Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Bright Foun­da­tion respects your pri­va­cy and is com­mit­ted to pro­tect­ing your per­son­al infor­ma­tion that you pro­vide to us. This state­ment explains our poli­cies and prac­tices regard­ing the use and dis­clo­sure of your per­son­al infor­ma­tion by Bright Foun­da­tion. Please note that, Bright Foun­da­tion reviews and updates this Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy from time to time as need­ed with­out notice. There­fore, you should review the terms of this pol­i­cy peri­od­i­cal­ly to make sure that you are aware of how Bright Foun­da­tion col­lects and uses per­son­al infor­ma­tion. By using our web site, you con­sent to the col­lec­tion and use of your per­son­al infor­ma­tion by Bright Foun­da­tion as explained below.

  1. Per­son­al Information.

    You have com­plete con­trol over your per­son­al infor­ma­tion. In gen­er­al, you can vis­it our web site with­out pro­vid­ing us with any per­son­al infor­ma­tion. How­ev­er, there are instances where we must have your per­son­al infor­ma­tion in order for us to grant you an access to our pro­tect­ed and secured sites. This infor­ma­tion may include reg­is­tra­tion data (your name, address, email address, phone num­ber, title, etc.), infor­ma­tion request data and response data (“User Infor­ma­tion”). When you receive your con­fir­ma­tion email or when you receive any email from the list serv­er, you will be giv­en instruc­tions on how to remove your­self from the list.

  2. Use of User Information.

    We intend to use such infor­ma­tion for pur­pos­es of sup­port­ing your and your employ­ers rela­tion­ship with Bright Foun­da­tion by design­ing a web site con­tent that is suit­able to your needs and alert­ing you to new prod­uct and ser­vice offer­ings as they become avail­able. This User Infor­ma­tion may be retained by Bright Foun­da­tion to ver­i­fy com­pli­ance with the agree­ment between Bright Foun­da­tion and your employ­er, to keep track of the domains from which peo­ple vis­it us, to cre­ate a user pro­file to bet­ter serve you and your employ­er, or to sim­ply con­tact you either elec­tron­i­cal­ly or oth­er­wise. If you decide that we should not use your per­son­al User Infor­ma­tion to con­tact you, please let us know and we will not use that infor­ma­tion for such pur­pose. How­ev­er, please do not sub­mit any User Infor­ma­tion if you are less than 18 years of age.

  3. Dis­clo­sure of User Information.

    Bright Foun­da­tion does not sell, trade or trans­fer User Infor­ma­tion to third par­ties. How­ev­er, we may share User Infor­ma­tion with our busi­ness part­ners for mar­ket­ing, adver­tis­ing or product/​service offer­ing pur­pos­es. For exam­ple, we pro­vide User Infor­ma­tion to our ser­vice providers for direct email­ing of our newslet­ters, online sur­veys or noti­fi­ca­tions on Bright Foun­da­tion offer­ings to our view­ers. We also dis­close User Infor­ma­tion if: we have your con­sent; we need to share it in order to pro­vide you with the prod­ucts and/​or ser­vices you request­ed; we respond to a court order or you vio­late our Terms of Use. You may sep­a­rate­ly agree to pro­vide your per­son­al infor­ma­tion to third par­ties that pro­vide con­tent for Bright Foun­da­tion offer­ings, in order to access and/​or use their prod­ucts and/​or ser­vices. If you agree to pro­vide such infor­ma­tion to these third par­ties, then your per­son­al infor­ma­tion will be sub­ject to their pri­va­cy policies.

  4. Accu­ra­cy and Security.

    The accu­ra­cy and secu­ri­ty of the User Infor­ma­tion is impor­tant to Bright Foun­da­tion . Cur­rent­ly, you may review and request updates to your User Infor­ma­tion retained by con­tact­ing Bright Foun­da­tion. If you con­tact us to cor­rect your User Infor­ma­tion, we will attempt to cor­rect such inac­cu­ra­cies in a time­ly man­ner. Bright Foun­da­tion is con­cerned with the secu­ri­ty of your User Infor­ma­tion and is com­mit­ted to tak­ing rea­son­able steps to pro­tect it from unau­tho­rized access and use of that per­son­al infor­ma­tion. To that end, we put in place the appro­pri­ate phys­i­cal, elec­tron­ic and man­age­r­i­al poli­cies and pro­ce­dures to secure your per­son­al User Infor­ma­tion. We also con­tin­ue to imple­ment pro­ce­dures to main­tain accu­rate, com­plete and cur­rent User Information.

  5. User­names and Passwords.

    Access to cer­tain con­tent on our web site may be allowed under a writ­ten agree­ment between you or your employ­er and Bright Foun­da­tion and will require a user­name and/​or pass­word. In some cas­es, fail­ure to pro­vide per­son­al infor­ma­tion may pre­vent you from access­ing cer­tain Bright Foun­da­tion web site(s) con­tain­ing cer­tain con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion, prod­ucts, ser­vices, or pro­mo­tion­al offers (“Bright Foun­da­tion Offer­ings”). By access­ing and using our pro­tect­ed and secured web site(s), you agree to main­tain the con­fi­den­tial­i­ty of the user­name and pass­word you select­ed to access such site(s) and con­sent to our Terms of Use.

  6. Cook­ies.

    Bright Foun­da­tion uses cook­ies”. A cook­ie is a small data file that a web site can trans­fer to a vis­i­tor’s hard dri­ve to keep records of the vis­its to such site. A cook­ie con­tains infor­ma­tion such as your user­name and pass­word that helps us rec­og­nize the pages you have vis­it­ed and improve future vis­its, but the only per­son­al infor­ma­tion a cook­ie can con­tain is the infor­ma­tion that you pro­vide your­self. A cook­ie can­not read data off of your hard dri­ve or read cook­ie files cre­at­ed by oth­er sites. Infor­ma­tion stored in cook­ies may be encrypt­ed, how­ev­er, we do not store your cred­it card num­ber in cook­ies. If you pre­fer not to accept a cook­ie, you can set your web brows­er (Microsoft Inter­net Explor­er or Netscape Nav­i­ga­tor) to warn you before accept­ing cook­ies or you can refuse all cook­ies by turn­ing them off in your web brows­er. How­ev­er, access to some of our secured web site(s) may require the use of cook­ies, which you must enable only cook­ies that get sent back to the orig­i­nat­ing serv­er. Oth­er­wise, you can still access most of the fea­tures on our web site even with­out accept­ing a cookie.

  7. Exter­nal Links.

    Bright Foun­da­tion web site pro­vides links to oth­er third par­ty web sites. Even if the third par­ty is affil­i­at­ed with Bright Foun­da­tion through a busi­ness part­ner­ship or oth­er­wise, Bright Foun­da­tion is not respon­si­ble for the pri­va­cy poli­cies or prac­tices or the con­tent of such exter­nal links. These links are pro­vid­ed to you for con­ve­nience pur­pos­es only and you access them at your own risk.

  8. Terms of Use.

    Please also see our Terms of Use, which describes the restric­tions, dis­claimers, indem­ni­fi­ca­tion and lim­i­ta­tion of lia­bil­i­ty gov­ern­ing the use of the entire Bright Foun­da­tion web site.

  9. Gen­er­al.

    If you have ques­tions regard­ing our Pri­va­cy State­ment, please con­tact Bright Foun­da­tion via our Con­tact page.