BiblioNexus Privacy Notice
Effective Date: October 23, 2023
This Privacy Notice describes how BiblioNexus (“BiblioNexus,” “our,”
“we”) collects, uses, and shares personal information via our website
at https://www.biblionexus.org/, and our other sites and online
services that post this Notice (our “Site”). BiblioNexus provides open
source software that supports and enables organizations to translate
the Bible. The BiblioNexus Foundation (“Foundation”) permits
developers to contribute to projects on our platform. We use the
information visitors to our Site provide for a variety of purposes set
forth below. Below, we also describe choices we offer with respect to
your information. This Privacy Notice does not apply to information
that cannot be identified to any individual, household, or their
devices, such as de-identified or anonymized information.
This Privacy Notice does not apply to third parties, including those
that may be linked from or support advertising accessible from or
through our Site. We are not responsible for other third parties’
privacy practices or communications. You should contact these parties
directly to understand their practices.
Information We Collect
We collect information from a variety of sources, including:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us.
- Automatically as you utilize the Site.
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From third parties, including advertising analytics providers.
Information you provide. If you are a
developer interested in working with the BiblioNexus Foundation, we
may collect information from you such as your name, email address, and
phone number.
If you are an account administrator or executive of an organization
interested in hosting a project within the BiblioNexus Foundation, we
may collect the names, email addresses, phone numbers, and names of
your developers.
Information we collect through automatic data collection
technologies. We may collect data regarding your use of our Site through cookies,
web beacons, and other automatically collected information. This data
may include your IP address, date and time you access our Site and the
pages and content you access during your visit, websites that you link
to or from, whether you receive or open an email or other
communication from us, and the links you click on within those emails.
We may also collect information from your mobile device or your
computer about how you interact with our Site, including the date of
the visit, the time of arrival and length of visit to the Site, the
type of device used and the operating system on that device, browser
type, a list of files downloaded or pages viewed, your IP address, and
any errors encountered. This information helps us address customer
support issues, provide you with a personalized experience, prevent
fraudulent use of our services, and manage the Site we provide,
including gathering aggregated data about engagement.
Other parties may collect personally identifiable information about
your online activities over time and across third-party websites when
you use our Site, such as analytics and marketing services that help
us understand our services. We do not control any personal information
once collected by these parties. We do not respond to “do not track”
signals or other mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to
exercise choice regarding the collection of personally identifiable
information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time
and across third-party websites or online services.
Information we collect from third party sources. We may collect information from advertisers, affiliates,
promotional partners, and application providers. These and other third
parties provide us information in connection with content, widgets,
components, or other tools we offer. These third parties may collect
information from these sources when you use our websites. The
information third parties collect may be associated with your personal
information or they may collect information about your online
activities over time. They and we may use this information to provide
you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content, and for
other purposes (such as to better understand our Site audience).
How We Use Information We Collect
We may use data we collect to operate our business and for a variety
of purposes, including the following:
- To provide our services.
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To maintain, analyze, customize, and improve your experience on
our Site and Foundation.
- To manage your account with us.
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To monitor, measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on
our Site and Foundation.
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To communicate with you and provide you information that you
request from us.
- To provide customer and technical support.
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To monitor and enforce our contracts, legal terms, acceptable use
or other policies or similar terms.
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To comply with law and satisfy our regulatory and compliance
obligations. Additionally, to support compliance efforts on behalf
of others and ourselves that support our provision of services to
you.
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To detect and prevent fraud and other prohibited, illicit or
illegal activity, and to protect the rights and vital interests of
you, others, and ourselves.
- To address existing or anticipated disputes.
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To otherwise operate our business, including support for
transactions impacting our company as a whole (such as mergers,
acquisitions, or asset purchases).
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To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide your
information to us.
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For other purposes permitted by law, described to you when you
provide your information or to which you consent.
As permitted by law, we may combine the information we gather about
you in identifiable form, including information from third parties. We
may use this information, for example, to improve and personalize our
services, content and advertising.
How We Secure Information
We are committed to maintaining measures to protect the security of
your information. Of course, despite these measures, no network or
system is ever entirely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of
networks and systems that we operate or that are operated on our
behalf.
How We Share Information
We may share your information with third parties as reasonable to
operate our business, to provide the Site and Foundation to you and
others, as permitted or required by law, or as directed or authorized
by you. For example:
Affiliated Companies. We may share some
or all of your information with our affiliates, subsidiaries, joint
ventures, or other companies under common control with us.
Third Party Sharing. We work with third
party parties to help us provide our Site and Foundation and to
support operations. They may use your information subject to their own
privacy policies and to comply with their own legal and regulatory
obligations. We work with different types of third parties, presently
including:
- Data hosting service providers;
- Security service providers;
- Analytics providers; and
- Marketing and promotions providers.
Professional Advisors, Law Enforcement and Regulators. We share your information with our professional advisors who
provide legal, compliance, auditing, accounting, banking, consulting,
or similar services, and with regulators, law enforcement, or
government agencies to:
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comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, including those
compliance obligations of federal, state or local regulators;
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protect our interests, property or legal rights, or those of our
customers or third parties;
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respond to a subpoena, court order, or similar law enforcement
request, or when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of
personal information is necessary to prevent physical harm or
financial loss, to report suspected illegal activity, or to
investigate violations of this Privacy Notice or other applicable
terms; and
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for other legal purposes, such as to enforce our terms and
conditions, or to exercise or defend legal claims.
Corporate Transaction. In the event of
a transaction involving the company as a whole, or all or part of its
assets, we may share your personal information with companies or other
entities in connection with, or during the negotiation of, any merger,
sale of shares or assets, financing, acquisition, restructuring,
divestiture or dissolution of all or a portion of our business, or
other similar event.
Other Disclosures. In addition to the
above disclosures, we may disclose personal information in the event
that we believe such disclosure is (i) necessary to provide our
services or operate our business; (ii) in accordance with purposes we
describe when you share it with us; (iii) permitted by law; or (iv)
with your consent or at your direction.
What Choices Do I Have?
Marketing communications. You may
receive marketing communications from BiblioNexus, including our
newsletters and e-blasts. You may opt out of receiving marketing
emails by following the unsubscribe link in each email, or by emailing
privacy@biblionexus.org. Please note that you may continue to receive non-marketing emails
from us after you opt-out.
Cookies. You have a number of choices
regarding certain cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept
cookies, but you may modify your browser’s setting to notify you of
cookie placement or decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies,
certain features of our website may not function properly or at all as
a result.
Updates to Our Privacy Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time in order to
provide clarification or notice of changes to our practices. If we
make changes, we will revise the Effective Date at the top of this
Privacy Notice. Changes to this Privacy Notice will be effective once
they are posted unless otherwise indicated. We may choose to notify
you by email to the email address in our records.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concern about this privacy notice or the
privacy practices at BiblioNexus, please contact us at
privacy@biblionexus.org.