Privacy Policy

Independent GC Services LLC (“IGCS”, “we”, or “us”) provides this privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) to inform users about our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, processing, deletion, security, and disclosure of personal data and information that is subject to protection under applicable data protection, data privacy and data security laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended, the “CCPA”) (such data and information collectively, “Personal Data”) received from users of the websites owned and operated by us.

Your use of the website means that you accept and understand this Privacy Policy. Please do not use the website or provide us with any Personal Data if you do not accept this Privacy Policy.

IGCS may from time to time update this Privacy Policy by posting an updated version of the Privacy Policy to the website. The date on which this Privacy Policy was last updated is set forth below. Your use of the website after any updated version is posted means that you accept and understand such updated Privacy Policy. In addition, the website may make use of cookies as described in further detail below.

Information collected

We may collect the following Personal Data when you visit the website or otherwise provide us with Personal Data in connection with the website:

a) Personal Data you provide when you complete forms available on the website;

(b) Personal Data you provide when you contact us;

(c) Details of visits to the website, including the volume of traffic received, logs and the resources that you have accessed and the devices you have used to access such information; and

(d) Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as information regarding your use of the website (e.g., cookies, browsing history and/or search history), as well as information you provide to us when you correspond with us in relation to your inquiries.

How we obtain your Personal Data

In connection with operating the website, we obtain your Personal Data from the following sources:

  • Information from your communications with us in connection with the website or other services, events, publications or programs that we are offering, including any updates to such information provided by you;

  • Information captured on the website, including information provided by you through online forms and any information captured via cookies;

  • Information that you provide us at the start of our engagement with you, or during the course of us providing services to you; and

  • Information that we collect from publicly available sources. This will generally include information collected in an online or offline context.

How we use your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data for one or more of the following business purposes and pursuant to the corresponding legal bases:

To understand your needs and provide you with better service

To improve the Website and to notify you about changes to the website

To communicate with you, including responding to requests for information submitted by you through the website or to notify you of services we provide or publications that may be of interest to you

To keep a record of your relationship with us

To research and analyze users’ demographic characteristics, interests and behavior in an aggregated form in order to better understand and serve our users and improve the website and its offerings

For ongoing operations, administrative, accounting, reporting, account maintenance and other processes

To audit and verify the quality and effectiveness of the website, services and compliance

To detect security incidents and to protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity

To generally comply with U.S., state, local and non-U.S. laws, rules and regulations 

Please note that we may process your Personal Data for more than one legal basis depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your Personal Data.

With whom we share your Personal Data

We do not sell or rent any of the Personal Data we collect about you to third parties.

We do not disclose any Personal Data about you to third parties, except: (i) as permitted or required by law or regulation or pursuant to any legal process; (ii) in response to governmental, regulatory, law enforcement or judicial inquiries; (iii) to affiliates; (iv) to third party suppliers and service providers (including vendors providing hosting, database management and development services related to the operation of the Website, outsourcing providers of our back-office and internal functions, technology service providers, and/or email marketing services related to events we are hosting, our publications or other communications we may send to you); and (v) entities to whom we may transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets in a restructuring or in connection with a corporate transaction. If a change happens to our business, then the successor entity may use your Personal Data in the same way as set out in this Privacy Policy.

Links to third party websites

We may provide links to third party websites for your information or convenience. Such websites are independently operated and are not under our control, and the privacy practices of such third party websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such third party websites or any products or services offered through them or the confidentiality, use, processing and security of any Personal Data that you provide to such websites.

Data Retention: We will retain your Personal Data only for so long as we need the Personal Data for the purposes it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, unless a longer retention period is required under applicable law or requested by you. To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we process your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

We will not use or share the Personal Data you provide to us on or through the website in ways that are unrelated to the uses described in this Privacy Policy without first obtaining your consent.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to or through the Website; any such transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your Personal Data, we will use the procedures and security features described above to try to prevent unauthorized access of your Personal Data.

Notice to California residents of certain rights under the CCPA

This section outlines specific rights granted under the CCPA to individual California residents and provides information regarding how such California residents can exercise their rights under the CCPA. This section is only relevant to you if you are a resident of California as determined in accordance with the CCPA. Information required to be disclosed to California residents under the CCPA regarding the collection of their Personal Data that is not set forth in this section is otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Deletion Rights: You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Data that we retain, subject to certain statutory exceptions, including, but not limited to, our compliance with U.S., state, local and non-U.S. laws, rules and regulations. We will notify you in writing and provide an explanation if we cannot comply with a specific request.

Disclosure and Access Rights: You have the right to request that we disclose to you certain information regarding our collection and use of Personal Data specific to you over the last twelve (12) months. Such information includes:

  • the categories of Personal Data we collected about you;

  • the categories of sources from which the Personal Data was collected;

  • our business or commercial purpose for collecting such Personal Data;

  • the categories of third parties with whom we share the Personal Data;

  • the specific pieces of Personal Data we collected about you; and

  • whether we disclosed your Personal Data to a third party, and, if yes, the categories of Personal Data that each recipient obtained.

No Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA, including by denying service, suggesting that you will receive, or charging, different rates for services or suggesting that you will receive, or providing, a different level or quality of service to you.

How to Exercise Your Rights: To exercise any of your rights under the CCPA or to access this notice in an alternative format please submit a request.

Last Updated: November 2025