Privacy Policy

Information may be collected when you voluntarily submit it through this website, including when you use a contact form, request information, submit an inquiry, or provide information through an assessment or other interactive feature.

This information may include your name, email address, organization, role, message, and other information you choose to provide.

The IAMM Self-Assessment allows visitors to answer questions about their organization's Integrated Assurance maturity.

Assessment answers are processed locally in your browser to calculate and display an indicative maturity profile. They are not sent to or retained by the website. You are not required to provide contact information to view your assessment results.

If you choose to share your results with Patrick M. Hayes, the site prepares an email in your own email application. Nothing is sent unless you send that email yourself. Information you send may be used to respond to your request and continue the conversation you initiated.

Do not submit confidential, proprietary, regulated, or highly sensitive information through the self-assessment or website forms.

Like most websites, this site may collect limited technical information when you visit, such as browser type, device type, referring pages, pages visited, approximate geographic information derived from an IP address, and other basic website usage information.

This information may be used to understand website performance, improve the visitor experience, maintain security, and understand how visitors use the site.

This website may use cookies or similar technologies required for website functionality and, where enabled, website analytics.

Analytics information may be used to understand general website traffic and usage patterns. The site does not use this information to make automated decisions about visitors.

Where third-party analytics or website services are used, those providers may process information according to their own privacy policies.

Information collected through this website may be used to respond to inquiries, provide requested information, operate website features, produce assessment results, improve website content and functionality, maintain website security, and comply with applicable legal obligations.

Personal information submitted through this website will not be sold to third parties.

This website contains links to third-party websites, including Amazon and other external resources.

When you follow a link to another website, that website's privacy practices and terms apply. Patrick M. Hayes is not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or operation of third-party websites.

Information voluntarily submitted through the website may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to the request, maintain appropriate business records, provide requested services, or satisfy applicable legal obligations.

Reasonable administrative and technical measures are used to protect information submitted through the website. However, no website, internet transmission, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Visitors should therefore avoid submitting confidential or highly sensitive information through general website forms.

You may request information about personal information you have submitted through the website or request that it be corrected or deleted, subject to applicable legal and record-retention requirements.

You may also choose not to provide personal information through the website and instead contact Patrick directly using the contact information provided on the site.

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes to the website, its features, or applicable requirements. The date at the top of this page identifies the most recent update.