ROBERT LEE GOODMAN • GOODMAN GROUP, INC. • CEO RESOURCE LLC • GOOD-MAN LLC
PRIVACY STATEMENT & NOTICE
This Privacy Statement explains how personal information may be collected, used, disclosed, retained and protected when you interact with ChiefImpleMentor.com, Chiefi.com, FiveYearLife.com and related Company Group websites, communications, Products and Services.
EFFECTIVE AND LAST UPDATED: SEPTEMBER 19, 2026
THE SHORT VERSION
We collect information reasonably necessary to operate our websites, communicate with people who contact us, provide consulting and publishing-related services, administer Advance Reader Teams, deliver newsletters and requested materials, process transactions, protect our systems and comply with legal obligations.
We do not sell our mailing lists and do not sell your personal information for money.
We use outside service providers where reasonably necessary—including website hosting, forms, email delivery, payment processing, security, anti-spam, analytics and technology providers—and those providers may process information on our behalf or under their own privacy terms.
1. WHO “WE” ARE
For purposes of this Privacy Statement, the “Company Group” means, collectively where appropriate, Robert Lee Goodman individually, Goodman Group, Inc., CEO RESOURCE LLC and Good-Man LLC, together with the applicable entity’s divisions, brands, trade names, authorized service providers, successors and assigns.
These persons and entities remain legally separate. The entity responsible for particular personal information generally depends on which website, Product, Service or business relationship generated the information.
For ChiefImpleMentor.com, Chiefi.com and CEO RESOURCE LLC consulting activity, CEO RESOURCE LLC will ordinarily be the principal business responsible for the information.
For FiveYearLife.com, publishing, books and related Good-Man LLC activities, Good-Man LLC will ordinarily be the principal business responsible for the information, subject to any applicable ownership or licensing arrangements concerning intellectual property.
A transaction-specific agreement, invoice, order, publishing agreement or other document may identify a different or additional responsible Company Group member.
2. FLORIDA ENTITIES — TENNESSEE BUSINESS OPERATIONS
CEO RESOURCE LLC and Good-Man LLC are limited liability companies organized under Florida law and maintain Florida registered-agent arrangements as required by applicable law.
The principal business operations relevant to these websites and Services are presently conducted from Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
3. WHAT THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT COVERS
This Statement applies to personal information collected through websites and webpages that link to it, including ChiefImpleMentor.com, Chiefi.com and FiveYearLife.com.
It also applies, where appropriate, to personal information collected through contact forms, newsletter subscriptions, Advance Reader Team participation, consulting communications, purchases, invoices, surveys, reader feedback and other direct interactions.
A particular Product, Service, platform or business relationship may also have additional privacy terms. Where a more specific privacy notice applies, that more specific notice controls for the information it addresses.
4. WHAT WE MEAN BY PERSONAL INFORMATION
“Personal information” or “personal data” generally means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or can reasonably be linked to an identifiable individual, household or device, to the extent provided by applicable law. It generally does not include lawfully deidentified or aggregate information that cannot reasonably be associated with an identifiable person.
5. INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE DIRECTLY
Depending on how you interact with us, you may voluntarily provide information such as your name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, company name, title, professional information, questions, comments, preferences and correspondence.
Consulting clients and prospective clients may also provide business plans, financial projections, corporate information, strategic materials, contracts, investor information, presentations, spreadsheets, correspondence and other business records.
Readers and Advance Reader Team participants may provide book preferences, manuscript requests, survey responses, reader comments, editorial suggestions and other feedback.
Newsletter subscribers may provide contact information and information about the publications, topics or communications they wish to receive.
6. INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY
When you visit a Covered Site, servers, hosting systems, security systems, WordPress, plugins and other technology may automatically collect technical information.
That information may include Internet Protocol address, approximate geographic area derived from IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring webpage, pages requested, date and time of access, language settings, error information, network information and similar technical data.
These records may be used for website operation, diagnostics, security, fraud prevention, performance measurement and aggregate analysis.
7. COOKIES & SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Covered Sites may use cookies, local storage, pixels, scripts and similar technologies for functions such as remembering preferences, protecting forms, maintaining security, detecting abuse, measuring website performance and understanding how visitors use the sites.
Some cookies are necessary for website functionality or security. Others may support analytics, embedded third-party services or marketing if such services are enabled.
You can generally control cookies through your browser. Disabling cookies may affect the operation of some website features.
8. ANALYTICS & WEBSITE PERFORMANCE
We may use website analytics, server statistics or similar tools to understand traffic, page usage, referral sources, device types, website performance and general visitor behavior.
Where reasonably practical, we use such information in aggregate or in a form that is less directly identifying.
9. CONTACT FORMS, WPForms & ANTI-SPAM TECHNOLOGY
Our websites may use WordPress-based forms, including WPForms or similar tools, to collect information you intentionally submit.
Anti-spam, CAPTCHA, security or fraud-prevention tools may evaluate technical information about a submission, browser or device to distinguish legitimate users from automated or malicious activity.
Information submitted through a form may be transmitted by email, stored within the website or hosting environment, forwarded to another authorized business system or otherwise processed as reasonably necessary to respond to your request.
10. EMAIL NEWSLETTERS, MAILERLITE & ADVANCE READER COMMUNICATIONS
If you subscribe to a newsletter, request a reader resource, join an Advance Reader Team or otherwise request continuing communications, your contact information may be stored and processed through an email-service provider such as MailerLite.
Email systems may record delivery, bounce, subscription and unsubscribe information and may provide engagement information such as whether a message was opened or whether a link was clicked, depending on the settings and technologies being used.
You may unsubscribe from marketing or newsletter emails by using the unsubscribe mechanism included in the message. We may still send necessary transactional, administrative, security or service-related communications where appropriate.
11. PAYMENTS, SQUARE & FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Consulting payments and other transactions may be processed through independent payment processors such as Square, banks, retailers or other financial-service providers.
When payment information is entered directly into a third-party payment system, that third party receives and processes the information under its own privacy and security terms.
We generally do not receive or store your complete payment-card number when the transaction is processed directly by an independent payment processor.
We may receive transaction information such as your name, contact details, invoice information, transaction amount, payment status, payment method category, transaction identifier and other information reasonably necessary for accounting and administration.
12. CONSULTING-CLIENT INFORMATION
Consulting clients may provide substantial confidential business information to CEO RESOURCE LLC in connection with an engagement.
The confidentiality, permitted use and protection of client information may also be governed by the applicable Statement of Work or another written consulting agreement.
Where a consulting agreement provides stronger or more specific confidentiality protections than this general Privacy Statement, the consulting agreement controls the consulting relationship.
13. INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC OR THIRD-PARTY SOURCES
Although much of the personal information we process comes directly from the individual concerned, we may also lawfully obtain information from public websites, professional networks, public records, business directories, referral sources, service providers or other sources where relevant to a legitimate business purpose.
For example, consulting work may require research concerning a company, executive, competitor, market, investor, supplier or other business participant.
14. WHY WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use personal information to operate and secure websites; respond to inquiries; communicate with customers, readers and clients; provide requested Products and Services; administer consulting engagements; process and document transactions; send requested publications, newsletters and Advance Reader materials; obtain and evaluate reader feedback; maintain business and accounting records; prevent fraud and abuse; improve websites, publications and Services; protect legal rights; enforce agreements; and comply with applicable legal obligations.
We do not intentionally use personal information for a materially unrelated purpose without an appropriate lawful basis or notice where applicable law requires one.
15. LEGAL BASES WHERE DATA-PROTECTION LAW REQUIRES ONE
Where European, United Kingdom or another applicable privacy law requires a specific legal basis for processing, the basis may include your consent, performance of or steps toward a contract, compliance with a legal obligation, protection of vital interests where applicable, or legitimate business interests that are not overridden by applicable individual rights.
The particular basis depends on the information and reason for processing.
16. WHEN WE MAY DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose personal information among Company Group members when reasonably necessary for legitimate business administration, publishing, consulting, accounting, technology, customer service or legal purposes.
We may provide information to service providers that perform functions for us, such as hosting, website maintenance, email delivery, payment processing, accounting, file storage, security, anti-spam, analytics, communications or professional services.
