Privacy policy

Last updated: 29 August 2026

MANUNTA.NET is the website of Roberto Manunta and provides strategic advisory information, executive education, publications and related professional content.

This Privacy Policy explains how personal information is collected, used, disclosed and protected when you visit www.manunta.net, access or acquire publications, submit an application or enquiry, subscribe to communications, create or use a customer account, or otherwise interact with the website and its services.

The website is hosted and operated using Shopify.

1. Personal Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with MANUNTA.NET.

Information you provide directly

We may collect information that you choose to provide, including:

  • your name;
  • email address;
  • telephone number, where requested or voluntarily provided;
  • professional role and organisation;
  • information submitted when requesting or acquiring access to publications;
  • information submitted as part of an Executive Intensive application;
  • information submitted through an Advisory enquiry or other contact form;
  • your communication and marketing preferences;
  • customer account information, where customer accounts are used;
  • billing and transactional information when you obtain publications, products or services through Shopify checkout, including order details and billing information;
  • payment-related information where paid products or services are introduced.

Please do not submit sensitive, privileged, classified or operationally confidential information through ordinary website forms or email unless an appropriate secure communication arrangement has been agreed.

Information collected automatically

When you visit the website, Shopify and authorised service providers may automatically collect certain technical and usage information, including:

  • IP address;
  • browser and device information;
  • operating system;
  • network information;
  • pages viewed and interactions with the website;
  • referring pages or sources;
  • approximate location derived from technical information;
  • cookies and similar technologies, subject to applicable consent requirements.

We aim to collect only information reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy.

2. How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information for the following purposes.

Provide requested content and services

This includes:

  • providing access to Executive Insights, Strategic Navigation Briefs and other publications;
  • processing digital publication orders and providing access or download links;
  • responding to Advisory enquiries;
  • processing applications for Executive Intensives;
  • administering customer accounts where applicable;
  • communicating with you about services or content you have requested.

Operate and improve the website

We may use technical and usage information to:

  • maintain website functionality;
  • understand how visitors use the website;
  • improve content, navigation and user experience;
  • identify technical problems;
  • maintain website security.

Communicate with you

We may use your contact information to respond to enquiries, applications and requests, to provide publications or other content you have requested, and to send administrative or service-related communications.

Marketing communications

Where you have separately chosen to receive them, we may send communications concerning new publications, Executive Insights, Strategic Navigation Briefs, Executive Intensives, Advisory work or other relevant professional content.

Where consent is the applicable basis for such communications, you may withdraw that consent at any time.

Requesting or acquiring a publication, submitting an application, making an enquiry or completing a transaction does not by itself require you to subscribe to ongoing marketing communications.

Security and fraud prevention

Information may be processed where reasonably necessary to protect the website, its users and services against fraud, misuse, unauthorised access, malicious activity or other security risks.

Legal and regulatory requirements

We may process or retain information where reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, regulatory requirements, legal proceedings, contractual obligations or the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

3. Legal Bases for Processing

Where applicable data-protection law requires a legal basis for processing personal information, the basis may include:

  • your consent, for example for certain marketing communications or non-essential cookies;
  • steps taken at your request, such as providing a requested publication, responding to an enquiry or processing an application;
  • performance of a contract, where you acquire, purchase or participate in a product, programme or service;
  • legitimate interests, where appropriate and permitted by law, including operating, securing and improving the website and responding to professional communications;
  • compliance with legal obligations.

The applicable basis depends upon the nature of the interaction and the jurisdiction concerned.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

MANUNTA.NET and Shopify may use cookies and similar technologies necessary for the operation, security and functionality of the website.

Additional cookies or technologies may be used for analytics or other optional purposes where permitted by law and, where required, only after you have provided consent.

Where the website presents a cookie banner or privacy-preferences control, you can use it to manage the relevant choices.

You may also be able to control cookies through your browser settings, although blocking essential technologies may affect website functionality.

5. How We Disclose Personal Information

We do not sell personal information.

Personal information may be disclosed where reasonably necessary to service providers acting on our behalf or providing infrastructure used to operate MANUNTA.NET.

