Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 23, 2023

This Privacy Notice describes how BiblioNexus (“BiblioNexus,” “our,” “we”, “us”) 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 Software 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. This privacy policy addresses the following:

Information We Collect

How We Use Information We Collect

How We Secure Information

How We Share Information

What Choices Do I Have?

Updates to Our Privacy Notice

Contact Information

Information We Collect

We collect information from a variety of sources, including:

• Directly from you when you provide it to BiblioNexus

• Automatically as you utilize the Site

• 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.

• To maintain, analyze, customize, and improve your experience on our Site and Foundation.

• To manage your account with us.

• To monitor, measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on our Site and Foundation.

• To communicate with you and provide you information that you request from us.

• To provide customer and technical support.

• To monitor and enforce our contracts, legal terms, acceptable use or other policies or similar terms.

• To comply with law and satisfy our regulatory and compliance obligations. Additionally, to support compliance efforts on behalf of others and us that support our provision of services to you.

• To detect and prevent fraud and other prohibited, illicit or illegal activity, and to protect the rights and vital interests of you, others, and us.

• To address existing or anticipated disputes.

• To otherwise operate our business, including support for transactions impacting our company as a whole (such as mergers, acquisitions, or asset purchases).

• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide your information to us.

• 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:

• comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, including those compliance obligations of federal, state or local regulators

• protect our interests, property or legal rights, or those of our customers or third parties

• 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

• 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.