The information
you share with us.

Financing inquiries

The assessment asks about your financing purpose, requested amount, timing, transaction, business, financial ranges, borrower circumstances and contact details. You can also provide a business name and optional notes. Please do not enter Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, financial documents or other sensitive identifiers in notes.

Before you send an AWG inquiry, your full answers stay in the browser’s temporary memory. Refreshing or leaving the assessment can clear those answers. A short-lived initial-selection cookie is described below.

When you authorize AWG to review the information and contact you, the completed inquiry is sent through Zapier to AWG’s intake workflow. Our current intake destination is Google Sheets. We use the information to understand the request, follow up and manage a potential engagement. This authorization concerns your request; it does not sign you up for unrelated marketing.

This is an initial inquiry, not a loan application, lender submission or credit decision. A website receipt confirms acceptance by the intake service; it does not confirm lender approval or completion of every later action.

Partner introductions

Some requests are directed to a financing partner. The referral screen identifies that partner and explains that you will work directly with it. The website does not send your assessment answers to the partner or create an AWG contact record for that referral path.

Following an AWG referral link can identify AWG as the referral source. Information you provide on a partner’s website is handled under that partner’s own terms and privacy notice. AWG may receive a referral fee from the partner.

Guide downloads and updates

You can access the SBA financing guide as a PDF or an accessible HTML guide. Entries in the HTML guide’s worksheet stay in your browser’s temporary memory and are not sent to AWG. Downloading or printing the worksheet creates a copy you control.

The website’s PDF request form requires your email address. Selecting “Get the guide + insights” records your request and permission for occasional SBA financing insights from AWG. Selecting “Get the guide only” records your request without signing you up for insights. Both choices provide PDF access after the request is accepted. Any future insights email will include an unsubscribe option.

When configured, a separate Zapier guide workflow records who requested the guide and the insights choice. It does not email the PDF: the guide is downloaded directly from the website. This record is separate from a financing inquiry and from optional analytics permission.

A permitted analytics download click is a separate measurement action; it does not make you a subscriber. Your email address and insights choice are not sent to Google Analytics.

Figures entered in the loan calculators

The loan calculators run in your browser. Their figures are not sent to AWG and are not automatically attached to a financing inquiry. Figures remain while you switch calculators in the same visit; reloading or leaving the loan calculators clears them.

A downloaded scenario or printed report creates a copy you control. Consider where you save or share it, particularly if you replace sample figures with information about a real transaction.

Cookies and browser preferences

An initial inquiry from a financing page may use a ten-minute cookie to carry the selected offering, amount range and timing into the assessment. That cookie does not contain your name, email, phone, full financial answers or notes. It is functional handoff storage, not analytics permission.

The guide invitation may remember whether it has been shown, dismissed or downloaded, and the time spent actively reading. These preferences help avoid repeated invitations; they do not store your contact information.

Google Analytics collection is currently disabled in this build. Authorizing contact about a financing request is not analytics or marketing consent.

When analytics is available, it loads only after a separate grant. Approved measurement uses public page addresses or generic request-page addresses without queries or fragments, fixed page labels, limited campaign codes and coarse source categories. Assessment answers, financial or calculator figures, contact details, business names, notes, private inquiry references and advertising click identifiers are excluded. A measured inquiry receipt means acceptance by the intake service; it does not mean lender approval, completed downstream delivery or funded financing.

With analytics permission, Google may process technical information such as browser and device details, network information and pseudonymous browser identifiers. Advertising measurement, enhanced conversions, contact hashing, remarketing and personalized advertising are not enabled in this phase. How Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services.

Analytics choices are remembered for 180 days from an explicit decision, under policy version 2026-10-20.analytics-v1. Visits do not extend that preference. When enabled, Analytics cookies are configured with a fixed maximum lifetime of 180 days; browser settings may shorten it. Permission and campaign preferences use separate browser storage from the functional inquiry handoff.

Use Privacy choices in the footer when available to review or withdraw permission. Where your browser provides a supported Global Privacy Control signal, we keep optional analytics off. We also honor supported Do Not Track signals as an additional website preference. These signals do not stop information you choose to submit or the technical processing needed to deliver and protect the website. If preference storage is blocked, analytics stays off.

Withdrawal stops future analytics collection, clears optional campaign storage and removes accessible Analytics cookies without refreshing the assessment. It cannot recall information already sent or requests already in flight; a request concerning previously collected information is separate.

Services that support the website

The website uses Vercel for hosting and Sanity for public editorial content. Authorized inquiry delivery uses Zapier and AWG’s connected intake destination. These services may process technical request information, such as network address, browser information and timing, to operate and protect their services.

Website delivery diagnostics use a request reference, delivery status and technical failure category. They do not include the inquiry answers, contact details, private delivery address or provider response text. Service-account logs and records are subject to their account settings and operating arrangements.

Retention and your requests

Submitted inquiries and any guide requests can remain in AWG’s connected service accounts. The website does not automatically delete those records on a fixed schedule. Retention depends on the purpose of the record, any resulting engagement and relevant recordkeeping needs.

You can contact AWG to ask about information you provided, request access, correction or deletion, or ask to stop optional updates. We may need to verify your identity and consider transaction or recordkeeping requirements before fulfilling a request.

Depending on your state and applicable law, you may have additional rights concerning your information. Contact us using the details below to make a privacy request or ask about the rights that apply to you.

To help us locate an inquiry, include its request reference if available. Please do not send sensitive identifiers or financial documents with a privacy request.

Changes to this notice

We post updates here and change the effective date. For a material change, we will also display a notice on the website. A new or materially different optional tracking purpose will be explained before it is enabled and will require a separate choice.