Privacy Policy

BAC is committed to respecting and protecting the privacy and security rights of users and the personal information you share with us on the bacgrading.com website or any connected platform. BAC is committed to protecting your privacy and preserving your trust in us as you visit and use the Website. This Privacy Policy explains what we do with your information and what you can expect from us.

BAC data collection and retention practices are designed to provide transparency, accountability and choice regarding the management and use of your personal information. If you have questions or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy or practices, please contact us via e-mail at info@bacgrading or call us at 520-635-5640.
This Privacy Policy is only applicable to this website and not to any websites of third parties, which may have data collection, storage and use practices and policies that differ from this Privacy Policy. You should consult privacy policies for all other sites, as we have no control over information submitted to or collected by such third parties.

BY USING THE WEBSITE, YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND OR DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY LEAVE THE WEBSITE.

We need to process your personal information to run our business and provide you with the products and services. By accepting our Terms and Conditions of Use, you are confirming that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy including how and why we use your information. If you do not want us to collect or process your personal information in the ways described in this policy, you should not use this Website.

A. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
BAC collects some information that is personal (i.e., information that identifies an individual either alone or in combination with other data). BAC also collects non-personal information that does not, on its own, identify an individual person. When non-personal information is combined with other information so that it does identify an individual person, we treat that combination as personally identifiable information (PII).
BAC collects personal information when you provide it to us. The following are examples of the types of personal information that may be collected, directly from you:

o Name
o City, state and zip code
o Email address
o Telephone number
o Company name and EIN
o Payment information (credit card number)
o Shipping, billing and other information provided in connection with the any BAC transaction
o Information about transactions with BAC, such as purchase history
o Any correspondence sent to us
In providing BAC with your personal information, you agree to the transfer and storage of such information on our servers.

Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to fulfill any orders placed through BAC and to provide you with a customized experience.
We will use this information to:

o Collect and process payments and complete transactions
o Provide the products, services and customer support you request
o Resolve disputes
o Troubleshoot problems
o Prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities
o Enforce our Terms and Conditions of Use
o Customize, measure and improve our services and content
o In line with your preferences, provide and inform you about our products, services, updates and promotional and special offers
o Provide to you newsletters
o Help us prevent fraud and minimize credit risks
o Respond to your inquiries

BAC may collect additional personal information as required by United States law, regulations, or administrative guidance. Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy, BAC will maintain an email database, in-house, and will never sell your data or otherwise make it available for unaffiliated third-party marketing purposes. Further, we will not otherwise disclose your personal information to law enforcement, other government officials, or other third parties without a subpoena, court order or substantially similar legal procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss, to report suspected illegal activity, or as required by law.

BAC may disclose personal information to those who help it provide products and services, including those who perform technical, administrative and data processing tasks, such as hosting, fulfillment, and data storage and security. These service providers are prohibited from using this personal information for any other purpose.

B. NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
The following are examples of the type of information that may be collected by BAC from your web browser:

o Details about your computer, device, application and network (including IP address, browser characteristics, device ID and characteristics, device operating system information and system language preferences)
o Activities on our Website and usage patterns
o Referring URLs, dates and times of website visits, and clickstream data such as information commonly recorded in web server logs
o Details about Internet or network usage (such as the URLs or domain names of websites you visit, information about applications that attempt to access your network, or traffic data)
o Data about files and communications, such as potential malware or spam

C. COOKIES
BAC uses so-called “Cookies,” which are files that are stored on your computer that can be retrieved to assist in customizing your experience with our website. A “Cookie” is a string of information that a website stores on a user’s computer, and that the user’s browser provides to the website each time the user submits a query to the website. The purpose of a “Cookie” is to support the functionality of the website, for example by keeping track of your visual preferences or controlling the frequency of “pop-up” windows, and identify the user as a unique user of the website.
BAC may use “Cookies” to customize Your experience on the website to your interests, to ensure that you do not repeatedly see content or informational messages that may be of no interest to you, and to store your password so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit the website. If you want to disable “Cookies”, there is a simple procedure in most Internet browsers that allows you to turn-off “Cookies.” Please remember, however, that “Cookies” may be required to allow you to use certain features of the website.

