PRIVACY POLICY

B, S & CO. LLC (B, S & CO.) is a digital era’s full-service advertising agency. We offer traditional advertising and strategic communications, interactive technologies, creative and digital marketing services. A company with offices in Puerto Rico, main offices in Miami, Florida and satellite offices in USA mainland, Caribbean and other countries. This website of B, S & CO. at is the data controller (“B, S & CO.” or “we”) and this privacy policy cover our another subdomains and websites which are service departments of our agency B, S & Co. and we take your privacy seriously. If you have any questions about this policy, we can be reached by email at [email protected].

Privacy Policy Issues

This privacy policy sets out the basis on which any personal data that we have collected about you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

We review this privacy policy regularly. Occasionally we may need to make changes or additions to this privacy policy that may affect how we handle your data. We will post new versions of this privacy policy on our website bsand-co.com (the “Site”). We may also notify you of changes to this privacy policy by email. This privacy policy was last reviewed and updated in February 2021.

INFORMATION WE HAVE COLLECTED AND MAY COLLECT AND HOW

When you register on our Site, we will collect some personal information from you, such as your name, email address, country of origin, location, occupation, schools attended, photos, social media accounts and other data you upload or enter into your profile. This personal data is entered by you during the application or registration process or shared by you through another social media service, in order to become a member of B, S & Co., apply for membership or other use of the B, S & Co. Service. While your credit card number is validated on the Site, your credit card number and payment details are stored exclusively by our third party payment providers and not by us.

We may also collect data about your navigation of the Site on an aggregate basis, such as your Internet Protocol Address (“IP Address”), which is identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever you navigate the Site, your Internet Service Provider (“ISP”), your login frequency, the pages you visited within the Site, and the Internet browser or device you are using.

When you participate in the Site member offers, complete forms for optional promotions, RSVP for the Site events, or participate in contests, surveys, or beta testing, we may require that you submit certain personal information to the Site, our mobile application or via email. You may also voluntarily provide personal information when you send us an inquiry or support request via email. When you contact us, we keep a record of your communication, and may use third party service providers (e-mail system provider, CRM systems), to help solve any issues you might be facing in the future. When you use B, S & Co., you may share your location data for us to optimize your experience and inform you about other members nearby. You may also share your upcoming events on B, S & Co., as well as interests, data that is shared with us and other members and may be used to suggest other members to connect to you and you to connect to other members.

Surveys are periodically conducted to collect information to help us improve the Site. All information collected through surveys will remain confidential, even if we use a third party to help us conduct the survey, unless otherwise indicated.

Any information you disclose in public areas of the Site may become public information. Please exercise caution when disclosing personal information in these areas. We are not responsible for any use by third parties of personal information disclosed by you in public areas of the Site.

In order to facilitate the fulfillment of privileges for Members, You may authorize B, S & Co. to provide private data relevant to privilege redemption to privilege partners in question. Your approval will be requested before such data is exchanged. Any such exchange only happens for the fulfillment of privileges.

Electronic delivery of communications

You agree and consent to receive electronically all communications, agreements, documents, notices and disclosures (collectively, “Communications”) that we provide in connection with your accounts (“Account”) with us and your use of our services. Communications include:

• agreements and policies you agree to (e.g., the B, S & Co. Terms and Conditions Agreement and Privacy Policy), including updates to these agreements or policies;
• invoices, quotations, transaction receipts or confirmations;
• Account statements and history;
• federal and state tax statements we are required to make available to you; and
• any other Account, or transaction information.

We will provide these Communications to you by posting them on our website, sending it by our specialized Business WhatsApp Messenger Services, and/or by emailing them to you at the primary email address listed in your files with us.

COOKIES

We use cookies on the Site and other technologies to recognize you and uniquely identify your browser. This helps us to provide you with a good user experience when you use the Site and also allows us to improve the Site. By continuing to use the Site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the Site.

Analytical/performance/statistical cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to the Site. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice city).

