Effective date: November 5, 2026
Last updated: November 5, 2026
Burnham Center for Community Advancement (“BCCA”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) operates https://www.burnhamcenter.org (the “Site”). This policy applies to the Site and to the contact form, the newsletter signup and the partner event submission form on it. It does not apply to websites and services run by others that we link to, including our donation platform and event registration pages, which have their own privacy policies. If you need this policy in another format, contact us and we will provide it.
Burnham Center for Community Advancement is a nonprofit corporation organized in the State of California with its principal place of business at 1100 Market Street, Suite 424, San Diego, CA 92101. For requests, complaints, or any question about this policy or about your personal information, email us at together@burnhamcenter.org, write to us at the address above, or call us at (619) 329-8389.
We collect the following categories of personal information: name, email address, phone number, IP address, and a cookie identifier if you accept analytics cookies; your organization’s name and whatever you write in your message; a résumé and what you tell us about your interest in working with BCCA, if you choose the “Career opportunities” option; photographs or logos you attach to a Bright Spot story; if you submit an event on behalf of a partner organization, your name, email address and organization and the event details and image you send; and browser and device type, pages viewed, date and time, how you arrived at the Site, and your approximate location (city or region) derived from your IP address. We use the information above to respond to your questions and requests; consider partnership, volunteer, press and career inquiries; review Bright Spot stories and event submissions sent to us and tell you what we decided; send the newsletter to people who sign up for it; understand, with your consent, how the Site is used; and keep the Site working and protected from spam and abuse. We also use it to secure the Site and prevent fraud, to comply with legal obligations, and to enforce our Terms of Use. We do not use personal information for a materially different purpose than the one disclosed at collection without telling you first.
We do not collect payment card details, government identification numbers, precise geolocation, or other sensitive personal information through the Site. Donations are made on a third-party donation platform, which collects and processes that information under its own privacy policy.
We disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients: website hosting provider to host, back up and secure the Site; spam and security services; map provider to display the OneSD map; email delivery service; newsletter provider; a website agency to maintain and support the Site under contract with BCCA; and an analytics provider to measure how the Site is used, only after you consent. We may also disclose personal information when required by law, in response to lawful requests by public authorities, to protect our rights or the safety of others, and in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets. We keep each category only as long as we need it for the purpose it was collected for, or for as long as the law requires.
We use encryption in transit (HTTPS) on every page, managed hosting with security patching and daily backups, access controls that limit who can see form submissions, and spam and bot protection on our forms to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss and misuse. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security, and we do not claim to.
The Site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
The Site does not change its behavior in response to Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control browser signals. Analytics cookies are set only after you consent, and you can withdraw that consent at any time through the Site’s cookie settings.
We may update this policy. When we do, we will change the “Last updated” date above and post the revised policy on this page, and we will post a notice on the Site for material changes. Continued use of the Site after a change means you accept the revised policy.