We may disclose information at your request or direction; as reasonably necessary to complete a transaction you requested; to attorneys, accountants, insurers and other professional advisers; to protect rights, safety, security or property; to investigate fraud or misuse; or where disclosure is required or permitted by applicable law, court order or lawful governmental process.
If all or part of a business or relevant assets are sold, reorganized, merged or transferred, information associated with that business may be transferred as part of the transaction subject to applicable law.
17. WE DO NOT SELL OUR MAILING LISTS
We do not sell personal information to data brokers for monetary consideration, and we do not rent or sell our newsletter or Advance Reader mailing lists.
Certain privacy laws use broader definitions of “sale,” “sharing” or targeted advertising that can include some advertising or tracking technologies. If we use technology that creates an opt-out obligation under a law applicable to us, we will provide the notices and choices that law requires.
18. SERVICE PROVIDERS
Depending on the function involved, our providers may include website hosts, domain providers, WordPress and plugin providers, WPForms or other form technology, MailerLite or another email-service provider, Square or another payment processor, banks, accounting providers, cloud-storage services, security providers, anti-spam providers, analytics providers, communications services and professional advisers.
These providers may change as technology and business needs change.
19. THIRD-PARTY PRIVACY PRACTICES
A third-party website, retailer, payment provider, social network, embedded service or other external provider has its own privacy practices. This Privacy Statement does not control an independent third party’s collection or use of information merely because we link to, embed or use that service.
20. SOCIAL MEDIA & EXTERNAL PLATFORMS
If you interact with Robert Lee Goodman or a Company Group brand through LinkedIn, Facebook, X, YouTube or another external platform, that platform may independently collect and process information according to its own terms. Information you intentionally make public on such a platform may also be publicly visible.
21. TESTIMONIALS, REVIEWS & READER FEEDBACK
If you voluntarily provide a testimonial, recommendation, review or feedback, we may retain it for business, editorial and recordkeeping purposes.
We will not knowingly represent your name, likeness or private feedback publicly as an endorsement or testimonial without an appropriate basis for doing so.
22. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & AUTOMATED TECHNOLOGY
We may use artificial-intelligence systems or other technology to assist with research, drafting, analysis, editing, organization, production or administrative work.
We seek to avoid unnecessarily submitting highly sensitive personal information to general-purpose AI systems.
Where information from a consulting engagement is subject to specific contractual confidentiality requirements, those requirements remain applicable to our handling of that information.
23. SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
Our public websites are not designed to collect Social Security numbers, account passwords, biometric identifiers, precise medical records or similar highly sensitive information through ordinary contact forms.
Please do not send highly sensitive information through an ordinary website form or ordinary email unless it is genuinely necessary and an appropriate method has been arranged.
24. DATA SECURITY
We use administrative, technical and organizational safeguards that we consider reasonable in light of the size and nature of our operations and the sensitivity of the information involved.
Those safeguards may include access controls, passwords, secure hosting measures, software updates, malware or security tools, limited access to business records, secure payment processors and other measures appropriate to the circumstances.
No website, email system, internet transmission, computer system or cloud service can be guaranteed completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot promise absolute security.
25. SECURITY INCIDENTS
If we become aware of a security incident affecting personal information, we will investigate and respond as we consider reasonably appropriate and will provide notifications to affected individuals, regulators or others when applicable law requires such notification.
26. HOW LONG WE KEEP INFORMATION
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and for legitimate business, accounting, tax, contractual, security, backup, dispute-resolution and legal purposes.
Retention periods differ depending on the nature of the information and relationship.
For example, newsletter information may ordinarily remain active until you unsubscribe or the record is otherwise removed, while transaction, accounting, contractual or legal records may need to be retained for substantially longer periods.
Deletion from active systems may not immediately remove information from routine backups, archives, fraud-prevention records or records we are legally entitled or required to retain.
27. DATA MINIMIZATION
We seek to collect and retain information that is reasonably relevant to the business purpose involved rather than collecting personal information simply because it is technically possible to do so.
