This Privacy Policy describes how ETHOSLINK LLC ("ETHOSLINK," "we," "our," or "us") collects, uses, and shares personal information when you visit our website, contact us, or engage our services.
We respect your privacy. We do not sell personal information. We collect only what we need to respond to your inquiries, deliver our services, and run a small boutique consulting practice. This document explains what that means in practice.
1. Information We Collect
Information you provide directly
When you contact us — by emailing hello@ethoslinkadvisory.com, resume@ethoslinkadvisory.com, or jeremy@ethoslinkadvisory.com; submitting a résumé; booking a discovery call through our scheduling provider; or otherwise communicating with us — you may provide:
- Name, job title, and employer
- Contact details: email address, phone number, business mailing address
- Professional information: career history, references, compensation expectations (for candidates)
- Business context: hiring needs, organizational structure, strategic priorities (for prospective clients)
- The contents of any messages or documents you send us
Information collected automatically
When you visit ethoslinkadvisory.com, our hosting provider (Netlify) may log standard request information for security and operational purposes — IP address, browser type, referring URL, pages visited, and timestamps. This data is retained per Netlify's standard logging policy and is not combined with personal information to build user profiles.
We do not use cookies for advertising, tracking, or analytics on this site. We do not deploy Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or any third-party advertising trackers.
Information from third parties
In the course of executive search engagements, we may receive information about candidates from references, past employers, or publicly available professional sources (e.g., LinkedIn profiles). We use this information only to evaluate candidate fit for specific roles we are retained to fill.
2. How We Use Information
We use the personal information we collect to:
- Respond to your inquiries, including scheduling and conducting discovery calls
- Deliver the services you engage us for: executive search, advisory, and growth consulting
- Evaluate candidates for specific search engagements
- Maintain professional relationships with candidates, clients, and partners
- Comply with applicable legal, tax, and regulatory obligations
- Protect against fraud, abuse, or unauthorized access
We do not use personal information for automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects.
3. How We Share Information
We share personal information only in limited, defined circumstances:
With your authorization
If you are a candidate, we share your information with prospective employer clients only after we have your explicit consent to do so for a specific role.
With service providers acting on our behalf
We use a small number of vendors who process limited information solely to provide their services to us:
- Netlify, Inc. — website hosting and content delivery
- Apple iCloud (Custom Domain) — email hosting for our @ethoslinkadvisory.com addresses
- Cal.com — scheduling discovery calls
- GoDaddy — domain registration
These providers are contractually obligated to handle information consistent with their published privacy policies.
For legal reasons
We may disclose information if required by law, court order, or other valid legal process; to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of others; or in connection with a corporate transaction such as a merger, acquisition, or asset sale.
We do not sell personal information
We do not sell, rent, or trade personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes.
4. Cookies and Tracking
Our website does not set any first-party cookies for tracking or analytics purposes. Some third-party features (e.g., the embedded Cal.com scheduling link) may set their own cookies when you interact with them; those cookies are governed by the respective provider's privacy policy.
5. Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you
- Correct inaccurate or incomplete information
- Delete your personal information, subject to our legal and operational obligations
- Restrict or object to certain processing
- Receive a copy of your information in a portable format
- Withdraw consent for processing that relies on consent
- Not be discriminated against for exercising these rights
To exercise any of these rights, email hello@ethoslinkadvisory.com with the subject line "Privacy Request." We will respond within thirty days. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request.
If you are a resident of California, you have specific rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), including the right to know, the right to delete, the right to correct, and the right to opt out of any "sale" or "sharing" of personal information (we do not engage in either).
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation grants you the rights listed above, plus the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
6. Data Security
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction — including HTTPS encryption on our website, security headers (HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy), and access controls on our email and hosting accounts. No system is perfectly secure, however. If you believe your information may have been compromised, contact us immediately.
7. Data Retention
We retain personal information only as long as needed for the purposes described in this policy, including to meet legal, accounting, or reporting obligations. Candidate information is typically retained for the duration of the active engagement plus a reasonable follow-up period, after which it is deleted unless we have a continuing legal or business reason to retain it.
8. Children's Privacy
Our services are intended for business professionals. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under sixteen years of age. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
9. International Transfers
ETHOSLINK is based in the United States. If you contact us from outside the U.S., your information will be transferred to and processed in the U.S., which may have different data protection laws than your country. By contacting us, you consent to this transfer.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be noted at the top of this page with an updated "Last updated" date. Continued use of the site after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.
11. Contact Us
For any privacy-related questions or to exercise your rights, please contact:
ETHOSLINK LLC
Attn: Privacy
Charlotte, NC, United States
Email: hello@ethoslinkadvisory.com