Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes:

• Information that we receive from you when you interact with The Piedmont Group
• How we use and process information that we receive
• If and why Personal Information may be disclosed to third parties
• Your choices regarding the collection and processing of your personal information

Please note that this privacy policy does not apply to information collected through third-party websites or services that you may access through The Piedmont Group, or that you submit to us through our website, email, or text message.

PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. When you submit information to or through The Piedmont Group, you consent to our collection, use, disclosure, and retention of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT
• information about what you've searched for and looked at while using The Piedmont Group.

We collect various kinds of information that you provide to us as well as information we obtain from your use of The Piedmont Group. Some of the types of information that we collect include:

"Personal Information"—information associated with or used to identify or contact a specific person. Personal Information includes: (1) contact data (such as e-mail address, telephone number and employer); (2) demographic data (such as gender, date of birth and zip code); and (3) certain Usage Data (defined below), such as IP address[;] [; and (4) describe any other categories of information the user provides or the digital service collects, such as user-generated content or purchases].

Certain Personal Information, such as information about personal health or finances, is characterized as Sensitive and subject to stricter regulation than other personal information. Before providing it to use, we urge you to carefully consider whether to disclose your Sensitive Personal Information to us. If you do provide Sensitive Personal Information to us, you consent to its use and disclosure for the purposes and in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.

"Usage Data"—information about an individual's online activity that, by itself, does not identify the individual, such as:

• technical information, including your browser type, service provider, IP address, operating system and webpages visited.
• information about what you've searched for and looked at while using The Piedmont Group.
• metadata, which means information related to items you made available through The Piedmont Group, such as the date, time or location that a shared photograph or video was taken or posted.

How We Collect Information

Whether we collect certain types of information and how we process it depends on how you use and access The Piedmont Group. Some information is collected automatically through use of cookies and similar data collection tools. We collect information about you in the following ways:

From You. We collect information from you when you:

• Use The Piedmont Group. We collect Personal Information from you when you create an account to use one of The Piedmont Group, contact us for help or information or otherwise voluntarily provide your Personal Information. We collect the information and content that you submit to us, [such as when you enter comments or submit a review].

• Connect with social media through The Piedmont Group. The Piedmont Group may offer you the ability to use Facebook Connect or other social media services (collectively, "social media") in conjunction with certain Services. When you access The Piedmont Group through your Facebook or other Social Media account, The Piedmont Group may, depending on your privacy settings, have access to information that you have provided to the Social Media platform. We may use this information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or at the time the information was collected. When you associate your social media account with your account and authorize us to have access to this information, you agree that we may collect, use and store the information provided by social media services as described in this Privacy Policy.

From Our Business Partners and Service Providers.

Third parties that assist us with our business operations also collect information (including Personal Information and Usage Data) about you through The Piedmont Group and share it with us. For example, our vendors collect and share information with us to help us detect and prevent fraud.

We may combine the information we collect from you with information from other sources and use the combined information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Usage Data.

We also automatically collect Usage Data when you interact with The Piedmont Group.

From cookies and other data collection tools.

We, along with the service providers that help us provide The Piedmont Group, use small text files called "cookies", which are small computer files sent to or accessed from your web browser or your computer's or tablet's hard drive that contain information about your computer, such as a user ID, user settings, browsing history and activities conducted while using The Piedmont Group. Cookies are not themselves personally identifiable, but may be linked to Personal Information that you provide to us through your interaction with The Piedmont Group. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain (internet location) from which the cookie originated, the "lifetime" of the cookie (i.e., when it expires) and a randomly generated unique number or similar identifier.

Cookies help us improve The Piedmont Group by [include all that apply: tracking users' navigation habits and storing users' passwords, customizing users' experience with The Piedmont Group; enabling us to analyze technical and navigational information about The Piedmont Group; and helping to detect and prevent fraud].

We also use other cookies and other data collection tools (such as web beacons and server logs), which we collectively refer to as "data collection tools," to help improve your experience with The Piedmont Group. [For example, data collection tools help us remember users and make The Piedmont Group more relevant to them].

The Piedmont Group may use data collection tools to collect information from the device used to access The Piedmont Group, such as operating system type, browser type, domain and other system settings, as well as the operating system used and the country and time zone in which the computer or device is located.

Web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.

