Who We Are

This privacy policy describes how BEAA, a non-profit organization registered under section 501(c)(6), collects, uses, maintains, and discloses information collected from members, users, and visitors of our website.

Information We Collect

We may collect personal identification information in various ways, including, but not limited to, when users visit our site, register on the site, subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features, or resources we make available. Users may be asked for, as appropriate, name, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information.

How We Use Collected Information

BEAA may collect and use members’ personal information for the following purposes: to improve customer service, personalize user experience, improve our site, process payments, run a survey or other site feature, send periodic emails. Utilize information for statistical analysis.

How We Protect Your Information

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information.

Sharing Your Personal Information

We do not sell, trade, or rent members’ personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates, and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

BEAA has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will post a notification on our website. We encourage users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect.

Your Acceptance of These Terms

By using this site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our site.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you’re using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, we advise against uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at: [email protected]