort or which may be extremely impractical such as those involving information which resides on backup devices. We provide information access and correction free of charge unless doing so would require a disproportionate amount of effort.
Compliance and Enforcement
Bluestone frequently reviews its compliance with this Privacy Policy. When we receive written complaints, it is our policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between Bluestone and the individual user.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Bluestone may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. In the event that we do change the policy in a material way, a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated policy, and email will be sent to users of certain Bluestone services in order to notify those users of important changes that may affect them. Versions of our Privacy Policy can be identified by the effective date listed at the bottom of this page. We will maintain prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.Feel free to email or write us with any questions or concerns you may have regarding our Privacy Policy.
Bluestone Consulting Group LLC
930 Main Street
Acton, MA 01720
Last revised on September 20, 2013