Privacy & Cookie Policy
Last updated: 01 Oct 2026
Hatlestad Consulting, Inc. ("we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy and collects only the information reasonably needed to operate hatlestadconsulting.com, respond to inquiries, and provide our services. We do not sell personal information or use it for cross-site behavioral advertising.
Information We Collect:
Information you provide. If you contact us by email or through a website form, we may receive your name, email address, company, phone number, and the information included in your message. We use this information to respond to you, discuss potential engagements, and provide requested services.
Website and technical information. Our website and analytics providers may collect information such as your IP address, browser and device type, pages visited, referring website, and approximate time of visit. We use this information to maintain website security and understand how visitors use the site.
Client communications. If you become a client, we retain appropriate contact information, correspondence, and project records to provide our services and meet contractual or legal obligations.
We do not knowingly collect sensitive personal information through this website, and the website is not directed to children under 16.
Please do not submit confidential client, patient, clinical, study, or other sensitive information through our website forms. We can arrange an appropriate secure method for exchanging information when necessary for an engagement.
Cookies and Analytics
Our website may use:
Essential cookies necessary for website functionality, security, and remembering your cookie preferences.
Analytics cookies that help us understand website traffic and how visitors use the site, such as Google Analytics.
We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Where applicable, you may also decline non-essential analytics cookies through the cookie controls provided on our website.
Google also provides a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
How We Share and Protect Information
We do not sell or rent your personal information.
We may share information with service providers that help us operate our website and business, such as website hosting, email, and analytics providers. These providers process information on our behalf for those purposes.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law or protect our rights, clients, or the public.
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described above or to satisfy contractual and legal requirements.
We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards, including encrypted HTTPS connections and access-controlled accounts. However, no internet transmission or electronic storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Our service providers may process information in the United States.
Your Privacy Choices
You may contact us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information we maintain about you. Certain information may need to be retained when required for contractual, legal, security, or legitimate business purposes.
To make a privacy request or ask a question about this policy, contact:
Hatlestad Consulting, Inc.
Escondido, California
Email: info@hatlestadconsulting.com
We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before completing a privacy request.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy & Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes to our website, services, or privacy practices. The "Last updated" date above indicates when the policy was most recently revised.