Targeting cookies. These cookies may record your visit to the Site and the pages you have visited on our Site. We will use this information to make the Site more relevant to your interests. We may use cookies to show you relevant content off the B, S & CO. site (e.g. for upcoming events from B, S & CO. on another social media channel). We may also use a cookie to learn whether someone took an action on our Site after displaying that content (e.g. booked a ticket).

Please note that third parties (including, for example, providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of the Site and your user experience may be inferior when navigating our Site.

We also use third-party cookie systems. To see a list of third-party cookies and their link so that you know their privacy policies, here we list them:

• Facebook
• Google
• Stripe

WHY WE COLLECT INFORMATION

Information collected may be used to provide and improve our products and service of the Site; for billing, identification and authentication purposes; to analyze the Site usage for statistical purposes; to manage and improve our products and the Site; to deliver administrative and informative notices and communications relevant to your use of our products and the Site; for internal market research; for troubleshooting problems; for detecting, protecting against and preventing fraudulent or other criminal activity; for distribution to third party contractors who provide services to us (such as our email server) who are bound by our privacy restrictions or restrictions at least as restrictive as those set forth in this policy; to enforce our Terms of Service.

WITH WHOM WE SHARE

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our organization, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries for outsourcing purposes (i.e. where such member of our group provides services for and on our behalf).

When you submit information to B, S & Co., it is collected, processed and maintained solely by us or by our third party contractors, those third party contractors being bound by our privacy policy or by restrictions at least as restrictive as those set forth in this policy.

Partners may sponsor special member offers, promotions, privileges or contests that require you to disclose personal information to benefit from them. We will never disclose private member data, including email addresses, to partners without your prior express consent. Certain partners may require members to opt-in or agree to terms on the partners’ landing pages authorizing us to provide member information to the partner in question. We advise you always to check our partners’ privacy policies before submitting information about yourself.

We may disclose your personal information:

in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;

to identify, contact or bring legal action against you if you are violating our Terms of Service or other rules or if we believe you are causing injury or interference with the rights of members, the general public or B, S & Co.;

if we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal information held by us will be some of the transferred assets; and

if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Service and other agreements or to protect our rights, property, or safety of our customers, or others.

In the event that you raise a payment dispute and your bank or credit card provider requests data supporting your transaction and use of the B, S & Co. Service.

OPTING IN OR OUT OF COMMUNICATIONS

By using the Site you are consenting to the terms of this privacy policy and you agree that B, S & Co. and its partners (if you have provided the respective partner your email address or have consented to us giving your email address to the respective partner) may send you communications regarding goods, services, events and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving communications from us and/or our partners, and from participating in member surveys at any time by either following the simple unsubscribe process set out in each email, sending us an email at [email protected] or going to your account settings and deselecting the relevant boxes. You may opt in to receiving communications from us and/or our partners at any time by going to your account setting and selecting the relevant boxes or sending an email to [email protected].

Please be aware that on certain, rare occasions, we will send emails to communicate important corporate or member messages, like changes in our privacy policy or a receipt of your membership payment. These emails will not have an unsubscribe feature, as they are one-time only communications.

If you supply us with your postal address, you may receive mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please go to your account settings and deselect the relevant boxes or let us know by emailing us at [email protected].

To ensure removal from any lists, please provide us with your exact name, as it appears in your B, S & Co. profile, and address when communicating with us.

WHERE WE STORE/TRANSFER YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Our main servers for registered users and members are based in Puerto Rico, USA. However, the data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside Puerto Rico, USA by us. It may also be processed on our behalf by staff operating outside Puerto Rico and the USA, who work for us or one of our suppliers, including but not limited to countries such as the United Kingdom. By consenting to the collection and processing of your personal data, you agree to such transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

The transfer, storage or processing of personal information outside Puerto Rico, USA and the EEA does not diminish your rights and we will take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure that any information that is transferred, stored or processed outside Puerto Rico, USA, the EEA will be treated securely, in accordance with this privacy policy and with the same level of protection required by the USA Federal Laws.

