Privacy Policy

 Big Box Charities and its affiliates (collectively "AA", "we", "us", or "our") values your trust, and we understand the importance of privacy. We want to make sure that you understand how your information is collected and used by us. This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect about you, including when and how we collect it; how we use it; with whom we may share it; and what choices you have regarding the use of your information. Please know that information collected assists us in advancing our mission of leading the way to end disease and other illness; therefore, as explained in this Privacy Policy, we seek to obtain data in a manner that allows us to use the data collected in ways most beneficial to furthering our mission.
 

This Privacy Policy (as amended from time to time as posted on our website at www.bigboxcharities.com) describes how BBC  uses, and shares your Personal Data when you use and interact with our Services and applies to all persons who use our Services ("user", "you", or "your"). Our Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of all BBC operated and controlled websites including any associated websites to which this policy is posted and identified as its Privacy Policy (collectively, the "Website"), all BBC operated and controlled mobile applications (collectively, the "Mobile App"), and all other available online services controlled or provided by BBC (collectively, the "Services").
 

By visiting our Website or  using our Services, purchasing our products ("Products") or making an online donation, you acknowledge that you accept the terms, practices and policies described in this Privacy Policy (and as updated from time to time), and you hereby consent that we may collect, use, and share your information as described herein. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website or Mobile App or our Services. Your use of the Website, and our Services is at all times subject to our copyright terms (available at Copyrights and Reprints as updated from time to time) and our return policy (available at our online store and as updated from time to time), (collectively, the "Terms"), which are incorporated by reference herein. Any capitalized terms we use in this Privacy Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms.
 

If you have questions about BBC Privacy Policy or practices, or if you need to contact us about the information we collect about you, our contact information is at the end of this Privacy Policy.

We are constantly working to improve our Website, and Services, and we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time as well. Our current Privacy Policy will always be on our Website, and any updates will be effective upon posting. You are responsible for periodically checking our Website for updates.

This Privacy Policy applies only to the Services, and BBC collection, use, disclosure, and protection of your data. It does not apply to third-party websites, applications, or services. Before accessing, using, or interacting with the Services you should carefully review the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
 

The Website, and Services are not directed to children under the age of 16. You may not use the Website, or Services if you are under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect, solicit or maintain Personal Data from anyone under the age of 16 or knowingly allow such persons to register for or use our Services. If you are under 16, please do not send any Personal Data about yourself (such as your name, address, telephone number, or email address) to us. In the event that we learn that we have collected Personal Data from a child under age 16 without verification of parental consent, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete that information from our database. Please contact us if you have any concerns.

This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable information, referred to herein as "Personal Data" and means any unencrypted or non-deidentified information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked with a particular person such as, but not limited to, your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, and the like. Please see additional information below on the particular information we collect.

If you are a citizen or resident of the European Economic Area ("EEA"), United Kingdom, or Switzerland, the definition of Personal Data is defined under the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") and you have certain rights; therefore, please see the section below entitled "GDPR".

Personal Data does not include your Personal Data that has been de-identified, pseudonymized, anonymized, aggregated, and/or otherwise processed so as to be unidentifiable in such a way that the data can no longer be attributed to a specific individual (by reasonable means) without the use of additional information, and where such additional information is kept separate and under adequate security to prevent unauthorized re-identification of a specific individual such that one could not, using reasonable efforts, link such information back to a specific individual (collectively, all of the foregoing in this sentence being referred to as "De-Identified Personal Data").

AA collects Personal Data about you and your use of the Services through various means, including when you provide information to us such as when you join, sign up for a membership, donate, register for events and webinars, and when we automatically collect information about you when you access, use, or interact with the Services. We use this information for a variety of different reasons, including to improve the Services and to tailor the Services to you.

