Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 12, 2026

HeartLand, LLC (“HeartLand,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard personal information when you visit our website, submit an inquiry, explore a potential business partnership, download materials, apply for employment or an internship, or otherwise interact with HeartLand.

Information We Collect

Information You Provide

Depending on how you interact with HeartLand, we may collect:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Telephone number
  • Mailing or business address
  • Company or organization name
  • Job title or professional information
  • Information about your business or potential partnership with HeartLand
  • Information submitted through contact, M&A, guide-download, career, internship, or other website forms
  • Employment history and application information
  • School, major, graduation date, and other education information
  • Preferred work locations
  • Referral information
  • Résumé, CV, and other materials you upload
  • Communications and inquiry details
  • Any other information you voluntarily provide

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through a general website form unless we specifically request it for a legitimate business, recruiting, or legal purpose.

Business Partnership and M&A Information

If you contact HeartLand regarding a potential strategic partnership, acquisition, sale, investment, or other business transaction, we may collect information about you and the organization you represent.

This may include:

  • Business contact information
  • Company name and location
  • Ownership or leadership information
  • Business interests and transaction-related inquiries
  • Information you choose to provide about company operations, services, history, or potential partnership objectives
  • Communications with HeartLand team members

Information provided as part of a potential transaction may also be subject to separate confidentiality agreements, nondisclosure agreements, diligence procedures, or contractual terms.

Call and Communication Information

When you communicate with us by telephone, email, text message, or another channel, we may collect:

  • Telephone number and caller identification information
  • Date, time, and duration of communications
  • Communications and correspondence
  • Information related to your inquiry
  • Referral or marketing-source information where available

If HeartLand introduces call-tracking, recording, or transcription technologies in the future, we will evaluate and provide any notice or obtain any consent required by applicable law.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, we and the providers that support our website may automatically collect certain information, including:

  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Pages viewed
  • Links clicked
  • Referring and exit pages
  • Date and time of visits
  • Time spent on the website
  • Approximate geographic location derived from IP address
  • Website interactions
  • Form-submission and conversion events
  • Cookie and device identifiers
  • Analytics identifiers
  • Campaign and referral information
  • Company-level or business-visitor information where available
  • Information used to detect fraud, spam, security threats, or misuse

Some automatically collected information may be considered personal information under applicable privacy laws.

Categories of Personal Information

Depending on how you interact with HeartLand, the categories of personal information we may collect can include identifiers, contact information, commercial or business information, internet or other electronic network activity, approximate location information, professional or employment-related information, education information, and inferences or analytics derived from website activity.

Information From Other Sources

We may receive business, professional, recruiting, marketing, or other information from:

  • HeartLand-affiliated companies
  • Analytics providers
  • Business-intelligence and data-enrichment providers
  • Advertising and marketing platforms when used
  • Recruiting and employment platforms
  • Professional networking platforms
  • Business partners, advisers, and service providers
  • Publicly available sources

Information obtained from other sources may be combined with information collected directly from you or through our website.

How We Collect Information

We may collect information:

  • Directly from you when you submit a form, download materials, communicate with us, or apply for employment or an internship
  • Through M&A, partnership, recruiting, and general corporate inquiries
  • Automatically through cookies, tags, scripts, browser storage, and similar technologies
  • Through analytics and business-intelligence platforms
  • From HeartLand operating companies and affiliated entities
  • From service providers, business partners, advisers, and publicly available sources

How We Use Information

We may use personal information to:

  • Respond to inquiries and requests
  • Evaluate potential partnerships, acquisitions, transactions, or other strategic opportunities
  • Communicate with business owners, executives, advisers, and other professional contacts
  • Provide requested materials or information
  • Process employment and internship inquiries and applications
  • Coordinate recruiting activities
  • Operate, maintain, secure, and improve our website
  • Understand how visitors use our website
  • Measure website performance
  • Measure form submissions and other website interactions
  • Attribute inquiries to referral or marketing sources
  • Identify potential business interest in HeartLand or our services
  • Support sales, business development, recruiting, and marketing operations
  • Improve our communications and business operations
  • Prevent fraud, spam, misuse, and security threats
  • Maintain business and legal records
  • Protect our rights and the rights of others
  • Comply with legal and regulatory obligations
  • Support audits, insurance matters, due diligence, legal proceedings, and corporate transactions

We may also use information for another purpose disclosed when it is collected or with your consent.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website may use cookies, tags, scripts, browser storage, and similar technologies for website operation, security, analytics, business intelligence, performance measurement, and related business purposes.

These technologies may help us understand website traffic, evaluate form submissions, determine referral sources, understand business interest in HeartLand, and support website functionality.

Our website does not currently provide a dedicated cookie-preference banner.

You may block or delete cookies using your browser settings and may also use privacy or tracking controls made available by applicable technology providers.

Restricting certain technologies may affect website functionality or the availability of some features.

