Privacy Policy for The Cummings Group

This privacy policy applies to the website thecummingsgrp.com, and to The Cummings Group Services, communications, Website, and applications ("Website"). This website is owned and operated by The Cummings Group, a Charlotte, NC based organization specializing in Human Resources Consulting, HR Consulting, and Human Resources Outsourcing services, and its subsidiaries ("The Cummings Group"). This privacy policy describes how The Cummings Group collects and uses the personal information you provide on our Website. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.

The Cummings Group delivers HR Consulting, Outsourced Human Resources, Outsourced Payroll, and HR Consultant services. As your trusted Human Resources Consulting partner, The Cummings Group must collect certain personal information regarding the employees of its clients to provide these services to its customers and their worksite employees.

Protecting the privacy of users of The Cummings Group products and Human Resources Outsourcing services is important to The Cummings Group. As your HR Consultant, The Cummings Group makes use of any personal information you provide to The Cummings Group only for the purposes outlined in this policy.

This policy does not apply to any information that you may provide directly to third parties including via third-party sites recommended or linked to The Cummings Group Website or The Cummings Group HR Consulting service Website. While The Cummings Group actively seeks to ensure that its suppliers and service providers maintain high standards regarding the protection of personal information collected on their Website, The Cummings Group is not responsible for the privacy practices employed by such vendors, services, or sites.

Information We Collect

The Cummings Group Website collects identifying information such as your name, company name, company address, and other contact information necessary for providing Human Resources Consulting and Outsourced Human Resources services. We, The Cummings Group, will never sell, rent, lend, or trade this information in our possession to any other company for the purpose of contacting you regarding commercial services. If you are The Cummings Group customer or worksite employee of a customer utilizing our HR Consulting services, we collect the information necessary to provide our services, collecting it either from you directly or from your worksite employer. This collection is limited to the purpose of providing the Human Resources Outsourcing service for which the customer has engaged The Cummings Group as their HR Consultant. By voluntarily providing information or by accessing our website, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personally identifiable information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Payment Information

Information you input through our site to pay for services and to set up an account are collected and stored securely by our third-party payment collections vendor partner. All payment information is stored directly by the payment vendor and is not kept physically or digitally in The Cummings Group records or on The Cummings Group servers.

Usage Tracking and Cookies

Use of Information

We use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, statistically analyze site usage, improve our content product offerings, customize our sites' content, layout, and services, and provide our Human Resources Consulting and HR Consulting services (if applicable). We may use the email address, mailing address, and phone number we collect from you to respond to your inquiries and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, to contact you regarding administrative notices, new product offerings, and communications relevant to your use of our sites. In some cases, we may use your personally identifiable information to inform you of new services, promotions, and other matters targeted to your interests. You may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included at the bottom of those emails. We use information in the file we maintain specific to you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on our sites, to resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems. At times, we may look across multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and we may evaluate information about you to look for users using multiple User IDs or aliases.

Text Communications

Any client or employee who uses or receives The Cummings Group services is automatically opting in to receive text communications from us for business purposes. These text communications will not include spam or marketing purposes, nor will we sell your information to third parties. To opt-out of receiving text communications, you may resign your position, cancel your Service Agreement, or send "STOP" to the text sender. Your opt-out request will be considered for removal from communications by text.

The Cummings Group Services

If you are a customer (also referred to as a worksite employer) or worksite employee serviced by The Cummings Group through our Human Resources Outsourcing and HR Consultant services, you are a registered user and we may collect and maintain personally identifiable information including, but not limited to, name, address, phone number, Social Security number, taxpayer identification number, age, marital status, occupation, salary, benefits, dependent information, etc. through The Cummings Group service Website(s) or other means disclosed to you. This information will be used to provide our HR Consulting and Outsourced Human Resources services, which may include sharing such information with your worksite employer to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Once you create a username and password, you can review and change the information you submitted in your profile section. If your registration information changes, you must promptly update, change, or delete your registration information by logging into your profile page or by contacting us at cummingshrconsulting@gmail.com. We may retain your information, including personally identifiable information, for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, manage risk, and/or fulfill our obligations to governments or insurance carriers. Further, such prior information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical constraints and the fact that we back up our systems.

Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests.

Disclosure of Information

Unfortunately, due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing): we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, such as to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process; we may use information when we believe in good faith that it is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others; and we may respond to any other third-party requests with your prior consent to do so. Third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications.

Therefore, although we employ industry-standard practices to protect your privacy, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private. As a general guideline, we do not sell, rent, lend, or trade any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. The following paragraphs describe some of the ways that personally identifiable information about you may be disclosed to third parties.

Legal Requests

We cooperate with law enforcement and other agencies to enforce laws, intellectual property rights and other rights. Therefore, local, state, federal, territorial, provincial and international law enforcement can request and may receive your personally identifiable information. By your use of The Cummings Group Website, or The Cummings Group services (as applicable), you hereby accept these terms and you authorize us to disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability.

Business Transactions

We reserve the right to transfer personally identifiable information as part of a sale or transfer of all or a relevant portion of our business or assets. Any such sale would be subject to appropriate privacy protections for you. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your personally identifiable information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personally identifiable information.

Suppliers and Other Service Providers

We may use third-party suppliers and service providers to facilitate provision of our professional and HR-related services. For example, we may outsource the operations of one or more aspects of our sites to a supplier or service provider who performs services according to our requirements. In all cases, we restrict how these suppliers and other service providers may access, use and disclose information received from our websites. We do not permit these suppliers and other service providers to access information about you, other than that information necessary for them to complete the services for which they are contracted. Under no circumstances do we allow them to disclose, sell, rent, lend, trade or in any other way transmit data about you to third parties, and we use contractual means to require them to provide appropriate protection for your personally identifiable information and to use it only for the services for which they are contracted.

Retention of Information

We retain personally identifiable information that we collect only so long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and to meet legal requirements. Please refer to The Cummings Group Document Retention and Destruction Policy which provides for the destruction of personally identifiable information after it is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected, and legal requirements have been met.

Security

We use industry standard methods, such as firewalls and Secure Socket Layers (SSL), to safeguard the confidentiality of personally identifiable information about you. For registered users, personally identifiable information will include name, address, contact information, Social Security number, date of birth and payroll and benefits information related to the services we provide to registered users. Using SSL means that data such as names and passwords cannot be easily deciphered by outside users.

Social Media Widgets

Our website may include social media features, such as the Facebook button, and/or widgets. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Access

We will allow you access to your Personal Information and allow you to correct, amend or delete inaccurate information, except to the extent permitted by applicable law where the burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to your privacy in the case in question or where the rights of persons other than you would be violated. If access to Personal Information is denied, we will provide you with the reason for such denial. You may request the correction, amendment or deletion of your inaccurate personal information by contacting us at cummingsgrouphrconsulting@gmail.com. We will respond to these requests within a reasonable timeframe.

Changes in this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this policy at any time without prior notice to users of this site. Please check here regularly to learn of any changes to this policy. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by email or by means of a notice on this site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Trademark Information

The Cummings Group logo and name are trademarks of The Cummings Group. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos appearing on the The Cummings Group website and The Cummings Group Service Website belong to their respective companies.

Website Administrator

Send comments to cummingshrconsulting@gmail.com

Contact Information

The Cummings Group

631 Brawley School Road

Suite 300 #1058

Mooresville, NC 28117

This Privacy Policy was last updated on July 25, 2025, and may be amended from time to time by the posting of a revised policy on this Website. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by email or by means of a notice on this site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

The Cummings Group provides general professional information only.
The Company does not provide legal advice and does not employ attorneys.
Neither should anything from The Cummings Group ever be taken as tax, financial, or fiduciary advice.

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