Last Updated: May 25, 2018

The Board of Certified Safety Professionals ("BCSP") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through compliance with this Privacy Policy (the "Policy").

This Policy explains how BCSP may collect, use, share, and safeguard information on www.bcsp.org, BCSP's mobile websites, BCSP's microsites, BCSP's mobile applications, BCSP's social media sites, and any other digital services and platforms officially operated or used by BCSP occasionally (the "Sites" or "Services").

Our Policy consists of both this privacy policy, and where applicable, the GDPR Privacy Notice. If you are a resident of a country located in the European Union, or the European Economic Area, including Switzerland and the United Kingdom, please refer to our GDPR Privacy Notice for more information about your rights and our obligations, which applies to Personal Information on EU residents collected by us.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Sites. By accessing or using the Sites, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change periodically. Your continued use of the Sites, after we make changes, is deemed to be acceptance of those changes. Therefore, please check the Policy regularly for updates.

As BCSP, its certificants, products, and services change occasionally, this Policy is expected to change as well. We reserve the right to amend the Policy at any time, for any reason. The date of the last revision to the Privacy Policy will be indicated by the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

The Sites are not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to the Sites. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on the Sites.

Once collected, we may use your Personally Identifiable Information in a variety of ways including, but not limited to:

In addition, we may also use your Personally Identifiable Information through the following:

To allow safety professionals to identify each other, the Personally Identifiable Information we receive may be published on the Sites and other print or digital media.  This may occur in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, directories, lists, and other types of registration lists for BCSP programs and events ("Directory Lists"). Directory Lists will not include sensitive information, such as credit card or bank information, or social security numbers. Users may request their information be suppressed from Directory Lists by contacting us.

When fulfilling service requests, which you have initiated, we may share your Personally Identifiable Information with certain third parties to fulfill the requests. We may also share such information with service providers that perform business functions for us. For example, BCSP occasionally hires other companies to provide limited services on our behalf including, but not limited to,

In such cases, BCSP may share your Personally Identifiable Information.

BCSP may share Personally Identifiable Information with certain other companies in order to provide them an opportunity to offer products or services that may be of interest to you.  This helps contribute non-certification related revenue to BCSP.

BCSP may disclose your Personally Identifiable Information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process served on BCSP; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of BCSP; or (c) protect the personal safety of BCSP personnel or members of the public in appropriate circumstances. In addition, if BCSP and/or its assets (or a portion of its assets) are sold, assigned, transferred, or merged, or if BCSP undergoes some other change including a change to its corporate form as part of a bankruptcy proceeding or otherwise, information may be transferred as part of that transaction or change.

Your e-mail address will only be used by BCSP and its entities. We do not sell or rent e-mail addresses to anyone outside BCSP.  BCSP will also not share e-mail addresses to unrelated third-parties, or affiliates. Please understand, however, that your e-mail address may be visible to other safety professionals, others who have interest in the safety profession and BCSP events, as well as the general public through Directory Lists.  BCSP may also share your e-mail address with third parties to enable BCSP to take security measures to help protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of data. Finally, BCSP may share e-mail addresses with third parties as necessary for BCSP to perform certain services on our behalf, such as packaging, mailing and delivering products and processing event registrations and to respond to your service requests.

You can manage your profile and e-mail preferences, including opting out of e-mail, by contacting us via the contact information provided below.

While using various technological tools, we may collect Non-Personal Data to improve the usability of our Sites/Services and for other business reasons. We may share the Non-Personal Data we collect with third parties or permit third parties to place tools like cookies, tags and web beacons, to collect additional Non-Personal Data when you browse our Sites. We or other third-party companies may then use the Non-Personal Data to provide advertisements and targeted advertisements (ads based on the Non-Personal Data) to you. We do not share Personally Identifiable Information with third parties with whom we share your Non-Personal Data. Please note that you may be subject to the privacy policies of other non-BCSP companies when you select an advertising link or other link that takes you to sites not operated by BCSP.

Third-party advertising companies may collect data about your visit to our Sites and others to provide you more relevant advertising here and elsewhere on the Internet. This type of advertising is known as Online Behavioral Advertising. You can stop this collection and use of data for these purposes by companies participating in the Digital Advertising Alliance ("DAA") by visiting the "Opt Out From Online Behavioral Advertising" website. By opting out, the ads you see may be less relevant, and you may continue to see other non-targeted advertisements on our Sites and elsewhere.

In addition to the rights as explained in this Policy, under California's "Shine the Light" law, California residents who provide personal information (as defined in the statute) in obtaining products or services for personal, family, or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us, once a calendar year, information about the personal information we shared, if any, with other businesses for marketing uses. If applicable, this information would include the categories of personal information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared such personal information for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in 2012 will receive information about 2011). To obtain this information please write to us at: Board of Certified Safety Professionals, 8645 Guion Road, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46268. Please include your full name and address.

BCSP implements commercially reasonable security measures to help protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of data. Except for Directory Lists and the sharing of information as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we restrict access to personal information to certain companies who may need to know that information in order to operate, develop, or improve our services. These individuals or partner organizations are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, and despite our efforts, BCSP cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, or to or from our online products or services. If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

Certain areas of the Sites may require the use of a user ID, email address, or password as an additional security measure that helps protect your information. To help you protect your privacy, BCSP Sites have tools to help you log in and log out.

You should be aware that other Internet sites that are linked from the Sites or from a BCSP email message may contain privacy provisions that differ from the provisions of this Policy. To ensure your privacy is protected, we recommend that you review the privacy statements of these other linked sites, applications, or other digital platforms.

If you are a registered user of the Sites, subscriber to BCSP publications, purchaser of BCSP products and services, or a BCSP certificate holder, you may review and update/correct your information directly on BCSP's website--www.bcsp.org--or by contacting us via the contact information provided below.

BY VISITING BCSP's SITES, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE POLICIES THAT ARE DESCRIBED IN THIS POLICY AND ARE CONSENTING TO THE COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION BY BCSP.  WE WILL POST ANY CHANGES TO THIS POLICY WE MAY MAKE FROM TIME TO TIME ON OUR SITES.   IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS POLICY, OR TO ANY CHANGES WE MAY SUBSEQUENTLY MAKE, IMMEDIATELY STOP ACCESSING OUR SITES.

Board of Certified Safety Professionals' Privacy Policy | Version 1.0 | 05/25/2018

BCSP may change this Statement from time to time; when updates are made, the Privacy Policy version date (located at the bottom of this Statement) will also be updated to reflect that a revision occurred. We encourage you to periodically reread this Policy to see if there have been any changes that may affect you. This Policy is not intended to and does not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.

Questions or comments regarding this Policy should be submitted to our Privacy Officer by e-mail as follows, privacyofficer@bcsp.org.

You can also reach us by U.S. mail:
Board of Certified Safety Professionals
8645 Guion Road
Indianapolis, IN 46268