Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 16, 2024

This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how Be Pro Be Proud, Inc., an Arkansas nonprofit corporation (“Be Pro”) collects, uses, protects and shares personal information of users of its website, www.beprobeproud.org (the “Site”) and the choices users have with respect to their personal information we manage.

Through the Site and our in-person events where we may direct attendees to our Site, Be Pro provides a platform to connect high school students with technical professional programs and potential technical professional employers (“Services”). By using the Service and accessing the Site, you acknowledge that you accept the privacy policies and practices set forth herein. If you do not accept these policies and practices, then you should not use the Service.

This Privacy Policy talks about our collection, use and retention of user information. A “User” is a person who accesses our Site and from whom we may collect, retain and process “User Data”, which includes personally identifiable information and other information as explained more fully in this policy. “Personally identifiable information” or, as we use in this policy “personal information”, can mean a lot of things, like your name, but broadly means information that identifies you, relates to you, describes you, or that reasonably can be linked to you. Anonymous, aggregate, or statistical information that cannot identify you is not included as personally identifiable information.

We work with others to provide information about technical professional programs and potential employment opportunities. We call these companies and organizations “Partners” in this policy and they provide us funding to provide our Services. We want you to be aware that when your information is shared with Partners as we describe in this policy, your information may be subject to additional privacy terms with those third-parties with whom the information is shared.

Our Partners differ based on which state you are in. A listing of our current Partners by state can be found at the following links:

Arkansas Partners https://beprobeproudar.org/about-bpbp/partners

Georgia Partners: https://beprobeproudga.org/about-bpbp/partners

New Mexico Partners: https://beprobeproudnm.org/about-bpbp/partners

North Carolina Partners: https://beprobeproudnc.org/about-bpbp/partners

South Carolina Partners: https://beprobeproudsc.org/about-bpbp/partners

Tennessee Partners: https://beprobeproudtn.org/about-bpbp/partners

WHAT WE COLLECT & HOW WE USE IT

We respect your information, and our goal is to collect as little user information as possible while still providing a quality service and opportunities to you. We receive and store information about you in a range of ways and the information you provide to us varies depending on your purpose in interacting with our Services.

Most guests of our site provide information in the following ways:

Information You Give Us. When you join Be Pro, we collect information from you that helps identify you, including your name and your email address, telephone number, and your address. We collect these so that we can provide a way for our sponsors to contact you. We also collect your birth year to help us confirm your age.

We collect other demographic information, like your race, ethnicity and gender that you may choose to provide us on our Site. This information is not required for your enrollment, but helps us learn statistical information about our Users.

We also collect information about your education, like the name of your school and your graduation year, and your interests related to our Services, like your potential interests in training providers, technical careers, and job interests. We collect this information so that we can connect you to relevant training providers and employers from our Partners. If you indicate you are interested in events, we may also provide you information about future events and opportunities that align with the information you’ve provided us.

Information We Get From Others. We may get information about you from other sources, like your teachers. This information may include personally identifiable information, such as your name and your age, along with other information, like your interests. We may add this information to information we get from our Site.

Information Automatically Collected. We automatically log information about you and your computer or device. For example, when visiting our Site, we log IP address, date and time of access, location information, browser information, operating system information and information about your use of and actions on our Site. In some instances, this can be used to identify you.

While you use the Site, we also collect information related to how you interact with us, such as your path through our Site. This information allows us to update our services and learn how we can better equip the Site to serve you. Finally, we may receive information from you, like a confirmation, when you open emails from us. This confirmation helps us make our communications with you more interesting and helps us improve communications.

Cookies. We may log information using "cookies." Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a website. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Site. This type of information is collected to make the Site more useful to you and to tailor the experience with us to meet your special interests and needs. Cookies are useful in keeping you signed in to our Site.

You may set your browser or device not to accept cookies. However, some of our website features may not function as a result and the Join the Movement lead submission form will be unsubmittable to you.

SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Our Partners are listed on our website by state, but if you wish to have list of our Partners, that can be provided to you be emailing privacy@beprobeproud.org.

