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Privacy Policy Version 8.0

Overview

Thank you for visiting our website talentsmoothie.com. We want to explain to you what ‘personal data’ the website collects and what we do with it, including our use of ‘cookies’.

The website doesn’t itself collect any personal data like names, email addresses etc. as it doesn’t use a contact form or an embedded mailing list signup form. You may contact us directly by email. Although we use Google Workspace by Google which encrypts emails, we can’t guarantee that your email will be encrypted at all stages of its life.

Prior to 21/12/23 we used Leadpages (https://leadpages.com) to tell you about our services and to enable you to make initial contact with us to request a free premium PDF download, consultation (or similar offer); on 21/12/23 we stopped using Leadpages and all historic personal data was deleted from the Leadpages system. From 21/12/23 our premium PDF downloads are freely available directly from our website, and no personal information is requested in exchange for the downloads.

If you engaged with one of our Leadpages prior to 21/12/23, you gave us some personal data via the Leadpages contact form so that we could make appropriate contact with you as you were requesting. In addition, we asked for and you may have given your consent to receive other talentsmoothie marketing emails when you submitted the form. Please see Section 1. below for historic consent-related details which may apply to you.

If you downloaded our premium PDFs prior to 21/12/23 you gave us some personal data via the Leadpages contact form so that we could make appropriate contact with you as you were requesting. In addition, we asked for and you may have given your consent to receive other talentsmoothie marketing emails when you submitted the form. Please see Section 2. below for historic consent-related details which may apply to you.

Please note that we previously used Formstack (https://www.formstack.com) for our PDF downloads; all personal data has now been deleted from the Formstack system.

You may have chosen to join our talentsmoothie News MailChimp mailing list via our MailChimp-hosted subscribe form (previously on our website) or via other online links. Please note that this MailChimp mailing list (and the personal data contained in it) has been deleted.

The website collects an obfuscated (md5-hashed) version of your IP address for security purposes and an anonymised version of your IP address, for website-traffic-tracking purposes. Please see Section 3. below which explains why we do this and what it means for you.

The website places Google Analytics tracking cookies, but only after you have accepted them. If you decline them via our ‘cookie notice’ then new Google Analytics cookies are not placed. Please see Section 4. below which explains what cookies the website places and your options with respect to those cookies.

If you don’t know what a cookie is, you could watch this helpful short video (from https://cookies.insites.com/about-cookies/):

Any data that is sent between your device and our website is encrypted for your protection — you can see the word Secure and/or a little padlock next to the url in your browser, this confirms that your browser has made a secure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection to our website on the server.

Section 1. Our Leadpages (hosted by https://leadpages.com)

We use Leadpages (https://leadpages.com) to tell you about our services and to enable you to make initial contact with us to request a free consultation (or similar offer). You give us your name, email address, company name and job title via the Leadpages contact form so that we can make appropriate contact with you as you are requesting when you submit the form. In addition, we ask for your consent, via a non-required tick in a checkbox, to receive other talentsmoothie marketing emails when you submit the form. The ‘consent’ text used is reproduced [below]:

[The ‘personal data’ you provide will be used by talentsmoothie to follow up on your enquiry and arrange your free consultation with us. Your data will be stored within the Leadpages system (please read the Leadpages Privacy Policy https://www.leadpages.com/privacy); the maximum time that your data will be kept in the Leadpages system will be 12 months. *In addition, we may contact you by email in the future if we believe other talentsmoothie solutions may be of interest to you; please click to tick ‘I consent’ below to CONSENT to this use of your personal data for talentsmoothie marketing purposes. Thank you.

☐ I consent to the use of my personal data for talentsmoothie marketing purposes, as described above*.]

Section 2. Our Leadpages-hosted PDF download process and Leadpages-hosted forms

*When you click to download Research Reports, Position Papers or certain other premium content from this website, you will be re-directed so that you can enter some personal data on a Leadpages-hosted form, to obtain your download.

