Kinected Consulting, Inc. Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to Kinected Consulting, Inc. (“Kinected”).  To better protect your privacy, we are providing information explaining our online information practices.  This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Kinected collects, uses, shares, maintains, protects and discloses information collected from you or that you may provide when you interact with Kinected through our website and our business. This Policy explains what information Kinected collects, when and how Kinected might use that information, how Kinected protects the information, the choices you have with respect to your personal information and how you can contact Kinected if you have any questions or concerns.  You consent to the use of information that is collected or submitted as described in this Privacy Policy. Kinected may modify this Privacy Policy, so you are encouraged to regularly review it.

1. Information You Provide to Kinected.

The types of information Kinected collects depends on your use of Kinected’s website, the ways that you interact with Kinected and its business and what information you choose to provide to Kinected.  For example,

• You may submit information to Kinected so that Kinected can respond to inquiries and provide you with information you request regarding Kinected services. The data that Kinected collects in this regard may include personal information such as contact details including names, email addresses, home addresses, and phone numbers, as well as, information related to your commercial inquiry for our services.
• Kinected collects information in connection with its financial advisory services and marketing related activities.  The data that Kinected collects in this regard may include personal information.
• Kinected collects pre-employment information (including personal information such as name, email address, telephone number and curriculum vitae) in connection with job opportunities you may apply for, as well as, employment information (including personal information related to employment authorization, tax identification, benefits and payroll) in connection with its employees and contractors.

2. Kinected Automatic Collection of Information.

• Kinected does not collect personal information through the use of cookies or any other automatic data collection tools on its website.

3. Kinected Collection of Information from Other Sources.

• Kinected may obtain information about you from our current or future affiliates or subsidiaries.
• Kinected may obtain information about you from publicly and/or commercially available sources, including but not limited to, third party publishers, social media, and third party networks.
• Kinected may obtain information about you from third party investment opportunities.
• Kinected may obtain information about you from third parties that we have a business relationship with and as permitted by law or agreement.

4. Kinected De-Identified Information.

Kinected may collect information that is de-identified so that personal information is anonymized. Kinected’s use and disclosure of such de-identified information that is anonymized of personal information is not subject to any restrictions under this Privacy Policy, and Kinected may disclose it to others without restriction for any purpose.

5. Kinected’s Use of Information.

Kinected may use your information for our business purposes, including but not limited to the following:

• Improving our website and the services that we offer and notifying you about changes to our services.
• For the performance of Kinected’s agreements with you. For example, fulfilling Kinected’s merger and acquisition transactions and providing investment advisory and related services.
• Communicating with you including responding to your requests, questions, or comments that are submitted by you.
• Performing, managing, and administering Kinected’s employment relationships with its employees.
• Detecting, investigating, and preventing fraudulent transactions, abuse, and other illegal activities.
• Protecting the rights, property, or safety of Kinected and others.
• Complying with our Terms of Use policy; as well as complying with applicable law and government requests.
• Performing any other business activities as needed, or as described elsewhere in this policy or carrying out any other purposes described to you at the time that Kinected collected the information.

6. Kinected’s Sharing of Information.

Kinected may disclose information to:

• Kinected’s third party service providers who help Kinected to operate or improve our website or to assist with Kinected’s business processes and/or as necessary to provide Kinected’s services.
• Third parties related to Kinected investment advisory opportunities and due diligence.
• Comply with the law or to enforce or apply applicable terms and conditions and other agreements if Kinected believes such disclosure is appropriate. Kinected may also disclose information about you if Kinected believes that your actions are inconsistent with Kinected’s Terms of Use or related guidelines and policies, or if necessary, to protect the rights, property, or safety of, or prevent fraud or abuse of, Kinected or others.
• An affiliate or successor entity or otherwise as part of a corporate business transaction.

Kinected may also share information about you at your direction or request or when you otherwise consent.  Kinected does not sell your personal information to a third party or share your personal information except as described in this Privacy Policy.

7.  Your Choices.

Where Kinected has collected and processed your personal information with your consent, you may withdraw your consent as provided for within this Privacy Policy and to the extent permitted by law.  Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing that Kinected conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

If you wish to exercise any privacy right in relation to your personal information as set forth in this Privacy Policy or if you otherwise have any questions, comments or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by sending a written request via email to info@Kinectedpartners.com or by writing us at Kinected Partners, LLC, Attn: Compliance / Privacy Request, 1230 Rosecrans Avenue,  Suite 170, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266. Please be aware that your request does not guarantee complete access or removal of your personal information as the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.

8. Data Rights.

You may have the following consumer privacy rights in relation to your personal information collected or maintained by Kinected depending on your jurisdiction:

• Right of Access: You may have the right to request and access information about how Kinected processes personal information relevant to your request.
• Right to Portability: You may have the right to receive personal information relevant to your request, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to have that information transmitted to another third-party in certain circumstances.
• Right to Rectification: You may have the right to request the update and correction in inaccuracies of personal information relevant to your request.
• Right to Deletion: You may have the right to request the deletion of personal information that Kinected has collected relevant to your request under certain circumstances.
• Right to Restrict Processing: You may have the right to request Kinected to restrict the processing of personal information relevant to your request under certain circumstances. For example, if you in good faith believe that personal information Kinected processes about you is incorrect or unlawful.
• Right to Object or Opt-Out.  You may have the right to object to and/or opt-out of the processing of personal information relevant to your request under certain circumstances or as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy.

These rights may be limited by applicable law. For example, Kinected may need to retain or share certain personal information for legitimate business purposes, to complete transactions you have requested, to comply with our legal obligations, and for other purposes as required or permitted by law. You may exercise the rights by contacting us via email at info@Kinected.com or write us at our mailing address at: Kinected Consulting, Inc. Attn: Compliance / Privacy Request, 16255 Ventura Blvd. STE 625, Encino, CA 91436.  In addition, if you believe that Kinected has not complied with your data protection rights, you have the right to file a complaint with the data protection authority of your home country.

9. Miscellaneous.

Data Retention. Kinected may retain information for legitimate business needs including, but not limited to, detecting and preventing abuse of our website, illegal activities, breaches of our Terms of Use, complying with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements, and performing, maintaining and administering our agreements. When Kinected has no legitimate business need to retain your information, we will either delete it consistent with Kinected’s data retention and deletion policy or take reasonable steps to de-identify or anonymize it in accordance with applicable law.

Security. Kinected employs industry standard technical and organizational measures designed to protect your personal information that is under Kinected’s control and that Kinected processes on your behalf from unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, or disposal, both during transmission and once Kinected receives it.  Despite the foregoing, Kinected cannot guaranty the security of information and information you provide is at your own risk.

Third Party Websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that you have provided or made accessible to third parties.  Disclosure of information to these third parties is subject to the relevant third party’s privacy policy. Kinected is not responsible for the third party’s use of your information.

Children’s Personal Information.  Kinected’s website is directed to adults and is not intended for children i.e. individuals under 18 years of age. Kinected does not knowingly collect personal information online from children under the age of 13 or equivalent minimum age in the applicable jurisdiction. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to Kinected on its website. If Kinected learns we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 on its website, Kinected will take reasonable steps to delete that information as soon as practicable.

Contact.  If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email at info@Kinectedpartners.com or write us at our mailing address at: Kinected Consulting, Inc., Attn: Compliance / Privacy Request, 16255 Ventura Blvd. STE 625, Encino, CA 91436.

Changes.  Kinected may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to keep it current with applicable law and industry standards. When Kinected makes changes to this Privacy Policy, Kinected will publish the changes and the effective date of such changes on its website.

This document is effective on January 1, 2022 (“Effective Date”).

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