Privacy Policy

Sports Business Ventures LLC (SBV, we, us, or our) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information when you visit our website, use our products or services, communicate with us, apply for an opportunity, participate in a program or event, or otherwise interact with SBV.

SBV operates the website https://sportsbusinessventures.com, along with other products, platforms, programs, and services that link to this Privacy Policy, collectively referred to as the Services.

Our Services may include:

• Websites and online accounts
• Newsletters and other content
• Membership and educational products
• Mentorship and coaching programs
• Job boards, job alerts, and career resources
• Event staffing, recruiting, and event operations
• Applications, surveys, forms, and waitlists
• Marketing, partnership, and community programs
• Other products and services offered by SBV

By using the Services, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

The personal information we collect depends on how you interact with SBV and which Services you use.

A. Information You Provide to Us

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide, including the following categories.

Contact Information

• Name
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Mailing or billing address
• Company, school, team, or organization
• Job title

Account Information

• Username
• Password or other authentication information
• Account preferences
• Subscription or membership status
• Saved jobs, job alerts, and content preferences

Transaction and Payment Information

• Products or services purchased
• Billing information
• Transaction history
• Payment status
• Limited payment card information provided to us by a payment processor, such as the card type or last four digits

Payment transactions may be processed by third-party payment providers. SBV does not generally receive or store complete payment card numbers.

Professional, Educational, and Career Information

• Resume or curriculum vitae
• Employment history
• Education history
• Skills, qualifications, and certifications
• Professional interests
• Career preferences
• LinkedIn profile or other professional profiles
• Job applications and application responses
• Interview notes and communications
• References or referral information
• Availability and scheduling information

Event Staffing and Workforce Information

When you apply for or participate in an event staffing opportunity, we may collect information such as:

• Work availability
• Travel and lodging information
• Emergency contact information
• Clothing or uniform size
• Work authorization information
• Government-issued identification information, when required
• Taxpayer or payment information
• Time, attendance, assignment, and performance information
• Photos, videos, or other records from an event
• Information required by an event organizer, venue, client, payment provider, or other operational partner

Please do not provide sensitive identification, financial, medical, or other information unless SBV or an authorized provider specifically requests it through an appropriate process.

Program, Mentorship, and Coaching Information

If you participate in an SBV mentorship, coaching, educational, university, or career-development program, we may collect:

• Program registration information
• Career goals and areas of interest
• Scheduling and attendance information
• Survey and assessment responses
• Program feedback
• Session notes or progress information
• Communications with coaches, mentors, universities, or program administrators

Communications and Submitted Content

We may collect information contained in:

• Emails and text messages
• Telephone calls and voicemail messages
• Contact forms and support requests
• Surveys and questionnaires
• Testimonials and reviews
• Social media communications
• Event, program, or community submissions
• Any other information you choose to provide

B. Information We Collect Automatically

When you use our Services, we and our service providers may automatically collect information such as:

• Internet Protocol address
• Browser type
• Device type
• Operating system
• Device identifiers
• General location derived from an IP address
• Pages viewed
• Links clicked
• Referring and exit pages
• Dates and times of visits
• Account and feature activity
• Job searches, saved jobs, and job alert activity
• Email opens and link interactions
• Cookie and similar technology identifiers
• Information about how you interact with the Services

We may collect this information through cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, analytics tools, and other similar technologies.

C. Information We Receive From Other Sources

We may receive information about you from:

• Universities and educational institutions
• Employers and prospective employers
• Event organizers, clients, venues, and partners
• Coaches, mentors, applicants, and referral sources
• Service providers and platform operators
• Social media and professional networking platforms
• Publicly available sources
• Advertising, analytics, and marketing providers
• Other people or organizations acting with your authorization or as otherwise permitted by law

For example, a university may provide information needed to enroll a student in an SBV coaching program, or an event partner may provide information needed to coordinate staffing.

