Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the information we collect:

• On this Website.
• In email between you and Sawyer|Berson, by telephone, and other communications that you initiate through or in connection with the Website.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to personal information collected offline except as described above. It also does not apply to third-party websites, applications, social-media platforms, or services that may be linked to, embedded in, or accessible through the Website. Those third parties’ practices are governed by their own privacy policies.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you should not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy.

The Website is not directed to children under 16 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you believe that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, please contact us at info@sawyerberson.com..

Depending on how you interact with the Website, we may collect the following categories of personal information:

• Contact and inquiry information, such as your name, email address, telephone number, organization, and the contents of messages or inquiries you send to us.
• Project-related information that you voluntarily provide, such as information about a potential project, location, scope, timing, budget, preferences, and materials included in an inquiry.
• Device, browser, and usage information, such as IP address, browser type, operating system, device identifiers, language preferences, referring URLs, pages viewed, links clicked, and the date, time, and duration of visits.
• Cookie, local-storage, and similar-technology information, including cookie-consent choices and information collected through the technologies described below.
• Accessibility preferences, where you use the Website’s AudioEye accessibility toolbar, including local-storage settings used to retain toolbar customizations and preferences

Please do not submit confidential, proprietary, sensitive personal, or third-party information through a general Website contact channel unless we expressly request it and agree in writing to receive it. A Website inquiry or other communication does not create a client, professional, fiduciary, contractual, or confidential relationship with Sawyer|Berson.

We and our service providers use cookies, local storage, session storage, server logs, and similar technologies to operate, secure, and provide the Website; maintain accessibility preferences when you use the accessibility toolbar; support Website navigation; and administer the Website. We do not use the Website to serve targeted advertising based on cross-context behavioral advertising, and the current Website audit did not identify Google Analytics, advertising pixels, social-media tracking widgets, or embedded social-media or video content.

The technologies currently identified on the Website include:

• AudioEye accessibility technology: We use AudioEye to provide an accessibility toolbar and related accessibility functionality. AudioEye may process limited technical information, including IP address, to deliver the functionality. When you use the toolbar, it uses local storage to retain your accessibility preferences and toolbar customizations.
• WordPress: The Website is served through a self-hosted WordPress content-management system. WordPress may use strictly necessary cookies for authentication and administration for logged-in editors. These cookies are not intended to be set for ordinary public visitors.
• Hotwire Turbo: The Website uses a first-party Hotwire Turbo library to support client-side navigation and page caching. It uses session or in-memory storage to improve navigation performance and does not use the storage for advertising or cross-site tracking.

The Website contains plain hyperlinks to third-party websites and platforms, including Google Maps, Instagram, Amazon, Rizzoli, and media or publisher websites. A hyperlink does not cause the third party to set cookies or receive information from you through our Website unless you elect to follow the link and leave the Website. Those third parties will then process information under their own privacy policies.

We collect personal information directly from you when you email us, submit an inquiry, call us, or otherwise communicate with us. We may also collect limited information automatically as you navigate the Website through cookies, server logs, and similar technologies. We may receive information from third-party services whose content you choose to access through the Website.

We do not collect personal information through the use of automatic data collection technologies.

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.
• Respond to inquiries and communicate with you;
• Remember your cookie, accessibility, and functional preferences;
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
• Protect our rights, property, personnel, clients, and Website;
• Comply with applicable law, legal process, and recordkeeping obligations; and
• Carry out another purpose disclosed to you at the time of collection or with your consent, where required.

We may also use your information to contact you about services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please follow the opt-out instructions described in the section titled “Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.”

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:

• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Sawyer|Berson’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Sawyer|Berson about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• Analytics providers, but only as permitted by your Cookie Settings.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Sawyer|Berson, our clients, or others.

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address used by the Company to promote our services, you can opt-out at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of each email or by sending us an email stating your request to info@sawyerberson.com. This opt out does not apply to non-promotional communications, such as emails about services we are providing to you or other transactions.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI“) on the NAI’s website.

You may manage non-essential cookies and similar technologies through the “Cookie Settings” link on the Website. You may also manage cookies through your browser settings; however, blocking or deleting certain cookies may affect Website functionality or prevent certain content from loading.

You can review and change your personal information by sending us an email at info@sawyerberson.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to info@sawyerberson.com.

Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request by email to info@sawyerberson.com. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information, including when you send us an email, is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

We will only keep your information, including any personal information, for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, to comply with our legal obligations, or to enforce our legal rights (or as required so others may enforce their legal rights).

Generally, the length of time we keep your information will depend on the type of information and the purpose for which we are processing it. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we are processing it and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and any applicable legal requirements.

At the end of the appropriate retention period, we will either delete your information from our systems completely or deidentify or anonymize it so it can be used without identifying you and so we no longer have the ability to re-associate the deidentified or anonymized information with you in the future, such as by aggregating the information.

The Website is operated from the United States. If you access the Website from outside the United States, you understand that your personal information may be processed in the United States and other jurisdictions where our service providers operate, which may have data-protection laws that differ from those in your jurisdiction