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Smart Sage Consulting Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July 6, 2026

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This Privacy Policy describes how Smart Sage Consulting, LLC ("we," "us," or "the Company") collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you use our website www.smartsageconsulting.net and any of our subdomains (the "Website"), or interact with us through our booking, email, and client relationship platforms.

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Topics:

  • Personal information we collect

  • How we use your personal information

  • How we share your personal information

  • How we store your data

  • AI-assisted tools and automated processing

  • Email marketing

  • Behavioral advertising and your opt-out choices

  • Your data protection rights (U.S. state residents)

  • Your data protection rights (European residents)

  • Children's privacy

  • Data security and breach notification

  • Third party websites

  • Changes

  • Complaints

  • Contact us

 

Personal Information We Collect

When you visit the Website, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including your web browser, IP address, time zone, and cookies installed on your device. As you browse the Website, we also collect information about the pages or products you view, what site or search term referred you here, and how you interact with the Website. We refer to this as "Device Information."

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We collect Device Information using:

  • Cookies, data files placed on your device, often including an anonymous unique identifier. Learn more or opt out at http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

  • Log files, which track actions on the Website and collect your IP address, browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

  • Web beacons, tags, and pixels, electronic files used to record how you browse the Website, including advertising pixels from platforms such as Meta, Google, and TikTok.

 

We use Device Information to:

  • Recognize you on our Website and remember your preferences, including language and location.

  • Understand your visit, the content you viewed, and the links you followed, which we may share in limited form with third parties for advertising purposes.

  • Track which affiliate referred you to us, for the purpose of crediting commissions.

 

You can set your browser not to accept cookies; the site above explains how. Some Website features may not function if you disable cookies. As described below, we now also recognize opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control (GPC) from browsers or extensions that send them.

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We also collect data you provide directly ("Provided Information") when you:

  • Register, book a call, or place an order for a product or service

  • Complete an intake or discovery call form

  • Voluntarily complete a survey or provide feedback

  • Provide your email in exchange for a free resource, quiz result, or lead magnet

  • Sign up for our email newsletter or opt in to our content

  • Submit an application for a paid consultation, program, or bundle

 

Provided Information may include:

  • Personal identification information (name, email, phone number, etc.)

  • Billing information (billing address, shipping address, payment information, including card numbers)

  • Business information (business name, business model, revenue level, business goals), where relevant to our career or AI consulting services

  • Student loan information (servicer, loan amount(s), employment, income, and related repayment details) that you choose to share with us for the purpose of a discovery call or paid consultation

 

When we say "Personal Information" in this Policy, we mean both Device Information and Provided Information.

How We Use Your Personal Information

 

We use Provided Information generally to fulfill orders placed through the Website (processing payment, delivering products, providing invoices or confirmations). We also use Provided Information to:

  • Communicate with you, including scheduling and preparing for discovery calls and consultations

  • Screen orders for potential risk or fraud

  • Provide information or advertising about our products or services, consistent with the preferences you've shared with us

 

We use Device Information to help screen for risk and fraud, and to improve and optimize the Website, including generating analytics on how visitors browse and interact with it, and assessing marketing and advertising campaigns. We also use it to track affiliate referrals for commission purposes.

How We Share Your Personal Information

We share Personal Information with third parties to help us provide the services described above. For example, we may use analytics tools to understand how visitors use the Website.

 

The types of third parties we may share elements of your Personal Information with include:

  • Payment processors that securely store and handle payment information

  • Providers of email management and distribution tools

  • Providers of security and fraud prevention tools and services

  • Providers of data aggregation and analytics services

  • Providers of affiliate marketing tracking and analytics services

  • Providers of client relationship management (CRM) and workflow automation systems used to track and communicate with clients and prospective clients

 

We do not sell your Personal Information for money. Depending on how a particular state privacy law defines the term, certain uses of advertising pixels or analytics tools described above may be considered a "sale" or "sharing" of Personal Information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes. Where that is the case, the opt-out rights described below apply.

 

We may also share Personal Information to comply with applicable law, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or other lawful request, or to otherwise protect our rights.

How We Store Your Data

 

We process and store data using the following providers:

 

Please visit each provider's website for information on where your information is physically stored.

We use commercially reasonable security measures to protect against unauthorized access to, or alteration, disclosure, or destruction of, information stored on our servers. No computer network or internet transmission can be guaranteed 100% secure, so you submit information at your own risk.

