AI81Works Limited Liability Company (LLC) and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, "AI81Works") is a premier provider of global executive search and leadership consulting services. We prioritize the protection of your personal data and maintain this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines our processes for collecting, using, transferring, disclosing, and processing Personal Information, including sensitive Personal Information, of individuals who:

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• Visit our websites

• Participate in or are included in our executive or board searches

• Engage in our leadership consulting services

• Utilize our AI81Works Digital service

• Interact with any other business-related services or activities

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Personal Information refers to any data that identifies, relates to, describes, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to a particular individual or household, subject to applicable data protection laws. AI81Works operates the websites on behalf of its affiliates and subsidiaries. Our Privacy Policy is communicated to all employees, and we rigorously enforce data protection safeguards throughout the organization. For information regarding the specific AI81Works entity responsible for controlling your Personal Information, please refer to the designated section of our Privacy Policy. 

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Personal Information Collection

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We collect various categories of Personal Information in connection with our Services, subject to your consent or as legally permitted under applicable law.

 

Information Sources:

1. Direct Submissions:

   • Online inquiries: Name, email address, and other details provided in correspondence

   • Résumés or CVs: Professional and personal information

2. Executive Search and Leadership Consulting Services:

   • Professional details: Name, title, contact information

   • Personal information: Demographic data, assessment results

   • Career information: Employment history, qualifications, compensation

   • Additional data: Language skills, job performance, community involvement

3. AI81Works Digital Service:

   • Employer-provided data: Name, email, photo, demographics, role information

   • User-uploaded information: Additional contact details, career aspirations

   • Assessment results and feedback

4. Third-Party Sources:

   • Online searches and resources

   • Professional contacts

   • Commercial databases

5. Client Information:

   • For clients or potential clients: Name, contact details, position, service requests

 

We may combine Personal Information from various sources and Services. Sensitive Personal Information is only processed with your explicit consent or as required by law.

 

If you provide Personal Information about another individual, you must obtain their consent and share this Privacy Policy with them before submission.

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Indirect data collection and cookies

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​This website automatically collects certain device information such as your IP address, unique device identifier, Cookies (as discussed below), geographic data, country, browser, device operating system, application version, language settings, and pages that have been shown to you. Note, however, we do not consider this device information to be Personal Information except where we link it to you as an individual or where applicable law requires.

 

This website also uses small text files called cookies, tags and other tracking technologies (collectively, "Cookies"), which are stored on your device or browser. As discussed in detail below, we use Cookies to provide our website, gather information about your usage patterns when you navigate this website in order to personalize your experience and to understand how visitors generally use our website in order improve our website. We also allow certain trusted partners to place Cookies on our website to collect information about how you interact with our website and other websites you visit. The information collected from these Cookies is used to provide advertising on other websites based on your interests, also known as interest based advertising. We also use these Cookies to determine how effective our advertising efforts are in order to improve the advertisements you see.

 

The Cookies on our website are generally divided into:

 

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: Cookies that are necessary in order to operate our website, such as maintain the security of the website. These are session Cookies that are erased when you close your browser.

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• Analytical/Performance Cookies: Cookies placed by trusted partners which we use to understand how visitors interact with our website and other third party websites you visit, including the pages you have visited and the links you have followed, in order to show you advertisements based on your interests (also known as interest based advertising). These Cookies qualify as persistent Cookies, because they remain on your device for us to use during a next visit to our website.Cookies that allow us to recognize and count the number of people who visit our website and understand how such visitors navigate through our website. This helps to improve how our website works, by ensuring that visitors can easily find what they are looking for on our website. These Cookies are session cookies which are erased when you close your browser.

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• Functional Cookies: Cookies that improve the functional performance of our website and make it easier for you to use, including that you have previously visited our website in order to maintain your language preferences. These Cookies qualify as persistent Cookies, because they remain on your device so we can provide the same experience during your next visit to our website.

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• Targeting Cookies: Cookies placed by trusted partners which we use to understand how visitors interact with our website and other third party websites you visit, including the pages you have visited and the links you have followed, in order to show you advertisements based on your interests (also known as interest based advertising). These Cookies qualify as persistent Cookies, because they remain on your device for us to use during a next visit to our website.

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Cookie choices

 

In most cases we will need your consent in order to use cookies on the website; exceptions to this apply such as where the cookie is essential in order for us to provide you with a service you have requested. You can review your Internet browser settings, typically under "Help" or "Internet Options" for options you have to block certain Cookies. To learn more about Cookies used for interest based advertising, and to exercise certain choices you have regarding these Cookies, please visit the Digital Advertising Alliance, Digital Advertising Alliance-Canada, European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance as applicable, or the Network Advertising Initiative. Please also visit the following specific links for additional information and choices on certain Cookies:

 

• Google Analytics - to analyze how you use our website. Google may aggregate data they collect from their various services including Google Analytics (and also Google Translate, Google Maps and YouTube). You acknowledge and accept that we have no control over Google’s data collection.

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Please note that by opting out of certain cookies, you will not be able to access important functions or enjoy certain conveniences of this website.

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How we Use Personal Information

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We may use Personal Information to respond to your inquiries and answer your questions about our Services. We may use your Personal Information in order to provide and improve the Services, such as sourcing, identifying, assessing, and retaining talent for executive or board positions and teams, sending you executive or board positions that may be of interest to you, assessing leadership teams and organizations in efforts to improve their performance and culture, providing advisory guidance on needs and trends for our clients, sharing thought leadership that may be of interest to you, providing support to our clients in relation to their use of our online Services (such as AI81Works Digital) and maintaining, improving and training our Services, including our artificial intelligence-powered platform, AI91. We also may use Personal Information for the purposes of securing, improving and maintaining our website and IT systems and other business administration purposes, including as necessary to meet our legal and compliance obligations or in connection with regulatory inquiries, audits, legal claims, subpoenas, warrants, or other government/regulator/judicial processes or requests.

 

Where we wish to process your Personal Information for purposes other than those mentioned in this Privacy Policy, we will obtain your consent (as required by applicable law) or ensure we have an adequate legal basis to do so

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Legal Bases for Processing

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Some jurisdictions require that we explain the legal bases we rely on to collect, use, and share your Personal Information. We rely on several different legal bases to use your Personal Information, including: (i) as necessary to perform a transaction (in order to respond to your request, such as for information about a specific Service); (ii) as necessary to comply with a legal obligation (such as when we use Personal Information for record keeping to substantiate tax liability); (iii) consent (such as to send marketing or certain cookies, and process sensitive Personal Information); and (iv) necessary for legitimate interests (such as providing, maintaining, securing, customizing, and improving the Services we provide to you - a legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests).

 

We also process information about you in an anonymized, pseudonymized or non-attributable form for research, statistical and development purposes, and to maintain, improve and train our Services. Our intention with this processing is to use information that does not and cannot identify you personally – in which case, this Privacy Policy will not apply to your anonymised data. However, in some cases, we may hold other information about you (either in our own right or on behalf of our clients) that would allow us to re-identify you. Merely having the ability to re-identify you (even though we do not intend to do it) means we cannot say that the information we use for these purposes is always truly anonymous.

 

The specific legal bases we rely on for this processing depend upon the Personal Information at issue and the context under which the information is collected. In the majority of cases, we will rely on your consent or our legitimate business interest in improving our Services or the performance of a contract. If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal bases we rely upon to process your Personal Information, please contact us as detailed below.

 

If you reside in Mainland China, we receive and record your separate consent for the processing of your Personal Information as required by applicable law.