Privacy Policy
BX businessXplainer follows a simple, but powerful principle: we can do more together than any of us can do alone. We cannot work collectively without gathering, sharing, and analyzing information about our users as we seek new ways to make the BX businessXplainer site more useable, safer, and more beneficial.
We believe that information-gathering and use should go hand-in-hand with transparency. This Privacy Policy explains how BX businessXplainer, the not for profit organization that hosts the BX businessXplainer site collects, uses, and shares information we receive from you through your use of the BX businessXplainer Site. It is essential to understand that, by using BX businessXplainer, you consent to the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure, and use of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. That means that reading this Policy carefully is important.
We believe that you should provide a minimum of personal information to participate in the free knowledge movement. We only require that you tell us your real name and give us an email address to be able to contact you in case any problems occur. You can still be anonymous to other users by using a fictional profile name. All other personal information is voluntary to state.
We do not sell or rent your non-public information, nor do we give it to others to sell you anything. We can however use it to figure out how to make the BX businessXplainer more engaging and accessible, to see which ideas work, and to make learning and contributing more fun. Put simply: we use this information to make the BX businessXplainer site better for you.
What This Privacy Policy Does & Doesn't Cover
Except as explained below, this Privacy Policy applies to our collection and handling of information about you that we receive as a result of your use of the BX businessXplainer site. This Policy also applies to information that we might receive from partners or other third parties.
Types of Information We Receive from You, How We Get It, & How We Use It
Your Public Contributions
The BX businessXplainer Site were primarily created to help you share your knowledge with the world, and we share your contributions because you have asked us to do so.
When you make a contribution to any BX businessXplainer Site, including on user or discussion pages, you are creating a permanent, public record of every piece of content added, removed, or altered by you. The page history will show when your contribution or deletion was made, as well as your username (if you are signed in) or your IP address (if you are not signed in). We may use your public contributions, either aggregated with the public contributions of others or individually, to create new features or data-related products for you or to learn more about how the BX businessXplainer Site is used.
Unless this Policy says otherwise, you should assume that information that you actively contribute to the BX businessXplainer Site, is publicly visible and can be found by search engines. Like most things on the Internet, anything you share may be copied and redistributed throughout the Internet by other people. Please do not contribute any information that you are uncomfortable making permanently public, like revealing your real name or location in your contributions.
You should be aware that specific data made public by you or aggregated data that is made public by us can be used by anyone for analysis and to infer information about users, such as which country a user is from, political affiliation, and gender.
Account Information & Registration
Your username will be publicly visible, so only use your real name as your username if you feel comfortable to do so. Your password is only used to verify that the account is yours. Your IP-address is also automatically submitted to us, and we record it temporarily to help prevent abuse. Except your real name and e-mail address, no other personal information is required: no date of birth and no credit card information unless you intend to make a donation or pay to register your business in the topic related service registers.
To gain a better understanding of the demographics of our users, to localize our services, and to learn how we can improve our services, we may on your profile page ask you for more demographic information about yourself. We will tell you if such information is intended to be public or private, so that you can make an informed decision about whether you want to provide us with that information. Providing such information is always completely optional. If you don't want to, you don't have to—it's as simple as that.
Information Related to Your Use of the BX businessXplainer Site
We want to make the BX businessXplainer Site better for you by learning more about how you use it. Examples of this might include how often you visit the BX businessXplainer Site, what you like, how you rate different content, how you get to the BX businessXplainer Site, and whether you would use a helpful feature more if we explained it differently. We also want this Policy and our practices to reflect our community's values. For this reason, we keep information related to your use of the BX businessXplainer Site confidential, except as provided in this Policy.
Information We Receive Automatically
Because of how browsers work and similar to other major webSite, we receive some information automatically when you visit the BX businessXplainer Site. This information includes the type of device you are using (possibly including unique device identification numbers, for some beta versions of our mobile applications), the type and version of your browser, your browser's language preference, the type and version of your operating system, in some cases the name of your internet service provider or mobile carrier, the website that referred you to the BX businessXplainer Site, which pages you request and visit, and the date and time of each request you make to the BX businessXplainer Site.
Put simply, we use this information to enhance your experience with BX businessXplainer Site. For example, we use this information to administer the Site, provide greater security, and fight vandalism; optimize mobile applications, customize content and set language preferences, test features to see what works, and improve performance; understand how users interact with the BX businessXplainer Site, track and study use of various features, gain understanding about the demographics of the BX businessXplainer Site, and analyze trends.
