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Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 8, 2026

Behavioral CIO (“we,” “us,” or “our”) operates www.behavioralcio.com and is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website.

We are a boutique behavioral finance and risk management firm based in New York City, New York, USA. Our primary focus is providing professional services to high net worth and institutional clients, and this policy applies to data collected through our website.

If you have questions, contact us at: info@behavioralcio.com

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site (if enabled), we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment (where enabled), you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience—so you don’t need to re-enter details for future comments. These cookies last one year.

If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Upon login, we set cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last two days; screen options cookies last one year. The “Remember Me” option extends login persistence to two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.

Editing or publishing content saves a cookie with the post ID (no personal data); it expires after one day

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell personal or financial data to third parties. We may share data with service providers (e.g., hosting, email services) under strict confidentiality, or as required by law.

How long we retain your data

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments without moderation queues.

For registered users (if applicable), we store profile information indefinitely or until deletion is requested. Users can view, edit, or delete their data (except usernames) at any time. Administrators can also access and edit this information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your data, though no transmission over the internet is 100% secure. This policy may be updated; changes will be posted here with the updated date.