Privacy Policy
Updated: 15 January 2024
Blackboard Capital, LLC (“Blackboard”) respects your privacy. Please read the following carefully. By accessing blackboardcap.com (the “Services”), you acknowledge and accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your information as described herein. Your use of Blackboard's Services is at all times subject to the Terms of Use, which incorporates this Privacy Policy, including definitions of any terms used herein. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to all of the changes.
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If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policies, please contact us at the email address provided below.
Information covered under this Privacy Policy
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This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of information (which may include personally identifiable information and any “personal identifiers” as that term is defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) (“Personal Information”)) that we gather when you are accessing our Services. It does not apply to information obtained or disclosed in offline correspondence, through other personal contacts with Blackboard representatives or through the practices of companies we don’t own or control, or people that we don’t manage. For clarity, this policy explicitly does not cover the privacy practices of any entity with whom Blackboard (or any of our affiliates) has an investment relationship, even if you are able to access such entity’s website or service through a link on the Services.
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We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not attempt to send any personal information about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.
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Collection of Information
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Information You Provide to Us:
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We receive and store any information you knowingly provide to us. For example, you may choose to provide information through the online messaging form on our “contact” page, which may allow you to provide us Personal Information such as your name and email address.
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Information Collected Automatically:
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We automatically receive and record information regarding your usage of the Service, which may include your IP address, geolocation data, device identification, “cookie” information, the type of browser and/or device you’re using to access our Services and the page or feature you requested. “Cookies” are identifiers we transfer to your browser or device that allow us to recognize your browser or device and tell us how and when pages and features in our Services are visited and by how many people. You may be able to change the preferences on your browser or device to prevent or limit your device’s acceptance of cookies, but this may prevent you from taking advantage of some of our features. If you click on a link to a third-party website or service, a third party may also transmit cookies to you. Again, this Privacy Policy does not cover the use of cookies by any third parties, and we aren’t responsible for their privacy policies and practices.
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Use of Information
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Upon our collection of your Personal Information, Blackboard may use and disclose such Personal Information internally and to its affiliates and service providers, separately or in combination with pre-existing information, for the following business purposes:
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To provide any requested information or services;
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To troubleshoot problems with the Services;
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To customize your experience on the Services;
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To analyze how you and others use the Services;
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To enforce our Terms of Use and other agreements, or compliance with this Privacy Policy;
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To contact you with more information about Blackboard;
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To comply with law, court order or other legal process; or
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To protect the rights, property, or safety of Blackboard and its affiliates, our employees, our users, or others.
We do not sell or otherwise disclose your information to third parties for monetary or other valuable consideration. Please note that while we endeavor to protect the privacy of your Personal Information we collect; we cannot guarantee complete security. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors, may compromise the security of user information at any time.
You may request the specific pieces of personal information we have collected from you and/or request that we delete the personal information that we have collected from you by contacting us. However, we may need to retain such information in certain circumstances if it is necessary to provide you with services you requested or if we use such data only for our internal analytical use. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA. We will not deny you access to our Services or provide you a lower quality of services if you exercise your rights under the CCPA.
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