Privacy Policy
John Finegan ("John Finegan," "we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit www.johnafinegan.com, communicate with us, download resources, subscribe to communications, schedule a meeting, or otherwise interact with our website and services.
This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through the website and related online interactions. It does not replace any separate written agreement, coaching engagement letter, assessment agreement, or terms provided by a third-party platform.
1. Information We Collect
We collect information in three main ways: information you provide directly, information collected automatically through the website, and information received from service providers used to operate the website and deliver services.
Information you provide directly
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Contact form information, including first name, last name, email address, and the contents of your message.
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Newsletter or resource download information, including your name, email address, subscription preference, and related signup details.
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Scheduling information, such as name, email address, selected meeting time, calendar details, and information you provide when booking a conversation through a scheduling tool.
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Coaching inquiry and engagement information, including business context, leadership goals, organizational role, preferences, and other information you choose to share in connection with a discovery call, coaching relationship, or educational service.
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Assessment-related information, if applicable, such as responses, reports, or profile information created through third-party assessment platforms or provided during coaching or education work.
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Payment or billing information, if applicable. We generally rely on third-party payment processors, banks, invoicing tools, or accounting platforms to process payments and do not intend to collect or store full credit card numbers through the website.
Information collected automatically
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Device and browser information, such as IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring pages, pages visited, time on site, general location inferred from IP address, and similar technical information.
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Website usage information, such as how visitors navigate the site, which pages are viewed, which links are clicked, and whether forms or downloads are used.
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Cookie and tracking information, as described below.
Information from third-party tools
We may receive information from third-party platforms that help us operate the website and provide services, such as website hosting and forms, scheduling tools, newsletter platforms, analytics providers, assessment providers, email providers, CRM tools, payment processors, and professional service providers.
2. How We Use Information
We use personal information for the following purposes:
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To respond to inquiries and communicate with you.
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To schedule discovery calls, coaching sessions, meetings, or follow-up conversations.
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To provide requested resources, downloads, newsletters, updates, or other communications.
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To evaluate whether coaching, leadership education, assessment-based services, or related offerings may be a good fit.
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To provide coaching, education, assessment interpretation, consulting, or related services when you become a client.
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To manage client relationships, billing, records, and business operations.
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To improve the website, content, user experience, and service offerings.
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To protect the security, integrity, and lawful operation of the website and our business.
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To comply with legal obligations, enforce agreements, resolve disputes, and protect rights, safety, and property.
3. Coaching, Assessment, and Confidentiality Considerations
Executive coaching and leadership development work may involve sensitive business, leadership, interpersonal, or organizational information. We treat coaching-related information with care and use it only for the purposes of providing services, supporting the coaching relationship, managing the engagement, and complying with applicable obligations.
Please do not submit highly confidential, sensitive, privileged, medical, financial, or regulated information through general website forms. Information submitted through website forms, scheduling tools, or third-party platforms may be processed by those providers according to their own terms and privacy practices.
4. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, log files, and similar technologies. These technologies help the website function, remember preferences, understand visitor activity, improve performance, prevent fraud, and support marketing or analytics where enabled.
Types of cookies and tracking technologies may include:
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Strictly necessary cookies used for security, site functionality, forms, and basic operation.
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Functional cookies used to remember settings or preferences.
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Analytics or performance cookies used to understand how visitors interact with the website.
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Marketing or advertising technologies if they are enabled in the future, such as remarketing pixels or ad measurement tools.
You can usually control cookies through your browser settings. If the website displays a cookie banner or preference tool, you may use that tool to manage available preferences. Disabling some cookies may affect website functionality.
5. Newsletter, Resource Downloads, and Email Communications
If you request a resource, subscribe to a newsletter, or opt in to receive email communications, we may use your contact information to send the requested resource and related leadership, education, coaching, or business communications. You may unsubscribe from marketing or newsletter communications by using the unsubscribe link in the email or by contacting us directly.
Transactional, administrative, scheduling, billing, or service-related emails may still be sent when necessary to respond to your request, manage an engagement, or provide services.
6. Scheduling Tools
When you schedule a meeting through a third-party scheduling platform, that platform may collect and process your name, email address, selected meeting time, calendar information, meeting notes, IP address, and other details needed to schedule and manage the meeting. Your use of the scheduling platform is also subject to that provider's terms and privacy policy.