2. How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information for the following purposes.

A. Providing and Operating the Services

We may use personal information to:

• Create and manage accounts
• Deliver memberships, newsletters, and educational content
• Provide coaching, mentorship, and career-development programs
• Operate job boards, job alerts, and career resources
• Process applications and staffing opportunities
• Coordinate event schedules, assignments, travel, lodging, and payments
• Process purchases and transactions
• Provide customer service and technical support

B. Communicating With You

We may use personal information to:

• Respond to questions and requests
• Send account, transaction, program, and event communications
• Provide job alerts and opportunity notifications
• Schedule interviews, coaching sessions, or meetings
• Send newsletters, announcements, and marketing communications
• Notify you about changes to our Services or policies

C. Personalizing and Improving the Services

We may use personal information to:

• Recommend jobs, content, programs, or opportunities
• Customize communications based on your interests
• Understand how users interact with the Services
• Conduct research, analytics, and reporting
• Test and improve features, products, and user experience
• Develop new services and business offerings

D. Supporting Recruiting and Event Operations

We may use personal information to:

• Review and evaluate applicants
• Conduct interviews
• Verify qualifications and availability
• Match applicants with opportunities
• Communicate with references, when appropriate
• Share necessary staffing information with event clients and partners
• Manage assignments, attendance, performance, and payments
• Maintain records of prior applications and participation

E. Protecting SBV and Others

We may use personal information to:

• Secure accounts, websites, and systems
• Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and unauthorized activity
• Enforce agreements and policies
• Protect the rights, safety, and property of SBV, our users, clients, partners, and others
• Investigate complaints, disputes, suspected misconduct, or security incidents

F. Complying With Legal and Business Requirements

We may use personal information to:

• Meet legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, and reporting obligations
• Respond to legal requests and government authorities
• Maintain business and transaction records
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
• Complete a merger, financing, acquisition, restructuring, or sale of assets

We may also use information for another purpose disclosed when the information is collected or with your consent.

3. Cookies and Similar Technologies

SBV and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, software development kits, and similar technologies to operate and understand the Services.

These technologies may be used for:

• Essential website and account functionality
• Security and fraud prevention
• Remembering user preferences
• Analytics and performance measurement
• Email engagement measurement
• Personalization
• Advertising and marketing measurement

You may control certain cookies through your browser settings and through any cookie preference tool made available through the Services.

Disabling cookies may affect the availability or performance of certain features.

Where required by applicable law, we recognize qualifying browser-based universal opt-out signals, such as the Global Privacy Control, for the browser or device from which the signal is sent.

Your browser may also offer a "Do Not Track" setting. Because there is not a uniform industry standard for responding to all Do Not Track signals, our Services may not respond to every such signal. We will respond to legally recognized universal opt-out signals where required by applicable law.

4. How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients.

A. Service Providers

We may disclose information to companies that perform services for SBV, including providers that support:

• Website hosting and development
• Account management and authentication
• Email and text message delivery
• Customer relationship management
• Payment processing
• Scheduling and video conferencing
• Job board and applicant management
• Data storage and cloud services
• Analytics and reporting
• Marketing and advertising
• Surveys and online forms
• Cybersecurity and fraud prevention
• Accounting, legal, and professional services

These providers may access personal information as necessary to perform services for SBV, subject to applicable contractual and legal restrictions.

B. Universities, Employers, Event Clients, and Business Partners

We may disclose relevant information to:

• Universities sponsoring or administering a program
• Employers receiving an application or candidate information
• Event organizers, clients, venues, and operational partners
• Coaches, mentors, speakers, and program administrators
• Other partners involved in delivering a requested Service

For example, if you apply for an event staffing opportunity, we may provide the event organizer or operational partner with information needed to evaluate, schedule, credential, pay, or manage staff.

We will not provide your resume or application to an unrelated employer unless you direct us to do so, the feature you use clearly provides for that disclosure, or the disclosure is otherwise permitted by law.

C. Analytics, Advertising, and Social Media Providers

We may allow analytics, advertising, and social media providers to collect information through cookies and similar technologies.

These providers may use the information to:

• Measure website and campaign activity
• Understand audiences
• Personalize content or advertisements
• Evaluate marketing performance
• Provide related analytics and reporting

Certain state privacy laws may classify some of these disclosures as a "sale," "sharing," or processing for targeted advertising, even when SBV does not receive money in exchange for the information.

