Privacy Policy

Hill Golnick Advisors, LLC ("Company", "we", "our", or "us") is a talent advisory firm that partners with investment firms and their portfolio companies to provide executive search, leadership assessment, and human capital advisory services. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes how we collect, process, retain, and disclose personal data about you when providing services to you through our websites and services that link to this policy (our "Services") and our practices for using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies only to information we collect:

Through the Services.
In communications, including email, text, chat, and other electronic messages, between you and the Services.

It does not apply to information collected by:

Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Services.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we treat it. By interacting with our Services or providing us with your information, you agree to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Services after we make changes as described here is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children's and Minors' Data

Our Services are not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from, children under the age of 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 18 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

The Personal Data That We Collect or Process

"Personal data" is information that identifies, relates to, or describes, directly or indirectly, you as an individual, such as your name, email address, telephone number, home address, or payment information (for example, account information such as name, postal address, and email address)

The types and categories of personal data we collect or process include:

Account and contact information, including name, email address, and other contact information you provide us.

Device information, including your IP address, device identifiers, operating system and version, hardware identifiers, browser type and settings, and other device information.

Payment information, including credit card or debit card information you use in connection with the Services.

Demographic information, including your age, gender, income level, and education if you have consented to such information collection.

Location information, including general geographic location such as country, state or province, or city. We do not collect your precise geolocation information.

Images collected or stored in connection with the Services.

Information obtained during interviews or personality assessments, such observations about candidate behavior and answers to interview questions.

Any other information you voluntarily provide to us.

Some of the information identified above may be considered sensitive data under certain laws. If required under applicable law, we will collect and process sensitive personal data only with your consent. If you choose not to provide or allow us to collect some information, we may not be able to provide you with requested features, services, or information.

We also collect:

Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal data.

Technical information. Technical information includes information about your internet connection and usage details about your interactions with the Services, such as your IP address, browser type, URL, clickstream information to, through, and from our Services (including date and time), page response times, length of your visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from a page.

If we combine or connect non-personal statistical or technical data with personal data so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal information.

How We Collect Your Personal and Other Data

You Provide Information to Us

We collect information about you when you interact with our Services, such as when you contact us about our Services, apply for or are referred for executive or leadership positions, participate in candidate assessments or interviews, or engage with us through our client relationships with investment firms or portfolio companies.

Automatically Through Our Services

As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include personal data. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies including details of your interactions with our Services, such as traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data, and which resources and Services features that you access and use.

Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized experience.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device when you interact with the Services. You may refuse to accept or disable cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or device. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain features of the Services.

Web Beacons. Some parts of the Services 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 parts or and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).

To the extent any of these automated technologies are considered a personal data sale, targeted advertising, or profiling, under applicable laws, depending on where you live, you may opt out from use of these automated technologies for such uses by contacting us at info@hillgolnick.com. Please note that some Services features may be unavailable as a result.

When you interact with the Services, there are third parties that may use automatic collection technologies to collect information about you or your device. These third parties may include:

Analytics companies.

Your device manufacturer.

Your internet or mobile service provider.

These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Services. The information they collect may be associated with your personal data or they may collect information, including personal data, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, platforms, and other online services.

We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

From Business Partners and Service Providers

We may receive personal data about you from other sources and combine that with information we collect directly from you. For example, we may obtain information about you from service providers that we engage to perform services on our behalf, such as email platform providers, payment processors, analytics, security and anti-fraud services. We may also receive information about you from our clients, including investment firms and / or their portfolio companies, who engage us to identify, assess, or place candidates for leadership and executive positions, or from professional references, former employers, or publicly available professional profiles and databases.

How We Use Your Information

We do not sell your information or share your information for cross contextual behavioral advertising (targeted advertising). We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal data, to:

Facilitate our Services and any deliverables that we make available through the Services, including executive search, candidate identification, leadership assessments, management due diligence, and human capital advisory services for our clients.

Evaluate your qualifications, experience, leadership capabilities, and suitability for executive and leadership positions at our clients’ organizations.

Conduct management due diligence assessments and provide human capital insights to our clients in connection with their evaluation of potential or existing investments.

Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

Improve our Services, including by analyzing your information and creating aggregated data derived from your information) to develop, maintain, analyze, improve, optimize, measure, and report on our Services and their features and how users interact with them.

Promote our Services, business, and offerings by publishing testimonials (with your consent) and advertising on our own Services.

Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.

Notify you when Services updates are available and about changes to any products or services we offer or provide though them.

In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

For any other purpose with your consent.

