B.P.C.I’s mission is to connect the world’s community members to allow them to be more productive and successful. Central to this mission is our commitment to being transparent about the data we collect about you, how it is used and with whom it is shared.

This Privacy Policy applies when you use our Services (described below). We offer our users choices about the data we collect, use and share as described in this Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Settings, and our Help Center.

Introduction

We are a social network and online platform for community members. People use our Services to find and be found for business opportunities, to connect with others, and find information. Our Privacy Policy applies to any Member or Visitor to our Services. Our registered users (“Members”) share their professional identities, engage with their network, exchange knowledge and professional insights, post and view relevant content, learn and develop skills, and find business and career opportunities. Content and data on some of our Services are viewable to non-members (“Visitors”).

Services

This Privacy Policy, including our Cookie Policy, applies to your use of our Services. This Privacy Policy applies to B.P.C.I.com and the “Apply with B.P.C.I” and “Share with B.P.C.I” plugins, but excluding services that state that they are offered under a different privacy policy. 

Data Controllers and Contracting Parties

If you are in any country other than India, BPCI India (“BPCI India”) will be the controller of your personal data provided to or collected by or for, or processed in connection with our Services.

As a Visitor or Member of our Services, the collection, use, and sharing of your personal data are subject to this Privacy Policy and other documents referred to in this Privacy Policy, as well as updates.

Change

Changes to the Privacy Policy apply to your use of our Services after the “effective date.” B.P.C.I (“we” or “us”) can modify this Privacy Policy, and if we make material changes to it, we will provide notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. If you object to any changes, you may close your account.

You acknowledge that your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy means that the collection, use, and sharing of your personal data is subject to the updated Privacy Policy, as of its effective date.

1. Data We Collect

1.1 Data You Provide To Us

You provide data to create an account with us.

Registration

To create an account you need to provide data including your name, email address and/or mobile number, and a password. You create your B.P.C.I profile (a complete profile helps you get the most from our Services).

Profile

You have choices about the information on your profile, such as your education, work experience, skills, photo, city or area, and endorsements. You don’t have to provide additional information on your profile; however, profile information helps you to get more from our Services, including helping recruiters and business opportunities find you. It’s your choice whether to include sensitive information on your profile and to make that sensitive information public. Please do not post or add personal data to your profile that you would not want to be publicly available. You give other data to us, such as by syncing your address book or calendar.

Posting and Uploading

We collect personal data from you when you provide, post or upload it to our Services, such as when you fill out a form, respond to a survey, submit a resume or fill out a job application on our Services. If you opt to import your address book, we receive your contacts (including contact information your service provider(s) or app automatically added to your address book when you communicated with addresses or numbers not already in your list).

If you sync your contacts or calendars with our Services, we will collect your address book and calendar meeting information to keep growing your network by suggesting connections for you and others, and by providing information about events, e.g. times, places, attendees and contacts.

You don’t have to post or upload personal data though if you don’t, it may limit your ability to grow and engage with your network over our Services.

1.2 Data from Others

Content and News

You and others may post content that includes information about you (as part of articles, posts, comments, videos) on our Services. We also may collect public information about you, such as professional-related news and accomplishments, and make it available as part of our Services, including, as permitted by your settings, in notifications to others of mentions in the news.

Contact and Calendar Information

We receive personal data (including contact information) about you when others import or sync their contacts or calendar with our Services, associate their contacts with Member profiles, scan and upload business cards, or send messages using our Services (including invites or connection requests). If you or others opt-in to sync email accounts with our Services, we will also collect “email header” information that we can associate with Member profiles.

Partners

We receive personal data (e.g., your job title and work email address) about you when you use the services of our customers and partners, such as employers or prospective employers, and applicant tracking systems providing us job application data.

Related Companies and Other Services

We receive data about you when you use some of the other services provided by us or our affiliates, including Microsoft. For example, you may choose to send us information about your contacts in Microsoft apps and services, such as Outlook, for improved professional networking activities on our Services.

1.3 Service Use

We log usage data when you visit or otherwise use our Services, including our sites, app, and platform technology, such as when you view or click on content (e.g., learning video) or ads (on or off our sites and apps), perform a search, install or update one of our mobile apps, share articles or apply for jobs. We use log-ins, cookies, device information and internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to identify you and log your use.

