Privacy Policy - Be The Bridge App

Be The Bridge (“we”, “our”, “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share your personal information when you use our website, mobile application, and related services (collectively, the “Services”).

By using our Services, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

What kind of data is collected?

Personal Information

Full name
Email address
Phone number
Physical address
Profile photo
Account credentials
Payment and billing details (processed by third-party providers)

User Content

Images, videos, text, and files you submit within the app
Profile information
Messages or form submissions

Device & Usage Data (anonymous or pseudonymous)

Device model
Operating system version
Device language
IP address
Approximate location (city, country)
App usage behavior and interaction data

Automatically Collected Data

We may collect information through cookies, SDKs, and similar technologies via:

Firebase
Flurry
Count.ly
AppsFlyer
Facebook App Events
Google Analytics
(Modify this list to reflect actual tools used.)

How is the data collected?

We collect data when you:

Create an account
Use our app or website
Submit forms or content
Communicate with us
Allow permissions (camera, gallery, notifications, location)
Interact with cookies or tracking technologies

We may also receive limited data from third-party analytics and advertising platforms.

Our company might also receive data and information indirectly from the following sources:

Flurry (https://www.flurry.com)
Firebase (https://www.firebase.google.com)
Count.ly (https://count.ly)
AppsFlyer (https://www.appsflyer.com)
Facebook App Event (https://developers.facebook/coom/docs/app-events)
(ADD OR DELETE LIST TO FIT YOUR OWN CASE)

How will we use your data?

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We use your information to:

Provide and manage your account
Deliver our services
Process payments and prevent fraud
Communicate with you
Improve app performance and user experience
Provide customer support
Display your submitted content within the app
Enable QR code scanning and profile images
Send important service notifications
Send marketing communications (only if you consent)

We do not sell your personal data. When our company processes your order it may send your data to credit and banking agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases that can include third-party payment processors.

How is the data stored?

Our company securely stores your data in the United States

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to:

Provide our services
Meet legal obligations
Resolve disputes
Enforce agreements

When no longer required, your data is securely deleted or anonymized.

Third-party data processors

Salesforce

Marketing

Our company would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like as well as those of our partner companies:

Be The Bridge

If you have agreed to receive marketing emails or communication you may always opt out at a later date.

You have the right at any time to stop our company from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving data to other partners working with our company.

If you no longer want to be contacted for marketing purposes you can contact us at: marketing@bethebridge.com

Data protection rights

Our company would like to make sure you are fully aware of all your data protection rights. Every user has, if applicable, the right to:

The right to access: you have the right to request our company for copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification: you have the right to request that our company corrects any information you believe is inaccurate or mistaken. You also have the right to request our company to complete information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure: you have the right to request that our company erase your personal data under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing: you have the right to request that our company restricts the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing: you have the right to object to our company’s processing of personal data under certain conditions.
The right to data portability: you have the right to request that our company transfers the data we have collected to another organization or directly to you under certain conditions.

If you have any request regarding this matter we have a month to answer you. If you want to exercise any of these rights please contact us by using the following contact detail:

Be The Bridge
3535 Peachtree Road NE
Suite 320
Atlanta, GA 30326
United States

Send us an email at: marketing@bethebridge.com

Privacy policies of other websites or third-party

Our company’s website might contain links to other websites, our privacy policy applies only to our website and/or application and services so if you click on another website you must read their privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy policy

Our company keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page, this privacy policy was last updated on 03/11/2025.

Contacting us

If you have any questions or demand about our privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercice one of your data protection rights, please contact us at:

Send us an email at: marketing@bethebridge.com

Cookie Policy and other similar tracking technologies (GDPR and non GDPR)

When you visit Be the Bridge we may send cookies or other similar tracking technologies to your computer or to any other device you use. We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track user’s preferences and to know how he uses our services.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

For further information visit allaboutcookies.org

Cookies are used for user identification and proper assignment of historical user data collected during previous visits.

Both temporary cookie files (session cookies) and persistent cookies are used. Users may delete or remove cookies for the browser at any time or block cookies from being installed on its device. However this may affect the operation of our services or even result in its blocking.

As described above, we use your personal information and data to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example (CHECK THE COOKIES YOU ARE ACTUALLY USING):

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We use a Facebook pixel on our website. Using the pixel, Facebook collects information about the users and use of our website. The information is used to personalize Facebook advertisements and to analyze the use of our website. To find out more about the Facebook pixel and about Facebook's use of personal data generally, see the Facebook cookie policy at https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ and the Facebook privacy policy at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy. The Facebook cookie policy includes information about controlling Facebook's use of cookies to show you advertisements. If you are a registered Facebook user, you can adjust how advertisements are targeted by following the instructions at https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217.

We share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and your interaction with our ads on other websites with our advertising partners. We collect and share some of this information directly with our advertising partners, and in some cases through the use of cookies or other similar technologies (which you may consent to, depending on your location).

For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE - https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: https://optout.aboutads.info/.

We can use different type of cookie or tracking technologies while you are visiting our website and/or application:

Strictly necessary cookies: These types of cookies enable you to access and browse websites and use their features. Without these cookies, services like billing or shopping baskets cannot work properly.
Performance cookies: these cookies collect information and data about how you use our websites and/or application. The data collected can be used to optimize our websites and/or applications. These cookies are used to know where our visitors and users are coming from. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you personally.
Functionality cookies: these cookies allow our website or application to remember your choices. They can be used to memorize your localisation, or your preferences such as language settings or font size.

How to manage cookies?

You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above website and/or application tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However some of our websites and/or applications might not work properly without the use of cookies.

Here are some of the main explanation on how to delete cookies on your browser: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 (Chrome); https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox); https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/ (Opera); https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer); https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac (Safari); and https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

For mobile devices, if you don’t want to receive targeted advertising based on your center of interest coming from a mobile application, please check the parameters of the operating system of your mobile device and follow these instructions: 1) iOS Users: to enable “Limited Ad Tracking” follow the instructions given by Apple. 2) Android Users: to enable the option “deactivate ad personalisation”, follow the instructions given by Google on Google Play. 3) You might want to download the DAA mobile AppChoices application to control behavioral advertising online.

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