The usage information we collect, whether connected to your personal data or not, helps us improve our Services and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience sizes and usage patterns.

Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the Services according to your individual needs and interests.

Speed up your searches.

Recognize you when you return to our Services.

Artificial Intelligence Usage

We may use artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning technologies to enhance and support our Services. These AI-powered tools may be used to:

Analyze candidate qualifications, skills, experience, and leadership competencies to identify potential matches for executive and leadership roles for our clients.

Process and evaluate information gathered during interviews, personality assessments, and leadership evaluations.

Generate insights, recommendations, and reports related to candidate evaluation, succession planning, and talent placement.

Support client engagements by assisting with market research, executive compensation benchmarking, organizational design analysis, and management team assessments in connection with investment transactions.

Improve and optimize our services, including by identifying trends and patterns in talent data.

When we use AI technologies, we implement safeguards designed to protect your personal data and ensure accuracy and fairness in our evaluation processes. AI-generated outputs are subject to review by our experienced consultants before any recommendations are made to clients regarding your candidacy. We do not use AI to make fully automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you without appropriate human oversight.

We may share your personal data with third-party AI service providers who process information on our behalf. These providers are contractually obligated to maintain the confidentiality and security of your data and to use it only for the purposes we specify. For more information about how we share your data, see “Who We Disclose Your Information To” below.

If you have questions about our use of AI technologies or wish to exercise your rights regarding AI-assisted processing of your personal data, please contact us at info@hillgolnick.com.

Who We Disclose Your Information To

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

We may also disclose personal data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our clients, including investment firms evaluating potential or existing investments and their portfolio companies seeking to fill executive and leadership positions. This may include sharing your professional background, qualifications, assessment results, and our recommendations regarding your candidacy.

To our clients in connection with executive search, leadership transition, or succession planning engagements.

To other investment firms or companies at your direction when you authorize us to share your candidacy information in connection with specific opportunities.

To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal data confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

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 Company's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by Company 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 data:

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 our organization, our clients, or others.

All of the categories of personal data outlined in this policy may be shared to the above parties or for the above purposes.

Your Rights and Choices About Your Information

This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.

Cookies and other tracking technologies choices:

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or other tracking technology files, or to alert you when these files are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies or similar tracking files, some Services features may be inaccessible or not function properly. Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting that can send a signal to the online services you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked. Because there is not a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal, our Services may not respond to all browser DNT signals. Instead, you can use the range of other tools to control data collection and use, including the cookie controls and advertising controls described in this policy. If you wish to opt out of tracking by cookies or other tracking technologies (except unnecessary cookies), please contact us at info@hillgolnick.com.

Testimonials by the Company. We will only publish testimonials to our website after obtaining your consent. If you wish to withdraw your consent for us to use your information for testimonials on our website, you can opt out by contacting us at info@hillgolnick.com.

Your State Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residency, you may have certain rights related to your personal data, including:

Access and Data Portability. You may confirm whether we process your personal data and access a copy of the personal data we process. To the extent feasible, data will be provided in a portable format. Depending on your state, you may have the right to receive additional information and it will be included in the response to your access request.

Correction. You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal data that we maintain, taking into account the information's nature and processing purpose.

Deletion. You may request that we delete personal data about you that we maintain, subject to certain exception under applicable law.

Opt Out of Using Personal Data for Targeted Advertising, Profiling, and Sales. You may request that we do not use your personal data for these purposes.

Important: The exact scope of these rights vary by state. There are also several exceptions where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@hillgolnick.com. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request contact us at info@hillgolnick.com, with the subject line “Privacy Rights Appeal”.

How We Protect Your Personal Data

We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Services. In particular, email, texts, and chats sent to or from the Services may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your personal data against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.

How We Retain Your Personal Data

We keep the categories of personal data described in this policy for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the Services, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. For candidates, we may retain your information to consider you for future opportunities with our clients, including investment firms and their portfolio companies, unless you request deletion. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when deciding how long to retain personal data. At the end of the retention period, personal data will be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time, and we will provide notice of any such changes to the policy as required by law. The date the privacy policy was last updated is identified at the top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this policy by updating the "last updated" date and posting the updated policy on the Services. We may email or otherwise communicate reminders about this policy, but you should check our Services periodically to see the current policy and any changes we have made to it.

Contact Information

To exercise your rights or ask questions or comment about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, contact us at:

Hill Golnick Advisors, LLC

64 Upper Hook Road

Rhinebeck, New York 12572

info@hillgolnick.com

Last Reviewed: June 16, 2026