1.4 Your Device and Location

We receive data through cookies and similar technologies. When you visit or leave our Services (including some plugins and our cookies or similar technology on the sites of others), we receive the URL of both the site you came from and the one you go to, and the time of your visit. We also get information about your network and device (e.g., IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser, and add-ons, device identifier and features, cookie IDs and/or ISP, or your mobile carrier). If you use our Services from a mobile device, that device will send us data about your location based on your phone settings. We will ask you to opt-in before we use GPS or other tools to identify your precise location.

1.5 Messages

If you communicate through our Services, we learn about that. We collect information about you when you send, receive, or engage with messages in connection with our Services. For example, if you get a B.P.C.I connection request, we track whether you have acted on it and will send you reminders. We also use automatic scanning technology on messages to support and protect our site. For example, we use this technology to suggest possible responses to messages and to manage or block content that violates our User Agreement or Professional Community Policies from our Services.

1.6 Workplace and School Provided Information

When your organization (e.g., employer or school) buys a premium Service for you to use, they give us data about you. Others buying our Services for your use, such as your employer or your school, provide us with personal data about you and your eligibility to use the Services that they purchase for use by their workers, students, or alumni. For example, we will get contact information for “Company Page” administrators and for authorizing users of our Premium Services, such as our recruiting, sales, or learning products.

1.7 Sites and Services of Others

We get data when you visit sites that include our ads, cookies, or some of our plugins or when you log in to others’ services with your B.P.C.I account. We receive information about your visits and interaction with services provided by others when you log in with B.P.C.I or visit others’ services that include some of our plugins (such as “Apply with B.P.C.I”) or our ads, cookies, or similar technologies.

1.8 Other

We are improving our Services, which means we get new data and create new ways to use data. Our Services are dynamic and we often introduce new features, which may require the collection of new information. If we collect materially different personal data or materially change how we collect, use or share your data, we will notify you and may also modify this Privacy Policy.

2. Things that you and others do and provide.

2.1 Information and content you provide

We collect the content, communications, and other information you provide when you use our Products, including when you sign up for an account, create or share content, and message or communicate with others. This can include information in or about the content that you provide, such as the location of a photo or the date a file was created. It can also include what you see through features that we provide, such as our camera, so we can do things such as suggest masks and filters that you might like or give you tips on using camera formats. Our systems automatically process content and communications that you and others provide to analyze context and what’s in them for the purposes described below. Learn more about how you can control who can see the things you share.

 2.2 Data with special protections

You can choose to provide information in your B.P.C.I profile fields or life events about your religious views, political views, who you are “interested in” or your health. This and other information (such as racial or ethnic origin, philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership) could be subject to special protections under the laws of your country.

2.3 Networks and connection

We collect information about the people, pages, accounts, hashtags, and groups that you are connected to and how you interact with them across our Products, such as people you communicate with the most or groups that you are part of. We also collect contact information if you choose to upload, sync, or import it from a device (such as an address book or call log or SMS log history), which we use for things such as helping you and others find people you may know and for the other purposes listed below.

2.4 Your usage

We collect information about how you use our Products, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, the people or accounts you interact with, and the time, frequency, and duration of your activities. For example, we log when you’re using and have last used our Products, and what posts, videos, and other content you view on our Products. We also collect information about how you use features such as our camera.

2.5 Information about transactions made on our Products

If you use our Products for purchases or other financial transactions, we collect information about the purchase or transaction. This includes payment information, such as your credit or debit card number and other card information, other account and authentication information, and billing, delivery, and contact details.

2.6 Things others do and information they provide about you

We also receive and analyze content, communications, and information that other people provide when they use our Products. This can include information about you, such as when others share or comment on a photo of you, send a message to you or upload, sync or import your contact information.

3. How We Use Your Data

We use your data to provide, support, personalize and develop our Services. How we use your personal data will depend on which Services you use, how you use those Services and the choices you make in your settings. We use the data that we have about you to provide and personalize our Services, including with the help of automated systems and inferences we make so that our Services (including ads) can be more relevant and useful to you and others.

Services

Our Services help you connect with others, find and be found for work and business opportunities, stay informed, get training and be more productive. We use your data to authorize access to our Services and honor your settings.

Stay Connected

Our Services allow you to stay in touch and up to date with colleagues, partners, clients, and other professional contacts. To do so, you can “connect” with the professionals who you choose and who also wish to “connect” with you. Subject to your and their settings, when you connect with other Members, you will be able to search each other’s connections in order to exchange professional opportunities.

