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Privacy Policy

 

She Means Business

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Effective Date: July 24, 2026

She Means Business (“She Means Business,” “SMB,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to responsibly handling the personal information of members, event attendees, website visitors, subscribers, business owners, community participants, and others who interact with us.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information when you interact with our website, memberships, events, programs, online communities, communications, and other services collectively referred to as the “Services.”

Please review this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our information practices.

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1. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with She Means Business.

A. Information You Provide to Us

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide when you:

  • Purchase or apply for a membership

  • Create an account or member profile

  • Register for an in-person or virtual event

  • Purchase a workshop, program, retreat, ticket, table, sponsorship, or other offering

  • Subscribe to our email or text-message communications

  • Complete a contact form, interest form, survey, application, or questionnaire

  • Participate in a promotion, giveaway, community initiative, or feedback request

  • Post or communicate within an SMB member area or online community

  • Communicate with us directly by email, text message, social media, phone, or another method

This information may include:

  • Full name

  • Email address

  • Phone number

  • Mailing or billing address

  • City and state

  • Business name

  • Job title, professional role, industry, or business category

  • Website and social media links

  • Profile photograph, biography, business description, or logo

  • Membership status and account information

  • Event registrations and attendance history

  • Program, workshop, or retreat participation

  • Communication and marketing preferences

  • Application, survey, and questionnaire responses

  • Messages, comments, posts, reviews, testimonials, and other content you submit

  • Transaction and purchase information

  • Any other information you voluntarily provide

Please do not submit confidential or sensitive information through general contact forms, member profiles, public community posts, or direct messages unless we specifically request it for a legitimate business purpose.

B. Payment Information

Payments are processed through third-party payment processors and website platforms.

We generally do not directly receive or store complete payment-card numbers, card security codes, or online banking credentials. We may receive limited transaction information, such as your name, billing address, purchase amount, payment status, transaction date, and the last digits of a payment method.

Payment processors handle payment information according to their own privacy policies and security practices.

C. Information Collected Automatically

When you visit or use our website or online Services, we and our technology providers may automatically collect information such as:

  • Internet Protocol address

  • Browser type and version

  • Device type and operating system

  • General geographic location based on your IP address

  • Referring website or source

  • Pages viewed

  • Links clicked

  • Date and time of visits

  • Time spent on pages

  • Website navigation and interaction information

  • Cookie identifiers and similar technical information

We use this information to operate our website, understand how visitors use our Services, improve performance, measure marketing efforts, and protect against fraudulent or unauthorized activity.

D. Information From Third Parties

We may receive information from third-party platforms or service providers when you interact with SMB through those services.

These sources may include:

  • Website and membership platforms

  • Event registration platforms

  • Payment processors

  • Email and text-message providers

  • Social media platforms

  • Advertising and analytics providers

  • Video-conferencing platforms

  • Referral partners

  • Event co-hosts or collaborators

  • Publicly available business directories and professional websites

The information we receive depends on your settings, your interaction with the third party, and the third party’s privacy practices.

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2. How We Use Your Information

We may use personal information to:

  • Create and manage member accounts and profiles

  • Process memberships, registrations, purchases, and payments

  • Provide access to events, programs, workshops, retreats, resources, recordings, and community features

  • Confirm registrations and send event details, reminders, updates, and service announcements

  • Provide customer service and respond to questions

  • Process applications for leadership, speaking, sponsorship, partnership, or other opportunities

  • Maintain membership and event records

  • Personalize your experience and recommend relevant SMB offerings

  • Send newsletters, educational content, promotional emails, and business updates

  • Send text messages when you have provided the appropriate consent

  • Promote SMB events, memberships, programs, and community opportunities

  • Feature participating members, speakers, sponsors, leaders, or businesses when authorized

  • Operate, analyze, and improve our website, programs, communications, and member experience

  • Measure attendance, engagement, advertising, and marketing performance

  • Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, misuse, security incidents, or prohibited activity

  • Enforce our agreements, policies, and community standards

  • Maintain business, accounting, tax, and legal records

  • Comply with applicable legal and regulatory obligations

  • Protect the rights, safety, and property of SMB, our members, attendees, and others

  • Carry out other purposes disclosed when information is collected or with your permission

We may also use aggregated or deidentified information for business analysis, planning, research, marketing measurement, and improvement of our Services.

 

3. Email and Text-Message Communications

Email Communications

You may receive transactional or service-related emails concerning memberships, purchases, registrations, account activity, programs, events, or other Services you requested.

When permitted, we may also send newsletters, event promotions, educational content, community updates, and other marketing communications.

