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This privacy policy sets out how BLLA (Boutique Lifestyle Leaders Association) uses and protects any information that you give BLLA via this website, by email, by phone, post or in person.
Our website address is: https://membership.blla.org
This is a sister organization to: BLLA, Boutique Lifestyle Leaders Association
BLLA is an organization with a mission to unite the world’s boutique hotels and businesses with values in leadership, education and advocacy.
To fulfill its work in support of its mission and aims, the association may collect, store and process personal data about our members, grant holders, contacts, members of staff, trustees, advisors, contractors, and other third parties, and we are committed to handling personal data in accordance with data protection law.
The association is the ‘data controller’ of the personal data provided to and stored and processed by BLLA.
The association may change this policy occasionally by updating this page. You should check this periodically to ensure that you are up to date with our latest version. You are also welcome to request copy of the policy at any time. This policy is effective from April 2020.
We require this information to enable us to deliver our services as a membership body and authority in the boutique industry. In particular we will use this information to:
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Your data is shared with the partners at BLLA and your data will be used to create data for the industry regarding the Boutique sector.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Data will also be sent to Google Analytics, heat mapping technology, Memberpress, WordPress, Buddyboss, LearnDash and any third party organizations that the association works with to enhance the membership community.
We have a subscription to Akismet to prevent spam involved in the website and community. This is a private network, and everyone who has access to the content on this website will have gone through an approval process. We have community rules, and those members that have three strikes will be immediately removed from the community to ensure a safe environment with BLLA.
Google Analyics/Google Console, Memberpress, BuddyBoss, LearnDash, WordPress, SERanking, Buffer, Akismet.