We may additionally share personal information as follows with our Partners and third parties:

If you are participant in at one of our events, we may share location-related personal information as a result through our social media. Your participation in an event constitutes your consent to disclosure of personal information in connection with such event.
We may share aggregate, statistical, or anonymous data (including data that has had personally identifying characteristics, like your name or address, removed) with third parties for research purposes or to promote our Services with potential new Partners or educational organizations.
We may share personal information when we do a business deal, or negotiate a business deal, involving the sale or transfer of all or a part of our business or assets. These deals can include any merger, financing, acquisition, or bankruptcy transaction or proceeding.
We may share personal information for legal, protection, and safety purposes.
- We may share information to comply with laws.
- We may share information to respond to lawful requests and legal processes.
- We may share information to protect the rights and property of Be Pro, our agents, customers, and others. This includes enforcing our agreements, policies, and terms of use.
- We may share information in an emergency. This includes protecting the safety of our employees and agents, our Users, or any person.
We may share information with those who need it to do work for us.

STORAGE OF INFORMATION

Your information collected through the Site is processed in the United States, where Be Pro maintains its offices. If you are based in the United States and use our Site, you consent to have your data processed by Be Pro in the United States.

Be Pro maintains strict administrative, technical and physical procedures to protect information processed via our servers. Access to information is limited (through user/password credentials) to those employees who require it to perform their job functions. We use industry-standard technology, including but not limited to data encryption and physical access controls to safeguard the information we collect from you.

We maintain your information after you provide it to our Site. We will delete all of your personal data if you request us to do so by emailing us at privacy@beprobeproud.org.

YOUR INFORMATION CHOICES AND CHANGES

Our marketing emails tell you how to “opt-out.” If you opt out, we may still send you non-marketing emails. Non-marketing emails include emails about your account and our business dealings with you.

You may send requests about personal information to our Contact Information below or to privacy@beprobeproud.org. You can request to change contact choices, opt-out of our sharing with others, and update your personal information through contacting us at privacy@beprobeproud.org.

INFORMATION FOR VISITORS FROM CALIFORNIA AND OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES

PRIVACY RIGHTS FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit our California Privacy Notice.

PRIVACY RIGHTS FOR TEXAS RESIDENTS

If you are a Texas resident, Texas law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your Texas privacy rights, visit our Texas Privacy Notice.

PRIVACY RIGHTS FOR VIRGINIA RESIDENTS

If you are a Virginia resident, Virginia law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your Virginia privacy rights, visit our Virginia Privacy Notice.

VISITORS FROM OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES

We mention above that the Site is hosted in the United States and our headquarters is in the United States. If you are visiting the Site from outside the United States, information we collect about you will be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States in accordance with this Policy and applicable U.S. laws.

Please note that data protection and other applicable laws of the United States may differ from the data protection or consumer protection laws in your country. By using the Service, you acknowledge and consent to transfer of your information to our facilities as described in this Policy.

For our international customers, any questions or concerns regarding the collected information, use or disclosure of your information should be directed to privacy@beprobeproud.org. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes regarding use and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

CHILDREN

The Be Pro Site is not intended for children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information directly from children without parental consent. If you are a minor, we will not provide your information to our Sponsors until your parent or guardian confirms your age with us by responding to the email.

Please contact us at privacy@beprobeproud.org if you believe we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under 13 so that we may delete such data as soon as possible.

CONTACT INFORMATION.

We welcome your comments or questions about this privacy policy. You may also contact us at privacy@beprobeproud.org.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

The Services and our business may change from time to time. As a result, at times it may be necessary for Be Pro to make changes to this Privacy Policy. Be Pro reserves the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time. We will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Site of any material changes to this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Services after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy shall indicate your agreement with the terms of such revised Privacy Policy.

