Privacy Policy​

Collaborative is committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the following Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy applies to the website(s) provided by Collaborative Communications Group, Inc., a company headquartered in Washington, DC, with respect to the personal data you share with Collaborative under this policy. The websites include collaborativecommunications.com and collaborativegovernmentsolutions.com. Collaborative knows that your privacy is important to you and takes user privacy very seriously. We are committed to protecting your personal data (i.e. any information you provide to us from which you can be identified) in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Collaborative reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to alter and update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We therefore invite you to review the current version of the Privacy Policy each time you return to our website.

Collaborative might collect personal data from you such as your name, contact details, occupation, company or university affiliation, industry, region/country, relationship to Collaborative, reason for contacting Collaborative, topics you are interested in and any other information you choose to share. By browsing our websites or sending us information, you explicitly consent to Collaborative processing your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Collaborative might use your personal data to fulfill your request, send you marketing communications, or process your job application.

Collaborative collects personal data from you when you request information from Collaborative and/or supply, information through the websites, such as when you subscribe to our blog, opt in to receive emails from Collaborative, agree to participate in surveys, or apply for a role at Collaborative.

Personal data we collect might include your name, e-mail address, title, occupation, company or university affiliation, industry, region/country, relationship to Collaborative, reason for contacting us, topics you are interested in, any other background information provided with an application and any other information contained in messages you send us.

By browsing our websites and submitting this information to us, you explicitly agree to Collaborative using your personal data for the purposes and in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. Please do not send us any information you do not wish Collaborative to use.

Collaborative will use your personal data to fulfil your request, provide you with the information you requested and/or send you marketing communications. If you have applied for a job at Collaborative, your data will be processed for the purposes of evaluating and processing your application and candidacy for the position to which you have applied. We may also use your information to analyze and improve our recruiting and onboarding processes as well as to communicate with you about Collaborative events and to send you publications that we think may be of interest to you. More detail can be found in the Job Applicants section.

Collaborative may collect personal data and may disclose such information to third-party service providers in aggregate for marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to personally identify you.

You do not have to provide personal data to us. However, if you do not, we may be unable to handle your request or to provide you with the services you are requesting.

Collaborative will keep your personal data for as long as needed to handle your request or for as long as we have a relationship with you. If you have applied for a role with Collaborative, Collaborative will keep your personal data associated with your application for a period of up to five years.

Please note that Collaborative is not responsible for any information you may disclose publicly in any chat rooms, message boards, or similar web pages, including those hosted on or linked to our websites. You should keep in mind that, whenever you publicly disclose information about yourself online (for example, via message boards or chat rooms), such information could be collected and used by people whom you do not know. In addition, certain message boards and similar user forums may display IP addresses along with the message poster’s name and message. Collaborative bears no responsibility for any action or policies of any third parties who collect any information users may disclose on the message boards, chat areas or other user forums, if any, on the websites.

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with the Website, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Website. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California.

We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Website, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems (e.g. backups, etc.).

The California Code of Regulations defines a “resident” as:

(1)  every individual who is in the State of California for other than a temporary or transitory purpose and

(2)  every individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is outside the State of California for a temporary or transitory purpose

All other individuals are defined as “non-residents.”

If this definition of “resident” applies to you, certain rights and obligations apply.

If you are resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here:
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.

Our websites may use cookies or other technology to obtain certain types of information about you. You can disable or delete cookies by going to the Help section of your browser but certain functionalities of our websites might not work properly if you do so.

We may use cookies or other technology (“cookies”) to obtain certain types of information when you browse our websites. “Cookies” are small text files that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies can be placed on your computer directly by one of our websites (first party cookies) or by another website (third-party cookies).

We may use cookies to keep track of your visit to our websites, speed up navigation and improve your experience of the site, (for instance by remembering some of your preferences or choices, the last pages you visited or searches you carried out or by keeping you logged in).

Our websites may use cookies such as Google Analytics to carry out some analytics on and enhance our websites. These cookies help us understand, for example, how you use our websites, which pages are the most visited or where people visiting our websites are located.

This Website uses Google Maps APIs which is subject to Google’s Terms of Service. You may find the Google Maps APIs Terms of Service here. To find out more about Google’s Privacy Policy, please refer to this link. https://policies.google.com/privacy

We may also use cookies to enable you to share content on networking or social media sites or for marketing and promotional purposes where you have subscribed to our marketing communications from Collaborative.

The “help” section of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive new cookies, and how to disable or delete cookies altogether.

If you choose to disable cookies, certain functionalities of our websites might not work.

We may use your information to develop and display personalized content and advertising (and work with third parties who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.

Collaborative will not share or sell your data to any third party for their own use.

