Privacy Policy

Effective Date: April 13, 2022

Your information privacy is important to us.  We provide this Privacy Policy to explain how we collect, use, protect, and disclose information and data when you use any of our services or use any of the BRIDGE Housing websites (“Sites”, together with our services, the “Services”), including, but not limited to, https://www.rebuildportrero.com, https://www.balboareservoir.com, https://www.theveraportland.com, https://www.hollywoodhubpdx.com.  This Privacy Policy also explains your choices for managing your information preferences, including opting out of certain uses of your Personal Information (defined below).  This Privacy Policy applies to all users of the Sites and Services. The Sites and Services are provided by BRIDGE Housing (“Companywe” “our” “us”).

BY USING THE SITES OR SERVICES, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.  PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY.

1. Personal Information We Collect

We collect the following categories and types of “Personal Information”:

  • Contact Information: your name, email, billing address and phone number;
  • Other identifying information: IP address;
  • Demographic information: occupation;
  • Financial information: credit card number;
  • Internet or other electronic activity: your browsing and click history, including information about how you navigate within our Sites and Services and which elements of our Sites and Services you use the most;
  • Commercial information: properties viewed on our Site; and
  • Inferences drawn from the categories described above in order to create a profile about you to reflect your preferences, characteristics, behavior and attitude

2. How We Use Personal Information

We use your Personal Information for the following categories of use:

  • Transactional Purposes: We use your contact information and commercial information to:
    • Complete a donation that you may initiate on our website; and
    • Process any registration you make to one of our Services.
  • Analytical Purposes: We use your other identifying information, internet activity and browsing history, commercial information, demographic information, and geolocation data to analyze preferences, trends and statistics.
  • Marketing and Promotional Purposes: We use your contact information, commercial information, demographic information, internet or other electronic activity, and inferences to:
    • Inform you of our new services and offers;
    • Provide you with targeted advertising;
    • To provide you with our newsletter or interest mailing list (if you have signed up for it); and
    • Provide you with other information from and about our Company, including personalized marketing communications.
  • Maintenance and Improvement of the Sites and Services: We use your contact information, commercial information, and internet activity and browsing history to:
    • Provide you with the Sites and Services;
    • Handle your customer services requests; and
    • Help us diagnose technical and service problems and administer our Sites, and the Services.
  • Security and Fraud Prevention: We use your contact information, other identifying information, commercial information, financial information, internet activity and browsing history, and inferences to protect the Sites and Services, our Company, and others and to prevent fraud, theft and misconduct.

3. Sources of Personal Information

We collect Personal Information from the following sources:

  • We collect information directly from you. We collect contact and demographic information directly from you. We also collect financial information from you.
  • We collect information about you from third parties. We collect your Personal Information from third parties, such event registration sites.
  • We collect information from you passively. We collect internet or other electronic activity passively using tools like browser cookies. This activity is further described in the Cookies and Advertising and Online Tracking sections below.

4. Categories of Third Parties We Share Personal Information With

Service Providers

From time to time, we may establish a business relationship with other businesses whom we believe trustworthy and who have confirmed that their privacy practices are consistent with ours (“Service Providers”).  For example, we may contract with Service Providers to provide certain services, such as hosting and maintenance, data storage and management, ticketing and registration for events, and marketing and promotions.  We may also share your personal information with property management services, if you rent at one of our properties or are a prospective tenant.

We only provide our Service Providers with the information necessary for them to perform these services on our behalf.  Each Service Provider must agree to use reasonable security procedures and practices, appropriate to the nature of the information involved, in order to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.  Service Providers are prohibited from using Personal Information other than as specified by us.

Our Affiliates

We may share Personal Information with businesses controlling, controlled by, or under common control with our Company.

Corporate Transactions

If our Company is merged, acquired, or sold, or in the event of a transfer of some or all of our assets, we may disclose or transfer Personal Information in connection with such transaction.  You will have the opportunity to opt out of any such transfer if, in our discretion, it will result in the handling of your Personal Information in a way that differs materially from this Privacy Policy.

Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement

We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law.  We may disclose Personal Information and any other information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties if, in our discretion, we believe it is necessary or appropriate in order to respond to legal requests (including court orders and subpoenas), to protect the safety, property, or rights of our company or of any third party, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to comply with the law.

5. Cookies

We use cookies (a small text file placed on your computer to identify your computer and web browser) and may use anonymous identifiers (a random string of characters that is used for the same purposes as a cookie).  We use cookies and other similar technologies to analyze use of and improve the Sites and Services and as described in the Advertising and Online Tracking Section of this Privacy Policy.  Most web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies.  You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent, however, certain features of the Sites or Services may not work if you delete or disable cookies.  Some of our Service Providers (defined below) may use their own cookies, anonymous identifiers, or other tracking technology in connection with the services they perform on our behalf.

We use Google Analytics on the Sites and Services to analyze how users use the Sites and Services, and to provide advertisements to you on other websites.  For more information about how to opt out of having your information used by Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

6. Advertising and Online Tracking

We may allow third-party companies to serve ads and collect certain information when you visit the Sites and Services.  These companies may use certain information (e.g. click stream information, web browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to the Sites and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you.  These companies typically use a cookie to collect this information.  Our systems do not recognize browser “Do Not Track” signals, but several of our Service Providers who utilize these cookies on our Sites enable you to opt out of targeted advertising practices.  To learn more about these advertising practices or to opt out of this type of advertising, you can visit www.networkadvertising.org or www.aboutads.info/choices/.  We also provide you with additional tools to opt out of marketing from us.  You can learn about this in the “Managing Your Information Preferences” section of this Privacy Policy.

7. Managing Your Information Preferences

You can review, correct, update, or change your Personal Information or opt out of receiving certain e-mails by changing the relevant settings in your account or by e-mailing us at info@bridgehousing.com.  You can also opt out of receiving marketing e-mails from us by following the link provided at the bottom of all marketing e-mails you receive from us.  If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at that same address.

8. Be Careful When You Share Information with Others

Please be aware that whenever you share information on any public area of the Sites or Services, that information may be accessed by others.  In addition, please remember that when you share information in any other communications with third parties, that information may be passed along or made public by others.  This means that anyone with access to such information can potentially use it for any purpose, including sending unsolicited communications.

9. Security

We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security of information transmitted to us.  However, no data transmission over the Internet or other network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  As a result, while we strive to protect information transmitted on or through the Sites or Services, we cannot and do not guarantee the security of any information you transmit on or through the Sites or Services, and you do so at your own risk.

10. Links

Our Sites and Services may contain links to other websites or allow others to send you such links.  A link to a third party’s website does not mean that we endorse it or that we are affiliated with it.  We do not exercise control over third-party websites.  You access such third-party websites or content at your own risk.  You should always read the privacy policy of a third-party website before providing any information to the website.

11. Children’s Privacy

The Sites and Services are intended for users who are 18 years old or older.  We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13.  If we become aware that we have inadvertently received Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete such information from our records.

12. Processing in the United States

Please be aware that your Personal Information and communications may be transferred to and maintained on servers or databases located outside your state, province, or country.  If you are located outside of the United States, please be advised that we process and store all information in the United States.  The laws in the United States may not be as protective of your privacy as those in your location.  By using the Sites or Services, you are agreeing to the collection, use, transfer, and disclosure of your Personal Information and communications will be governed by the applicable laws in the United States.

13. Privacy Policy Changes

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time.  If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will inform you by posting the revised Privacy Policy on the Sites.  Those changes will go into effect on the “Revised” date shown in the revised Privacy Policy.  By continuing to use the Sites or Services, you are consenting to the revised Privacy Policy.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact us at info@bridgehousing.com.

PLEASE PRINT A COPY OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY FOR YOUR RECORDS AND PLEASE CHECK THE SITES FREQUENTLY FOR ANY CHANGES.

BRIDGE Housing