INFORMATION FOR VISITORS FROM CALIFORNIA

PRIVACY RIGHTS FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

This PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS supplements the Privacy Policy of Be Pro Be Proud, Inc., an Arkansas nonprofit corporation (“Be Pro”) and applies solely to visitors, users and others who reside in the State of California (“you”) of the website, www.beprobeproud.org (the “Site”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and by the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively the “CCPA”), and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal information”). In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

Identifiers, such as your name, internet protocol address, postal address, email address, or other similar identifiers.
Additional Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)), such as your telephone number.
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law, such as your gender, race and ethnicity.
Internet or other similar network activity, such as your access history and information on your interaction with our Site.
Geolocation data, such as your location when you’re at an event and provide that information to the Site. We do not collect your precise geolocation data, which is data provided directly from your device.
Professional or employment information you provide our Site.
Education information, such as your school name, your teacher’s name, and your graduation year.

Sensitive Information

Our online form that you use to Join the Movement on our Site has fields to allow you to provide us with your gender and race or ethnicity. These fields are optional and we will not deny you service if you choose not to answer these questions. We do not collect any other sensitive personal information as defined by the CCPA.

Sources of Collection

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

Directly from you. For example, through information we ask from you when you register with our Site.
Directly and indirectly from you when using our Services or visiting our website. For example, usage details collected automatically in the course of your interaction with our Site.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION & USE OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

To provide you with email alerts and other notices concerning updates to our Site.
To improve our Site.
As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or others.
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA or CPRA.
To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

STORAGE OF INFORMATION

Your personal information and sensitive information collected through the Site is maintained as long as you maintain an account with the Site. We maintain your information for a period of time if we do not hear from you that you want us to delete your personal information. This period of time includes the period right after you provide the information to us, the period before graduation, and a period of time post-graduation when you may be looking for job opportunities or education opportunities. We do not maintain your personal information after a period of time as it may no longer relevant. We do not store information beyond six years after your expected graduation date you have provided us.

We will delete all of your personal data if you request us to do so by emailing us at privacy@beprobeproud.org. During this process, we will need to maintain some of your information for legal purposes, but once we no longer require your information to maintain your account, we will delete it within three months after your request to delete your account.

Be Pro maintains strict administrative, technical and physical procedures to protect information collected by the Site from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure. Access to information is limited (through user/password credentials and two factor authentication) to those employees who require it to perform their job functions. We use industry-standard technology, including but not limited to data encryption and physical access controls to safeguard the personal information we collect from you.

SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of collected personal information for a business purpose:

Identifiers, such as your name, internet protocol address, postal address, email address, or other similar identifiers.
California Customer Records personal information categories, specifically your phone number as part of your profile for the Site.
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law, specifically race, ethnic origin, and gender to provide demographic information to our Partners for diversity hiring purposes.
Historical information, such as your birth year, school that you attend, your teacher’s name, and your anticipated graduation year.
Preference information, such as your plans for the future and interest in technical fields.
Education information, such as your school name, your teacher’s name, and your graduation

We disclose these categories of personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:

Service providers.
Third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with our Services.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold any personal information. However, as described in this Privacy Policy, we do provide your information at your request to our Partners based upon your interests and our Partners help fund our non-profit.

We may also share aggregate, statistical, or anonymous data (including data that has had personally identifying characteristics, like your name or address, removed) with third parties for research purposes or to promote our Services with potential new Partners or educational organizations.

YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

Your privacy choices are important to us and we would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request Be Pro disclose what personal information it collects, uses, discloses or sells. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:

The categories of personal information we collected about you during the past 12 months.
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information.
The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

Be Pro does not sell your personal information for monetary compensation. However, as described in this Privacy Policy, we do provide your information at your request to our Partners based upon your interests. Under some circumstances a transfer of personal information to a third party without monetary consideration may be considered a “sale” under California law.

To submit an access request, please email privacy@beprobeproud.org.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Be Pro correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Be Pro to complete the information you believe is incomplete. Our correction and completion of information is limited to personal data collected over the last 12 months.

To submit a rectification request, please email privacy@beprobeproud.org.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Be Pro transfer the personal information data that we have collected to directly to you under certain conditions.