28. AGGREGATE & DEIDENTIFIED INFORMATION
We may create or use aggregate statistics or deidentified information for analysis, planning, research, security, publishing, website improvement or other lawful purposes when the information is not reasonably capable of identifying an individual.
29. INTERNATIONAL PROCESSING & DATA TRANSFERS
The Company Group is based in the United States. Information collected from people outside the United States may therefore be transmitted to, stored in or processed in the United States or another country where an authorized service provider operates.
Privacy laws and government access rules differ among jurisdictions.
Where applicable law requires a particular mechanism or safeguard for an international transfer, we will use an appropriate mechanism to the extent required.
30. YOUR EVERYDAY PRIVACY CHOICES
You may choose not to submit optional information through a website.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails.
You may configure your browser to limit cookies or similar technologies, although doing so may affect website functionality.
You may also contact us regarding personal information as described below.
31. PRIVACY RIGHTS THAT MAY APPLY TO YOU
Depending on where you reside and whether a particular privacy law applies to the relevant Company Group member, you may have rights concerning your personal information.
Those rights may include the right to know or confirm whether information is being processed; obtain access; request correction; request deletion; obtain a portable copy; withdraw consent where processing depends on consent; object to or restrict certain processing; opt out of certain sales, targeted advertising or profiling; and receive equal treatment for exercising legally protected privacy rights.
The precise rights, exceptions, verification requirements and response periods depend on applicable law.
32. REQUESTS EVEN WHERE A PARTICULAR STATUTE DOES NOT APPLY
Even where a particular comprehensive state privacy statute does not apply to us because of statutory thresholds, exemptions or the nature of the information, we may voluntarily attempt to accommodate a reasonable request to access, correct or delete personal information when doing so is practical, does not conflict with another person’s rights and does not interfere with legitimate legal, contractual, security, accounting or record-retention requirements.
33. HOW TO MAKE A PRIVACY REQUEST
To submit a privacy request, email CEO@Chiefi.com with the subject line PRIVACY REQUEST.
Please explain the nature of your request and identify the email address, website, transaction or relationship associated with the information so we can locate the relevant records.
Do not send a Social Security number, password, complete payment-card number or other unnecessary sensitive credential merely to submit a privacy request.
34. VERIFYING PRIVACY REQUESTS
Before providing, correcting or deleting personal information, we may take reasonable steps to verify the identity and authority of the person making the request. Verification procedures will depend on the sensitivity of the information, the nature of the request and applicable law.
35. AUTHORIZED AGENTS
Where applicable law permits an authorized agent to submit a privacy request for you, we may require reasonable evidence of the agent’s authority and may require verification directly from you unless applicable law provides otherwise.
36. APPEALS OF PRIVACY DECISIONS
If applicable law gives you the right to appeal our decision concerning a privacy request, you may submit an appeal to CEO@Chiefi.com with the subject line PRIVACY APPEAL. Please identify the original request and explain the basis for the appeal.
37. YOUR RIGHT TO CONTACT A REGULATOR IS NOT RESTRICTED
Nothing in this Privacy Statement requires you to waive or postpone a legally protected right to contact a government agency, data-protection authority, attorney general, law-enforcement authority, court or other regulator.
38. TENNESSEE RESIDENTS
If the Tennessee Information Protection Act applies to the Company Group member processing your information, Tennessee residents may have rights provided by that law, including certain rights of access, correction, deletion, portability and opt-out, subject to the law’s definitions, thresholds, exceptions and verification requirements.
39. CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
If the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended, applies to the Company Group member processing your information, California residents may have rights to know, access, correct and delete certain personal information and to opt out of certain sale or sharing, subject to statutory definitions and exceptions.
We will not unlawfully discriminate against a consumer for exercising a right protected by applicable privacy law.
40. RESIDENTS OF OTHER U.S. STATES
Residents of Florida and other states may have additional privacy rights if a state privacy law applies to the particular Company Group member and processing activity. We will honor rights that are legally applicable to us.