We use the following types of Cookies:

o Strictly necessary Cookies. These are required for the operation of our Website, for example, to enable you to log into secure areas of the Website.
o Analytical Cookies. These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it.
o Functionality Cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our Website, which allows us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences.
o Targeting or retargeting Cookies. These record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. We use third party Cookies to analyze use of the Website and improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that customers are finding what they are looking for easily.

IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO HAVE “COOKIES” PLACED ON YOUR COMPUTER, YOU SHOULD ADJUST THE CORRESPONDING SETTING IN YOUR BROWSER TO REFUSE “COOKIES” BEFORE ACCESSING THE WEBSITE, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT CERTAIN OF THE SERVICES AND CERTAIN FEATURES OF THE WEBSITE MAY NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY WITHOUT THE AID OF “COOKIES.” IF YOU REFUSE “COOKIES,” YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY RESULTING LOSS OF FUNCTIONALITY.

D. EMAIL AND PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS
By making a purchase or registering to receive the BAC Newsletter, you consent to receive periodic commercial/promotional email communications from us. You may opt-out of receiving such promotional communications at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions contained in each email, or by contacting us.

E. SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
BAC transmits information via the highest industry standard secure server (SSL). This SSL creates the secure and encrypted https:// website address for our important. When you see the https:// website address, you know the information you are in-putting is protected and secure.

We comply with payment card industry data security standards that require merchants to implement security measures for credit card information. Your credit card's security code is never stored in our database. BAC is a verified and authorized payment gateway merchant, signifying the highest level of credit card transaction processing security, customer information safeguards and fraud prevention.

We have implemented and maintain generally accepted industry standards to protect against the unauthorized access, use, modification, destruction or disclosure of your personal information both during transmission and once we receive it. The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information during the registration process, we encrypt that information using state-of-the-art technology. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

BAC assures you that we will use your personal information only for the purposes stated in the Terms and Conditions of Use and this Privacy Policy. We will not otherwise rent or sell your personal information to unaffiliated third parties, and we will prevent your email address from being recorded by “web crawlers” or “web spiders” to the best of our ability. If you believe that your email address has been recorded in this way, please let us know immediately.

BAC will keep your personal information for as long as you are a purchaser of our products and, thereafter, for no longer than is reasonably necessary for internal reporting and reconciliation purposes pursuant to legal requirements and to provide you with any feedback or information you might request or require. When you place an order through the Website, we will maintain your personal information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

If you have any questions about security on our website, you can email us at info@bacgrading.com.

F. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
BAC’s Website may include links to other third-party websites whose privacy practices may differ from those of ours. If you submit personal information to a third-party website, your personal information will be solely governed by their privacy practices. BAC encourages you to carefully read the privacy statement of any third-party website you visit.

G. ABILITY TO ACCESS, UPDATE AND CORRECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
BAC wants your personal information to be complete and accurate. By using the Website, you represent and warrant that all information you provide on any registration form or otherwise in connection with your use of the website will be complete and accurate. To confirm the completeness and accuracy of, or make changes to, your personal information, please contact us.

H. UPDATES AND CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
BAC may update this Privacy Policy at any time by posting additions or modifications on the website. If at any point we decide to use personal information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by email or via a prominent notice on our Website, and where necessary we will seek the prior consent of our users.
If we contact you for marketing purposes, we will endeavor to do so only in accord with your preferences. You may request that we stop these emails by contacting us at info@bacgrading.com.

I. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
BAC complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of the United States of America where it applies to our information protection activities. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13). If we learn that we have inadvertently collected personal information of a child under the age of thirteen (13) without proper consent, we will immediately delete that data from our database.

J. CALIFORNIA SHINE THE LIGHT LAW
BAC does not share your personal information with third parties for their own marketing use without your permission.

K. YOUR AGREEMENT TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
You expressly consent to BAC’s processing of information as described in this Privacy Policy when you use or interact with the Website, provide information to us through our Website, purchase our products or services or assent to our Terms and Conditions of Use. In addition, when you use or interact with the Website, you specifically consent to our collection of personal information by automated means, such as cookies.

BAC owns and operates the Website. You may contact us directly if you have any questions regarding the content and material on the Website or if you have any questions about our Privacy Policy.

Please email us at info@bacgrading.com or call us at (520)635-5640.

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