Welcome to Conscio & Company. This Privacy Policy governs your interactions with https://conscio.com (our “Main Website”) and your participation in our Services, including subscription services, and inquiries for other Services or programs submitted via our website forms. In addition, if specific privacy policies apply to your participation in our Aristos Institute Programs or other Services, we will provide those details upon your enrollment in a program or as a step in the engagement of our Services.

In an era where personal data is relentlessly harvested, commodified, and exploited, we stand resolute against this tide. We reject the widespread, unchecked practice of amassing vast troves of personally identifiable information for profit or manipulative marketing, choosing instead to uphold your dignity and security by collecting only the minimal data necessary to conduct our business with integrity and respect. If you feel any information we request is excessive, we invite you to voice your concerns. Similarly, if we believe certain information you request from us is unnecessary to conduct business, we will ask questions to better understand your need for the information and respectfully convey any concerns or alternatives.

For the information we do collect from you, we’re committed to keeping your information safe, including being informed of and guided by GDPR for our European (EEA) visitors and changing privacy laws in the United States. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your information when you explore our website or use our Services. By using, engaging with, browsing on, or purchasing items via our Website, or by contacting us or using our Services, you agree to and acknowledge this Privacy Policy. If you are uncomfortable agreeing to or acknowledging this Privacy Policy or any future updates, we kindly request that you don’t access, shop on, subscribe or use our Website or Services.

Importantly, visitors and customers are also responsible for protecting their own information, including using secure passwords, avoiding sharing sensitive data on unsecured networks, and staying vigilant against phishing or other malicious activities in today’s digital environment. Staying alert and proactive in safeguarding your personal information is crucial in our shared privacy mission.

1.1. General

Conscio & Company provides a comprehensive range of Services focused on education, personal and professional development, and management consulting (collectively, the “Services”). These encompass leadership development, strategy and innovation, adult learning, human and organizational behavior, GuideWork™, strategic planning, community development, action research, organizational development and mediation, designed to empower individuals, teams, and organizations. We offer free blog content and premium membership subscriptions that provide access to exclusive articles tailored for personal, professional, and organizational growth. Through the Aristos Institute, we provide advanced programs in Change, Leadership and GuideWork™ Coaching. These Services are owned and operated by Conscio & Company headquartered in Tennessee (USA). (“we,” “us,” or “our”).

We collect information from you in various ways when you interact with our Site and Services. The types of information we may collect include:

2.1 Personal Information:

1. Contact Information:
At a minimum, we collect and store your name and email address when subscribing to our membership subscription for premium content. If you participate in our in-person educational programs or engage our services as a speaker, educator or business strategist for yourself or your organization, additional information may be exchanged to establish and formalize our business relationship.

2. Payment Information:
Credit card details, billing address, or other payment-related information (processed through the Stripe payment gateway). We do not collect or store sensitive payment information through our website. All payment data is securely collected and managed by Stripe and their privacy and security policies would apply.

3.  Account Information:
Username, password, and preferences when you create an account for membership access. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password for your account. Be sure to sign out when you have finished using a shared computer.

2.2 Non-Personal Information:

♦ Usage Data:
Information about how you interact with our Site, such as pages visited, time spent on pages, IP address, browser type, device type, and operating system, collected automatically via server logs or analytics tools. This information will not be shared with third parties and will only be used by us to improve the experience of our visitors.

♦ Cookies and Tracking Technologies:
Data collected via cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to enhance your experience, analyze trends, and serve relevant content (see Section 4 for more details).

2.3 Information You Provide Voluntarily:

♦ Consultancy Requests:
Details you share when requesting personalized educational, guiding or consultancy services. Our website contact form was designed to give you maximum freedom in providing us personal information. Naturally, for us to respond to your inquiry in the most effective way possible, we do ask you to submit your name, the organization you are representing, position, email and focus of your inquiry. This information is provided voluntarily by you and we will only use this information for the purpose of contacting you to respond to your request and/or to provide you with a Service. 

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

1. To Provide and Improve Services:
Deliver consultancy services, process membership subscriptions, provide access to premium articles. The information you submit to us is used exclusively for the purposes for which it was provided. If you submit a phone number through our website’s contact form, we will contact you only about the specific inquiry you made, unless you explicitly request further contact or information about upcoming events or additional Services.

2. To Process Transactions:
Handle payments securely through a third-party (Stripe) processor and to issue invoices or receipts.

3. To Communicate:
To respond to your inquiries via our contact form and to provide details or updates pertaining to programs, services or policies. Unless requested by you, we will not send you promotional materials.

4. To Personalize Your Experience:
Tailor content, recommendations, and services based on your interests and usage patterns.

5. To Analyze and Enhance:
Monitor Site performance, troubleshoot issues, and improve our offerings.

6. To Comply with Legal Obligations:
Meet regulatory requirements or respond to lawful requests from authorities.

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to provide and personalize the Services, analyze usage, target advertisements, and prevent fraud.  Cookies are small text files placed on your device that uniquely identify your browser. These cookies enable seamless navigation across our website and enhance user convenience. For instance, cookies allow you to move between pages on our site and return to previously accessed pages without interruption.

We use cookies or similar technologies for the following purposes:

Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are essential to enable you to move around the Services and use their features, such as accessing secure areas or remembering your login details.

Performance/Analytics Cookies: These help us understand how visitors interact with our Services by providing information about the areas visited, time spent, and any issues encountered, such as error messages. This helps us improve the performance of our Services.

Functionality Cookies: These allow the Services to remember choices you make (such as your region) and provide enhanced, more personalized features.

Anti-Fraud and Security: To detect and prevent cheating, fraud, or other violations of our terms.

You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. However, if you choose to refuse cookies, you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Services. You can manage cookies through your web browser settings.

