Privacy Policy

Last Updated and Effective: 02.18.2026

1. Welcome

Teague ("Teague" or "we") takes your privacy seriously and we know you do too. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is here to help you understand how we collect, process, and share your Personal Information (as defined below). We also describe our security practices with respect to your Personal Information, as well as your rights & choices with respect to how we process that Personal Information. Please read this Policy carefully. 

 

2. Scope & Acknowledgement 

This Policy applies to your use of our “Services,” which include the following:

  • In-person services you use, such as when you contact us via phone or mail for support.
  • Our website (the “Website”), and any other website, mobile application, or services where we post or link to this Policy; and
  • Our social media pages and any other online services to the extent operated by us or on our behalf.

This Policy does not apply to information processed by third parties, for example, when you visit a third-party website or interact with third-party sites, except to the extent those parties collect or process information on our behalf. Please review any relevant third party’s privacy policy for information regarding their privacy practices. 

Your use of our Services indicates your acknowledgement of the notices provided in this Policy.

 

3. Contact Us

The controller of your Personal Information under this Policy is Teague You may contact our Data Privacy Team as follows:


4. Categories & Sources of Personal Information

Categories of Personal Information we Process

In order to provide our Services, we may collect and process information that relates to identified or identifiable individuals (“Personal Information”). We collect and process the following categories of Personal Information (note, specific Personal Information elements are examples and may change):

  • Audio/Visual Data: Audio files and records, such as voicemails, call recordings, and the like, or images that you may upload.
  • Biographical Data: Data relating to professional and employment history, qualifications, and similar biographic information.
  • Contact Data: Identity Data used to contact an individual, e.g. email address, physical address, or phone number.
  • Device/Network Data: Personal Information relating to your device, browser, or application e.g. device identifiers, identifiers from cookies, session history and website navigation metadata, and other data generated through applications and browsers, including via cookies and similar technologies.
  • General Location Data: Non-precise location data, e.g. location information derived from IP addresses.
  • Identity Data: Personal Information about you and your identity, such as your name or IP address.
  • Inference Data: Personal Information we create or use as part of a profile reflecting your preferences, characteristics, aptitudes, market segments, likes, favorites or your interests.
  • Transaction Data: Information about the products and services we provide to you and about transactions you make with us and similar information.
  • User Content: Personal Information included in content provided by users of the Services in any free-form or unstructured format, such as a text in a “contact us” box, in a file or document, or any other message to us.

Sources of Personal Information

We collect Personal Information from various sources based on the context in which the Personal Information will be processed:

  • You: We collect Personal Information from you directly, for example, when you inquire about our services, input information into an online form, or contact us directly.
  • Automatic Collection: We may collect certain Personal Information automatically. For example, we collect Device/Network Data automatically using cookies and similar technologies when you use or access our Website, or when you open our marketing communications.
  • Service Providers: We receive Personal Information from service providers performing services on our behalf, including payment processors, web hosting service providers, or our delivery and installation partners.
  • Data we create or infer: We, certain partners, and third parties operating on our behalf create and infer Personal Information such as Inference Data based on our observations or analysis of other Personal Information processed under this Policy, and we may correlate this data with other data we process about you.
  • Partners: We collaborate with businesses and other organizations (“Partners”) on various projects. We receive Personal Information from Partners if you are a representative of the Parter, participate in a joint project, or when you express interests that relate to Teague or one of its Partners.
  • Social Media Companies: We receive Personal Information from Meta e.g. Instagram, X, LinkedIn and other social media companies when you use social media sign on or interact with that social media company on or in connection with our Services


5.  Data Processing Contexts/Notice at Collection

Digital Services

Website

When you visit our Website, we automatically collect and process Identity Data, Inference Data, General Location Data, and Device/Network Data. We use this data as necessary to initiate or fulfill your requests for certain features or functions through our Website, such as delivering webpages or logging activities for security purposes. We may also process this Personal Information for our Business Purposes (see  Business Purposes for more information) and Commercial Purposes (see Commercial Purposes for more information) which may include data sales/sharing.

Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies

We process Identity Data, Device/Network Data, Contact Data, Inference Data, Transaction Data, and General Location Data in connection with our use of cookies and similar technologies on our Websites. We may collect this data automatically. 