How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect for any of the following purposes [include all that apply and add any additional uses, as applicable:

• To provide The Piedmont Group to you.
• To operate, improve and personalize the products and services we offer, and to give each user a more consistent and personalized experience when interacting with us.
• For customer service, security, to detect fraud or illegal activities, or for archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of The Piedmont Group.
• To communicate with users
• To better understand how users access and use The Piedmont Group, for the purposes of trying to improve The Piedmont Group and to respond to user preferences, including language and location customization, personalized help and instructions, or other responses to users' usage of The Piedmont Group.
• To help develop our new products and services and improve our existing products and services.
• To provide users with advertising and direct marketing that is more relevant to you.
• To enforce our [Terms of Service] or other applicable policies. And,
• To assess the effectiveness of and improve advertising and other marketing and promotional activities on or in connection with The Piedmont Group.

Please note that, in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve The Piedmont Group, information collected through The Piedmont Group may be used in an aggregated or individualized manner.

For example, personal information collected during use of one of The Piedmont Group may be used to suggest particular content that can be made available to the user on another of The Piedmont Group or be used to try to present more relevant advertising in another of The Piedmont Group.

How We Share and Disclose Your Information

We may share and disclose information as described at the time information is collected or as follows:

When you consent. We may share Personal Information with third parties if you have given us your consent to do so. We will only share Sensitive Personal Information when you have given us your opt-in consent.

To perform services. We may disclose Personal Information to third parties in order to perform services requested or functions initiated by users. In addition, we may disclose Personal Information in order to identify a user in connection with communications sent through The Piedmont Group. We also may offer users the opportunity to share information with friends and other users through The Piedmont Group.

With third party service providers performing services on our behalf.

We share information, including Personal Information, with our service providers to perform the functions for which we engage them (such as hosting and data analyses). We may share information as needed to operate other related services.

For legal purposes. We also may share information that we collect from users, as needed, to enforce our rights, protect our property or protect the rights, property or safety of others, or as needed to support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance functions. We will disclose Personal Information as we deem necessary to respond to a subpoena, regulation, binding order of a data protection agency, legal process, governmental request or other legal or regulatory process. We may also share Personal Information as required to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain.

In aggregated form. We may share Personal Information about you in an aggregated form—that is, in a statistical or summary form that does not include any personal identifiers—with third parties in order to discover and reveal trends about how users like you interact with our services.

During corporate changes. We may transfer information, including your Personal Information, in connection with a merger, sale, acquisition or other change of ownership or control by us or an affiliated company (in each case whether in whole or in part). When one of these events occurs, we will use reasonable efforts to notify users before your information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Information Storage and Security

We retain information as long as it is necessary and relevant for our operations. We also retain Personal Information to comply with applicable law, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigation, and other actions permitted by law. After it is no longer necessary for us to retain information, we dispose of it according to our data retention and deletion policies.

We employ industry-standard security measures designed to protect the security of all information submitted through The Piedmont Group. However, the security of information transmitted through the internet can never be guaranteed. We are not responsible for any interception or interruption of any communications through the internet or for changes to or losses of data. Users of The Piedmont Group are responsible for maintaining the security of any password, user ID or other form of authentication involved in obtaining access to password protected or secure areas of any of our digital services. In order to protect you and your data, we may suspend your use of any of The Piedmont Group, without notice, pending an investigation, if any breach of security is suspected. Access to and use of password protected and/or secure areas of any of The Piedmont Group are restricted to authorized users only.

Unauthorized access to such areas is prohibited and may lead to criminal prosecution.

Your Rights

It is important to us that you are able to access and review the Personal Information we have about you and make corrections to it or delete it, as necessary. If you have any questions about how to access your Personal Information, please contact us at 770-551-3400.

Links to Third Party Sites

The Piedmont Group may contain links to third-party websites and services ("Third Party Services") with which we have no affiliation. A link to any Third-Party Service does not mean that we endorse it or the quality or accuracy of information presented on it. If you decide to visit a Third-Party Service, you are subject to its privacy policy and practices and not this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to carefully review the legal and privacy notices of all other digital services that you visit.

Disclaimer: Not Child Directed

The Piedmont Group are not intended for use by children. If you are under the age of majority in your place of residence, you may use The Piedmont Group only with the consent of or under the supervision of your parent or legal guardian.

Consistent with the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), if we learn that we have received any information directly from a child under age 13 without first receiving his or her parent's or legal guardian's verified consent, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child (or his or her parent or legal guardian) to inform the child that he or she cannot use The Piedmont Group and subsequently we will delete that information.

U.S./EU/Swiss Data Privacy Framework Certification

We comply with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce, regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland. We have certified that we adhere to the DPF Principles of notice, choice, accountability for onward transfer, security, data integrity and purpose limitation, access, and recourse, enforcement, and liability.

Any personal information collected about EU visitors through The Piedmont Group is processed in the United States by us or by a party acting on our behalf. When you provide personal information to us through The Piedmont Group, you consent to the processing of your data in the United States. The Piedmont Group are hosted in the United States.