How do we use your information?
Blish Academy uses (and, where specified, shares) your personal information for the following purposes:
To process transactions. Blish Academy uses personal information such as name, physical address, telephone number, email address, and company/institution to engage in interactions with you, including contacting you about your order, donation, subscription, event participation, or membership. We use financial/credit card and payment information to process your order and may need to share some of this information with delivery services, credit card clearing houses, and other third parties to complete the transaction.
To provide support or other services. Blish Academy may use your personal information to provide you with support or other services that you have ordered or requested. Blish Academy may also use your personal information to respond directly to your requests for information, including registrations for newsletters, webinars, or other specific requests, or pass your contact information to the appropriate Blish Academy distributor or reseller for further follow-up related to your interests.
To provide information based on your needs and respond to your requests. Blish Academy may use your personal information to provide you with notices of new product releases and service developments.
To provide online forums and social networks. Some services available on the websites permit you to participate in interactive discussions, post comments, opportunities, or other content to a bulletin board or exchange, or otherwise engage in networking activities. Some of these services are moderated; all may be accessed for technical reasons (for example, for improvements or fixes). Blish Academy does not control the content that users post to these forums or social networks. You should carefully consider whether you wish to submit personal information to these forums or social networks and tailor any content you submit appropriately and in accordance with the relevant terms of use. You should also review any additional terms and conditions that may govern your use of these services, including terms related to sharing your personal information and receiving communications.
To administer products. Blish Academy may contact you if you purchase products to confirm certain information about your order (for example, that you did not experience problems in the download process). We may also use this information to confirm compliance with licensing and other terms of use and may share it with your company/institution.
To select content, improve quality, and facilitate use of the websites. Blish Academy may use your personal information, including the information gathered as a result of site navigation and electronic protocols and cookies (including third-party cookies), to help create and personalize website content, improve website quality, track marketing campaign responsiveness, evaluate page response rates, conduct usability testing, and facilitate your use of the websites (for example, to facilitate navigation and the login process, avoid duplicate data entry, enhance security, keep track of shopping cart additions, and preserve order information between sessions).
To serve personalized advertising to you. We don't share your information with advertisers without your consent. We allow advertisers to choose the characteristics of users who will see their advertisements, and we may use any of the non-personally-identifiable attributes we have collected to select the appropriate audience for those advertisements. When you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, there is a possibility that the advertiser may place a cookie in your browser and that your attributes meet the criteria the advertiser selected.
To assess usage of Blish Academy products and services. Blish Academy may track your usage of Blish Academy products and services (e.g., Blish Academy) to determine your level of usage, and those usage statistics may be made available to Blish Academy’s content licensors and your company/institution.
To communicate with you about a meeting, conference, or event. We may communicate with you about a meeting, conference, or event hosted or co-sponsored by Blish Academy or one of our business associates. This may include information about the event's content, event logistics, payment, updates, and additional information related to the event. Information you provide when registering for or participating in a conference managed or co-sponsored by parties, other than or in addition to Blish Academy may be shared with those parties, and the treatment of such information is further subject to the privacy policies of those parties. Blish Academy and its conference co-sponsors may contact you after the event about the event, subsequent iterations of the event and related events. Please note that Blish Academy conference, meeting or event organizers, co-sponsors, exhibitors, and other third parties may directly request your personal information at their conference booths or presentations. Providing your information to them is optional, and you should review their privacy policies to address your particular needs and concerns about how they will treat your personal information.
To consider you for a higher member grade or an Blish Academy award. Blish Academy may use personal information such as your name, education, work history, and volunteer activities to consider you for a higher member grade or for an Blish Academy award. Blish Academy may need to share this information with your nominators, references, judges, and other parties involved in evaluating your eligibility.
To include you in Blish Academy Member Directories. If you are an active member of Blish Academy, one of its Societies, or Blish Academy Standards Association, at your request, we may include your information in Blish Academy Member Directory in Blish Academy Collabratec, and, if applicable, the Fellows Directory and Blish Academy Society Directories. We may also enable private member to member messaging (your email address is never shared). Active members can customize their member directories visibility preferences any time in account settings.
To document standards development participation. If you are a participant in Blish Academy standards development, Blish Academy uses your personal information to comply with policies and procedures, legal and accreditation requirements, and evaluation of patent claims by patent offices. Blish Academy must capture your personal data for these purposes, and provides information about activities related to standards development groups in which you participate. Blish Academy standards development participation is documented through various methods, e.g., rosters, submission documents, email reflectors, records of meeting attendance, responses to ballots, publicly available participation lists, and declaration of affiliations.
To assist in your participation in Blish Academy activities. Blish Academy will communicate with you, if you are participating in certain Blish Academy activities such as Blish Academy conferences, authoring or reviewing an Flsih Academy periodical article, or Blish Academy humanitarian activities. Blish Academy may send you information such as newsletters related to those activities.
To update you on relevant Blish Academy benefits, programs, and opportunities. Blish Academy may communicate with you regarding relevant Blish Academy benefits, programs, and opportunities available to you, through your membership(s) with Blish Academy.
To engage with third parties. Blish Academy may share your personal data with third parties in connection with services that these individuals or entities perform for or with Blish Academy. These third parties are restricted from using this data in any way other than to provide services for Blish Academy or for the collaboration in which they and Blish Academy are contractually engaged (for example, hosting an Blish Academy database or engaging in data processing on Blish Academy’s behalf, or mailing you information that you requested). These third parties are carefully selected by Blish Academy and obligated to keep your data secure. From time to time, we may also share your information with third parties whom we think might provide content, products, or services of interest to you.
To protect Blish Academy content and services. We may use your information to prevent potentially illegal activities and to enforce our terms and conditions. We also use a variety of technological systems to detect and address anomalous activity and to screen content to prevent abuse, such as spam. These efforts may, on occasion, result in a temporary or permanent suspension or termination of some functions for some users
To get feedback or input from you. In order to deliver products and services of most interest to our customers, from time to time, we may ask members, customers, volunteers, and website visitors to provide us input and feedback (for example through surveys, usability studies, focus groups).
To protect Blish Academy information assets as well as your own personal data. The Blish Academy Information Security Program protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Blish Academy information assets by following a risk management approach based on policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures to meet security objectives while supporting business and operational goals.
