📜 Privacy Policy

The Elka Method LLC Effective Date: November 10, 2025

The short version: We collect information to run our services, such as your contact details, billing information, and, for our clients, details about hiring companies and decision-makers. We use this data only to provide our AI-powered client acquisition service. We never sell personal data, and we keep it secure. You can ask to access, update, or delete your data at any time by emailing contact@elkamethodagency.com.

The full policy follows.

The Elka Method LLC, a New Mexico limited liability company (“Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”), values your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect personal information when you use our website (elkamethodagency.com), our services, and our AI-powered client acquisition system.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information:

  • Client Information: Name, company name, email address, billing details, and account credentials when you engage our services.

  • Decision-Maker Information (on behalf of clients): Business contact details, job role, and company information of hiring decision-makers, collected from publicly available sources such as job boards, company websites, professional networking profiles, and business directories.

  • Automatically Collected Data: IP address, browser type, device identifiers, usage patterns, and cookies.

  • Communication Data: Records of emails, messages, or inquiries sent to us, and replies to outreach we send on behalf of clients.

2. How We Use Information

We use the information we collect to:

  • Deliver and improve our AI-powered client acquisition services.

  • Identify hiring decision-makers and connect them with recruitment agencies on behalf of our clients.

  • Personalize outreach emails and campaigns, including by using AI and automation tools.

  • Process payments and manage client accounts.

  • Communicate with clients about services, updates, or inquiries.

  • Comply with legal and regulatory obligations.

3. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR/UK GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or United Kingdom, our legal bases for processing personal data include:

  • Consent (e.g., when subscribing to updates).

  • Contractual necessity, to provide services to our clients.

  • Legitimate interest, for example business development outreach that connects recruitment agencies with companies that are hiring.

  • Legal obligations, such as compliance with applicable laws.

4. Sharing Information

We may share personal information with:

  • Service Providers: Third-party vendors, including automation tools, data and research providers, AI providers, hosting providers, and email services, that we use to deliver our services.

  • Clients: Recruitment agencies that engage our services, for example when we introduce an interested decision-maker to them.

  • Legal & Compliance: When required by law or regulation, or to protect our legal rights.

  • We do not sell personal data to third parties.

5. International Data Transfers

We serve clients in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom and may operate from outside those countries, so data may be transferred internationally. Where required, we use safeguards in line with applicable data protection law for such transfers.

6. Data Retention

We keep personal information only as long as needed to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements.

7. Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

  • Access, correct, or delete your personal information.

  • Opt-out of marketing communications.

  • Restrict or object to processing.

  • Request data portability.

    To exercise these rights, email us at contact@elkamethodagency.com. We will respond within the time required by applicable law.

8. If You Received an Outreach Email From Us

If you are a hiring decision-maker who received an email we sent on behalf of a recruitment agency client, our outreach used your business contact information from publicly available sources. You can reply “unsubscribe” or “remove” to any email, or email contact@elkamethodagency.com, to stop further messages and to ask us to delete your information. We will act on your request promptly.

9. California Residents

If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information we collect, use, and disclose, to request deletion or correction of your personal information, and not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights. We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. To make a request, email contact@elkamethodagency.com.

10. Cookies & Tracking

We use cookies and similar technologies to improve functionality and analyze usage. You can control cookies through your browser settings.

11. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

12. Children’s Privacy

Our services are intended for business professionals and are not directed at children under 18. We do not knowingly collect data from minors.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Updates will be posted with a new “Effective Date.”

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, contact us at:

The Elka Method A New Mexico limited liability company

1209 MOUNTAIN ROAD PL NE STE R
ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87110

Email: contact@elkamethodagency.com