We use data about you (such as your profile, profiles you have viewed, or data provided through address book uploads or partner integrations) to help others find your profile, suggest connections for you and others (e.g. Members who share your contacts or job experiences) and enable you to invite others to become a Member and connect with you. You can also opt-in to allow us to use your precise location or proximity to others for certain tasks (e.g. to suggest other nearby Members for you to connect with, calculate the commute to a new job, or notify your connections that you are at a professional event).

It is your choice whether to invite someone to our Services, send a connection request, or allow another Member to become your connection. When you invite someone to connect with you, your invitation will include your network and basic profile information (e.g., name, profile photo, job title, region). We will send invitation reminders to the person you invited. You can choose whether or not to share your own list of connections with your connections. Visitors have choices about how we use their data.

Stay Informed

Our Services allow you to stay informed about news, events, and ideas regarding professional topics you care about, and from professionals you respect. Our Services also allow you to improve your professional skills, or learn new ones. We use the data we have about you (e.g., data you provide, data we collect from your engagement with our Services, and inferences we make from the data we have about you), to personalize our Services for you, such as by recommending or ranking relevant content and conversations on our Services. We also use the data we have about you to suggest skills you could add to your profile and skills that you might need to pursue your next opportunity. So if you let us know that you are interested in a new skill (e.g., by watching a learning video), we will use this information to personalize content in your feed, suggest that you follow certain members on our site, or suggest related learning content to help you towards that new skill. We use your content, activity and other data, including your name and photo, to provide notices to your network and others. For example, subject to your settings, we may notify others that you have updated your profile, posted content, took a social action, used a feature, made new connections, or were mentioned in the news.

Career

Our Services allow you to explore careers, evaluate educational opportunities, and seek out, and be found for, career opportunities. Your profile can be found by those looking to hire (for a job or a specific task) or be hired by you. We will use your data to recommend jobs or mentees, show you and others relevant professional contacts (e.g., who work at a company, in any industry, function, or location, or have certain skills and connections). You can signal that you are interested in changing jobs and share information with recruiters. We will use your data to recommend jobs to you and you to recruiters. We may use automated systems to provide content and recommendations to help make our Services more relevant to our Members, Visitors, and customers. Keeping your profile accurate and up-to-date may help you better connect to others and to opportunities through our Services.

4. 
   Communications

We contact you and enable communications between Members. We will contact you through email, mobile phone, notices posted on our websites or apps, messages to your B.P.C.I inbox, and other ways through our Services, including text messages and push notifications. We will send you messages about the availability of our Services, security, or other service-related issues. We also send messages about how to use our Services, network updates, reminders, job suggestions, and promotional messages from us and our partners. You may change your communication preferences at any time. Please be aware that you cannot opt-out of receiving service messages from us, including security and legal notices. We also enable communications between you and others through our Services, including for example invitations, email, groups, and messages between connections.

5. Advertising

We serve you tailored ads both on and off our Services. We offer you choices regarding personalized ads, but you cannot opt out of seeing other ads. We target (and measure the performance of) ads to Members, Visitors, and others both on and off our Services directly or through a variety of partners using the following data, whether separately or combined:

• Data from advertising technologies on and off our Services, pixels, ad tags, cookies, and device identifiers;
• Member-provided information (e.g., profile, contact information, title, and industry);
• Data from your use of our Services (e.g., search history, feed, content you read, who you follow or is following you, connections, groups participation, page visits, videos you watch, clicking on an ad, etc.), including as described in Section 1.3;
• Information from advertising partners, vendors, and publishers; 
• Information inferred from data described above (e.g., using job titles from a profile to infer industry, seniority, and compensation bracket using graduation dates to infer age or using first names or pronoun usage to infer gender, using your feed activity to infer your interests; or using device data to recognize you as a Member).

We will show you ads called sponsored content which look similar to non-sponsored content, except that they are labeled as advertising (e.g., as “ad” or “sponsored”). If you take social action (such as, like, comment or share) on these ads, your action is associated with your name and viewable by others, including the advertiser. Subject to your settings, if you take a social action on the B.P.C.I Services, that action may be mentioned with related ads. For example, when you like a company we may include your name and photo when their sponsored content is shown.

Ad Choices

We adhere to self-regulatory principles for interest-based advertising and participate in industry opt-outs from such ads. This does not opt you out of receiving advertising; you will continue to get other ads by advertisers not listed with these self-regulatory tools. You can also opt-out specifically from our uses of certain categories of data to show you more relevant ads. 