We may also collect Personal Data from you through methods other than our Website or Mobile App. Such methods may include, but are not limited to, if you submit a paper application, make a payment by check, or call or visit our office. It may also include emails, text messages, or other electronic communications that you send to us separate from our Website or Mobile App or by way of our Service Providers (as defined herein). However, if we combine the Personal Data we collect from you outside of our Website or Mobile App with Personal Data that is collected through our Website or Mobile App or by another means as described above, the Privacy Policy will apply to the combined information, unless specifically disclosed or described otherwise.

We may, depending on your interactions with us, collect several categories of Personal Data from and about you as summarized in the following table: 

AA Membership and Event Information: BBC collects certain Personal Data from you when you join the BBC or register for BBC events. BBC uses this information to provide your membership, register you for events, provide information about memberships and events, and administer your registrations with BBC.

Big Box Charities Account Information: BBC may require you to register for an account (an "BBC Account") in order to use certain Services, such as the BBC Career Center. We do not require you to register to use all of our Services. However, if you do register for Services offering an BBC Account, you will gain access to those areas and features of the Services that require registration. BBC will collect certain information about you in connection with your registration for your BBC Account, which may include Personal Data and other information such as a username, password, personal profile, pictures, your location, and information about your contacts. Some of your BBC Account information may be displayed publicly. You are not required to provide your Personal Data; however, if you choose to withhold certain Personal Data, we may not be able to provide you with certain Services.

Payment Transaction Information: We may collect and store information related to purchases and donations made through the Services. You may provide certain information to complete payments via the Services, including your credit or debit card number and related information along with your name and billing, delivery and shipping address, to complete payment transactions through certain Services. Please note BBC works with Service Providers (as defined below) to handle payment transactions. BBC does not itself retain your credit card or other financial account information; this information is handled for BBC by our Service Providers. You are subject to the privacy policies and terms and conditions of our Service Providers when purchasing an BBC membership, shopping for BBC products, making donations or paying for another item, the terms of which may differ from those of BBC for the BBC Services. Please review the Service Providers’ privacy policies and terms and conditions before using their services.

Form Information: We may use online forms to request certain information from you in order to perform certain Services, such as your location to assist you in locating our products, or your contact information to assist with contacts or service requests. This information may include Personal Data.

Correspondence Information: If you sign up for a membership, attend a conference or event, utilize a Service or program, email us, subscribe to our newsletters mailing lists, publications, or blogs or participate or utilize other offerings, we may keep your message, email address, and contact information to respond to your requests, provide the requested products or Services, and to provide notifications or other correspondences to you. If you do not want to receive email from us in the future, you may let us know by sending us an email or by writing to us at the address noted at the end of this Privacy Policy. Please note requests to remove your email address from our lists may take some time to fulfill. Should you opt out, and once your request has been fulfilled, we will not send you general notifications or correspondence; however, we may still contact you if needed to provide important announcements or notifications regarding the Services for which you have registered, such as a change of venue, a time change, a change in programming, or the like.

Support Information: You may provide information to us via a support request submitted through the Services. We will use this information to assist you with your support request and may maintain this information to assist you or other users with support requests. Please do not submit any information to us via a support submission, including confidential or sensitive information that you do not wish for BBC or our Service Providers to have access to or use in the future.

• Information that you provide by filling in webforms on our Website or Mobile App. This includes information provided when creating an online account, purchasing our Products or Services, subscribing to our e-newsletters or other communications, requesting information from us, submitting or posting material (where permitted) on our forums, or interacting with customer support or service, report a problem with our Website, Mobile App, Products, or Services, or otherwise communicating with us.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.
• Registering for an event.
• Your responses to surveys that we or our service providers might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Purchasing training, educational, skill-based or other such products.
• Your search queries on the Website or Mobile App.
• When communicating with customer service/support.
• Third-party websites and mobile applications (e.g., websites that share information with us or advertising partners regarding online activities).
• Data suppliers (e.g., companies that provide demographics and other information regarding consumers).
• When making a donation via our Website or Mobile App.
• On mobile applications (parent, subsidiary and affiliate brands).
• Joint marketing partners.
• Online advertising companies.
• Fulfillment and delivery service providers.
• Social media companies.
• Other service providers.
• Responding to employment opportunities.

