Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 26, 2024

It is Breaking Barriers in Beauty Foundation's policy to respect and protect the privacy of visitors to our websites. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how Breaking Barriers in Beauty Foundation Incorporated (“BBIB Foundation” or “we”) collects, uses, shares, stores, and protects the personal information that we collect from you when you visit our websites (collectively, the “Website”), as well as your rights and choices regarding the personal information that we collect.

This Website is operated by or on behalf of BBIB Foundation in the United States, and the Website has both U.S. and international visitors. Information that we collect on our Website, including personal information, may be transferred to our national headquarters in the Port Saint Lucie, Florida and to our other BBIB Foundation affiliates to permit us to comply with our legal and contractual obligations, to provide information and services, and to perform mission-related activities. In addition, we may work with third-party business partners and service providers in the U.S. and in other countries to support our mission-related activities. Thus, personal information may be transferred to, stored on servers in, and accessed from the United States and countries other than the country in which we initially collected the information. In all such instances, we use, transfer, and disclose personal information solely for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection Not Covered By This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information provided directly to and websites operated by any other BBIB Foundation entities, including U.S. affiliates.

Information Collection Not Covered by this Privacy Policy + This Privacy Policy does not apply to information provided directly to and websites operated by any other BBIB Foundation entities, including U.S. affiliates.

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or about BBIB Foundation privacy and data security practices, please contact us at contact@bbibfoundation.org

What We Mean by “Personal Information”

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means any information from or about a person that either identifies that person directly or makes that person identifiable when that information is combined with other information from or about that person from any source. Personal information becomes “non-personal information” when it has been aggregated, summarized, excerpted, de-identified, or otherwise anonymized sufficiently that the individual is no longer identified and cannot be re-identified using reasonable efforts, resources, and technology.

Information That We Collect From and About You

Categories of Personal Information that We Collect on the Website

The personal information we collect on the Website includes the following:

Contact information, including name, physical address, email address, telephone number, business contact information, company name or business affiliation, and job title
User IDs and passwords (if applicable)
Personal information that you choose to share with us voluntarily when you ask a question, request that we follow-up with you, register for an event or promotion, purchase publications or other items, make a contribution, volunteer, or otherwise interact with us
Payment card and financial account information
Identifiers of devices used to access the Website
Locations of devices used to access the Website
Information necessary to fulfill event or promotion registration, purchases, charitable contributions, or volunteer opportunities
Other information you provide to us

Information that You Provide to Us Voluntarily

If you choose to communicate with us through an online form, by sending us an email, by requesting additional information, by registering for one of our events, by purchasing goods or services from us, by making a contribution, or by otherwise contacting us, we will collect whatever information, including personal information, that you choose to provide us with. We will combine that information with other information that we collect from and about you as described in this Privacy Policy.

Information that We Collect Automatically When You Visit Our Website

Logs: Our Website automatically creates logs regarding user sessions that contain information about the features that you use, the actions that you take, and the information that you access. In addition, your browser automatically tells us the type of computer and operating system that you are using.

Cookies: Cookies are small pieces of information transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to enable our systems to recognize your preferences and settings and enhance your visit. Cookies collect information such as the type of search engine used, the sections of the Website visited, and other Website usage information. A cookie can be used to uniquely identify you, but it cannot retrieve data from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses, or directly capture your email address. In general, cookies can securely store a user’s ID and password specific to that web site, personalize home pages, identify which parts of a web site have been visited, or keep track of selections in a form or shopping cart. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, and you may manually disable them. For more information on disabling cookies, go to the “help” menu on your browser. Our Website may still be viewed if you choose to disable cookies, but your use and enjoyment of our Website may be adversely affected.

Certain sections of our Website may use cookies to help us understand which parts of our Website are the most popular, where our visitors are going, and how long they spend there. We use cookies to study traffic patterns on our Website so we can make suitable improvements to our web site and provide you with a better user experience.