You may unsubscribe from promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the email. Unsubscribing from marketing emails will not prevent us from sending necessary transactional or service-related communications.

Text Messages

When you voluntarily provide your phone number and consent to receive text messages, we may send event reminders, membership communications, promotional messages, or other updates consistent with the consent you provided.

You may opt out of marketing text messages at any time by replying STOP or by contacting us. Message and data rates may apply.

We do not sell mobile phone information. Mobile opt-in information and text-message consent will not be shared with third parties or affiliates for their independent marketing or promotional purposes. We may provide this information to vendors that help us deliver text-message services and are permitted to use it only to provide those services.

 

4. Member Profiles, Directories, and Community Participation

SMB is a community-focused organization. Certain membership features may allow members to create profiles, list their businesses, communicate with other participants, or participate in online community spaces.

Information you choose to include in a member profile, directory, community post, comment, chat, event introduction, or similar area may be visible to other members, attendees, or community participants.

This information may include your:

  • Name

  • Profile photograph

  • Business name

  • Business description

  • Industry or service category

  • Website

  • Social media accounts

  • General service area

  • Professional contact information

  • Comments, posts, or community contributions

Please use care when sharing personal or confidential information. We cannot control how another participant may use, save, copy, or independently contact you using information you voluntarily disclose.

We may remove content or restrict access when we believe content violates our terms, community guidelines, or applicable law.

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5. Events, Photography, Video, and Recordings

SMB events may be photographed, recorded, livestreamed, or otherwise documented.

Photographs, video recordings, audio recordings, testimonials, event footage, screenshots, or participant contributions may be used for purposes such as:

  • Documenting an event

  • Sharing event recaps

  • Promoting SMB and future events

  • Creating educational materials

  • Posting on websites, social media, email communications, or advertising

  • Providing event or program recordings to registered participants or members

These materials may include a participant’s image, voice, business name, presentation, participation, or comments.

When appropriate, additional photography, recording, testimonial, speaker, or media-release terms may be provided during event registration or through a separate agreement.

If you have a concern about being prominently photographed or recorded at an event, please contact us before the event or notify an SMB representative at check-in. Although we will make reasonable efforts to honor individual requests, we cannot guarantee that someone will not appear incidentally in crowd or background footage.

 

6. How We Disclose Information

We may disclose personal information in the following circumstances.

A. Service Providers

We may provide information to third-party vendors that help us operate our business and deliver the Services.

These providers may include:

  • Website and membership-platform providers

  • Payment processors

  • Email and customer-relationship-management platforms

  • Text-message providers

  • Event registration systems

  • Video-conferencing and recording platforms

  • Cloud-storage providers

  • Analytics and advertising providers

  • Accounting and bookkeeping providers

  • Photographers, videographers, and event-support vendors

  • Printing, mailing, and fulfillment providers

  • Technical support and cybersecurity providers

These providers may process information on our behalf or in connection with the services they provide and are subject to their applicable contractual, privacy, and security obligations.

B. SMB Team Members and Authorized Representatives

Information may be provided to SMB employees, independent contractors, virtual assistants, location leaders, event support personnel, coaches, or other authorized representatives when reasonably necessary to perform their responsibilities.

We expect authorized representatives to handle personal information only for legitimate SMB purposes.

C. Events, Programs, Co-Hosts, and Business Partners

We may share limited information with event venues, speakers, coaches, facilitators, co-hosts, sponsors, partners, or collaborators when reasonably necessary to administer an event or program.

For example, an attendee’s name may be included on a check-in list, seating list, name badge, participant roster, or event communication.

We do not provide attendee email addresses or phone numbers to speakers, sponsors, marketing-table participants, or other businesses for their independent marketing unless:

  • You have requested or authorized the introduction;

  • The sharing is clearly disclosed when you register;

  • You voluntarily provide the information directly to that business; or

  • The sharing is otherwise permitted by applicable law.

D. Legal and Safety Purposes

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe it is necessary to:

  • Comply with applicable law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or legal process

  • Respond to a lawful government request

  • Enforce our agreements, policies, or community standards

  • Investigate suspected fraud, misuse, harassment, or illegal activity

  • Protect the rights, property, security, or safety of SMB, our members, attendees, or others

  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

E. Business Transactions

If SMB is involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, financing, sale of assets, or transfer of some or all of the business, personal information may be disclosed as part of that transaction, subject to appropriate confidentiality protections.

F. With Your Direction or Consent

We may disclose information when you direct us to do so, request an introduction, authorize a feature or promotion, or otherwise provide consent.

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7. Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising

We do not sell personal information for monetary compensation.

We do not knowingly sell sensitive personal information.

