Mashman Consulting Group LLC, based in Little Rock, Arkansas, respects your privacy. This policy explains what information is collected through mashmancg.com and related products, how it is used, and the choices available to you.

Information You Provide

When you contact the firm, request a consultation, inquire about MCG's Workplace Audit, subscribe to email, register interest in the consultant track, or sign in to Identity Quest™, you may provide your name, email address, company, title, company size, an approximate number of participants, a timeline, and anything else you choose to include in your message.

Information Collected Automatically

IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, and referring URLs may be collected through cookies and analytics tools. This is used in aggregate to understand how the site is used.

Cross-Site Visitor Code

Across Mashman Consulting Group's own websites (identitypositioning.com, mashmancg.com, identityquest.press, mashmanpublishing.com, and personalbrandingagencies.com), a small script served from identitypositioning.com stores one random visitor code in your browser and adds it to links between those sites, so we can see which of our sites introduced you to another and whether you later requested a consultation, completed an audit, sent a publisher inquiry, or applied for or reviewed a directory listing. The script reports visits, movement between our sites, and those outcomes to identitypositioning.com, MCG's technology hub.

The code is not linked to your name, email, or IP address and is never shared with third parties. Clearing your browser's site data removes it. The same code is described in the identitypositioning.com privacy policy (opens in a new tab).

How Information Is Used

To respond to enquiries and evaluate engagement requests.
To deliver, operate, and improve MCG products, including Identity Quest™, the Identity Positioning™ Brand Audit, MCG's Workplace Audit, and the UnrivaledMCG learning platform, and, once active, Identity Positioner™.
To understand, in aggregate, how visitors move between MCG's own properties.
To send communications you have requested. You may opt out at any time.
To meet legal and regulatory obligations.

Sharing

Personal information is not sold. It is shared only with service providers who support the operation of the site and products, and only to the extent required to do so, or where disclosure is required by law.

mashmancg.com is hosted by Netlify, which also processes the site's form submissions. Fonts are served by Google Fonts, which receives your IP address with that request. MCG does not rent personal information or share it with advertisers.

The Brand Audit and the Workplace Audit

Both audits run on identitypositioning.com, MCG's technology hub, and are also governed by the identitypositioning.com privacy policy (opens in a new tab). Taking the Identity Positioning™ Brand Audit requires agreeing to receive your report by email; permission to send anything beyond the report is a separate, optional checkbox.

How audit information is handled:

What is stored. When you submit a Brand Audit, your answers are scored and stored together with your scores and your intake answers, including your name, email, profession, and audience figures. Nothing is sent until you press the button to score it.
In-progress answers stay on your device. While you take an audit, your answers are saved in your browser's local storage so a closed tab does not cost you your progress. That draft is not sent to MCG, and it is cleared when you submit.
Two separate permissions. The first is required: that MCG may send your report and results to your email, and that you agree to the privacy policy and terms. The second is optional and unchecked by default: that Mashman Consulting Group LLC may contact you about your score, related work, and future emails. Leaving it unchecked does not affect your result, and the choice you made is recorded.
Referral code requests. A request for an Unrivaled 50 code stores your name, email, primary social media link, website if given, and your reason for asking. A code you use is stored with your audit.
Share links and your private report. An optional public share link shows your first name, composite, band, and pillar scores, never your email, answers, or risk register. Share images are created on your own device. Your complete report arrives by a private link that requires a random credential and stops opening 14 days after you submit.
Who reads it. People at Mashman Consulting Group LLC can read complete audit records, including individual answers. They are used to prepare your result, to follow up with you, to improve the instrument, and to prepare for any consultation you book. Assume a person will read what you submitted.
Benchmarks. Scores are added to anonymous statistics so results can show how a score compares with others. Those statistics store only counts per score, never names, emails, or answers.
The written diagnosis. The short diagnosis on a Brand Audit result is generated by an AI model provided by Anthropic, which receives your name, profession, what you want to be known for, your scores, risk flags, and priority moves for that purpose, not your email or individual answers. MCG does not use your answers to train AI models. Scores are never produced by AI; see the AI Disclosure Accessibility.
Studies and quizzes. Private study and quiz links collect the answers you give and, depending on how the study is set up, your full name, your first name and last initial, or nothing identifying at all. The page tells you which before you answer.
Abuse prevention. To stop automated submissions, identitypositioning.com keeps a one-way cryptographic hash of your IP address for one hour. The address itself is never stored.
Retention and deletion. Audit records are kept so a later audit can be compared with an earlier one. Ask MCG to delete your record and all of it is deleted, answers included. Marketing permission can be withdrawn at any time without affecting your report.
Service providers. identitypositioning.com is hosted by Netlify, which also processes its form submissions, and its emails are delivered by Resend. Each handles information under its own policy.

In MCG's Workplace Audit, participants provide their name, work email, department, role level, and answers, and every participant sees their own full results. Responses are stored securely and used only to produce each participant's results and the leadership report; they are never sold or shared with third parties. Leadership receives a report of trends across participants, never individual answers or scores, and no department or role group smaller than three people is shown. MCG will never contact any member of a client organization unless the organization asks us to, and responses can be permanently deleted at the client's request.

Research and Aggregate Findings

MCG may publish research drawn from Identity Positioning™ audits, surveys, and quizzes on mashmancg.com. Findings are published in aggregate form only. Nothing that identifies a person or an organization is published without permission, research articles and the annual State of Personal Branding publish no finding from fewer than 25 responses overall or from any subgroup of fewer than 25, the quarterly State of Personal Branding withholds any breakdown of fewer than five people, and every finding states its dates and sample size.

Identity Quest™

Identity Quest™ can be played as a guest, in which case progress is stored on your device. If you choose to sign in so that progress saves across devices, an account identifier and your game state are stored. The game is free and carries no purchase.

Retention

Information is kept only as long as needed for the purposes described here, or as required by law.

Your Choices

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information. Most browsers allow you to refuse or delete cookies, though parts of the site may not function as intended if you do.

Children

This site and its products, including the audits on identitypositioning.com, are intended for adults and are not directed at anyone under 16. Information is not knowingly collected from anyone under 16. If you believe someone under 16 has provided information, contact us and it will be deleted.

Changes

This policy may be updated. Material changes will be reflected in the date at the top of this page.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be directed to legal@mashmancg.com (opens in a new tab).
Mashman Consulting Group LLC, Little Rock, Arkansas.

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