DATA RETENTION POLICY

B, S & Co. may retain information submitted by you following application/termination/deactivation of your Membership, ensuring that you will benefit from communications, and to allow for (re-)activation of your Membership at a later point in time. If you de-register from all B, S & Co. Services, we may retain information submitted by you or collected from you, for such time as is reasonably necessary for backup, archival and/or audit purposes, to prevent fraud or other criminal activity, or prevent violation of our Terms of Service and for such time as may be required by applicable laws.

We will remove personal information by deleting it from our database if required to do so by law. We will also rectify inaccurate personal data concerning you (for both, send e-mail request to [email protected]).

We regularly review the way we collect, store and process information, including physical security measures, in order to protect our systems from any unauthorized access.

All of our services are fully encrypted using SSL.

Access to any personal information is limited to B, S & Co. employees, contractors and agents, to the extent relevant to their job duties (such as processing certain information). Anyone with access to private data is bound by strict confidentiality obligations.

PROTECTION POLICY AGAINST ABUSIVE PRACTICES TOWARDS EMPLOYEES

By accessing this website we assume you accept these terms and conditions and privacy policy. Do not continue to use B, S & Co. if you do not agree to take all of the terms and conditions and privacy policies stated on this page.

When you access our website, we retain data about you or your company. This means that we can know which pages you accessed, date, time, from where and what information you searched on our website.

By accessing this website, accepting our terms, conditions and privacy policies, you are accepting that both as a natural person, as well as a juridical person, you will not use the information; name; surnames; telephone (business or private); Email address; address (physical, postal or business) or any information of any of our employees, contractors, executives, subcontractors, interns or any person linked to us through this website to target, harass, persecute, scare or chase them for any reason, objective or circumstance, including collection actions (personal or business) either through a natural or juridical person.

By entering this website, as indicated, you are already advised and have accepted that our company does not allow any collection agency/collector/financial institution or company to make calls to our telephone system (numbers and extensions) or to use our email addresses (neither our domain name) to collect, scare, target, harass, chase or corner our employees, contractors, executives, subcontractors, interns or any person linked to us through this website or through our business. We understand that these practices affect productivity and cause damage to our company. This means that our company is totally against abusive practices and that by using our website and therefore accepting our terms, conditions and privacy policies, if you violate this paragraph of our privacy policy we may take any legal action against your person (be it natural or juridical).

By using our website, accepting our terms, conditions and privacy policies (as we have indicated and insisted on this agreement between you and us) you are accepting that to specifically exercise the power of this clause of our Privacy Policy, we may omit any of the guarantees offered to you in our Privacy Policy agreement, as long as we know that you have violated this clause entitled “Protection Policy against abusive practices towards employees”. If you do not agree with this clause, simply do not use our website, do not use our telephone system, our domain names, email addresses, postal or physical addresses, official sites on social networks, applications or anything that is related with our company, associates, affiliates, executives, employees, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers or others.

PROTECTION CLAUSE AGAINST IMPRUDENT CONTACT TO OUR CLIENTS AND TORTIOUS INTERVENTIONS

You are advised to read our Terms and Conditions before using our website, applications, services, domain names, official sites of our company in social networks and others.

REFUND, EXCHANGE, RETURN POLICY

You are advised to read our Terms and Conditions section titled Payment for Services that explicitly contain your agreement with us about our refund, exchange and return policies. Remember, you are advised to read this before using our website, applications, services, domains names, official sites of our company in social networks, make a payment, accept a quotation and/or invoices.

NOTIFICATION OF NEW USES

On occasion, we may use personal information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this privacy policy. In such cases, we will notify you of the content and purposes of the change by email. If you do not oppose such change in writing (by email to [email protected]) within ten (10) days of the date of the email, the changes will be deemed accepted by you. Any data collection changes will be effective from then on. We will not retroactively collect data for new collection procedures.

By using our services, you agree that this Privacy Policy is an integral part of our Terms and Conditions Agreement and our Additional Terms and Conditions, and together it all constitutes a single agreement.

This policy became effective on February 1, 2021.

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