Startup Business Boot Camp, Inc. ("SBBC, we, us or our") whose primary service is to conduct live events at venues in various cities around the United States, typically over 1 weekend where participants gain critical knowledge on starting a business and if are so inclined, (and depending on the exact type of business concept), can even incorporate their new company and launch it to the point where they are positioned to receive their first lead or customer even before the event is completed, hereinafter referred to as the “Services or our Events”.

Startup Business Boot Camp, Inc. is the sole owner of the information collected on our Web site: StartupBusinessBootCamp.com. Startup Business Boot Camp collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.

We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of the information we may gather about you, and pledge to use that information carefully and sensibly.

All information you provide to SBBC via our Web site, by email, telephone, fax, at our events or otherwise in connection with our Services, will be transmitted to, held and processed by us as described in this Privacy Policy. Startup Business Boot Camp, Inc. is a company incorporated in the United States of America. Accordingly, information submitted by you to us will be transmitted to, held and processed in the USA.

This Privacy Policy describes our practices concerning your privacy. By accepting our Terms of Service Agreement, using the StartupBusinessBootCamp.com Web site, attending one of our events, or otherwise interacting with Us by telephone, email or other means, you are consenting to our practices, including the use and disclosure of any personally identifiable information you have shared with us, as described in this Privacy Policy.

ANTI-SPAM POLICY

Startup Business Boot Camp is 100% opposed to unsolicited commercial email ("spam"). We do not intentionally send emails to anyone without their permission and we do not sell or provide email addresses to any third party. If you receive any unsolicited emails from spammers, please be assured that Startup Business Boot Camp did not intentionally provide your email address to such parties.

This does not mean that we can prevent spam from happening on the Internet. Unfortunately, spammers obtain email addresses in any number of ways. Please be assured that at Startup Business Boot Camp we hate spam as much as you do.

If you believe that you have gotten unsolicited email from us, contact us and we will investigate. Please be assured that we strive not to contact anyone without permission, and if you prefer not to receive any further communications from us, just follow the instructions within the email message you received or tell us and we will endeavor to make sure you no longer receive emails from us.

INFORMATION COLLECTION & USE INCLUDING COMMUNICATIONS FROM OUR SITE

Free Startup Business eNewsletter & Boot Camp Event Notifications
In order to provide information we feel is useful to aspiring entrepreneurs and people interested in attending our live events, we request minimal contact information and location information so we  may effectively deliver event notifications that are local and relevant to You.

We request your email address which is required, and may also request your first name, phone number and/or cell phone.

We use this information to contact you about our Services which you have expressed an interest in. We may contact you via email, SMS text messages (if you opt in) and even through live or automated telephone notifications. In all cases, we provide convenient opt-out instructions if for any reason you choose to no longer receive our email, text or phone notifications or eNewsletter.

Introductory Seminar Registration
In some of the cities where we hold workshops, we also offer seminars which may be free or at a very low admission price. The goal of these seminars is to provide attendees with useful, actionable information to assist them in their business and entrepreneurial endeavors as well as introduce them to the full value of our weekend workshops. Often times, these seminars are sponsored by organizations such as the local Chamber of Commerce, SCORE, the SBA and other groups who may also assist Us in promoting these seminars to the local community. By registering for one of our free or low cost seminars, You may also receive emails from one or more of our event sponsors in addition to followup emails from Us. In all cases, You may opt-out of receiving these communications at any time by taking the action at the bottom of any email that you receive. Additionally, we also announce to the attendees either during check-in or sometime during the event that You may receive emails from our sponsors and offer an opt-out option at that time (should the event be sponsored).

Event Registration
In order to attend one of our Events, you must first complete the registration including remitting payment.  During registration you are required to provide Us with contact information (such as your name, email address, telephone number(s) and billing address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date and CVV). We use this information for billing purposes.  If we have trouble processing your transaction, we will use this information to contact you. We do not store any billing-related information on our servers.

You also have the option to provide idea/business concept information to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience prior to, and during our events. 

When you register for an event, you typically will receive a confirmation email from us with specific event details such as directions to the event as well as a payment receipt from our payment processor. Because we want to ensure you maximize your investment in our event, we will remind you of the upcoming event you registered for via email, SMS text messages (if applicable and only if you opt in) and even through live or automated telephone notifications.

Event Wait List Registration
Since many of our Events fill to capacity well in advance of the event date and since we do not accept registrations at the door, prospective attendees are usually provided the option to sign up on the Waiting List in case someone needs to reschedule their attendance to another date. When a spot opens up, we will attempt to contact everyone on the Waiting List for that event, typically in order of a "first come-first contacted" basis. If the event you are interested in is full, we highly encourage you to sign up for the Waiting List immediately. You are under no obligation to attend when you are on the Waiting List but the sooner you sign up for it, the more likely you are to be offered the opportunity to attend should a seat become available. If you are on the Wait List, we will contact you via email, SMS text messages (if applicable and only if you opt in) and even through live or automated telephone notifications. Although we try to allow for an hour or two to elapse before calling the next person in line on the Wait List, we cannot guarantee this especially when the Event date is near. If you receive a message from us regarding your Wait List interest, please contact us as soon as possible even if you cannot attend so we may offer the spot to the next person in line.