We and authorized third parties may use cookies and similar technologies to process such data for the following purposes:

  • for “essential” purposes necessary for our Website to operate (such as maintaining user sessions, content delivery, and the like);
  • for “functional” purposes, such as to enable certain features of our Website (for example, to allow a customer to maintain an online shopping cart or similar tool);
  • for “analytics” purposes and to improve our Website, such as to analyze the traffic to and on our Website (for example, we can count how many people have looked at a specific page, or see how visitors move around the Website when they use it, to distinguish unique visits/visitors to our Website, and what website they visited prior to visiting our Website, and use this information to understand user behaviors and improve the design and functionality of the Website);
  • for “Targeted Advertising” (see Targeted Advertising for more information), or other advertising and marketing purposes, including technologies that process Inference Data or other data so that we can deliver, buy, or target advertisements which are more likely to be of interest to you; and
  • for “social media” e.g. via third-party social media cookies, or when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our Website or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook.

We may also process this Personal Information for our Business Purposes (see Business Purposes for more information) and Commercial Purposes (see Commercial purposes for more information) which may include data sales/sharing). See the “Rights and Choices” section below for information regarding opt-out rights for cookies and similar technologies.

Please note, in some cases, third parties may view, edit, or set their own cookies or place web beacons on our Website. We, or third party providers, may be able to use these technologies to identify you across websites, devices, and services. Third parties have their own privacy policies, and their processing is not subject to this Policy.

Contact Us

We collect and process Identity Data, Contact Data, and User Content when you contact us, e.g. via phone, mail, email, or through a contact us or sign-up form. If you call us via phone, we may collect Audio/Visual data from the call recording.

We process this Personal Information to respond to your request, and communicate with you, as appropriate, and for our Business Purposes (see Business Purposes for more information). If you consent or if permitted by law, we may use Identity Data and Contact Data to send you Marketing Communications and for our Commercial Purposes (see Commercial Purposes for more information) which may include data sales/sharing).

Professional Engagement

We process Identity Data, Contact Data, Biographical Data, Inference Data, and User Content, in connection with your application for employment or other professional engagement.

We process this Personal Information as necessary to evaluate, establish, and maintain the professional relationship, and for our Business Purposes (see Business Purposes for more information). We do not sell or share Personal Information processed in this context. We process Sensitive Personal Information only for Business Purposes permitted under applicable law

Social Media 

We process Identity Data, Contact Data, and User Content if you interact with or identify us, or relevant Partners on social media or communication platforms (e.g. if you post User Content that engages with or tags our official accounts).

We process this Personal Information for our Business Purposes (see Business Purposes for more information) and Commercial Purposes (see Commercial Purposes for more information) which may include data sales/sharing). 

Transactional and Marketing Communications

We process Identity Data, Device/Network Data, and Contact Data in connection with any transactional or marketing communications that we send in relation to our Services. You may receive marketing communications if you consent and, in the United States, you may receive email marketing communications as a result of signing up for our newsletter or by completing a transaction. 

We process this Personal Information to send you marketing communications, information about our services, and other non-transactional communications (e.g., marketing newsletters, telemarketing calls, SMS, or push notifications) about us and our affiliates and partners, including information about our products, promotions or events as necessary (“Marketing Communications”). We may also process this Personal Information for our Business Purposes(see Business Purposes for more information), and Commercial Purposes (see Commercial Purposes for more information) which may include data sales/sharing. 

You can opt out of Marketing Communications at any time as specified in the “Rights & Choices” section below.

Visiting the Office

We process Contact Data, Identity Data, if you visit our office. We may process Biographical Data if relevant to your visit. We process this Personal Information for security reasons, to register visitors to our offices, and to manage non-disclosure agreements that visitors may be required to sign, and for our Business Purposes (see Business Purposes for more information).
 

6. Purposes of Processing

Business Purposes

In addition to the processing described above, we generally process Personal Information for several common purposes in connection with our business. Please see below for more information regarding the purposes for which we process your Personal Information.

Operate our Service and Fulfill Obligations

We process any Personal Information as is necessary to provide the Services, and as otherwise necessary to fulfill our obligations to you, e.g. to provide you with the information, features, and services you request.
Internal Processes and Service Improvement

We may use any Personal Information we process through our Services as necessary in connection with our improvement of the design of our Services, understanding how the Services are used, for customer service purposes, in connection with the creation and analysis of logs and metadata relating to Service use, and for ensuring the security and stability of the Services. Additionally, we may use Personal Information to understand what parts of our Services are most relevant to users, how users interact with various aspects of our Services, how our Services perform or fail to perform, etc., or we may analyze use of the Services to determine if there are specific activities that might indicate an information security risk to the Services or our users. 

