Nerdrums LLC and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively “Nerdrums,” “Tip of the Spear,” “us,” “we,” or “our”) are committed to protecting your privacy and providing you with a positive experience while using our websites, products, or services (“Platform”). Nerdrums is the data controller for the purpose of data protection legislation. This notice is provided to explain the basis on which any personal information we collect from you, or which you provide to us, is processed. Nerdrums reserves the right, at any time, to modify this Privacy Policy. If we make revisions that change the way we collect, use, or share personal information, we will post those changes in this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we may also notify you by other means prior to the changes taking effect, such as by posting a notice on our Platform or sending you a notification. You should review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay up to date on our current policies and practices. We will note the effective date of the latest version of our Privacy Policy at the end of this Privacy Policy.
1. Scope
This Policy applies to the Nerdrums Platform and provides guidance on your rights and obligations regarding your personal information.
Nerdrums Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) establishes and communicates the key principles that Nerdrums follows in protecting the personal information that we collect. Please note that some privacy rights and obligations may differ in certain locations based on local law, in which case Nerdrums will comply with the local legal requirements. To the extent a notice provided at the time of collection from a website or specific product conflicts with this Privacy Policy, such specific notice or supplemental privacy statement will control.
2. Collection of Personal Information
“Personal information” is any information that can be used to identify an individual and may include your name, physical address, email address, phone number, login information, marketing preferences, company affiliation, geographic location, or payment card information. Nerdrums may collect personal information that is necessary for legitimate business purposes, which will be disclosed to you at the time of collection. Nerdrums will use this information for the purposes for which it was collected. Nerdrums may also collect personal information from trusted third-party sources and engage third parties to assist us in collecting personal information.
One of the most common methods of collecting personal information occurs during the online form submission or registration process, including when a website user requests a free trial or a courtesy newsletter, registers for an event, or responds to similar offers such as sample reports, white papers, or additional product information.
In some instances, Nerdrums and the third parties we engage may automatically collect and aggregate data using cookies, web logs, web beacons, and other similar technologies, subject to appropriate consents. This information is used to better understand and improve the usability, performance, and effectiveness of our Platform and to help us tailor content or offers for you. Please read the “Cookies” section below for more information.
3. Purpose and Use of Personal Information
Nerdrums may use your personal information for operational, legal, administrative, and other legitimate purposes permitted by applicable law. Some of the ways we may use personal information include:
- Providing you with the requested products or services.
- Providing you with information regarding similar products or events.
- Analysing and monitoring the extent of use.
- Providing customized product and service information.
- Allowing users to participate voluntarily in mailings or other events.
- Providing product service updates, information, and alerts.
- Sending communications, including for marketing or other customer satisfaction purposes.
- Order processing and providing transaction documents.
- To contact users for information verification purposes.
4. Right to Access and Correct Personal Information
We strive to ensure our information is reliable, accurate, and up-to-date. While personal information is maintained by Nerdrums, you may access your personal information to the extent required by law to review, update, and correct inaccuracies. Upon your request, we will provide you with reasonable access to the personal information we collect about you. Because personal information-for example, your email address-is required to use the Platform, we retain personal information as long as your account is active. You can correct, transfer, update, modify, or delete this information by logging in to your account and updating your information online. You may also limit the use and disclosure of your information by either unsubscribing from marketing communications or contacting us at the address listed below under the section titled “Contact” or by emailing [email protected].
5. Sharing Personal Information
Nerdrums may disclose personal information to its parent, subsidiary, affiliates, and other related companies. Nerdrums may disclose personal information to service providers for the purposes of operating our business, delivering, improving, and customizing our products or services, sending marketing and communications related to our business, payment processing, and for other legitimate purposes permitted by applicable law or otherwise with your consent. Regarding payment processing, this will be subject to the service provider’s terms of use and privacy policies.
There may also be instances when Nerdrums may disclose your personal information without providing you with a choice in order to honour a request that you have made through the products or services; comply with the law or in response to a court order, government request, or other legal process; protect the interests, rights, safety, or property of Nerdrums or others; protect against fraud or for risk management purposes; or respond to adverse third parties (i.e., adverse parties and their counsel and other agents) in the context of litigation. In addition, if Nerdrums sells all or part of its business or makes a sale or transfer of assets or is otherwise involved in a merger or business transfer, you agree that Nerdrums may transfer your personal information to a third party as part of that transaction.
In all cases, Nerdrums requires all unaffiliated third parties to treat personal information as confidential. Nerdrums will not provide personal information to third parties for their own marketing purposes without your consent.
If you participate in a discussion forum, chat room, or provide comments related to Nerdrums on a social media or other public platform, you should be aware that the information you provide there (i.e., your public profile) will be made broadly available to others, and could be used to contact you, send you unsolicited messages, or for purposes neither Nerdrums nor you have control over. Also, please recognize that social media forums and chat rooms not controlled by Nerdrums may have additional rules and conditions. Nerdrums is not responsible for the personal information or any other information you choose to submit on these forums that are not Nerdrums-controlled.
The Platform may offer you the ability to share personal information through a social networking site (e.g., LinkedIn, X), using such site’s integrated tools (e.g., LinkedIn “Like” button, or X “Like” button). The use of such integrated tools enables you to share personal information with other individuals or the public, depending on the settings you have established with the social networking site. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and use in connection with such social networking sites or a site’s integrated tools, please visit the privacy policies of the entities that provide these social networking sites.
6. Security of Personal Information
Nerdrums has physical, administrative, and technical safeguards in place to help protect the personal information Nerdrums collects. While there is no such thing as perfect security on the Internet, we will take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect your personal information.