Our free and premium content, including blogs, articles, events and courses, is invaluable for frontrunners striving to excel and develop their professional and life skills to meet the demands of the 21st century. We recognize that the knowledge we share on our website may be of interest and valuable to mature high school-aged youth or older teens seeking to enhance their knowledge, leadership skills, and understanding of the complex world they live in. While our materials are crafted with a professional adult audience in mind, they are welcome to learn from our educational platform.

It is not our intent to collect personal information, such as names or email addresses, from individuals under 18. If a person under 18 chooses to subscribe to our Members Premium content, we assume they do so with the permission and under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian. We encourage parents to review our online educational content to ensure they align with their expectations for their child’s engagement.

Our website includes links to third-party websites, such as the Stripe payment processor and external resources referenced in our blogs and articles. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or security of any information you provide while visiting websites or online platforms not governed by our Privacy Policy. We do not control the content, security measures, or operations of such third-party websites. Our company is not liable for any loss or damage that may result from your use of these websites. Links to external sites are provided for convenience and do not imply our endorsement or approval of those sites or their content.

We’ll never sell, trade, or rent your information—that’s a promise. We only share it when necessary, such as:

♦ Trusted Partners:
Companies that help us run our Websites (like hosting or email services), who are bound by strict GDPR-compliant agreements.

♦ Payment Services:
Third-party providers process payments for subscriptions and shop orders, so we never see your card info.

♦ Legal Needs:
If a law or court order requires us to share info (e.g., to stop fraud), we’ll do so carefully and minimally.

♦  Business Changes:
If our company merges or is sold, your info might transfer to new owners, but we’ll notify you and ensure it’s protected.

 Our website does not use ad servers or display third-party advertisements. We are committed to providing a seamless and distraction-free user experience, and therefore, we do not collect, share, or process user data for advertising purposes through ad servers or similar technologies. Any content or promotions displayed on our website are directly managed by us and align with our mission to deliver valuable resources for frontrunners and innovators seeking premium content and services to guide them on their path to excellence.  

We are dedicated to protecting the information you share with us through our website. To ensure the safety of your data, we implement reasonable and industry-standard security measures designed to prevent unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.

Secure Transmission: We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption to protect data transmitted between your browser and our website’s servers. This ensures that any information you submit, such as contact details or form submissions, is encrypted and secure. You can verify this by the “https://” and padlock icon in your browser’s address bar.

Secure Storage: Personal information, such as names or email addresses, hosted by our third-party website hosting service. In addition, Pressable, our hosting provider, has deployed a web application firewall to further prevent access to our website. We limit access to data about our visits and customers only to authorized personnel only, namely the founders of Conscio & Company.

No Senstive Payment Data Storage: We do not collect or store sensitive payment information, such as credit card details, on our servers. All payment transactions are securely processed through Stripe, a trusted third-party payment processor, which adheres to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements. Only the last four digits of your credit card number are displayed for order confirmation, and the full number is securely transmitted to the payment processor during checkout.

Additional Security Practices: To bolster the security of our website, we implement several key practices: we regularly update our software, including content management systems and plugins, with the latest security patches to mitigate vulnerabilities; we enforce strong password policies and multi-factor authentication for internal systems to prevent unauthorized backend access; we practice data minimization by collecting only essential information as outlined in our Privacy Policy, reducing storage risks; and we actively monitor for suspicious activity while maintaining secure, cloud-based backups with strict access controls to ensure data recovery in case of an incident.

User responsibilties: To help maintain the security of your information, we encourage you to use strong, unique passwords for your account and refrain from sharing them with others, sign out of your account when using shared or public computers, and exercise caution against phishing attempts by avoiding suspicious links and refraining from providing personal information in response to unsolicited requests.

Limitations:  We take strong measures to secure your data, but no online system is completely safe from cyber threats. We follow data protection laws like GDPR, quickly addressing security issues and we will notify affected users within 72 hours if unauthorized access occurs. Unauthorized use of our website may result in criminal or civil legal action. We routinely update our security practices to align with industry standards and new risks to keep your data protected.  Ultimately, we do not guarantee that your personal information will not become accessible to unauthorized persons and Conscio & Company cannot be responsible for any actions resulting from unauthorized access to  personal information which is supplied over the internet or any public computer network. It is for this reason that Conscio & Company only requests the minimal personal information needed to serve you.

10.1. Your Account Information:
If you subscribe to our online premium content, you have full control over your account and your information. At any time, you can update your email address or other account details by visiting your MyAccount page. Similarly, you can delete your account or cancel your subscription directly through the MyAccount page on our website.

10.2. Retention of Information for other Services:
We may retain your personal or business information to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, such as up to 7 years for transaction records to comply with tax laws, based on factors such as the duration of our relationship with you and the time we provide services, plus any additional time needed to address potential issues, as well as any legal obligations requiring us to keep your data, such as laws mandating the retention of transaction records for a specific period. After that, we delete it securely.

Limitation Of Liability

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Website, Services, or your subscription at our sole discretion, with or without notice, if you violate these terms or engage in conduct, we deem harmful to our interests. Upon termination, your access to subscription content will cease, and no refunds will be issued for unused portions of the subscription term.

13.1. Governing Laws

This Legal Page and your use of the Website shall be governed by the laws of State of Tennessee, USA, without regard to its conflict of law principles.

13.2. Dispute Resolution

Any disputes arising from your use of the Website or Services shall be resolved through binding arbitration in Tennesee, in accordance with the rules of [e.g., the American Arbitration Association]. You waive your right to participate in a class action lawsuit or class-wide arbitration.

Conscio & Company, in its discretion, may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. To ensure you are able to remain informed, changes to our Privacy Policy will be reflected here.

Last Update: September 2, 2025