What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you join the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance®, register online for our events, purchase products from our online store, subscribe to any of our email newsletters via our Preference Center or charlotteregion.com, submit a comment on any of our articles/blogs, or fill out the Contact Us or Investor Calendar forms.

When doing any of the above, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information or business name. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

When you complete a financial transaction online with us using a credit card, we store the following in our database: your name, date of payment, PayPal™ authorization and cancellation codes, transaction’s reference number, type of payment, the last four digits of the credit card, the credit card expiration date, the cardholder name, billing address and shipping address. We DO NOT store the CVV number for credit cards.