Privacy starts with collecting only what the work requires.

1. Scope and operator

This website supports governance-related commercial services executed by BlackGuard LLC. Davis & Partners Inc. governs enterprise strategy, commercial policy and control architecture. Information may be reviewed within that governed enterprise structure only as needed for intake, approval, risk, conflict, contracting and service delivery.

2. Information you provide through the inquiry form

The Request an Analysis form may collect information such as:

• name, title or role, organization or affiliation, and email address;
• purchasing or engagement-approval role;
• budget readiness and preferred analysis path;
• whether you can authorize access to a subject institution's internal records or personnel;
• the governance problem, timing, triggering event and intended decision or outcome;
• a description of available evidence and who controls access to it;
• whether the matter involves litigation, a regulatory proceeding or an active internal investigation; and
• your acknowledgement of the intellectual-property boundary.

The form also uses limited anti-spam and submission-timing fields. Do not place confidential records, passwords, authentication credentials, payment-card information, medical records or similarly high-sensitivity material in the initial inquiry form.

3. Direct communications

If you contact BlackGuard by email or another approved communication channel, BlackGuard may receive the information you choose to provide, together with normal message metadata such as sender, recipient, date and time. Information provided during a discovery or intake conversation may also be recorded as necessary to evaluate fit, scope, authority, conflicts, evidence access and next steps.

4. Client and engagement information

If an engagement is accepted, client identity, nonpublic evidence, findings, results, drafts and final deliverables are confidential by default and are governed by the executed agreement, statement of work and applicable engagement controls.

Client information does not become academic research data, publication material, conference material, teaching material, training data or case-study material merely because BlackGuard performs an engagement. Separate written authorization and any required ethics or privacy controls are required before such reuse.

5. Evidence-access boundary

Authority to purchase or commission an analysis is separate from authority to provide or authorize access to nonpublic institutional evidence. BlackGuard may ask who controls the evidence and whether the requester is authorized to provide it.

BlackGuard does not knowingly accept or use material supplied in violation of law, court order, privilege, contractual confidentiality, access restrictions or other binding rights. If authorization or permissible use is materially uncertain, intake may pause until the issue is resolved or the material is excluded.

6. How information is used

Information may be used to:

• respond to inquiries and communications;
• determine whether a matter fits the Executive Governability Assessment, Independent Governance Analysis or another approved path;
• evaluate purchasing authority separately from evidence-access authority;
• screen for conflicts, confidentiality concerns, legal sensitivity and other engagement risks;
• define scope, deliverables, rights, pricing and contracting terms;
• perform an accepted engagement;
• protect website, business, contractual and intellectual-property rights; and
• maintain business, compliance, dispute and administrative records where appropriate.

7. Technical website information

Like most hosted websites, the hosting and security infrastructure may automatically process technical request information such as IP address, browser or device information, timestamps, requested pages, referring information and security or anti-abuse signals. This information may be used for hosting, delivery, diagnostics, spam prevention, security and operational continuity.

The public site does not require a user account or collect payment-card information through the Request an Analysis form.

8. Service providers and required disclosures

Information may be processed by hosting, email, security or other service providers used to operate the website and business, subject to the applicable service relationship and access controls.

Information may also be disclosed when authorized by an agreement, required by law or compulsory process, or reasonably necessary to protect legal rights or respond to a dispute. Client information is not publicly disclosed merely because an engagement exists.

9. Retention

Retention depends on the type of information and whether an inquiry becomes an engagement. Client engagement evidence, workpapers and administrative records are subject to the governing engagement terms and BlackGuard retention controls, including any applicable legal hold, insurer, contractual or legal requirements.

Inquiry-only information may be retained as needed for follow-up, conflict and risk screening, business records, security and related operational purposes. A request for deletion may be subject to legal, contractual, dispute, security, archival or recordkeeping constraints.

10. Security and sensitive information

BlackGuard uses access, scope and data-handling controls appropriate to the information and engagement. No website or transmission method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

11. External links

This website links to third-party services and records, including professional, scholarly, media and public-scholarship platforms. Once you leave this website, the third party's own privacy and data practices apply.

12. Requests about your information

You may contact BlackGuard to request access to, correction of or deletion of personal information you have provided through the website or direct communications. Requests are evaluated subject to identity verification and any applicable contractual, legal, security, conflict, dispute or record-retention obligations.

13. Changes to this notice

This notice may be updated when the website, intake process, service providers, data practices or legal requirements materially change. The current version posted on this page controls the website privacy notice.

14. Contact

Privacy or data-handling questions may be sent to info@blackguardgovernance.space.

Last updated: October 2, 2026.