Website Privacy Policy :
Last updated: November 20th, 2025
Horvath & Partners Management Consulting Corporation (“Company” or “We”) respects your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Website Privacy Policy (“Policy”).
This Policy describes the types of information We may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://www.horvath-usa.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This Policy applies to information We collect:
- On this Website.
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates); or
- Any third party (including our affiliates), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the Website.
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, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see section on Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after We make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We may collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
- By which you, or any other individual, may be personally identified or identifiable ("Personal Information"); or
- About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
We may collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us.
- Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies.
The Possible Information We collect about You:
We may collect and use, and have collected in the preceding twelve (12) months, the following Personal Information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonable capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household:
| Categories of Personal Information | Specific Types of Personal Information that May Be Collected |
|---|---|
| Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers) | First and last name, email address, postal address and IP address. |
| Personal information as defined in the California customer records law (e.g., name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information) | First and last name, email address, postal address and employment |
| Commercial information (e.g., records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies) | Studies and white papers downloaded, anonymized performance data such as click and open rates |
| Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement) | Browser type and version, operating system used, referrer URL, the accessing computer's host name, the date and time of the server request, IP addresses for backend log, IP ban, and domain factory log, device type, webpages accessed, time spent on individual webpages, frequency of visits |
| Geolocation data (e.g., device location, and approximate location derived from IP address) | Country (based on IP address) |
| Professional or employment-related information | Name of employer/company name. |
The Information You Provide to Us
The information We may collect on or through our Website consists of information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided (i) at the time of requesting white papers and studies, and (ii) records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
Information We May Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, We may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, as specified above. At this time, We do not use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).
Currently, our Website does not respond to any “Do Not Track” signals.
The information We collect automatically does not include Personal Information. The information we do collect helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
- Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies We use for this automatic data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser/session cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or adjusting your cookie settings. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website.
- Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see our Privacy Settings link in the footer of the website.
- Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect Personal Information automatically, but We may tie this information to Personal Information about you that We collect from other sources or you provide to us.
How We Use Your Information. We may use information that We collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information, for the following business purposes:
- To present our Website and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services We offer or provide though it.
- In any other way We may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
Disclosure of 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 Policy:
- To our affiliates, including companies within the Horváth group, or the Horváth Global Network.
- 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 Horvath & Partners Management Consulting Corporation’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Horvath & Partners Management Consulting Corporation about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- 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 Terms of use - Horváth and other agreements.
- If We believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Horvath & Partners Management Consulting Corporation, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Categories of Personal Information We Disclosed for a Business Purpose. In the preceding 12 months, We have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose to the listed categories of third parties:
| Categories of Personal Information | Disclosed to Which Categories of Third Parties for Operational Business Purposes |
|---|---|
| Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers) | affiliates; service providers |
| Personal information as defined in the California customer records law (e.g., name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information) | affiliates; service providers |
| Commercial information (e.g., records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies) | affiliates; service providers |
| Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement) | affiliates; service providers |
| Geolocation data (e.g., device location, and approximate location derived from IP address) | affiliates; service providers |
| Professional or employment-related information | affiliates; service providers |
Personal Information We Sold or Shared. We do not sell or share your personal information and will not do so in the future without providing you with notice and an opportunity to opt-out of such sale or sharing.
Without limiting the foregoing, We do not sell or “share” the Personal Information of minors under 16 years of age.
How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept. We retain Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was collected. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
- The length of time We have an ongoing relationship with you and provide services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us, or keep using our services or Website) and the length of time thereafter during which We may have a legitimate need to reference your Personal Information to address issues that may arise;
- Whether there is a legal obligation to which We are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before We can delete them); or
- Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).
We will not retain your Personal Information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy, or for which the Personal Information was collected for. Different retention periods apply for different types of Personal Information, and when it is no longer necessary to retain your Personal Information, We will delete or anonymize it.
California Consumers: Your Rights Under the CCPA/CPRA. California residents have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to exercise free of charge the following rights, subject to certain limitations and exceptions:
The Right to Know:
You may request to know whether We process your Personal Information, and to access such Personal Information, including that We disclose to you the following information covering the 12 months preceding your request:
1. The categories of Personal Information We collected about you and the categories of sources from which We collected such Personal Information;
2. The business or commercial purpose for collecting Personal Information about you; and
3. The categories of Personal Information about you that We disclosed, and the categories of third parties to whom We disclosed such Personal Information (if applicable).
The Right to Correct:
You may request to correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information. Upon receipt of a verifiable request from you, We will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct the inaccurate personal information.
The Right to Deletion:
You may request to have your Personal Information deleted from our records.
The Right to Portability:
You may request to receive a copy of your Personal Information, including specific pieces of Personal Information, including, where applicable, to obtain a copy of the Personal Information you provided to us in a portable format.
Protection against Retaliation:
You have the right to not be retaliated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the applicable privacy laws. This means We cannot, among other things:
- Deny goods or services to you
- Charge different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties
- Provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you –or–
- Suggest that you receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services
Please note that We may charge a different price or rate or provide a different level or quality of services to you, if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to our business by your Personal Information.
Right to Opt-Out of Personal Information Sales and Sharing
You have the right to direct us to not sell or share your Personal Information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes at any time (the “right to opt-out”). Please note that We do not currently engage in sales or sharing of Personal Information triggering such opt-out requirements.
Right to Limit Disclosure or Use of Sensitive Personal Information
You have the right to limit the disclosure or use of your Sensitive Personal Information that has been collected or processed with the purpose of inferring characteristics about you. Please note that We do not currently collect or use Sensitive Personal Information to infer characteristics about consumers triggering such limitation rights.
How to Exercise Your CCPA/CPRA Rights. If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Policy, you can do so here. You may also call us at +1 888-406-4508, or email us at [email protected]
We will verify and respond to your request consistent with applicable law, taking into account the type and sensitivity of the Personal Information subject to the request. We may need to request additional Personal Information from you, such as email address, phone number, full name, or address, in order to verify your identity and protect against fraudulent requests. If you make a request to delete, We may ask you to confirm your request before We delete your Personal Information.
We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if We cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom We collected information or is someone authorized to act on such person's behalf.
Any personal information We collect from you to verify your identity in connection with your request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.
Nevada Residents as Covered by Nevada Privacy law. We do not sell Covered Information as defined under Nevada law.
Data Security. We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.
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 is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy. We may update this Policy from time to time. Any changes will be reflected by the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page, which serves as notice of such changes. You are responsible for reviewing this Policy periodically to stay informed about our information practices. Your continued use of the Website after the “Last Updated” date constitutes your acceptance of any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: [email protected].