 

We retain your Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements, or until you ask us to delete it, whichever comes first.


AI-Assisted Tools and Automated Processing

We use artificial intelligence tools internally to help draft content, manage workflows, and, in some cases, generate a preliminary educational result through a quiz, calculator, or screening tool on the Website (for example, an estimated repayment category or general eligibility indicator).

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These tools do not make any final decision about you, your loans, or your eligibility for any program, and they do not produce a legal, financial, or tax determination. No automated tool on this Website makes a decision that has a legal or similarly significant effect on you. If you would like a human being to review any result generated by a tool on this Website, contact us using the information below.

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Email Marketing

If you make a purchase, download a free resource in exchange for your email address, or opt in to receive emails, you agree to receive email communications from us, including newsletters, site updates, promotions, and related correspondence. You are responsible for ensuring our emails are not blocked or routed to spam.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the link in any email or by contacting us directly. If you unsubscribe, you may no longer receive updates, promotions, or product information from us.

Behavioral Advertising and Your Opt-Out Choices

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We use your Personal Information to provide targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may interest you. Learn more about how targeted advertising works at the Network Advertising Initiative's educational page: http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

 

You can opt out of targeted advertising directly through these platforms:

 

You can also opt out broadly through the Digital Advertising Alliance's portal at http://optout.aboutads.info.

Global Privacy Control (GPC). Some browsers and browser extensions send a signal indicating you wish to opt out of the sale or sharing of your Personal Information for targeted advertising. We recognize and honor this signal for visitors from states that require it as a valid opt-out request under applicable law.

 

Your Data Protection Rights (U.S. State Residents)

A growing number of U.S. states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Utah, and others, give their residents specific rights over their Personal Information. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

  • Know/Access: Request confirmation of, and access to, the Personal Information we hold about you

  • Correct: Request correction of inaccurate Personal Information

  • Delete: Request deletion of Personal Information we have collected from or about you

  • Opt out: Opt out of the sale or sharing of your Personal Information for cross-context behavioral advertising, and opt out of certain profiling

  • Portability: Request a copy of your Personal Information in a portable format

  • Limit use of sensitive information: Where applicable, request that we limit the use of sensitive Personal Information to what's necessary to provide the services you requested

  • Appeal: Request an appeal if we deny your rights request, and receive a response within the timeframe required by your state's law

  • Non-discrimination: Exercise any of the above rights without receiving discriminatory treatment

 

To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the information below. We will verify your request and respond within the timeframe required by applicable law, generally 45 days, with one extension where permitted.

California Residents. In addition to the rights above, California residents may direct us not to sell or share their Personal Information, and may designate an authorized agent to submit a request on their behalf. We do not knowingly sell or share the Personal Information of consumers we know to be under 16 years of age.

 

Your Data Protection Rights (European Residents)

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you and to ask that it be corrected, updated, or deleted. Under certain conditions, you may also have the right to restrict or object to our processing of your data, and to request that we transfer your Personal Information to another organization. To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the information below.

If you are a European resident, we process your information to fulfill any contract we have with you (for example, if you book or purchase a service), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests described above. Your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to the United States.

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Children's Privacy

Our services are intended for adults 18 years of age or older, consistent with our Terms and Conditions. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us so we can delete it.

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Data Security and Breach Notification

We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect your Personal Information. In the event of a security incident affecting your Personal Information, we will notify affected individuals and any required regulators in accordance with applicable state and federal breach notification laws.

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Third Party Websites

Our privacy policy applies only to our Website. We are not responsible for the data collection, privacy practices, or policies of any third-party site we may link to, or that may link to us. We encourage you to review the privacy statement and terms of any other site you visit.

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Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices, our product offerings, or applicable law. The "Last Updated" date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision. Changes are effective immediately upon posting.

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Complaints

Please contact us if you have any complaints about how we use your Personal Information so we can try to resolve the issue. European residents also have the right to lodge a complaint with their local data protection regulator. California residents can contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, California 95834, or by phone at (800) 952-5210 or (916) 445-1254.

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Contact Us

For questions about our privacy practices, or to exercise your data protection rights:

Email us: admin@smartsageconsulting.net Call us: (888) 782-4985 Write to us: 7550 Airways Blvd, Unit 28, Southaven, MS 38671

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