Information We Collect
We actively collect some types of information with a variety of commonly-used technologies. These generally include a variety of "locally stored data" technologies, such as cookies and local storage.
Depending on which technology we use, locally stored data can be anything from text, pictures, and whole articles (as we explain further below) to personal information (like your IP address) and information about your use of the BX businessXplainer Site (like your username or the time of your visit).
We use this information to make your experience with the BX businessXplainer Site safer and better, to gain a greater understanding of user preferences and their interaction with the BX businessXplainer Site, and to generally improve our services. We will never use third-party cookies, unless we get your permission to do so. If you ever come across a third-party data collection tool that has not been authorized by you (such as one that may have been mistakenly placed by another user or administrator), please report it to us at info@businessxplainer.com Locally stored data help us do things like:
- Provide you with a personalized experience, such as using cookies to know your language preference, to remember the user preferences you set so we can provide you with the customized look and feel that you want, and to tell you about interesting BX businessXplainer issues and events in your area.
- Deliver more relevant content to you faster. For example, we may use local storage to store your most recently read content directly on your device, so they can be retrieved quickly.
- Understand how you use the BX businessXplainer Site, so that we know what works and what is useful. For example, we might use cookies to learn about topics you are following so that we can recommend similar material that you may be interested in.
- Understand how you use the BX businessXplainer Site across different devices, so that we can make our BX businessXplainer Site more efficient and effective for you.
- Make the BX businessXplainer Site more convenient to use, such as by using cookies to maintain your session when you log in or to remember your username in the login field.
We believe this data collection helps improve your user experience, but you may remove or disable some or all locally stored data through your browser settings, depending on your browser. While locally stored data may not be necessary to use our Site, some features may not function properly if you disable locally stored data. While the examples above concerning information about you collected through the use of data collection tools are kept confidential in accordance with this Policy, please note that some information about the actions taken by your username is made publicly available through public logs alongside actions taken by other users. For example, a public log may include the
date your account was created on a BX businessXplainer Site along with the dates that other accounts were created on a BX businessXplainer Site. Information available through public logs will not include personal information about you.
Emails
We use your email address to let you know about things that are happening with the BX businessXplainer Site, such as telling you important information about your account, letting you know if something is changing about the BX businessXplainer Site or policies, and alerting you when there has been a change to a topic that you have decided to follow. Please note that if you email us, we may keep your message, email address, and any other information you provide us, so that we can process and respond to your request.
Emails such as those containing critical information that all users need to know to participate successfully in the BX businessXplainer Site, you may not be able to opt out of. You can manage what kinds of notifications you receive and how often you receive them by going to your edit profile page.
We will never ask for your password by email (but may send you a temporary password via email if you have requested a password reset). If you ever receive such an email, please let us know by sending it to info@businessxplainer.com so we can investigate the source of the email.
Location Information
IP Addresses
When you visit the BX businessXplainer Site, we automatically receive IP address of the device you are using to access the Internet, which could be used to infer your geographical location. We keep IP addresses confidential, except as provided in this Policy. We use IP addresses for research and analytics; to better personalize content, notices, and settings for you; to fight spam, identity theft, malware, and other kinds of abuse; and to provide better mobile and other applications.
Sharing
When May We Share Your Information?
For Legal Reasons
We may access, preserve, or disclose your personal information if we reasonably believe it necessary to satisfy a valid and legally enforceable warrant, subpoena, court order, law or regulation, or other judicial or administrative order. However, if we believe that a particular request for disclosure of a user's information is legally invalid or an abuse of the legal system and the affected user does not intend to oppose the disclosure themselves, we will try our best to fight it. We are committed to notifying you via email at least ten (10) calendar days, when possible, before we disclose your personal information in response to a legal demand. However, we may only provide notice if we are not legally restrained from contacting you, there is no credible threat to life or limb that is created or increased by disclosing the request, and you have provided us with an email address.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal objections or defenses you may have to a third party's request (whether it be civil, criminal, or governmental) to disclose your information. We recommend seeking the advice of legal counsel immediately if such a request is made involving you.
If the Organization is Transferred (Really Unlikely!)
