Third Horizon Strategies Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 2024

Overview and Scope

We at Third Horizon Strategies (“Third Horizon Strategies,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) recognize the importance of protecting the integrity and privacy of personally identifiable information (“Personal Information” or “PII”). To that end, this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) discloses our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of the PII we receive when you interact with thirdhorizonstrategies.com (the “Site”) or through our services related to the Site (together with the Site, the “Services”), or when you otherwise interact with us. By using our Services or otherwise submitting information to us, you accept the terms of this Policy.

Information We Collect

We are the sole owner of information collected by us or on our behalf. We collect several types of information, including:

Personal Information: We may collect PII from you when you complete forms, navigate web pages, and in connection with other activities, services, features, or resources we make available. For purposes of this Policy, PII means any information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable natural person. PII does not include publicly available information from government records, deidentified or aggregate information, or information excluded from the scope of “Personal Information” or “PII” as defined by applicable laws.

The types of PII we may collect, use, store, and disclose include the following categories of information:

Sensitive PII: We may, if necessary, collect more sensitive categories of PII revealing: account log-in, precise geolocation, racial or ethnic origin, date of birth, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation (“Sensitive PII”). Any Sensitive PII collected will only be used to the extent necessary to provide the Services to you, or as otherwise permitted by applicable data privacy laws and regulations.

Deidentified Information: We may collect deidentified information from you that may not by itself reasonably identify you as the source when you use the Services, or otherwise interact with us (“Deidentified Information”). Deidentified Information may include: (i) device type, (ii) device operating system, (iii) internet browser type, (iv) internet service provider, (v) referring/exit pages, (vi) date/time stamp, and (vii) clickstream information. We will take reasonable measures to ensure that Deidentified Information we collect is not personally identifiable and may not later be easily used to identify you as required by applicable law.

Children’s Information: We do not offer or promote the Services to, nor do we intentionally collect or retain PII from, children who are younger than 13 years of age. If we discover that we have inadvertently collected information from a child under 13 years of age, we will promptly take all reasonable measures to delete such information from our systems.

How We Collect Information

The information we collect depends on how you use the Services or otherwise interact with us. We collect PII and Deidentified Information in various ways, including:

Directly from You: We collect PII when you voluntarily provide it to us, including in connection with your use of the Services or when you register for newsletters or updates, view publications, sign up for events, participate in public user posting areas (such as bulletin boards, discussion forums, and surveys), or otherwise directly engage with other activities, services, features, or resources we make available. The PII we collect depends on how you use the Services and how you choose to communicate with us.

Through Your Use of the Site: We, together with our service providers and partner organizations, may automatically collect PII and Deidentified Information that your browser transmits when you use the Services to help us improve our website and offer a more personalized experience. We may also collect Deidentified Information about how you use the Services or otherwise interact with us through the use of automated tracking technologies, such as session cookies, persistent cookies, and web beacons.

A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to an internet browser, which enables the Services to remember and customize your subsequent visits. We may use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate the Services. Session cookies expire when you close your browser. We may also use persistent cookies to track and target your interests to enhance your experience with the Services. Persistent cookies remain on your device for an extended period of time.

Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can instruct your internet browser to block cookies or to provide you with a warning prompt before you accept cookies from the Services. Please refer to your internet browser’s instructions to learn more about these functions. If you reject cookies, the functionality of the Services may be limited and you may not be able to participate in several of the Services’ features.

Additionally, we may use web beacons, which are single-pixel, electronic images embedded within the Services that allow us to gather information about your browsing activities.

From Third Party Services: We may also collect PII about you from public sources, third party companies, partner organizations, or other likeminded organizations, which we may combine with information from other sources. The privacy practices of these third parties may differ from the practices described in this Policy. We do not make any representations or warranties concerning, and will not in any way be liable for, any informational content, products, services, software, or other materials available through third parties. Your use of third parties’ services and/or third party websites is governed by and subject to the terms and conditions of those third parties and/or third party websites. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies and statements of such third parties and/or third party websites.

How We Use Information

We may use your PII for lawful business purposes, including to help enhance your user experience. These purposes include:

Providing our Services: We may use your PII to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you provide us with your email address to register for newsletters or updates, we will use that email address to contact you as requested.

Direct Marketing: We may use your PII to send you promotional materials about our services and/or other items we believe would be of interest to you. You have the right to opt-out of receiving direct marketing at any time.