Unique Identifiers: When you use or access the Services, we may access, collect, monitor, store on your device, and/or remotely store one or more "Unique Identifiers", such as a universally unique identifier. A Unique Identifier may remain on your device persistently, to help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through the Services. Some features of the Services may not function properly if use or availability of Unique Identifiers is impaired or disabled.

Log File Information: When you use our Services, we may receive log file information such as your IP address, browser type, access times, domain names operating system, the referring web page(s), pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, and cookie information. We receive log file data when you interact with our Services, for example, when you visit our Website or Mobile App, sign into our Services, or interact with our email notifications. AA uses log file data to provide, understand, and improve our Services, and to customize the content we show you. BBC may link this log file to other information BBC collects about you via the Services.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website or Mobile App are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers. First-party or third-party cookies may be used alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website or Mobile App. A first-party cookie is a cookie set by the domain name that appears in the browser address bar. A third-party cookie is a cookie set by (and on) a domain name that is not the domain name that appears in the browser address bar. It might be set as part of a side resource load (image, JS, iframe, etc., from a different hostname) or an AJAX HTTP request to a third-party server. The information that first-party and third-party cookies collect may be associated with your Personal Data or they may collect information, including Personal Data, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services (i.e., tracking such activities). They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. 

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. More information on how to opt-out of third-party advertiser tracking mechanisms is available from the National Advertising Initiative (NAI).

We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Website or Mobile App; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our Services; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns; (e) diagnose or fix technology problems reported by our users or engineers that are associated with certain IP addresses; and/or, (f) help you efficiently access your information after you sign in.

We may use your Personal Data you provide us and which we obtain from other sources to better understand your interests so we can try to predict what other products, services and information you might be most interested in. This practice involves making automated decisions about you based on this information in order to better enable us to tailor our interactions with you to make them more relevant and interesting. You may object to our doing this at any time by sending us an email or by writing to us at the address below (see Contact Information). Please note requests to discontinue this practice may take a reasonable amount time to fulfill.

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your Personal Data for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

We may collect geolocation information about you in order to serve up advertising and marketing communications based on your geolocation.

Google Tools: We use tools provided by Google as described below.

• Google Analytics. We use, and some of our third-party service providers may use, Google Analytics or other analytics service to help us understand the use of our Website, Mobile App, and Services. Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilizes data it collects to track and examine the use of our Website and Mobile App to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. The Personal Data collected and processed may include cookies, usage data, and other internet information. Such service providers may place their own cookies in your browser. This Privacy Policy covers use of cookies by us only and not the use of cookies by third parties.
• Google AdSense Advertising. We use Google AdSense Advertising (or other search engine or display network advertising) on our Website or Mobile App. Google’s advertising requirements and principles are available on the Google Advertising Policies Center. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. We have implemented the following: (a) Remarketing with Google AdSense and (b) Google Display Network Impression Reporting.
• Google DART Cookie. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Website or Mobile App. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our Website or Mobile App and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy. We, along with third-party vendors such as Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookies) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our Website or Mobile App.
• Google DoubleClick Cookie. We work with Google DoubleClick Cookie, a third-party vendor, which uses cookies to serve ads on our Website or Mobile App. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Website or Mobile App or other websites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Google Ad Settings.
• Google Maps/Google Earth. We also use Google Maps (including the Google Maps API(s)) and/or Google Earth, which may, among other things, request access to your geolocation, and both of which are subject to their own terms of use and privacy policy.
• Google reCAPTCHA. We use Google reCAPTCHA, which identifies bots by collecting hardware and software information and sending that data to Google for analysis. You can find more information about Google reCAPTCHA.

Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Public Information: Big Box Charities may also collect information about you from publicly available sources. Information you make publicly available in any public or open forum, such as on a social network, may be considered public information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy, and may be accessed and collected by BBC. Please be aware that any content or information you share with or provide to third parties using or related to your use of the Services is neither private, nor confidential. BBC is not responsible for any content or information you post or share with third parties. If you do not wish for certain information to be public, please do not share it.

SMS (Text Messages): Our Services may include sending you Short Message Service ("SMS") messages, which may deliver up to three messages per day to your wireless device (unless you communicate further with us), but message frequency may vary. We may use your information to contact you about your purchases, returns (if available), Website or Mobile App updates, conduct surveys, event information, public policy matters, research updates, fundraising opportunities, or informational and service-related communications, including important security updates. You may remove your information by replying "STOP" to the SMS text message you received. After you send the SMS message "STOP" to us, we will send you an SMS message to confirm that you have been unsubscribed. Alternatively, you may submit your request (see Contact Information) by email to us, including the email address and phone number you registered with us, or by any reasonable means. Please know that requests received by means other than email may require a reasonable amount of time to process before taking effect. After this, you will no longer receive SMS messages from us. If you want to join again, just sign up as you did the first time and we will start sending SMS messages to you again. For help, please reply to a text with "HELP". Message and data rates may apply, depending on your cell phone plan. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. 

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Data, for one or more of the following purposes:

• To present our Website and Mobile App and their contents to you.
• To solicit you for donations.
• To provide you with information and respond to your questions on Products or Services that you request from us and information on new products and services, discounts, special promotions or upcoming events, and features or offers that we believe will be of interest to you.
• To provide you with the Products, Services, or information that you have requested.
• To process transaction payments, including, but not limited to, Product and/or Service fees, subscription fees, professional fees, membership dues, registration fees, voluntary contributions, examination fees, credential and designation fees, and payments, refunds and reimbursements for any products or services that you choose to purchase from us (though we do not receive your credit or debit card number).
• To process discounts, offers, loyalty rewards, and/or rebate requests, forms, and applications and coordinate with the manufacturer, retailer and/or wholesaler.
• To provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.
• To notify you about information regarding or changes to our Website or Mobile App, our policies, terms, or any Products or Services we offer or provide, or regarding your account.
• To process your account application and any changes to your account information.
• To process Personal Data or other information that you submit through or to us.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website or Mobile App.
• To contact you about our own and third parties’ products and services that may be of interest to you.
• To provide access to restricted parts of our Website or Mobile App, e.g., areas accessible if you have a user account.
• To enhance and improve our Products and Services, for example, by performing internal research, analyzing user trends, and measuring demographics and interests.
• For internal purposes, such as Website, Mobile App, or Service and system operation, administration, maintenance, internal audits and reviews, diagnosing technical problems, and maintaining security.
• To provide statistics about the usage levels of the Website or Mobile App and other related information to our service providers.
• To notify you of data privacy incidents or provide you with legally required information.
• To request your participation in ratings, reviews, surveys, focus groups, or other initiatives which help us to gather information used to develop and enhance our Products and Services.
• To determine eligibility for membership, credentials, designations, or volunteer opportunities.
• To evaluate your performance on continued learning courses and assist you in the tracking of your progress.
• For examination or event registration, scheduling, event attendance, administration and related purposes.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide Personal Data.
• In any other way we may describe and for which we obtain your consent when you provide the information and you give your consent.

Social Media Plug-ins: We integrate social media application program interfaces or plug-ins ("Plug-ins") from social networks, including Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Xing, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest and/or possibly other companies, into the Website or Mobile App. In order to register as a user with us, you may have the option to sign in using your Facebook or other social media site login. 

