Small Business Majority Community Privacy Policy
Small Business Majority ("us", "we," or "our") operates the community.smallbusinessmajority.org website (hereinafter referred to as the "Community").
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use our Community forum and the choices you have associated with that data.
How we use information you provide:
We use your data to provide and improve the Small Business Majority Community (Community). By using the Community, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Small Business Majority uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain the Community
- To send you updates related to Small Business Majority and the Community
- To notify you about changes to the Community
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Community when you choose to do so
- To provide customer care and support
- To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Community
- To monitor the usage of the Community
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
Types of data collected:
Personal data:
While using our Community forum, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("personal data"). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Address, City, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code
- Cookies and Usage Data
Usage data:
We may also collect information on how the Community is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Community that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Transfer of data:
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to—and maintained on—computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to the United States and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information, which represents your agreement to that transfer.
Small Business Majority will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place guaranteeing the security of your data and other personal information.
Tracking & cookies data:
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Community and hold certain information.
Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Community.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Community. You can learn more how to manage cookies in your browser’s cookies guide.
Examples of Cookies we use:
- Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Community.
- Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
- Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
Updating your information:
You may update or correct your contact information, or unsubscribe from any or all of our mailing lists, by visiting http://go.smallbusinessmajority.org/subscriptions or by emailing us at [email protected].
Information on children:
This Community does not ask children 18 or under for any information that can be used to identify the child. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children 18 or under.
Linking to other sites:
The Community may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
How we use IP addresses and browser information collected on the Community:
We analyze our website logs to constantly improve the value of our Community through programs like Google Analytics. We use an external service to provide real-time reporting of browser access to our Community. 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 user’s personal information. We log IP addresses, or the location of your computer network on the Internet, for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes. We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Community.
Disclosure of data:
Legal requirement:
Small Business Majority may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- To comply with a legal obligation
- To protect and defend the rights or property of Small Business Majority
- To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Community
- To protect the personal safety of users of the Community or the public
- To protect against legal liability
Security of data:
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Contacting us about privacy:
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, the information we have collected from you online, the practices of this Community, or your interaction with this Community, please send an email to: [email protected].
You can also reach us via US Mail at:
Privacy
Small Business Majority
1015 15th Street NW, Suite 450
Washington, DC 20005
Updates to our Privacy Policy:
In an ongoing effort to provide the utmost in security of the information you give us, Small Business Majority 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.