At Small Business Majority, we are committed to protecting your on-line privacy and the security of the information that you might provide to us.

We will potentially use this information to send you news and information about SBM. When you join SBM we ask you to give us contact information (name, e-mail, address, etc.). We also ask you to tell us how you would like to help the organization. We may use this information to send you material about SBM and to help match your interests to organization activities. If you provide your phone number, we may call you.

You may update or correct your information by emailing us at info@smallbusinessforamerica.org. You may remove your e-mail address from our lists by emailing us at unsubscribe@smallbusinessforamerica.org. Our unsubscribe requests are processed weekly.

We may use information provided when you contribute on-line via our website and contribute by mail to contact you for other purposes or to solicit you for additional contributions.

We may, in accordance with Federal election law, exchange our list of e-mail addresses with successor organizations and/or partners, and with other like-minded organizations.

The rules below apply to contribitions to the Small Business for America Political Action Committee (PAC).

Federal law requires us to use our best efforts to collect and report your name, address, employer, occupation, and the amount of your contribution. If the contribution is made by credit card, federal law requires us to collect and report your credit card number as well.

Federal law requires us to use our best efforts to collect and report to the Federal Election Commission the name, mailing address, occupation and name of employer of individuals whose contributions exceed $200 in a calendar year. These records are available to the public. However, they cannot be used by other organizations for fundraising. For additional information, visit the FEC web site at http://www.fec.gov. We also make a note of your telephone number and e-mail address, if you choose to provide them, but you are not required to do so. Doing so helps us because then we can use your telephone number and e-mail address to quickly contact you if follow-up on your contribution is necessary under federal election law.

In addition to the requirement to report contributions to the Federal Election Commission, we may, in accordance with Federal election law, exchange our list of e-mail addresses with successor organizations and/or partners, and with other like-minded organizations. We will not sell or exchange your credit card information to any other third party under any circumstances.

To comply with Federal election law, our contribution records will be continuously maintained in a separate secure database.

The SBM website does not ask children 13 or under for any information that can be used to identify the child. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children 13 or under. Persons under the age of 18 and under are not permitted to contribute via the website.

Our site links to a limited number of other web sites. SBM is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these web sites.

SBM may choose to use postal mailing lists it acquires from other organizations. If your name appears on one of these lists you may receive non-electronic mailings from us.

We log IP addresses, or the location of your computer network on the Internet, for systems administrations and troubleshooting purposes. We may also may use IP addresses in the aggregate to track which pages people visit in order to improve the quality of the site. We do not use these data to develop profiles of individual visitors to our web site.

This Web site uses cookies so people who sign on as members or register for discussion forums and other services won't have to re-enter their user name and password every time they visit the site. We do not use cookies for any other purpose.

SBM analyzes its Web site logs to constantly improve the value of our Web site. We use an external service to provide real-time reporting of browser accesses to our site. This includes page views, unique views, unique visitors, repeat visitors, frequency of visits, and peak-volume traffic periods. We do not use this service to gather, request, record, require, collect or track any Internet users' personal information.

Our web site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of the information under our control. Our server is located in a locked, secure environment.

When you contribute on-line, we use a secure server and SSL to protect your credit card number and other personal information during the transmission. SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape for secure transmission of private information over the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt data that are transmitted over the SSL connection. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer browsers support SSL, and web sites use SSL when users transmit confidential information such as credit card numbers. Web pages that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http. SSL uses 128 bit encryption within the United States. For more information on SSL, please visit the Netscape web site: http://home.netscape.com/security/techbriefs/ssl.html

At SBM, we make every effort to ensure the security and privacy of the information that you share with us on-line. Remember that steps you take to help protect the privacy of your personal information, such as safeguarding your passwords and logging off the Web site after viewing or submitting personal information, are equally important. If you have broadband access to the Internet it is strongly advised to use a firewall.

If you need to change your email address, you can unsubscribe from our mailing list at unsubscribe@smallbusinessforamerica.org and sign up again using your new information.

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, the information we have collected from you on-line, the practices of this site, or your interaction with this web site, send email to: info@smallbusinessforamerica.org.

You can also reach us via U.S. Mail at:

Privacy
Small Business Majority
3030 Bridgeway, Suite 132
Sausalito, CA 94965

In an ongoing effort to provide the utmost in security of the information you give to us, SBM reserves the right to revise or update the policies set forth above. Should any of our changes be substantial in nature, we will post them clearly and conspicuously in advance of their effective date. Updates or revisions will not be applied retroactively.