Last Revised: 4 July 2025
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) for The E-liability Institute, Inc. (doing business as the E-ledgers Institute) (“Institute,” “we,” “us,” or “our“), describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share (“process“) your personal information when visit our website or engage with us in other related ways.
The E-ledgers Institute is committed to protecting your privacy. If you have any questions or concerns, or if you wish to update your personal information or any specific consent that you have provided to E-ledgers Institute in the past, please contact our team at privacy@e-ledgers.institute.
The use of this website signifies your agreement to our Terms of Use, which includes this Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect
We collect two types of information from you:
- General information based on website usage; and
- Personal information voluntarily provided.
This information is used for the purposes for which it was collected (for example, responding to your requests, sending newsletters, etc.), and the other limited purposes set forth below.
- General Information
The E-ledgers Institute automatically collects some non-personal information (“General Information”) when you visit or use our website. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, and other technical information.
We aggregate and analyze this usage information and use it for operational and administrative purposes, including to identify levels and areas of interest in our website, and to improve and refine the website. We may share this aggregated, anonymous data with our business technology providers on an as-needed basis.
- Personal Information
Personal Information means information that specifically identifies an individual (such as a name, address, mobile number, email address, etc.) and information about that individual or their activities that is directly linked to personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”).
We collect Personal Information that you voluntarily provide to us when you submit our contact us or newsletter forms, or send us an email. The Personal Information we collect may include the following:
- Name
- Company or organization
- Role title
- Email address
We do not collect sensitive information, such as personally identifiable information that is critical to individual privacy, financial security, or legal compliance (e.g., Social Security, bank account, or credit card information).
Use of Information We Collect
We only process your Personal Information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e., legal basis) to do so under applicable law. This includes processing your Personal Information to execute our mission and activities, respond to your emails, provide, improve, and administer our website, communicate with you with your consent, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with the law. We rely on the following non-exhaustive list of legal bases for processing your Personal Information:
- Legal obligations: Where required to comply with applicable laws or respond to lawful requests.
- Consent: For subscribing to our newsletter and accepting non-essential cookies.
- Legitimate interests: For responding to your inquiries, maintaining website functionality, and improving user experience.
When you voluntarily sign up as a subscriber to the E-ledgers Institute’s newsletter, we collect your Personal Information to manage, store and process subscriber information, including your name, email address, organization, and role. The subscriber list is only used to share communications directly from the Institute team related to our mission. Every newsletter email contains instructions to “unsubscribe” at the bottom.
We do not sell Personal Information to third parties.
Cookies, Tracking Tags, and Other Technology
The website may use cookies and other tracking mechanisms across our website and social media platforms. Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. Cookies allow us to measure activity on the website and to improve your user experience.
We use a cookie consent manager. This means that, when you first access our website, a cookie banner appears, giving you the option to accept (give consent) or reject cookie preferences. You will also have the ability to withdraw consent at any time, after you have given consent.
If you wish to block, erase, revisit, or be warned of cookies, please refer to your browser manufacturer to learn about these functions. However, if you choose to remove or reject browser cookies, this could affect certain features on our website.
In addition, our website does not currently respond to web browser “do not track” signals.
We may share your information with third party vendors, such as Google Analytics, to track and analyze the use of our website. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page and install the add-on for your browser.
Control of Your Personal Information
You have a number of data protection rights, including:
- The right to access: You have the right to make a request to us for copies of your personal data.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you prefer to not share your Personal Information as described above, or wish to withdraw your consent to process your Personal Information, please email us at any time at privacy@e-ledgers.institute.
If you would like to change Personal Information previously provided to us through this website, please send us an email at privacy@e-ledgers.institute.
If you have subscribed to receive emails from the E-ledgers Institute, and later change your mind, you may follow the instructions to “unsubscribe” at the bottom of every email sent from our team or contact us at newsletter@e-ledgers.institute.
Security
We take reasonable measures to protect your Personal Information in an effort to prevent loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Please be aware, however, that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and no method of data transmission that can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
In addition, we do not assume any liability for third party use of your General Information or Personal Information, whether obtained legally or illegally from or through this website. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal Information, transmission of Personal Information to and from our website is at your own risk. You should only access our website within a secure environment.
Links to Third Party Websites
This website contains links to third party websites. Any Personal Information you provide on the linked pages is provided directly to that third party and is subject to that third party’s privacy policy. This Policy does not apply to such linked sites, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of these websites or any other sites that are linked to from our Sites. We encourage you to learn about their privacy and security practices and policies of other websites that you link to, visit, and/or use.
Children
Our website is intended for a general audience of professionals. We do not seek to collect any information from children under 18 years of age or the equivalent age as specified by law in your jurisdiction. If a child provides us with information, the parent or guardian may notify us at privacy@e-ledgers.institute, and the information will be deleted from our records.
Storage and Retention Period
We securely store your data on servers located in the United States through a variety of measures, including encryption, access controls, and contractual commitments.
We retain your Personal Information until such a time as you unsubscribe or ask us to remove your details.
If you contact our team via our website contact form, we reserve the right to keep your message indefinitely. This is to aid continuity and so that we can view any historic context which may have bearing on subsequent support mail, even if members of the support staff change.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Last Revised” date at the top of this Policy. If we make material changes to this Privacy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
Legal Disclaimer
We may disclose Personal Information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on the Institute. Although we use security that we believe to be appropriate to protect your Personal Information, we do not guarantee that our security precautions will protect against, and we expressly disclaim any liability for, any loss, misuse, or alteration of your Personal Information.
How to Contact Us
Your right to access: You may contact us at any time to ask to see what Personal Information we hold about you. Please contact us via privacy@e-ledgers.institute to request this.
Your right to erasure: You may request that we destroy the Personal Information that we hold about you, provided that there is no legitimate reason for us continuing to hold it. Please contact us via privacy@e-ledgers.institute to request this.
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please email us at privacy@e-ledgers.institute or send us a message. You may also contact us by post at:
The E-liability Institute, Inc.
2350 Kerner Boulevard, Suite 250
San Rafael, CA 94901
United States