Privacy Policy

Your Data and Privacy Rights: We Will Not Sell or Share Your Information

BrightBee is committed to protecting your privacy. We have prepared this privacy section to describe to you our practices regarding the data we collect from users.

Note that BrightBee does not sell your data, is not in the business of collecting data, and does not share your data with any third party except as necessary to facilitate our core business transactions servicing Schools and Worker teaching professionals. The Platform & Services, including some of our third-party providers, store Cookies on your computer browser in order to facilitate our services to you. You may request access to, or deletion of, your data by making a request in writing, to info@brightbee.org. BrightBee will then comply with your request, to the degree reasonably practical, within 30 days. See also Term & Termination above, which also provides a means for you to suspend your account, as opposed to deleting your account and all its associated data.

BrightBee uses cookies on this website to collect information, but only uses this information for internal purposes– we do not share or sell this information. Once you sign up for account as a (prospective) Worker, we do explicitly ask for personal information necessary for your teaching engagements (such as name and address) and share such information with third parties (such as schools) only as necessary for you to carry out teaching engagements. During such process we will provide channels on how to correct or delete such information as requested and appropriate.

BrightBee makes every effort to comply with various laws concerning data privacy, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), sometimes even when not actually required.

Types of Data We Collect. “Personal Data” means data that allows someone to identify or contact you, including, for example, your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, as well as any other non-public information about you that is associated with or linked to any of the foregoing data. “Anonymous Data” means data that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Data; Anonymous Data does not, by itself, permit the identification of individual persons. We collect Personal Data and Anonymous Data as described.

Note about Children. We explicitly forbid accounts for anyone under 18 and do not intentionally gather Personal Data from visitors who are under the age of 18. If a child under 18 submits Personal Data we will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible. If you believe that we might have any Personal Data from a child under 13, please contact us.

A Note to Users Outside of the United States. If you are a non-U.S. user of the Site, by visiting the Site and providing us with data, you acknowledge and agree that your Personal Data may be processed for the purposes identified in the Privacy Policy. In addition, your Personal Data may be processed in the country in which it was collected and in other countries, including the United States, where laws regarding processing of Personal Data may be less stringent than the laws in your country. By providing your data, you consent to such transfer to the extent allowable by law. We do not anticipate working with any entities or individuals residing in the European Union, but if you are such an entity or individual, please contact us so that we may make sure your information is treated in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, although we have no reason to believe that your data is not treated in compliance with this regulation.

Information You Deliberately Provide To Us. We may collect Personal Data from you, such as your first and last name, e-mail and mailing addresses, professional title, and company name when you create an account to log in. If you use our Platform & Services on your mobile device, we may collect your phone number and the unique device id number. Certain services may require our collection of your phone number. We may associate that phone number to your mobile device identification information. If you provide us feedback or contact us via e-mail, we will collect your name and e-mail address, as well as any other content included in the e-mail, in order to send you a reply. When you post content (text, images, photographs, messages, comments or any other kind of content that is not your e-mail address), the information contained in your posting will be stored in our servers and other users will be able to see it, along with your profile photo and any other information that you choose to make public on your public profile page (“Profile”). The information that you provide in your Profile will be visible to others.

Certain portions of the information you provide to us may also be displayed in your Profile. Some of the Personal Data you explicitly provide to us when you register or update your Profile is displayed on your Profile. By default, your Profile is public to other users of the Platform & Services. Content you post is also meant for public consumption with respect to other users.

For Workers, we may display some of your Profile content and further distribute it to a wider audience through third-party sites and services in order to increase your opportunities. We will explicitly ask for your permission to do this before doing so. We will make reasonable efforts to have your data treated in a similar manner to how BrightBee treats it in terms of security privacy, but cannot explicitly control the policies or actions of such third parties or directly change or delete such information.

