Privacy Statement
May 2026
I. Introduction
II. The Information We Collect
We collect information about you if you communicate with us through emails or calls. The types of personal information collected include:
- First and Last Name.
- Company Name.
- Company Email Address.
- Phone Number.
- Contact Information: Address and other provided contact details.
- Job title
- Online presence, e.g., websites, LinkedIn profile, etc.
- Customer Service Information: Survey responses and other information you provide to customer service.
We may collect additional information about you from third-party sources where we have the rights to do so. When we collect personal information from third parties, the data consists of publicly available personal information compiled from business websites, public-facing social media platforms, and other widely used public sources. We may collect this data to determine your business industry, make recommendations about your IT systems and keep you apprised of our service offerings,
We do not collect special categories of personal data (such as data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health data, or biometric data).
Our website uses cookies, tracking pixels, and related technologies for various purposes, including to operate and personalize the website and to track how you use the site to target ads to you on other websites. For further details on our use of cookies and how you can change the way our browser manages cookies, please see “Cookies and Tracking Technologies” below.
III. How We Use Your Information
A. Primary Processing Purposes
We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order to complete that request for information and to advise you of updates to our service offerings.
We do not use automated decision making to make decisions that have legal impact on you or that significantly affect your rights and liberties. All automated processing activities are conducted with appropriate human supervision and review.
B. Marketing and Communications
We may use information you provide us to provide you marketing information or our newsletter, eBooks, whitepapers, or requested services, as well as get updates on our new products and services. Each email communication has an opt-out election and you may at any time elect not to receive these marketing communications.
C. Website Improvement and Analytics
We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.
IV. Legal Bases for Data Processing
We process your personal data based on the following lawful bases:
A. Consent
By providing information, you freely give, specific, informed, and unambiguous consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, and withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
B. Contract Performance
We process personal data when necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.
C. Legal Obligation
We process personal data when necessary for compliance with legal obligations to which we are subject to.
D. Legitimate Interests
We process personal data when necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests or those of a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your interests, rights, and freedoms. Our legitimate interests include:
- Providing and improving our services
- Preventing fraud and ensuring security
- Defending legal claims
E. Vital Interests
We may process personal data when necessary to protect the vital interests of you or another natural person.
F. Jurisdiction and Choice of Law.
This site is controlled and operated by Hodgson Consulting from its offices with the United States. Hodgson Consulting makes no representation that the materials are appropriate or available for use in other location. Any dispute involving this Privacy Policy shall be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois and shall be brought only in the state of federal courts in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and you expressly consent to the jurisdiction of such courts.
V. Information Sharing and Disclosure
A. General Sharing Practices
We do not share personal information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete the requested process. We never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described in this policy without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses. To protect personal data that is transferred internationally, we comply with all applicable data transfer laws, including incorporating required data transfer terms into our agreements with our affiliates, service providers, and third parties.
B. Service Providers and Processors
We may share personal data with:
- Third-party service providers who assist us in providing our services, e.g., payment service providers;
- Other third parties we use to help us run our business, e.g., marketing agencies or website hosts;
- Third parties approved by you, e.g., social media sites you choose to link your account to or third-party payment providers
- Our bank(s).
These parties are contractually required to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the protection of your personal data and the rights of data subjects.
We or the third parties mentioned above occasionally also share personal data with:
- Our and their external auditors, e.g., in relation to the audit of our or their accounts, in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
- Our and their professional advisors (such as lawyers and other advisors), in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
- Law enforcement agencies, courts, tribunals, and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
- Other parties that have or may acquire control or ownership of our business (and our or their professional advisers) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency—usually, information will be anonymized but this may not always be possible. The recipient of any of your personal data will be bound by confidentiality obligations.
We will not share your personal data with any other third party. If you would like more information about who we share our data with and why, please contact us (see “Contact Us” below).
C. Legal Requirements
We may disclose personal data when required by law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, or when we believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of others.
VI. Your Rights and Choices
A. Data Subject Rights
Subject to applicable law, including exceptions, you have the following rights regarding your personal data that we collect about you:
- Right of Access
You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and information about the processing. - Right to Rectification
You have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you and to have incomplete personal data completed. - Right to Erasure/Right to be Forgotten
You have the right to obtain the erasure of personal data concerning you under certain circumstances, including when the data is no longer necessary for the original purpose or when you withdraw consent. - Right to Restriction of Processing You have the right to obtain restriction of processing under certain circumstances, such as when you contest the accuracy of the data or object to processing.
- Right to Data Portability
You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that data to another controller. - Right to Object
You have the right to object to processing of your personal data based on legitimate interests, direct marketing, or processing for scientific/historical research or statistical purposes. - Right Not to be Subject to Automated Decision-Making You have the right not to be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects you.
B. California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA) Rights
If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA):
- Categories of Personal Information Collected
In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information:- Identifiers: Name, email address, phone number, company name.
- Commercial Information: Records of services requested or considered.
- Internet/Electronic Activity: Website browsing behavior, interaction with our website.
- Professional Information: Business contact information, company details.
- Business Purposes for Collection
We collect personal information for the following business purposes:- Providing consulting services and responding to inquiries.
- Communicating with clients and prospects.
- Website analytics and improvement.
- Marketing communications.
- Legal compliance and fraud prevention.
