Bell's Website Privacy Policy

At Bell Textron Inc. (“Bell”) we care about your personal privacy. Because we care, we have adopted the practices described in this Privacy Policy. You should not access the Bell website (the “Site”) or use our services until you have carefully read this Privacy Policy and agree to the terms and conditions described in it.

 

OUR COLLECTION AND USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect and use information about you which will help us administer our business or provide products, services or other opportunities to you. Among other things, we use the information we learn about you to help us personalize and improve the experience you have on our website, to respond to your requests and to communicate with you.

 

Personal Data We Collect:

The types of information we collect, retain and use include the following:

 

• Site Use Information: In general, you can visit the Site without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. Our web servers collect the domain names, not the email addresses, of visitors.
• Registration Information You Provide To Us: When you register on our site to receive news from Bell, we collect profile information from you ("Personally Identifiable Information"). We require that you provide the following Personally Identifiable Information:
  • Site Use Information: In general, you can visit the Site without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. Our web servers collect the domain names, not the email addresses, of visitors.
  • Registration Information You Provide To Us: When you register on our site to receive news from Bell, we collect profile information from you ("Personally Identifiable Information"). We require that you provide the following Personally Identifiable Information:
    • Your first and last name;
    • Email address; and
    • Other information as requested in the applicable registration pages.
    At your option you may voluntarily provide additional information (including employment history if you are seeking employment at Bell). Although you may choose not to provide the optional information to us, it may result in some features not being available to you.
    
    

How Long We Keep Your Information: Personal data collected will only be retained as long as necessary for business continuity or valid legal purposes.

 

How We Use the Information We Collect:

• Site Use Information: This information is aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the Site, pages viewed, etc. This information ("behavior profiles") is used to measure the use of our Site and to improve the content we offer.
• Personally Identifiable Information: By providing this Personally Identifiable Information to us, you explicitly agree to our collection and usage of such information as described in this Privacy Policy. We use your Personally Identifiable Information in the following ways:
  • To respond to your inquiries;
  • To process an order;
  • To contact you regarding account status or customer service;
  • To ask you for feedback on our service;
  • To let you know about products or services which may be of interest to you;
  • To allow you to access specific account information; or
  • In the case of seeking employment at Bell, match you with appropriate job opportunities.
  When you register, order products or services or provide information through this Site, you consent to allow us to contact you for those purposes.

 

Email Communications: We use your email address to contact you to respond to your inquiries or to provide information on products or services to you. To help us determine whether you have received an email from us, and to help us make emails more useful and interesting, we may receive a confirmation that you have opened an email from us.

 

Cookies

Like many websites we use "cookies" to enable us to remember your password, to help us identify the portions of our Site that may be the most relevant for your needs, and to help us identify other products or services that may be of interest to you or others. A cookie is a small piece of information that a web site can store on your web browser and then retrieve at a later time. We use cookies to track the portions of our Site you visit. However, we do NOT use cookies to examine your surfing behavior before or after you leave our Site. There are products commercially available that are designed to help you disable cookies. Although we want you to be aware that such products exist, please note that if you choose to use them we will not be able to provide you with a personalized service, and it may result in certain features and services not being available to you.

 

Child Privacy

Because of the nature of our business, our products and services are not designed to appeal to minors, and therefore we do not knowingly attempt to solicit or receive any information from children. Our terms and conditions of use require that any registration may only be made by those age 18 or older and that any product or service purchases may only be made by those age 18 or older. If we have reason to believe that information is being provided by a child under the age of 18, Bell will not collect the information without parental consent or parent notification, which will include the opportunity for the parent to prevent the use of the information or to prevent the child's participation in the activity. Without parental consent, online information will only be used to respond to an unsolicited request and for no other purposes. We recognize that protecting children's identities and privacy online is important and that the responsibility to do so rests with both the online industry and with parents.

 

RESTRICTIONS ON DISCLOSING INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES

We are not in the business of selling your Personally Identifiable Information to others.

• Site Use Information: We may share with third parties experiential information or other data which does not personally identify users of our Site with third parties. For example, this might include product or service preferences of all visitors to our site.
• Personally Identifiable Information: We do not reveal Personally Identifiable Information about you to unaffiliated third parties, unless:
  • (1) you request or authorize it;
  • (2) the information is provided to help complete a transaction for you;
  • (3) the information is provided to comply with the law, applicable regulations, court orders or subpoenas, to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements, or to protect our rights, property or safety or the rights, property or safety of our users or others (e.g., to a consumer reporting agency for fraud protection etc.);
  • (4) the disclosure is done as part of a purchase, transfer or sale of services or assets (e.g., in the event that substantially all of our assets are acquired by another party, customer information may be one of the transferred assets); or
  • (5) the information is provided to our agents, outside vendors or service providers to perform functions on our behalf (e.g., analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing customer service, etc.).
  We may also gather aggregated data about you and disclose such aggregated (but not personally identifiable) information to third parties for promotional or other purposes.

 

SECURITY PROCEDURES TO PROTECT INFORMATION

We maintain numerous security standards and procedures to help prevent unauthorized access to confidential information about you. Our site uses a combination of encryption technology and authentication to protect your Personally Identifiable Information. As long as the web browser you are using supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), your information will be submitted to us with a high level of security. We update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis. We have procedures limiting employee access to Personally Identifiable Information to those employees who have a business reason to know such information about you.

 

It is also important for you to help protect against unauthorized access by signing off of our Site each time you finish using the Site.

 

INAPPLICABILITY OF PRIVACY POLICIES OF ANY LINKED SITES OR OTHER PARTIES

Bell’s Site may contain links to other sites such as affiliates, subsidiaries or other third party distributors and sales representatives. This Privacy Policy only addresses Bell’s use and disclosure of your Personally Identifiable Information collected on this site. While we try to link only to sites that share our standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third parties or the content of linked sites, and we encourage you to read the applicable privacy policies and terms and conditions of such parties or web sites.

