Last Update: Tuesday February 9, 2010

Copyright & Privacy

The contents of the SmallBusinessSchool websites, including smallbusinessschool.org, sbschool.net, CPE4CPAs.com and PrivateBusinessChannel.com, are all proprietary and subject to the SmallBusinessSchool copyrights, trademarks and intellectual property rights.

You may use any of these websites for your personal, non-commercial use only. Any part of this content may be shared or otherwise transmitted to your friends, family and colleagues so long as there is no commercial transaction or other valuation transferred. Only with prior written permission from Small Business School, and only for limited use of the content of each website, may any video or content be downloaded.

To obtain such permission to reproduce or retransmit any part of these websites beyond that for personal use, please contact Small Business School.

Small Business School roots go back to 1994

The founders of Small Business School started in 1994 with a production called, Small Business Today. It aired on PBS stations for just four seasons. The series was re-branded as Small Business 2000 to change from a magazine format to a documentary format. That series went on for twenty-two seasons. The series was once again re-branded in the year 2000 and Small Business School launched on January 1, 2000.

Small Business School has been growing up and now we believe it is time for this series to leave the nest!

All three shows have been produced by Flying Leap. Bruce Camber and Hattie Bryant are the founders of Flying Leap (and also husband and wife).

All three shows have been not-for-profit associations of people and businesses who support and encourage the growth of small business in the USA and throughout the world.

For more, click on the link in the navigation bar, "About Us."

Our administrative office is being moved:
Please check back after August 1.
For the e-mail address, click here.
Our telephone number: 214-801-8521

The business partners of Small Business School are introduced and there are hotlinks to their pages where you will find descriptions of key ways in which they help small businesses do their work.

Final quality control for our shows is the responsibility of one of the finest editors in the country, John Fulton. He is from Dallas, Texas.

The infrastructure of the web site and the web design is the work of Graphtek in Palm Desert, California. The user interface for the content development is their own Content Management System.

Our syndicator, the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA), is located in Columbia, South Carolina. NETA broadcasts about 2000 times per year to all public television stations. Fifty-two of these broadcasts are episodes of Small Business School.

The section of this site for Chambers of Commerce is here.

Thank you.

Your email address IS confidential information

All information collected on this site shall remain on this site and not be shared with anyone outside of Small Business School unless authorized by the owners of that information.

There is a long history that includes many discussions on the show and even an episode of the show about privacy and valuing your intellectual property. It is a most important subject matter for our times.

SmallBusinessSchool.org is our primary web site. With any and all our web sites, i.e. CPE4CPAs.com, and our earlier web sites for SmallBusiness2000 and Small Business Today and all similar affiliated websites this privacy policy applies.

With any and all our web sites, the privacy of our visitors and registrants is very important. Our first web site was initiated in 1994. This privacy policy was first put into place in 1996 through the direct inspiration and influence of Abby Kohnstamm, then a vice president of IBM and a leader in privacy protection.

Our web teams are comprised of the people employed by Small Business School,Inc.. This team can be reached via e-mail (camber @ SmallBusinessSchool.org) or by telephone in the USA at 214-801-8521.

As a policy and practice Small Business School and her predecessors, Small Business 2000 and Small Business Today, do not share any information submitted on-line with third parties, unless they are acting as an intermediary to service the request of our viewer and/or customer (owner of information and herein referred to as "Registrant"). We compile several databases that are progressively built upon one another. Within the compilation database, referred to as the Index database, we provide levels of security control by the owner of the information.

The databases are as follows:

1. Cookies: A visitor to Small Business School (SBS) may be recognized by the domain name, but not the e-mail address of the visitor. This information is not shared with any party outside of the web hosting services group. Small Business School automatically collects and stores the domains from which visitors have come to our web site. And we will store and analyze this information and any information about pages visited. The information is used only to improve the web site and analyze the flow within the site.

2. E-mail registration: This data is collected for the sole purpose of developing a relation with our viewers and visitors. The e-mail addresses are not shared with any person outside of the Small Business School web team, unless authorized by the owner of that information. People who register with their e-mail address have full control to personally shut it off at any time. The option is "Get e-mail?" within the Registration and it can be updated at anytime. Uncheck the box and update the page, and no e-mail will be sent.

3. Opt-In. Registrants may also opt-in several different programs:

Special offerings from us on behalf of our corporate partners. These mailings will be highly selective. E-mail may also be sent to people within a particular geography especially when we are seeking to do a production shoot, a special event at the local television station, or a local event within a trade show or exhibition.
Assistance from business advocacy groups . These groups include banks, CPAs, investment bankers, and private equity investors.
Answer questions, Create pages : Registrants, also known as members, may opt to create a profile within this website. The owner of the information has total control over that information and can request that the information be made public at any time, however, SBS does not necessary obligation to publish the material.
Ratio data from month-end closings . This information is transferred by uploading a program that does the automatic downloads. This program provides access for the participants only to see the mean ratio data from other businesses within their industry or sector. No specific ratio data is tied to basic profile information.

This Privacy Policy is subject to change. If changes occur, they will be posted onthis website and the respective websites of SmallBusinessSchool.org. This page can be accessed from the bottom of every page by clicking on THE COPYRIGHT NOTICE.

Thank you.