Introduction

Sandness Consulting LLC is committed to protecting your privacy in order to give you the most enjoyable and safe online experience. This privacy policy explains what information is collected when you use the Web sites, applications, content and services of Sandnessconsultingmn.com, why this information is collected, and how we use it to improve your experience. By using the Sandness Consulting LLC site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Our Information Gathering Practices

We understand that for you to take full advantage of the benefits of our web site, we must do what we can to ensure your privacy is secured. Your Sandness Consulting information consists of personally identifiable information collected or received about you when you register with us or when you interact with Sandness Consulting products and services. Your Sandness Consulting information may include (a) registration-related information (such as name, address, telephone and email address); (b) information about your visits to Sandness Consulting or our other pages and services; (c) information about the features or offerings you use from us. Your information may be supplemented with additional information from other companies such as publicly available information and other information that we may append or match to your information.

At times, we will provide you with links to other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site, to read the privacy statements of every website that collects personally identifiable information.

You Consent to our Collection of Information

By providing information to us for the purposes of interacting with Sandness Consulting services and features you understand and agree that we may process information about you and make information about you available to others.

How Sandness Consulting Information Is Used

Your Sandness Consulting information is used to operate and improve the features, offerings and content presented to you by us; to personalize the content and advertisements provided to you; to fulfill your requests for programs and services; to communicate with you and respond to your inquiries; to conduct research about your use of our services; to share information about you and your business; to communicate with other users and business contacts; and, to help offer you other programs or services that may be of interest or relevance to you.

Sandness Consulting does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Sandness Consulting may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, we may share your data information with our trusted service providers, affiliates, partners, agents or other parties whose products or services we believe may be of interest to you or to fulfill a transaction requested by you.  This may include sending you email or postal mail, providing customer support, or arranging for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Sandness Consulting, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Sandness Consulting does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

The contents of your online communications may be accessed and disclosed in response: to lawful governmental requests or legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena), in other circumstances in which we have a good faith belief that a crime has been or is being committed by a user, that an emergency exists that poses a threat to the safety of you or another person, when necessary either to protect our property, or for us to render the service you have requested.

In the event that our ownership was to change as a result of a merger or acquisition by another company, your Sandness Consulting information may be transferred. We will provide you notice prior to any such transfer of your Sandness Consulting information.

Cookies

We and certain third party partners may place “cookies” on your Web browser when you visit our properties (including our websites and emails). Cookies are small pieces of information or text files that a website sends to your computer for record-keeping purposes, which information is stored in a file on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies make Web‑surfing and browsing easier for you by saving your preferences so that we can use the saved information to facilitate and improve your use of Sandness Consulting. Please note that you will not be able to access and use all of Sandness Consulting features if you delete or refuse to accept cookies.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. We hope you will want the better service that cookies provide, but you may set your browser to refuse cookies.

Google Analytics provides services that analyze information regarding visits to our websites and mobile applications. They use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking mechanisms to collect this information.

To learn more about Google’s privacy practices, click here. To access and use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, click here.

Personal Information of Children 

This site is not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18 years of age.

An exception to the rule above arises from the nature of our members’ services which are travel services.  Sometimes adults travel with children, such as a family trip with children in the group.  Then we receive information about children traveling in the group, children’s names and ages, and other information about them. This information will be transferred as described above in this policy, as personal information of the parent or other adult, but typically not as information of the children. If you believe we have information from someone under age 18, please tell us by email, mail or phone.

Security of your Personal Information

Sandness Consulting secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Sandness Consulting secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Questions

If you have further questions or concerns that have not been addressed in this statement, please send your inquiries to: Alicia@SandnessConsultingMN.com

Please be sure to include your name, address and daytime phone number so we can contact you.

Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, and so you should review this Policy periodically for the most up to date version. Continuing to access this Site means you are satisfied with the Policy terms posted at that time.

Last Updated: February 2023