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The Bridge takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
- This policy covers how The Bridge treats personal information that The Bridge collects and receives, including information related to your past use of The Bridge products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
- This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that The Bridge does not own or control, or to people that The Bridge does not employ or manage. In addition, some companies that The Bridge has acquired have their own, preexisting privacy policies which is not covered by the statements below.
Information Collection & Use
General
- The Bridge collects personal information when you register with The Bridg, when you use The Bridge products or services, when you visit The Bridge pages or the pages of certain The Bridge partners, and when you enter promotions or surveys. The Bridge may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
- When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, ZIP code, occupation, industry, country and personal interests. When you register with The Bridge and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
- The Bridge collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of language products and services that we offer.
- The Bridge automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, The Bridge cookie information, and the page you request.
- The Bridge uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the language needs of your organization, to custmize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Children
- When a child under 13 years of age attempts to register with The Bridge, we ask the child to have a parent or guardian create the account, or obatain parental permission.
- The Bridge does not in any way contact children under the age of 13 about special offer or for marketing purpose without a parental permission.
- The Bridge does not ask a child under 13 years of age for more personal information, as a condition for registration, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
- The Bridge does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people, or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances-
- We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with The Bridge under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help The Bridge communicate with you about our offers from The Bridge and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
- We have a parent's permission to share the information if the user is a child under the age of 13. Parents have the option of allowing The Bridge to collect and use their child's information without consenting to The Bridge sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purpose.
- We transfer information about you if The Bridge is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, The Bridge will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
- The Bridge displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria.
- The Bridge does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
Cookies
- The Bridge may set and access The Bridge cookies on your computer.
- The Bridge lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of the cookies is subject tot their own privacy policies. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to The Bridge's cookies.
Surveys or Contests
From time-to-time The Bridge may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, The Bridge will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as city).
The Bridge use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor site traffic or personalize the site (in the case of anonymous information collected in surveys), to send participants an email newsletter.
The Bridge may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users' personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.
Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use The Bridge referral service to tell a friend about our site, The Bridge will ask you for your friend's name and email address. The Bridge will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. The Bridge stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.
Your friend may contact us to request that we remove this information from our database.
Special Offers and Updates
The Bridge will occasionally send you information on products, services, special deals, promotions. You can sign up for these emails from us on our registration page.
We present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out.”
Newsletters
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you.
We provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section.
Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account. You may opt-out of these communications. Please see “Choice and Opt-out.”
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users.
We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site
Choice/Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at optout@bridgelanguagecenter.com.
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.
We may use third-party tracking services that uses cookies and/or log files to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate usage and volume information.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited. [Describe use of cookie for shopping cart, if appropriate.]
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See “Third Party Advertisers.”
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by THE BRIDGE only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Third Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by our advertising partners. We share Web site usage information about users with a reputable third party for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this site.
They may use cookies and clear GIFs on this site, which allow it to recognize a user's cookie when a user visits this site. The information that our trusted advertising partners collects and shares through this technology is not personally identifiable.
Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by THE BRIDGE. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Co-branded sites
Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms
If you use a bulletin board or chat room on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change by emailing our Customer Support at privacy@bridgelanguagecenter.com
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at corp@bridgelanguagecenter.com
Business Transitions
In the event THE BRIDGE goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via [email] [prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days] of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact our privacy officer at: privacy@bridgelanguagecenter.com
E-mail: privacy@bridgelanguagecenter.com
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