PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: July 24, 2025
1. Introduction
The Road to Autonomy LLC (“we,” “our,” or “the Company”) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal data when you interact with our platforms, including our website (roadtoautonomy.com), newsletters, podcasts, social media channels, and our strategic advisory and consulting services (collectively, the “Services”).
We believe in transparency, and this policy is designed to help you understand your rights and our obligations. By accessing or using our Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
2. Information We Collect
We collect information to provide and improve our Services. The types of information we collect depend on how you interact with us.
A. Information You Provide Directly to Us:
Contact Data: Your name, email address, phone number, and any other information you provide when you subscribe to our newsletter, download content, contact us with an inquiry, or engage with us on social media or messaging apps.
Client & Business Data: If you are a consulting or strategic advisory client, we collect business contact information and other data necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations. This may include confidential business information, which is always handled under strict confidentiality agreements.
Account Data: If you register for access to our client portal or other gated content, we collect your login credentials and profile information. We also automatically log your activity within the portal, which may include login/logout times, content accessed, documents downloaded, features used, and communications sent through the portal.
B. Information We Collect Automatically:
Technical & Usage Data: Your IP address, browser type, operating system, device information, and your activity on our platforms (including our website and client portal), such as pages visited, time spent on pages, and links clicked.
Podcast & Newsletter Data: We may collect data on how you interact with our podcasts (e.g., downloads, listening patterns) and newsletters (e.g., open rates, click-through rates) through our third-party service providers.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar technologies to help our website function, analyze performance, and support marketing efforts. For more details, see Section 5 below.
3. How and Why We Use Your Information
We use your personal data only for legitimate purposes, based on a lawful basis for processing.
To Facilitate Communications and For Record-Keeping: We use this data to schedule and conduct virtual meetings and professional discussions. With your consent, we may record and transcribe sessions using automated and AI-powered tools to ensure accuracy, for internal training, quality assurance, and to maintain an accessible record of key discussions and action items.
To Provide and Manage Our Services: We use your information to deliver our newsletter, provide access to our podcasts, manage your client account, and fulfill our contractual obligations for consulting and advisory services.
To Communicate With You: To respond to your inquiries and send you information about our Services. This includes sending marketing communications, which we will only do if you have provided explicit consent (for example, by opting in through a form on our website, social media platform or podcast platform).
You may opt-out of receiving these communications at any time by following the unsubscribe link included in every marketing email or by contacting us directly.
To Improve Our Services: We analyze usage data to understand how our audience interacts with our content, allowing us to improve our website, content, and the AUTONOMY LEADERBOARD.
For Marketing and Advertising: To understand the effectiveness of our advertising and to deliver relevant promotional content, which may include using data collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We do not sell your personal data. We only share your information with trusted third parties under the following circumstances:
Service Providers: We share data with third-party vendors who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, email delivery (for newsletters), podcast hosting, and analytics. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your data and can only use it to provide their services to us. Our engagement with these providers is governed by the terms outlined in our “Third-Party Services and Disclaimer of Warranties” section.
Consulting & Client Work: Confidential information provided as part of a consulting engagement is never shared without your explicit consent and is governed by our client agreements.
Advertising, Sponsorship & Affiliate Partners: We may share anonymized or aggregated data such as website traffic statistics or newsletter engagement metrics with our advertising and sponsorship partners to report on the performance of their advertising on our platforms. If you click on an affiliate link, the affiliate partner will receive data about your click.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect our rights, or defend against legal liability.
Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our platforms use cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as web beacons and pixels) to enhance your experience, analyze site performance, and support our marketing efforts. A cookie is a small text file stored on your device, while other technologies may be embedded in our web pages or emails to track engagement. We use the following types of technologies:
Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for our platforms to function correctly and securely. They enable core functionalities such as user authentication, security, and remembering your privacy preferences. These cookies do not track your activity for marketing or analytics purposes and are placed without requiring your prior consent.
Performance & Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect tracking data on how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and if any errors occur. We use this aggregated data to analyze the performance of our platforms and improve our content and user experience. These cookies are only placed with your consent.
Marketing & Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used by us or our third-party partners to track your activity across our platforms and other websites. This helps us understand the effectiveness of our advertising, build a profile of your interests, and show you relevant promotional content. These cookies are only placed with your consent.
6. Your Data Rights
You have specific rights regarding your personal data. We are committed to facilitating these rights.
Do Not Track / Global Privacy Control: We currently do not respond to browser-initiated “Do Not Track” signals or Global Privacy Control (GPC) settings.
A. Rights under GDPR (for individuals in the EEA/UK):
Right to Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to Rectification: You can request that we correct any inaccurate personal data.
Right to Erasure (the “Right to be Forgotten”): You can request that we delete your personal data.
Right to Restrict Processing: You can ask us to limit how we use your personal data.
Right to Data Portability: You can request your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
Right to Object: You can object to our processing of your data for direct marketing or based on our legitimate interests.
B. Rights under CCPA/CPRA (for California Residents):
Right to Know: You can request to know what personal information we have collected, used, shared, and sold about you.
Right to Delete: You can request the deletion of your personal information.
Right to Correct: You can request the correction of inaccurate personal information.
Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing: We do not sell personal data. You have the right to opt out of the “sharing” of your information for cross-context behavioral advertising. You can exercise this right via our cookie consent manager.
Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: We do not collect sensitive personal information from general website visitors.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at hello (at) roadtoautonomy.com.
7. Data Security & International Transfers
We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no internet transmission is ever 100% secure.
Our company is based in the United States, and your information will be processed in the U.S. If you are accessing our Services from outside the U.S., please be aware that your data will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the U.S. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this policy.
8. Children’s Privacy
Our Services are not directed to children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If we become aware that we have collected data from a child without parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information.
9. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Model Training
To innovate and enhance our analytical capabilities, we may use anonymized and aggregated data to train proprietary machine learning and large language models (LLMs). The purpose of developing these models is to identify broad market trends, improve our services, and generate new insights from large volumes of information.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and confidentiality. Our AI training datasets are carefully curated to exclude all personally identifiable information (PII) such as your name, email address, or direct contact details.
Furthermore, confidential information and proprietary data provided by clients under our consulting engagements are never used to train our general-purpose AI models. Any use of client-specific data for a dedicated AI tool would be governed by a separate, explicit agreement with that client.
You have control over your data. If you have questions or concerns about the use of anonymized data for model training, please contact us at the email address provided below.
10. Third-Party Services and Disclaimer of Warranties
To provide our Services, we utilize a variety of third-party platforms and applications, including but not limited to our client portal provider, video communication tools, messaging apps, and AI-powered transcription services.
When you interact with these features, your data may be processed by these third parties, and you may be subject to their individual terms of service and privacy policies. We encourage you to review the policies of these providers to understand their data practices.
These third-party services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. The Road to Autonomy LLC makes no warranties, express or implied, regarding the security, reliability, availability, or performance of any third-party service. We expressly disclaim all liability for any loss, damage, or other harm arising from your use of any third-party service, including any data breaches, service interruptions, or failures attributable to that third party.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The “Effective Date” at the top of this page will indicate when it was last revised. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at: hello (at) roadtoautonomy.com