The Blue Ridge Center Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 11, 2023

This Privacy Policy explains how The Blue Ridge Center (“TBRC,” “we,” or “us”) collects, uses, and discloses information about you. This Privacy Policy applies when you use our website or otherwise interact with us.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly.

CONTENTS

  • Collection of Information

  • Use of Information

  • Sharing of Information

  • Transfer of Information to the United States and Other Countries

  • Your Options

  • Contact Us

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information you provide directly to us. You share information directly with us when you fill out a form or communicate directly with us. The types of personal information we may collect include your name, email address, phone number, and, if applicable, basic details regarding your university enrollment, such as your major, school within the University, and year of graduation. TBRC activities are intended for a general audience and not directed to children less than 16 years of age.

Information We Collect from Other Sources

We obtain information from third-party sources. For example, we may collect information about you from social networks, accounting services providers and data analytics providers.

Information We Derive

We may derive information or draw inferences about you based on the information we collect. For example, we may make inferences about your location based on your IP address.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

USE OF INFORMATION

We use the information we collect to provide, maintain, and improve our services, mainly to notify and update you about TBRC’s activities. We also use the information we collect to:

  • Detect, investigate, and prevent security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity and protect the rights and property of the Blue Ridge Center and others;

  • Comply with our legal and financial obligations; and

  • Carry out any other activity described to you at the time the information was collected.

SHARING OF INFORMATION

We share personal information in the following circumstances or as otherwise described in this policy:

  • We share personal information with vendors, service providers, and consultants that need access to personal information in order to perform services for us, such as companies that assist us with web hosting, storage, and other infrastructure, analytics, donation processing, fraud prevention and security, communications, and marketing.

  • We may disclose personal information if we believe that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet law enforcement requirements. If we are going to disclose your personal information in response to legal process, we will give you notice so you can challenge it (for example by seeking court intervention), unless we are prohibited by law or believe doing so may endanger others or cause illegal conduct. We will object to legal requests for information about users of our Services that we believe are improper.

  • We may share personal information if we believe that you have violated the law, or if we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of TBRC, our users, the public, or others.

  • We may share personal information with our lawyers and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our interests.

  • Personal information may be shared between and among TBRC and our future parent, affiliated, and subsidiary non-profit organizations and other non-profit entities under common control or ownership.

  • We may share contact information with on-Grounds entities with whom we co-sponsor events.

  • We share personal information with your consent or at your direction.

  • The Blue Ridge Center does not sell your personal information.

TRANSFER OF INFORMATION TO THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES

The Blue Ridge Center is headquartered in the United States, and we may have or may in the future have service providers in the United States and other countries. Therefore, we and our service providers may transfer your personal information to, or store or access it in, jurisdictions that may not provide levels of data protection that are equivalent to those of your home jurisdiction. We will take steps to ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection in the jurisdictions in which we process it.

YOUR OPTIONS

Communications Preferences

You may opt out of receiving certain communications from us by following the instructions in those communications.

Legal Basis for Processing

When we process your personal data, we will do so in reliance on the following lawful bases:

  • To perform our responsibilities under our contract with you (e.g., providing the services you requested).

  • When we have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data to operate our organization or protect our interests (e.g., to provide, maintain, and improve our products and services, conduct data analytics, and communicate with you).

  • To comply with our legal obligations (e.g., to maintain a record of your consents and track those who have opted out of non-administrative communications).

  • When we have your consent to do so (e.g., when you opt in to receive non-administrative communications from us). When consent is the legal basis for our processing your personal data, you may withdraw such consent at any time.

Data Retention

If you request, we will delete your data within 14 days. We store other personal data for as long as necessary to carry out the purposes for which we originally collected it and for other legitimate purposes, including to meet our legal, regulatory, or other compliance obligations.

Data Subject Requests

Subject to certain limitations, you have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you and to receive your data in a portable format, the right to ask that your personal data be corrected or erased, and the right to object to, or request that we restrict, certain processing. You may object at any time to the use of your personal data by contacting info@theblueridgecenter.org.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@theblueridgecenter.org.