Privacy Policy

BoardLead, a program operated by Cause Strategy Partners, Inc., respects the privacy of its users and has developed this Privacy Policy to demonstrate its commitment to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect, how that information may be used, with whom it may be shared, and your choices about such uses and disclosures. By using our website, application, or other online services, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please refer to the end of this Privacy Policy for information on how to contact us.

Information we collect about you

In general, BoardLead collects personal information and sensitive data about your personal and professional background in order to understand your interests and fit for nonprofit board service. “Personal Information” means individually identifiable information that would allow us to determine the actual identity of, and contact, a specific living person. Sensitive Data includes information, comments or content (e.g. photographs, board candidate profile) that you optionally provide that may reveal your gender, ethnic origin, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, and/or disability status. By providing Sensitive Data to us, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of Sensitive Data as permitted by applicable privacy laws. We collect this information when you complete the online BoardLead candidate application. When you provide personal information, the information may be sent to servers located in the United States and other countries around the world.

  • Information you provide. We may collect and store any personal information you enter on our website or provide to us in some other manner. This includes identifying information, such as your name, address, email address, and telephone number. We also request information about your board service interests, professional skill set, your gender and age, and other demographic information such as the city and state where you work and live.
  • Information collected automatically. We may automatically collect information from your browser or device when you visit our website or application. This information could include your IP address, device ID, your browser type and language, and access times.
How we use the information we collect

In general, we use information that we collect about you to:

  • Deliver BoardLead’s services and manage our business;
  • Manage your board candidate account and provide you with customer support;
  • Create a candidate profile of your background and interests in nonprofit board service that may be provided to one or more nonprofit organizations considered a possible fit for their governing or auxiliary board;
  • Communicate with you by email, postal mail, telephone and/or mobile devices in order to deliver BoardLead’s services and manage our business;
  • Perform website or mobile application analytics; and
  • Verify your eligibility, fit and readiness to be matched to a nonprofit organization for board service.
With whom we share your information

Personal information. We do not share your personal information with others except as indicated below or when we inform you and give you an opportunity to opt out of having your personal information shared. We may share personal information with:

  • Nonprofit organizations. We may share information, including personal information, with third party nonprofit organizations in order to introduce you to a nonprofit organization for possible board service.
  • Your employer. We may share information, including personal information, with your employer in order to enable our liaison at your organization to track progress as you move through BoardLead’s recruitment, matching, vetting, nomination, and election process. The personal information we share will be limited to the following:
    • The headshot you provided to us;
    • Your name;
    • Your company and job title;
    • Your email, telephone number, and a link to your LinkedIn profile;
    • The responses you write in your BoardLead candidate application, including:
      • Your answer to the question, “How could this candidate’s professional skills contribute to the mission and needs of the organization through board service?”
      • Professional experience
      • Potential board committees
      • Available time investment
  • Service providers, business partners and strategic partners. We may share information, including personal information, with third parties that perform certain services on our behalf. These services may include providing marketing assistance, performing business analysis and program evaluation, supporting our website or application functionality, or other features offered by BoardLead. These service providers may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes.
  • Other situations. We also may disclose your information, including personal information:
    • In response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order, or a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.
    • When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our website terms and conditions or other agreements or policies.
    • In connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
Aggregated and/or non-personal information

We may share non-personal information we collect under any of the above circumstances. We may combine non-personal information we collect with additional non-personal information collected from other sources. We also may share aggregated, non-personal information with third parties, including advisors, advertisers and investors, for the purpose of conducting general business analysis, advertising, marketing or other business purposes.

How you can access your information

All users who have an online account with us have the ability to review and update personal information online by logging into your account and updating all information provided to BoardLead.

All users may also request the correction of errors in your personal information that is in our custody or under our control. We will assist you with the access request. This includes:

  • Identification of personal information under our custody or control; and
  • Information about how personal information under our control may be or has been used by us.

We will respond to requests within the time allowed by all applicable privacy laws and will make every effort to respond as accurately and completely as possible. If access or corrections cannot be provided for some reason, we will notify the individual making the request within 30 days, in writing, of the reasons.

Data retention

If you have an online account with us, you may close your account at any time by making a request to the BoardLead team. After you close your account, you will not be able to sign in to our website or access any of your personal information. If you opt to close your account, we may still retain certain information associated with your account for analytical purposes and recordkeeping integrity, as well as to take actions we deem necessary to protect the integrity of our website or our users, or take other actions otherwise permitted by law.

Your choices about collection and use of your information
  • You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but that may result in you being unable to successfully use BoardLead, or access certain features of our site because such information may be required in order for you to access the services BoardLead provides.
  • By registering on our site, you consent to receive email messages and telephone calls from us. At any time you can choose to no longer receive emails from us. You may modify this consent later by requesting it of a BoardLead team member. It may take up to 10 days for us to process an opt-out request. We may send you transactional emails, such as program reminders, candidate status updates, administrative notices, and surveys, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
How we protect your personal information

We take appropriate security measures to help safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access and disclosure. We want you to feel confident using our website to identify a nonprofit board opportunity that is right for you. However, no system can be completely secure. Therefore, although we take steps to secure your information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information, searches, or other communications will always remain secure. Users should also take care with how they handle and disclose their personal information and should avoid sending personal information through insecure email. Please refer to the Federal Trade Commission’s website at https://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menus/consumer/data.shtm for information about how to protect yourself against identity theft.

You agree that we may communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues, such as security breaches.

Information you provide about yourself while using our service

We provide areas on our site where you may share information about yourself. Such information may be shared by third parties. For example, a nonprofit organization with which you are matched may forward your board candidate profile to members of the organization’s Board of Directors or staff members as a party of the board vetting, nomination and election process. Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information electronically, that information may become publicly available and can be collected and used by others. For example, if you share your email address, you may receive unsolicited messages by BoardLead, Cause Strategy Partners, Inc. or others. We cannot control who reads your board candidate profile, for example, or what others may do with the information you voluntarily post, so we encourage you to exercise discretion and caution with respect to your personal information.

Onward transfer and consent to international processing

We are a growing corporation with users and operations. We anticipate we will soon be operating in multiple countries, including the European Union. We have developed data practices designed to assure information is appropriately protected but we cannot always know where personal information may be accessed or processed. We may transfer personal information or other information to servers both inside and outside of the United States. In addition, we may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. If we disclose personal information to a third party or to our employees or contractors outside of the United States, we will seek assurances that any information we may provide to them is safeguarded adequately and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the requirements of applicable privacy laws.

No rights of third parties

This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to users of the website.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the ‘last updated’ date at the top of this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you check our website from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this Privacy Policy or any of our other policies.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email as follows:
Cause Strategy Partners
Attention: Privacy Policy
contact@causestrategypartners.com