Privacy Policy

Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (BSRC) Privacy Policy

Updated April 7, 2025

Introduction

At Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (BSRC), we value your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, store, and share your data when you interact with us. How we collect and use data will depend on your interactions with our site and services: whether you are interacting with us online or in person, as a client, a donor, or merely as a member of the public. By continuing to use our website, you consent to the practices outlined in this policy.

1. Information We Collect

We collect information that you provide to us via our website or from our interactions with you in person and automatically collect information when you visit our website.

a. Personal Information You Provide

This includes information that you voluntarily share with us. This may occur through online forms, newsletter signups, scheduling an appointment, intake process, emails, donations, and event registration. BSRC uses the following types of information to provide you with services or refer you to a partner organization:

• Contact Information: This typically includes your name, e-mail and postal address, your telephone number, and any other information you choose to include when you interact with us, such as when you sign up for our newsletter, donate, or request information. 
• Transactional Information: When you make a donation or purchase, we may receive your name, amount donated, donation dedication, and billing address, as applicable.
• Event Registration: When you sign up for our events, we collect information relevant to your participation. As described above, this may include your contact and donation information, as well as details such as your sponsorship tier, guest names, and t-shirt size, or details about your room reservation when you host an event with us.
• Service Information: When you register for our services, we collect information to schedule your appointment with our Program Staff. This information may include contact information, demographics, primary language, your preferred meeting location, and your communication preferences.
• Other Information You Provide: If, in the course of our communications, you provide information as attachments, we will use that information, as applicable, in processing your case. Examples include but are not limited to a copy of your resume, for our job training.

Some of the personal information you provide to us may be sensitive, particularly if you are seeking services from us. Such sensitive information might include your citizenship status, employment history, or financial information.

b. Automatically Collected Information

Through our website, we receive and record data that your internet browser typically makes available. This data allows us to serve you and improve our services. 

• Device Information: This includes your IP address and details about the device that you use to access our website, such as hardware model, browser type and version, operating system, and browser plugins. 
• Site Activity: This includes pages you visit on our site, time spent, click-through rates, and the resources that you use on our website.
• Cookies and Similar Technologies: A cookie is a small file placed on your device, used to identify your browser as you use a network, and allows us to know information about your use of the website, including the specific pages visited and the length of time spent on each page. You may refuse to accept cookies or delete existing cookies by adjusting the appropriate setting on your browser at any time. 

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information collected to:

• Communicate with You: When you email us, request an appointment, or otherwise communicate with us, we use your message and contact information to respond to you. We may forward your message internally, along with the associated contact information to the appropriate BRSC employee or volunteer so that we may respond to your inquiry, set up an appointment, or follow up on earlier communications.
• Keep You Informed: When you sign up for our newsletter, donate, or sign up for an event, we will use the contact information you provide to let you know about other BRSC news, events, fundraising campaigns, and other activities. 
• Keep Others Informed: We may use your data in an aggregated form, meaning it will be stripped of information identifiable to you, and used to report on our activities and the efficacy of our programs. For example, we may use your zip code to analyze which zip codes have the highest engagement with our services.
• Schedule and Facilitate Appointments: When you sign up for an appointment, we will collect your contact information and service information as stated above. We will use this information to schedule your meeting with our Program Staff, identify your needs, and provide services in your preferred language to the extent possible. 
• Offer and Improve Our Website: We use cookies and other automatically collected information, such as IP and browser details, to present our website to you correctly. If you elect to enable cookies, we may use that information to improve our site design based on how our users navigate and use our website.
• Meet Legal Requirements: As necessary, we may use information provided voluntarily and automatically to comply with legal requirements, defend against legal claims or demands, exercise our legal rights, safeguard the security of our website and data, and protect our rights and the rights of others. This may include provisioning such data to cooperate with law enforcement or in document production for legal discovery.
• Meet Contractual Requirements: We collect and utilize data on demographics served, program reach, and impact metrics to demonstrate the effectiveness of our work and identify potential service gaps and funding opportunities. This data is used to: support funding requests by demonstrating program impact, update funders and the community on program activities and outcomes and communicate how the data collected contributes to the advancement of the organization’s mission and goals.

3. How We Share Your Information

We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share your information under the following circumstances:

• Service Providers: We may share information with trusted third-party vendors who assist in website operations, payment processing, IT services, event management, and communications. We require these vendors to maintain confidentiality and integrity. 
• Payment Processors: We use trusted payment processors to handle your transactional data when you make a purchase or donate to us. 
• Referral Partners: Personal information is used exclusively to identify suitable referral partners within our trusted community network, ensuring you receive the most relevant support available.
• Interns and Volunteers: Our interns and volunteers sometimes have access to personal information in the course of their volunteering, including but not limited to postal addresses (for sending letters), names for donation solicitation.
• Provide When Required by Law: We may disclose information as required by law, regulation, or legal process.