If our use of nonessential analytics, advertising, business-intelligence, or similar technologies changes, we will evaluate whether additional notice, consent, or opt-out controls are required by applicable law.

Technologies We Currently Use

Current

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand website traffic, visitor activity, website performance, and interactions with our website.

Google Analytics may process information such as IP address, browser and device information, pages viewed, referral source, approximate geographic location, analytics identifiers, session information, and website events.

Current

Google Tag Manager

We use Google Tag Manager to help manage website analytics, measurement, and related technologies.

Technologies deployed through Google Tag Manager may collect or process information according to their individual configurations and privacy practices.

Current

Form and Conversion Measurement

We use analytics events to measure successful website interactions, including contact inquiries, careers inquiries, internship submissions, M&A inquiries, footer form submissions, and requests for certain downloadable materials.

These events help us understand how visitors interact with the website and evaluate website performance.

Current

ZoomInfo

We use ZoomInfo for business intelligence, website visitor insights, account-level analytics, company identification, business contact enrichment, and sales or business-development operations.

Depending on the ZoomInfo services and features enabled, ZoomInfo may process information such as IP address, browser and device information, pages visited, timestamps, website interactions, company information, and business contact information.

Current

Form and Security Technologies

We may use form-processing, spam-prevention, security, and anti-abuse technologies to receive website submissions and protect our website from automated activity, fraud, and misuse.

These services may process information such as IP address, browser and device information, interaction information, and form-submission data as necessary to provide their services.

Technologies We May Use or Reactivate in the Future

HeartLand may introduce or reactivate additional advertising, attribution, call-tracking, social-media, consent-management, or related technologies as our operations and marketing activities change.

Listing a provider below does not mean that its technology is currently active on the website.

Potential Future or Reactivated Use

Google Ads

We may use Google Ads, Conversion Linker, conversion tracking, or similar Google advertising technologies to measure advertising performance and determine whether advertisements contribute to website visits, inquiries, or other actions.

Depending on the features enabled, Google may process advertising click identifiers, website activity, conversion events, browser and device information, and marketing-attribution data.

Potential Future Use

Meta Technologies

We may use the Meta Pixel, Conversions API, or similar Meta technologies to measure advertising performance, understand website actions, create advertising audiences, or evaluate campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, and other Meta services.

Potential Future Use

LinkedIn Technologies

We may use the LinkedIn Insight Tag, Website Actions, enhanced matching, or similar LinkedIn technologies for advertising measurement, professional audience insights, audience creation, and campaign evaluation.

Potential Future Use

CallRail

We may use CallRail or a similar provider for telephone-number replacement, call routing, call attribution, call analytics, and measurement of marketing performance.

Call-tracking information may include caller telephone number, caller identification information, call source, date and time, duration, referral information, browser and device information, and pages viewed before a call.

If call recording or transcription features are enabled, we will provide any notice or obtain any consent required by applicable law.

Potential Future Use

Consent Management Technologies

We may introduce a consent-management platform or cookie-preference controls to provide additional choices regarding analytics, advertising, business-intelligence, or other nonessential technologies.

Other Technologies

We may add, remove, replace, or reactivate analytics, advertising, communications, attribution, call-tracking, consent-management, or business-intelligence providers as our operations and marketing activities change.

We will review this Privacy Policy when a change materially affects how we collect, use, or disclose personal information.

Website Forms and Information Requests

Information submitted through our website forms may be transmitted to HeartLand and processed by website hosting, form, workflow, email, security, analytics, business-intelligence, and related providers that support our operations.

We may use information submitted through forms to:

  • Respond to general inquiries
  • Provide requested materials or resources
  • Communicate about a potential strategic partnership or transaction
  • Route inquiries to the appropriate HeartLand team member
  • Manage recruiting or internship inquiries
  • Measure website and form performance

Employment and Recruiting

HeartLand uses ADP for employment opportunities and recruiting.

If you apply for an available position through ADP, information submitted through that platform is subject to ADP’s privacy practices in addition to any employment-related privacy obligations that apply to HeartLand.

Internship Applications

HeartLand also operates website forms for internship and early-career opportunities.

Internship-related information may include:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Telephone number
  • University or school
  • Major or area of study
  • Graduation date
  • Employment or internship interests
  • Preferred cities or HeartLand companies
  • Referral or career-fair information
  • Responses to application questions
  • Résumé, CV, or similar application materials

We use this information to evaluate candidates, communicate regarding opportunities, coordinate recruiting activities, and maintain recruiting records as reasonably necessary.

Email and Text Communications

We may send transactional, recruiting, business, or other communications in response to an inquiry, application, partnership discussion, or existing relationship.

We do not assume that providing a telephone number through a general website form constitutes consent to receive promotional or automated marketing text messages.

If HeartLand uses promotional or automated text messaging in the future, we will obtain any consent required by applicable law and provide required opt-out instructions.

