Bermuda Credit Association Ltd. (“BCA”) is concerned about the privacy of visitors to the www.bca.bm website
(the “Website”) and the confidentiality of their information shared with BCA through the Website.
BCA will use reasonable efforts to ensure that the information you provide remains private, and is used
only for the purposes stated below.
Collected Information
Personal Information: BCA may ask users to provide Personal Information, meaning individually identifiable
information such as user’s email address, name, mailing address, telephone number, or other information
associated with individually identifiable information through the Website when you register for a user
account to access the Website, and when you contact BCA. We may also collect publicly available information
about users from other sources, such as information from newspapers, blogs, and commercial websites.
Automated Information: BCA collects information about the users of the Website in order to assist in
determining which parts of the website visitors find most valuable. This allows the Website to continually
improve the services it provides. For example, the Website may track the URL that you visited before you
came to the Website, the URL to which you next go, and your IP addresses. BCA uses your IP address to help
diagnose problems with the Website servers and to administer the Website.
Maintenance and Security of Personal Information
The Personal Information collected through the Website is maintained in a manner consistent with current
industry standards. Your Personal Information is protected in several ways.
Your Personal Information resides on servers that are protected by physical and electronic safeguards.
Certain payment information and other Personal Information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology
(SSL) to prevent unauthorized parties from viewing such information when it is transmitted to us.
Security Measures
The Website has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under
BCA’s control. However, you should keep in mind that this Website is run on software, hardware, and networks,
any component of which may, from time to time, require maintenance, experience problems or breaches of security.
Disclosure of Information
The Website primarily collects information in connection with BCA’s services and policies (collectively,
“BCA’s Services”). In connection with BCA’s Services, BCA may make available information collected for use
by local counsel retained by BCA, and other vendors who provide services and products relating to BCA’s Services. BCA does not rent, sell or otherwise disclose Personal Information to third parties not related to BCA’s Services.
Except as described above, it is BCA’s general policy not to share any of the information collected on the
Website with any third parties without User’s consent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, BCA will divulge any
information collected from Users on the Website if required to do so by law. In addition, in the event that
BCA’s assets are assigned, User’s information will be one of the transferred assets. If you have specific
requests concerning BCA’s Disclosure of Information practices, you may email sal@bca.bm informing BCA of your
requests.
Correspondence
If you correspond with BCA via e-mail, the postal service, or other form of communication, BCA may retain
such correspondence and the information contained therein and use such to respond to your inquiry and notify
you of other information concerning BCA’s Services. BCA does not release E-mail and postal address information
to third parties except as set forth in the Disclosure of Information section. If you do not wish to receive
correspondence from BCA or have specific contact preferences, you may express your preferences by emailing
sal@bca.bm informing BCA of your preferences.
Cookies
Cookies are files that contain information created by a web server that can be stored on a User's hard disk for
use either during a particular session ("per-session" cookie) or for future use ("persistent" cookie).
BCA uses cookies only to track session status. Cookies are not used to disseminate significant information
about Users over the Internet or to analyze any information that Users have knowingly or unknowingly provided.
Users may instruct their Internet browsers to opt out of accepting cookies.
Links to Other Websites
This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information BCA collects from you. Although you may
link to other sites or third parties via the Website, BCA is not responsible for the privacy practices of third
parties or the content of linked sites.
Privacy Policy Updates
BCA will occasionally update this Privacy Policy. Any changes to BCA’s Privacy Policy will be posted here so
that users will know what information BCA gathers, how BCA might use that information, and whether BCA will
disclose it to anyone. BCA encourages you to periodically review this page for the latest information on BCA’s
privacy practices.
Questions
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Website, or your dealings with this
Website, you can contact us by email at sal@bca.bm.
Effective Date: July 2016