Privacy & Legal

Beacon Group, L.L.C. and its affiliates respect your ability to make informed choices about the collection and uses of your personal information. This privacy policy informs you about our online collection and uses of information that identifies you personally so that you can make an informed choice about using this site. The terms of this policy apply to www.beacongroupllc.com, www.beacongropllc.net and other sites which Beacon Group hosts or operates, unless different terms are specified in a form or contract provided to you online or off-line. Business users should refer to the terms and conditions of service/sale for any specific conditions governing Beacon Group’s use of business information. Those terms and conditions take precedence over this policy, and apply to all businesses, including sole proprietorships and other small business enterprises.

Beacon Group, L.L.C. cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. Therefore, although we are committed to protecting your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private. As a user of the Site, you understand and agree that you assume all responsibility and risk for your use of the Site, the internet generally, and the documents you post or access and for your conduct on and off the Site.

The websites of Beacon Group’s third-party content providers may have different privacy policies and practices from those disclosed here, and we encourage you to become familiar with them.

This site is operated by Beacon Group, L.L.C. in the United States. By using this website, you understand and agree that (1) the information collected from this site may be retained indefinitely, and may be stored, accessed, and used in jurisdictions whose privacy laws may be different and less protective than those of your home jurisdiction; (2) Beacon Group may use this information for a variety of purposes including direct marketing (unless you opt out of receiving direct marketing from Beacon Group); (3) Beacon Group may disclose this information to affiliates, subsidiaries, agents, third party content providers, and necessary payment processors, whose privacy policies and practices may be different from those of Beacon Group, and for which Beacon Group assumes no responsibility; (4) information about our customers, including personal information, may be disclosed as part of any merger, sale of the company assets or acquisition as well as in the unlikely event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personal information would be transferred as one of the business assets of the company; and (5) we reserve the right to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, or in the good faith belief that such action is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, respond to claims, or protect the rights, property or safety of our company, employees, customers, or the public.

Information Collected From This Website
When you visit this website, some information, such as the site that referred you to us, your IP and email address, and navigational information, may be collected automatically as part of the site’s operation. This information is used to generate user profiles and to personalize the website to your particular interests. On some occasions we may ask you to provide information on online forms. For example, we may ask for your username, password, place of birth, full name, telephone number, email address and postal address, or other information to register online. Providing information on online forms is always voluntary, and you are free not to complete any online forms. If you choose not to, however, some products and services may not be available to you.

How We Use Your Information
The information collected online is stored indefinitely and is used for various purposes, including processing your transactions, customer service, product and service development, direct marketing and marketing analysis, and facilitating your use of this website. The information we collect may be shared with our subsidiaries, agents, third party content providers, affiliates, and selected other entities for similar purposes. In addition, unless you opt out of receiving promotional materials from Beacon Group, we may notify you of special promotions, new products or services, or other information that may be of interest.

Beacon Group may also collect a password, a username, and a “security response” (which is a unique piece of personal information such as mother’s maiden name) for each member who uses the online Members Section. We use this information to verify members’ identities in order to prevent unauthorized access to members’ personal information. Beacon Group will not distribute members’ passwords, usernames, or security responses to anyone, unless compelled by law. Only a small number of selected Beacon Group employees and employees at our third-party software vendor have access to this information. This information is accessed only when necessary to provide technical support to members or diagnose or repair problems with the Members Section software. (See Opting Out section, below.)

Beacon Group, L.L.C. Co-branded Websites-Shared Information In order to provide additional features and services, Beacon Group, L.L.C. may offer its services in connection with a third party entity via a co-branded website. In the event a visitor utilizes a Beacon Group, L.L.C. co-branded service, the third party entity co-branding such website will typically have access to the information collected by Beacon Group, L.L.C., on both an aggregated and a non-aggregated basis.

Disclosure Required by Law
Under certain circumstances, Beacon Group, L.L.C. may be required by law, court order, governmental agency or law enforcement authority to disclose a visitor’s personal information. Notwithstanding anything in this Privacy Statement to the contrary, under such circumstances or when Beacon Group, L.L.C. reasonably believes it is required to disclose a visitor’s personal information, Beacon Group, L.L.C. reserves the right to disclose such personal information as is reasonably believed to be required.

About Cookies
When you visit a Beacon Group website, such as beacongroupllc.com, we place a text file called a cookie in the browser directory of your computer’s hard drive. A cookie is a small piece of information that a website can store on your web browser and later retrieve. The information that cookies collect includes the date and time of your visit, your registration information and your navigational activity. Cookies offer you many conveniences. They allow Beacon Group, and certain of its subsidiaries and third party content providers, to recognize information, such as the client postings you have created, and assist in determining what content is best suited to your needs.

Most browsers allow you to decline cookies, but if you elect to do so, these pages may not display properly. You are free to delete cookies after your session, and your browser should contain instructions on how to do this.

Opting Out
If you do not want to receive promotional information from Beacon Group, you can opt out by un-checking the appropriate box on your online registration form, or in the event an online registration form is not available, by notifying your account executive. If you did not opt out when you registered, and later decide that you are not interested in receiving this information, you can opt out at any time by sending an email to privacy@beacongroupllc.com or speaking with your account executive. Please note that if you opt out of receiving promotional material from Beacon Group, you still may receive such material from our subsidiaries, third party content providers, affiliates and other parties to whom we provide your information in the course of doing business, as explained above.

Security Statement
Beacon Group LLC is committed to maintaining the confidentiality and security of our customer’s information in Internet transactions. The Internet, does not inherently provide a secure means of sending and receiving information. Confidentiality of personal information you disclose via e-mail can not be guaranteed. We recommend against sending any personal information to us in e-mail.

In order to ensure consistency with our practices, we observe the following information security techniques and procedures:

  • Passwords or PINs (Personal Identification Numbers) are required for Member online transactions.
  • Information is exchanged via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption.
  • We require original signatures for materials which require third-party approvals and specific notifications or requests to disclose sensitive information.

Reviewing, Updating or Correcting Your Information
If you would like to review or revise information you previously provided on an online form, or believe that what we currently have on record is incorrect, you may update your information in the Account Registration section of this website.

Links to Other Websites
The sites to which we link, including but not limited to the sites of subsidiaries and third party content providers, may have different privacy policies and practices from those disclosed here. We assume no responsibility for the policies or practices of linked sites and encourage you to become acquainted with them.

Children
We do not intend to either solicit or collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are under 18, you should not use or enter information on this website.

Mergers, Asset Sales, Etc.
Please note that if Beacon Group, L.L.C. or any of its lines of business is sold or disposed of as a going concern, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, the relevant customer database of Beacon Group, L.L.C. could be sold as part of that transaction and your personally-identifying information accessed by such successor or purchaser.

Questions or Concerns
If at any time you believe that Beacon Group has not followed the above policy, please let us know by sending an email to privacy@beacongroupllc.com. We will make reasonable efforts to identify and correct any problem.

Acceptance of these Terms
By using the Beacon Group, L.L.C. website and Beacon Group, L.L.C. Services available herein, you signify your agreement to this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree to the terms of this policy, do not use the Beacon Group, L.L.C. website or Beacon Group, L.L.C. services and refrain from providing us with any information. Your continued use of the Beacon Group, L.L.C. website and Beacon Group, L.L.C. Services following any changes to this policy will mean that you accept the changes.

Changes to This Policy
We reserve the right to change the terms of this privacy policy at any time, but will not do so without posting the revised policy on this website. We encourage you to review this privacy policy whenever you visit our website to make sure you understand how we use the information we collect.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact us for assistance.