Privacy Policy

The National Veteran Small Business Coalition and the NVSBC Education Foundation (heretofore jointly referred to as “NVSBC”) have created this Privacy Policy to explain why we collect particular information and how we will protect your personal privacy when you visit our websites.

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for all NVSBC websites and servers. In order to fully understand your rights, we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy. NVSBC reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, and we encourage you to frequently check this page for any changes to this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy applies to all NVSBC-owned websites, domains, services, applications and technology products.

Our site contains links to other websites maintained or controlled by third parties. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website for which the NVSBC has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy policies on all third-party sites as their policies may be different than ours.

We may also provide social media features that enable you to share information with your social networks and to interact with NVSBC on various social media sites. Please note that when you share your information on these social media sites, you are entering a third-party site for which the NVSBC has no responsibility. In addition, your use of these features may result in the collection or sharing of information about you, depending on the feature, by the third-party social media site. We encourage you to review the privacy policies, notices and settings on the social media sites with which you interact to make sure you understand the information that may be collected, used and shared by those sites.

In common with other websites, log files are stored on the web server saving details such as the visitor’s IP address, browser type, referring page and time of visit. Our sites may also use cookies to remember visitor preferences when interacting with the website. We also receive aggregated data (totals, not individual data) from Google Analytics that will include your data.

Forms on the website may ask you for additional information such as your name, address and email address. The information you provide is stored on a server and used only for the purpose(s) indicated on the form. Occasionally, your information may be utilized to contact you as a consequence related to the intent of the form, about a similar event or service or to provide you with information about another topic to which you have previously indicated a high level of interest.

If you post, comment or share personal information, including photographs, to any public forum on an NVSBC site, social network, blog, or another such forum, please be aware that any information you submit can be read, viewed, collected, or used by other users, and could be used to contact you, send you unsolicited messages, or for purposes over which neither you nor NVSBC have control. NVSBC is not responsible for the personal information you choose to provide in these forums. We will not facilitate the merging of your personally identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information collected through any advertising product or feature unless we notify you, and obtain your consent to, that merger.

Cookies are small digital signature files that are stored by your web browser that allow your preferences to be recorded when visiting the website. Also, they may be used to track your return visits to the website.

We may use cookies to improve your individual experience on the website. These cookies are rendered useless unless you are interacting with the website.

We utilize a number of outside products and services to provide our visitors with a more comprehensive online experience. We take all reasonable precautions to verify the authenticity and reliability of our service providers and vendors.

Web beacons (also known as pixel tags, internet tags, clear GIFs, or single-pixel GIFs) and embedded scripts are other technologies that we use on our websites and in our applications, as well as in some of our emails and ads. Web beacons (or “tags”) are bits of programming code included in web pages, emails, and ads that notify us (or the companies that help us run our business) when those web pages, emails, or ads have been viewed or clicked on. Embedded scripts are bits of programming code included within some of our web pages that measure how you use those web pages, such as which links you click on. We use this information to improve our websites and online services, tailor our websites and online services to your likely interests, and conduct market research. You may be able to turn off scripting functionality, such as JavaScript, within your browser (please refer to your browser’s help function).

NVSBC contracts with service providers to place ads on websites owned by third parties. These service providers may send third-party cookies from—and use web beacons on—their websites, as well as on the NVSBC’s website. These cookies and web beacons may enable NVSBC to collect information about the pages you viewed and the links you clicked on in order to target paid media advertising. At times, these third-party websites may advertise to previous visitors that visited NVSBC’s website but did not complete a task on our site, for example, finishing a contact form to make an inquiry. Most web browsers include a “Do Not Track” feature that offers you the ability to inform websites and ad networks that you do not want your online activities tracked.

To keep your (and our) information strictly confidential, we protect it with physical and electronic safeguards, and we make sure that we abide by applicable federal security standards. We do not allow anyone to have access to information unless we authorize or designate them to do so.

In addition, we require all outside businesses or organizations that we work with in any area of our organization, including marketing and data processing, to maintain the confidentiality of your information in accordance with this privacy policy and to comply with all applicable laws. However, we may report your information to government regulators and/or law enforcement agencies, as required by law in connection with a fraud investigation or in response to a subpoena or legal process.

By using this website, you consent to practices described in the Privacy Notice posted at this website. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use this website. NVSBC reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this policy at any time. Your continued use of this website following the posting of changes to these terms means that you accept these changes.

Your personal information will only be used purposes directly connected to or approved by NVSBC, which may include but not be limited to, information related to NVSBC programs and services. We may share your personal information within NVSBC and our vendors for the purpose of performing NVSBC business.

Unless otherwise required by law, we will not share your personal information with any other individual or organization, except in the following circumstances:

Consent
We may disclose your information to third parties if we have your consent to do so.

Service Providers
We enter into contracts with third parties to support our operations. In such cases, we may share your information with such third parties who are obligated to safeguard the information in the same manner as NVSBC.

Required by Law
We will share your information with third parties to the extent we are required to do so by law, court order, or subpoena.

De-Identified and Aggregate Information
We use and disclose information about our customers and payees in de-identified or aggregate form without limitation.

You can use Google Ads Settings (http://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous) to manage the Google ads you see and opt-out of interest-based ads. Even if you opt-out of interest-based ads, you may still see ads based on factors such as your general location derived from your IP address, your browser type and recent, previous searches related to your current search. You can also opt-out of the Google Analytics anonymous website and/or application traffic behavior by clicking on the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

You can also opt-out from email communication from NVSBC by following the unsubscribe instructions included in emails sent to you by NVSBC.

NVSBC implements appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your information when you transmit it to us that ensure a level of security appropriate to the risks presented by the processing and the nature of the data to be protected, and when we store it on our information technology systems. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information.

Subject to all applicable laws, you have the right to request access to, a copy of, rectification, restriction in the use of, or erasure of your information. You also have the right to withdraw consent to the use of your information, without affecting the lawfulness of NVSBC’s use of the information prior to receipt of your request.

We may update or change this policy at any time. Your continued use of this site after any such change indicates your acceptance of such changes.