Security and Incident Detection

We may process Personal information in connection with our legitimate interest in ensuring that our Services are secure, identify and prevent crime, prevent fraud, and verify or authenticate users/individuals, and ensure the safety of our guests. Similarly, we process Personal information as necessary to detect security incidents, protect against, and respond to malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity. We may analyze network traffic, device patterns, and characteristics, maintain and analyze logs and process similar Personal information in connection with our information security operations and related.

Aggregate Analytics

We process Personal Information as necessary in connection with our creation of aggregate analytics relating to how our Websites is used, the pages and content users view, and to create other reports regarding the use and performance of our services, and other similar information and metrics. The resulting aggregate data will not contain information from which an individual may be readily identified. 

Compliance, Safety & Public Interest

Note that we may, without your consent or further notice to you, and to the extent required or permitted by law, process any Personal Information subject to this Policy for purposes determined to be in the public interest or otherwise required by law. For example, we may process information as necessary to fulfil our legal obligations, to protect the vital interests of any individuals, or otherwise in the public interest or as required by a public authority. Please see the data sharing section for more information about how we disclose Personal Information in extraordinary circumstances.

Commercial Purposes

We and certain third parties process Personal Information to further our commercial or economic interests (“Commercial Purposes,”) depending on the context of collection and your Rights & Choices (see Rights and Choices for more information). 

Please Note – We may require your consent, or we may not engage in processing of Personal Information for Commercial Purposes in some jurisdictions. Some of this processing may involve “sales” or “sharing” of Personal Information. See the “U.S. States / Your California Privacy Rights” section below for more information.

Targeted Advertising 

We and our third party advertising providers may engage in display advertising or place third party advertisements for third parties’ products and services on our Services. Such advertising may involve the processing of Personal Information in order to tailor the advertisements you see based on your interests (“Targeted Advertising”). The profiles and interests used for Targeted Advertising may be inferred or derived from Personal Information that we or those third parties obtain or infer from your activities across non-affiliated websites, applications, or services (e.g. through Cookies and Similar Technologies; see Cookies and Similar Technologies for more information). Note that Targeted Adverting includes various parties and service providers, including third party data controllers, engaged in the processing of Personal Information in connection with Targeted Advertising. These parties may be able to identify you across sites, devices, and over time. In some cases, these third parties may build or augment user profiles using your Personal Information, and may track whether you view, interact with, or how often you have seen an ad, or whether you purchased advertised goods or services.

 

7.  Data Sharing

Personal Information we collect may be shared with a variety of parties, depending upon the purpose for and context in which that information was provided. We generally transfer data to the categories of recipients or in connection with specific business purposes, described below.

Service Providers

In connection with our general business operations, product improvements, to enable certain features, and in connection with our other lawful business interests, we may share Personal Information with service providers or subprocessors who provide certain services to us, or process data on our behalf. For example, we may use third parties who provide services such as IT and system administration and hosting, credit card processing, research and analytics, including Google Analytics, marketing, customer support and data enrichment. 

Affiliates

In order to streamline certain business operations and develop products and services that better meet the interests and needs of our customers, we may share your Personal Information with any of our current or future affiliated entities, subsidiaries, and parent companies. 

Partners

If you apply or otherwise participate in a program, event, or promotion presented by or in collaboration with one of our Partners, we may share your Personal Information with the Partner associated with that program, event, or promotion. If required by applicable law, you may consent to such sharing via the registration form.

Social Media Companies 

We may share certain Personal Information with social media companies when you interact with us on social media. We may allow these third parties to operate through our Services, such as through a social media icon link on our homepage. 

Public Disclosure

If you post on our community forum or otherwise interact with us or our Services via social media, we may make your post available on our Services or to the general public. We may share, rebroadcast, or redisplay Personal Information or other information in the post to the extent permitted by the relevant social media service.

Corporate Events

Your Personal Information may be disclosed to a third party in the event that we go through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition, liquidation, or sale of all or a portion of our assets. For example, Personal Information may be part of the assets transferred or may be disclosed (subject to confidentiality restrictions) during the due diligence process for a potential transaction.

