Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

  • Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to alexadagostino.com, passiontoceo.com and thynkconsultinggroup.com and Thynk Consulting Group and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Thynk Consulting Group include alexadagostino.com, passiontoceo.com, Passion to CEO, ThynkConsultingGroup.com. The Thynk Consulting Group website is a We help businesses turn passions and expertise into online businesses. site. By using the Thynk Consulting Group website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.  


Collection of your Personal Information

  • In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, Thynk Consulting Group may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

  •  - First and Last Name

  •  - Mailing Address

  •  - E-mail Address

  •  - Phone Number 


If you purchase Thynk Consulting Group’s products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.

  • We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstake or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.


Use of your Personal Information

  • Thynk Consulting Group collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.

  • Thynk Consulting Group may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Thynk Consulting Group and its affiliates.

  • Sharing Information with Third Parties

  • Thynk Consulting Group does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

  • Thynk Consulting Group may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Thynk Consulting Group, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

  • Thynk Consulting Group may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Thynk Consulting Group or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Thynk Consulting Group; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Thynk Consulting Group, or the public.


Tracking User Behavior

  • Thynk Consulting Group may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Thynk Consulting Group, in order to determine what Thynk Consulting Group services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Thynk Consulting Group to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

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Automatically Collected Information

  • Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Thynk Consulting Group. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain the quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding the use of the Thynk Consulting Group website.


Use of Cookies

  • The Thynk Consulting Group website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

  • One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Thynk Consulting Group pages, or register with Thynk Consulting Group site or services, a cookie helps Thynk Consulting Group to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.  

  • This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Thynk Consulting Group website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Thynk Consulting Group features that you customized.

  • You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Thynk Consulting Group services or websites you visit.


Right to Deletion

  • Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

  • Delete your personal information from our records; and

  • Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

  • Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

  • Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;

  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;

  • Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;

  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;

  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;

  • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;

  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;

  • Comply with an existing legal obligation; or

  • Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

 

Children Under Thirteen

  • Thynk Consulting Group does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.


E-mail Communications

  • From time to time, Thynk Consulting Group may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Thynk Consulting Group or click on a link therein.

  • If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Thynk Consulting Group, you may opt-out of such communications by there is an unsubscribe button on every email.


External Data Storage Sites

  • We may store your data on servers provided by third-party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.


Changes to this Statement

  • Thynk Consulting Group reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgement of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.


Contact Information

  • Thynk Consulting Group welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Thynk Consulting Group, has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Thynk Consulting Group at:



Email Address:


support@Thynkconsultinggroup.com



Thynk Consulting Group Official Privacy Policy

Protecting your privacy is important to Thynk Consulting Group. This Thynk Consulting Group’s  Privacy Policy (’Policy’) describes how Thynk Consulting Group and its subsidiaries and affiliated companies (collectively "we" or "us" or "TCG"”) collect, use, disclose and safeguard the personal information you provide on Thynk Consulting Group’s websites, including but not limited to www.thynkconsultinggroup,  www.alexadagostino.com, and all related websites, and through or in connection with our mobile apps or other software- and Internet-enabled programs and services sponsored by Thynk Consulting Group (the “Sites”) as well as information collected when you otherwise communicate or interact with Thynk Consulting Group.

Note that in general, we will use the personal information we collect from you only for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice or for purposes that we explain to you at the time we collect your personal information. However, we may also use your personal information for other purposes that are not incompatible with the purposes we have disclosed to you if and where this is permitted by applicable data protection laws.

During the course of our relationship with you we may collect other information than that detailed in this Privacy Notice. If we ask you to provide information voluntarily then the personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information. If we obtain the information from other sources, then we will only do so where we have checked that these third parties either have your consent or are otherwise legally permitted or required to disclose your personal information to us.

 

Information Collection

Information Collected Automatically

Each time you visit the Sites, we may automatically collect certain types of information. Some examples of automatic information we may collect are as follows:

We may record your internet service provider's address, your internet protocol or IP address, your MAC address, your operating system, the web page from which you came, your web browser software, the type of handheld or mobile device used to link to the web page, and the language and time zone settings on your web browser;

We may collect a record of your activity or your "clickstream" while visiting the Sites;

We may use "cookies" of different types to recognize your computer. A cookie is a small text file that a website, online application, or e-mail may save to your internet browser and/or your computer's hard drive for use in subsequent visits to the Sites or other sites;

We may use web beacons, match scripts, pixel tags or similar technologies that allow us to know if a particular web page was visited, an e-mail opened, links in the email utilized or if the advertisements on the Sites or other sites were effective. In some instances, these technologies may allow us to match activities with particular users;

Our mobile applications also may collect geo-location information, including from the GPS function on your mobile device. We may use this information in a variety of ways, including to improve our mobile services including, and to offer products and services to you. You can opt-out of sharing your geo-location information by changing the settings on your mobile device. If you choose to opt-out, it may disable certain features of our mobile applications; and

We may collect any information you enter, share or that can be obtained from your use of our apps, solicitations, or promotions.