Info to Ad Providers

We do not share your personal data with any third-party advertisers or ad networks except for: 

(i) device identifiers (to the extent they are personal data in some countries); 

(ii) with your separate permission (e.g., in a lead generation form) or

(iii) data already visible to any users of the Services (e.g., profile). 

However, if you view or click on an ad on or off our Services, the ad provider will get a signal that someone visited the page that displayed the ad, and they may, through the use of mechanisms such as cookies, determine it is you. Advertising partners can associate personal data collected by the advertiser directly from you with device identifiers received from us. In such instances, we seek to contractually require such advertising partners to obtain your explicit, opt-in consent before doing so.

     Provide, Personalise and Improve Our Products: We use the information we have to deliver our Products, including to personalize features and content (including your News Feed and ads) and make suggestions for you (such as groups or events that you may be interested in or topics that you may want to follow) on and off our Products. To create personalized Products that are unique and relevant to you, we use your connections, preferences, interests, and activities based on the data that we collect and learn from you and others (including any data with special protections you choose to provide); how you use and interact with our Products; and the people, places or things that you’re connected to and interested in on and off our Products. Learn more about how we use information about you to personalize your B.P.C.I experience, including features, content, and recommendations in B.P.C.I Products; you can also learn more about how we choose the ads that you see.

6. How do we use this information?

We use the information that we have (subject to choices you make) as described below, and to provide and support the B.P.C.I Products and related services described in the B.P.C.I Terms Here’s how:

6.1 Information across B.P.C.I Products and devices

We connect information about your activities on B.P.C.I Products and devices to provide a more tailored and consistent experience on B.P.C.I Products that you use, wherever you use them. For example, we can suggest that you join a group on B.P.C.That includes people you follow. We can also make your experience more seamless, for example, by automatically filling in your registration information (such as your phone number) from one B.P.C.I Product when you sign up for an account on a different Product.

6.2 Location-related information

We use location-related information such as your current location, where you live, the places you like to go, and the businesses and people you’re near to provide, personalize and improve our Products, including ads, for you and others. Location-related information can be based on things such as precise device location (if you’ve allowed us to collect it), IP addresses, and information from your and others’ use of B.P.C.I Products (such as check-ins or events you attend).

6.3 Product research and development

We use the information we have to develop, test, and improve our Products, including by conducting surveys and research, and testing and troubleshooting new products and features.

6.4 Ads and other sponsored content

We use the information we have about you including information about your interests, actions, and connections to select and personalize ads, offers, and other sponsored content that we show you. Learn more about how we select and personalize ads and your choices over the data we use to select ads and other sponsored content for you in the B.P.C.I Settings.

6.5 Provide measurement, analytics, and other business services

We use the information we have (including your activity of our Products, such as the websites you visit and ads you see) to help advertisers and other partners measure the effectiveness and distribution of their ads and services, and understand the types of people who use their services and how people interact with their websites, apps, and services. Learn how we share information with these partners.

6.6 Promote safety, integrity, and security

We use the information that we have to verify accounts and activity, combat harmful conduct, detect and prevent spam and other bad experiences, maintain the integrity of our Products, and promote safety and security on and of B.P.C.I Products. For example, we use data that we have to investigate suspicious activity or violations of our Terms or Policies, or to detect when someone needs help. To learn more, visit the B.P.C.I Security Help Centre.

6.7 Communicate with you

We use the information that we have to send you marketing communications, communicate with you about our products, and let you know about our Policies and Terms. We also use your information to respond to you when you contact us.

6.8 Research and innovation for social good

We use the information we have (including from research partners we collaborate with) to conduct and support research and innovation on topics of general social welfare, technological advancement, public interest, health, and well-being. For example, we analyze information we have about migration patterns during crises to aid relief efforts. 

6.9 Surveys:

Polls and surveys are conducted by us and others through our Services. You are not obligated to respond to polls or surveys and you have choices about the information you provide. You may opt out of survey invitations.

