Privacy Policy

Please see our Student Privacy Policy regarding students enrolled in Bold Idea programs

Welcome to the official web site of Bold Idea. We have created this web site to provide information about Bold Idea, its programs, special events, and to accept contributions. The following policy applies to all our sites, including boldidea.org.

To help us achieve these purposes in a manner that is convenient for you, we gather two types of limited information from visitors to our web site: anonymous usage information and the personal information provided by those who register with us. Details about what information we gather and how we use it is presented here. Bold Idea is committed to ensuring the privacy of all our visitors.

Anonymous Information

You are welcome to visit and browse our website as often as you like without logging in and no personally identifiable information about your visit will be collected. Our web servers track usage information for these visits, but on an entirely anonymous basis. This usage information is general data about how visitors use our web site, which pages are most frequently visited, which web sites most frequently refer visitors to our site and how long customers spend on our site, etc.

Our servers track your usage by logging your IP address. We do not associate the anonymous information we collect through the tags with any personal information and we do not otherwise monitor this information on an individual basis. Instead, we aggregate this usage information and use it only to monitor broad usage trends, to evaluate the effectiveness of our web site’s design, determine what customers do and do not use on the web site and to improve the web site’s overall usability.

We may perform (or have third-parties perform) analyses of visitors’ behavior, and may share aggregated data with sponsors and advertisers, again on an entirely anonymous basis.

Personal Information

Personal information is any data related to the personal identity of a visitor to a web site. A customer’s name, address, phone number, credit card number, email address, and purchase history are all examples of personal information.

We do not require visitors to provide any personal information in order to browse our site or to obtain general information on our website. We do, however, require web site users to register and provide personal information in order to register for special events, or make contributions. In these cases, we collect only the personal information that a registrant specifically provides when registering, including Username and Password.

If you register, this information is used to fulfill your request and provide a record of your transaction. It is stored by Bold Idea in a secure off-site database, and used again in subsequent visits only if you want to make another purchase, contribution, or inquiry. Until that point- your return visit is anonymous, as only logging-in triggers personal recognition on our site.

We also use personal information from registrants to add to or update our mailing (postal) and telephone lists for season schedules, special offers and general information. We may also use the personal information to evaluate our registrants’ usage and transactions, and to analyze how we can make the site more effective and interesting for you.

Bold Idea has a policy of not sharing our supporters’ email addresses or telephone numbers with other non-profit organizations or corporations, including ad server companies.

Periodically, we provide registrants important updates via e-mail such as openings for program registration, events, and other news about Bold Idea. When this or any other new function becomes available to our patrons, you will have the opportunity to opt-out of receiving such email updates should you wish to do so.

Cookies Used on This Site

A “cookie” is a text file with a unique identifier that is placed on your hard disk by a web site’s server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by the web site that issued the cookie to you. We do not use cookies to store anonymous information or track personally identifiable information on this site without registering. We use cookies only in the most limited manner: to help our web servers maintain your current session as you go from one page to another.

Without these cookies, our web site would not be able to keep track of your program registration details, for example. The cookies we use, known as “non-persistent cookies” are erased from your computer’s memory as soon as the web browser is closed.

Links from our Site

Our site includes links to other websites. We do not control the privacy policies of the destination sites. Once you leave our servers (you can check where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours.

If you can’t find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the site’s homepage, you should contact the manager of that site for more information. Bold Idea is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of websites other than boldidea.org.

Keeping Your Information Secure and Accurate

Bold Idea protects your information with appropriate security measures to reasonably protect against its loss, misuse, or alteration. Accordingly, we use secure communications technologies whenever we transfer or receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial information and we restrict access to customer information for use by authorized Bold Idea employees only.

You can help Bold Idea maintain the accuracy of your personal information by notifying us when you change your address, title, phone number, or e-mail address. Contact us info@boldidea.org, if you wish to update your information or if you no longer wish to receive e-communications from Bold Idea. Please include both your old and new contact information so that we can make the appropriate corrections.

Comments

Bold Idea would like to receive your comments or questions about this privacy policy. Please address comments or questions regarding Bold Idea’s privacy practices to us info@boldidea.org.
 

Bold Idea may occasionally update this policy. Notice of revisions will be posted on https://boldidea.org.