BeTechly Privacy Policy

BeTechly Privacy Policy – 2024

BeTechly is committed to honoring your communications preferences and provides a variety of ways for you to share your preferences.

This page discloses the privacy practices of BeTechly.

Our Privacy Policy and Permissions Management

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how we handle the personal information provided to us through participation in BeTechly events, surveys, and polls, as well as through use of our content on BeTechly.com or any other ways to engage that we may provide in the future. When you submit data to BeTechly, you are submitting data to us in the United States and that data is collected and maintained in, and subject to the laws of, the United States.

BeTechly uses contact data from multiple industry sources to build our database of business technology influencers and decision-makers. Our primary data providers are ZoomInfo and Outward Media. Visit their websites to learn more about their individual privacy policies and how to manage your permissions with them.

BeTechy engages contacts in a variety of roles and responsibilities and complies with local laws and regulations related to email and phone outreach, where applicable.

You can manage your communications preferences with BeTechly at any time using email, chat or phone. Email us at connections@betechly.com, use the chat on BeTechly.com or call 520-394-5288.

Simply contact our team to update your communications preferences, including topics of interest, and/or contact details, such as title or area of responsibility, as well as request to speak with an expert about your business technology needs at any time.

When you decide to participate in any BeTechly activity, we want you to be aware of our privacy policies:

• Except as described in this privacy policy, or in the rare instances required by law, we may share your personal information according to your indicated permissions, particularly if you request or agree to speak with an expert or otherwise be contacted by an expert or a specified 3rd party to receive more information.
• If you have agreed to be contacted or to speak with an expert or 3rd party, your contact information, including name, postal service address, phone number, and email address, as well as some or any information about your business technology needs, priorities and/or interests that we have in our system, will be shared with the assigned expert or 3rd party with which you're matched to speak.
• The BeTechly team will reach out to you regularly through multiple channels, including social media, email and phone, to provide content, information and access to data. We will never misrepresent ourselves or what we are doing when we contact you.

What Information Is Collected and Potentially Shared By BeTechly?

When you register as a member, participate in a survey or event, or download content or resources from BeTechly.com, we collect the following personal identifying information, some of which may already be in our systems, for you to verify.

• your name, email, title, direct phone number, company name, and postal address, as well as supplemental email address or phone number for rewards delivery.
• We use your name and email address to let you know about opportunities to participate in events, take surveys, or gain access to resources, including experts, and to provide you with new updates about BeTechly.com that may interest you, as well as to inform you about special benefits we are offering to selected professionals (such as special rewards and incentives).
• Generally, members are notified about events, surveys and other ways to gain access to BeTechly resources 2-4 times per month.
• Where appropriate, we will use your provided, verified postal service addresses to mail your selected reward(s) or alternative.
• Our team will reach out to engaged and selected contacts in our database to confirm details, such as rewards status, as well as to confirm their interest in various BeTechly resources, including events, surveys and client-hosted activities and events.
• BeTechly tracks engagement with our systems, including our website, using a variety of tools, including a unique identifier code assigned to each contact in our database.
• BeTechly.com also automatically collects information via log files to administer the site and to aid in technical problem solving. Log file information collected is IP address, time a page was viewed, name of pages viewed within the BeTechly.com site during the specific visit, browser type, URL parameters, and cookies that were set by the BeTechly.com website at the time of the visit. Log files may also include information indicating where a visitor came from.

We reserve the right to disclose information if required to do so by law or by a regulatory authority. We may also disclose your information as part of an investigation or enforcement action relating to improper or illegal conduct in connection with our Site, including, without limitation, any situations that may potentially involve threats to the safety or privacy of any person, misuse of the Site or violation of the Terms of Use.

BeTechly may maintain aggregate data or other non-personally identifiable information about our users, such as usage statistics, online traffic patterns and user feedback. In addition to using this information to support the operation of the Site, BeTechly may disclose this information to third parties without restriction.

This website has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Member names, postal service addresses, and phone numbers are maintained on a secured database accessible only by the technical staff BeTechly has appointed to manage it.

BeTechly users may also access their own information for the purposes of verifying and updating their information, including area of responsibility or contact details, but they cannot view other members' information. As with any Internet endeavor, absolute security of information transmitted through channels (communication networks, hardware, software) not directly operated or controlled by us cannot be guaranteed.

In the event we, or our affiliates, experience a merger, acquisition, sale or other transaction pursuant to which this website is acquired by a third party or another affiliate, your personal identifying information may be disclosed to the third party or affiliate both before and after the transaction, for the sole purpose of facilitating and effecting that transaction. In the event a transaction is consummated, you will be notified of the transaction via email and/or through a notice on our website, and custody of your personal identifying information will be transferred subject to all the terms and restrictions in this privacy policy.

Updating Your Personal Information:

BeTechly.com relies on users to provide any updates to personal identifying information. Members may update email addresses, password, postal service address, phone number, as well as all other identifying information (available to members only). Please ensure that you change your password regularly to optimize the security of your account. For changes to all personal identifying information, including email address, members are asked to login to their account at BeTechly.com.

Notification Of Changes:

If we are going to use your personal identifying information in a manner different from that stated in our privacy policy at the time of collection, we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether we use your information in this different manner; instructions for how to make that choice will be included in the email. If we make any material changes to our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our website notifying our members that there is a change and pointing them to the revised privacy page.

How to Reach Us:

Questions regarding this statement should be directed to privacy@BeTechly.com.