Customer Service and User Communications: We may use your PII to help us respond to your inquiries, questions, requests, and support needs more efficiently.

User Experience Personalization:  We may use your PII to personalize your experience with the Services. For example, we may use your PII to tailor the content and information that we send or display to you, offer personalized recommendations, help, and instructions, or otherwise personalize your experience while using the Services. We may also use users’ PII and/or Deidentified Information in the aggregate to analyze browsing and usage activities and patterns in order to understand our users’ interests and preferences with respect to the Services.  This will help us optimize your experience with the Services.

Business Optimization: We may use your PII and/or Deidentified Information to improve the content on our web pages, to customize the content and layout of our web pages, conduct internal research and development, administer surveys or market research, and in managing our everyday business needs. We may also use your feedback to improve the Services, including by monitoring, auditing, and analyzing trends, usage, and activities through the Services. All of this is done with the intention of making the Services more useful for you.

Safety and Security: We may use your PII and/or Deidentified Information to promote the safety and security of the Services, our users, and other parties. For example, we may use this information to authenticate users, facilitate secure payments, protect against fraud and abuse, respond to a legal request or claim, conduct audits, and enforce our terms and policies.

With Your Consent: We may use your PII in any other way we may describe to you at the time you provide the PII to us, or for any other purpose with your consent.

We will not collect additional categories of PII or use PII we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content, including advertising content, displayed through our Services may be served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Services. The information they collect may be associated with your PII or they may collect information, including PII, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see My Privacy Choices below.

How We Disclose Information

We may disclose your PII to certain third parties for a business purpose as described below. Otherwise, we do not sell, share, or rent PII and will not disclose your PII to third parties without your permission.

To Our Affiliates and Partner Companies: We may disclose your PII to our affiliates, partner organizations, and other parties we consider to be supportive of our broader mission, including companies within the Third Horizon Strategies group. We may also disclose your PII to third party organizations and for-profit companies with whom we partner on specific initiatives, including to provide you with special member-exclusive offers, in which case those third parties may use your PII in ways comparable to those disclosed above. However, these third party organizations are never given direct access to our membership lists.

To Service Providers and Contractors: We may disclose your PII to service providers and contractors that assist us in providing user support, processing payments, marketing, advertising, communicating with clients, and promoting the Services, or that otherwise perform business functions on our behalf relating to the Services.

Law Enforcement, Safety, and Legal Processes:  We may disclose your PII to law enforcement or other government officials if it relates to a criminal investigation or alleged criminal activity.  We may also disclose your PII: (i) if required or permitted to do so by law; (ii) for fraud protection and credit risk reduction purposes; (iii) in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to protect our rights, interests, or property; (iv) in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to protect your safety or the safety of others; or (v) to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, subpoena, or other similar legal or administrative process.

Sale or Acquisition of Assets:  If we become involved in a transaction involving the sale of our assets, such as a merger or acquisition, or if we are transferred to another company, we may disclose and/or transfer your PII as part of the transaction. If the surviving entity in that transaction is not us, the surviving company may use your PII pursuant to its own privacy policies, and those policies may be different from this Policy.

As Disclosed or Consented To: We may disclose your PII for any other purpose disclosed by us at the time you provide that PII, or otherwise with your consent. For example, we may provide you with the opportunity to selectively share your PII with a specific partner organization directly through the Services. By providing your PII on a partner organization page through the Services, you consent to our disclosure of your PII to that partner organization.

Security

The security and confidentiality of your PII is very important to us. We use commercially reasonable security measures to protect your PII. However, no data transmitted over or accessible through the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  As a result, while we attempt to protect your PII, we cannot guarantee or warrant that your PII will be completely secure (i) from misappropriation by hackers or from other nefarious or criminal activities, or (ii) in the event of a failure of computer hardware, software, or a telecommunications networks.

