Double Forte

Information We Collect

We may collect personal information directly from you, automatically through your use of the Site, and from third parties.

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through ordinary Site forms or unencrypted email. This includes Social Security numbers, financial-account information, government-issued identification numbers, health information, passwords, or other highly sensitive data. If you believe you have sent sensitive information to us in error, contact us promptly at hello@double-fortec.om.

How We Use Information

Double Forte may use personal information to:

• Operate, maintain, protect, and improve the Site.
• Respond to inquiries, requests, comments, and communications.
• Evaluate potential client engagements and communicate about our services.
• Schedule meetings, provide requested information, and deliver downloadable content, newsletters, webinars, or other resources.
• Send marketing communications, thought leadership, event invitations, and updates about Double Forte, subject to applicable law and your communication choices.
• Manage recruiting, evaluate job applications, communicate with candidates, and maintain hiring records.
• Analyze Site usage, audience engagement, content performance, and marketing effectiveness.
• Personalize or improve Site content, communications, and user experience.
• Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, spam, security incidents, misuse, and other unlawful activity.
• Comply with applicable legal obligations, enforce our agreements, and establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
• Facilitate a corporate transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or bankruptcy proceeding.

We may combine information collected through the Site with information we receive from business contacts, clients, partners, social-media platforms, service providers, public sources, or other lawful sources.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We and our service providers may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, tags, local storage, and similar technologies. These tools help us operate the Site, understand how visitors use it, remember preferences, measure the effectiveness of content and campaigns, and support advertising or retargeting where used.

We may use:

• Necessary technologies to support Site operation, security, and functionality.
• Analytics technologies to understand visitor activity, traffic sources, content engagement, and Site performance.
• Functional technologies to remember preferences and improve user experience.
• Advertising and marketing technologies to measure campaign performance, build relevant audiences, manage frequency, or display more relevant advertising where enabled.

You can control cookies through your browser settings or, where available, through the cookie-preferences tool on the Site. Blocking or deleting cookies may affect the availability or functionality of portions of the Site.

How We Share Information

We may disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients:

• Service providers and vendors that assist us with website hosting, data storage, security, CRM systems, analytics, email communications, marketing automation, scheduling, recruiting, webinars, professional services, and technical support.
• Professional advisers such as lawyers, accountants, auditors, insurers, and financial advisers.
• Business partners when you request, authorize, or participate in a joint event, referral, co-marketing effort, or other shared activity.
• Analytics, advertising, and social-media providers where we use their technologies on the Site, subject to applicable law and consent requirements.
• Government authorities, regulators, law enforcement, courts, and other parties where required by law, subpoena, court order, legal process, or where we believe disclosure is appropriate to protect rights, property, safety, security, or to investigate suspected wrongdoing.
• Other parties with your consent or at your direction.

Double Forte does not sell personal information for money. However, some privacy laws define “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” broadly enough to include certain disclosures through advertising or analytics technologies. If Double Forte uses such technologies in a way covered by applicable law, we will provide required notices and opt-out mechanisms.

Marketing Communications

You may opt out of promotional emails by clicking the unsubscribe link in the email or by contacting us at [hello@double-forte.com]. Opting out of marketing messages will not prevent us from sending non-promotional messages, such as responses to requests, recruiting communications, service-related notices, security updates, or legally required communications.

If Double Forte sends SMS messages, the applicable message will provide opt-out instructions. You may generally opt out by replying STOP.

Recruiting and Career Inquiries

If you submit an application, résumé, portfolio, or other employment-related information, Double Forte may use that information to evaluate your candidacy, communicate with you, conduct recruiting and hiring activities, verify information where permitted, and comply with applicable legal requirements.

We may retain recruiting information for as long as reasonably necessary to evaluate your application, consider you for future roles, maintain legally required records, resolve disputes, and protect our legal interests. If you do not want us to retain your information for future opportunities, contact [hello@double-forte.com].

Nothing in this Privacy Policy creates an employment contract or promise of employment.

Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including:  to respond to inquiries, provide requested communications, support recruiting, maintain business and legal records, comply with applicable obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and protect our rights.

Retention periods depend on the nature of the information, the reason it was collected, applicable legal obligations, and our operational needs. We may retain and use de-identified, aggregated, or anonymized information for legitimate business purposes, where permitted by law.

Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. However, no website, transmission, network, or storage system is completely secure. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of information submitted to or stored through the Site.

You are responsible for using reasonable care when sharing information online and for contacting us promptly if you believe your interaction with Double Forte may have been compromised.

Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to:

• Request access to personal information we maintain about you.
• Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
• Request deletion of personal information, subject to legal and operational exceptions.
• Request information about the categories and sources of personal information we collect; our purposes for processing it; and the categories of recipients to whom we disclose it.
• Opt out of certain uses of personal information for targeted advertising, sale, sharing, or profiling, where applicable.
• Withdraw consent when we rely on consent to process personal information.
• Appeal a decision regarding a privacy request, where required by applicable law.
• Avoid discrimination for exercising applicable privacy rights.

To exercise a privacy right, email [hello@double-forte.com] with the subject line “Privacy Request.” Include your name, the email address or other information associated with your interaction with us, your state or country of residence, and the nature of your request.

We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before fulfilling a request. An authorized agent may make a request on your behalf where permitted by law, subject to verification of the agent’s authority and your identity.

California Privacy Notice

This section applies to California residents to the extent the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA”), applies to Double Forte’s processing of their personal information.

In the preceding 12 months, Double Forte may have collected the following categories of personal information:

• Identifiers, such as name, email address, telephone number, IP address, and online identifiers.
• Professional or employment-related information, such as company name, job title, résumé information, qualifications, and work history.
• Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as browsing activity, pages viewed, referring URLs, and interaction data.
• Geolocation data derived from IP address or device settings at a general or approximate level.
• Commercial or inquiry information, such as services of interest, project information, and communications with us.
• Inferences drawn from the information above, such as interests, business needs, or engagement preferences.

We may use and disclose this information for the purposes and to the recipients described in the How We Use Information and How We Share Information sections above.

Double Forte does not knowingly sell or share the personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.

Where required, California residents may submit a request to know, correct, delete, or opt out by contacting [privacy@double-forte.com] or using the applicable Site-based opt-out mechanism. If Double Forte’s use of third-party advertising or analytics technologies constitutes “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising, it should provide a visible “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link and honor applicable opt-out preference signals, including Global Privacy Control where required.

International Visitors

The Site is operated from the United States. If you visit the Site from another country, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States and other countries where Double Forte or its service providers operate. Those locations may have data-protection laws that differ from those in your jurisdiction.

Children’s Privacy

The Site is intended for business and professional audiences. It is not directed to children under 13, and Double Forte does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact us at [privacy@double-forte.com] so we can take appropriate action.

Third-Party Websites and Platforms

The Site may link to third-party websites, social-media platforms, software, content, or services. This Privacy Policy does not apply to third parties. We are not responsible for their privacy practices, content, security, or terms. Review the privacy policy of any third-party site or service before providing it with personal information.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the revised version on the Site and update the “Last Updated” date above. If required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent before material changes take effect.

Your continued use of the Site after an updated Privacy Policy is posted means that you acknowledge the revised Policy, to the extent permitted by law.