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Privacy Policy

The South Metro Denver Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is a member of the Colorado SBDC Network. The Colorado SBDC Network is a cooperative venture between the State of Colorado and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). All information shared with the Colorado SBDC and any of its resources (staff, faculty, volunteers and consultants) will be held in strict confidence. Information provided by you will not be used to the advantage of any staff member, consultant, other resource of the Colorado SBDC or any third party.

It is illegal for us to give or sell any personal information regarding SBDC clients to third parties. All SBDC client information is considered to be personal including your name, address, phone number, fax number, e-mail addresses, and the nature of the assistance you are seeking. Anyone associated with the SBDC who has direct contact with SBDC clients has signed a confidentiality agreement indicating that they will keep any and all matters related to clients confidential.
In keeping to the highest Web standards, we would like to detail what information we use, and how we use it:

Server Logs
The Web server does log your IP address in standard server logs. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, determine general site usage and to improve our Web site. Your IP address contains no personal information about you.

Cookies
Our site may use cookies to control content delivery, facilitate shopping cart sessions and to save assigned passwords for ease of use by authorized users. We do not belong to any groups that track users across Web sites or to gather personal information about you.

Contact and Personal Information - Revised Jan 15, 2003
Personal Information gathered, including your email address, will not be sold or made available to any third parties for any reason.

Compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA): the chamber does not knowingly collect the personal information of persons under the age of 18. If SmallBusinessDenver.com learns of any personal information collected of persons under the age of 18, it will immediately be deleted.

Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Public Forums

This site may in the future make, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its visitors. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with the South Metro Denver SBDC, you can contact:
Aaron Langton
Bestchamber.com
alangton@bestchamber.com