D. At Your Direction or With Your Consent

We may disclose information when you ask us to, authorize the disclosure, or use a feature that requires disclosure to another person or organization.

E. Legal, Safety, and Compliance Purposes

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

• Comply with applicable law or valid legal process
• Respond to a government or regulatory request
• Enforce our agreements or policies
• Investigate fraud, security incidents, or unlawful activity
• Protect the rights, property, or safety of SBV or others
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

F. Business Transactions

Personal information may be disclosed or transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, bankruptcy, sale of assets, or similar business transaction.

5. Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising

SBV does not sell personal information in exchange for money.

As described in this Privacy Policy, we may use analytics, advertising, and social media technologies. Some state laws may consider certain disclosures made through these technologies to be:

• A sale of personal information
• Sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising
• Processing for targeted advertising

Where applicable, you may opt out by:

• Using any cookie preference tool made available through the Services
• Enabling a legally recognized universal opt-out signal in your browser
• Contacting us using the information in the "Contact Us" section

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of an individual under 16 years of age for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising without the consent required by applicable law.

6. Email and Text Message Communications

A. Email Communications

You may unsubscribe from promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the message.

Even after you unsubscribe from promotional communications, we may continue to send non-promotional messages relating to:

• Your account
• Transactions or payments
• Applications or interviews
• Event assignments
• Programs or coaching sessions
• Security or legal matters
• Our ongoing business relationship

B. Text Messages

If you provide your telephone number and consent to receive text messages, SBV may send messages relating to:

• Job opportunities and job alerts
• Applications and interviews
• Event staffing and scheduling
• Account or program updates
• Other communications described when you provide consent

Message frequency may vary. Message and data rates may apply.

You may opt out of text messages at any time by replying STOP or by using another reasonable method to communicate your request. You may reply HELP for assistance.

Consent to receive promotional text messages is not a condition of purchasing a product or service unless clearly stated and permitted by applicable law.

We may send a one-time message confirming that your opt-out request has been processed. Transactional or operational text messages necessary to provide a Service you requested may be treated separately where permitted by law.

7. Data Retention

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

• Provide the Services
• Maintain an account or business relationship
• Complete transactions and payments
• Administer programs, applications, and event staffing
• Maintain appropriate business, tax, accounting, and legal records
• Resolve disputes
• Enforce agreements
• Prevent fraud and security incidents
• Comply with legal obligations

The applicable retention period may vary based on:

• The type and sensitivity of the information
• The nature and length of our relationship with you
• The purposes for which the information was collected
• Applicable legal, accounting, tax, or contractual requirements
• Whether the information is relevant to a dispute or potential legal claim

When personal information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete it, deidentify it, aggregate it, or retain it as otherwise permitted or required by law.

8. Data Security

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

However, no website, system, transmission method, or storage environment is completely secure. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of personal information.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for notifying us if you believe your account or information has been compromised.

9. Your Privacy Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live and subject to applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Confirm whether we process your personal information
• Access personal information we maintain about you
• Correct inaccurate personal information
• Delete personal information
• Obtain a portable copy of certain personal information
• Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information
• Opt out of targeted advertising
• Opt out of certain profiling activities
• Limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
• Appeal the denial of a privacy request
• Receive information about the categories of personal information collected, used, and disclosed

These rights may be subject to exceptions and limitations under applicable law.

A. Submitting a Privacy Request

You may submit a privacy request by contacting us using the information in the "Contact Us" section at the bottom of this page.

Please include "Privacy Request" in the subject line and clearly describe your request.

B. Identity Verification

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Verification may require us to match information you provide with information we already maintain.

We will use information provided for verification only to process and respond to the request.

C. Authorized Agents

You may use an authorized agent to submit a request where permitted by law.

We may require:

• Evidence that the agent is authorized to act on your behalf
• Verification of the agent's identity
• Direct confirmation from you that you authorized the request

D. Response and Appeals

We will respond within the time required by applicable law.

If we deny a request, we will provide an explanation and, where required, instructions for submitting an appeal.

We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.

