2. Collection and Retention of Business and Personal Information

In some areas of the M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ web site, we request or may request that you provide personal information, including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, facsimile number, credit card number, social security number, tax classification, contact information, billing information, company name, job title, information about your company, as well as information about the nature of your usage of our service, and any other information from which your identity is discernible.  We will use the email address that you provide to us to contact you regarding the status of your account and related services. 

M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ may sometimes afford you the opportunity to provide descriptive, cultural, behavioral, preferential, and/or life style information about yourself, but it is solely up to you whether you furnish such information.  If you do provide such information, you are thereby consenting to the use of that information in accordance with the policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy.  For example, such information may be used for the purpose of determining your potential interest in receiving email or other communications about particular products or services. 

In other areas, M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ may collect demographic information that is not unique to you such as your ZIP code, age, preferences, gender, and the like.  Sometimes we collect or may collect a combination of the two types of information. 

We also gather or may gather certain information about your use of our site, such as what areas you visit and what services you access.  Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that is or may be collected by M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™.  This information can include without limitation your IP address, browser type, domain name, access times, pages accessed and order of access, length of time of your visit, and referring web site addresses.  M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ automatically collects such information to tailor the presentation of the services to your platform and to maintain a record of your activity on the site.  We use cookies to enable users to specify unique preferences and to track user trends and patterns.  Users always have the option of disabling cookies via their browser preferences.  If you disable cookies on your browser, please note that some parts of our site may not function as effectively or may be considerably slower.  While we collect IP address information, we do not ordinarily link IP addresses to your personally identifiable information.  We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we, in our sole discretion, determine that it is necessary to protect our service, site, customers, or other users, or to comply with a law, court order, or governmental regulation. 

We may use gathered information for the purpose of service capacity planning; anticipating, diagnosing, supporting or resolving any problems that might limit or disrupt the M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ services; and, for improving the quality of the services.

3. Use of Business and Personal Information

The information collected through this site helps us identify the type of web site content that our users value most.  We use this information to market and improve the web site and our related services.  We also use this information to send you email notifications about updates to the web site, and to contact you by other means for marketing, customer service, technical support, and other purposes.  Our policy is to not give, sell or otherwise distribute the information collected through this site to third parties outside of M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ and its subsidiaries (unless required by law); provided, however, in some cases we may use suppliers to assist us in collecting, using, or otherwise processing for our benefit the information obtained through this site, including activities such as processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, or performing statistical analysis of our services.  Our practice is to require our suppliers to conduct such activities consistent with this policy and our requirements.  In some instances, with your permission, we may share your registration information and aggregate usage data with our business partners, who may occasionally use your email address to notify you or changes or additions to their services. 

We may access and/or disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the requirements of the law or to comply with legal process served on M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights of property of M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™, or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ employees, users of M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ products or services, or members of the public.  M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud, theft, harassment, and other rights.  We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability.  Additionally, M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ reserves the right (and you authorize us) to communicate any information about you (including, but not limited to your policy violations, transactions, and contact information) to other users and law enforcement as we in our sole discretion determine necessary or appropriate to maintain a level of trust and safety on our site and to enforce our Privacy Policy, and any posted policies or rules applicable to services you use through our site. 

We have provided links where you can submit feedback.  Any feedback you submit to M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ becomes our property, and we can use such feedback (including, but not limited to, success stories and quotes) for marketing purposes or contact you for further information. 

We may disclose and transfer your personally identifiable information to a third party who acquires all or a substantial portion of M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™’s business, whether such acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a substantial portion of our assets.  In addition, in the event M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ becomes the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ or its trustee in bankruptcy may sell, license or otherwise dispose of such information in a transaction approved by the bankruptcy court. 

Users who no longer wish to receive communications may opt-out or unsubscribe from receiving these communications.  Each communication will have a way to unsubscribe from that list.  If you encounter any difficulty, please email us at support@m2consultinggroup.com

If a users’  personally identifiable information changes, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct or update your personal data.  Subscribers to M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ can log in, review your account information and, if you wish, edit it with the options provided.

4. Security and Integrity of Information

We treat our data as assets that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access.  We employ information security techniques to appropriately protect confidential information from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company.  Access to user information is limited to those employees who have a legitimate business need for that information. 

M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ sites are currently located in the United States. M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ sites, and their supporting systems, employ generally accepted information security techniques such as firewalls, access control procedures, and cryptography to appropriately protect confidential information from unauthorized access. 

Although M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ has implemented reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.

5. Links to Other Sites

M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ provides links to external sites as a convenience to our users.  The inclusion of any link does not imply M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ endorsement of the external site company, its web site, or the products and services it promotes and sells.  M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.  We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other web sites, so you can understand how they collect, use, and share your information.  This Privacy Policy applies solely to the information we collect on this site.  By clicking on a link, logo, or other item, please note that you may no longer be on the M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ site.  To check what Internet location you are on, note the URL at the top and/or bottom of your browser.

6. Use of Cookies

M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ uses “cookies” to help personalize and maximize your experience and use of the M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ site.  A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by a web page server.  Cookies are not used to run programs or deliver harmful code to your computer.  Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. 

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to enhance the site’s convenience and operation for the benefit of our users.  The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page.  For example, if you personalize M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ pages, or register for services, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information (such as user name, password and preferences).  Because of our use of cookies, we can deliver faster and more accurate results, and a more personalized M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ experience.  When you return to the M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized.  We also use cookies to track usage data streams and for load balancing. 

You may have the ability to accept or decline cookies.  Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline all cookies if you prefer.  Alternatively, you may be able to modify your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.  If you choose to decline cookies, however, that may hinder performance and negatively impact your experience on the M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ web site.

7. Children

M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ is not intended for children under 18 years of age.  We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18.

8. Changes to this Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy for M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ at any time.  If we do make any changes, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it.  Your continued use of this site signifies your assent to the M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ Privacy Policy in effect at the time of each such use.  If at any time, you have questions or concerns about this M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ Privacy Policy, please feel free to email us at support@m2consultinggroup.com or contact us by phone at (404) 915-0671 or at the appropriate numbers listed in our contact information areas.

9. M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ Contact Information

M2 Consulting Group, Ltd.™ is a registered trade name in the State of Georgia with its principal place of business at 2362 Crimson King Drive, Suite 100, Braselton, GA 30517, does business.   

We welcome your comments concerning this Privacy Policy.  If you believe that we have not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please contact us by e-mail at support@m2consultinggroup.com or contact us by phone at (404) 915-0671 or at the appropriate numbers listed in our contact information areas.  We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.