Privacy & Terms of Service
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Your Privacy Matters
It is bcmctv.org’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
This Privacy Policy applies to bcmctv.org (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “bcmctv.org”. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the website bcmctv.org (Website). We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, bcmctv.org collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. bcmctv.org’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how bcmctv.org’s visitors use its website. From time to time, bcmctv.org may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
bcmctv.org also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on bcmctv.org blog posts. bcmctv.org only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to bcmctv.org’s websites choose to interact with bcmctv.org in ways that require bcmctv.org to gather personally-identifying information. The amounts and types of information that bcmctv.org gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at bcmctv.org to provide a username and email address.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Advertisements
Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by bcmctv.org and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Links To External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and the terms and conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products, or services.
We use Google AdWords and other services for remarketing. We use the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an inquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page or a site in the Google Display Network. The use of DART cookies by Google enables them to serve advertisements to visitors that are based on their visits to this website as well as other sites on the internet. To opt-out of the DART cookies, you may visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html. Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms are subject to Google’s own privacy policies.
Other third-party ad servers or ad networks may also use cookies to track users activities on this website to measure advertisement effectiveness and other reasons that will be provided in their own privacy policies, bcmctv.org has no access or control over these cookies that may be used by third-party advertisers. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy. You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt-out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
bcmctv.org discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on bcmctv.org’s behalf or to provide services available at bcmctv.org’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using bcmctv.org’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. bcmctv.org will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, bcmctv.org discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental requests, or when bcmctv.org believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of bcmctv.org, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of bcmctv.org and have supplied your email address, bcmctv.org may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with bcmctv.org and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. bcmctv.org takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Aggregated Statistics
bcmctv.org may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. bcmctv.org may display this information publicly or provide it to others. When visiting bcmctv.org, the IP address used to access the site will be logged along with the dates and times of access. This information is purely used to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movement, and gather broad demographic information for internal use. Most importantly, any recorded IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information or disclosed to others.
Links to Third-Party Websites
bcmctv.org may have included links on this site for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own.
Affiliate Disclosure
bcmctv.org uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.
Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, bcmctv.org uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising, and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. bcmctv.org uses cookies to help bcmctv.org identify and track visitors, their usage of bcmctv.org, and their website access preferences. bcmctv.org visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using bcmctv.org’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of bcmctv.org’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies. DART cookies are owned and used by Google.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to bcmctv.org’s use of cookies.
E-Commerce
Those who engage in transactions with bcmctv.org, by purchasing bcmctv.org’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, bcmctv.org collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with bcmctv.org. bcmctv.org does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Business Transfers
If bcmctv.org, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that bcmctv.org goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that are transferred or acquired by a third-party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of bcmctv.org may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, bcmctv.org may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at bcmctv.org’s sole discretion. We at bcmctv.org encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@bcmctv.org.