Some state privacy laws may define “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” broadly enough to include certain disclosures involving analytics, advertising cookies, social media tools, or similar technology.

To the extent applicable law treats one of our practices as a sale, sharing, or use for targeted advertising, eligible individuals may have the right to opt out by contacting us using the information provided in the “Contact Us” section.

 

8. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We and our technology providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, and similar technologies to:

  • Enable essential website functions

  • Remember preferences

  • Maintain account or session activity

  • Understand website traffic and usage

  • Improve website performance

  • Measure event and marketing interest

  • Evaluate email and advertising performance

  • Display or measure relevant promotions

  • Detect security issues and prevent fraud

Some cookies are necessary for the website to function. Others may support analytics or advertising.

You may control certain cookies through your browser settings and, when available, through the cookie settings provided on our website. Blocking cookies may affect the availability or performance of some features.

Your interaction with third-party social media buttons, embedded content, videos, maps, payment tools, or other integrations may allow those third parties to collect information according to their own privacy policies.

 

9. Sensitive Personal Information

We do not intentionally request sensitive personal information through our general website forms, member profiles, or community features unless it is reasonably necessary for a specific purpose.

Sensitive personal information may include information such as:

  • Social Security or government identification numbers

  • Complete financial account credentials

  • Precise geolocation

  • Biometric identifiers

  • Health or medical information

  • Citizenship or immigration information

  • Religious beliefs

  • Information concerning a known child

  • Other information treated as sensitive under applicable law

Please do not include this information in a public profile, community post, event chat, testimonial, or general inquiry.

If we need sensitive information for a legitimate purpose, we will provide an appropriate explanation and obtain consent when required.

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10. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:

  • Provide the Services

  • Maintain memberships and accounts

  • Complete transactions

  • Administer events and programs

  • Maintain business and financial records

  • Fulfill contractual obligations

  • Respond to questions or disputes

  • Enforce our agreements

  • Comply with tax, accounting, legal, and regulatory obligations

  • Protect against fraud and security threats

Retention periods may vary based on the type of information, the nature of our relationship, and applicable legal obligations.

We may retain aggregated, deidentified, archival, or backup information when permitted by law.

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11. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, destruction, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

These measures may include access controls, password protection, vendor security features, account restrictions, and other reasonable business practices.

However, no website, electronic transmission, storage platform, or digital system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and notifying us if you believe your account or information has been compromised.

If we discover a data-security incident, we will investigate and provide notifications when required by applicable law.

 

12. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you reside and whether applicable privacy law applies to SMB, you may have the right to:

  • Confirm whether we process your personal information

  • Request access to certain personal information

  • Request correction of inaccurate personal information

  • Request deletion of certain personal information

  • Obtain a portable copy of certain information

  • Opt out of certain sales, sharing, or targeted advertising

  • Withdraw consent when processing is based on consent

  • Appeal a decision concerning a privacy request

  • Exercise privacy rights without unlawful discrimination

These rights may be limited by legal exceptions. For example, we may retain information needed to complete a transaction, comply with tax or legal requirements, protect security, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, or maintain necessary business records.

To submit a privacy request, email brittany@shemeansbusinesstx.com with “Privacy Request” in the subject line.

Please describe your request and identify the email address or account associated with your information. We may request additional information to reasonably verify your identity and protect your information from unauthorized access.

Authorized agents may submit requests when permitted by applicable law. We may require proof that the agent has authority to act on your behalf and may ask you to verify your identity directly.

If we deny a request and applicable law provides a right to appeal, you may appeal by replying to our decision or emailing us with “Privacy Appeal” in the subject line.

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13. Third-Party Websites and Platforms

Our Services may contain links to or integrations with third-party websites, social media platforms, payment services, event venues, video platforms, or other online services.

We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of third parties. Information you provide directly to a third party is governed by that third party’s policies.

We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party service before providing personal information.

 

14. Children’s Privacy

Our websites, memberships, and business-development Services are directed to adults and are not intended for children under 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 without legally required parental consent.

Children may occasionally accompany adults to certain community events. Any information concerning a child that is voluntarily provided by a parent or guardian will be handled only for the relevant purpose and as permitted by law.

If you believe a child under 13 has submitted personal information to us without appropriate permission, please contact us so we can review and delete the information when appropriate.

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15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our Services, technology, business practices, or legal obligations.

The revised Effective Date will be displayed at the top of the Policy. When required by law, we will provide additional notice of material changes.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

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16. Contact Us

For questions, concerns, or privacy requests, please contact:

She Means Business
Houston, Texas, USA
Email: brittany@shemeansbusinesstx.com

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