In the extremely unlikely event that ownership of all or substantially all of the organization changes, or we go through a reorganization (such as a merger, consolidation, or acquisition), we will continue to keep your personal information confidential, except as provided in this Policy, and provide notice to you via the BX businessXplainer Site and a notification on mailing at least thirty (30) calendar days before any personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
To Protect You, Ourselves & Others
We, or particular users with certain administrative rights as described below, may need to share your personal information if it is reasonably believed to be necessary to enforce or investigate potential violations of our Terms of use, this Privacy Policy, or any user community-based policies. We may also need to access and share information to investigate and defend ourselves against legal threats or actions.
These rights may include access to limited amounts of otherwise nonpublic information about recent contributions and activity by other users. They use this access to help protect against vandalism and abuse, fight harassment of other users, and generally try to minimize disruptive behavior on the BX businessXplainer Site. Users are selected through a community-driven process and overseen by their peers through a logged history of their actions.
We hope that this never comes up, but we may disclose your personal information if we believe that it's reasonably necessary to prevent imminent and serious bodily harm or death to a person, or to protect our organization, employees, contractors, users, or the public. We may also disclose your personal information if we reasonably believe it necessary to detect, prevent, or otherwise assess and address potential spam, malware, fraud, abuse, unlawful activity, and security or technical concerns.
To Our Service Providers
As hard as we may try, we can't do it all. So we reserve the right to use third-party service providers or contractors who help run or improve the BX businessXplainer Site for you and other users. We may give access to your personal information to these providers or contractors as needed to perform their services for us or to use their tools and services. We put requirements, such as confidentiality agreements, in place to help ensure that these service providers treat your information consistently with, and no less protective of your privacy than, the principles of this Policy.
To Understand & Experiment
The software that powers the BX businessXplainer Site depends on the work of software developers, who spend time writing and testing code to help it improve and evolve with our users' needs. To facilitate their work, we may give some developers limited access to systems that contain your personal information, but only as reasonably necessary for them to develop and contribute to the BX businessXplainer Site.
When we give access to personal information to third-party developers or researchers, we put requirements, such as reasonable technical and contractual protections, in place to help ensure that these service providers treat your information consistently with the principles of this Policy and in accordance with our instructions. If these developers or researchers later publish their work or findings, we ask that they not disclose your personal information. Please note
that, despite the obligations we impose on developers and researchers, we cannot guarantee that they will abide by our agreement, nor do we guarantee that we will regularly screen or audit their projects.
Protection
How Do We Protect Your Data?
We strive to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as completely secure data transmission or storage, so we can't guarantee that our security will not be breached (by technical measures or through violation of our policies and procedures).
How Long Do We Keep Your Data?
Once we receive personal information from you, we keep it for the shortest possible time that is consistent with the maintenance, understanding, and improvement of the BX businessXplainer Site, and our obligations under applicable Swedish law. Non-personal information may be retained indefinitely.
Important info
For the protection of the BX businessXplainer and other users, if you do not agree with
this Privacy Policy, you may not use the BX businessXplainer Site.
Where is the organization & What Does That Mean for Me?
The BX businessXplainer is a not for profit organization based in Lund, Sweden with servers and data centers located in Sweden. If you decide to use BX businessXplainer Site, whether from inside or outside of Sweden, you consent to the collection, transfer, storage, processing, disclosure, and other uses of your information in Sweden as described in this Privacy Policy. You also consent to the transfer of your information by us from Sweden to other countries, which may have different or less stringent data protection laws than your country, in connection with providing services to you.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Because things naturally change over time and we want to ensure our Privacy Policy accurately reflects our practices and the law, it may be necessary to modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. We reserve the right to do so in the following manner:
- In the event of substantial changes, we will provide the proposed changes to our users in at least two (2) languages (selected at our discretion) for open comment period lasting at least thirty (30) calendar days. Prior to the start of any comment period, we will provide notice of such changes and the opportunity to comment via the BX businessXplainer Site, or an e-mail.
- For minor changes, such as grammatical fixes, administrative or legal changes, or corrections of inaccurate statements, we will post the changes and, when possible, provide at least three (3) calendar days' prior notice via BX or an e-mail.
We ask that you please review the most up-to-date version of our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the BX businessXplainer Site after this Privacy Policy becomes effective constitutes acceptance of this Privacy Policy on your part. Your continued use of the BX businessXplainer Site after any subsequent version of this Privacy Policy becomes effective, following notice as outlined above, constitutes acceptance of that version of the Privacy Policy on your part.
Contact Us
If you have questions or suggestions about this Privacy Policy, or the information collected under this Privacy Policy, please email us at info@businessxplainer.com