Online Privacy and Security

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The Long Beach Accelerator (“LBA”) Program (“we”) collects information from you through the Internet and when you visit our website.  This Online Privacy and Security Policy informs you of the information that LBA collects from you online and other important information. 

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU ONLINE.

When you visit our website, our web servers will collect the name of the domain you used to access the Internet (such as aol.com), as well as your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address.  We also may collect information about your device identifier, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, the website you came from and visit next, and other diagnostic data.  We may collect this information through the use of cookies.  We use this information to evaluate the performance of our website and to audit it for security purposes.      

Our website also offers several ways in which you can voluntarily provide personally identifiable information to us.  For instance, we collect information from you when you submit it to us through our “Contact Us” page.  We also collect information from you when you post comments or other material on our website.  This information includes your name and e-mail address, and may also include your company name, telephone number, city, state, and information that you provide to us in your message or comments. 

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.  Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device.  You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.  If you set your browser to not accept cookies, you will limit the functionality we can provide you when you visit our web site.

DO WE SHARE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU ONLINE? 

Yes.  It is necessary for us to share this information with third parties for our business purposes and for other reasons as permitted by law.  The categories of third persons with whom we share your information are: 

  • Service providers with whom we have contracts to manage the content of our website, lbaccelerator.org, including materials and comments that are posted there;
  • Service providers with whom we have contracts to activity on our website; maintain the security, confidentiality and integrity of our systems and detect fraud;
  • Service providers with whom we have contracts to market and advertise our program, opportunities and events associated with LBA;
  • Service providers with whom we have contracts to manage our mailing lists; and
  • With other third parties as required and permitted by law.

CAN YOU CORRECT THE INFORMATION THAT WE GATHER ABOUT YOU ONLINE?  

Yes, if you entered information through our “Contact Us” form and later need to correct that information, please contact us at info@lbaccelerator.org.  Please note that if we cannot associate the information to you, we may not be able to correct it. 

DOES THE LBACCELERATOR WEBSITE RESPOND TO "DO NOT TRACK" SIGNALS?

No. 

CAN OTHER PARTIES COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU VISIT OUR WEBSITE? 

Yes.  Our website uses Google Analytics to help us evaluate the performance of our website and to give us information about how online visitors use and interact with our website.  Google Analytics uses cookies to collect online identifiers, cookie identifiers, IP addresses and device identifiers.  To learn more about how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its service, please see Google’s Privacy Policy, which is accessible here:  https://policies.google.com/privacy.   

Our website also includes Social Plugins (“buttons”) for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn.   These buttons work by using code from the social media companies that allows you to connect to them from our website, and allows them to collect information about your activity while you are on our website, including your Internet Protocol address, the pages you visit, the device and browser you are using, and more.  You can review the privacy policies of these social media companies to learn more about the data they collect, and how to manage or control the collection of data in your account settings.  The privacy policies of these social media companies are available at:

            Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

            Twitter:     https://twitter.com/en/privacy

            YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/about/policies/#community-guidelines

            LinkedIn:   https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy


WHAT IF YOU LINK TO OTHER WEBSITES FROM WWW.LBACCELERATOR.ORG?

Our website contains links to websites that are controlled by third parties and provide access to third-party information and services.  For example, from our website you may link to Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn (to view their privacy policies).  These links are provided to you as a convenience, and we are not responsible for the content, action or performance of any linked website.  Please be aware that other websites have their own privacy policies, and their data gathering practices may be different from ours.  We are not responsible for the information collected by other websites if you link to them from our website.  We cannot guarantee how those sites use cookies or whether they place cookies on your computer that may identify you.  You should carefully review the privacy policies of each website you visit to understand how it collects and uses information.

WHAT IF THIS ONLINE PRIVACY AND SECURITY POLICY CHANGES? 

We will notify you of any material changes by updating this Online Privacy and Security Policy on this page, along with the effective date of any changes. 

Effective date:  May 2020.