Information You Give to Us

We may collect any information, such as your first and last name, credit card number, email address, postal address, and telephone number that you provide when you interact with Thynk Consulting Group. Some examples are when you:

Make an online or purchase our service thru an authorized re-seller or directly from Thynk Consulting Group;

Correspond or communicate with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise;

Register or create an account on the Sites;

Participate in an online survey;

Use our mobile apps;

Sign up for information;

Sign up for email and/or SMS news and alerts; or

Use social media to interact with us, or to share something from our Sites with others, we will receive information about what you share and other details that may be based on your social media privacy settings.

Combined Information

Information you provide directly to Thynk Consulting Group thru our sites or thru purchasing our services, as well as information about your interests and purchases we collect automatically. The information you provide to Thynk Consulting Group may also be combined with demographic and other information that is available from other sources in order to allow Thynk Consulting Group to better communicate with you and enhance our customer service and make relevant offers to you.

Other Sources

We may receive your personal information from other parties. From time to time, we may receive personal information about you from third party sources (including third party websites, data brokers or credit reference agencies), but only where we have checked that these third parties either have your consent or are otherwise legally permitted or required to disclose your personal information to us.

The types of information we collect from third parties include biographical information about you/your company your job role or marketing information; and we use the information we receive from these third parties to help us market our products and services to you, or otherwise develop and improve our products and services.

Do Not Track

Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set in some web browsers, allowing users to opt out of tracking by websites and online services. At the present time, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has not yet established universal standards for recognizable DNT signals and therefore, Thynk Consulting Group and the Sites do not recognize DNT.

Information Use

We may use information about you for purposes described in this Policy or disclosed to you on the Sites. For example, we may use information about you to:

Send you updates on the latest Thynk Consulting Group news, including information about new products, services, and offers that may be of interest to you including co-branded offers and partner offers.

Process and manage your purchase and use of Thynk Consulting Group products and services, including your accounts and program participation.

Respond to your customer service inquiries, post your comments or statements on any blog or other online forum maintained on our website and other websites, or take other actions in response to your inquiries or other website activities.

Communicate with you about your orders or purchases, your services, accounts and program participation, product recalls that may affect you, and your requests for information.

Learn more about our customers so that we can develop better products and services.

We participate in interest-based advertising and we or others may use information about you to deliver to you or allow you to see certain advertising based on your interests, searches you perform, information you provide, or your activity on the Sites or other websites.

Thynk Consulting Group may also use this information to analyze and manage its businesses. Aggregate or combined data is collected from online and offline facilities and may be used to enhance the ability of Thynk Consulting Group to communicate with you and to support business functions such as internal business processes, marketing, authentication, customer service, fraud prevention, and public safety and legal functions.

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see CCPA POLICY/California Privacy Rights for more information

 

Opt-Out

If you provide us with your email or postal address, or have done so in the past, we will ask you if we can use it to send you updates on the latest Thynk Consulting Group news. If you do not want us to contact you, you can choose to "opt out," and Thynk Consulting Group will respect your wishes.

If you opt out of receiving promotional communications from us whether online or on your mobile device, we may still send you non-promotional communications such as emails about your Thynk Consulting Group account, if you have one, or our ongoing business relations.

Sharing Your Personal Information

With Third Parties

Personal information collected by any part or department of Thynk Consulting Group’s business will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy and may be shared with other parts or departments of Thynk Consulting Group’s business and with our business partners, including third parties, for use in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Thynk Consulting Group does not currently share your information, but reserves the right toy share your personal information with third parties, including as set forth below.

With Other Parts of our Business and our Business Partners

With our Service Providers Thynk Consulting Group may share your personal information with companies that provide support services to us. Some examples of things service providers may do that may involve your personal information are:

Authorization of credit card and check transactions, and cobranded or joint product and service promotions.

Developing, hosting or maintaining the Sites on behalf of Thynk Consulting Group.

Warehousing product, order fulfillment and shipping services on behalf of Thynk Consulting Group or on your behalf and at your request.

Aggregating customer information and/or improving customer service. We may then share such aggregated information with prospective marketing partners and advertisers.

Marketing our products and services (such as email vendors).

These service providers could be granted access to some or all of your personal information as necessary and may use cookies (as defined above and below) or other automatic collection technology on our behalf. The service providers are contractually restricted in the ways they may use your personal information.

To Comply with Laws Thynk Consulting Group may also disclose specific information when such disclosure appears necessary to comply with the law, a subpoena or other litigation process or to protect the interests or safety of its visitors and customers, Thynk Consulting Group employees or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive 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.

Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by sending us an email with your request to support@thynkconsultinggroup.com

Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by calling 239-689-5906 or by sending us an email with your request to If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.

Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers' target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by sending us an email with your request to support@thynkconsultinggroup.com.

 

We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website

Data Security

Thynk Consulting Group is fully committed to data security. We use security techniques on the Sites to help protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information collected from you at the Sites. When you access your account information or transmit personally identifiable data to the Sites, that information is stored on servers that the Sites have attempted to secure from unauthorized access or intrusion. "Secure Socket Layer" software encrypts personal information you transmit to the Sites. However, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of the information you transmit to us. In this regard, we urge you to take every precaution to protect your personal data while you are on the Internet.

Cookies Policy

The Sites use "cookies," which are small pieces of information stored by your browser or other application on your computer's browser or hard drive. The cookies are used to connect your computer with information stored about your online activity, searches, preferences and product purchases both within the same website visit and from one visit to the next on Thynk Consulting Group and/or other websites. (Some examples of this data include your account preferences, user specific information on pages accessed, searched terms or addresses entered, and previous visits to the site.) The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive new cookies or how to disable cookies altogether. If you reject cookies, you may not be able to participate in certain activities or receive a promotion tailored to you. The Sites do not control and do not guarantee the effectiveness of browser-based tools for managing cookies.

We or our partners may also use Flash cookies (also known as Local Stored Objects) or other similar technologies. A Flash cookie is a small data file placed on a computer using Adobe Flash or similar technology that may be built into your computer or downloaded or installed by you to your computer. We use these technologies to personalize and enhance your online experience, facilitate processes, and personalize and store your settings. Flash cookies may help our website visitors to, for example, set volume preference associated with a video experience, play games and perform surveys. They help us improve our Sites by measuring which areas are of greatest interest to customers. They may be recognized by other sites or by our marketing or business partners. Flash cookies are different from browser cookies and the cookie management tools provided by your browser may not remove Flash cookies. If you disable Flash cookies or other similar technologies, please be aware that you may not have access to certain features and services that make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.

We may also use web beacons, which are electronic images that may be used on our websites or in our emails. We use web beacons to deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness and to tell if an email has been opened and acted upon.

Social Media

We maintain a social media presence, such as a Thynk Consulting Group Facebook page, a Thynk Consulting Group Instagram page, a Thynk Consulting Group LinkedIn page and Thynk Consulting Group TikTok feed. You can interact with us through social media, posting content, sharing material from Thynk Consulting Group’s websites, and using our social media plug-ins. When you interact with us using social media, we may receive information such as your user ID, your profile picture, photos you post, and similar information, which is often determined by your privacy settings at social media sites. We may use the information for the same types of purposes we describe throughout this Privacy Policy. Your use of social media sites is primarily governed by the site operators’ privacy policies and terms of service, and the information you share with us and with others is largely controlled by the privacy settings you have established at those sites.

Network and Interest-Based Advertising

We may also enter into agreements with third parties that possess technology that allows the Sites to use targeting or advertising cookies to see which areas and features are popular, count visits to our Sites and customize the advertising and marketing messages you receive on the Sites. This information may be shared with these third parties for this purpose. The Sites may use Google Analytics and the third-party cookie DoubleClick to optimize our Sites based on the traffic we receive and assist with marketing. To learn more about Google Analytics, including options for opting out and/or managing the ads you may see online please visit: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners.

We also provide interest-based advertising about our products and services on other parties’ websites. We may use third-party advertising companies that use tracking technologies to serve our advertisements across the Internet. These companies may collect information about your visits to the Sites and other websites and your interaction with our advertising and other communications. These advertising companies serve ads on behalf of us and others on non-affiliated sites, and some of those ads may be personalized, meaning that they are intended to be relevant to you based on information collected about your visits to the Sites and elsewhere over time. Other companies may also use such technology to advertise on our Sites. You have the choice to tell us not to collect and use this information.

Updates or Changes to Your Information

You may update or change your personal information by emailing

 

Children’s Privacy

The Sites do not knowingly solicit or collect personally identifiable information online from children under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. If Thynk Consulting Group learns that a child under the age of 13 has submitted personally identifiable information online without parental consent, it will take all reasonable measures to delete such information from its databases and to not use such information for any purpose (except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or others as required or allowed by law). If you become aware of any personally identifiable information, we have collected from children under 13, please email us.

Company Commitment to Privacy

Thynk Consulting Group's privacy policy is subject to change at any time and without notice. For updates, please return here. You agree that the information that we gather now will be subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of use.

Contact Us

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us at support@thynkconsultinggroup.com

 

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. TO CCPA PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

This privacy policy describes how we may share your information for marketing purposes, as described above. If you are a California resident, the Shine the Light law permits you to request and obtain from us once per calendar year information about any of your personal information shared with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, including the categories of information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we have shared such information. To request this information and for any other questions about our privacy practices and compliance with California law, please contact us as explained above: Contact Us.

Contact Us:support@thynkconsultinggroup.com