Effective Date: 1 January 2025
Last Updated: 1 April 2025
The Bermuda Chamber of Commerce ("we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting any personal information you provide through our website, www.bermudachamber.bm (the "Website"). This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information:
1.1. Personal Information
When you interact with our Website, you may voluntarily provide personal information, such as:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Mailing address
- Business information (if applicable)
1.2. Non-Personal Information
We may also collect non-personal information automatically through cookies and tracking technologies, including:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device information
- Website usage data (e.g., pages visited, time spent on pages)
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information for the following purposes:
- To provide and improve our services
- To respond to inquiries and requests
- To process membership applications and event registrations
- To send newsletters and promotional communications (with your consent)
- To analyse website performance and enhance user experience
- To comply with legal obligations
3. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell or rent your personal information. However, we may share information:
- With third-party service providers who assist in operating our Website (e.g., payment processors, email service providers)
- If required by law or legal process
- To protect the rights, property, or safety of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce and its users
- With your consent or at your direction
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our Website may use cookies and similar technologies to enhance user experience and collect analytical data. You may disable cookies through your browser settings, but this may affect Website functionality.
5. Data Security
We implement reasonable security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no online transmission is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
6. Your Rights and Choices
Your rights
If you have any questions in relation to the use of your personal data, or would like to exercise any of the following rights, you should contact us by the means set out under the “Contact Us” section below.
Under certain conditions you may have the right to require us to:
- provide you with access to the personal data you have provided to us;
- correct and update any inaccuracies in the personal data we process;
- delete or remove any special category data or personal data that we no longer have a lawful basis to process. Note that we may not always be able to comply with your request of deletion for specific legal reasons which will be communicated to you, if applicable, at the time of your request;
- stop a particular type of processing, where processing of your personal data by us is based on your consent alone.
- stop processing your personal data, where we are relying on our legitimate interests, unless our reasons for performing that processing outweigh any prejudice to your personal data protection rights;
- provide your personal data in a usable electronic format so it may be transferred to a third party (where technically feasible) and, where the data is automated and which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you;
- restrict how we use your personal data where a complaint has been submitted and is being investigated; and
There may be other circumstances in which your rights may be restricted in order to safeguard public interest or to preserve the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
7. Retention of Your Personal Data
We will hold on to your personal data for as long as is necessary or advisable in relation to the purposes for which your data was collected and processed.
We do retain certain documents for extended periods, if necessary or advisable to comply with our legal, regulatory, tax or accounting requirements. Retention of documents allows either you or us to commence or defend legal claims in relation to the insurance or related product.
To support us in managing how long we hold your personal data and our data management, we have a Data Retention Policy which provides guidelines on data retention and deletion.
We may also retain personal data where we have identified a legal basis for doing so in an aggregated form which allows us to continue to develop/improve our products and services.
8. Technical and Organisational Measures
We implement technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk to your personal data that we process.
We take into account the risks of accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to personal data.
However, it is not possible to guarantee complete information security, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won’t be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the internet.
Any transmission of personal data in this way, is at your own risk.
We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the website.
We will continue to test, assess and evaluate the effectiveness of our technical and organisational measures.
In the event of a personal data breach, we act in accordance with all applicable data protection laws.
9. Software Quality
We do not warrant that any information, software or other material accessible through this site is free of viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other harmful component.
The Bermuda Chamber of Commerce assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages that result from the use, access to, browsing in or downloading of any information, data, text, images or other material accessible through one of its web pages, this site or the website of any linked third party.
10. Cookies
"Cookies" are small text files stored on your computer by websites that you visit. They are used by most websites in order to make them work efficiently, make controls respond properly and to provide information to the owners of websites.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- as part of the basic functioning of our website;
- to collect and analyse anonymous statistical information about the way you use our website so we can improve the way the site works and the content we make available (for example, we collect information about the number of visitors to various parts of the site); and
- to remember your browsing preferences when you visit the site so we can give you a better experience.
The cookies we use are non-intrusive.
Disabling cookies
Most browsers allow you to control your cookie settings and to delete cookies already stored on your computer or other devices.
You can control the use of cookies on your device, including deleting and blocking the cookies we use, through the browser setting on your device; but please note that any changes you make may affect your ability to properly use our website.
11. Third-Party Links
Our Website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices and encourage you to review their policies before providing personal information.
12. Children’s Privacy
Our Website is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from minors.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Effective Date." Your continued use of our Website signifies your acceptance of the revised policy. A copy of this Privacy Policy will be maintained on www.bermudachamber.bm . We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal data we collect.
14. Questions and complaints
If you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy or would like to exercise any of the rights listed in Your rights, please contact our Privacy Officer, Jennifer Woods, by the following means:
- Write to: 1 Point Pleasant Road, Hamilton HM11, Bermuda
- Email: info@bcc.bm
You also have the right to complain to your local supervisory authority (i.e. the supervisory jurisdiction where you live or work or the supervisory authority of the jurisdiction where you believe that an infringement of data protection laws has occurred).
- In Bermuda, the supervisory authority is the Privacy Commissioner.
We ask that you please attempt to resolve any issues with us before contacting your supervisory authority.