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DATA GOVERNANCE & PRIVACY POLICY

PROTOCOL // DATA PROTECTION & CLIENT CONFIDENTIALITY
EFFECTIVE DATE: SEPTEMBER 01, 2026 // VERSION 2.1

STATEMENT OF DATA INTEGRITY

Strategic Business Consulting (SBC) operates as a direct advisory, research, and market intelligence entity. We do not monetize, rent, trade, or broker executive personal data or identifiable operational metrics to third-party marketing networks. All information submitted through our diagnostic tools, market surveys, or direct advisory engagements is governed under strict non-disclosure and research-grade anonymization protocols.

Article 1.0 // Information Collection Protocols

  • Direct & Diagnostic Submissions: We collect information explicitly provided by you via our Operational Diagnostic Tools, market intelligence surveys, intake forms, booking calendars, and direct communications. This includes executive contact details, organizational scale metrics, financial indicators, and strategic challenges.

  • Automated Telemetry: Our web infrastructure automatically collects non-identifying technical data (e.g., IP addresses, browser types, device categories, and page interaction timestamps) solely to maintain platform performance, security monitoring, and diagnostic functionality.

Article 2.0 // Utilization of Captured Data

  • Advisory Operations: To process intake submissions, evaluate business metrics against regional benchmarks, and prepare executive briefings.

  • Research & Publication: To generate market intelligence, regional economic benchmarks, and industry trends analysis. Data collected for research purposes is strictly anonymized and aggregated prior to synthesis.

  • Direct Communications: To deliver requested whitepapers, diagnostic reviews, research publications, and calendar confirmations. You may opt out of non-essential communications at any time.

Article 3.0 // Research & Market Intelligence Protocols

  • Anonymization & Aggregation Standard: Data utilized in SBC research publications, economic impact studies, and market intelligence reports undergoes multi-layer anonymization. Individual corporate identities, proprietary financial specifics, and personally identifiable information (PII) are permanently stripped or synthesized into high-level macro statistics.

  • Non-Reidentification Mandate: SBC guarantees that published research products will never contain granular datasets that could reasonably allow a third party to reverse-engineer or identify an individual respondent or client entity.

  • Commercialization & Distribution Rights: SBC retains full ownership rights to aggregated datasets, trend analysis, and research publications derived from transformed diagnostic data. The publication, sale, or distribution of these anonymized research products does not constitute a sale of personal or proprietary data under applicable privacy frameworks.

Article 4.0 // Security & Infrastructure

  • Storage Encryption: Client information, proprietary operational inputs, and raw research datasets are securely stored within encrypted database environments behind enterprise-grade firewalls.

  • Data Retention: Raw, identifiable client operational data is retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill active advisory scopes, validate research integrity, or meet legal obligations, after which records are permanently purged or irreversibly anonymized for ongoing research baselines.

Article 5.0 // Third-Party Disclosures

  • Zero-Brokerage Mandate: We do not sell, rent, or lease identifiable client details or raw survey inputs to third parties under any circumstances.

  • Essential Service Providers: Information is shared strictly on a need-to-know basis with trusted infrastructure partners (e.g., encrypted form processing, cloud data hosting, survey platforms, and web analytics) operating under equivalent security standards.

  • Legal Compulsion: Disclosure of non-public data will only occur if explicitly mandated by law enforcement via a valid subpoena or court order.

Article 6.0 // Platform Analytics & Digital Tracking (Google Compliance)

​To optimize our web infrastructure and analyze executive engagement with our published research, SBC utilizes Google Analytics, including Advertising Features (such as Remarketing, Impression Reporting, and Demographics & Interest Reporting).

Article 7.0 // Executive Rights & Contact

​You maintain authority over your identifying data. You may request an export of your personal information, request exclusion from future research data pools, or instruct us to delete your client record from active systems.

  • Data Inquiries & Research Opt-Out Requests: mail@sbcforsuccess.com

  • Direct Line: (850) 684-4092

  • Mailing Address: Strategic Business Consulting, 339 Columbus St, Valparaiso FL, 32580

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