10. Additional State Privacy Disclosures

During the preceding 12 months, depending on how individuals interacted with SBV, we may have collected the following categories of personal information:

• Identifiers and contact information
• Customer, account, and financial records
• Commercial and transaction information
• Internet and electronic network activity
• General geolocation information
• Professional and employment information
• Education information
• Audio, visual, and communications information
• Preferences or inferences used to personalize content, jobs, or opportunities
• Sensitive personal information, when required to provide a Service

Sensitive personal information may include:

• Account login credentials
• Government-issued identification information
• Taxpayer information
• Payment-related information
• Precise location information, if specifically required for an event or Service
• Information concerning an individual who is known to be a child or minor

We may have disclosed these categories for the business purposes described in this Privacy Policy to the categories of recipients identified in Section 4.

We use sensitive personal information only as reasonably necessary to:

• Provide requested Services
• Administer staffing and payments
• Verify identity or eligibility
• Maintain security
• Comply with legal requirements
• Perform other activities permitted by applicable law

We do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about individuals except as permitted by applicable law.

As described in Section 5, we do not sell personal information in exchange for money. Certain disclosures involving analytics or advertising technologies may be treated as a sale, sharing, or targeted advertising under some state laws.

11. Children and Minors

Our general online Services are not directed to children under 13 years of age.

We do not knowingly collect personal information online directly from a child under 13 without verifiable parental consent or another form of authorization permitted by applicable law.

If we learn that we have collected personal information online directly from a child under 13 without the required consent or authorization, we will take reasonable steps to delete the information or otherwise address the collection as required by law.

A. Services Involving Minors

Certain SBV programs, sporting events, educational programs, career-development opportunities, or other Services may involve individuals under 18 years of age.

When we knowingly collect personal information from or about a minor, we may obtain consent or authorization from:

• The minor
• A parent or legal guardian
• A school or educational institution
• A team, league, or event organizer
• Another person or organization legally authorized to provide consent

The appropriate form of consent or authorization will depend on the minor's age, the nature of the Service, how the information is collected, and applicable law.

B. Additional Protections for Minors

Where required by applicable law, we apply additional protections to the personal information of individuals we know or reasonably should know are under 18.

These protections may include:

• Obtaining consent before collecting or using certain information
• Limiting the collection and retention of personal information
• Limiting targeted advertising
• Limiting profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects
• Limiting the sale or sharing of personal information
• Limiting the use of personal information to encourage excessive or extended use of an online Service
• Conducting appropriate assessments before offering certain online features
• Providing parents, guardians, or minors with additional rights and controls

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of individuals under 16 for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising without the consent required by applicable law.

C. Parent and Guardian Requests

A parent or legal guardian who believes that SBV has collected personal information from or about their child may contact us to request:

• Information about the data we maintain
• Access to the information
• Correction of inaccurate information
• Deletion of the information
• Withdrawal of consent, where applicable

We may need to verify the identity and authority of the person making the request before responding.

12. Photographs, Videos, and Event Recordings

SBV, our clients, or our event partners may capture photographs, video recordings, audio recordings, or other media at events, programs, interviews, or virtual sessions.

Where appropriate, we may provide additional notice or obtain a separate release before using identifiable photographs, recordings, testimonials, or other media for marketing, promotional, or commercial purposes.

Participation in an event or program does not automatically authorize every commercial use of a person's name, image, likeness, or voice.

13. Third-Party Websites and Services

The Services may contain links to websites, platforms, applications, or services operated by third parties.

SBV does not control the privacy, security, or data practices of those third parties. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected directly by a third party.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies and terms of any third-party services you use.

14. Information Processed in the United States

SBV is based in the United States.

Personal information may be stored and processed in the United States or in other locations where SBV or our service providers operate.

Privacy and data protection laws in these locations may differ from the laws in your state, province, or country.

15. Business Transfers

If SBV is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, bankruptcy, sale of assets, or similar transaction, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

Any recipient of personal information will be required to handle the information in accordance with applicable law and any commitments that continue to apply.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in:

• Our Services
• Our business practices
• Technology
• Legal or regulatory requirements

When we make changes, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

If changes are material, we may provide additional notice through the Site, by email, or through another appropriate method.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

17. Contact Us

Questions, concerns, and privacy requests may be directed to: