Privacy Policy
This policy applies to West Coast Consulting
WCC places great importance on your privacy and is dedicated to maintaining the confidentiality and privacy of the personal information you provide us with.
This Privacy Policy delineates how WCC manages and safeguards your personal information with regard to hosting this website and providing an array of business advisory services encompassing corporate finance, restructuring, economic and financial consulting, forensic and litigation consulting, health solutions, strategic communications, and technology ("Services").
WCC gathers personal information as detailed below for specified purposes and timeframes. We do not trade or disclose your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising ("sharing"), nor do we collect or process sensitive personal information to infer traits about you. If you provide WCC with personal information about others, you are accountable for informing them.
Scope of this policy
This policy governs personal information collected and/or used by WCC as a controller, as defined in the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and similar laws (e.g., Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados, the DIFC Data Protection Law 2020, etc.). California residents should also refer to the relevant section of this policy regarding their rights. The circumstances under which this collection may take place are discussed in the "When do we collect personal information" section below. When providing services to clients, we may also handle personal information as a processor (e.g., hosting client data on our e-discovery platforms). This involves processing the information strictly according to our clients' instructions, who retain control over the information. Therefore, if our use of your personal information falls outside the scope of this policy, you may need to contact the client (and controller) responsible for processing your information.
For the purposes of these Privacy Practices, “Personal information” refers to information related to an identified or identifiable individual or reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a specific individual or household.
COOKIE POLICY
WCC Consulting is committed to safeguarding the privacy of your personal information and to being transparent about the technologies it uses. This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies and similar technologies are used by WCC to improve and enhance your user experience when using our websites.
Information Security
WCC has reasonable technical safeguards, security policies and procedures in place to protect personal information from unauthorized loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Measures we take include placing confidentiality requirements on our staff members and service providers, limiting access to your personal information on a "need to know" basis, and providing training to appropriate WCC personnel. We also maintain comprehensive policies addressing data incident response protocols. Our IT Security Program is audited on a regular basis.
Retention of your personal information
WCC retains your personal information for the period of time required for the purposes for which it was collected, any compatible purposes which we subsequently establish, or any new purposes to which you subsequently consent, or to comply with legal, regulatory and WCC policy requirements. This period of time will usually be the period of your, or the relevant client's, relationship or contract with WCC plus a period reflecting the length of time for which legal claims may be made following the termination of such relationship or contract. Some information (such as call recordings, tax records and certain information required to demonstrate regulatory compliance) may need to be kept for longer. Personal information will be kept for a shorter or longer period of time if so required by law or an WCC policy, if the information becomes subject to a legal hold (for example, following a communication from our regulator) or if we have identified through a data protection impact assessment that a different retention period is appropriate.
Children`s Privacy
WCC`s websites are not intentionally designed for or directed at children under the age of 16. It is WCC’s policy never to knowingly collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 16, except as part of an engagement to provide professional services.
Changes to this Policy
By using WCC websites you consent to the collection, use and storage of personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the websites. WCC reserves the right to make changes to this Website Privacy Policy from time to time. WCC will notify you by posting amendments to the Privacy Policy on this website.
If you have questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, feel free to contact us at info@westcoastllc.com.