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Contributors
Leela StakeLeela is a director who helps businesses innovate, collaborate and communicate to be more successful. She’s based in San Francisco, has worked in six Asian countries and is interested in the relationship between long-term business success and community prosperity.
Laura PalantoneLaura is a member of our corporate communications team and is based in New York.
James RobinsonJames is a director who brings ten years of experience working on CR strategy and communications in New York, Beijing, and Jakarta. He looks at how CR is employed as part of broader business strategy and has a particular interest in the evolving role of technology and innovation in managing social and environmental issues.
Julie JackA director in APCO's New York office, Julie works on corporate responsibility with a focus on business strategy and emerging issues and trends. Her currents interests and work focus on sustainable agriculture and supply chain management, the integration of CR and financial communications, and CR in the consumer goods space.
Ellen MignoniEllen is a senior director and helped build APCO’s global corporate responsibility practice. She works primarily with APCO’s corporate clients on business alignment and corporate responsibility, stakeholder engagement and partnership development, and communication and outreach.
Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
We respect your privacy interests and operate this Site by these principles. We have taken reasonable steps to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of personally identifiable information that you may provide.
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Use of Collected Information
Any information we gather, whether submitted voluntarily or collected automatically, will be used for our internal purposes only. It is APCO’s policy not to disclose or to sell any information to third parties. Notwithstanding this policy, APCO retains the right to disclose collected information if required to do so by law or if acting on a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property or to respond to an emergency situation.
Review, Update and Deletion of Collected Information
If you are concerned about the information you have provided to us or would like to review, update, or delete this information, please e-mail us at webadmin@apcoworldwide.com. We will make reasonable efforts to comply with your requests.
Security
This site takes reasonable precautions to protect our users’ information. Our web and database servers operate in a locked facility; data is stored in a secure database behind a firewall. Please note, however, that electronic transmissions via the Internet are not necessarily secure from interception, and APCO does not guarantee the security or confidentiality of transmissions. APCO reserves the right to update or otherwise alter its security practices if and when it seems appropriate to do so. As with our Terms and Conditions, you should check our security provisions each time you visit our site to identify and understand any changes made since your previous visit.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement so that users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. Changes to the privacy policy will be dated and will be effective from the date specified forward. As with our Terms and Conditions, you should check our Privacy Policy each time you visit our site to identify and understand any changes made since your previous visit.
Last updated: November 13, 2007