7. How is this information shared?

7.1 Sharing on B.P.C.I Products:

•       People and accounts that you share and communicate with:

1.   When you share and communicate using our Products, you choose the audience for what you share. For example, when you post on B.P.C.I, you select the audience for the post, such as a group, all of your friends, the public, or a customized list of people. Your network can also see actions that you have taken on our Products, including engagement with ads and sponsored content.
2. Public information can be seen by anyone, on or off our Products, including if they don’t have an account. This includes your username, any information you share with a public audience, information in your public profile on B.P.C.I, and content you share on a B.P.C.I page, public account, or any other public forum. You, other people using B.P.C.I, and we can provide access to or send public information to anyone on or off our Products, including in other B.P.C.I Products, in search results or through tools and APIs. Public information can also be seen, accessed, re-shared, or downloaded through third-party services such as search engines, APIs, and offline media such as TV, and by apps, websites, and other services that integrate with our Products.

7.2 Learn more about what information is public and how to control your visibility on B.P.C.I

Content that others share or reshare about you 

You should consider who you choose to share with, because people who can see your activity on our Products can choose to share it with others on and off our Products, including people and businesses outside the audience that you shared with. For example, when you share a post or send a message to specific friends or accounts, they can download, take a screenshot, or re-share that content to others across or off our Products, in person, or in virtual reality experiences. Also, when you comment on someone else’s post or react to their content, your comment or reaction is visible to anyone who can see the other person’s content, and that person can change the audience later.

People can also use our Products to create and share content about you with the audience they choose. For example, people can share a photo of you in a Story, mention or tag you at a location in a post, or share information about you in their posts or messages. If you are uncomfortable with what others have shared about you on our Products, you can learn how to report the content.

  Information about your active status or presence on our Products: 

People in your networks can see signals telling them whether you are active on our Products, including whether you are currently active on B.P.C.I or when you last used our Products.

8. How do the B.P.C.I Companies work together?

B.P.C.I to provide an innovative, relevant, consistent, and safe experience across B.P.C.I Products that you use. We also process information about you across the B.P.C.I Organizations for these purposes, as permitted by applicable law and in accordance with their Terms and Policies. 

9. How can I manage or delete information about myself?

We provide you with the ability to access, rectify, port, and delete your data. Learn more in your B.P.C.I settings. We store data until it is no longer necessary to provide our services and B.P.C.I Products or until your account is deleted whichever comes first. This is a case-by-case determination that depends on things such as the nature of the data, why it is collected and processed, and relevant legal or operational retention needs. For example, when you search for something on B.P.C.I, you can access and delete that query from within your search history at any time, but the log of that search is deleted after six months. If you submit a copy of your government-issued ID for account verification purposes, we delete that copy 30 days after the review, unless otherwise stated. 

When you delete your account, we delete things that you have posted, such as your photos and status updates, and you won’t be able to recover this information later. Information that others have shared about you isn’t part of your account and won’t be deleted. If you don’t want to delete your account but want to temporarily stop using the Products, you can deactivate your account instead. To delete your account at any time, please visit the B.P.C.I settings.

10. How We Share Information

Data

Any data that you include on your profile and any content you post or social action (e.g., likes, follows, comments, shares) you take on our Services will be seen by others, consistent with your settings.

Profile

Your profile is fully visible to all Members and customers of our Services. Subject to your settings, it can also be visible to others on or off of our Services (e.g., Visitors to our Services or users of third-party search engines). As detailed in our Help Center, your settings, degree of connection with the viewing Member, the subscriptions they may have, their usage of our Services, access channels, and search types (e.g., by name or by keyword) impact the availability of your profile and whether they can view certain fields in your profile.

Posts, Likes, Follows, Comments, Messages

Our Services allow viewing and sharing information including through posts, likes follows, and comments. When you share an article or a post (e.g., an update, image, video, or article) publicly it can be viewed by everyone and re-shared anywhere (subject to your settings). Members, Visitors, and others will be able to find and see your publicly-shared content, including your name (and photo if you have provided one). In a group, posts are visible to others in the group. Your membership in groups is public and part of your profile, but you can change visibility in your settings. Any information you share through companies’ or other organizations’ pages on our Services will be viewable by it and others who visit those pages. When you follow a person or organization, you are visible to others and that “page owner” as a follower. We let senders know when you act on their message, subject to your settings where applicable. Subject to your settings, we let a Member know when you view their profile. When you like or re-share or comment on another’s content (including ads), others will be able to view these “social actions” and associate it with you (e.g., your name, profile, and photo if you provided it). Your employer can see how you use the Services they provided for your work (e.g. as a recruiter or sales agent) and related information. We will not show them your job searches or personal messages.

