Grassi and our affiliates (“Grassi” or “we”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This privacy policy provides information about the use of our website, grassiadvisors.com (“Our Site”), and the personal data Grassi collects from you, or that you provide to us, and the ways in which Grassi will store and share your personal data.
Information We Collect
You provide us information about yourself, such as your name, e-mail address, mailing address, and business demographic.
What We Use Your Information For
Registration is not required to use Our Site. If you are merely a visitor, we do not collect any personal information about you, except to the limited extent through the use of cookies, which are described below. However, there may be circumstances in which you choose to register and receive ongoing updates from Grassi, in which case, we may contact registrants to invite them to special events, provide information about our services, publications and products, or for other marketing purposes.
Grassi may also use your personal information in the following ways:
To send you notifications and inform you of new features, products, events, or services we think you would be interested in;
To send you alerts on timely news affecting your business;
To reply to you expressing an interest in working for Grassi;
To provide access to our Client Portal.
We use the information we collect and receive from you to provide you with Our Site, to communicate with you, to operate, maintain, and enhance Our Site, and to fulfill your specific requests. If you correspond with us by email or through Our Site, we may retain the content of your email messages, your email address, and our responses.
Disclosure of Your Information
Grassi does not share your personal information except in the limited circumstances described below:
Grassi may disclose your personal information to the extent that we are required to do so by law or in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
Where Grassi uses sub-contractors who process your information for us, based on our instructions, and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. Grassi may transfer information to its corporate affiliates, service providers, and other partners who process it for us, based on our instructions, and in compliance with this policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. These partners provide Grassi with services globally, including for customer support, information technology, payments, sales, marketing, data analysis, research, and surveys
Grassi may hold events including seminars and conferences which are sponsored by third parties or have third party speakers. Where you register for one of these events, Grassi may share your details with those third parties.
Grassi will inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to disclose your information to any third party.
Storage and Security of Your Personal Data
Grassi uses a variety of physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your information.
The data Grassi collects from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff outside the EEA who work for us. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing, and processing. Grassi will take steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
To make sure your personal information is secure, we communicate our privacy and security policies to our employees and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within Grassi.
Cookie Policy
We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of visitors to Our Site, and this policy explains how Grassi may collect and use information about your through Our Site.
Like most websites, Grassi employs cookies or similar technologies on Our Site. A cookie is a small data file made up of letters and numbers which is placed by a website on the device you use to access the internet. Cookies serve different purposes; in our case, we use cookies on a limited basis to provide us with information about usage of Our Site so that we may improve them and make them more informative and useful for visitors.
Most web browsers allow you to have some control over the placing of cookies on your device through your browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to block, manage and delete them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
Our website utilizes the following cookies:
Google Analytics Cookies
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use Our Site. We use this information to compile reports and improve Our Site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to Our Site, where visitors have come to Our Site from, and the pages they visited. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Web Server Cookies
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These cookies are used by the web server to optimize and prioritize the delivery of dynamic content. They improve performance and efficiency, and do not read or record any personal data related to the user.
E-MARKETING COOKIES
When you receive a marketing email, event invitation or other direct mailing from Grassi, we may collect information about you in the following ways:
View as a web page: If you click on the “view as a web page” link, we will record a session cookie so that the web page is personalized in the same way as the email.
Links to web pages: If you click on any web link, we will record a session cookie and will automatically log such activity in our database.
Unsubscribe: If you click unsubscribe, we will automatically log this information in our database. If you unsubscribe from any email invitation or alert, we will continue to store your personal data on a ‘marketing suppression list’ so as to record your preferences.
Event RSVP buttons: In our event invitations and confirmations we provide buttons to allow you to accept, decline, and register for that event. Clicking on these buttons will generate session cookies and your choice will be recorded in our database to help us manage the event.
Third Party Links
Our Site and communications may, from time to time, contain links to and from websites of our partner networks, advertisers, and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies, and that Grassi does not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Social Media Platforms
You may wish to participate in the various social media applications hosted by Grassi (such as the Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and Instagram widgets on Our Site) which we make available to you. The main aim of these social media applications is to facilitate and allow you to share content. If you follow a link to any of these social media applications, please note that these applications have their own privacy policies, and that Grassi does not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Children’s Privacy
Protecting the privacy of children is especially important. Grassi does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13, or equivalent minimum age depending on jurisdiction. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the relevant age without parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information.
Your Rights
You have the right to:
Request details of the information we are holding about you;
Ask us to rectify, erase or restrict the processing of your personal information;
Obtain confirmation from Grassi whether or not your information is processed by us;
Exercise your right to data portability; or
Withdraw your consent to processing.
Grassi may also give you choices about how we use your information, which you can exercise by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can exercise these rights at any time by contacting us at newsletters@grassiadvisors.com
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Grassi may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will notify you of those changes.
Contact
If you have any questions about our practices of this Privacy Policy, or wish to make a complaint about a possible breach of local privacy laws, please contact us here.