Privacy Policy

BICER strongly believes in the importance of your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how BICER treats the personal information we collect through the BICER website (the “Website”) and what we do with that information. By using or accessing the Website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Statement applies only to information collected online through the Website and does not describe the ways in which we may collect or use information obtained offline or through any means other than our Website.

How, When, and Why We Collect Information

• Activity That Doesn’t Require Membership.   You can view some content on the Website without a membership or providing any personal information. When you enter the Website, we collect information such as your browser and operating system type IP address, and your referring web site to optimize your experience on the Website and to track aggregate Website usage.
• Membership.   Certain areas of the Website require you to be a member to view. To become a member, we ask you to provide your name, phone number and email address.  If you decide to become a memeber, we use a persistent cookie that stores certain information to make it easier for you to login when you come back to the Website. However, none of your personal information is stored in that cookie.  You may also be asked to provide certain additional information to become a member. Memebership is not automatic, and my require a phone interview before you are sent a login and password.
• Information posted in the members area of the website is for member use only and should not be distributed to non-members of the HCRBB.

Uses of Personal Information

• The personal information that BICER collects on the Website helps us, our state and local affiliates and BICER -related organizations to efficiently and effectively represent our members, to pursue our advocacy agenda, and to provide valuable member benefits.
• In order to advance these goals and activities, we may share the personal information that we collect about you with our state and local affiliates and other BICER -related organizations, as well as third parties that perform services on our behalf.  Additionally, subject to applicable law, we may share any of the personal information that we collect about you with certain third parties that share our interests.
• We will use your email address to communicate with you about BICER’s activities and offerings, unless you opt-out from receiving such messages.  We will also use your email address for administrative purposes, such as notifying you of major Website changes, sending messages related to actions you have taken on the site or for customer service purposes.  Although we hope you'll find these communications informative and useful, if you don't, you can always unsubscribe. 
• When you send email or other communications to us, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
• We use both your personally identifying information and certain non-personally-identifying information (such as anonymous usage data, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality of your user experience and the design of the Website and to create new features, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing user behavior, preferences, trends, and actions.

Other Disclosures

We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws.  If we receive a subpoena requesting information about you and if you have provided us with your email address, we will attempt to notify you of the subpoena at the email address that you have provided.  Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with the law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Website or using the BICER name, to prevent bodily harm, to enforce our User Agreement, or to protect the rights, property or safety of visitors to our site, our members, the public or BICER.  In the unlikely event that BICER (or substantially all of its assets) is merged with another entity, information on our visitors would be among the transferred assets.

Information Security and Data Integrity

BICER takes security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

More Information

Our Website may also permit you to access non- BICER sites. It is important to remember that, if you link to a non- HCRBB site from our Website, that party's privacy policy and its user agreement apply to you. We encourage you to learn about each third party's privacy policy before giving personal information to them.

BICER reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. We will post any changes to this Privacy Policy on this page, so we encourage you to check this page regularly.  Your continued use of this Website following any changes to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Website please feel free to contact us.