11. Communication Archival

Regulated Members may need to store communications outside of our Service. Some Members (or their employers) need, for legal or professional compliance, to archive their communications and social media activity, and will use the services of others to provide these archival services. We enable archiving of messages by and to those Members outside of our Services. For example, a financial advisor needs to archive communications with her clients through our Services in order to maintain her professional financial advisor license.

12. Others’ Services:

You may link your account with others’ services so that they can look up your contacts’ profiles, post your shares on such platforms, or enable you to start conversations with your connections on such platforms. Excerpts from your profile will also appear on the services of others. Subject to your settings, other services may look up your profile. When you opt to link your account with other services, personal data will become available to them. The sharing and use of that personal data will be described in, or linked to, a consent screen when you opt to link the accounts. Third-party services have their own privacy policies, and you may be giving them permission to use your data in ways we would not. You may revoke the link with such accounts. Subject to your settings, excerpts from your profile will appear on the services of others (e.g., search engine results, mail and calendar applications that show a user limited profile data of the person they are meeting or messaging social media aggregators, talent, and lead managers). “Old” profile information remains on these services until they update their data cache with changes you made to your profile.

12.1 Related Services:

We share your data across our different Services and B.P.C.I affiliated entities. We will share your personal data with our affiliates to provide and develop our Services. We may combine information internally across the different Services covered by this Privacy Policy to help our Services be more relevant and useful to you and others. For example, we may personalize your feed or job recommendations based on your learning history.

12.2 Service Providers:

We may use others to help us with our Services. We use others to help us provide our Services (e.g., maintenance, analysis, audit, payments, fraud detection, marketing, and development). They will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes.

13. Change in Control or Sale:

We may share your data when our business is sold to others, but it must continue to be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We can also share your personal data as part of a sale, merger, or change in control, or in preparation for any of these events. Any other entity which buys us or part of our business will have the right to continue to use your data, but only in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy unless you agree otherwise.

14. Your Choices & Obligations:

14.1 Data Retention

We keep most of your personal data for as long as your account is open. We generally retain your personal data as long as you keep your account open or as needed to provide you Services. This includes data you or others provided to us and data generated or inferred from your use of our Services. Even if you only use our Services when looking for a new job every few years, we will retain your information and keep your profile open, unless you close your account. In some cases, we choose to retain certain information (e.g., insights about Services use) in a depersonalized or aggregated form.

14.2 Rights to Access and Control Your Personal Data

You can access or delete your personal data. You have many choices about how your data is collected, used, and shared. We provide many choices about the collection, use, and sharing of your data, from deleting or correcting data you include in your profile and controlling the visibility of your posts to advertising opt-outs and communication controls. We offer you settings to control and manage the personal data we have about you.

14.3 For personal data that we have about you, you can

Delete Data: You can ask us to erase or delete all or some of your personal data (e.g., if it is no longer necessary to provide Services to you).

Change or Correct Data: You can edit some of your personal data through your account. You can also ask us to change, update or fix your data in certain cases, particularly if it’s inaccurate.

Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data: You can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data (e.g., if we have no legal right to keep using it) or to limit our use of it (e.g., if your personal data is inaccurate or unlawfully held).

Right to Access and/or Take Your Data: You can ask us for a copy of your personal data and can ask for a copy of personal data you provided in machine-readable form. Visitors can learn more about how to make these requests here. You may also contact us using the contact information below and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws.

14.4 Account Closure

We keep some of your data even after you close your account. If you choose to close your B.P.C.I account, your personal data will generally stop being visible to others on our Services within 24 hours. We generally delete closed account information within 30 days of account closure, except as noted below. We retain your personal data even after you have closed your account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests) meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse (e.g., if we have restricted your account for breach of our Professional Community Policies), enforce our User Agreement, or fulfill your request to “unsubscribe” from further messages from us. We will retain de-personalized information after your account has been closed. Information you have shared with others (e.g., updates or group posts) will remain visible after you close your account or delete the information from your own profile or mailbox, and we do not control data that other Members have copied out of our Services. Groups’ content and ratings or review content associated with closed accounts will show an unknown user as the source. Your profile may continue to be displayed in the services of others (e.g., search engine results) until they refresh their cache.

15. 15. How do we respond to legal requests or prevent harm?

