Coastal Business Evolution, LLC (“Coastal Business Evolution,” “CBE,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to being transparent about how information is collected, used, and protected when you visit CoastalBusinessEvolution.com or communicate with us through the website.

This Privacy Policy explains the types of information we may collect, how we use that information, circumstances in which information may be shared, our use of cookies and similar technologies, and choices that may be available to you regarding your information.

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

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us and certain information that is collected automatically when you use the website.

Information You Provide

When you contact Coastal Business Evolution through a website form, email, telephone, or another method, you may provide information such as:

• Your name

• Email address

• Telephone number

• Business or company name

• Website address

• Information about your business, marketing needs, or services of interest

• The contents of messages, inquiries, or other communications you send to us

• Any other information you voluntarily choose to provide

Please do not submit confidential, sensitive, financial, medical, or other highly sensitive personal information through the website's general contact forms.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the website, certain technical and usage information may be collected automatically by Wix or other technologies used to operate and analyze the website.

This may include:

• Internet Protocol (IP) address

• Browser type

• Device type

• Operating system

• Approximate geographic location derived from IP address

• Pages viewed

• Date and time of visits

• Referring website or source

• Time spent on pages

• Interactions with website features

• Other technical information concerning how visitors use the website

This information generally helps us operate, secure, understand, and improve the website.

2. How We Use Information

Coastal Business Evolution may use information collected through the website to:

• Respond to questions, inquiries, and requests

• Communicate with prospective and existing clients

• Provide information about CBE services

• Evaluate whether CBE's services may be appropriate for a prospective client

• Provide and improve our marketing and consulting services

• Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the website

• Understand how visitors use the website

• Evaluate website performance and marketing effectiveness

• Detect or prevent fraud, abuse, security threats, or technical problems

• Maintain business records

• Protect our legal rights and interests

• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, or legal processes

We may also use aggregated or de-identified information for business analysis, website improvement, and similar legitimate purposes where the information does not reasonably identify an individual.

3. Communications

If you contact CBE, we may use the contact information you provide to respond to your inquiry and communicate with you regarding the reason you contacted us.

If you become a client, we may also communicate with you regarding services, projects, appointments, invoices, administrative matters, or other aspects of our business relationship.

If CBE sends promotional or marketing emails in the future, recipients will be provided with an appropriate method for opting out of those communications.

Opting out of promotional communications does not prevent us from sending communications necessary to respond to an inquiry or administer an existing business relationship.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website is hosted on the Wix platform. Wix uses cookies and related technologies to operate websites, maintain security and stability, remember certain settings, and measure platform performance. Wix identifies a number of its standard cookies as essential to core site operation.

A cookie is a small data file stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies and similar technologies may be used for purposes such as:

• Enabling essential website functionality

• Maintaining website security

• Preventing fraud or abuse

• Remembering visitor preferences

• Measuring website performance

• Understanding website traffic and visitor behavior

• Supporting analytics

• Improving website functionality and user experience

Essential Cookies

Some cookies are necessary for the website to function properly and may be placed automatically. These may support functions such as security, fraud prevention, network management, and website stability.

Analytics and Other Non-Essential Cookies

Depending on the tools and integrations enabled on the website, analytics or other non-essential technologies may collect information about how visitors interact with the website.

Third-party applications, integrations, analytics providers, or other technologies added to the website may use their own cookies or tracking technologies and operate according to their own privacy policies.

Where required by applicable law, visitors may be given the opportunity to accept or decline non-essential cookies through a cookie consent mechanism.

You may also control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality or performance of the website.

Wix notes that privacy laws in some jurisdictions require websites to provide visitors with choices concerning non-essential cookies.

5. How Information Is Stored

This website is hosted through the Wix.com platform.

Information submitted through the website may therefore be processed or stored through Wix's systems, databases, applications, and infrastructure.

We may also store business communications and information using other service providers that support our ordinary business operations, such as email, cloud storage, analytics, or productivity platforms.

We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect information within our control. However, no website, electronic transmission, database, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to or stored through the website.

6. When We May Share Information

Coastal Business Evolution does not sell personal information as part of its ordinary business operations.

We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:

• Service providers that help us operate our website or business

• Website hosting and technology providers

• Analytics and security providers

• Professional advisers such as attorneys, accountants, or consultants

• Government agencies, regulators, courts, or law enforcement when required by law

• Protect the rights, property, security, or safety of CBE, our clients, website visitors, or others

• Investigate suspected fraud, misuse, security incidents, or unlawful activity

Service providers may receive information only as reasonably necessary to perform services on our behalf and are subject to their own contractual and legal obligations.

If CBE is involved in a merger, acquisition, sale, reorganization, financing, or transfer of all or part of the business, information may be transferred as part of that transaction subject to applicable law.

7. Third-Party Websites and Services

The CBE website may contain links to websites, social media platforms, applications, resources, or services operated by third parties.

Once you leave our website, the privacy practices of those third parties govern your interactions with them.

Coastal Business Evolution does not control and is not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of third-party websites or services.

We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of third-party websites before providing personal information.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal information for only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including to:

• Respond to inquiries

• Maintain client and business records

• Provide services

• Fulfill contractual obligations

• Resolve disputes

• Enforce agreements

• Meet accounting, tax, legal, or regulatory requirements

Retention periods may vary depending on the nature of the information and the reason it was collected.

9. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live and applicable privacy law, you may have rights concerning your personal information.

These may include the right to request:

• Access to certain personal information we maintain about you

• Correction of inaccurate information

• Deletion of certain information

• Information about how your personal information is used

• Withdrawal of consent where processing is based on consent

• Other rights provided under applicable law

Not every privacy law applies to every business or every individual, and certain rights may be subject to exceptions.

To submit a privacy-related request, contact us at:

suzanne@coastalbusinessevolution.com

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.

Florida's privacy statute, where applicable to a qualifying business, requires covered controllers to provide consumers with a reasonably accessible privacy notice describing categories of information processed, purposes of processing, sharing practices, and methods for exercising applicable rights.

10. Children's Privacy

The CBE website and services are intended for businesses and adults and are not directed to children.

We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children through this website.

If we learn that information from a child has been collected in circumstances where parental consent or another legal basis was required, we will take reasonable steps to delete the information as appropriate.

11. Do Not Track and Privacy Signals

Browsers and devices may provide mechanisms allowing users to communicate privacy preferences.

Because technologies and legal requirements concerning browser-based privacy signals continue to evolve, our response to particular signals may depend on the technologies used by the website and applicable legal requirements.

Visitors may also use available cookie controls and browser settings to manage certain tracking technologies.

12. International Visitors

Coastal Business Evolution is based in Florida, United States.

If you access this website from outside the United States, information you provide may be processed or stored in the United States or other jurisdictions in which our service providers operate.

Data protection laws in those jurisdictions may differ from the laws where you live.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

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

• Our website

• Our services

• Technologies we use

• Our business practices

• Applicable laws or regulations

When changes are made, the Last Updated date at the top of this policy will be revised.

Material changes may also be communicated through the website when appropriate.

We encourage visitors to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

14. Contact Us

Questions about this Privacy Policy or CBE's privacy practices may be directed to:

Coastal Business Evolution, LLC
Jupiter, Florida
Email: suzanne@coastalbusinessevolution.com
Website: CoastalBusinessEvolution.com