This website is administered by Forte Consulting
Group, Inc. for the primary purpose of providing
information and resources to help you improve your
financial process efficiency and performance. Forte
Consulting Group, Inc. and its affiliates ("Forte
Financial" or "we") are committed
to protecting the privacy of the personally-identifiable
information that we collect from you as you use
this Web site (the "Site"). The scope
of Forte Financial’s commitment is detailed
in this Privacy Policy. By submitting information,
you agree to Forte Financial’s use of such
information as described herein.
What information is collected?
Information on fortefinancial.com is gathered
in two ways: indirectly and directly. Indirectly
gathered information, such as your IP address,
is collected through our site's technology as described
below. Directly we gather information from you
when you sign up to access our newsletter, articles
and press releases, comment on our blog, or send
us a request for information. If you request information
from Forte Financial, we will only use your personal
information to respond to your requests and to
provide you with information about the services
you requested, unless we obtain your permission
to use your personal information for other purposes.
If you send us a resume or curriculum vitae (CV)
to apply for a position with Forte Financial, we
will use the information provided to match you
with available opportunities. We may keep any of
your personally-identifiable information on file
and use it to contact you for recruiting purposes.
Are cookies and IP addresses used?
We do not set any cookies.
As is true of most web sites, we gather certain
information automatically and store it in log files.
This information includes the internet protocol
(IP) addresses, browser type, internet service
provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating
system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information to analyze trends, to administer
our web site, to track users' movements around
the web site and to gather demographic information
about our user base as a whole.
Is my information disclosed to third parties?
Forte Financial shall not intentionally disclose
or transfer (and shall take reasonable steps to
protect the confidentiality and security, and to
prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure
of) your personally-identifiable information to
third parties (i.e., persons or entities that are
not affiliates of Forte Financial), whether for
such third parties' marketing purposes or otherwise,
subject only to the following four exceptions:
(1) we may disclose your personally-identifiable
information to third parties if required by the
laws, rules, or regulations of any nation, state,
or other applicable jurisdiction, or to comply
with legal process served on us; (2) we may disclose
your personally-identifiable information to third
parties in order to transmit or deliver requested
information to you; (3) we may disclose your personally-identifiable
information to third parties if, in conjunction
with submitting the information, you consent to
such disclosure; or (4) we may disclose your personally-identifiable
information in response to inquiries by bona-fide
rights owners in connection with allegations of
infringement of copyright or other proprietary
rights arising from information you have posted
as a comment on our blog or otherwise provided
to Forte Financial.
We do not otherwise share personal information
with third parties except as necessary to carry
out our business or as required by law or other
legal processes, and we never sell your personal
information. If there is a change of control in
Forte Financial’s business (whether by merger,
sale, or otherwise), its customer information could
be sold as part of that transaction and your personally
identifying information potentially could be used
by the purchaser. However, if that business materially
changes this statement or the information-handling
practices as described in this statement, you will
be notified by email and/or through a notice posted
on our web site, and you will have a choice as
to whether your existing information is used in
a new manner.
This Web site contains links to Web sites owned
by other companies. Forte Financial is not responsible
for the privacy practices or the content of such
Web sites. Please contact those companies directly
for more information about their privacy practices.
How can I access, change, and/or delete information?
In order to access, change, and/or delete subscription
information that you have submitted to Forte Financial
please visit our Unsubscribe page
Alternatively, you may contact us directly using
the address, phone and email contact information
provided at the bottom of this page.
Security
This site has industry standard security measures
in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration
of the information under our control and we make
good faith efforts to store the information we
collect in a secure operating environment that
is not available to the public, but we cannot guarantee
complete security.
Transborder hosting and transfer of information
Personally-identifiable information collected
on the Site may be transferred from time to time
to Forte Financial personnel, or affiliates, located
throughout the world, and the Site may be viewed
and hosted anywhere in the world, including countries
(such as the United States) that may not have laws
of general applicability regulating the use and
transfer of such data. By using the Site and submitting
such information on it, you voluntarily consent
to such transborder transfer and hosting of such
information.
Children’s online privacy protection
Forte Financial understands the importance of
protecting children's privacy, especially in an
on-line environment. The Site is not intentionally
designed for or directed at children 13 years of
age or younger, and Forte Financial will not intentionally
collect or maintain information about anyone under
the age of 13.
Changes to this privacy policy
This policy may change from time to time. If we
make any substantive changes to the policy in the
future with regard to how we use your information,
such changes will be posted on the site in this
location.
We may offer new services or technologies in the
future that collect or use information in different
ways. We will notify you of those new data collection
practices either by revising this privacy statement
when the new service launches, or through a separate
privacy statement available upon registration for
the new service.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on June 2,
2006.
Contact Us
Forte Consulting Group, Inc.
Forte Financial
1201 Greenwich Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94109
We can be reached via e-mail at info@fortefinancial.com
or by telephone at 415.441.4840.