To submit a portability request, please email privacy@beprobeproud.org.

The right to erasure – California residents also have the right to request the deletion of their personal information collected or maintained by Be Pro. Once we receive a request for deletion and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete the personal information (to the extent required by law) we hold about you as of the date of your request from our records. In some cases, deletion may be accomplished through de-identification of the information. If you choose to delete your personal information, you may not be able to use certain website functions that require your personal information to operate.

You have 3 choices for your erasure of your information:

You may choose to opt out of the sale and sharing your personal information;
You may choose to limit the use of your sensitive personal information;
You may choose to request that we not sell or share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

If you wish to make a request for information or to delete your personal information, or for any questions about our privacy practices and compliance with California law, please contact us via email at privacy@beprobeproud.org.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information or take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you.
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.).
Comply with a legal obligation.
Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Verifying Requests Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your request.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. If you make more requests in a year, we may require a fee to process your additional requests.

The verifiable consumer request must:

Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative. In addition, if you ask us to provide you with specific pieces of personal information, we will require you to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose personal information is the subject of the request. If you designate an authorized agent to make an access, deletion or opt-out of sale request on your behalf (a) we may require you to provide the authorized agent written permission to do so, and (b) for access and deletion requests, we may require you to verify your own identity directly with us.
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

If you make a request, we have 45 days to respond to you.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights. This means we will not deny you service, charge different prices or rates, provide a different level of service, or suggest that you might receive a different price or level of quality for service. Please know, if you ask us to delete your information or stop transferring your information, it may impact your experience using our Site.

INFORMATION FOR VISITORS FROM VIRGINIA

PRIVACY RIGHTS FOR VIRGINIA RESIDENTS

This PRIVACY NOTICE FOR VIRGINIA RESIDENTS supplements the Privacy Policy of Be Pro Be Proud, Inc., an Arkansas nonprofit corporation (“Be Pro”) and applies solely to visitors, users and others who reside in the Commonwealth of Virginia (“you”) of its website, www.beprobeproud.org (the “Site”). We adopt this notice to comply with the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (the “VCDPA”). Any terms that are defined in the VCDPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified person or identifiable person (“Personal Information”). In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

Identifiers, such as your name, internet protocol address, mailing address, email address, or other similar identifiers.
Additional Personal Information categories such as your telephone number.
Protected classification characteristics under Virginia or federal law, such as your gender, race, and ethnicity. More information about this collected information is below in our Sensitive Information section.
Internet or other similar network activity, such as your access history and information on your interaction with our Site.
Geolocation data, such as your location when you’re at an event and provide that information to the Site. We do not collect your precise geolocation data, which is data provided directly from your device.
Historical information, such as your birth year, school that you attend, your teacher’s name, and your anticipated graduation year.
Preference information, such as your plans for the future and interest in technical fields.

Sensitive Information

Sources of Collection

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

Directly from you. For example, through information we ask from you when you register with our Site.
Directly and indirectly from you when using our Services or visiting our website. For example, usage details collected automatically in the course of your interaction with our Site.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION & USE OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

To provide you with email alerts and other notices concerning updates to our Site.
To improve our Site.
As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or others.
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the VDCPA.
To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred.

STORAGE OF INFORMATION

SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We do not sell or trade your personal information with others, but we are funded by our Partners, which are technical programs and skilled trade employers. We provide our Partners personal information with your consent as part of our Services to provide you connections with our Partners. If you indicate in the registration process that you’re interested in learning more about training programs or jobs, these Partners may provide you with materials or advertisements about their programs and organizations based upon your interests. This is not targeted advertising as defined by the VDCPA, but if you receive unwanted materials you believe are related to your enrollment with Be Pro, please email privacy@beprobeproud.org and we will investigate. If you wish to opt out of receiving materials from our Partners, please let us know by emailing us at privacy@beprobeproud.org.

Our Partners are listed on our website by state, but if you wish to have list of our Partners, that can be provided to you be emailing privacy@beprobeproud.org.