Legal Disclosures

In limited circumstances, we may, without notice or your consent, access and disclose your Personal Information, our correspondence with you, and any other information that we may have about you to the extent we believe such disclosure is legally required, to prevent or respond to a crime, or in the vital interests of us or any person. Note, these disclosures may be made to governments that do not ensure the same degree of protection of your Personal Information as your home jurisdiction. We may, in our sole discretion (but without any obligation), object to the disclosure of your Personal Information to such parties.

 

8. Your Rights & Choices

Your Rights

You may have certain rights and choices regarding the Personal Information we process. Please note, these rights may vary based on the country or state where you reside, and our obligations under applicable law. See the following sections for more information regarding your rights/choices in specific regions:

  • US States/California (see US States/Your California Privacy Rights for more information)

Note: We are able to fulfill rights requests regarding Personal Information that we control or process. We may not have access to or control over Personal Information controlled by third parties. Please contact the third party directly to exercise your rights in third party-controlled information. 

Verification of Rights Requests

We verify all rights requests to ensure that the individual making the request is authorized to make that request, to reduce fraud, and to ensure the security of your Personal Information. For example, we may require that you verify that you have access to the email on file in order to verify your identity. If an agent is submitting the request on your behalf, we reserve the right to validate the agent’s authority to act on your behalf.

Your Choices

You may have the following choices regarding the Personal Information we process, to the extent required under applicable law:

Consent

If we rely on your consent to our processing of Personal Information, you may withdraw your consent at any time. You may be required to close your account in order to withdraw consent where your consent is necessary to perform essential aspects of our Services.

Marketing Communications

You have the choice to opt-out of or withdraw your consent to Marketing Communications. You may exercise your choice via the links in our communications, e.g. the unsubscribe link in our email Marketing Communications. To opt-out of the collection of information relating to email opens, configure your email so that it does not load images in our emails. To opt-out of SMS Marketing Communications, you can reply to the message with “OPT-OUT”, "STOP", or other supported unsubscribe message.

Cookies & Similar Tech

If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, you can manage/deny cookies (and certain technologies) using your browser’s settings menu or our "Manage Cookie Preferences" page. You may need to opt out of third-party services directly via the third party. For example, to opt-out of Google’s analytic and marketing services, visit Google Analytics Terms of Use, the Google Policy, or Google Analytics Opt-out.

Targeted Advertising

You may opt out or withdraw your consent to Targeted Advertising by using the cookie controls on our website. In some cases, you may be able to opt-out of Targeted Advertising by submitting requests to third party organizations or platforms, e.g.: 

Global Privacy Control (GPC)

Our Services may support certain automated opt-out controls, such as Global Privacy Control (“GPC”). GPC is a specification designed to allow Internet users to notify businesses of their privacy preferences, such as opting-out of the sale/sharing of Personal Information. To activate GPC, users must enable a setting or use an extension in the user’s browser or mobile device. Please review your browser or device settings for more information regarding how to enable GPC. 

Please note: We may not be able to link GPC signals to other Personal Information in our systems, and as a result, some sales/sharing of your Personal Information may occur even if GPC is active. See the “U.S. States / Your California Privacy Rights” section below for more information regarding other opt-out rights.

Do Not Track

Our Website does not respond to your browser’s do not track signal. 

 

9. Security

We implement and maintain reasonable security measures to safeguard the Personal Information you provide us. However, we sometimes share Personal Information with third parties as noted above, and though we may take certain measures to help ensure the security of your Personal Information, we do not control third parties’ security processes. We do not warrant perfect security and we do not provide any guarantee that your Personal Information or any other information you provide us will remain secure. 

 

10. Data Retention

We retain Personal Information for so long as it is reasonably necessary to achieve the relevant processing purposes described in this Policy, or for so long as is required by law. What is necessary may vary depending on the context and purpose of processing. We generally consider the following factors when we determine how long to retain data (without limitation):

  • Retention periods established under applicable law;
  • Industry best practices;
  • Whether the purpose of processing is reasonably likely to justify further processing;
  • Risks to individual privacy in continued processing;
  • Applicable data protection impact assessments;
  • IT systems design considerations/limitations; and
  • The costs associated continued processing, retention, and deletion.

We will review retention periods periodically and may pseudonymize or anonymize data held for longer periods.

 

11. International Transfers 

We operate in and use service providers located in the United States. If you are located outside the U.S., your Personal Information may be processed in the U.S. The U.S. may not provide the same legal protections guaranteed to Personal Information in foreign countries. Contact us for more information regarding transfers of data to the U.S.

