Escobar Associates — effective 13 August, 2026
This policy covers escobarassociates.com — what the site collects when you visit, why, and how to get it removed.
Most of it applies to anyone visiting the site. If you’re a candidate in one of our searches, the section on candidate records and AI-assisted tools near the bottom is the one that matters to you — that information doesn’t live on this website, but you shouldn’t have to ask twice to find out how it’s handled.
Client engagement terms, including confidentiality obligations that run in both directions, are set in the search agreement rather than here.
Who we are
Escobar Associates is a boutique executive search firm working in robotics and physical AI. The firm is small on purpose, which means the person reading your message is the person who runs the searches.
Website: https://www.escobarassociates.com
Contact for anything in this policy: chris@escobarassociates.com
When you contact us through the site
Our contact form collects your name, your email address, and whatever you write in it. We use it to reply to you and to remember the conversation if you write again.
We don’t sell it, rent it, or hand it to a data broker. We don’t add you to a mailing list you didn’t ask to join. If you’d rather we didn’t keep your message, tell us and we’ll delete it.
Comments
When you leave a comment on the site, we collect the information shown in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string. Both of those are there to help catch spam, which is most of what arrives.
An anonymized string created from your email address — a hash — may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you have a profile picture there. Gravatar’s privacy policy is at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your name and profile picture are visible to anyone reading it.
Comments may be checked by an automated spam detection service.
Cookies
If you leave a comment, you can opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies so you don’t have to type them again. Those last a year.
If you’re one of the small number of people who logs in to administer the site, logging in sets cookies that remember your session and display preferences. Login cookies last two days, screen option cookies last a year, and “Remember Me” extends the login to two weeks. Logging out clears them. Editing or publishing a post saves one additional cookie holding the post ID, which contains no personal data and expires after a day.
Visiting the login page sets a temporary cookie that checks whether your browser accepts cookies. It holds no personal data and disappears when you close your browser.
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The site will still work.
Analytics
We use a web analytics service to see which pages people actually read and where visitors come from. This is aggregate and directional — page views, referrers, rough geography. We’re not building a profile of you, and we don’t attempt to identify individual visitors from it.
Embedded content from other sites
Posts on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, or articles from elsewhere. Embedded content behaves exactly as if you had visited that other website directly. Those sites can collect data about you, set their own cookies, run additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content — including tying it to your account there if you’re logged in. Their policies govern that, not ours.
Images
If you upload an image to the site, avoid images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Anyone visiting the site can download an image and extract that data.
Who sees your data
Very few people, and no one who paid for the privilege. Access is limited to us and to the service providers who keep the site running — hosting, email, spam filtering, analytics — each of whom only handles what they need to do their job.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
We will disclose information if the law requires it. We’ll tell you when we’re permitted to.
How long we keep things
Comments and their metadata are kept indefinitely so that follow-up comments from the same person can be recognized and approved automatically instead of sitting in a moderation queue.
Contact form messages are kept for as long as the conversation is useful, and deleted on request.
If you have an account on the site, we store the information in your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete it at any time, apart from your username. Site administrators can also see and edit it.
What you can ask us for
You can ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you from this website, including anything you gave us. You can ask us to delete it. We’ll do both, in a reasonable timeframe, without making it difficult.
The one exception is data we’re required to keep for legal, administrative, or security reasons. If that applies, we’ll say which part and why.
Requests go to chris@escobarassociates.com.
Candidate records and AI-assisted tools
This section is about information we hold on candidates during a search, wherever it came from — a résumé you sent, a conversation we had, a public profile, notes from an interview. It doesn’t live on this website, but it’s the part of our work that touches people’s information most, so it belongs somewhere you can read it.
What we hold. Contact details, work history, the materials you send us, notes from our conversations, what you’ve told us about compensation and availability, and our own read on your fit for specific roles. It sits in an access-controlled system used by the firm.
Who sees it. Us, and the specific client we’re presenting you to — after you’ve agreed to that introduction. We don’t circulate résumés to companies you haven’t approved. We don’t sell candidate data, trade it, or share it with other agencies. If you tell us a conversation is confidential from your current employer, that holds without further discussion.
Where AI helps. We use AI-assisted tools for research, drafting, and organizing: summarizing published technical material, preparing interview questions, drafting correspondence, tidying notes, and searching our own records. It handles the parts of the work that don’t require judgment, which leaves more time for the parts that do.
Where it doesn’t. No AI system decides whether you move forward, ranks you against other candidates, or filters you out of consideration. Our Beyond-Credentials Vetting™ assessment is made by a person who has actually spoken with you, based on what you said in that conversation, and that person’s name is attached to the assessment. If we pass on you, a human made the call and can tell you why.
We don’t put candidate information into free, public, consumer AI tools. Where AI tooling touches candidate records, we use business-tier services selected on the basis that their terms do not permit our data to be used to train their models.
What you can ask for. Ask what we hold on you and we’ll tell you. Ask us to correct it and we will. Ask us to delete it and we’ll remove you, keeping only what we’re required to keep and telling you what that is. Ask us to stop contacting you and it takes effect when you ask, not at the end of some sequence.
Security
We take reasonable measures to protect the information on this site, including encrypted connections and limited access. No website is perfectly secure, and we’d rather say that plainly than imply otherwise.
Changes to this policy
If we change how the site handles data, we’ll update this page and change the effective date at the top. Material changes get a note on the site rather than a quiet edit.
Questions
Write to chris@escobarassociates.com. A person answers.