- California Consumer Rights
If you are a resident of California as defined in the California Code of Regulations (18 CCR § 17014), you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), collectively, “California Privacy Law”:- Know: Request access to their personal information in a portable and readily usable form; disclosure of the specific categories of, and sources for, personal information that the company has collected about you; the business or commercial purposes for collecting the personal information; the categories of third parties with which the information was shared.
- Delete: Request deletion of personal information we have collected about you, subject to certain exceptions.
- Opt-Out: Opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information.
- Non-Discrimination: Not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your privacy rights.
- Correct: Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
- Limit: Request to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information.
- Do Not Sell My Personal Information
We do not sell or share personal information to third parties for monetary consideration. However, we may share personal information for business purposes as described in this policy. California residents can opt out of any future sales by contacting us using the information in the Contact section. - Sensitive Personal Information
We do not collect or process sensitive personal information without appropriate safeguards and legal bases.
C. Exercising Your Rights
To exercise your data protection rights regarding your personal data, you may submit requests through the following methods:
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: 847-906-5005
- Written request to our physical address listed in the Contact section
You must verify your identity before we fulfill your request and reasonable verification information may be required. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. In order to designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, you must provide a valid power of attorney and the requester’s valid government-issued identification.
Upon receipt of your request to exercise your data-protection rights, we will acknowledge receipt within the time period required by applicable law and provide you with information about the next steps in the process and timing.
We may deny or limit requests in certain circumstances, including:
- When we cannot verify your identity.
- When the request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.
- When disclosure would adversely affect others’ rights and freedoms.
- When retention is required by law.
D. Marketing Opt-Out
We will use your personal data to send you updates (by email, text message, or telephone) about our products and services, including exclusive offers, promotions, or new products and services. We process personal data for marketing and communications purposes and providing that information to use is a demonstration of your consent. to receive marketing communications (see above “How We Use Your Information”). You may opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time by:
- Contacting us at [email protected]; or
- Using the “unsubscribe” link in emails or STOP number in texts.
We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you ask us to provide further products and services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business. We will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect and never sell it to or share it with other organizations outside the Hodgson Consulting group for marketing purposes.
VII. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
A. Cookie Usage
Like most other commercial websites, Hodgson Consulting & Solutions website uses standard cookies, tracking pixels, and related technologies. Cookies are small data files that are served by our platform and stored on your device. Our site uses cookies dropped by us or third parties for a variety of purposes, including to operate and personalize the website. Cookies may also be used to track how you use the site to measure the effectiveness of advertising and deliver related content.
B. Cookie Consent
We obtain your consent before placing non-essential cookies on your device. You may withdraw your consent or manage your cookie preferences at any time through your browser settings or by contacting us at [email protected].
C. Types of Cookies
We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: Essential for website functionality
- Performance Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our website
- Functional Cookies: Enable enhanced functionality and personalization
- Targeting Cookies: Used to deliver relevant advertisements
D. Do not Track Signals
Some web browsers (including Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome) incorporate a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) or similar feature that signals to websites that a user does not want to have his or her online activity and behavior tracked. If a website that responds to a particular DNT signal receives the DNT signal, the browser can block that website from collecting certain information about the browser’s user. Not all browsers offer a DNT option and DNT signals are not yet uniform. For this reason, many digital service operators, do not recognize or respond to DNT signals. We currently do not respond to DNT signals but will continue to monitor developments in this area.
VIII. Data Security and Compliance
We protect and safeguard your personal data in the United States, in accordance with applicable law, our privacy and data security policies, and this Privacy . Those who choose to access this site from other locates do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. We use generally accepted standards of technical and operational security to protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction, in consideration of the risks associated with the personal data and its processing.
Only authorized personnel of Hodgson and of our service providers are permitted to access personal data, and these employees and service providers are required to treat this information as confidential. We require the same level of protection and safeguarding from our subsidiaries and affiliates, our service providers, and third parties. Despite these precautions however, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal data.
We maintain incident response procedures to address potential data breaches or security incidents. In the event of a personal data breach, we will notify the relevant supervisory authority and affected individuals without undue delay when required by law.
IX. Data Retention and Deletion
We will retain your personal information for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, in alignment with our business needs (for example, to provide you with our services). In some circumstances we may store your personal information for longer periods of time, for instance where we are required to do so in accordance with legal, regulatory, tax, and accounting requirements. Additionally, we may store your personal information for longer periods of time so that we have an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenges, or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation relating to your personal information or dealings.
If you request that we delete your personal data, Hodgson will comply with applicable law and will make reasonable attempts to delete all instances of the personal data, subject to our right to keep a copy of such data for the purposes mentioned above. For requests for access, corrections, or deletion, especially where the processing is based on your consent, please refer to the “Contact Us” section this Privacy .
X. Children’s Privacy
Hodgson does not intentionally use its site or business content to collect or maintain personal data from individuals under the age of 16. To the extent that any of our non-site business activities may involve collecting or maintaining personal data from or about individuals under the age of 16, we would do so only with the required legal consent from the parent, guardian, or individual and in accordance with applicable law.
Contact Us
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: 847-906-5006
- Written request to our physical address: 1110 W. Lake Cook Road, Suite 235, Buffalo Grove, IL 60089.
Changes to this Privacy
Hodgson reserves the right to modify this Privacy at any time. If we make changes to this Privacy , we will post the revised here and update the effective date.