Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 6, 2026

3P Lean Quality Consulting, DBA 3P Partners a DL Shumar & Associates Company (“3P Partners,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information when you visit our website, submit an inquiry, schedule a meeting, or otherwise communicate with us through the website.

1. Information We Collect

Information you provide

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide, including:

  • Your name
  • Email address
  • Telephone number
  • Company or organization
  • Industry
  • The service or subject in which you are interested
  • Information about an operational challenge or business need
  • Information included in a message or inquiry
  • Scheduling information you provide when booking a meeting
  • Communications or updates you specifically request

Please do not submit sensitive personal information, confidential business information, financial account information, health information, government identification numbers, or other information that is not necessary for your inquiry.

Information collected automatically

When you use the website, we and our service providers may automatically collect limited technical information, such as:

  • Internet Protocol address or a privacy-protective representation of it
  • Browser and device type
  • Operating system
  • Date and time of access
  • Pages or website features requested
  • Referring website
  • General server, security, and error-log information
  • Signals used to detect spam, bots, fraud, or misuse

We use this information to operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the website.

Scheduling information

The website may contain an embedded Calendly scheduling tool. When you interact with Calendly, Calendly may collect information such as your name, email address, meeting preferences, browser information, and other information you choose to provide. Calendly processes scheduling information according to its own privacy notice and its agreements with its customers.

Calendly’s privacy notice is available at: Calendly privacy notice(opens in a new tab)

Cookies and similar technologies

We and our service providers may use cookies, local storage, scripts, and similar technologies to operate and secure the website, protect forms from automated abuse, and provide scheduling functionality.

Additional information is available in our Cookie Policy.

2. How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information to:

  • Respond to inquiries and requests
  • Communicate about consulting services, Broadview, speaking, training, the Mindset Architects book, or other topics selected by the visitor
  • Schedule and manage meetings
  • Provide communications specifically requested by the visitor
  • Operate, maintain, secure, and troubleshoot the website
  • Protect the website and its forms from spam, fraud, bots, and misuse
  • Maintain appropriate business and communication records
  • Comply with legal obligations
  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
  • Evaluate and improve our website and services

We do not use personal information submitted through the website for decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects through automated processing.

3. How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose personal information to service providers that perform services on our behalf, including:

  • Website hosting and infrastructure providers
  • Database and data-storage providers
  • Email delivery providers
  • Scheduling providers, including Calendly
  • Website security and bot-prevention providers, including Cloudflare
  • Professional advisers when reasonably necessary

These providers may process information only as needed to provide their services or as otherwise permitted by their agreements and applicable law.

We may also disclose information:

  • When required by law, subpoena, court order, or other legal process
  • To protect the rights, property, or safety of 3P Partners, our visitors, or others
  • To investigate fraud, security incidents, or misuse
  • In connection with a merger, sale, financing, reorganization, or transfer of all or part of the business, subject to appropriate safeguards

4. No Sale or Targeted Advertising

3P Partners does not sell personal information.

3P Partners does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising.

5. Data Retention

We generally retain personal information submitted through website inquiries for up to 24 months after our last interaction with the individual.

We may retain information for a longer period when reasonably necessary to:

  • Maintain an active or prospective business relationship
  • Provide requested services
  • Comply with legal, tax, accounting, or recordkeeping obligations
  • Resolve a dispute
  • Enforce an agreement
  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
  • Prevent fraud, abuse, or security incidents

When information is no longer reasonably needed, we will delete it, anonymize it, or securely dispose of it, subject to technical and legal limitations.

Third-party service providers may maintain information according to their own retention requirements and contractual obligations.

6. Your Privacy Choices and Requests

Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have the right to request that we:

  • Confirm whether we maintain personal information about you
  • Provide access to certain personal information
  • Correct inaccurate information
  • Delete certain information
  • Provide a copy of certain information
  • Explain how information has been used or disclosed

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request. Certain information may be exempt from a request when retention is required or permitted by law.

Privacy requests may be sent to any of the following:

You may also contact us by mail at:

3P Lean Quality Consulting
DBA 3P Partners a DL Shumar & Associates Company
4813 Nobles Pond Drive
Canton, OH 44718
United States

7. Information Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information. However, no website, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

8. Children’s Privacy

The website is intended for business and professional audiences. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If you believe a child has provided personal information through the website, please contact us so that we can review and, when appropriate, delete it.

9. Third-Party Websites and Services

The website may link to or embed services operated by third parties, including Calendly, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, LinkedIn, and other external websites.

We do not control the privacy, security, or information-handling practices of third-party websites and services. Their own privacy policies apply when you interact with them.

10. United States Audience

The website is operated from the United States and is intended primarily for visitors and prospective customers in the United States.

If you access the website from another country, your information may be processed and stored in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate. Those locations may have different data-protection laws than your home jurisdiction.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as our website, services, or legal obligations change. The updated policy will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.

12. Contact Us

Questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices may be directed to:

3P Lean Quality Consulting
DBA 3P Partners a DL Shumar & Associates Company
4813 Nobles Pond Drive
Canton, OH 44718
United States

dshumar@3ppartnersdls.comcmaier@3ppartnersdls.comddewitt@3ppartnersdls.com