General Use of Personal Data. In general, Personal Data you submit to us is used either to respond to requests that you make, or to aid us in serving you better. We use your Personal Data in the following ways:

-facilitate the creation of and secure your Account on our network;

-identify you as a user in our system;

-provide improved administration of our Site and Services;

-provide the Services you request;

-improve the quality of experience when you interact with our Site and Services;

-send you a welcome e-mail or text to verify ownership of the e-mail address or phone number provided when your Account was created;

-send you notifications via e-mail or text about request details and new requests from Schools;

-send you administrative e-mail notifications, such as security, or support and maintenance advisories;

-respond to your inquiries related to employment opportunities or other requests;

-make telephone calls to you, from time to time to solicit your feedback; and

-send newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials related to our Services and your work with the Company.

Creation of Anonymous Data. We may create Anonymous Data records from Personal Data by excluding information (such as your name) that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We use this Anonymous Data to analyze request and usage patterns so that we may enhance our content and improve website navigation. We reserve the right to use Anonymous Data for any purpose and disclose Anonymous Data to third parties in our sole discretion.

Information Collected via our technology.

Information Collected by Our Servers. To make our Site and Services more useful to you, our servers (which may be hosted by a third-party service provider) collect information from you, including your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address (a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet, which may vary from session to session), domain name, and/or a date/time stamp for your visit.

Log Files. As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes IP addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (“ISP”), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users’ movements around the Site, gather demographic information about our user base as a whole, and better tailor our Services to our users’ needs. For example, some of the information may be collected so that when you visit the Site or the Services again, it will recognize you and the information could then be used to serve advertisements and other information appropriate to your interests. Except as noted in this Privacy Section, we do not link this automatically-collected data to Personal Data.

Cookies. Like many online services, we use cookies to collect information. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing the website. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Site. This type of information is collected to make the Site more useful to you and to tailor the experience with us to meet your special interests and needs.

Managing Cookies. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to accept Cookies from our Services for any of the purposes described above, then you can instruct your browser, by changing its settings, to stop accepting Cookies or to prompt you before accepting a Cookie from the websites you visit. Consult your browser’s technical information. If you do not accept Cookies, however, you may not be able to use all portions of the Platform & Services or all functionality.

Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to help analyze how users use the Site. Google Analytics uses Cookies to collect information such as how often users visit the Site, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to the Site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve our Site and Services. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit the Site, rather than your name or other personally identifying information. We do not combine the information generated through the use of Google Analytics with your Personal Data. Although Google Analytics plants a persistent Cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit the Site, the Cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.

Information Collected from You About Others. If you decide to invite a third party to create an Account, we will collect your and the third-party’s names and e-mail addresses in order to send an e-mail and follow up with the third party. We rely upon you to obtain whatever consents from the third party that may be required by law to allow us to access and upload the third-party’s names and e-mail addresses as required above. You or the third party may contact us at info@brightbee.org to request the removal of this information from our database.

Information Collected from Third-Party Companies. We may receive Personal and/or Anonymous Data about you from other sources, such as verification information and results from background checks from LiveScan or other third parties. We may add this information to the information we have already collected from you via our Site in order to improve the Services we provide.

Information That We Do Share. We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual without restriction. In addition, we may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide:

-to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it, for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information, or with your consent;

-to other users of the Site for the purposes of displaying information in your Profile and your feedback regarding Schools and Workers;

-to third parties designated by you;

-with our subsidiaries and affiliates;

-with contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business;

-with respect to Worker’s applications and the results of Worker’s background checks, to the School(s) for which such application or background check was requested;

-to a buyer or other successor of BrightBee in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about users is among the assets transferred; and

-to comply with any court order, law or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request; to enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us; and/or if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of BrightBee, our customers or others.

-In no instance do we share mobile information (phone numbers) with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes.

Third-Party Websites. We may link to third-party websites. When you click on a link to any other website or location, you will leave our website and go to another website, and another entity may collect Personal Data or Anonymous Data from you. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to these outside websites or content, or to any collection of your Personal Data after you click on links to such outside websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of every website you visit. The links to third-party websites or locations are for your convenience and do not signify our endorsement of such third parties or their products, content or websites.

How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals. We do not currently respond to “do not track” signals or other mechanisms that might enable consumers to opt out of tracking on our Site.