You give us your name, email address, job title and company name via the Leadpages contact form so that we can arrange your download as you are requesting when you submit the form. In addition, we ask for your consent, via a non-required tick in a checkbox, to receive other talentsmoothie marketing emails when you submit the form. The ‘consent’ text used is reproduced [below]:

[The ‘personal data’ you provide will be used to deliver your requested download. Your data will be stored within the Leadpages system (please read the Leadpages Privacy Policy https://www.leadpages.com/privacy); the maximum time that your data will be kept in the Leadpages system will be 12 months. *In addition, we may contact you by email in the future if we believe other talentsmoothie solutions may be of interest to you; please click to tick ‘I consent’ below to CONSENT to this use of your personal data for talentsmoothie marketing purposes. Thank you.

☐ I consent to the use of my personal data for talentsmoothie marketing purposes, as described above*.]

Section 3. IP address collection by Google Analytics tracking and Limit Login Attempts Reloaded security software

The website uses Google Analytics 4 tracking software so we can evaluate the effectiveness of the site in general terms. With Google Analytics 4, Google states that “IP masking is not necessary since IP addresses are not logged or stored”.

The website uses Limit Login Attempts Reloaded security software which tracks IP addresses to limit the number of login attempts from any IP address. This helps to prevent brute force attack login attempts by unauthorised users. We do this to keep our website protected and secure. However, we opt to turn on GDPR compliance, so all logged IP addresses get obfuscated (md5-hashed), which means you can’t be personally identified.

Section 4. Cookies placed by our website

Section 4a. Google Analytics cookies

We use Google Analytics 4 to monitor the effectiveness of our website. Google Analytics 4 places Third Party tracking cookies to monitor website traffic, and in particular whether a visitor to our website is a new user or a returning user. The cookies placed (along with their time to expiry and their purpose) are:

_ga2 yearsUsed to distinguish users.
_ga_<container-id>2 yearsUsed to persist session state.

For full details please read https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage.

If you prefer not to accept Google Analytics tracking cookies, please click the Decline button on our Cookie Notice, then new Google Analytics cookies will not be placed.

If you are happy for new Google Analytics cookies to be placed, please click the Accept button.

Section 4b. iFrame cookies

You may use our Cookie Notice Decline option to block iFrame content, and any cookies it may place.

Until you Accept, as well as if you Decline cookies, then content embedded with iFrames, i.e. our YouTube videos, on our website will be blocked and replaced with a ‘placeholder’, however an alternative ‘text link’ to the video on YouTube is provided so that you may still view the content on YouTube; in that case, please see Section 4. below regarding other websites we may link to from this website.

If you Accept cookies, then our embedded YouTube videos will be displayed to you using iFrame technology, and you are therefore accepting that YouTube may place tracking or other cookies on your device via our website.

Changing your mind

If you have previously accepted the Google Analytics cookies and you want to decline them from now on so that no new cookies are set, use the Reset your consent button that will appear below; if you have previously declined the Google Analytics cookies and wish to accept them from now on, please use the Accept cookies button that will appear below.

Please note that whether you click Accept or Decline, First Party (placed by our website rather than by a Third Party website) cookies may be placed by our WeePie Cookie Notice plugin to remember your preference (Accept or Decline) for 365 days, so we don’t keep annoying you with cookie notices every time you visit. These cookies are wpca_consent and wpca_cc.

Section 5. Other websites we link to from our website

There may be links on our website to other websites, e.g. YouTube. Once you leave our website and arrive at another website (where the url does not begin with https://talentsmoothie.com), your use of that website will be governed by that website’s Privacy Policy and processes, and not by this talentsmoothie.com Privacy Policy nor by our talentsmoothie.com processes.

Section 6. Updates to this Privacy Policy

We are constantly reviewing data protection laws and reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The Privacy Policy will always have a version number in the heading, so if you contact us with questions, please quote the version number of the Privacy Policy that you are asking about.

Section 7. How to contact us if you have any questions about the use of your personal data

Please email hey@talentsmoothie.com and we will do our best to help you.