We have written agreements with all of our Partners that have access to your personal information that require everyone with access to your personal information to maintain it securely and confidentially.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of collected personal information for a business purpose:

Identifiers, such as your name, internet protocol address, mailing address, email address, or other similar identifiers.
Additional Personal Information categories such as your telephone number.
Protected classification characteristics under Virginia or federal law, such as your gender, race, and ethnicity to assist our Partners in diversity recruitment.
Historical information, such as your birth year, school that you attend, your teacher’s name, and your anticipated graduation year.
Preference information, such as your plans for the future and interest in technical fields.

We may share aggregate, statistical, or anonymous data (including data that has had personally identifying characteristics, like your name or address, removed) with third parties for research purposes or to promote our Services with potential new Partners or educational organizations.

YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

Your privacy choices are important to us and we would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The categories of personal information we collected about you during the past 12 months.
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information.
The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

To submit an access request, please email privacy@beprobeproud.org. If we decline to take action to your request, you can appeal that decision within a reasonable period of time by emailing privacy@beprobeproud.org with a heading that says APPEAL.

To submit a rectification request, please email privacy@beprobeproud.org. If we decline to take action to your request, you can appeal that decision within a reasonable period of time by emailing privacy@beprobeproud.org with a heading that says APPEAL.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Be Pro transfer the personal information data that we have collected to directly to you under certain conditions.

To submit a portability request, please email privacy@beprobeproud.org. If we decline to take action to your request, you can appeal that decision within a reasonable period of time by emailing privacy@beprobeproud.org with a heading that says APPEAL.

The right to erasure – Virginia residents also have the right to request the deletion of their personal information collected or maintained by Be Pro. Once we receive a request for deletion and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete the personal information (to the extent required by law) we hold about you as of the date of your request from our records. In some cases, deletion may be accomplished through de-identification of the information. If you choose to delete your personal information, you may not be able to use certain website functions that require your personal information to operate.

If you wish to make a request for information or to delete your personal information, or for any questions about our privacy practices and compliance with Virginia law, please contact us via email at privacy@beprobeproud.org. If we decline to take action to your request, you can appeal that decision within a reasonable period of time by emailing privacy@beprobeproud.org with a heading that says APPEAL.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information or take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you.
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
Comply with Virginia law.
Comply with a legal obligation.
Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Verifying Requests Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

Only you may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your request.

The verifiable consumer request must:

Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative. In addition, if you ask us to provide you with specific pieces of personal information, we will require you to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose personal information is the subject of the request. If you designate an authorized agent to make an access, deletion or opt-out of sale request on your behalf (a) we may require you to provide the authorized agent written permission to do so, and (b) for access and deletion requests, we may require you to verify your own identity directly with us.
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

If you make a request, we have 45 days to respond to you.

INFORMATION FOR VISITORS FROM TEXAS

PRIVACY RIGHTS FOR TEXAS RESIDENTS

This PRIVACY NOTICE FOR TEXAS RESIDENTS supplements the Privacy Policy of Be Pro Be Proud, Inc., an Arkansas nonprofit corporation (“Be Pro”) and applies solely to visitors, users and others who reside in the Commonwealth of Texas (“you”) of its website, www.beprobeproud.org (the “Site”). We adopt this notice to comply with the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (the “TDPSA”). Any terms that are defined in the TDPSA have the same meaning when used in this notice.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Identifiers, such as your name, internet protocol address, mailing address, email address, or other similar identifiers.
Additional Personal Information categories such as your telephone number.
Protected classification characteristics under Texas or federal law, such as your gender, race, and ethnicity. More information about this collected information is below in our Sensitive Information section.
Internet or other similar network activity, such as your access history and information on your interaction with our Site.
Geolocation data, such as your location when you’re at an event and provide that information to the Site. We do not collect your precise geolocation data, which is data provided directly from your device.
Historical information, such as your birth year, school that you attend, your teacher’s name, and your anticipated graduation year.
Preference information, such as your plans for the future and interest in technical fields.

