Effective Date : January 1, 2024

This policy applies to ProtGov LLC. and its affiliated companies (collectively “ProtGov”).

ProtGov understands that your privacy is important to you and is committed to safeguarding the confidentiality and privacy of personal information entrusted to it.

This Privacy Policy describes how ProtGov handles and protects your personal information in connection with the hosting of this website, and the provision of its diverse business advisory services.

What data do we Collect?

ProtGov collects the following data:

Name, Contact Information, and Identifying information: such as real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol (IP) address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.

CUSTOMER RECORDS: Paper and electronic customer records containing personal information, such as name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.

PURCHASE HISTORY AND TENDENCIES: Commercial information, including records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

USAGE DATA: Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a resident’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement.

AUDIO/VISUAL: Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information that may be created in your interaction with ProtGov.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: Professional or employment-related information.

How do we collect your data?

ProtGov collects personal information from and on behalf of its clients (e.g. about their employees and customers) to provide business advisory services to those clients. It also processes client personal information to manage its relationship with those clients. Further, ProtGov also collects some personal information from visitors to this website, recruitment applicants, and attendees at ProtGov events.

How will we use your data?

ProtGov uses personal information to deliver its Services to clients. For its own purposes, it also uses personal information to analyze and improve how it delivers those services, to contact representatives of its clients or prospective clients and to market to them, and to administer recruitment and events.

If ProtGov uses your personal information, you may have certain important rights which you can exercise. The rights you will be able to exercise will depend on how and why ProtGov uses your information.

The primary point of contact at ProtGov for questions regarding your personal information is privacy@protgov.com

How do we store your data?

ProtGov is a global services organization and may transfer certain personal information collected on its websites across geographical borders to ProtGov offices, personnel, or third parties located throughout the world. ProtGov may also store such information in a jurisdiction other than where you are based including outside of the European Economic Area (“EEA”).

ProtGov will take appropriate steps ensure that transfers of personal information are in accordance with applicable law and carefully managed to protect your privacy rights and interests and transfers are limited to countries which are recognized as providing an adequate level of legal protection or where we can be satisfied that alternative arrangement are in place to protect your privacy rights. To this end:

  • Transfers of personal information to ProtGov’s global offices are protected through contractual commitments (such as the Standard Contractual Clauses). Whilst they do not constitute ProtGov’s legal mechanism for transferring personal information to the US.
  • Where we transfer your personal information outside ProtGov to third parties who help provide us with any of the activities described in this policy, we obtain contractual commitments (such as the Standard Contractual Clauses) from them in order to protect your personal information.
  • Where we receive requests for information from law enforcement, courts or regulators (who may be based overseas), we carefully validate these requests before any personal information are disclosed.

You have a right to contact us for more information about the safeguards we have put in place (including a copy of relevant contractual commitments) to ensure the adequate protection of your personal information when this is transferred as mentioned above.

Marketing

Taking account of applicable marketing laws, we also process personal information about our clients (former, current and prospective) in order to:

  • send our clients newsletters, know-how, promotional material and other marketing communications;
  • invite our clients to events (and arrange and administer those events).

What are your data protection rights?

ProtGov would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request ProtGov for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request ProtGov correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request ProtGov to complete information that is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that ProtGov erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that ProtGov restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object that ProtGov’s processing of your personal data under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that ProtGov transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, ProtGov will respond to you within one month. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at  privacy@protgov.com.

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.

For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

How do we use cookies?

ProtGov uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

  • Keeping you signed in
  • Understanding how you use our website

What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses.

  • Functionality – ProtGov uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
  • Advertising – ProtGov uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. ProtGov sometimes shares some limited aspect of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.

How to manage cookies.

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Privacy Policy of other websites

The ProtGov website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy policy.

ProtGov keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places updates on this webpage.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about ProtGov’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at: privacy@protgov.com

Or write us at: 
ProtGov
2701 Little Elm Pkwy
STE 100 PMB 1078
Little Elm, TX 75068