The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce Privacy Policy
 

Effective Date: June 27, 2019

Your privacy is important to the Greater Barrington Chamber or Commerce. (“The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce,” “us,” or “we”).  We developed this Privacy Policy to provide you with information on how we process personal data when you use our sites, mobile apps and services (hereinafter referred to as “Sites”). 

“Personal data” is information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

“You” and “your” refer to the individuals reviewing this Privacy Policy, which may include the Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce members, customers’ and contacts, and other individuals visiting our Sites.

To jump to a specific section of this Privacy Policy, please click on a link below:

• Categories of Personal Data Processed by The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce

• Third-Party Recipients of Personal Data

• Cookies

• Children’s Privacy

• Retention of Personal Data

• Information Security

• California Privacy Rights

• Data Controller

• Privacy Policy Updates

Categories of Personal Data Processed by The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce

1. Personal data that is processed when you communicate with the Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce:  When you interact with us via email, telephone, or online (e.g., when you send us an email inquiry, provide us with feedback on our services, register and post in our forums, submit requests, and comment on blog posts), we collect personal data, including your name, organization name, phone number and email address; and information about the services you have purchased.   We may log in to your account, if appropriate, to help troubleshoot and resolve your issue.

• Purposes and Legal Grounds: 

• We use this information to provide you with support, to respond to inquiries, and to monitor and improve the quality and types of services and support we provide.  

2. Personal data that is processed when you create an account through the Site  or request information.: When you conduct any of these activities, we request that you provide personal data, including your name, organization name, phone number, address, and email address.   

• Purposes and Legal Grounds: 

• Account Access.  The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce processes your email address and password when you use your email address and your password for the purpose of enabling you to register for and log in to your The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce account.  We use this information to identify and authenticate your identity so that you may be provided with access to your The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce Site. The legal ground for processing your email address for this purpose is The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce’s legitimate interest in protecting the security of your The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce account and enabling you to access our services.
  
  

• Account Information. The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce also processes your contact information for the purpose of sending you information about your The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce services or account.  The name you provide is associated with your account profile.  The legal ground for processing your contact information for these purposes is The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce’s legitimate interest in providing you information about your The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce services or account.
  
  

• Requested Information. If you choose to sign up for our newsletter or any other communication from us, we will use your contact information for purposes of sending you the information you have requested. The legal ground for processing your contact information for this purpose is The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce’s legitimate interest in providing you with the information you have requested.  
  
  

• Marketing Purposes. The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce may use your email address and other contact information for the purpose of sending you electronic marketing communications.   

• The legal ground for processing your email address and other contact information for this purpose is our legitimate interest and in sending electronic marketing communications to current and potential customers concerning products and services. 

• If you decide that you no longer wish to receive electronic marketing communications from The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce, you will have the opportunity to opt out from receiving electronic marketing communications from The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce at any time by clicking the preferences or unsubscribe link provided at the bottom of our marketing emails.   

• The electronic marketing communications you receive from The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce may be based on information that you provide to us when you sign up for a The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce account (e.g., the city/state/country in which you are located and the type of organization in which you are involved).  The legal ground for processing your personal data for this purpose is The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce’s legitimate interest in providing its customers with information they have requested and with electronic marketing communications that are likely to be of interest to them.

3. Personal data that is processed when you open a The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce payments account or pay for products or services through our Sites or our customers’ sites:  When you pay for products and services through our Sites or our customers’ sites, we collect, but do not store, your payment information, which may include credit card data, debit card data, and Automated Clearing House (ACH) payment data, including bank name, ABA/Routing number, bank account number, account type, and account holder name. 

Purposes and Legal Grounds: 

• Payment Processing. When you pay for services via credit card, debit card, check, or ACH payment, The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce will transfer your payment data (e.g.,  payment card data, bank name, ABA/Routing number, bank account number, account type, account holder name) and billing details, including recurring payment schedule if applicable, to third-party electronic payment vendors (also known as payment gateways) that process electronic payment data so that you may pay for such services. For all such payments, The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce only transfers payment data through protected servers and does not store any payment data. If you authorize recurring payments or non-recurring future payments, your payment data and billing details will be saved by our third-party electronic payment vendors. The legal ground for processing payment data is that such processing in order to effect payment is necessary for the performance of contracts between The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce and our customers and between our customers and their members and contacts. 
  
  

• Payment Authentication.  To help reduce the risk of fraud and provide added security to online payments through the adoption of 3D Secure 2.0, the industry standard approach, which also complies with Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) requirements in the European Union, The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce or The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce’s electronic payment vendors may collect additional personal data to authenticate certain online payments. For example, we may need to collect something you know (e.g., password, security question, PIN); something you have (e.g., code sent to your mobile phone or hardware token); and/or something that is unique to you (e.g., fingerprint, facial recognition). If The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce collects such personal data from you, we may transfer the data to our third-party electronic payment vendors who may also partner with third-party service providers to process such personal data. The legal ground for processing this data for this purpose is The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce’s legitimate interest in adopting an industry-standard approach to reduce the risk of fraud and protect the security of your payments.

4. Personal data that is processed when you provide feedback and other information in our forums: If you provide comments, suggestions, feedback, or other information in one of our forums, we will collect any personal information contained in any content you provide. Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal data online in a forum accessible by others, that personal data can be collected and used by others. If you post personal data online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Please exercise caution whenever you post information online.

• Purposes and Legal Grounds: The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce processes your comments, suggestions, feedback, and other information for the purpose of providing our customers with the opportunity share such content with other customers. The legal ground for processing this information for this purpose is The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce’s legitimate interest in enabling our customers to provide comments, suggestions, feedback, and other information they desire to share with The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce and other The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce customers.