Sensitive Information

Our online form that you use to Join the Movement on our Site has fields to allow you to provide us with your race or ethnicity. These fields are optional and we will not deny you service if you choose not to answer these questions. We do not collect any other sensitive personal information as defined by the TDPSA.

Sources of Collection

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

Directly from you. For example, through information we ask from you when you register with our Site.
Directly and indirectly from you when using our Services or visiting our website. For example, usage details collected automatically in the course of your interaction with our Site.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION & USE OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

To provide you with email alerts and other notices concerning updates to our Site.
To improve our Site.
As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or others.
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the TDPSA.
To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred.

STORAGE OF INFORMATION

SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We do not sell or trade your personal information with others, but we are funded by our Partners, which are technical programs and skilled trade employers. We provide our Partners personal information with your consent as part of our Services to provide you connections with our Partners. If you indicate in the registration process that you’re interested in learning more about training programs or jobs, these Partners may provide you with materials or advertisements about their programs and organizations based upon your interests. This is not targeted advertising as defined by the TDPSA, but if you receive unwanted materials you believe are related to your enrollment with Be Pro, please email privacy@beprobeproud.org and we will investigate. If you wish to opt out of receiving materials from our Partners, please let us know by emailing us at privacy@beprobeproud.org.

Our Partners are listed on our website by state, but if you wish to have list of our Partners, that can be provided to you be emailing privacy@beprobeproud.org.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of collected personal information for a business purpose:

Identifiers, such as your name, internet protocol address, mailing address, email address, or other similar identifiers.
Additional Personal Information categories such as your telephone number.
Protected classification characteristics under Texas or federal law, such as your gender, race, and ethnicity to assist our Partners in diversity recruitment.
Historical information, such as your birth year, school that you attend, your teacher’s name, and your anticipated graduation year.
Preference information, such as your plans for the future and interest in technical fields.

YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

Your privacy choices are important to us and we would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The categories of personal information we collected about you during the past 12 months.
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information.
The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Be Pro transfer the personal information data that we have collected to directly to you under certain conditions.

The right to opt out – Texas residents have the right to opt out of the processing of their personal information for the purposes of targeted advertising, sale of personal data, or profiling of the resident in furtherance of a decision that produces a legal or significant effect concerning the resident. As we’ve discussed in this policy, we do not use your information for targeted advertising as defined by Texas’s TDPSA, but if you wish to make an opt out request, please email privacy@beprobeproud.org. If we decline to take action to your request, you can appeal that decision within a reasonable period of time by emailing privacy@beprobeproud.org with a heading that says APPEAL.

If you choose to opt out of the processing of your personal information, we may choose to delete your personal information collected or maintained by Be Pro. If we delete your personal information, you may not be able to use certain website functions that require your personal information to operate.

The right to erasure – Texas residents also have the right to request the deletion of their personal information collected or maintained by Be Pro. Once we receive a request for deletion and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete the personal information (to the extent required by law) we hold about you as of the date of your request from our records. In some cases, deletion may be accomplished through de-identification of the information. If you choose to delete your personal information, you may not be able to use certain website functions that require your personal information to operate.

If you wish to make a request for information or to delete your personal information, or for any questions about our privacy practices and compliance with Texas law, please contact us via email at privacy@beprobeproud.org. If we decline to take action to your request, you can appeal that decision within a reasonable period of time by emailing privacy@beprobeproud.org with a heading that says APPEAL.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information or take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you.
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
Comply with Texas law.
Comply with a legal obligation.
Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Verifying Requests Access, Data Portability, Opt Out and Deletion Rights

The verifiable consumer request must:

Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative. In addition, if you ask us to provide you with specific pieces of personal information, we will require you to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose personal information is the subject of the request. If you designate an authorized agent to make an access, deletion or opt-out of sale request on your behalf (a) we may require you to provide the authorized agent written permission to do so, and (b) for access and deletion requests, we may require you to verify your own identity directly with us.
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

If you make a request, we have 45 days to respond to you.