This Privacy Policy applies to the website(s) and mobile applications (together, the “Sites”) provided by BP&S Strategy Consulting Inc., a company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and/or the other companies of the group (“BP&S”, “we”, “us”) who act as data controllers[1] with respect to the personal data you share with BP&S under this Policy.
The Sites include www.bpst.me and additional websites or mobile applications produced and managed by BP&S.
BP&S knows that your privacy is important to you and takes user privacy very seriously. We are committed to protecting your personal data (i.e. any information you provide to us from which you can be identified) in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
BP&S reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to alter and update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We therefore invite you to review the current version of the Privacy Policy each time you return to our Sites.
Some terms are defined throughout this Policy. Simply click on the terms in bold to obtain their definition or refer to the definitions at the bottom of this Policy.
BP&S might collect personal data from you such as your name, contact details, occupation, company or university affiliation, industry, region/country, relationship to BP&S, reason for contacting BP&S, topics you are interested in and any other information you choose to share. By browsing our Sites or sending us information, you explicitly consent to BP&S processing your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. BP&S might use your personal data to fulfil your request, send you marketing communications, process your job application or manage your Beyond BP&S membership.
BP&S may collect personal data and may disclose such information to third party service providers in aggregate for marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to personally identify you.
If you register as a member on Beyond BP&S, your data will be processed for purposes including conducting alumni-specific mailings and surveys as well as maintaining and sharing marketing and career development contacts. Your data might also be visible to other Beyond BP&S members.
You do not have to provide us with any personal data. However, if you do not, we may be unable to handle your request or to provide you with the services you are requesting.
BP&S will keep your personal data for as long as needed to handle your request or for as long as we have a relationship with you. If you have applied for a role with BP&S, BP&S will keep your personal data associated with your application for a period of up to five years.
Please note that BP&S is not responsible for any information you may disclose publicly in any chat rooms, message boards, or similar web pages, including those hosted on or linked to our Sites. You should keep in mind that, whenever you publicly disclose information about yourself online (for example, via message boards or chat rooms), such information could be collected and used by people whom you do not know. In addition, certain message boards and similar user forums may display IP addresses along with the message poster’s name and message. BP&S bears no responsibility for any action or policies of any third parties who collect any information users may disclose on the message boards, chat areas or other user forums, if any, on the Sites
We may use cookies or other technology (“cookies”) to obtain certain types of information when you browse our Sites. You can find information about what data is collected and how it is used in our Cookie Policy.
Please note that the use of cookies on BeyondBP&S is governed by a separate Cookie Policy, which you can review here.
We may share your personal data with others, such as:
- other offices in the BP&S group – for a complete list of our offices, please refer to the Offices page of the bpst.me website;
- carefully selected third party service providers, such as marketing service providers (if you have subscribed to our marketing communications), IT systems providers, recruitment service providers, background check providers, data cleansing providers or event organizers, so they can provide services to BP&S;
- our advisors;
- other alumni members if you have chosen to take part in the Alumni network; and
- law enforcement authorities or other government bodies when we are required to do so.
Third parties, other than law enforcement authorities or government bodies, will only handle your personal data on behalf of BP&S for the purposes described in this Policy. BP&S will not sell or otherwise share your personal data with such third parties for their own use.
The companies of the BP&S group and other third parties we share your information with may be located in other countries, including countries that do not offer the same protection to your personal data as the country in which you reside. Where that is the case, BP&S ensures that your personal data is protected by using appropriate legal mechanisms. If you reside in the European Union, such mechanisms include using contracts or wording approved by the European Commission (called “Standard Contractual Clauses”).
Our Sites may contain links to third party websites that are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. BP&S does not bear any liability and responsibility for the content or your use of these websites.
The Sites may contain links to third party websites, including social network sites. Such websites are governed by their own terms of use and privacy policies, which you should review before browsing or submitting information to them. BP&S is not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites. In addition, a link to a third party website does not mean that BP&S endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content or the use of such website. BP&S shall not bear any liability and responsibility for such content or for your use of these websites.
BP&S has implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures in order to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction.
BP&S has implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures in order to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Such measures include anonymizing or pseudonymizing data where possible. Authorized BP&S personnel and third parties mentioned above will only have access to your personal data to the extent they need it to do their job or provide their services. Despite these precautions, however, BP&S cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your information.
Depending on where you reside you might have the right to request access to, rectification or erasure of your personal data and to object to or ask for the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You might also have the right to withdraw your consent and request that we stop processing or delete your personal data.
To exercise your rights, please submit your request using our data subject request form.
Depending on where you reside, you may be entitled to certain rights regarding the personal data BP&S holds about you. For instance, you may have the right to request access to your information, obtain a copy of it as well as information about how we use it. You have the right to request that we correct incorrect, inaccurate or out-of-date information about you. You may also have the right to request that we stop processing your information and/or withdraw your consent to such processing and to ask us to delete your information.
In the event that BP&S holds personal data about you and you no longer wish for this data to be processed as described in this Policy, or if you wish to access, rectify, cancel or oppose such processing, please submit your request using our data subject request form.