7. Third-Party Links and Platforms
The website may link to or integrate with third-party websites and services, including scheduling platforms, newsletter platforms, Substack, assessment providers, payment tools, social media sites, and other external resources. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of third-party websites or services. Please review their privacy policies before providing information to them.
8. How We Share Information
We do not sell personal information in the traditional sense of exchanging it for money. We may share personal information with limited categories of third parties when needed to operate the website, communicate with you, provide services, or comply with law. These may include:
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Website hosting, website management, form, security, analytics, and technology providers.
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Scheduling, email, CRM, newsletter, and communication providers.
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Assessment, educational, coaching, or service delivery platforms used in connection with client work.
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Payment processors, banks, invoicing, accounting, or financial administration providers.
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Professional advisors, such as attorneys, accountants, consultants, insurers, and other business advisors.
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Government authorities, courts, regulators, or law enforcement when required by law or when necessary to protect legal rights, safety, property, or the integrity of our services.
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Successors or parties involved in a potential business transaction, such as a merger, sale, restructuring, or transfer of business assets, subject to appropriate confidentiality and legal requirements.
We may also share aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized information that does not reasonably identify you.
9. Targeted Advertising, Sale, and Universal Opt-Out Signals
At this time, this website is intended primarily for informational, contact, scheduling, resource download, and service inquiry purposes. We do not knowingly sell personal information for money. If we use analytics, pixels, cookies, or similar technologies that may be considered a "sale," "sharing," or "targeted advertising" under certain privacy laws, you may have the right to opt out of that processing.
Where required by applicable law and technically feasible, we will honor recognized universal opt-out mechanisms or Global Privacy Control signals for processing that qualifies as targeted advertising or sale. If a cookie preference tool is available on the site, you may also use that tool to manage available privacy choices.
10. Data Retention
We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, the nature of the relationship, legal obligations, accounting or tax requirements, dispute resolution needs, and legitimate business purposes.
Examples include retaining contact form submissions long enough to respond and maintain business records; retaining client records as needed to provide services and comply with legal, accounting, or contractual requirements; and retaining newsletter information until you unsubscribe or request deletion, subject to legal exceptions.
11. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. No website, email system, platform, or method of transmission is completely secure. You are responsible for using caution when submitting information online and for protecting access to your own accounts and devices.
12. Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live and whether a particular privacy law applies, you may have the right to request access to personal information, correction of inaccurate information, deletion of personal information, a portable copy of certain information, restriction or objection to certain processing, withdrawal of consent, or opt out of certain uses such as targeted advertising, sale, or certain profiling.
To make a privacy request, contact us using the information below and describe the request you would like to make. We may need to verify your identity before responding. If your request is denied, you may ask us to reconsider by replying with the word "Appeal" and explaining why you believe the decision should be reviewed.
13. Colorado Privacy Notice
Because John Finegan is based in Colorado, Colorado residents may have additional rights under the Colorado Privacy Act if and to the extent the law applies to our activities. These rights may include access, correction, deletion, data portability, and the right to opt out of the sale of personal data, targeted advertising, or certain profiling.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights. We also do not intend to collect or process sensitive personal data through the website without consent where required by applicable law.
14. California and Other State Privacy Rights
Residents of certain U.S. states, including California and other states with privacy laws, may have additional privacy rights depending on the nature of their relationship with us and the applicability of those laws. If you are a resident of a state with applicable privacy rights, you may contact us to exercise those rights.
We do not knowingly sell or share personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.
15. International Visitors
The website and services are operated from the United States. If you access the website from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate. These jurisdictions may have data protection laws different from those in your location.
16. Children's Privacy
The website is intended for adults and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the website, please contact us so we can take appropriate steps to delete it.
17. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, tools, services, legal requirements, or business operations. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date or last updated date. Your continued use of the website after changes are posted means you acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.
18. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to make a privacy request, contact us at:
Business: John Finegan
Email: johnfinegan@focusedcloud.com
Phone: (303) 771-8900
Mailing Address: 8400 E Prentice Ave, Suite 1230, Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Website: www.johnafinegan.com