California Privacy Rights

California Law California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits California residents who are users of the Services to annually request, free of charge, information about the PII (if any) disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If applicable, this information would include a list of the categories of PII that were shared and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to:

Third Horizon Strategies
Legal Department
320 South Canal Street, Suite 3030
Chicago, IL 60606

Your Privacy Choices

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the PII you provide to us. We have created various mechanisms to provide you control over your PII, including:

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. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts or functions of the Services may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

Promotional Communications: You will only receive email newsletters from us if you have a) expressly signed up to receive emails from us through the Services or in person at events hosted by us; b) taken action on our behalf either online or in person; or (c) become a Third Horizon Strategies client. You may subscribe or unsubscribe to any newsletter or email communication from us at any time. You may also elect to sign up to receive text message updates from us by providing us with the mobile phone number to which you wish to receive text messages. We do not charge recipients to receive text messages, however your own messaging and data rates may apply. If you decide that you no longer wish to receive communications from us, including promotional emails, text messages, and/or other direct marketing communications, you may opt-out of future communications at any time by: (i) using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our communications; (ii) following any instructions included in the relevant communication; or (iii) contacting us via email at info@Thirdhorizonstrategies.com or via U.S. mail at Third Horizon Strategies, 320 S Canal Street, Suite 3030 Chicago, IL 60606.

With your consent, we may also send promotional and non-promotional push notifications or alerts to your browser. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your browser. Please be aware that although you may opt-out of promotional emails, text messages and/or other direct marketing communications, we reserve the right to email you administrative notices regarding the Services and other non-promotional messages, as permitted under the CAN-SPAM Act.

Sharing of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising: If you do not want us to share your PII with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by sending us an email with your request to info@Thirdhorizonstrategies.com.

Account Information: If you ever wish to access, update, change, delete, correct, or otherwise control your PII, you may do so by sending us an email with your request to info@Thirdhorizonstrategies.com. To help us process your request, please provide sufficient information to allow us to identify you in our records. We reserve the right to ask for additional information verifying your identity prior to disclosing any PII to you. Should we ask for verification, the information you provide will be used only for verification purposes, and all copies of the information will be destroyed when the process is complete.

Other State Privacy Rights: Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices, including rights related to advertising and analytics activities that may be considered “sales” or “sharing” of your PII or “targeted advertising” under the laws and/or regulations that apply to you. Depending on where you reside, you may have the right to opt out of targeted advertising, sharing, and sales of your PII, in addition to other applicable privacy rights. If you believe you have such additional rights and wish to exercise them, please send us an email with your request, including the specific rights you wish to exercise, to info@Thirdhorizonstrategies.com. Please be aware that your rights are limited to the extent permitted by applicable law.

We will make commercially reasonable efforts to respond to opt-out requests and handle requests to access, update, change, delete, or otherwise control your PII as quickly as possible.

Data Retention

We will retain your PII while you maintain a client account with us or to the extent necessary to provide the Services. Thereafter, we will keep PII for as long as necessary: (i) to respond to any queries from users; (ii) to demonstrate we treated users fairly; (iii) for ordinary business continuity procedures; or (iv) to comply with any applicable laws. We delete PII within a reasonable period after we no longer need the information for the purposes set out in this Policy.

Do Not Track Disclosure

Some internet browsers may transmit “do-not-track” signals to websites with which the browser communicates. Because an industry-standard “do-not-track” protocol is not yet established, the choices we offer will continue to operate as described in this Policy independent of any Do-Not-Track signals, as the Services do not currently respond to such signals.

SPAM

We do not participate in bulk email solicitations that you have not consented to receiving (i.e., “spam”).  We do not sell or disclose customer lists or email address lists to unrelated third parties. Except as otherwise provided herein, we do not share PII with any third party advertisers.

Third Party Links

The Services may contain links to other websites or applications (“Linked Sites”) that are not owned by us.  We do not control the collection or use of any information, including PII, which occurs while you visit Linked Sites. Therefore, we make no representations or warranties for—and will not in any way be liable for—any content, products, services, software, or other materials available on Linked Sites, even if one or more pages of the Linked Sites are framed within the Services.

Furthermore, we make no representations or warranties about the privacy policies or practices of the Linked Sites, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those Linked Sites. We encourage you to be aware of when you leave the Services and read the privacy policies of Linked Sites.

Modifications

We reserve the right to update this Policy from time-to-time in our sole discretion. If our privacy practices change materially in the future, we will post an updated version of the Policy to this webpage. It is your responsibility to review this Policy for any changes each time you use the Services. We will not lessen your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent. If you do not agree with the changes made, we will honor any opt-out requests made after the Effective Date of a new privacy policy.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Policy, the information we have collected from you, the practices applicable to the Services, or your interaction with the Services or Third Horizon Strategies generally, please send an email to: info@Thirdhorizonstrategies.com.

Effective Date

This Policy was last modified as of the effective date printed above. This version of the privacy policy replaces and supersedes any prior privacy policies applicable to the Services.