Thank you for visiting the SRF Consultores website (“the website” or “site”). This online privacy policy is designed to inform you how we will collect and use information from our website so that you can make an informed decision about using this site.

The privacy policy (together with our Terms of Use and Cookies Policy) explains how personal data we may collect from you through this site will be processed and protected by SRF Consultores. By using our website, you are agreeing to allow SRF Consultores to collect, store and use your information as described below. If you do not agree to these provisions, you must immediately terminate your access to the website and not engage in any further activity on the site.

Information we collect

SRF Consultores collects information from the website in two ways: (1) passively (for example, through cookies and similar technology) and (2) actively (for example, if you send us a request by email).
When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information from your computer. The information includes:

• Information about your computer, including (where available) your IP address, operating system and browser type. This is used for system administration, to filter traffic, look up user domains and report statistics.
• Details of your visits to our website and the resources that you access (including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data). Please see our Cookies policy for more information.
• We also collect information when you voluntarily submit it to us. For example,
• Information you provide by submitting forms on our website. This includes registering to use the site, subscribing to services, newsletters and alerts, registering for an event, requesting an official document or applying for a job. Pages that collect this type of information may provide a more detailed explanation of why your data is needed and how it will be used. It is entirely up to you whether you wish to provide it.
• Information you send to us when you wish to engage in business with us. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• Responses to surveys we distribute in which you choose to participate.
• Any postings, comments or other content you upload or publish on an SRF Consultores site.
  Where this information relates to you or identifies you, we will treat it as “personal data.”

Sensitive information

We do not generally seek to collect sensitive personal data through our website. If we do seek to collect such information, we will ask you to expressly agree to our proposed uses of the data. If you provide us with unsolicited sensitive personal data, you agree to our use of the data subject to applicable law. The term “sensitive personal data” refers to the various categories of personal data identified by Colombian and other data privacy laws as requiring special treatment, including, in some circumstances, the need to obtain explicit consent. These categories include personal identity numbers, data about personality and private life, financial account information, racial or ethnic origin, nationality, political opinions, membership in political parties or movements, religious, philosophical or similar beliefs, membership in a trade union or profession or trade association, physical or mental health, biometric or genetic data, addictions, sexual life, property matters or criminal record (including information about activities suspected of criminal activity).

uses of information

Cookies and information collected automatically.

We analyse your IP and browser information to determine what is most effective about our website, to help us identify ways to improve it, and eventually to determine how we can tailor our website to make it a more positive and relevant user experience. Please see our Cookies Policy for more details.

Information you provide

We use the personal data you submit to provide you with relevant information, process requests you submit through the website, and for other purposes we describe at the time it is collected. For example, we use personal data to:

• Fulfill your requests for brochures, articles, newsletters, or other content.
• Create and analyze surveys or research questionnaires.
• Personalize your experience on the site.
• Process job applications you submit.
• Determine your suitability as a business partner of SRF Consultores.
• Provide you with additional information about SRF Consultores’ services.
• Respond to technical questions you submit and request clarification if necessary.
• Contact you for marketing purposes (with your consent, where required).

If you submit technical questions, we may post them on our website to help other users. However, we will not associate your full name with any posted questions.

Recruitment information

If you contact us through our website to apply for employment opportunities with SRF Consultores, we may collect and store the personal data you provide for recruitment purposes. We may ask you for information necessary for the recruitment process, such as your name, contact information and technical experience. We may also process your personal data if we are required to do so by law or legal process. However, before you can submit your CV/Resume, you may be asked to agree to the following terms regarding SRF Consultores’ use of your CV/Resume:

• SRF Consultores, its affiliates and agents will store, access and use the information in any jurisdiction, including jurisdictions whose privacy laws may be different and less protective than those of your home jurisdiction.
• SRF Consultores, its affiliates and agents, may use this information to evaluate your eligibility for employment and to contact you for recruiting purposes. Please note that individuals under the age of 18 are not authorized to submit recruiting information on our website.
• Targeted Emails: We send emails to individuals with whom we want to develop or maintain a relationship. Our targeted email messages typically include cookies and similar technologies that allow us to know whether you open, read or delete the message, and the links you may click on. When you click on a link in an email you receive from SRF Consultores, we will also use a cookie to record what pages you view and what content you download from our websites, even if you are not registered or signed up for our site.
• Combine and analyze personal data: We may combine personal data from publicly available sources and from our email, website, and personal interactions with you. We combine this personal data to better assess the suitability of our employment opportunities with your qualifications, to send you relevant information about careers and opportunities at SRF Consultores, and to analyze the effectiveness of our recruiting efforts and resources.

Exchange of information

• We will not sell personal data to third parties. In general, we only share personal data with our contracted service providers and our advisors. However, there will be other times when we need to share or disclose personal data you provide for a specific purpose. For example:
• We may need to share certain personal data, such as food preferences and special accommodation requirements, with caterers, hotels and other business partners, if we are managing a jointly sponsored event and these other parties have a business need to know this information. We will inform you at the time of collection that personal data will be shared with our partners and you will have the choice whether or not to provide it.
• We may need to disclose your personal information to third parties if we sell or liquidate any part of our business or assets. Clients’ personal data may be one of the business assets transferred in such circumstances.
• We may need to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with a legal obligation, or to enforce or apply our Terms of Use; or to protect the rights, property or safety of SRF Consultores, our clients or others.
• We may also provide aggregated, non-personally identifiable data (“Aggregate Information”) to third parties, including information about your access to and use of the Website. For example, we may provide such aggregate information to a third party to inform the party about the number of users of the Site and the activities they engage in while on the Site.

Data Security

We take reasonable steps to maintain the security of personal data collected through the SRF Consultores website. In addition, we make reasonable efforts to delete or destroy personal data when there is no longer a business need to retain it.

Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the sites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these sites, please note that these sites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or sites. Please check these policies before submitting personal data to these sites.

SRF Consultores also uses mobile applications, which have their own privacy policies. If an SRF Consultores application does not have its own privacy policy, this privacy policy will apply.

Personal data processing

As an organization, the personal data we collect may be routed, stored or transferred throughout the SRF Consultores organization. We have internal policies that are designed to ensure that there is an equivalent level of protection throughout our organization.

SRF Consultores will also use and process the information submitted by you for SRF Consultores internal analysis purposes in order to advance our Core Values ​​and Code of Business Ethics, particularly on diversity.

Your rights

You have the right to know whether we hold personal data about you and, if we do, to have access to that personal data and to require that it be corrected if it is inaccurate. You can do this by using our contact form.

You can exercise your right to stop marketing communications from being sent to you at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in every marketing email footer. Additionally, you can submit your request via our contact form.

If you can’t find what you’re looking for here, or if you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, please contact Data Privacy.

Privacy policy updates

SRF Consultores reserves the right to change the provisions of this privacy policy at any time, but will notify you that changes have been made by indicating on the privacy policy the date it was last updated. Your use of the website following the posting of such changes or revised policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes. We encourage you to review our privacy policy each time you visit our website to ensure you understand how your information will be used.