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Privacy Policy

Privacy and Return Policy for The Federal Contracting Institute, LLC formerly TLHarvey Investments LLC
Effective Date: August 1, 2024


At The Federal Contracting Institute, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your
satisfaction with our services. This Privacy and Return Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and
safeguard your information when you visit our website www.thefederalcontractinginstitute.com, and engage with
our services.

Privacy Policy


The Federal Contracting Institute, which is formerly TLHarvey Investments, LLC, does not collect personal
information about you except when knowingly provided by you. Owner may however, use or provide to
third parties, statistics about members, traffic patterns and related site information but these will not
personally identify you. By responding to any request for personal information, you agree that Owner
may use and provide to third parties the information that you provide in order to provide you with
information about relevant products and services. If you do not wish to receive email or other
correspondence related to Owner’s or third parties’ promotions or products, simply indicate your
preference when you are asked to provide the information or contact Owner at
admin@thefederalcontractinginstitute.com


If you do not wish to receive email or other correspondence related to Owner’s or third parties’
promotions or products, simply indicate your preference when you are asked to provide the information or
contact Owner at admin@thefederalcontractinginstitute.com Specifically, if you prefer NOT to have information
collected, you may:

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  • Disable cookies within your browser prior to visiting our website

  • Refrain from submitting information via web forms in our website

  • Decide not to “opt-in” to various programs

  • Choose not to purchase from our online store (if applicable)

  • Choose not to complete any surveys or assessments on our website

 

Scope: What Is Covered by Our Privacy Policy


This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of this website and does not extend to any websites that link
to our site, whether we provide those links or they are shared by others. We have no control over how
your data is collected, stored or used by other websites and we strongly advise that you check the privacy
statements of third party websites before providing any data to them.

 

Collection of Information


You may be visiting our website to (i) browse, (ii) buy products and services, and (iii) complete
assessments. Owner collects and stores various kinds of data for varying reasons.

  •  Browse: If you are browsing our website, we collect information about your computer and the

pages you visit in the aggregate with the exception of individual or personal information. We
deploy this information for research, analysis and reports in order to optimize our navigation,
page structure and content to help visitors find information more efficiently and provide more
value.

  • Purchase:  When you make a purchase in our online store or register for coaching or seminars,

we collect information that enables us to complete your order and/or registration and streamline
your purchasing process the next time you order. You can view and update this information.

  • Assessments: We collect your responses to help us improve our business based on aggregate and

individual feedback. These surveys are forwarded through opt-in marketing programs or made
available on our website.

 

Personal Information
 

Users may be asked for, as appropriate:

  •  first name, last name

  • email address

  • work address

  • phone number

  • job title

  • job level

  • job role

  • company name

  • company size

  • company industry

  • professional interests

  • and other related business/professional information

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Users may, however, visit our site anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from
users only if they voluntarily submit such information. Users can always refuse to supply personally
identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in related activities.

 

Non-personal Information
 

We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our
Sites. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and
technical information about Users means of connection to our Sites, such as the operating system and the
Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.

 

What We Do With Your Information
 

If you provide your personal data, we may, if permitted by applicable law, use your information to:

 

  • Seek your feedback on our products and services through surveys or otherwise

  •  Process a payment you have made

  • Process orders you have submitted

  •  Carry out our obligations arising from any agreements between us

  • Notify you of changes to our services

  • Send you communications including activities or promotions of our products or services

  • Send you newsletters, event notices and announcements


Owner may change this privacy policy by publicly posting such changes on Owner’s web site. In
addition, please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online (for
example, on message boards, through email or in chat areas), that information can be collected and used
by Owner and by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages. Further, through Owner you may
be introduced to a variety of third party vendors and sites. For example, you can review the products
offered by the vendors included on Owner’s site. The privacy policies of these third parties are not under
Owner’s control and may differ from Owner’s. The use of any information that you may provide to any
third party, or the use of “cookie” technology by any third party, will be governed by the privacy policy of
the operator of the site that you are visiting. In some cases these third parties may share the information
that they collect about you with Owner. If you have any doubts about the privacy of the information you
are providing on another site, we recommend that you contact that site directly. Notwithstanding anything
else in this privacy policy, Owner may release information when it believes that such release is reasonably
necessary to (1) comply with law, (2) enforce or apply terms of any of this membership agreement or (3)
protect the rights, property or safety of Owner, other users, or others.


“Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent
that. Owner uses “cookie” technology in a limited way to help deliver advertisements, to identify unique
browsers that visit Owner’s web site and to track usage throughout Owner’s site.


You can control and delete these cookies through your browser settings as follows:

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  • Google Chrome

  • Mozilla Firefox

  • Safari

  • Opera

  •  Microsoft Internet Explorer

  • Safari for iOS (iPhone and iPad)

  • Chrome for Android

  • Windows Phone

 

Disclosure of Personal Data
 

Owners will disclose personal data to the following categories of third parties for the purposes explained
in this Policy:

ï‚· Affiliates & Corporate Partners: Owner will discloses the categories of personal data described
within this policy among its affiliates and related entities.
ï‚· Service Providers & Business Partners: Owner may disclose the categories of personal data
described within service providers and business partners for a variety of business purposes,
including website and data hosting, ensuring compliance with industry standards, research,
auditing, and data processing.

 

Your Privacy Rights

  •  Access and Correction: You have the right to access and correct your personal information.

  • Opt-Out: You can opt out of receiving promotional communications from Tiffany West
    Associates.

  • Data Deletion: Request the deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.

  • Objection: You may have the right to object to certain processing activities involving your
    personal data.

  • Withdrawal of Consent: Where our processing of your personal data is based on your consent,
    you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

  • Sale & Targeted Advertising: We do not "sell" your personal data as defined by applicable laws
    and regulations. Additionally, we do not engage in targeted advertising using your personal data.

  •  Do Not Track: Some web browsers offer a "Do Not Track" option. Currently, we do not respond
    to "Do Not Track" signals from web browsers.


Information Accuracy and Security


Owner intends to protect your personal information and to maintain its accuracy. Owner implements
reasonable physical, administrative and technical safeguards to protect your personal information from
unauthorized access, use and disclosure. Owner also requires that our partners and our suppliers protect
such information from unauthorized access, use and disclosure.
Information Retention and Storage


We will not retain personal information longer than necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it is
processed, including the security of our processing complying with legal and regulatory obligations (e.g.
audit, accounting and statutory retention terms), handling disputes, and for the establishment, exercise or
defense of legal claims in the countries where we do business.


As circumstances may vary depending on the context and the services, the information provided in the
online privacy statement or in a specific notice may provide more detailed information on applicable
retention terms. If we process your data for marketing purposes, we will delete your data if we have not
received any responses to our marketing activities for one year. The deletion will occur within six months
of the one-year period.
Children: Minimum Age Requirement
Owner complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its
accompanying regulations protect the privacy of children using the Internet.

This website is intended for persons eighteen (18) years of age or older. Per COPPA rules, anyone under
the age of thirteen (13) must seek the permission of a parent or guardian before using this website. No one
under the age of eighteen (18) should visit this website. Furthermore, this website will not knowingly
contact or collect personal information from anyone under 18 and does not intend to solicit information of
any kind from persons under the age of 18.

 

Third-Party Websites and Services
 

Our services may involve integrations with, or may direct you to, websites, apps, and services managed
by third parties. By interacting with these third parties, you are providing information directly to them and
not to Tiffany West Associates LLC. Your information will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy.
When This Privacy Policy Doesn’t Apply

 

This Privacy Policy doesn’t apply to affiliates, corporate partners and other third parties that may
advertise our services or to companies who may link to this website. Neither does it apply to websites to
which we may include links in our informational materials and in our services.

 

Right to Lodge a Complaint
 

If you consider our processing of your personal information not to be compliant with the applicable data
protection laws, you can lodge a complaint and email us at
suppport@tiffanywestassociate.com, providing specific details of the complaint. You may also be eligible
to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority.

 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy
 

Owner may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When updates are made, owner will post the
updated Privacy Policy on the website page and update the Effective Date. Owner encourages everyone to
review the privacy policy page for updates whenever accessing our services.

 

Questions
 

If you have questions or complaints about our privacy policy, website practices, or your interactions with
this website, please contact: admin@thefederalcontactinginstitute.com

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