Please be assured that we exercise numerous measures to ensure the information you provide is kept confidential and used only to select awardees. Information provided in the application, including the financials, is used to determine if a company is eligible for the award and to gauge a company’s growth factors. Without this information, judges have no way to determine your eligibility. Moreover, judges sign a nondisclosure agreement before they begin reviewing applications.
The information provided in the application may also be used to write a company profile for a commemorative magazine. The magazine does NOT publish revenue figures, and references to finances are made using growth percentages only, if at all (e.g., “the company experienced 45% growth over two years as a result of the new product”). At your request, we omit references to growth percentages entirely.
If selected as an honoree, a company’s contact information (namely the company’s name, principal’s name, industry, city, and description) is used to publicize the program and the awardees. Financials from specific companies are NOT used for this purpose. Specific data, such as revenue figures, are used only in the aggregate for statistical purposes. In this way, it is impossible to isolate data from the whole and attribute it to an individual company.
The application asks if information, including employee counts, revenue growth percentages, and other details entered on the application, should not be used publicly. Companies may select “No” according to their comfort level.