If you receive marketing communications from BP&S, you can opt out of receiving future emails from BP&S or unsubscribe from participating in our programs through the “preferences” page, which is accessible in every marketing email you receive from BP&S. You can also submit an opt-out request by using our data subject request form.
If you think we are handling your information unlawfully, we encourage you to get in touch with us using our data subject request form. You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority.
Please note that we will take reasonable steps to check your identity before handling your request.
If you apply for a job at BP&S, you will be asked to submit information to BP&S such as your name, contact details, information about your education and work history and any other background information that might be relevant for your application or that you choose to share with BP&S. If you do not provide this information to us, we might not be able to process your application.
BP&S will use this information to assess your application and candidacy for the position to which you have applied. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this may include: (i) evaluating your skills and experience in relation to the qualification required for the job to which you have applied; and (ii) tracking feedback and interactions we have with you throughout the recruiting process. We may also use your information when analyzing our internal recruiting processes to determine (i) which recruit sources to focus on; (ii) how to improve integration and training programs for new hires with different educational backgrounds and work experience; and (iii) how to enhance our interview model to improve hiring quality. The information you provide may also be used to communicate with you about BP&S events and to send you publications that we think may be of interest to you.
We might share your personal data with other companies in the BP&S group as well as with third parties such as recruitment service providers, background check providers and IT system providers. These BP&S companies and third parties might be located in a different country than your country of residence. In particular, if you apply for a consulting role, your data will be stored in a third party database hosted in the Netherlands.
We will keep your application data for up to five years. If you no longer wish for BP&S to process your data or if you wish to exercise your rights, please complete data subject request form.
If you access the Be BP&S platform, BP&S’s online alumni community, BP&S will collect information about you such as your name, email, home address, previous positions, job title, company you work for, business address and any other information you choose to share on Be BP&S. To the extent that BP&S already has information relevant to the creation of your Alumni profile, that information may be automatically added to your profile. However, this information will not be shared with other Be BP&S members until you have confirmed your membership. If you already were an alumni member before the launch of Be BP&S, your information will be shared in accordance to the privacy settings you had set on the previous alumni platform.
You can update and amend your data at any time by logging in to Be BP&S and clicking on your profile. Please make sure your information is accurate and that you keep it up to date.
Your data will be processed for purposes including managing the Be BP&S platform, populating the Be BP&S Directory, communicating BP&S updates and events, conducting periodic alumni surveys as well as maintaining and sharing marketing and career development contacts.
We might share your data with other companies of the BP&S group and carefully selected third party service providers, including PeoplePath, Inc., which hosts and supports Be BP&S in USA and Salesforce, Inc., which hosts our Customer Relationship Management database in USA .
Some of your information, including event registration, will also be visible to other Be BP&S community members although you can choose to make some information private. Please do not post or add information to your profile or elsewhere on Be BP&S that you would not want to be available to other members.
When you register and set up your profile, your name and the other basic information you provide will be placed in the Directory. Unless you make a different selection using your profile visibility settings, your name, profile picture, current and past professional data, degrees, and social media links will be accessible to other members via your short profile. The rest of your profile information will not be shared with other members unless you update your profile visibility settings within the profile privacy settings. Once you change your visibility settings, all the information in your profile that you opt to share with registered members will be accessible to other Be BP&S members. You can manage your privacy settings at any time in your profile by clicking on your profile picture and selecting “Privacy”.
Be BP&S uses cookies, which may collect personal data. For more information about how BP&S uses cookies on Be BP&S and how to manage your cookie settings, please read Be BP&S’s Cookie Policy.
Please note that Be BP&S includes Google Maps features and content, which use is subject to the current version of Google’s Privacy Policy.
If you no longer wish to be a member of Be BP&S, you can request the deletion of your profile by clicking on“Reject data privacy terms and deactivate profile” on Settings within the Be BP&S platform or submitting your request by completing the data subject request form. For more information about your privacy rights and how to exercise them, please refer to the “Your Rights” section below.
Our Sites are not directed at children 16 years of age or younger. BP&S, therefore, will not intentionally collect information about anyone under the age of 16, and requests that no such information be submitted to us.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how BP&S handles your personal data, please complete the data subject request form.
You can also contact BP&S’s Global Data Protection Officer:
Email: DataPrivacy@bpst.me
Post: Data Protection Officer, Legal Department, BP&S Strategy Consulting, Inc. 800 Boylston St. Boston MA 02199. USA
Definitions
The data controller is the person or company that, together or jointly with others, determines the purposes (why) and means (how) of the processing of personal data.
Personal data is any information that relates to an individual who is identified or identifiable, for instance by reference to a name, an identification number or an online identifier.
Standard Contractual Clauses are an agreement that can be entered into by companies for transfers of personal data outside of the European Union. They are a mechanism approved by the European Commission to ensure adequate safeguards to personal data when it is transferred outside of the European Union.
Anonymizing means transforming data in such a way that it is no longer identifiable, i.e. the data can no longer be linked to an individual, even if combined with other information. Anonymous data is not considered “personal data”.
Pseudonymizing means transforming data in such a way that it is no longer identifiable without the use of additional information. Pseudonymous data is still considered “personal data”.