How BGCNF
uses the information
it collects

BGCNF uses the information it collects through this site to improve its marketing and promotional efforts, to improve its content, and to customize this site's services, content, and layout. BGCNF may provide the information it collects through this site to BGCNF business partners, and to third parties who provide services on BGCNF’s behalf. BGCNF may use the information it collects through this site to inform you of new services, changes, or promotions.

In addition, we may use information that we collect through bgcnf.org for the following purposes including to:

• Provide you with the products, promotions, services, newsletters, and information you request and respond to correspondence that we receive from you;

• Contact you via email and otherwise about your account;

• Conduct analysis on visitor behavior to better serve you with offers and content that is of interest to you;

• With your separate consent, contact you via email and otherwise about products, services, contests, and events that we think might be of interest to you, and otherwise send you promotional material or special offers on our behalf or on behalf of our marketing partners;

• Maintain or administer bgcnf.org, perform organizational analyses, or for other internal purposes to improve the quality of our organization, BGCNF, and other services we offer;

• Publish stories, comments, photos, and other information posted in our interactive online features;

• Process employment applications and inquiries;

• Customize and personalize your use of the Services, including providing you with tailored content; and

• As otherwise described to you at the point of collection or pursuant to your consent.

Generally, BGCNF may use cookies and the information they provide to: (a) remind it of who you are; (b) access your account information in order to deliver to you better and more personalized service; (c) estimate its audience size; (d) determine the nature and extent of repeat usage; and (e) measure certain traffic patterns to understand how users' habits are similar or different from one another, so that BGCNF may improve its site.

Sharing of information

BGCNF understands the importance of privacy and confidentiality to users of this site.  From time to time, BGCNF may share donor names and mailing addresses with other reputable nonprofit organizations on a limited basis in exchange for limited access to the names and addresses of their constituents. We have found this is a cost-effective method of reaching additional potential constituents. These organizations will not have continued access to your name and address unless you choose to respond to their initial mailing. We do not share email address data in connection with this list exchange.

We respect our donors’ choices and control over their information. You, as a donor, may, at any time, have your name excluded from any donor list exchange activity. To ask that your name be excluded from list exchange activity or to otherwise change how BGCNF contacts you, please email us at bernabem@bgcnf.org.

Limited members of BGCNF and IT department, may access and otherwise process personal information in connection with their job responsibilities or contractual obligations.

We are committed to maintaining your trust, and we want you to understand when and with whom we may share the information we collect. At times, as described below, we may share your personal information with others for the purposes described above:

• Service Providers: We may share your information with service providers that perform certain functions or services on our behalf (such as to fulfill orders, provide products and services, manage databases, perform analyses, process credit card payments, provide customer service, or send communications for us). We may share information with third-parties, such as social networking platforms, so that they may send tailored communications on our behalf via their platforms. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.

• Transfer / Merger: If BGCNF merges, is acquired completely or in part, or in the unlikely event of a closure, or similar event, we may transfer your information as part of such transaction.

• Administrative or Legal Process: BGCNF may disclose information it collects through this site when required to do so by a court, regulatory agency, subpoena, law, regulation, or other body of competent jurisdiction and authority, and for administrative and other purposes that BGCNF deems necessary to maintain, service, and improve its products and services and to protect its rights and property. Finally, if you become involved in any violation of security, violation of this website's Terms of Use, or violation of any party's or third party's rights, BGCNF may release information about you to assist in investigating, resolving, or remediating any such incidents.

• Other Parties With Your Consent: We may share information with third parties when you consent to such sharing. For example, if you win a contest or sweepstakes, we may ask your permission to publicly post certain information on bgcnf.org identifying you as the winner.

Aggregate Information: We may share aggregate information, such as demographics and usage statistics, with advertisers, sponsors or other organizations.

Integrity and security

Use of SSL and encryption – When BGCNF transfers and receives certain types of sensitive information such as online donations and account information, we direct visitors to a secure server, which communicates via SSL encryption and which has been designed to reduce the possibility of interception and hacking. You’ll know that you’re in a secure area of our website when the "http" portion of the BGCNF website address in your browser changes to "https." The "s" stands for "secure."

Restricting who has access to your information – BGCNF employs commercially reasonable managerial and technical measures to help protect the security and integrity of the personal information it collects online through this site. You acknowledge, however, that no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while BGCNF strives to protect your personal information, BGCNF cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to or from this site.

Privacy practices of other sites

This Privacy Policy only address the use and disclosure of information BGCNF collects online through this site, not information that BGCNF collects through other sources. For your convenience, this site may contain links, or addresses, that you can simply click to open other useful sites where we do not control the content or privacy policy. Carefully review the approach these sites take to your privacy before you use them or provide them with information.

We assume no liability for any unauthorized actions of third parties or accidental transmission errors that may disclose information about you, and BGCNF is not responsible for these other sites' privacy practices, which may be different from BGCNF's privacy practices.

contacting bgcnf about your personal information

If you would like to review the personal information that BGCNF has collected about you through this site in order to verify its accuracy and completeness, or if you have a question or complaint regarding BGCNF's privacy practices, or to request that BGCNF delete your personal information from its records, please contact us.

BGCNF may revise this Privacy Policy at any time by updating this posting. Please consult this Privacy Policy regularly.