Boardroom Accounting Privacy Statement

By visiting the Website, you are accepting the policies described in this Privacy Policy.

Last updated: March 17, 2020

Boardroom Accounting takes your privacy very seriously and cares about how your information is collected, used, stored, and shared.  We are providing this Privacy Statement to explain our practices and the choices that you can make about the way your information is used by Boardroom Accounting. The Privacy Statement describes our practices in connection with the information we collect through our website, operated by us from which you are accessing this Privacy Statement (the “Websites”), through the software applications made available by us for use on or through computers and mobile devices (the “Apps”), through our social media pages that we control through which you are accessing this Privacy Statement (collectively, our “Social Media Pages”), as well as through HTML-formatted email messages that we send to you that link to this Privacy Statement and through offline interactions that we may have with you (collectively, including the Websites, the Apps and our Social Media Pages). 

By providing Personal Information to Boardroom Accounting, you agree to this Privacy Statement. 

Personal Information We May Collect 

We may collect Personal Information including name, email address, postal address, phone number, profile picture, social media ID, and similar contact information and credit card or other payment information. If you choose to provide your payment or credit card information to Boardroom Accounting, we will use that information for the purposes for which it was provided.   

If you submit any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Statement. 

How We May Collect Personal Information: 

Boardroom Accounting may collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to: 

  • We may collect Personal Information you provide to us over the phone, in email, through a face-to-face conversation, or through online and offline forms such as e-newsletters, surveys, donation forms, event registration/participation (including volunteering) and advocacy action alerts that you populate. 

  • We may use third-party postal address, phone number, and email address products to provide accurate and updated contact information.

  • We may collect information from social media platforms used by you or people with whom you are friends or otherwise connected on social media platforms.

  • We may also collect information from or about you from other online and offline sources, in addition to your use of the Services or when you communicate with us. 

How Boardroom Accounting Uses Personal Information 

Boardroom Accounting may use Personal Information to: 

  • Send you information regarding Boardroom Accounting, our affiliates, and our partners. 

  • Process and respond to inquiries and for the purposes for which you provided the information, such as to process donations, register or renew you as a donor or supporter, or receive information about a project, special event, and service.

  • Personalize the content, improve the navigability of the Services, and customize your experience on the Services, including targeted content, offers, and advertising on the Services, or via email or text message.

  • Respond to your questions and comments.

  • Notify you about special programs, offers, products and services that may be of interest to you, either from Boardroom Accounting or on behalf of our affiliates or other third parties. 

  • Alert you to administrative information such as information regarding the Services’ features, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.

  • Conduct surveys to measure your satisfaction with aspects of Boardroom Accounting’s activities.

  • Analyze data, usage trend identification, promotional campaign development, audit, fraud monitoring or prevention, new product or service development, Services’ enhancement, interaction improvement, or operating and expansion purposes.

  • Protect the security or integrity of the Services and Boardroom Accounting, such as by protecting against fraud, unauthorized transactions, claims and other liabilities, and managing risk exposure, including by identifying potential hackers and other unauthorized users.

  • To enforce our Terms of Use or other program terms.

  • Credit card information will be used for the purpose for which it was provided.

  • As otherwise described to you at the point of collection. 

How Boardroom Accounting May Disclose Personal Information 

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. Except as described elsewhere in this policy, we will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order. Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Personal Information may be disclosed: 

  • To trusted third parties:  including grantors, grantees, other charities, collaborative partners, sponsors, to meet contractual or other obligations.

  • By you:  If you post information or materials on our message boards, chat, profile pages, blogs, and other services. Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public and may be available to users of the Services and to the general public.  We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose any information on the Services.

Other Uses and Disclosures 

  • Pursuant to Legal Requirements: For disclosure purposes as necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence.

  • To Protect Our Website and Users: We will disclose your information when we believe disclosure is necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety ofmour organization, our employees, our Site users or others; or to enforce our website terms and conditions or other agreements or policies. 

Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

  • See what data we have about you, if any.

  • Change/correct any data we have about you.

  • Have us delete any data we have about you.

  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Accessing, Modifying, Updating, and Deleting Your Information: We strive to keep our records as accurate as possible. You may, under applicable laws, have a right to access, correct, modify, or request the deletion of your Personal Information that you have previously provided to us at any time.  To do so, please contact us at youness@boardroomaccounting.com.

In your request, please make clear what Personal Information you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from our database or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of your Personal Information.  For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request.  We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.  

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion (e.g., when you make a donation you may not be able to change or delete the Personal Information provided until after the completion of such donation). There may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which will not be removed. 

How We Protect Information 

Boardroom Accounting uses appropriate and reasonable organizational, electronic, physical, administrative, and technical measures to help safeguard Personal Information from unauthorized access or disclosure. We take these and other appropriate precautions to help ensure the security, integrity and confidentiality of customer information; however, no transmission or electronic storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your use of the Services or engagement with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us as described in the “Questions/Contact Information” section below. 

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

Sensitive Information 

Unless explicitly requested, we ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Services or otherwise to us. 

Changes to this Privacy Statement 

Boardroom Accounting may, from time to time, amend this Privacy Statement. We will post any revisions to the Services, and we advise you to check back periodically. The “Effective Date” reference at the top of this page indicates when we last revised this Privacy Statement. Any changes to this Privacy Statement will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Statement on the Services. Your continued use of the Services or engagement in the Interactions after we implement such changes will also constitute your affirmative consent to the revised Privacy Statement. 

Questions/Contact Information 

If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions regarding this Privacy Statement or our privacy practices, you may send us an email at youness@boardroomaccounting.com.

Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive information in your emails to us.