Privacy Policy

Our Privacy goal at THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT ART is to protect, collect and use personal information provided to us as if it is our own. We do not trade, sell or lease personal information entrusted to us. THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT ART values the trust people place in us when they give us personal information; this Global Privacy Policy describes how we work to maintain that trust.

We strive to be global and consistent in how we implement privacy. Our privacy policy applies to:

  1. All individuals who provide personal information, such as consumers, customers, research subjects, business partners, shareholders, job applicants, employees, retirees and others
  2. All locations where we operate, even where local regulations do not exist
  3. All methods of contact such the Internet, direct mail, telephone and mobile, and for emerging technologies and methods that might be tested

THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT ART’s Global Privacy represents all geographic regions where we do business and business processes where personal information is collected — such as consumer marketing, and employee benefits. THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT ART’s privacy policy and data protection practices extend by contract to our supplier and partner relationships.

THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT ART promotes industry best practices to ensure privacy concerns are addressed and that personal information is protected. We serve on the boards or committees of global and local privacy organizations, and actively engage on important privacy issues to address the privacy needs of those who have trusted or may trust their information to us.

Privacy is more than complying with country privacy laws — which we strive to do; it’s about doing the right thing for the millions of people whose lives we touch every day through the use of their personal information. Our Privacy Policy is built not just on individual country privacy laws but also on the internationally accepted privacy principles, or fair information practices, established by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the European Union Data Protection Directive, and the US Department of Commerce and the European Union Safe Harbor Privacy Principles. These principles and how THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT ART works to apply them are:

Benefits for individuals: THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT ART collects and uses personal information to provide world-class products and services of superior quality for our consumers, customers, employees and others. We limit the collection of personal information to what we need to know in order to achieve our goal of providing superior quality and value. For example, we use e-mail addresses to send consumers or shareholders or job applicants information they have requested. Consumer and employee feedback on products and services is used to improve our products and services.

Notice: We tell individuals what information we collect, how it is used, whether it may be temporarily transferred to others to provide the products or services requested and how to contact THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT ART with privacy inquiries.

Choice: We offer individuals who provide us information choices about receiving further communications from us; for example, our e-mail newsletters are sent only to those who have expressly asked to receive them, and the newsletters have a link to use to opt out of receiving future messages. We may ask individuals if they wish to participate in market research, and then contact them if they give us their permission. We do not contact individuals for marketing purposes if they have put their names on do not contact lists such as Direct Marketing Association, or Robinson lists in countries where these lists exist, or who have contacted THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT ART directly to opt out of our direct marketing programs.

Technology: THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT ART uses technology in order to better serve our consumers, customers, employees and others. We tell individuals when we use technologies that are privacy related; for example telephone caller ID to collect personal information. We do not use internet cookies to collect or store personal information. We actively promote best privacy practices and consumer benefit for emerging technologies that may have an effect on privacy, such as radio frequency identification tags used to manage product inventory.

Data Accuracy & Access: THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT ART takes steps to make sure that the personal information we use is correct. We provide individuals with reasonable access to the personal information they've provided us so that they can review and correct it, or ask us not to use it.

Security: THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT ART protects personal information under company control by industry standard security practices and measures, in order to prevent loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure or alteration. We limit access to personal information to those who have a business need. We do not keep personal information any longer than necessary to meet the business purpose for which it was collected, though in some cases, legal or regulatory reasons require that personal information not be deleted.

Children: THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT ART generally does not intend to collect information from children (those under the age of 13, or an age defined by a country law). We ask for a birth date on our Web sites before collecting personal information to make sure we do not collect information from children when we do not intend to. Where we do collect information from children, we comply with country children's privacy laws, and ask only for the minimum information necessary to participate in the program.

Accountability: THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT ART expects our employees and partners to maintain the trust placed in us by those who give us personal information. We provide privacy training to employees and highlight the importance of privacy in our worldwide business conduct program. Those who manage personal information complete privacy self assessments to make sure that personal information is secure and protected. We periodically audit privacy compliance. THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT ART privacy policies and data protection practices extend by contract to our supplier and partner relationships. We support industry self-regulation as a flexible means for keeping pace with emerging privacy issues.

Notification of Policy Changes: If major content changes are made to THE BOARD OF INVESTMENT ART’s Global Privacy Policy we will outline and post the changes along with the new version on this Web site.