Privacy Policy

Information QConsul collects

When you submit the contact form, QConsul collects the information you choose to provide, such as your name, email address, company, and the content of your message. Limited technical information (IP address, browser type, basic site usage) may be received automatically for security and site performance purposes.

How QConsul uses information

Information is used to respond to your inquiry, maintain reasonable records of communications, and operate, secure, and improve the website. QConsul does not sell or rent personal information.

How information is stored

Contact form submissions are sent to an internal email system for review and response. QConsul does not publish an email address on the website. Service providers may help operate the website or process communications on QConsul's behalf.

Bot protection

Form submissions are screened with Cloudflare Turnstile, which may briefly process your IP address solely to confirm the submission is human. QConsul does not receive or retain that IP address.

Deletion requests

To request deletion of your inquiry or related personal information, use the deletion request form on the privacy page. QConsul will review and, where appropriate, delete the related email records and associated information unless retention is required for legal, security, or legitimate business reasons.

Your choices and your rights

Depending on applicable law, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information. To make a privacy request, use the form on the privacy page and include enough information for QConsul to identify your records.

UK and European visitors (UK GDPR and EU GDPR)

QConsul LLC is a single-member Oregon LLC based in the United States. QConsul does not target advertising at, or maintain an establishment in, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, but this site is reachable from those regions, so QConsul applies the following handling to visitors located there.

Controller. For information submitted through this site, QConsul LLC is the data controller. Privacy requests should be sent through the privacy form or the contact form; QConsul does not publish an email address on this site.

Lawful bases. QConsul relies on legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)) to respond to inquiries, keep reasonable records of business correspondence, and operate and secure the site; on consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) where you voluntarily submit optional content, such as the anonymous transparency survey; and on legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)) where retention is required by law. QConsul does not carry out profiling or automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects, and does not process special-category data through this site.

Your rights. Subject to the applicable regulation, you may request access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, and portability, and you may object to processing based on legitimate interests. Where processing rests on consent, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting processing already carried out. QConsul aims to respond within one month of a verified request.

International transfers. Information submitted through this site is processed in the United States by QConsul and by its service providers (including the site host, the email provider, and Cloudflare for bot protection). Where those providers move personal data out of the UK or EEA, they do so under their own transfer mechanisms, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK International Data Transfer Addendum.

Retention. Inquiry correspondence is kept only as long as needed for the business relationship it relates to, and then deleted on request unless retention is required for legal, security, or accounting reasons. Anonymous survey responses carry no identifier that QConsul can link back to a person.

Complaints. If you are in the UK or the EEA and believe your data has been mishandled, you may lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority or, in the UK, with the Information Commissioner's Office.

AI use on this site, and the EU AI Act

QConsul is an AI-native practice, so it treats disclosure of its own AI use as a baseline obligation rather than a formality. This section describes how AI is used on this website. It is a transparency statement by QConsul, not a certification, a conformity assessment, or legal advice.

No AI decisions about you. This site does not run an AI system that evaluates, scores, profiles, or makes decisions about visitors. Contact-form and deletion-request submissions are read and answered by a human. There is no emotion recognition, biometric categorization, or automated eligibility assessment anywhere on this site.

Synthetic media disclosure (Article 50). Illustrative artwork on this site — page hero images and the QConsul “Q” mark — was generated with AI under human art direction. Every such image carries a visible Content Credentials (“CR”) indicator based on the C2PA standard, which discloses the tools used and the human review applied. Photographs of real people, scorecards, certificates, QR codes, and third-party logos are not AI-generated and are not tagged. The full inventory is published in QConsul's ai.txt disclosure.

AI literacy (Article 4). QConsul's own agent fleets operate under documented specifications, human-in-the-loop and human-on-the-loop oversight modes, and recorded evaluations. Those practices are described on the agent lifecycle pipeline page and in ai.txt.

Client engagements. Where QConsul helps a client design AI governance, it maps controls to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO/IEC 42001, and the EU AI Act's risk tiers and transparency duties, as published in the AI governance framework crosswalk. QConsul is not a law firm, an auditor, a notified body, or a certifying authority; classification of a client's AI system and any conformity assessment remain the responsibility of the client's own legal, compliance, and security functions. Engagement-level scope is governed by the applicable statement of work.

Anonymous transparency survey

The Benefit Company transparency survey on the Purpose page is fully anonymous to QConsul: QConsul does not collect or store your name, email address, or IP address with your response, and does not set any tracking cookies for it. To soft-limit the survey to one response per browser, a random identifier is generated locally and stored in your browser's localStorage; it is not linked to you and cannot be used to contact you. The survey collects no contact details on its own. If you choose to type your name or email address into the free-text comment — for example, to receive updates on how QConsul remediates the feedback you raised — those details are stored confidentially with your response, are used only to send you that remediation follow-up, and are never published in aggregated results.

Security

QConsul uses reasonable safeguards to protect personal information, but no method of transmission or storage is completely secure.

Changes

QConsul may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any updates will be posted on this page with a revised "Last updated" date.

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