For example, when you visit our Website or Mobile App, the Plug-in creates a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. This allows Facebook to receive information about your visit to our Website or Mobile App with your IP address. If you click the Facebook "Like" button while you are logged on to your Facebook account, you can link the contents of our Website or Mobile App to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to assign your visit to our Website or Mobile App to your user account. Please note that as provider of the Website or Mobile App, we receive no notification about the contents of the transmitted data or their use by Facebook. If you do not want Facebook to assign your visit to our Website or Mobile App to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

If you do so, you authorize us to access certain social media site account information, such as your public social media profile (consistent with your privacy settings in the social media site), your email address, interests, likes, gender, birthday, education history, relationships, interests, current city, photos, personal description, friend list, and information about and photos of your social media site friends who might be common social media site friends with other users. Plug-ins may transfer information about you to the Plug-in’s respective platform without action by you. This information may include your platform user identification number, which website you are on, and more. Interacting with a Plug-in will transmit information directly to that Plug-in’s social network and that information may be visible by others on that platform. Plug-ins are controlled by the respective platform’s privacy policy, and not by our Privacy Policy. You can find the privacy policy for a platform on their website.
 

The Right to Use you grant us above also extends to any Content that you have posted to our Facebook or other social media account pages, or on other websites, e.g., Google, Yelp, Tripadvisor, Instagram, etc. The term "Use" includes, but is not limited to, use, reproduce, modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, delete, translate, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, and make derivative works of the content.

If we permit you to post Content, by posting any Content, or submitting Content for posting, you agree with the following "User Content Posting Guidelines":

To the extent our Website or Mobile App contains areas where you can post or submit to be posted such as comments, product reviews, testimonials or the like, you agree to post Content that is proper and related to the general theme of the Website or Mobile App. Content also includes that which you send to us by email, text, mail, or other means. You agree not to post or submit any Content that:

• Is off-topic, false, inaccurate, misleading, defamatory, libelous, stalking, threatening, obscene, pornographic, indecent, vulgar, offensive, which contains unlawful material or information, or which otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others;
• Harasses, degrades, intimidates, or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
• Is not your own original creation or that you do not have permission to use or that infringes the copyright, trademark, patent, or other proprietary right of any person or that is used without the permission of the owner;
• Is intended to provide professional advice, including but not limited to, the provision of medical treatment, or legal, financial or investment advice;
• Promotes or provides instructional information about illegal or illicit activities;
• Purports to be from any person or entity, including but not limited to one of our employees, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity;
• Includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent, or is doxxing;
• Contains malicious software code of any kind, including, but not limited to, code that contain viruses, malware, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs designed to or that may interrupt, lock up, destroy, damage or limit the operation of another person's computer or network or telecommunications equipment;
• Disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to the Website or Mobile App, or that otherwise negatively affects the ability of others to use the Website or Mobile App; and/or
• Advertises or offers to sell any goods or services, or engage in surveys, contests, chain letters, or for any commercial purpose.

BBC Personnel: BBC personnel may have access to your information as needed to provide and operate the Services in the normal course of business. This includes information regarding your use and interaction with the Services.

Service Providers: We may share your Personal Data with third parties for the purpose of providing or improving the Services to you. We may share your Personal Data with third-party service providers which perform services on our behalf ("Service Providers"). This includes, without limitation, Service Providers which provide services relating to: outbound and/or inbound communications, data analysis, credit checks, screening checks, collection services, marketing assistance, managing customer information, creating, hosting, and/or providing customer or support services on our behalf, fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and email, removing repetitive information from customer lists, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments, managing our conferences and other events, and our legal and financial advisors. These Service Providers may have access to your Personal Data in order to provide these services to us or on our behalf. If we engage Service Providers for any of the foregoing, use of your Personal Data will be bound by obligations of confidentiality and their use of Personal Data will be restricted to providing their services to us. We may store Personal Data in locations outside our direct control (for instance, on servers or databases located or co-located with hosting Service Providers). It is likely that the identity and categories of such Service Providers will change during the life of your account.
 

Nonprofits: Like many other groups, BBC may share Personal Data that we collect with other nonprofit organizations. However, we want to clarify that your phone number will not be shared with any texting program that is not directly related to BBC mission and services. If you do not want your Personal Data shared with other organizations, please contact us at Bigboxcharities@gmail.com and we will remove you from any such shared lists.