Customer Service
We will communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to notify you of our events. We will communicate with you by email, text message (if applicable and only if you specifically opt-in) or by telephone (typically live, but telephone communication may be automated).

Surveys or Contests
Because we are very interested in improving our events and delivering exceptional value to our attendees, we may also contact you after you attend one of our events to solicit feedback or complete a satisfaction survey. This contact may occur immediately following an event or even several weeks or more after an event.

We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company is prohibited from using our users' personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties.

Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend, spouse or prospective business partner about our site and our start a business in 1 weekend events, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Startup Business Boot Camp does not store this information and uses it for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.

Information You Give Us
We receive and store non-billing information you provide to us when you join our email list, register for an event or waiting list for an event, communicate by email, telephone or physical mail with our corporate office, our Boot Camp Instructors, our customer service, or otherwise interact with us. Such information may include your name, address, email address, transaction history, and other related data. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to receive emails from us or attend our events.

Information Gathered Automatically
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies" and may also use "clear gifs" to obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses our Web site. As you are likely aware, "cookies" are small files that we transfer to your computer's hard drive or your Web browser memory to enable our systems to recognize your browser.

"Clear gifs" are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and may be used to track the online movements of Web users, performed an action that led to a particular Web page to be displayed or to let us know if you have opened an email that we sent you.

Examples of the information we collect and analyze in this manner include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; operating system, computer and connection information such as Web browser version and type, your behavior on our Web site, as well as the URL you come from and go to next (whether this URL is on our site or not). The cookies and clear gifs that we use do not contain and are not tied to personally identifiable information about you.

You are always free to decline our cookies if your Web browser allows it.

Log Files & "Analytics"
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files.  This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. 

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. 

We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information. 

We use Google Analytics, a third-party tracking service that uses a variety of methods to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data to allows us to determine which Web pages are of most interest to our users and to gauge the effectiveness of our advertising efforts

Do We Share the Information We Gather?
Information about our users is not sold or shared with third parties that are not part of our web site or our events. Information about our users is used and may be shared with our corporate office, customer service personnel, and with our Boot Camp Instructors. When requested, we may share an attendee's contact information only with a particular expert at our events who believes said attendee has an interest in hearing from said expert again in order to assist the attendee in their new business efforts on a good faith basis.

Protection of SBBC and Others
We reserve the right to release personal information when we believe this release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements; assist in fraud protection, investigation or prosecution; or protect the rights, property, or security of Us, our users, our instructors, our experts or others. We also reserve the right to release personal information if required to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served to us.

How Secure Is Information About Me?
We work to protect the security of your information during transmission when providing billing information by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. We do not store billing information on our servers. Information stored on our servers consists of non-billing information provided by users while registering for our events, waitlists or email lists as well as communicating with us. While no system is completely foolproof, we take the security of your personal information very seriously, and our security measures are designed to protect that information in a responsible manner.

CHOICE/OPT-OUT

If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter or event notification communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each email newsletter or communication (typically located at the bottom of the message). If you do not wish to be notified of an opening at an event if you signed up for our event Wait list, you should request removal from the Wait List and upon removal you will be opted out of that communication. If you receive automated phone calls from us, each automated phone call will have opt-out instructions. If you have opted in to receive any text/SMS message communications from us, these communications will have opt-out instructions. If you have difficulty for any reason in opting out of these or any other communications from us, you may contact us by phone or email to request to opt-out of one or more or all of our communications.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

The StartupBusinessBootCamp.com Web site may contain hyperlinks to other third party Web sites not under our operation or control. Our Event materials may also reference Web sites of other third parties not under Our operation or control. When We provide said links, We do so only as a convenience and do not necessarily endorse and are not responsible for the contents of any linked or referenced site or any hyperlink contained in a linked or referenced site.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. 

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

BUSINESS TRANSITIONS

In the event we go through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred.  You will be notified via email and/or prominent notice on this page and possibly elsewhere on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

PRIVACY QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions or concerns about privacy at the Startup Business Boot Camp, please contact us, and we will try to answer your questions or otherwise resolve the matter to your satisfaction. Or, if you prefer, you may contact us in writing at Startup Business Boot Camp, Inc., 8255 W. Sunrise Blvd., #118, Plantation, FL 33322.

REVISIONS

If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, link from the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. 

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently.  If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here.

Effective Date: Privacy Policy last modified February 19, 2010.