Last Updated: 08/27/2025
INTRODUCTION
This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) explains how Chaka Strategy LLC (“we”, “us”, or “Chaka”) may collect, use, process, share, disclose and store personal information through our website and offline. We collect personal information from you in order to provide you with the best experience when you visit or use the Site or our Services.
SCOPE
This Policy applies to our website https://chakastrategy.com (the “Site”), and our software applications available on the Site (collectively, the “Services”). Our Policy also describes the privacy choices you can make about how we collect, use, and store your personal information. You can jump to a particular topic by clicking any of the following links:
We may provide additional or supplemental privacy notices for specific services that we offer at the time of collection. Unless otherwise noted, those supplemental notices should be read together with this Policy.
By visiting the Site, you are accepting the policies and practices described herein, which may be amended from time to time. Each time you visit the Site, you agree and expressly consent to our collection, use and disclosure of the information that you provide as described in this Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Policy, then please exit the Site and close your browser.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
In this Policy, “personal information” means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly, or indirectly to an individual, household or device. For purposes of this Policy, personal information does not include:
When you visit our Site or interact with one of our representatives we may collect certain pieces of personal information about you such as:
Please note that we do not collect sensitive financial information or other sensitive information via our Site, for example in the event of a purchase. Instead, any financial information is collected and processed by a third-party entity.
SOURCES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
The categories of Personal Information described above may be collected from the following sources:
Directly. We collect personal information from you directly when you:
Automatically. We collect personal information from you automatically when you:
For more information about our use of cookies and other tracking technologies to collect personal information about you automatically, please refer to the section called “How we Use Cookies and Digital Tracking Technologies” below.
From Third Parties. We may also receive information about you from other third-party service providers, such as marketing and advertising advertisement platforms and networks, analytics companies, social media companies and others. In many cases, this will be information that you have provided directly to or collected from you by these third-parties. We make inferences from your online behaviors from combining that data with other third party segmentation and advertising profiles; and we supplement your personal information with third party information to provide you better products, services and marketing.
By Combining Personal Information. We may combine personal information that we collect online and offline, from different devices that you use, or information we obtain through third parties with personal information we already have about you.
HOW AND WHY WE USE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may use personal information we collect for the following purposes:
Transactional Purposes and to Provide our Services.
Personalization. To provide, support, personalize and develop the Site and our Services.
Analytics and Performance. For testing, attribution, research, reporting, analysis, and product development, including to develop the Site, products and services.
Communications. To communicate with you to fulfill or meet the reason you provided the personal information, for example, if you share your name and contact information to request information via the Site or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry.
Security and Fraud Purposes. We may use your personal information to protect our Site and customers from fraud, identity, theft and security incidents.
Legal Purposes: In certain instances, we may use and/or disclose your personal information when we have reason to believe that it is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against persons or entities who may be causing injury to you, to us, or to others. We may also disclose your personal information when we believe the law or legal process requires it or as required by governmental or judicial subpoena.
Internal Business Purposes: We may use your personal information to improve and operate our business, such as tracking our revenue or conversion history.
Marketing & Advertising Purposes: If you have filled out a contact form with us, engaged with us, attended one of our workshops or other events, or signed up for our communications, we may use this personal information to send you marketing communications including newsletters and emails. You can opt out of receiving these communications at any time by clicking the “opt out” link at the bottom of these emails or by emailing us directly at info@chakastrategy.com.
We may also use your contact information, information we collect automatically, and certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, online identifiers, time zone, and through cookies and other digital trackers for marketing related purposes including Site analytics and performance.
If you access our Site from a social media platform (e.g., Linked-In or Meta) we may receive information about you from such platforms, in accordance with that social media platform’s privacy policy and/or terms of use which could include the ability for us to track your activities on those sites, serve you advertisements, and see your interactions with our advertisements as well as other interest-based advertising data.
Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages that you view, what websites or search terms which referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site.
INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
Our Service Providers. We may disclose your personal information to third-parties that provide business, professional, marketing, analytic, or technical support services for us and/or administer activities on our behalf. We make these business purpose disclosures under written contracts that describe the purposes, require the recipient to keep the personal information confidential, and prohibit using the disclosed information for any purpose except performing the contract.
Our Advertising Partners. We may share your personal information with third parties that provide advertising services such as social media companies (e.g, Linked-In and Meta). We and our third party partners use this information to make the advertisements you see online more relevant to your interests, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics, and market research.
Our Business Partners. We disclose and share your personal information to our business partners in order to provide you with the products and services you have requested or for marketing purposes. These third parties may use this information for their marketing, development and analytics purposes.
Relevant Third Parties in Connection with a Business Transaction. We may disclose or otherwise transfer your personal information to an acquirer, successor, or assignee as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction as well as in the event of any insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets.
Law Enforcement. Finally, we may also disclose your personal information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
HOW WE USE COOKIES AND DIGITAL TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
We engage in interest-based advertising to deliver online advertising that may be more relevant to your interests.