Business Transactions: AA may purchase other businesses or their assets, sell our business assets, or be involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets (a "Business Transaction"). Your information, including Personal Data, may be among assets sold or transferred as part of a Business Transaction.

Required Disclosures: Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose your Personal Data to any third party unless required to do so by law, court order, legal process, or subpoena, including, but not limited to, in order to respond to any government, regulatory, or licensing request, or if we believe that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with the law, comply with legal process served on us or our affiliates, subsidiaries, contracted vendors, or affinity partners, or investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities; (b) enforce our Terms or customer agreement (including for billing and collection purposes); (c) take precautions against liability; (d) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; (e) assist government enforcement agencies or to meet national security requirements; (f) to protect the security or integrity of our Website, Mobile App, our Products, and Services; or, (g) exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of us, our users or others. 

We will attempt to notify you, where practicable, about these requests unless: (i) providing notice is prohibited by the legal process itself, by court order we receive, or by applicable law, or (ii) we believe that providing notice would be futile, ineffective, create a risk of injury or bodily harm to an individual or group, or create or increase a risk of fraud upon us, our users, our Website, Mobile App, or our Services. In instances where we comply with legal requests without notice for these reasons, we will attempt to notify that user about the request after the fact if we determine in good faith that we are no longer legally prohibited from doing so and that no risk scenarios described in this paragraph apply.

In connection with the foregoing, we may need to share information with other companies, lawyers, agents, or government agencies. Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including a government agency’s, request to disclose your information.

We may or do disclose your Personal Data, in whole or in part, to the following types of third parties, and for one or more of the following purposes:

• Data storage or hosting providers for the secure storage and transmission of your data;
• Database and software service providers for the management and tracking of your data;
• Technology providers who assist in the development and management of our Website or our Mobile App;
• Identity management providers for authentication purposes;
• Legal and compliance consultants, such as external counsel, external auditors, or tax consultants;
• Payment solution providers for the secure processing of payments you provide to us;
• Outbound call center providers, who may perform outreach on our behalf regarding our products and Services;
• Fulfillment and shipping vendors for the fulfillment of our Products and Services;
• Survey and research providers who perform studies on our behalf;
• Learning technology and online event providers for the delivery and improvement of web events and learning programs and the tracking of your progress;
• Advertising partners, including social media providers, for the delivery of targeted advertisements;
• Our volunteers or committee members who perform various functions on our behalf;
• Unrelated third-party list renters for one-time mail or email approved by us; and/or
• Marketing providers who may sell mailing lists.

Event-Related Disclosure: From time to time, we may conduct events, run contests, make special offers, or other activities ("Events"), possibly together with an exhibitor, sponsor or other Service Provider. If you provide information to such third parties, you give them permission to use it for the purpose of that Event and any other use to which you consent. We cannot control such third parties’ use of your information. If you do not want your information to be collected by or shared with such third parties, you can choose not to participate in these Events.

We may also share your Personal Data with exhibitors for their marketing and commercial purposes (including, but not limited to, their sending you marketing and related communications), but only if you have both registered for a conference and either had your attendee credentials scanned by the exhibitor at its booth or enter an exhibitor’s booth virtually online (this does not apply to casual website visitors or conference attendees who are not registered to enter the exhibit hall).

Disclosure of De-Identified Personal Data: We may share De-Identified Personal Data with third parties for any purpose. De-Identified Personal Data or non-Personal Data may be aggregated for system administration and to monitor usage of the Website or Mobile App. It may be utilized to measure the number of visits to our Website or Mobile App, average time spent, number of pages viewed and to monitor various other Website or Mobile App statistics. This monitoring helps us evaluate how visitors use and navigate our Website or Mobile App so we can improve the content. We may share De-Identified Personal Data or anonymous information (including, but not limited to, anonymous usage data, referring/exit pages and URLs, IP address, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third parties in any way we choose and for any purpose. We may disclose or otherwise share your De-Identified Personal Data with third parties, and we may receive valuable consideration for doing so.
 