 

12. Children

Our Services are not directed toward children under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not use our Services, or provide us with Personal Information. 

 

13. Changes To Our Policy

We may change this Policy from time to time. Please visit this page regularly so that you are aware of our latest updates. Your use of the Website following notice of any changes indicates acceptance of any changes.

 

14. US States/Your California Privacy Rights 

See Data Retention to review our disclosure relating to Data Retention for more information.

Data Rights

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and other state privacy laws, residents of certain US states may have the following rights, subject to your submission of an appropriately verified request:

Confirm: Right to confirm whether we process your Personal Information. 

Access/Know: Right to request any of following: (1) the categories of Personal Information we have collected, sold or “shared,” or disclosed for a commercial purpose; (2) the categories of sources from which your Personal Information was collected; (3) the purposes for which we collected or sold or “shared” your Personal Information; (4) the categories of third parties to whom we have sold or “shared” your Personal Information, or disclosed it for a business purpose; and (5) the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.

Portability: Right to request that we provide certain Personal Information in a common, portable format. 

Deletion: Right to delete certain Personal Information that we hold about you.

Correction: Right to correct certain Personal Information that we hold about you.

Opt-Out (Sales, Sharing, Targeted Advertising, Profiling): Right to opt-out of the following: 

  • If we engage in sales of data (as defined by applicable law), you may direct us to stop selling Personal Information.
  • If we engage in Targeted Advertising (aka “sharing” of personal information or cross-context behavioral advertising,) you may opt-out of such processing.
  • If we engage in certain forms of “profiling” (e.g. profiling that has legal or similarly significant effects), you may opt-out of such processing.

Opt-out or Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: right to opt-out of the processing of certain Sensitive Data, or request that we limit certain uses of Sensitive Personal Information. This right does not apply in cases where we only use Sensitive Personal Information where necessary, or for certain business purposes authorized by applicable law.

Opt-in/Opt-out of Sale/Sharing of Minors’ Personal Information: To the extent we have actual knowledge that we collect or maintain personal information of a minor under age 16 in California, those minors must opt in to any sales or “sharing” of personal information (as defined under CCPA), and minors under the age of 13 must have a parent consent to sales or “sharing” of personal information. All minors have the right to opt-out later at any time.

Non-Discrimination: California residents have the right to not to receive discriminatory treatment as a result of your exercise of rights conferred by the CCPA.

List of Direct Marketers: California residents may request a list of Personal Information we have disclosed about you to third parties for direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year.

Submission of Requests

You may submit requests, as follows (please our review Verification of Rights section). If you have any questions or wish to appeal any refusal to take action in response to a rights request, contact us at legal@teague.com. We will respond to any request to appeal within the time period required by law:

Opt out of sale or sharing

  • You may visit any cookie consent tools on our website
  • Contact us via email at  legal@teague.com
  • Note: You may enable Global Privacy Control (GPC) to opt out of the sale or “sharing” of personal information through cookies and similar technologies. Browsers and browser extensions that support GPC (or similar standards) will treat the signal as a request to opt out of such sale or “sharing.”

Access/know; confirm processing; portability; deletion; opt out; correction

List of direct marketers; remove minors’ user content

Categories of Personal Information Disclosed for Business Purposes

For purposes of the CCPA, we have disclosed to Service Providers for “business purposes” in the preceding 12 months the following categories of Personal Information, to the following categories of recipients: 

Category of Personal Information: 

  • Contact Data
  • Device/Network Data
  • General Location Data
  • Identity Data
  • Inference Data
  • User Content

Category of Recipients: Service Providers; Affiliates; Partners; Social Media Companies; Corporate Events; Legal Disclosure

Category of Personal Information: 

  • Audio/Visual Data
  • Biographical Data
  • Transactional Data

Category of Recipients: Service Providers; Affiliates; Partners; Corporate Events; Legal Disclosure

Categories of Personal Information Sold, “Shared,” or Disclosed for Commercial Purposes

For purposes of the CCPA, we have “sold” or “shared” in the preceding 12 months the following categories of Personal Information in the, to the following categories of recipients: 

  • Contact Data
  • Device/Network Data
  • General Location Data
  • Identity Data
  • Inference Data
  • User Content

Category of Recipients: Service Providers; Partners; Social Media Companies

Additional Disclosures

For purposes of CCPA, we do not use or disclose the Sensitive Personal Information. We do not sell or “share” Sensitive Personal Information.