PRIVACY POLICY

The Brem Foundation is committed to protecting the privacy and security of the information we collect and to being transparent about the ways in which we collect and process your information. This Privacy Policy sets forth our policies and practices for handling the information we collect from or about you. It applies to the websites and online service that we operate and that link to this Privacy Policy (the “Services”).

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION 

We collect the following categories of information when you use our Services:

  • Information you provide directly to us. 

  • Contact Information, including your name, email address, phone number, and address when you sign up for updates or make a donation. 

  • Survey Responses, including your preferences, feedback, educational or professional information, age, gender, race, ethnicity, sex, and medical information. This information is collected in a de-identified manner and responses are not associated with any particular individual. 

  • Donation Information, including records of donations, bank account and payment card details (including credit card number, expiration date, and credit card security code, where needed to complete a transaction), and billing address; and

  • Correspondence you send to us, including through our Contact Us page. 

  • Information we collect automatically.  We collect certain information about you and your computer automatically when you use the Services.  Automatically collected information includes:  

    • The type of device, web browser, and operating system you have used to access the Services;

    • Your IP address (which is a number automatically assigned to your computer when you access the Internet and can be used to derive your general geographic location); 

    • Your Internet service provider and the date and time of your visit;

    • The website that directed you to the Services, if any; and 

    • Information about the content you view and the features you access on the Services that we collect using cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies.

USE OF INFORMATION 

We use the information we collect and receive for the following general purposes:  

    • To provide you with the Services, products, and information you request;

    • To provide you with legal notices or information about changes to this Privacy Policy;

    • To continually improve the Services and enhance your experience with the Services, including troubleshooting, data analytics, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes;

    • To better understand your interests in order to provide you and enable our partners to provide you with promotional materials, solicitations, invitations, surveys, questionnaires, and other materials; 

    • To manage your account, perform donation and payment activities, and update you on your account status (including confirmation of donations);  

    • To keep our Services, business and users safe and secure;

    • As we believe is necessary to protect our rights and the rights of others; 

    • To comply with applicable laws and regulations; 

    • To respond to your requests, questions, and comments; and

    • For any other purpose disclosed to you at the time we collect your information, or pursuant to your consent.  

SHARING INFORMATION

We may share the information we collect for these purposes:

  • Authorized third-party vendors and service providers. We share your information with third-party vendors and service providers that provide services to us for a variety of business purposes, such as payment processing, customer service, email deployment, advertising and marketing, security and performance monitoring, processing transactions, verifying donor information, research, data hosting, auditing, and data processing.

  • Partners. We may share your information with select partners.  These entities may use your information to ascertain your interests and may provide you with special offers, promotional materials, advertisements, and other materials.

  • Legal purposes. We may disclose information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, law enforcement requests, legal claims or government inquiries, and to protect and defend the rights, interests, safety, and security of the Brem Foundation, our members, donors, users, or the public.

  • With your consent. We may share information for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect the information or pursuant to your consent.  

  • Other Parties in Aggregated Form. We may also share your information with third parties in aggregated or non-personally identifiable form.  

ADVERTISING, COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES 

When you use our Services, we use cookies, pixel tags, local storage, and other similar technologies to collect information from your browser or device. By using the Services, you consent to our use of cookies and similar technologies.

  • Cookies. Cookies are small text files that websites and other online services use to store information about users on the users’ own computers. For example, cookies can be used to store your sign-in credentials so that you do not have to enter them each time you return to a website. Cookies also may be used to store a unique identification number tied to your computer so that a website can recognize you as the same user across different visits to the website. You can configure your Internet browser to warn you each time a cookie is being sent or to refuse cookies completely. 

The Brem Foundation and third parties that provide functionality on the Services may use cookies to:  

  • Provide you with a high-quality experience by doing things such as tracking page load, site response times, and error messages;

  • Remember that you've visited our Services and help us understand usage of our Services; and 

  • Relate the information automatically collected when you use the Services to information we obtain from you directly or from other available sources. 

  • Web beacons. We may also use technologies called Web beacons that communicate information from your Internet browser to a web server. Web beacons can be embedded in web pages, videos, or emails, and can allow a web server to read certain types of information from your browser, check whether you have viewed a particular web page or email message, and determine, among other things, the time and date on which you viewed the Web beacon, the IP address of your computer, and the URL of the web page from which the Web beacon was viewed. We use Web beacons for a variety of purposes, including analyzing the use of the Services.

Do-Not-Track Signals and Similar Mechanisms. Some browsers transmit "do-not-track" signals. Because of differences in how web browsers incorporate and activate this feature, it is not always clear whether users intend for these signals to be transmitted, or whether they even are aware of them. We currently do not take action in response to these signals.

YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

If you have submitted personal information through our website and would like to change or delete that information, please contact us through our Contact Us page. 

You may be able to refuse or disable cookies by adjusting your web browser settings. Some browsers have options that allow the visitor to control whether the browser will accept cookies, reject cookies, or notify the visitor each time a cookie is sent. Because each web browser is different, please consult the instructions provided by your web browser (typically in the “help” section). Deleting cookies may in some cases cancel the opt out selection in your browser.

CHILDREN 

We do not knowingly collect or sell any information from children under age 13 unless permitted by applicable law. If we learn that we have impermissibly collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information from our database. 

DATA RETENTION, SECURITY, AND INTEGRITY

We maintain security measures to safeguard information from loss, theft interference, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no data storage system or transmission of data over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure.  

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we update the Privacy Policy, we will revise the “Effective Date” date above and post the new Privacy Policy.  We recommend that you review the Privacy Policy each time you visit the Services to stay informed of our privacy practices. 

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our practices, please contact us via our Contact Us page.