Privacy Policy
Last Updated July 31, 2023
Gottfried Shareholder Advisory LLC (“Gottfried Shareholder Advisory”) is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy”) sets out how Gottfried Shareholder Advisory uses and protects any information that you provide Gottfried Shareholder Advisory when you use this website.
By using this website and providing us with your information, you agree to this Privacy Policy. When the term “you” is used below, we refer to “you” as an individual, and you along with your end-users if you are a business entity.
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What Information Do We Collect?
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When contacting Gottfried Shareholder Advisory through this website, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, company name, title or position in your company, e-mail address, phone number, and/or other additional information.
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When contacting Gottfried Shareholder Advisory through our website, please do not submit any confidential, proprietary, or sensitive personally identifiable information (e.g., social security number, date of birth, state driver’s license number, or credit card, bank account number, or other financial information). If you submit any such information, you do so at your own risk and Gottfried Shareholder Advisory will not be liable to you or responsible for the consequences of you submitting such information.
How Does Gottfried Shareholder Advisory Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
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Gottfried Shareholder Advisory requests information through this website to understand your needs and to evaluate whether we would be able to assist you and to communicate you about our services and our firm.
Gottfried Shareholder Advisory may also use the information we collect from you through this website to market our firm and services to you. Without limiting the foregoing, Gottfried Shareholder Advisory may periodically send you email about Gottfried Shareholder Advisory, newsletters about our services, trends and developments in shareholder activism, shareholder engagement,, corporate governance, upcoming events that Gottfried Shareholder Advisory and/or its principals may participate in, and/or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided us through this website. From time to time, we may distribute bulletins, articles, and/or other updates and publications to people on our mailing lists.
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At any time, you may change your preferences or unsubscribe from our mailing lists. If you would like to opt out of receiving such information from Gottfried Shareholder Advisory, email info@gottfriedadvisory.com with the word “Unsubscribe” in the subject line of your email.
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Protection of Personal Information
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Gottfried Shareholder Advisory takes precautions internally to safeguard and secure information we collect via this website. We cannot enforce or control the security of devices and networks that you may use to submit information to us. We are not responsible for the disclosure or interception of your information before we receive it.
Given the possibility that transmissions over the Internet are susceptible to possible loss, misrouting, interception, and/or misuse of the information being communicated or transmitted, the transmission of sensitive, confidential information through this website should be avoided.
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Do We Disclose Any Information to Outside Parties?
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Gottfried Shareholder Advisory does not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties any personally identifiable information that you provide to us through this website. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
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Gottfried Shareholder Advisory may also release and/or disclose information provided by you through this website when we believe release and/or disclosure is necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable law, our ethical obligations, any legal obligations that we may be subject to, and/or governmental requests or requirements for information. Gottfried Shareholder Advisory may also release and/or disclose your information in connection with any legal proceeding when we believe such release and/or disclosure is necessary or appropriate for our defense.
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Except as described in this Privacy Policy, under no circumstances will Gottfried Shareholder Advisory disclose information provided by you through this website to any third party without your written consent.
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What Are Cookies?
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Some pages on this website may use “cookies”—small text files that contain a unique identification number that are automatically deposited on a visitor’s computer.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
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Cookies track user traffic patterns, including the pages of our site that are visited, the total number of visitors to our site on an ongoing basis, and the types of Internet browsers and operating systems that our visitors use.
Gottfried Shareholder Advisory may also use cookies to determine the usefulness of our site’s information to our users and to facilitate and enhance your future visits to our site.
Your internet web browser may allow you to be notified when you are receiving a cookie, giving you the choice to accept it or not. If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. By not accepting cookies, some pages may not fully function, and you may not be able to access certain information on this site.
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Domain Information Collection
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Gottfried Shareholder Advisory may also collect domain information to enable us to become more familiar with the visitors to our website, how often they visit, and what parts of the site they visit most often. Gottfried Shareholder Advisory uses this information to improve our site and its content. This information is collected automatically and requires no action on your part.
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Links to Other Websites
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The Gottfried Shareholder Advisory website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. As such, Gottfried Shareholder Advisory has no responsibility or liability for the content, policies, and/or activities of these linked website sites.
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Changes to this Privacy Policy
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Gottfried Shareholder Advisory reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time, without prior notice to you. All revisions will be posted on this page. Gottfried Shareholder Advisory urges you to review the Privacy Policy for changes. Your continued use of any of this website means that you accept any changes.
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Contact
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Questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to us at info@gottfriedadvisory.com.