Last Updated: January 29, 2025.
About This Document
The Agile CIO, LLC provides technology and cybersecurity consulting services to help companies quickly enhance digital maturity and improve business outcomes. We are based in the State of Maryland and operate this website: https://theagilecio.net/
The Agile CIO is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and complying with the principles of applicable data protection laws.
Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
This Privacy Policy informs you of important information about how The Agile CIO, LLC (“The Agile CIO”, “we”, or “our”) processes the personal data that we collect in online and offline formats through the Services.
“Personal data” means data that reasonably can be used to identify a living person, or that reasonably relates to a living person.
When we use the term “Services,” we mean to refer collectively to:
- The provision of services to our clients and prospective clients (“Client Services”);
- The websites and applications owned and controlled by us that link to this Privacy Policy (“Sites”); and
- Our marketing and business development activities, including through social media and emails (“Marketing Activities”).
How we collect and use personal data
We collect and process personal data about a number of different individuals through the provision of the Services. These individuals include our individual clients and prospective clients, their representatives, visitors to our Sites, vendors, and other individuals.
Clients and prospective clients
The majority of our clients are corporate entities and data about entities is not personal data. However, we process personal data of company employees, representatives and other personal data clients provide to us, or allow us to collect on their behalf, while providing the Client Services. This includes contact information and any other personal data that is relevant to or necessary for us to deliver the Client Services.
We also process personal data to assist in building relationships. This may include, but is not limited to, name, contact information, and job title.
We collect and use this information to provide the Client Services and for other legitimate business interests. For example, we use contact details to send communications and industry updates.
Our basis for processing personal data in connection with Client Services is:
- To comply with legal obligations;
- To perform contracts;
- To pursue our legitimate interests of:
- ensuring that we deliver the best possible service to our clients,
- keeping individuals informed of developments in the industry,
- business development and general marketing,
- providing you with information on our services and events, and
- ensuring we build and maintain a good working relationship with you; and
- Your consent, where we make it clear to you in advance that we are relying on you consent (for example, when you sign up to our mailing list).
Visitors to our Sites
Certain visitors interact with the Sites in ways that lead us to gather personal data. The amount and type of data that we gather depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, if you sign up to our mailing list we collect your name, contact details, job title and company name. Visitors can always refuse to supply personal data, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site-related activities.
In addition, we collect information automatically as disclosed in our Cookie Notice, below.
The bases we rely on to process this information is:
- To pursue our legitimate interests in developing and growing our business, operating and improving the Sites, and conducting Marketing Activities; and
- Your consent, where we make it clear to you in advance that we are relying on you consent (for example, when you sign up to our mailing list).
Vendors and business partners
We process personal data of vendors and business partners, including name and contact details. For vendors, we do this so that we can liaise about the services the vendors are providing to us now and in the future. For business partners, we do this to support, grow, and maintain the relationship. For individual vendors and business partners, we also may hold financial information in order to pay invoices. Sometimes we receive this information from a third party who is recommending the service to us.
The basis we rely on to process this personal data is:
- To pursue our legitimate interests of managing and operating our business, including through use of vendors.
Other individuals
When we provide certain types of Client Services we may be provided with personal data from third parties about a number of individuals other than those described explicitly in this Privacy Policy.
The primary reason we process this personal data is to provide the Client Services, fulfill our professional duties, comply with law, and operate our business.
The bases we rely on to process your personal data is:
- To pursue our legitimate interests of operating our business, providing Client Services, conducting Marketing Activities.
Additional uses of personal data
In addition to the uses described above, we may use your personal data for the following purposes. Some of these uses may, under certain circumstances, be based on your consent, may be necessary to fulfill our contractual commitments to you, or are necessary to serve our legitimate interests in the following business operations:
- Operating our business, administering the Services and managing your accounts;
- Contacting you to respond to your requests or inquiries;
- Processing and completing your transactions including, as applicable, order confirmation and delivering products or services;
- Providing you with newsletters, articles, alerts and announcements, event invitations, and other information that we believe may be of interest to you;
- Providing you with marketing information, and other information that is tailored to your interests;
- Conducting research, surveys, and similar inquiries to help us understand trends and client needs;
- Analyzing your interactions with us, and improving our products, services, programs, and other offerings;
- Preventing, investigating, or providing notice of fraud, unlawful or criminal activity, or unauthorized access to or use of Personal Information, our website or data systems; or to meet legal obligations; and
- Enforcing our Terms of Use and other agreements.
How we share and disclose personal data
We share personal data with the following categories of recipients.
Service Providers
We may disclose your personal data to third-party service providers to provide us with services such as website hosting, professional services, including information technology services and related infrastructure, customer service, e-mail delivery, auditing and other similar services.
To Perform Client Services
We will also disclose personal data to the following categories of third parties: (1) anyone involved in the matter we are working on; (2) law enforcement, tax, and regulatory agencies and bodies; (3) insurers; and (4) service providers such as IT and telephony services, document production, and postal and delivery services.
We may disclose personal data to third parties in order to perform services you request or functions you initiate, such as when you post information and materials on message boards and forums. When you post information publicly.
We do not sell any personal data and have not sold any personal data in the past.
Corporate Transactions or Events
We may disclose your information to a third party in connection with a corporate reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or capital, including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings.
Other Legal Reasons
In addition, we may use or disclose your personal data as we deem necessary or appropriate: (1) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (2) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (3) to comply with subpoenas and other legal processes; (4) to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain; (5) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (6) to protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of The Agile CIO, our affiliates, you and others; and (7) to enforce our terms and conditions.
Additional information
E-mail Marketing
We may periodically send you relevant alerts and newsletters by e-mail. To help improve our marketing activities, we often receive a confirmation when you open an e-mail or click on a link included in one of these emails, if your computer supports such capabilities. Instructions on how to unsubscribe from these alerts and newsletters are included in each e-mail.
Cookie Notice
We use cookies and related technologies (“Cookies”) to provide Services, gather information when users navigate through the Sites to enhance and personalize the experience, to understand usage patterns, and to improve our Sites, products, and Services.
You can review your Internet browser settings to exercise your options for certain Cookies. If you disable or delete certain Cookies in your settings, you may not be able to use features of the Sites.
Links to Other Sites
Occasionally we provide links to other websites for your convenience and information. These sites operate independently from our Sites and are not under our control. These sites may have their own privacy notices or terms of use, which you should review if you visit any sites linked through our Sites. We are not responsible for the content or use of these unrelated sites.
Children’s Privacy
This website is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
Updates to this Privacy Policy
The Agile CIO may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at The Agile CIO’s sole discretion. The Agile CIO encourages visitors to check this page frequently for any changes to its Privacy Policy.
How to contact us
If you have any queries, questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our personal data handling practices, please contact us at info@theagilecio.net.