41. GLOBAL PRIVACY CONTROL & BROWSER PREFERENCE SIGNALS
Where applicable law requires recognition of a legally valid browser-based opt-out preference signal such as Global Privacy Control, we will seek to honor that signal to the extent required by law and technically applicable to the relevant processing. Because there is no single universal legal standard for every browser “Do Not Track” signal, ordinary DNT settings may not result in a uniform response across all services.
42. EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA, UNITED KINGDOM & SIMILAR JURISDICTIONS
If European, United Kingdom or another comparable data-protection law applies to our processing of your personal information, you may have additional rights such as access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, withdrawal of consent and the right to lodge a complaint with an appropriate supervisory authority, subject to applicable conditions and exceptions.
43. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our business websites, consulting services, newsletters and publishing programs are not directed to children under 13.
We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information online from children under 13 without legally required parental consent. If we learn that information was collected from a child in circumstances where collection was not permitted, we will take reasonable steps to address it.
44. LINKS & EMBEDDED CONTENT
Covered Sites may contain embedded videos, social-media features, external links, maps, forms, payment interfaces or other third-party content. Interacting with those features may cause information to be transmitted directly to the third party. Review the third party’s privacy terms for information about its practices.
45. BUSINESS TRANSFERS & SUCCESSORS
If a relevant business, company, website, publishing operation or material assets are sold, merged, reorganized or transferred, personal information associated with that operation may be transferred to the successor or acquiring party, subject to applicable law and any contractual protections that remain binding.
46. LEGAL PROCESS, SAFETY & PROTECTION OF RIGHTS
We may preserve, use or disclose information when we reasonably believe doing so is necessary to comply with applicable law or lawful process; respond to a valid subpoena, court order or governmental request; investigate fraud or security threats; enforce agreements; protect intellectual property; protect the rights, property or safety of the Company Group or another person; or establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
47. PUBLIC WEBSITE COMMUNICATIONS ARE NOT AUTOMATICALLY CONFIDENTIAL
A message sent through a public website, ordinary email or social-media platform is not automatically subject to a consulting-client confidentiality agreement. If confidentiality is important to a proposed consulting matter, contact us first and determine whether an applicable agreement is in place before transmitting highly sensitive information.
48. KEEPING INFORMATION ACCURATE
If you believe personal information we maintain about you is materially inaccurate, you may contact us and request correction. We may retain a record of prior information where reasonably necessary for accounting, contractual, historical, security or legal purposes.
49. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
We may update this Privacy Statement as websites, Products, Services, technologies, service providers or legal requirements change.
The effective date shown at the top identifies the current published version.
If a change requires additional notice or consent under applicable law, we will provide the notice or obtain the consent required by that law.
50. RELATIONSHIP TO OUR TERMS OF USE
Use of the Covered Sites is also subject to the applicable Terms of Use & General Terms of Service. To the extent legally permitted, contractual disputes relating to this Privacy Statement are subject to those Terms, including applicable governing-law and forum provisions. Nothing in that provision limits a privacy right, regulatory complaint right or remedy that applicable law makes non-waivable.
51. PRIVACY CONTACT
CEO RESOURCE LLC
Attn: Privacy
1216 East Parkway, #161
Gatlinburg, Tennessee 37738 USA
Email:
CEO@Chiefi.com
CEO@Chiefi.com
OUR PRACTICAL PRIVACY PRINCIPLE
Collect what we reasonably need. Use it for legitimate purposes. Protect it appropriately. Do not sell the mailing list. Give people reasonable control over their own information. And do not make privacy promises that cannot realistically be kept.
Best wishes for stellar success,
Robert Lee Goodman, MBA
CEO & Chief ImpleMentor™
CEO RESOURCE LLC
Elevator Pitch: “I Help Startups Start & Stay Started.” ™ | MBA | 49X Founder | Raised Capital 44 Times For 44 Of My Own Companies And Limited Partnerships = $120.1 million TD From 1,342 Investors | “I HELP STARTUPS PLAN, FUND & IMPLEMENT” | FUNDING NETWORK: 6K Angel Investors / 4.5K VC / 1.5K Family OFFICES – ALL 12K OF WHOM PERSONALLY KNOW ME. | ARE YOU REALLY “READY FOR FUNDRAISING PRIME TIME?”