We access, preserve and share your information with regulators, law enforcement, or others, In response to a legal request (e.g. a search warrant, court order) if we have a good-faith belief that the law requires us to do so. This may include responding to legal requests from jurisdictions outside of India when we have a good-faith belief that the response is required by law in that jurisdiction, affects users in that jurisdiction, and is consistent with internationally recognized standards.

When we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to detect, prevent and address fraud, unauthorized use of the Products, breaches of our Terms or Policies, or other harmful or illegal activity, to protect ourselves (including our rights, property, or Products), you or others, including as part of investigations or regulatory inquiries, or to prevent death or imminent bodily harm. For example, if relevant, we provide information to and receive information from third-party partners about the reliability of your account to prevent fraud, abuse, and other harmful activity on and off our Products.

Information we receive about you (including financial transaction data related to purchases made on B.P.C.I) can be accessed and preserved for an extended period when it is the subject of a legal request or obligation, governmental investigation, or investigations of possible violations of our terms or policies, or otherwise to prevent harm. We also retain information from accounts disabled for term breaches for at least a year to prevent repeat abuse or other term breaches.

16. How do we operate and transfer data as part of our global services?

We share information globally, both internally within the B.P.C.I Organization, and externally with our partners and with those you connect and share with around the world in accordance with this Policy. Your information may, for example, be transferred or transmitted to, or stored and processed in India or other countries outside of where you live for the purposes as described in this Policy. These data transfers are necessary to provide the services set forth in the B.P.C.I Terms and to globally operate and provide our Products to you.

17. How will we notify you of changes to this policy?

We’ll notify you before we make changes to this Policy and give you the opportunity to review the revised Policy before you choose to continue using our Products.

18. Legal Disclosures:

We may need to share your data when we believe it’s required by law or to help protect the rights and safety of you, us, or others. It is possible that we will need to disclose information about you when required by legal process or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to: 

(1) investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; 

(2) enforce our agreements with you; 

(3) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; 

(4) protect the security or integrity of our Services (such as by sharing with companies facing similar threats); or 

(5) exercise or protect the rights and safety of B.P.C.I, our Members, personnel or others. 

We attempt to notify Members about legal demands for their personal data when appropriate in our judgment unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, at our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague, or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand. 

19. Other Important Information

19.1 Customer Support:

We use data to help you and fix problems. We use data (which can include your communications) to investigate, respond to and resolve complaints and Service issues (e.g., bugs).

19.2 Insights That Do Not Identify You:

We use data to generate insights that do not identify you. We use your data to produce and share insights that do not identify you. For example, we may use your data to generate statistics about our members, their profession, or industry, to calculate ad impressions served or clicked on or to publish visitor demographics for a Service, or create demographic workforce insights.

19.3 Security and Investigations:

We use data for security, fraud prevention, and investigations. We use your data (including your communications) for security purposes or to prevent or investigate possible fraud or other violations of our User Agreement and/or attempts to harm our Members, Visitors or others.

19.4 Security:

We monitor for and try to prevent security breaches. Please use the security features available through our Services. We implement security safeguards designed to protect your data, such as HTTPS. We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. However, we cannot warrant the security of any information that you send us. There is no guarantee that data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

19.5 Children’s Information:

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

B.P.C.I do not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

19.6 Cross-Border Data Transfers:

We store and use your data outside your country. We process data both inside and outside of India and rely on legally-provided mechanisms to lawfully transfer data across borders. Countries where we process data may have laws that are different from, and potentially not as protective as, the laws of your own country.

19.7 Lawful Bases for Processing:

We have lawful bases to collect, use and share data about you. You have choices about our use of your data. At any time, you can withdraw the consent you have provided by going to settings.

We will only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful bases. Lawful bases include consent (where you have given consent), contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (e.g., to deliver the B.P.C.I Services you have requested) and “legitimate interests.”

Where we rely on your consent to process personal data, you have the right to withdraw or decline your consent at any time and where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object. Learn More. If you have any questions about the lawful bases upon which we collect and use your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer here.

19.8 Law enforcement or legal requests: 

We share information with law enforcement or in response to legal requests in the circumstances outlined below.

19.9 Direct Marketing and Do Not Track Signals:

Our statements regarding direct marketing and “do not track” signals. We currently do not share personal data with third parties for their direct marketing purposes without your permission.

20. How to contact B.P.C.I with questions?

You can learn more about how privacy works on B.P.C.I. If you have questions about this Policy, you can contact us online or by writing to:

 Email-id:admin@bpci.in