Privacy Policy

1. What we collect

• Name, email, mobile number.
• Business information: business name, trade, crew size.
• What you tell us on an application, a VALT form, or a call. That includes the decision you'd bring, what it's worth to fix, and where it's hurting most.
• Payment records. Our payment processor holds your card number. We never see or store it.
• Texts and emails you send us.
• Meeting attendance and the written commitments list.
• Meeting recordings, for up to 7 days (see section 5).
• Basic site data: pages visited, device and browser type, and cookies. If you came from an ad, the ad platform's code on our page may record that visit.

We don't collect Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, or health information. Please don't send them.

2. Where it comes from

From you, from our booking and payment tools, and from our site and ad tools.

3. How we use it

• Review applications and set up calls.
• Run meetings and keep the commitments list.
• Take payments and send receipts.
• Send the texts and emails you asked for.
• Hold members to the Terms and the Member Agreement.
• Understand which pages and ads work.

We don't sell, rent, or trade personal information. We don't share it for anyone else's marketing.

4. Text messages (SMS)

If you give us your mobile number and check a box on one of our forms, we may text you about the things that box says. If you text us first, we reply by text and that's all.

Message frequency varies. Msg & data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out any time. We send one confirmation and nothing after that. Reply HELP for help, or text 803-303-0655. Texting consent is never a condition of applying, joining, or buying.

5. What stays in the room, and recordings

What members say at the table is confidential, including decisions and who was there. Every member and every sit-in guest signs to that before they sit. It's a promise between owners, not a legal privilege.

The Foreman records meetings on a notetaking device so nobody's commitments get lost. Only the Foreman hears the audio. Audio and any transcript are deleted within 7 days. The one exception: if we get a court order or learn of a lawsuit that involves a meeting, the law can require us to keep what we have until it's resolved. We keep a written list of who said they'd do what by when, and only your table sees it. Anyone can say "off the record" and it stops. The device maker processes recordings only to make notes, under terms that bar using them to train AI, and we keep AI training turned off. Recordings are never used for content, marketing, or AI training.

Examples on our site are examples, not member stories. If we ever share a member's story or quote, it's only with that member's written OK on the exact words.

6. Who we share it with

Only the tools we use to run the business, and only what each one needs:

• Our customer system, which runs our forms, booking, texts, and email.
• Our payment processor.
• Our email provider.
• Our meeting notetaking device's app.
• Our ad platform, for page visits from ads. We don't send it your application answers.

Application details go to our team by text and email so we can answer within one business day.

We also share information if the law requires it, such as a subpoena or court order, or to protect someone from serious harm. This sharing never includes mobile opt-in data or consent, as stated in section 4.

7. Cookies and Do Not Track

Our site uses cookies to work, to see how it's used, and, on some pages, to measure ads. You can block or clear cookies in your browser. Some parts of the site may not work without them. Our site does not respond to browser "Do Not Track" signals today.

8. How long we keep it

• Applications that don't become members: 2 years.
• Members: while you're a member, plus 3 years.
• Billing and tax records: 7 years.
• Text and email consent records: 5 years.
• Meeting audio and transcripts: 7 days.
• Commitments list: while you're a member, then deleted within 90 days after your seat ends.

We keep something longer only when the law requires it.

9. Security

We use reasonable safeguards, limit who can see what, and use tools with their own security programs. No system is perfectly secure. If something happens that affects you, we'll tell you.

10. Your choices

Wherever you live in the US, you can ask to see, correct, or delete what we hold about you. Email [email protected]. We'll confirm it's you and answer within 30 days. Some records, like billing, we have to keep. You can stop texts with STOP and emails with the unsubscribe link at any time.

We're a small business and fall below the size limits of state privacy laws like California's. We give everyone these choices anyway.

11. Age

Blue Collar Board is for business owners 18 and older. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.

12. Changes

We may update this policy. The date at the top shows the latest version. If a change matters to how we use your information, we email members before it applies.

13. Contact

Blue Collar Board, LLC

West Columbia, SC 29172

Email: [email protected]

Text: 803-303-0655