Privacy Policy
Last Updated: July 30, 2026
ABC Consulting VA, LLC (“ABC Consulting,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit VAABC.com, contact us, submit an application, upload documents, or otherwise use our website and services.
By using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect
Information You Provide
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide when you:
- Contact us through the websiteRequest a consultation
- Complete an alcohol license, tobacco permit, or special-event application
- Upload documents
- Communicate with us by email, telephone, or another method
- Purchase or request a service
Depending on the service requested, this information may include:
- Your name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Business name and type
- Business location, city, or county
- Ownership or organizational information
- License or permit information
- Event details
- Information contained in documents you upload
- Payment and transaction information
- Any other information you choose to provide
Please provide only the information requested. Do not submit sensitive personal information through a general contact form unless we specifically request it through an appropriate application or secure document-upload process.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies, analytics tools, server logs, and similar technologies. This may include:
- Internet Protocol address
- Browser and device type
- Operating system
- Approximate geographic location
- Referring website
- Pages viewed
- Links or buttons selected
- Date and time of a visit
- Time spent on the website
- General website interaction and performance information
We use this information to understand how visitors use the website, maintain website functionality, improve content and navigation, and identify technical or security concerns.
How We Use Information
We may use information collected through the website to:
- Respond to questions and consultation requests
- Review license, permit, or event information
- Prepare, process, or assist with applications
- Provide requested consulting and compliance services
- Communicate about an application or service
- Request additional documents or information
- Process payments and maintain transaction records
- Provide customer support
- Improve our website, services, and communications
- Measure website traffic and performance
- Prevent fraud, misuse, or security incidents
- Maintain records and comply with legal, regulatory, tax, or accounting requirements
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
Online Forms and Document Uploads
Some applications and document-upload features on our website are provided through Formsite, a third-party form service. Information submitted through these forms may be collected, transmitted, and stored through Formsite’s systems before being accessed by ABC Consulting.
Form submissions may include personal, business, licensing, event, ownership, or supporting-document information. Formsite’s handling of this information is governed by its own privacy, security, and service policies.
You can review Formsite’s information at:
General contact forms may also be processed through WordPress, Contact Form 7, our website-hosting provider, and the email services used to deliver your message to us.
Payments
Certain applications or services may require payment. When a payment is submitted, payment information may be processed by Formsite or by a third-party payment processor connected to the applicable form.
ABC Consulting does not directly store your complete payment-card number through this website. Payment processors may collect and process information according to their own privacy and security policies.
Google Analytics and Cookies
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors find and interact with our website. Google Analytics may collect information such as website usage, session activity, approximate location, browser type, device information, and referring sources through cookies or similar technologies.
We use this information to evaluate website performance, improve visitor experience, and understand which content and services are most useful.
Google’s use of information is governed by its own policies:
You can limit cookies through your browser settings. You may also use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Disabling cookies may affect certain website features.
Embedded Content and Third-Party Links
Our website may contain embedded videos, maps, social-media features, reviews, or links to third-party websites, including YouTube, Google, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Virginia government agencies, and other resources.
Embedded content may allow those providers to collect information about your device or interaction with the content. Third-party websites and services operate under their own privacy policies, and ABC Consulting is not responsible for their privacy or security practices.
A link to a third-party website does not necessarily constitute an endorsement of that website, its services, or its content.
When We May Share Information
We may share information with service providers that help us operate our business and provide requested services, including:
- Website-hosting and maintenance providers
- Form and document-processing providers
- Email and communication providers
- Analytics providers
- Payment processors
- Accounting, recordkeeping, or business-software providers
- Professional advisers or contractors assisting with requested services
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with a law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or governmental request
- Protect the rights, safety, or property of ABC Consulting, our clients, or others
- Investigate fraud, misuse, or security concerns
- Enforce an agreement
- Complete a merger, acquisition, financing, sale, or transfer of all or part of the business
ABC Consulting is an independent consulting firm. We are not the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority, a law firm, or another government agency. Information submitted to ABC Consulting is not automatically submitted to a government agency unless doing so is part of a service you have requested or authorized.
Data Retention
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Respond to your request
- Provide and document requested services
- Maintain business, accounting, and transaction records
- Meet legal or regulatory obligations
- Resolve disputes
- Enforce agreements
- Protect against fraud or misuse
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, the service provided, and applicable requirements. Information that is no longer reasonably required may be deleted, anonymized, or securely disposed of.
Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no website, email transmission, online form, document upload, or electronic-storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You submit information electronically at your own risk.
Your Privacy Choices
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to request that we:
- Confirm whether we maintain personal information about you
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Provide access to certain personal information
- Correct inaccurate information
- Delete certain information
- Limit or object to certain uses of your information
These rights may be subject to legal, contractual, recordkeeping, or other permitted exceptions.
To submit a privacy request, email info@vaabc.com. We may need to verify your identity before processing a request.
You may opt out of nonessential promotional emails by using the unsubscribe instructions included in the message or by contacting us. Service-related communications concerning an active request, application, transaction, or client relationship may still be sent when necessary.
Children’s Privacy
This website and our services are intended for adults and businesses. They are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the website.
If you believe a child has submitted personal information to us, please contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, delete it.
Visitors From Outside the United States
ABC Consulting is based in the United States. If you access the website from another country, information may be transferred to, processed, and stored in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as our website, services, providers, or legal obligations change. The revised version will be posted on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date.
Your continued use of the website after an update means that you acknowledge the revised Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
For questions about this Privacy Policy or a request concerning your personal information, contact:
ABC Consulting VA, LLC
Email: info@vaabc.com
Telephone: 800-785-0161
Website: https://vaabc.com/
