Disclaimer and Privacy Policy to Work With National Shelf Corporations

At National Shelf Corporations we’re fully committed to helping our customers maintain their privacy and keep their personal information secure.

This page offers our complete Privacy Policy and full explanation on how we gather, use, and protect client information. It also describes how National Shelf Corporations and its affiliates (collectively “we” and “us”) collect and share information we receive from you and about you. Our policy also pertains to various interactions we may have with us including using our website, telephone calls, or email exchanges.

Note that this Privacy Policy is part of our Terms of Service. When you use our website or subscribe to our Services, you are accepting the terms of our Privacy Policy.

If you have a disability that makes it difficult for you to read or use this Privacy Policy, please contact our privacy team by phone at 1-317-474-6007 or by email at info@nationalshelfcorps.com. We’ll be happy to provide further assistance.

Although Indiana’s data privacy laws aren’t as strong as California’s or the EU’s, the state has taken steps towards strengthening their legislation. For example, in 2019, the state passed HB 1485, which establishes a task force that researches how stronger laws similar to California could be implemented within the state. That being said, the state has yet to adopt any task force findings into law.

Thankfully, none of this matters when you hire National Shelf Corporations to form your business. User or client data is never sold to marketing firms, and we strictly limit sharing information to purposes related to improving our services and fulfilling any legal obligations.

We will retain your information for as long as needed to provide you Services, and as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We also may maintain some or all of this information in our archives even after it has been removed from the site.

The types or categories of information we may collect about you include the following:

Identifying Information: This category includes information such as name, address, telephone number, email address, banking information, credit card and debit card number, social security number, Federal Tax Identification number, account numbers, user name, Internet Protocol address (“IP address”) and other online identifiers.

Commercial Information: This category includes information such as legal entity name, business entity or filing, registered agent, officers, directors, managers or members of an entity, communications contact, other business related information, Services purchased, and other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

Internet Information: This category includes information such as your internet browser, browsing history on our website, search history on our website, information about the device you are using to access our website, and information regarding your interaction with our website or advertisements. We may also collect information about visitors to our website such as browser settings, operating systems, referring/exit pages and data.

Audio Information: If you interact with our customer service personnel, we may record the phone call or retain the email string for quality assurance purposes.

We use information we collect to help us personalize and continually improve your experience at www.nationalshelfcorps.com. We may also use the information in the following ways:

Analytics: We collect information for use in performing various types of analytics. For example, we use information to analyze how visitors interact with our website, where visitors to our website arrive from and exit to, pages visited, links clicked, text entered and mouse movements to understand site usage, to detect fraud and potential threats and improve our services.

Fulfilling legal and compliance obligations: We collect information in order to fulfill our legal obligations. Examples of this may include satisfying regulatory screening requirements in connection with entity formations, responding to subpoenas and other legal requests for information, and maintaining records as required in our role as shelf corporation holder. We may also collect information for the purpose of detecting fraud or other suspicious activity.

Provide Services to you: We collect information to send you email or postal mail, perform tasks required to complete a purchase transaction, provide customer support, or provide other types of customer relationship management and fulfillment. We may also use your information to optimize or improve our Services and operations, for example training and quality assurance.

You: The majority of information that we collect will come directly from you when you complete a form online or speak to us on the phone. We may also collect information indirectly about you when you interact with our website, through the use of cookies and other tracking technologies as described below.

Related Entities: We may collect information about you from another party. For example, if you are a member or manager of an Indiana limited liability company that is formed through www.nationalshelfcorps.com, we may be given information about you in order to complete the formation with the state.

Service Providers: We may collect information about you from our service providers. Service providers are entities that we have contracted with to provide us with services to help fulfill our business needs.

Business Partners and Affiliates: We may collect information about you from our business partners and affiliates. For example, we may receive information that you are interested in a Service that we offer.

Publicly Available Information: We may collect information related to you from publicly available sources of information, including government records. For example, we may collect information about whether your legal entity is in good standing with a certain State if you hire National Shelf Corporations to register your foreign LLC in the State of Indiana.

How We Share That Information

Except as disclosed in this Privacy Policy, we do not disclose personal information to any companies not part National Shelf Corporations, subsidiaries or related entities. Although, as discussed below, we may provide some personal information to certain service providers and other third parties, in no event will we sell your personal information as part of a customer list or similar transaction for unrelated parties to independently market to you.

Service Providers: We may share personal information with agents, affiliates, partners or other third parties that perform functions on our behalf, such as analytics, credit card processing, etc. These entities have access to the personal information needed to perform their functions and are obligated to maintain the confidentiality and security of that personal information. Service providers are not authorized to use the information we share with them for any purpose other than providing services to us or to you.

Required by Law: We may disclose information as required by law, such as in response to a subpoena, a lawful request by a public authority, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, or similar legal process, and when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a legal request.

Cookies: Our website uses “cookies” to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your device by a web server. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

If you register an account with us, a cookie allows us to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This facilitates the process of recalling your personal information so that when you return to our website, the information you previously provided can be easily retrieved.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can typically modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you want to. If you choose not to allow cookies, this may impact your ability to log into your account or experience the full interactive features of our Services.

Web Beacons: We also employ a technology called web beacons or “clear gifs” that help us track referrals from our partners and affiliates and better manage content on our website. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track online movements of web users.

Our partners and affiliates may use cookies and web beacons to collect information about your activities on our site. The use of tracing technologies by our service providers, technology providers or other third parties is not covered by our Privacy Policy.

This site is intended for use in the United States of America. We attempt to protect the personal information of all users of our site and we attempt to comply with local data protection laws to the extent they apply to our Services, but our site is targeted to United States citizens and our policies are directed at compliance with those laws.

If you are located outside of the United States of America, you should be aware that your personal information will be transferred to the United States of America, the laws of which may differ from the laws of your country. If you are located in a country outside of the United States of America and voluntarily submit personal information to us, you thereby consent to the general use of such information as provided in this Privacy Policy and to the transfer of that information to, and/or storage or processing of that information in, the United States of America and you understand that your information may be available to government authorities under lawful orders and laws applicable there. By requesting our Services, you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have different data protection rules than those of your country.

Please contact our privacy team regarding any questions or comments you may have.