5. Personal data that is processed when you apply for a position at The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce: If you email us your resumé, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile to apply for an open position at The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce, we may collect a variety of personal data, including your name, mailing address, email address, phone number, work experience, education history, references, information about your applicable degrees, licenses, and certifications, whether you are legally eligible to work in the country to which you are applying, whether you have a valid driver’s license, and your salary expectations.  

• Purposes and Legal Grounds: The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce processes this information for the purpose of permitting you to be considered for open positions that The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce is seeking to fill. The legal ground for processing this information for this purpose is The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce’s legitimate interest in analyzing resume information in connection with identifying qualified candidates to fill open positions at The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce.

Third-Party Recipients of Personal Data

• Third-party service providers:  We share your personal data with our service providers, who may use your personal data in connection with hosting and operating our Sites and with providing customers with requested services. Service providers who are part of our partner network may use your contact information for the purpose of marketing our products and services, as well as their products and services; and for the purpose of providing you with information that is or is likely to be useful to you, such as information you request, and information pertinent to your use of The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce’s and our service providers’ products and services. To the extent that you provide your personal data directly to an identified third-party service provider, you should review that service provider’s privacy policy for information on its privacy practices relating to payment card data and other personal data.

  
  

• Third-party electronic payment vendors.  We use third-party electronic payment vendors to process payment card data of our customers and our customer’s contacts, as well as other personal data required to authenticate certain online payments when products and services are purchased using credit or debit cards. 

• Governmental entities and third parties:  We may disclose personal data about you to governmental entities, such as regulatory agencies, law enforcement and judicial authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, as well as other third parties under any of the following conditions: (a) if we have your valid consent to do so; (b) to comply with a valid subpoena, legal order, court order, search warrant, legal process or other legal obligation; (c) to enforce any of our terms and conditions or policies; (d) as necessary in the case of emergencies or internal security matters; or (e) as necessary to pursue available legal remedies or defend legal claims.

Cookies

• We automatically collect usage data (e.g., IP address, browser details) when you interact online with our Sites through the use of cookies.  Cookies are small computer files sent or accessed from your web browser on your computer’s, mobile device’s, or tablet’s hard drive that contain information about your computer, such as user ID, user settings, browsing history, and activities conducted while using our Sites.  A Cookie typically contains the domain name (internet location) from which the Cookie originated, the “lifetime” of the Cookie (i.e., when it expires), and a randomly generated unique number or identifier. Purposes and Legal Grounds:  We use this usage data to facilitate communication between your device and our Sites, store your preferences, authenticate users, detect and prevent fraud (e.g., fraudulent credit card use) and spam, enable certain functions of the Sites, administer and improve our Sites (e.g., troubleshoot geographically localized access problems), and analyze usage of and improve and enhance our Sites.

• Your Control of Cookies:  To access The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce Sites as an administrator or a customer contact, you need to enable cookies (which most web browsers do by default).  Web browsers allow some control of most cookies through browser settings. Some web browsers (including mobile web browsers) provide settings that allow you to reject cookies or that alert you when a cookie is placed on your computer, tablet, or mobile device. You may be able to reject mobile device identifiers by activating the appropriate setting on your mobile device.
  
  

• Third-Party Cookies:  When you visit our Sites, cookies may also be placed on your computer by third-party services that are integrated into the Site you are visiting.  For example, third-party cookies are used by Google Analytics for tracking website traffic.  We use information collected from such third-party services to help us better understand how users find and use our Sites, enhance our Sites and services, and better understand and improve users’ experience.

Children’s Privacy

Our Site is not directed to individuals under the age of 16, and we request that individuals under 16 not provide personal data to The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce.  If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 16, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.  If you are a contact of one of our customers, you should review their privacy policy to determine their privacy practices with respect to children’s data.  

Retention of Personal Data

The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce will retain your personal data for only as long as needed for the purposes for which the personal data is processed and to meet The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce’s legal obligations.   

Information Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to assist in maintaining the security and confidentiality of personal data; safeguarding against anticipated threats to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of personal data; and protecting your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, and unauthorized disclosure or access.  Such technical and organizational measures include all applicable security requirements in accordance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.

However, whenever personal data is processed, there is a risk that such data could be lost, misused, modified, hacked, breached, and/or otherwise accessed by an unauthorized third party.  No system or online transmission of data is completely secure. In addition to the technical and organizational measures that The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce has in place to protect your personal data, you should use appropriate security measures to protect your personal data.  If you believe that your The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce account or any information you provided to us is no longer secure, notify us immediately at administrator@barringtonchamber.org. 

California Privacy Rights

Do Not Track. The California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) requires us to let California residents know that The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce does not track its customers over time and across third-party websites and online services (e.g., mobile apps), and therefore does not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals. However, some third-party sites and apps may track your browsing activities when they provide you content, which enables them to tailor what they present to you. Third parties may collect personal data relating to your online activities over time and across different websites and apps when you use our Sites. 

Data Controller

If your personal data was collected by and on behalf of The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce (e.g., personal data of a customer collected through our website), then such personal data is controlled by The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce, Inc., which is located at 748 Calef Highway, Suite 11, Barrington NH, 03825

and which you can contact by email at administrator@barringtonchamber.org. 

Privacy Policy Updates

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as we add new services, as we improve our current services, and as technologies and laws change.  You can determine the effective date of this Privacy Policy by referring to the “Effective Date” legend at the top of this Privacy Policy.

We will provide notice to you if these changes are material and, where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent.  Such notice will be provided on The Greater Barrington Chamber of Commerce website.

Questions

You can contact us with any questions or requests relating to this Privacy Policy by email at administrator@barringtonchamber.org or by phone at 603-664-2200.