How We Disclose Information

We may disclose personal information to:

  • HeartLand operating companies and affiliated entities when appropriate for the inquiry or business purpose
  • Website hosting, infrastructure, security, and technology providers
  • Form, workflow, email, and communications providers
  • Analytics and website-performance providers
  • Business-intelligence and data-enrichment providers
  • Advertising and marketing providers when those technologies are used
  • Recruiting and employment-service providers, including ADP
  • Professional advisers, accountants, insurers, auditors, consultants, lenders, and legal counsel
  • Parties involved in due diligence or a potential business transaction where appropriate and legally permitted
  • Government authorities or other parties when required by law
  • Parties involved in an actual or proposed merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, reorganization, or sale of all or part of our business

Some providers process information on our behalf. Other providers may process information under their own terms and privacy practices.

We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to protect HeartLand, our affiliated companies, our employees, our business contacts, our legal rights, or the rights and safety of others.

Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising

We do not sell personal information in exchange for money.

Some privacy laws define “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” broadly enough to include certain disclosures of online identifiers, device information, website activity, or business contact information to analytics, advertising, social-media, or business-intelligence providers, even when no money is exchanged.

Our current use of analytics and ZoomInfo, as well as any future use of advertising technologies, may be subject to different privacy requirements depending on the visitor’s jurisdiction and the features enabled.

Where applicable law provides a right to opt out of certain sales, sharing, targeted advertising, or similar processing, you may contact us using the information below to submit an applicable request.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residence, the law that applies to you, and any applicable exceptions, you may have certain rights concerning your personal information.

Request access to personal information we maintain about you
Request correction of inaccurate personal information
Request deletion of personal information
Obtain a portable copy of certain personal information
Opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information where applicable
Opt out of targeted advertising or certain profiling activities where applicable
Limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information where applicable
Withdraw consent where applicable
Appeal certain privacy-request decisions where applicable
Exercise applicable privacy rights without unlawful discrimination

Not every right listed above applies to every individual or in every jurisdiction. Privacy rights may be subject to legal limitations, exceptions, and verification requirements.

To submit a privacy request, contact us at info@heartlandcompany.com or (816) 683-8698.

We may request information reasonably necessary to verify your identity before completing a request.

Authorized Agents

Where applicable law permits the use of an authorized agent, you may designate another person or entity to submit a privacy request on your behalf.

We may request documentation confirming the agent’s authority and may contact you directly to verify the request, except where applicable law provides otherwise.

Browser and Device Privacy Controls

Most browsers allow you to block, delete, or limit cookies and similar technologies.

Mobile devices, browsers, advertising providers, and other technology platforms may also provide privacy, advertising, or tracking controls.

Restricting certain technologies may affect website functionality or the availability of some features.

Our website may not currently respond automatically to all browser-based privacy signals or preference mechanisms, including Global Privacy Control or similar signals.

Where applicable law provides a right to opt out of certain data uses, sales, sharing, targeted advertising, or similar processing, you may submit a privacy request using the contact information provided below.

As our website technology and privacy controls evolve, we will evaluate whether additional automated preference mechanisms or consent-management tools should be implemented.

Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:

  • Respond to inquiries
  • Evaluate potential partnerships or transactions
  • Maintain business and professional relationships
  • Evaluate employment and internship applications
  • Coordinate recruiting activities
  • Measure website and marketing performance
  • Maintain business and legal records
  • Meet legal, tax, accounting, insurance, contractual, or regulatory obligations
  • Resolve disputes
  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
  • Protect against fraud, misuse, and security threats

Retention periods vary depending on the type of information, why it was collected, our operational needs, and applicable legal requirements.

Service providers may retain information according to their own settings, agreements, and privacy practices.

We may retain information for a longer period when required by law, litigation hold, due diligence, insurance requirements, or another legitimate legal need.

Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information.

However, no website, transmission method, storage system, or security measure can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Children’s Privacy

Our website and services are intended for adults, business professionals, employment candidates, and college-age internship candidates and are not directed to children under 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through this website.

If we learn that a child has provided personal information to us, we will take reasonable steps to review and address the information.

External Websites and Third-Party Services

Our website may contain links to or features provided by third-party websites or services, including recruiting, professional networking, operating-company, or other external platforms.

HeartLand does not control and is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of third-party websites or services.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party services you use.

Processing in the United States

HeartLand and many of our service providers operate in the United States.

Information may be processed and stored in the United States or other locations where our providers operate, subject to applicable law.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, services, business operations, or legal obligations.

The revised policy will be posted on this page with a new “Last Updated” date.

If we activate new technologies such as Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, CallRail, or a consent-management platform, we will review whether this Privacy Policy and our website privacy controls should also be updated.

If we make a material change, we may provide additional notice where required by applicable law.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to submit a privacy request, please contact:

HeartLand, LLC

1200 Main Street, Suite 4200

Kansas City, MO 64105

Phone: (816) 683-8698

Email: info@heartlandcompany.com

Website: https://heartlandcompany.com/

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