 

YOUR RIGHTS TO THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT – FOR EU RESIDENTS

This Privacy Notice is intended to provide you with information about what personal data Bell collects about you and how it is used. If you have any questions, please contact us at belldataprivacy@bellflight.com.

 

If you wish to confirm that Bell is processing your personal data, or to have access to the personal data that Bell may have about you, please contact us at belldataprivacy@bellflight.com.

 

You may also request information about: the purpose of the processing; the categories of personal data concerned; what the source of the information was (if you didn’t provide it directly to Bell); and how long it will be stored. You have a right to correct (rectify) the record of your personal data maintained by Bell if it is inaccurate. You may request that Bell erase that data or cease processing it, subject to certain exceptions. You may also request that Bell cease using your data for direct marketing purposes. When technically feasible, Bell will—at your request—provide your personal data to you or transmit it directly to another controller.

 

Reasonable access to your personal data will be provided at no cost upon request made to Bell at belldataprivacy@bellflight.com. If access cannot be provided within a reasonable time frame, Bell will provide you with a date when the information will be provided. If for some reason access is denied, Bell will provide an explanation as to why access has been denied.

 

TERMS OF USE, NOTICES AND CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

In the event of any conflict between the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use, then the Terms of Use shall control.

 

As our business changes, this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use are expected to change from time to time, and we reserve the right to change the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use at any time. The use of your information is subject to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use in effect at the time of use. The provisions contained herein supersede all previous notices or statements regarding our privacy practices with respect to this Site. We may email periodic reminders of our notices and terms and conditions and post any changes to the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use on our Site. We encourage you to check our Site frequently to see the current Privacy Policy and Terms of Use in effect and any changes that may have been made to them.

 

HOW TO CONTACT US WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS POLICY

To contact us regarding any questions about this Policy or to register a complaint with Bell or a data protection authority, please contact belldataprivacy@bellflight.com

 

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY NOTICE

 

SCOPE OF NOTICE:

This California Privacy Notice (“CA Notice”) supplements the information contained in our Privacy Notice and applies solely to individual residents of the State of California (“consumers” or “you”).

 

This CA Notice describes how we collect, use, disclose and otherwise process personal data of individual residents of the State of California within the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA).

 

When we use the term “personal data” in this CA Notice, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household in California.

 

For the purposes of this CA Notice, personal data does not include:

• Publicly available information
• Deidentified, aggregated or anonymized information that is maintained in a form that is not capable of being associated with or linked to a consumer
• Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data
• Information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA) and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

 

INFORMATION RELATING TO JOB APPLICANTS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS AND OTHER BELL PERSONNEL can be found here: https://www.bellflight.com/legal

 

COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL DATA

Bell collects personal data from and about consumers for a variety of purposes. To learn more about the types of personal information we collect and the purposes for which we use this information, please refer to the Our Collection and Use of Your Personal Information section in our Privacy Notice.

 

In the last 12 months, the following categories of personal data may have been collected or used:

• Identifiers, such as your name, address, phone number, email address or other similar identifiers
• Commercial Information, such as your use of our services and products
• Gender and ethnicity: As necessary to comply with legal obligations, including: the reporting requirements of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Act (EEOC), the federal Office of Contracting Compliance Programs (applicable to government contractors) and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act and to report on diversity and inclusion.
• Internet/Network Information, such as your IP address, browser, or device information
• Professional/Employment Information, such as your employing entity, business unit, manager, and management reporting structure, job title, function and the nature or your duties and responsibilities.
• Other Personal Data, such as information you directly provide to us when you register for our bellflight.com website

 

SOURCES OF COLLECTING PERSONAL DATA

• Directly from you;
• From your browser or device;
• Third-Party service providers; and
• Business Partners and affiliates

 

PURPOSES FOR COLLECTING PERSONAL DATA

We may collect, use or disclose personal information about you for one or more of the following purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to ask a question about our services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry.
• To market our products to you, including through email
• To help maintain the safety, security and integrity of our services, technology assets and business
• To protect the health and safety of our personnel and visitors to our premises
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order or governmental regulations

 

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA

In the previous 12 months, we have disclosed all of the categories of personal data we collect, explained in the Restrictions on Disclosing Information to Third Parties section of our privacy notice.

 

We do not sell personal information to third parties.

 

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

As a California resident, you may be able to exercise the following rights in relation to the personal data about you that we have collected (subject to certain exceptions):

• The right to access/know – You have the right to request any or all of the following information relating to your personal information we have collected and disclosed in the last 12 months, upon verification of your identity, and subject to certain exceptions at law
• The right to request deletion – You have the right to request the deletion of personal data we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions
• The right to opt out of personal data sales – Bell does not sell personal data; however you have the right to direct us not to sell personal data we have collected about you to third parties now or in the future.
• The right to non-discrimination – You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising these rights. However, please note that is the exercise of these rights limits our ability to process personal data (such as a deletion request), we may no longer be able to provide you our products and services or engage with you in the same manner.

 

HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR CALIFORNIA CONSUMER RIGHTS

To exercise your rights, please submit a request to belldataprivacy@bellflight.com with the subject line “California Rights Request.”

 

We will need to verify your identity before processing your request. In order to verify your identity, we will generally require the matching of sufficient information you provide us to the information we maintain about you in our systems. Although we will try to limit the personal data collected in connection with the request, certain requests may require us to obtain additional personal data from you. In certain circumstances, we may decline a request to exercise your rights, particularly where we are unable to verify your identity.

 

CONTACT US

If you have questions or requests with this CA Notice please email belldataprivacy@bellflight.com