These may include providers of:

  • website hosting and ecommerce infrastructure;
  • email delivery;
  • form processing;
  • digital-content delivery;
  • analytics;
  • security and fraud prevention;
  • payment processing, where paid transactions are introduced;
  • professional, legal or technical services.

We may also disclose information where required by applicable law, court order, regulatory authority or other valid legal process.

We do not authorise service providers to use personal information for unrelated purposes except where they act independently under their own legal obligations and privacy terms.

6. Shopify

MANUNTA.NET is hosted on Shopify.

Shopify processes information necessary to provide the website infrastructure, checkout, customer-account, digital-commerce and related services. Depending on how you use the website, information may be transmitted to Shopify and its authorised processors in jurisdictions other than your own.

Where Shopify processes customer personal information on behalf of a merchant, Shopify operates subject to its contractual data-processing obligations.

You can learn more about Shopify's privacy practices through the Shopify Privacy Policy:

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

You can also use the Shopify Privacy Portal to learn more about privacy controls and requests provided directly by Shopify:

https://privacy.shopify.com/

7. International Transfers

MANUNTA.NET has an international audience and uses technology providers that may process or store personal information in different countries.

As a result, your information may be transferred outside the country in which you reside.

Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, relevant contractual, organisational or other legally recognised mechanisms may be used by MANUNTA.NET or its service providers.

Such transfers will be handled in accordance with applicable data-protection requirements.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and for any applicable legal, contractual, accounting, security or dispute-resolution requirements.

Retention periods may therefore differ according to the information involved.

For example:

  • enquiries may be retained while the matter remains relevant;
  • programme applications may be retained for administration and legitimate professional follow-up;
  • publication and customer records may be retained where reasonably necessary to administer access, maintain transaction records or provide requested content;
  • marketing information may be retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion, subject to any information necessary to record that preference;
  • transactional records may need to be retained for legally required accounting, tax or compliance periods.

Where information is no longer reasonably required, it may be deleted, anonymised or retained only where required by law.

9. Security

Reasonable technical and organisational measures are used to protect personal information against unauthorised access, misuse, disclosure, alteration or loss.

However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

For this reason, you should not submit sensitive, confidential, privileged, classified or security-sensitive material through general website forms or ordinary email unless an appropriate secure method of communication has first been agreed.

10. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you reside and the law that applies, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including the right to:

  • request access to personal information held about you;
  • request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information;
  • request deletion of information in appropriate circumstances;
  • object to or request restriction of certain processing;
  • withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
  • request portability of certain information where applicable;
  • opt out of marketing communications;
  • make a complaint to an appropriate data-protection authority.

These rights are subject to the conditions, limitations and exemptions provided by applicable law.

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.

Shopify also provides tools that enable customer privacy requests to be processed through the Shopify platform.

11. Marketing Preferences

You may unsubscribe from marketing email at any time by using the unsubscribe mechanism included in the communication or by contacting us.

Unsubscribing from marketing does not prevent us from sending communications necessary to:

  • provide a publication or content you have requested;
  • respond to an enquiry;
  • administer an application;
  • complete or administer a transaction;
  • provide information concerning a programme or service in which you are participating;
  • otherwise fulfil a service you have requested.

12. Third-Party Websites

MANUNTA.NET may contain links to external websites, publications, professional networks or other third-party platforms.

Those services operate under their own privacy policies and practices. MANUNTA.NET is not responsible for the privacy, security or content practices of websites or services that it does not control.

The inclusion of a link does not necessarily imply endorsement of the third party, its services or its practices.

13. Children's Privacy

MANUNTA.NET is intended for professional and executive audiences and is not directed to children.

We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children through the website.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, please contact us so that the matter can be reviewed and appropriate action taken.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes in the website, publications, services, technology, business practices or applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

The current version will be published on MANUNTA.NET together with the date on which it was last updated.

Where required by applicable law, additional notice of material changes will be provided.

15. Contact

Questions concerning this Privacy Policy, the processing of personal information, or requests to exercise applicable privacy rights may be sent to:

MANUNTA.NET
Email: info@manunta.net

Further operator and contact information is available in the Imprint.