7. Retention of Personal Information
Nerdrums will retain your personal information as needed to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected. We will retain and use your personal information as necessary to comply with our business requirements, legal obligations, resolve disputes, protect our assets, and enforce our agreements.
8. Cookies
When visiting a Nerdrums Platform, our servers may query your computer to see whether any cookies have been set by Nerdrums.
Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your computer (or other internet-enabled devices, such as a smartphone or tablet) when you visit a website. They help websites remember information about your visit, like your country, language, and other settings. They can also help make your next visit easier.
We use cookies and other similar technologies, such as marketing tags, for several purposes as described more fully below, including collecting information about the number of visitors to the website and customer demographics, which is used to improve the customer experience of the website.
If you wish to remove cookies placed on your device by our site, or stop our site from placing further cookies on your device, you can do so at any time (learn how below).
CATEGORIES OF COOKIES USED ON THIS WEBSITE AND PURPOSES
We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies.
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. We do not require your consent to place these cookies. Nevertheless, you may be able to block these cookies yourself on your device/browser, but restricting them is likely to mean that our website will not work as you would expect, and certain functionality may be inoperable.
Non-essential cookies
Analytical/performance cookies.
They allow us to recognise and count visitors and see how visitors move around our website. This helps us improve how our website works, for example, by ensuring users can find what they are looking for easily. We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our site, how they reached our site, what type of technology they are using (e.g., Mac or Windows, which helps to identify when our website isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the website, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website.
Functionality cookies.
These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies.
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. This information will be used by third parties to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose, but only if you consent to such sharing.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie | Cookie Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | more | This Cookie tracks your movements on our website |
| Cloudflare CDN | 30 days | The _cfduid cookie helps Cloudflare detect malicious visitors to our websites and minimizes blocking legitimate users. It may be placed on devices to identify individual shared IP addresses and protect against anti-bots. |
| Sitefinity Insight | 1 year -persistent | This cookie uniquely tracks the user via the sf-data-intell-subject cookie. |
9. Prospective Employee and Employee Information
If you submit an application for employment to or are currently an employee of Nerdrums, Nerdrums is authorized to collect the information in any form it obtains through your application for employment or continued employment with Nerdrums, and your submission of employee related documents, including but not limited to the personal information that you submit in connection with your employment or intended employment (collectively “Employee Information“). Examples of Employee Information collected in connection with your employment or application for employment includes but is not limited to your name, date of birth, government issued identification (passport, social security number, driver’s license number), banking information, marital status, health information, benefit information, title, employment history, education, job qualifications, and other relevant employee personal data. We also collect some of this information about your dependents when you enrol in health and other benefits, or when you provide contact information. By providing personal information about family members or other individuals, you represent that you have their consent to provide this information to us for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Nerdrums will collect, use, store, retain, and secure your social security number in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Nerdrums will not communicate or make available, in any manner, your social security number to the general public. Nerdrums will not print your Social Security number on any card required for you to access colleague member services provided by Nerdrums. Nerdrums will not require you to transmit your Social Security number over the Internet unless the connection is secure or the Social Security number is encrypted. Nerdrums will not print your social security number on any materials that are mailed to you, unless state or federal law requires or permits the social security number to be on the document to be mailed.
In accordance with applicable law, Nerdrums may use Employee Information to evaluate applications for employment, manage work-related aspects of the employee-employer relationship (i.e., training, payroll, benefits, travel, reimbursement expenses, performance appraisals, succession planning, team member health and safety), investigate and respond to any claims related to your employment, and comply with applicable laws and regulations. Your Employee Information will not be used for direct marketing purposes by us or any third-party service provider, unless you specifically consent to such use.
Nerdrums shares your Employee Information with third-party service providers who provide outsourced human resources functions to us. Those third parties are required to protect your Employee Information. Nerdrums may also disclose your Employee Information if required or permitted to do so by law (such as when part of a governmental agency action or litigation), governmental or quasi-governmental requests, or a regulatory organization, or to relevant third parties such as site technicians, brokers, auditors, lawyers, or professional advisors. In the event that Nerdrums considers it necessary or where required by law to disclose Employee Information in certain situations where the health, safety, or well-being of a team member is at imminent risk, we may share your Employee Information with our outside lawyers, law enforcement, or others who are legally authorized. As Nerdrums continues to develop our business, we may buy or sell assets. In the unlikely event that Nerdrums or substantially all of our assets are acquired, Employee Information may be one of the transferred assets.
Employee Information may be stored in hard copy or electronic format within your branch office or in the cloud in the United States or other countries where Nerdrums, its affiliates, agents, or contractors conduct business. Your Employee Information may be transferred into our human resources systems and used to manage your employment, may become part of your personnel file, and may be used for other work-related purposes. Your Employee Information will be kept for as long as is legally required and, in some instances, longer, depending on the organization’s needs and industry practices.
10. Other Contractual Relationships
If you enter into a separate contractual relationship with Nerdrums that requires, or contemplates, collecting, using, or sharing information about you in a manner that is different than that which is described in this Privacy Policy, the terms of that agreement will apply.
11. Other Websites
This Privacy Policy does not apply to sites or applications offered by other companies or individuals, including third-party products and services that may be displayed as search results on our website. Nerdrums encourages you to read the privacy policy of any third-party site or application before transmitting personal information.
12. Contact Information
We welcome your views about our Platform and this Privacy Policy. If you would like to contact us with any queries or comments, request further information, or exercise any of your available rights, please email us at: [email protected].
If Nerdrums needs or is required to contact you regarding any event involving information about you, we may do so by email, telephone, or mail.
Updated August 2025.