We use “cookies” or other digital tracking technologies that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. Through the use of a digital tracking technologies, we also may automatically collect information about your online activity on our site, such as the web pages you visit, the links you click, and the searches you conduct on our site. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record keeping purposes. Cookies can be either session cookies or persistent cookies. A session cookie expires when you close your browser and is used to make it easier for you to navigate our website. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org or the Your Choices section below.
This means that we permit third party online advertising networks, social media companies, and other third party services to collect information about your use of our Site over time so that they may advertise to you on other websites or services you may use, and on other devices you may use. Most often, the information used for interest-based advertising is collected through cookies, pixels, beacons or similar digital tracking technologies.
We may infer these things about you based on your activity on certain webpages, including your scrolling activity, keystrokes and browning, links you click on our Site and other websites you visit, mobile applications you use, or our brand emails you view and links you click in the emails, and based on other information we have collected, such as from travel sites and other third parties. We group together information to help us learn about general trends, habits or characteristics about a group of customers who act similarly online or offline and use this information to provide you a better experience online.
Google Analytics and Advertising: We use Google Analytics and Google Ads to advertise to you better understand how our users interact with our Site. Our ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our sites is restricted by Google. Google Analytics through your web browser automatically sends back certain information to Google. This could include the URL of the page you’re visiting and your IP address. Google then may use the IP address, for example, to identify your general location, to measure the effectiveness of ads, and, depending on your settings, to improve the relevance of the ads you see.
To understand how Google uses data when you use our Site see the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and to opt out of Google Analytics and Ads at any time by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
Do Not Track Settings and GPC. Some browsers have “do not track” features that allow you to tell a website not to track you. These features are not all uniform. Where available you may choose to enable an online tool that automatically communicates your universal opt-out preferences, such as the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) or OOP. You may need to use a specific browser or extension that supports these tools and universal signals. When detected, we will process such a signal as a request to opt out of tracking personal information and as a request to opt out of “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information as explained in your Data Subject Access Rights section below. You can also opt-out of such tracking directly on our Site through our cookie consent tool. You can learn more about how to control cookies in the Declining Cookies and Pixels section below.
YOUR CHOICES
You have the ability to make certain choices about how we use your personal information, as described below.
Opting Out of Marketing Communications. You can opt out of receiving marketing and promotional communications from us at any time by clicking the opt out link at the bottom of the communication or by emailing us at info@chakastrategy.com. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional messages, such as about products and services that you have purchased.
Declining Cookies and Pixels. You are always free to decline any cookies and pixels we use by adjusting the settings of your browser or on the cookie consent tool on our Site. All browsers are different, so visit the “Help” section of your browser to learn about cookie preferences and other privacy settings that may be available. You may also visit www.allaboutcookies.org for more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them. Please note that some products, services or features might not be available or operate properly if cookies are not enabled. Even if you choose to accept cookies, you are always free to change your mind and revoke that consent.
If you do not want social media sites to collect and share certain information about you, change your settings on those sites as we do not control their actions.
INFORMATION SECURITY
We maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, destruction and disclosure. However, no system can be completely secure in today’s environment. We cannot guarantee your information, searches, or other communications will always remain secure. The safety and security of your personal information also depends on you taking care in your online practices.
INFORMATION RETENTION
We will retain your personal information as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Policy, including to satisfy our legal or reporting requirements, unless a longer retention period is required or allowed under law. We reserve the right to provide access to or delete personal information only to the extent required by applicable law. We will limit any personal information collected and used to the purposes of the processing.
THIRD PARTY SERVICES
The Site may contain features or links to websites and services provided by third parties, which are not governed by this Policy. Any personal information you provide to the owner or operator of another website or a third-party service is provided directly to the owner or operator and is subject to its privacy policy, even if accessed through the Site. We encourage you to review all third parties’ privacy policies before providing them with your personal information.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
The Site and the products and services offered there are not intended for or directed to individuals under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under the age of 18. If you believe that we might have collected personal information from a child under 18, please contact us at info@chakastrategy.com.
PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION AND DISCLOSURE UNDER CERTAIN STATE LAWS
The following chart details which categories of personal information we collect, the source(s) of each category of information, the categories of third parties to who we disclose each category of information for a business purpose, and the categories of third parties to or with whom we “sell” or “share” each category of information (as such terms are defined under applicable laws) for advertising, analytics and marketing business purposes under certain state comprehensive privacy laws. We are providing this information as a courtesy to our customers and are not conceding the applicability of those laws to us.
