Security Practices

AK Global Consulting LLC maintains an information security program designed to protect business information, customer data, and data accessed through authorized third-party services such as Plaid. This page summarizes the controls and procedures used to identify, reduce, and monitor information security risk.

Governance and responsibility

Information security is overseen by company management. Security responsibilities include access approvals, vendor access review, production system oversight, data handling, incident response coordination, and periodic review of security practices.

Security contact

Security or privacy-related inquiries may be submitted through the website contact form. Requests are reviewed by authorized company personnel and routed for appropriate follow-up.

Access control

Access to production systems, administrative dashboards, cloud services, email, payment tools, and financial-data platforms is limited to authorized users with a legitimate business need. Access is reviewed periodically and removed when it is no longer required.

Administrative access is protected using centralized account management where available, strong passwords, multi-factor authentication for critical systems where available, and secure authentication methods such as OAuth tokens, API keys, or TLS-based protections for service integrations.

Multi-factor authentication

AK Global Consulting LLC requires multi-factor authentication for critical administrative systems where supported, including systems used to manage hosting, production settings, email, vendor accounts, payment-related tools, and data-access platforms.

The public website currently does not provide a customer login portal before Plaid Link is surfaced. Where users connect financial accounts through Plaid, authentication and consent are handled through the Plaid Link flow and the user’s financial institution.

Encryption and network security

The website and related services are configured to use HTTPS/TLS for data transmitted between browsers, cloud services, and service providers. Sensitive integration credentials, API keys, and secrets are stored in protected configuration areas and are not displayed publicly on the website.

Data minimization

AK Global Consulting LLC collects and processes only the information reasonably necessary for business inquiries, authorized account connections, invoice-payment support, business reporting, reconciliation, compliance, and internal operational analysis.

Plaid data and financial information

When Plaid is used, financial data is accessed only after authorization through Plaid Link. Data may be used to support account verification, balance visibility, identity or ownership review, transaction review, invoice-payment workflows, reconciliation, business reporting, and operational analysis.

AK Global Consulting LLC does not sell consumer data and does not use Plaid data for lending, credit decisions, investment advisory services, broker-dealer activity, money transmission, legal services, tax preparation, or accounting services.

Vendor and third-party service providers

The company uses reputable third-party providers for website hosting, domain security, email, form delivery, payment infrastructure, account connectivity, and related business systems. Vendor access is limited to what is necessary to provide the requested service.

Incident response

If AK Global Consulting LLC identifies a suspected security incident involving systems or data under its control, the company will assess the issue, contain affected access where appropriate, investigate the scope, preserve relevant information, coordinate with service providers, and make notifications when required by applicable obligations.

Retention and deletion

Data is retained only as long as reasonably necessary for business operations, reporting, reconciliation, compliance, dispute resolution, security, or legal obligations. Information that is no longer needed is deleted, de-identified, or restricted where appropriate.

Periodic review

Security practices, access controls, vendor access, and data handling procedures are reviewed periodically and updated as business operations, technical systems, or regulatory expectations change.