We may store the information we collect about you indefinitely, but information generally will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the information was collected, or as otherwise required by law. Following termination or deactivation of an BBC Account, BBC may retain your information and content for a commercially reasonable time for backup, archival, and audit purposes.
 

BBC takes reasonable efforts to secure and protect the privacy, accuracy, and reliability of your information and to protect it from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. BBC implements security measures as we deem appropriate and consistent with industry standards. These security measures include use of transport layer security (TLS) throughout the site to encrypt the communication between this site and its users. Located in high-security data centers, BBC servers are restricted to authorized personnel only. These servers are protected by antivirus and next generation firewalls, all of which are regularly updated. As no data security protocol is impenetrable, BBC cannot guarantee the security of our systems or databases, nor can we guarantee that Personal Data we collect about you will not be breached, intercepted, destroyed, accessed, or otherwise disclosed without authorization. Accordingly, any information you transfer to or from Services is provided at your own risk.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You should maintain good internet security practices. Where you have password-protected access to an account or certain parts of the Website, Mobile App, or Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. You should not share your password with anyone. You must prevent unauthorized access to your account and Personal Data by selecting and protecting your password appropriately and limiting access to your computer or mobile device and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your account. If your email account or Facebook account is compromised, this could allow access to your account with us if you have given up those details and/or permitted access through those accounts. If your email account is compromised, it could be used to ask us to reset a password and gain access to your account with us. If you think that  any of your accounts have been compromised, you should change your account credentials with us, and in particular make sure any compromised account does not allow access to your account with us. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by other users. We will never email you to ask for your password or other account login information. If you receive such an email, please send it to us so we can investigate.
 

You consent to our disclosure of your Personal Data, De-Identified Personal Data, and other information you provide to us (collectively, "Transferred Information") to a potential or actual buyer or acquirer of our company or other successor for the purpose of considering or undergoing a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, change in control, or sale or transfer of some or all of our assets (each of the foregoing referred to as a "Transfer"), whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or other court proceeding, in which Personal Data held by us is among the assets transferred. You agree to, and do hereby consent to (and shall not object to), our assignment, conveyance, transfer, and/or license (whether by contract, merger or operation of law) as part of a Transfer, of any or all of our rights, in whole or in part, in or to Transferred Information and your consents, with or without notice to you and without your further consent. We cannot make any representations regarding the use or transfer of Transferred Information that we may have in the event of our bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, receivership, or an assignment for the benefit of creditors. By providing any Personal Data, you expressly agree and consent to the use and/or transfer of Transferred Information or other information in connection with a Transfer. Furthermore, except as required by law, we are not and will not be responsible for any breach of security by any third parties or for any actions of any third parties that receive any of the Transferred Information that is disclosed to us.
 

The time period for which we retain your Personal Data depend on the purposes for which we use it. We will retain your Personal Data for as long as your AA Account is active, or as long as you are a registered account holder or user of our Services or for as long as we have another business purpose to do so (such as, but not limited to, for business, tax, or legal purposes) and, thereafter, for no longer than is required or permitted by law, or our records retention policy, reasonably necessary for internal reporting and reconciliation purposes, or to provide you with feedback or information you might request. This period of retention is subject to our review and alteration. 

Following termination or deactivation of your BBC Account, we may retain your profile information and all information posted to public areas of the Website or Mobile App. Following termination or deactivation of your account, we may retain your Personal Data and other data, but will maintain it as confidential according to the Terms, this Privacy Policy, and as required by applicable law. 

We have the right to delete all of your Personal Data and other data after termination of your account without notice to you.

We may retain De-Identified Personal Data for as long as we deem appropriate.

Transfer and Storage of Your Information: Please note information BBC collects about you may be transferred, processed and/or accessed by us in the United States, or another country where we, or our Service Providers operate. Please be aware Personal Data may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state or country.