| Category of Personal Information Collected | Categories of Sources | Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose | Personal information that is Sold or Shared |
| Identifiers (i.e., first and last name, address, internet protocol address, email address, IP address, and online identifier, etc.) |
Directly from individuals Through automated means |
We disclose this category of information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties: Our Service Providers, online advertising and analytics providers. | We share this category of information with the following categories of third parties: social media sites, online advertising and analytics partners. |
| Internet or other electronic network activity information, including information regarding interactions with the Site and advertisements. |
Directly from individuals Through automated means |
We disclose this category of information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties: Our Service Providers, online advertising and analytics providers. | We share this category of information with the following categories of third parties: social media sites, online advertising and analytics partners |
| Personal Information categories under appliable laws, including those listed in the California Customer Records (Cal. Civ Code Section 1798.80 (e)), such as signature, credit card number and billing address. | Directly from individuals | We disclose this category of information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties: Our Service Providers. | N/A |
| Sensory Information, such as audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, call recordings, or similar information | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Protected Classification Characteristics under California or US Law | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Geolocation Data (i.e., data describing your current and past whereabouts)(Imprecise Geolocation) |
Directly from individuals Through automated means |
We disclose this category of information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties: Our Service Providers, online advertising and analytics providers. | We share this category of information with the following categories of third parties: social media sites, online advertising and analytics partners |
| Biometric Information (i.e. photographs and face scan information) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Professional or employment information or education (i.e., where a person currently works, wants to work, or has worked in the past) | Directly through individuals | We disclose this category of information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties: Our Service Providers | We share this category of information with the following categories of third parties: online advertising and analytics providers |
| Inferences, meaning inferences drawn from any of the information in the above-listed categories of information. |
Through automated means Third-Party sources |
We disclose this category of information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties: Our Service Providers | We share this category of information with the following categories of third parties: online advertising and analytics providers |
Use of Personal Information. As detailed in the “How We Use the Personal Information We Collect” section of the Policy, we use personal information to fulfill specific purposes permissible under applicable laws. We may also disclose certain categories of personal information to competent governmental and public authorities and other third parties as necessary or appropriate, including when we have a legal or contractual obligation to disclose the information.
Sale, or Sharing of Personal Information. We “sell” or “share” (as such terms are defined by California or others applicable state privacy laws) certain categories of personal information to and with our service providers and third parties. As detailed in the chart above, we also “sell” or “share” certain categories of personal information for analytics, marketing and advertising purposes. Refer to the chart above for additional details.
Sensitive Personal Information. We do not to collect or retain sensitive personal information.
YOUR DATA SUBJECT ACCESS RIGHTS
If you are a consumer of a state where there is a comprehensive state privacy law which applies to us, you may be able to exercise any or all of the following privacy rights:
| The Right to Know |
You have the right to confirm whether we are processing personal information about you and to obtain certain details about the personal information we have collected about you, including:
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| The Right to Access & Portability | You have the right to access the personal information we have collected about you and, where required by law, the right to obtain a copy of the personal information in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity. |
| The Right to Correction | You have the right to correct inaccuracies in your personal information, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of the processing of the personal information. |
| The Right to Request Deletion | You have the right to request the deletion or erasure of personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions. |
| The Right to Non-Discrimination | You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising these rights. |
| The Right to Opt Out of Sale, Sharing and Targeted Marketing | The right to direct us not to sell or share personal information we have collected about you to third parties, including for ad targeting/cross-contextual behavioral advertising. |
How to Exercise Your Privacy Rights. If you are interested in exercising any of the above-listed rights, you can do so by contacting us via any of the following:
(a) by E-mail at info@chakastrategy.com with the subject line State Privacy Rights Request,;
(b) by mail at c/o Chaka Strategy, LLC 1839 S. Prairie Avenue, Chicago, IL 60616 with the subject line “State Privacy Rights Request,; or
Upon receipt of your request, we will endeavor to honor it based on the information that we collect and maintain and pursuant to applicable laws. Depending on the nature of your request, you will need to do the following in order for us to honor it:
We may use third parties to verify your identity and process your request. We will evaluate your request, as required by applicable law, and respond to your request as follows: (i) within 45 days for requests to know, access, correct and delete if we are able to verify your identity and confirm the personal information we maintain relates to you; or (ii) as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than 15 business days for requests to opt-out of sale/sharing of personal information. Please note that we may decline certain requests if we cannot verify your identity and confirm the personal information we maintain relates to you.
If you have any questions about your rights please contact us as listed below.
Authorized Agents. You may authorize someone to submit a privacy rights request on your behalf (an “authorized agent”) using the submission methods outlined above. An authorized agent will need to demonstrate that you have authorized them to act on your behalf, unless you have provided the agent with power of attorney pursuant to applicable laws. Depending on the evidence provided, we may also contact you to verify your identity directly with us or request confirmation from you that the agent is authorized to submit the request on your behalf.
Appealing Privacy Rights Request. Under certain applicable laws, you may have the right to appeal a decision we have made in connection with your privacy rights request. All appeals should be submitted via email to info@chakastrategy.com. with the word “APPEAL” clearly indicated in the subject line. If you are unsatisfied with the way that we have handled your appeal, you may have the right to complain.
INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS
We do not transfer, store, or process any personal information outside of the U.S. Our Site is directed only to U.S. consumers and customers for products and services and is only intended for use in the U.S. Our Site is not directed to consumers or customers outside of the U.S.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We will update this Privacy Policy as needed to reflect changes in our services, the law and customer feedback. When we post changes to the Policy, we will revise the “last updated” date at the top. If there are material changes to this Policy or how we use your personal information, we will contact you in accordance with applicable laws. We encourage you to review this Policy regularly to remain informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions regarding this Policy or our privacy practices, or the privacy policy and practices of our domestic or foreign service providers, you can contact us via email at info@chakastrategy.com or by mail at Chaka Strategy, LLC, 1839 S. Prairie Avenue, Chicago, IL 60616.
