BPT Partners LLC ("BPT Partners") and its affiliates are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to activities directly related to your visit of the BPT Partners website. It does not apply to third parties' websites linked through BPT Partners website. We strongly recommend that you read these third parties' privacy policies prior to providing any information to such sites. BPT Partners has no responsibility or liability in connection with any third parties' websites.
Collection, Use and Transfer of Your Information
You can visit most of the BPT Partners site without disclosing your personally-identifiable information ("personal data"). However, you may choose to provide us with your personal data, for example when you contact us, register for seminars, activities and programs available on our website or when you request information or services. You also may decide to provide us voluntarily with personal data of a third person, such as a colleague or friend. In such case, we assume that you have an unrestricted permission of such person to provide her personal data to BPT Partners. BPT Partners may use suppliers to collect, process, store, use, analyze and/or transfer the data on its behalf. In such case, it is BPT Partners practice to require that these suppliers handle the personal data they process or transfer in a manner consistent with BPT Partners' policies. By submitting the personal data to us, you acknowledge and agree with your data being processed and/or transferred on BPT Partners' behalf by its suppliers. BPT Partners will handle the information we learn from you from your visit to our website in the following manner:
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If you visit our site to read or download information, such as news, product information, case studies or articles:
We may collect, process or transfer only the following information about you: the name of the domain from which you access the Internet; the date and time you access our site; and the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site. We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. We may use "cookies" and/or technologies to collect personally non-identifiable information from your visits to our website to enhance your overall site experience and for statistical purposes. You can set your browser to turn off "cookies" or to warn you when a website attempts to place a "cookie" on your computer. However, if you turn off the "cookies", some websites may not work properly.
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If you submit personal data when visiting a BPT Partners website:
We may collect, process and/or transfer the specific information you voluntarily provide to us in the contact form you choose to fill in on our website, including the personal data you provide. By submitting any personal data on BPT Partners' site, you authorize BPT Partners to use, process and transfer (if necessary across borders) such data, even in and to countries where the level of data protection may not be commensurate with the high standard of protection adopted by certain countries. In such countries, BPT Partners will still handle your personal data in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. BPT Partners will not sell personal data to third parties; however your personal data may be automatically transferred to the successor to substantially all of the assets and business of BPT Partners.
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If you are a client, or are part of a client organization, or are a subcontractor:
Personal data you provide to BPT Partners, including personal data of a third party, such as your spouse, colleague and friend may be collected, stored, used and transferred as necessary for BPT Partners to carry out business or seek potential business in the future with your company. If you provide us with personal data, whether in the form of an e-mail, business card, orally during business meeting or otherwise, we assume that you have granted us a permission to collect, store, use and transfer such information with no limitations even in and to countries where the level of data protection may not be commensurate with the high standard of protection adopted by certain countries. We also assume that you have unrestricted permission from the third party for the transfer of its personal data.
Security of Your Personal Information
BPT Partners uses various measures to protect your privacy and avoid unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data. However, you should note that no transfer of data over the Internet is completely secure. While we use reasonable efforts to protect your data on our systems, when the data is transferred over the Internet, it may be accessed and used by unauthorized third parties. BPT Partners has no control over the performance, reliability, availability or security of Internet and does not warrant that any information transfer via Internet or any communication through Internet is secure. BPT Partners shall not be liable for any disclosure, unauthorized use, loss, damage, expense, harm or inconvenience resulting from the loss, delay, interception, corruption, intervention, misuse or alteration of any personal information due to any reason beyond BPT Partners' reasonable control.
Children's Personal Information
BPT Partners.com is a site not targeted to children and is not intended to collect personal data from children under age of 13.