We may share your personal data with others, such as:

  • Carefully selected third party service providers, such as marketing service providers (if you have subscribed to our marketing communications), IT systems providers, recruitment service providers, background check providers, data cleansing providers or event organizers, so they can provide services to Collaborative;
  • Our advisors;
  • Law enforcement authorities or other government bodies when we are required to do so.

Third parties, other than law enforcement authorities or government bodies, will only handle your personal data on behalf of Collaborative for the purposes described in this Policy. Collaborative will not sell or otherwise share your personal data with such third parties for their own use.  

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.

Our websites may contain links to third-party websites that are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. Collaborative does not bear any liability and responsibility for the content or your use of these websites.

The websites may contain links to third-party websites, including social network sites. Such websites are governed by their own terms of use and privacy policies, which you should review before browsing or submitting information to them. Collaborative is not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites. In addition, a link to a third-party website does not mean that Collaborative endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content or the use of such web site. Collaborative shall not bear any liability and responsibility for such content or for your use of these websites.

Collaborative has implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures in order to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction.

Collaborative has implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures in order to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Authorized Collaborative personnel and third parties mentioned above will only have access to your personal data to the extent they need it to do their job or provide their services. Despite these precautions, however, Collaborative cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your information.

Depending on where you reside you might have the right to request access to, rectification or erasure of your personal data and to object to or ask for the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You might also have the right to withdraw your consent and request that we stop processing or delete your personal data. Depending on where you reside, you may be entitled to certain rights regarding the personal data Collaborative holds about you. For instance, you may have the right to request access to your information, obtain a copy of it as well as information about how we use it. You have the right to request that we correct incorrect, inaccurate or out-of-date information about you. You may also have the right to request that we stop processing your information and/or withdraw your consent to such processing and to ask us to delete your information.If you receive marketing communications from Collaborative, you can opt out of receiving future emails from Collaborative by clicking “unsubscribe.”If you wish to make a request about your personal data, please contact us using the subject line “Data Privacy” at info@CollaborativeCommunications.com. Please note that we will take reasonable steps to check your identity before handling your request.If you think we are handling your information unlawfully, we encourage you to get in touch with us at info@CollaborativeCommunications.com. Right to request to delete data You can ask for the deletion of your personal information. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will respect your request and delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such as (but not limited to) the exercise by another consumer of his or her right to free speech, our compliance requirements resulting from a legal obligation or any processing that may be required to protect against illegal activities. Right to be informed/Request to know  Depending on the circumstances, you have a right to know:
  • whether we collect and use your personal information;
  • the categories of personal information that we collect;
  • the purposes for which the collected personal information is used;
  • whether we sell your personal information to third parties;
  • the categories of personal information that we sold or disclosed for a business purpose;
  • the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and
  • the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
In accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete consumer information that is de-identified in response to a consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer request. Right to non-discrimination for the exercise of a consumer’s privacy rights  We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights. Verification process  Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. These verification efforts require us to ask you to provide information so that we can match it with the information you have previously provided us. For instance, depending on the type of request you submit, we may ask you to provide certain information so that we can match the information you provide with the information we already have on file, or we may contact you through a communication method (e.g. phone or email) that you have previously provided to us. We may also use other verification methods as the circumstances dictate. We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. To the extent possible, we will avoid requesting additional information from you for the purposes of verification. If, however, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity, and for security or fraud-prevention purposes. We will delete such additionally provided information as soon as we finish verifying you. Other privacy rights
  • you may object to the processing of your personal data
  • you may request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant, or ask to restrict the processing of the data
  • you can designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with the CCPA.
  • you may request to opt-out from future selling of your personal information to third parties. Upon receiving a request to opt-out, we will act upon the request as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than 15 days from the date of the request submission.
To exercise these rights, you can contact us by email at info@CollaborativeCommunications.com, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you.

If you apply for a job at Collaborative, you will be asked to submit information such as your name, contact details, information about your education and work history and any other background information that might be relevant for your application or that you choose to share. If you do not provide this information to us, we might not be able to process your application.

Collaborative will use this information to assess your application and candidacy for the position to which you have applied. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this may include:

  •  Evaluating your skills and experience in relation to the qualification required for the job to which you have applied; and
  •  Tracking feedback and interactions we have with you throughout the recruiting process.

We may also use your information:

  • When analyzing our internal recruiting processes to determine which recruit sources to focus on;
  • How to improve integration and training programs for new hires with different educational backgrounds and work experience; and
  • How to enhance our interview model to improve hiring quality.

The information you provide may also be used to communicate with you about Collaborative events and to send you publications that we think may be of interest to you.

We might share your personal data with recruitment service providers, background check providers and IT system providers.

We will keep your application data for up to five years. If you no longer wish for Collaborative to process your data or if you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at jobs@CollaborativeCommunications.com.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how Collaborative handles your personal data, please contact us via:

Email:  info@CollaborativeCommunications.com

Mail: 1029 Vermont Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20005

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