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What you should know.
We recognize our obligation to keep information about your business
opportunity secure and confidential. StartUpSmart has created this privacy statement in order to
demonstrate our commitment to your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination
practices for this website: ForwardFunding.com.
Summary: Clients of StartUpSmart
- Unlike many other financial institutions, we do not sell or share
Client Information with any unaffiliated company outside
StartUpSmart.
- We carefully manage information among our sister companies -
SCVN.org,
SCEBN.org,
forwardfunding.com, and
Arkad
Capital. Understanding your relationship with us
allows us to serve you better and offer you more
convenience and benefits. Keeping your business
concept secure is one of our most important
responsibilities.
- We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to
protect your Business Plan. Employees are authorized
to access Business Plans only when they need to. Our employees are bound by a
Secrecy Agreement and ethics statement that requires
confidential treatment of your Business Plan and are
subject to disciplinary action if they fail to
follow this code.
- At StartUpSmart we are committed to safeguard your Business Plan.
Since your privacy is a priority to us, StartUpSmart
will not share nonpublic information about you with
third parties outside of the StartUpSmart family
without your consent, except as explained in our
Privacy Policy.
We have created our Privacy Policy to communicate our privacy
commitment to you, and to serve your privacy needs.
Privacy Policy
The policy presented below covers how StartUpSmart Investments uses
and protects your Business Plan. “Your Business
Plan” means information personally identifiable with
to specific Customer or about a Customer’s current
or former relationship with StartUpSmart. This
policy is provided to you in accordance with the
Federal Financial Privacy Law, 15 U.S.C. 6801-6810.
Maintaining the security and confidentiality of your
Business Plan is a top priority for us at
StartUpSmart. We carefully manage our process in
order to give you better service, greater
convenience and additional benefits consistent with
the nature of your overall business with
StartUpSmart.
Protecting Your Information
StartUpSmart does not sell your confidential information to anyone.
We will only share your Business Plan with our
independent analysts as stated in this policy, or unless we
provide you with additional notice and receive your
written permission.
Information Security Is A Priority
One of our most important activities is maintaining the security of
your Business Plan. We value your trust and
carefully handle information we possess about you.
All StartUpSmart employees who have access to your
information are bound by policies that require the
confidential treatment of your Business Plan, and
they are subject to disciplinary action if they
violate these policies. In addition, StartUpSmart
maintains physical, electronic and procedural
safeguards to protect your Business Plan. We
continually assess new technology for protecting
information and, when appropriate, we upgrade our
information security systems.
Information That is Gathered By the Firm
StartUpSmart gathers and uses various types of information to
properly service you, and better understand your
needs. We also strive to assist you in learning more
about financial products and services that may be of
interest to you. The information Plan we gather
generally consists of the following:
-Information gathered from applications, forms and
other information you provide us.
-Information about your transactions and your account experience
with StartUpSmart.
Sharing Information Within StartUpSmart.com
The information we share within the StartUpSmart corporate family
helps us to provide you with greater service.
StartUpSmart may share Business Plan within the
StartUpSmart corporate family, except as limited
below. By sharing information about your Business
Plan internally, we can save you time and money and
make it easier for you to do business with us.
Sharing Information With Companies/Analysts That Work For Us
We may share Business Plan with unaffiliated third parties (i.e.
analysts) who perform services for StartUpSmart, or
in connection with servicing or processing of the
products and services we provide that support our
relationship with our clients.
We may also share your information with companies we have hired to
provide marketing and other services on our behalf.
All of these companies are contractually obligated
to keep the information that we provide to them
confidential, and use this information only for the
purpose of providing the services we’ve asked them
to perform for us or for you.
Our Former Customers
Even if you are no longer a StartUpSmart Customer, our privacy
policy will continue to apply to you.
Keeping Up-To-Date With Our Privacy Policy
StartUpSmart will provide notice of our privacy policy annually, as
long as you maintain an account with us.
StartUpSmart reserves the right to make changes to
this policy. You can always review our current
policy online at
http://www.forwardfunding.com/privacy.html.
Online Forms and Registrations:
Our site's Membership Registration Form requires users to give us
contact information (i.e. name and email address).
Opt-in Lists
This site provides the option of subscribing to opt-in (permission
based) email lists. We provide daily news related to
venture capital and private equity. If you signed up
for our daily news list and would like to
unsubscribe (opt-out), you can easily do so by
forwarding any email you receive to
unsubscribe@forwardfunding.com. If you have problems,
contact us immediately
newsletter@forwardfunding.com.
Linked Sites
This site contains links to other sites.
ForwardFunding.com is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content
of such Web sites. We may use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. Ads
may contain cookies, and appear to be coming from
our site, but in reality they are coming from our
partners who are serving ads on our site. Our site
does not use cookies. We do not have access to any
information about you from cookies you might receive
while visiting our site.
Contacting Us:
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the
practices of this site, or your dealings with this
Web site, you can contact:
Webmaster
Forward Funding
webmaster@forwardfunding.com.
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