Analytics: Our Website may use Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, or other web analytics services. These services use cookies to help us analyze how visitors use our Website and optimize the performance of our Website, advertising, and content. Information generated by these services may be transmitted to and stored by these service providers on servers in the U.S. or elsewhere, and these service providers may use this information for purposes such as evaluating your use of the Website, compiling reports on the Website’s activity, and providing other services relating to the Website’s activity and other Internet usage.

Information that We Collect From Other Sources:

BBIB Foundation may obtain information, including personal information, from other BBIB Foundation affiliates, business partners and service providers. For example, this includes information you provide to us through surveys hosted on our service providers’ websites. We also may combine information we receive from third parties with other information we collect from you as described in this Privacy Policy. In addition, we may review, collect, and use information that you provide to us or post publicly about us or our activities on third-party websites, social media platforms, or blogs. Finally, to the extent that individuals may provide information about another individual in using our Website, we assume that the individual has permission and/or authority to do so, but we will delete such information if appropriate when contacted by the affected individual. Please contact us immediately at contact@bbibfoundation.org

Why We Collect Information From and About You

BBIB Foundation does not collect, use, share, or disclose your personal information for anything other than the following purposes:

To establish and maintain contractual relationships

To establish contractual relationships

To comply with our legal obligations:

To demonstrate our compliance with applicable privacy and data security law
To comply with incident monitoring, reporting, assessment, and notification requirements
To comply with other applicable criminal and civil law and regulatory requirements under applicable federal, state, and international law

To provide services and information that you request and consent to receive:

To provide donor/volunteer service and support
To communicate with you, including responding to your comments, questions, and requests
To process and complete transactions, and send you related information, including event registrations, purchase confirmations, donation acknowledgments, invoices, and receipts
To provide direct marketing, email, and other distributed information To enable you to access and use our Websites and related services

To fulfill our other legitimate interests to the extent that they are not overridden by individual interests, fundamental rights, or freedoms:

To administer, operate, maintain, and secure our Website
To monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Websites and to conduct our business activities
To investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions, unauthorized access to our Website, and other illegal activities
To verify compliance with our internal policies and procedures
For accounting, recordkeeping, backup, and administrative purposes
To customize and improve the content of our communications and Website
To provide information and education
To provide, operate, maintain, improve, personalize, and promote our services, and donor and volunteer opportunities and activities
To solicit volunteer, financial, and other support for our mission
To develop new services, features, and functionality
To educate the public about our services

Your Control Over Information that We Collect from and About You

You may decline to share personal information with us, in which case we may not be able to provide you with some of the features and functionality of our Website or fulfill your requests.
You may decline to accept some cookies, but that decision may affect the functionality and performance of our Website.
You may update or correct your personal information at any time by contacting us.
You may opt out of receiving BBIB Foundation’s communications by using the unsubscribe link within each email.
You may request information about, and access to, the personal data that we collect from you.
You may ask questions or make complaints about our privacy and data security practices with regard to your personal data.

To exercise any of these options or for additional information about our privacy and data security practices, contact us at contact@bbibfoundation.org

Data Retention

The BBIB Foundation retains information only as long as necessary to comply with its legal and contractual obligations, and in accordance with our records retention requirements, and then we securely dispose of that information or convert it into non-personal information by aggregating it, de-identifying it, or otherwise anonymizing it so that it does not directly or indirectly identify you and cannot, with reasonable efforts, resources, and technologies, be used to reidentify you.

Children's Policy

Our Website, and the services we provide to our clients, are not directed to or intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information. If you become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, please contact us at contact@bbibfoundation.org

California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits Website users who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us at contact@bbibfoundation.org

Changes to this Privacy Policy

BBIB Foundation may change and update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including materially changing the use made of personal information described herein. Any change or update to our Privacy Policy will be posted on our Website under “Privacy Policy” at least 30 days prior to implementation.

Questions, Complaints, and Additional Information

If you have questions, complaints, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, or our use and disclosure practices, or you wish to exercise your options as described in this Privacy Policy, please contact us at contact@bbibfoundation.org