Boise Bible College –Privacy Policy
Last Updated: June 16, 2026
If you are a resident of certain states in the United States (“U.S.”), you may have additional options and/or rights concerning your data, please see the U.S. specific disclosure to learn more.
Overview
This privacy notice (“Privacy Notice”) describes how Boise Bible College Inc. (“Boise Bible College”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) (a) collects, uses, retains, shares, or otherwise processes your data (“process” or “processes”); and (b) describes your rights regarding your personal data (as defined below) and how to exercise those rights. Please read this Privacy Notice carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your data and how we will treat it. Wherever appropriate in this Privacy Notice, a singular term shall be construed to mean the plural where necessary, and a plural term the singular.
This Privacy Notice may be modified from time to time. The date this Privacy Notice was “last updated” is at the top of this page. If we make a material change to this Privacy Notice, we will provide you with advance notice of such changes by email to the email we have on file for you and/or by posting a prominent notice on our website at least thirty (30) days prior to the effective date of the changes, and we will publish the updated Privacy Notice to: PRIVACY NOTICE.
For non-material changes, we advise you to frequently check this Privacy Notice for any updates. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE PLATFORM FOLLOWING THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF ANY CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE SIGNIFIES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE UPDATED TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY NOTICE, YOUR CHOICE IS TO NOT USE THE PLATFORM.
When This Privacy Notice Applies
This Privacy Notice applies to the data we collect from or about you when you take the following actions (collectively, the “Interaction Channels”):
- Visit or interact with one of the websites we own or control, including www.boisebiblefriends.org and www.boisebible.edu (each, a “Site”);
- Interact with us online via our (a) email, (b) social media, (c) online fillable forms, (d) public message boards, or (e) online advertising (collectively with Site, the “Digital Assets”);
- Participate in a sweepstake, contest, or promotion put on by us;
- Visit one of our campus buildings or brick & mortar stores (each a “Physical Location”); or
- Interact with us offline via telephone or at an in-person event.
This Privacy Notice also applies when you purchase products or use services available through the Interaction Channels (the “Offerings” and together with the Interaction Channels, the “Platform”).
This Privacy Notice does not apply to your data if you:
- Are our employee or independent contractor carrying out your obligations as an employee;
- Apply for a job with us;
- Are a current or former student and your data is governed by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”) as amended from time to time. Please review our FERPA Notice for more information on how we treat educational records governed by FERPA;
- Interact with third-party digital assets that are linked to or accessible from the Digital Assets; or
- Are provided notification of a different applicable notice at the time of collection.
- Type of Data Collected; Source of Data
The types of data we collect about you depend on your interactions with us and on our Platform. In this section, we describe the categories of data we collect, organized by the sources of this data.
We use your data to enable us to provide the Platform to you, to improve the Platform, and for other uses as stated in this Privacy Notice and in any ancillary agreements you may have entered into with us related to our Platform. We process your personal data based on: (a) your consent; (b) performance of a contract with you; (c) compliance with our legal obligations; and (d) our legitimate interests in operating and improving our Platform. If you do not provide your data when requested, you may not be able to use our Platform or certain features of our Platform in whole or in part (i) if that data is necessary to provide you with our Platform or such features or (ii) if we are legally required to collect the requested data.
1.1 Data You Directly Provide to Us
In addition to any other categories of data we state we are collecting at the time of collection, we may also collect the following data that you provide directly to us:
Personal Data. Data by which you may be personally identified such as name, address, phone number, email address, or any other data that could be used to identify you or that is associated with such identifiable data that could identify you (“personal data”);
Demographic Data. Data that is about you but that as an individual piece of data does not specifically identify you, such as birthdate, zip code, marital status, employment status, gender, age, education level, and spoken language;
Communications Data. Data contained in your communications with us through our Platform, such as when you request additional information about our Platform, provide us with feedback, provide information through forms on the Platform, or interact with our team or alumni, including personal data used to contact you, the date and time of your communications, and the content of your communications;
Login Data. Data related to your account such as username, password, and security questions;
Transaction Data. Data related to our Offerings, such as the type of Offerings requested or provided, order details, delivery information, or the amount charged. To complete a transaction, you may be required to provide payment and financial data such as the type of card, card number, expiration date, security code, and billing address. When you provide such data, it is processed directly by a third-party payment processor.
Sensitive Personal Data. Data that is about you such as racial or ethnic origin, national origin, religious beliefs, philosophical beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, mental or physical health condition, mental or physical health treatment, medical history, medical treatment or diagnosis by a health care professional, citizenship or immigration status, personal data of a known child, status as victim of crime, social security number, driver’s license number, state identification card number, or passport number, and financial account access credentials.
Sensory Data. Data such as audio, visual, or other sensory data.
1.2 Data Automatically Collected About You
As you navigate through and interact with our Platform, we, our service providers, or other third parties may use cookies, log files, pixel tags, software development kits (“SDKs”), and other client-side or server-side automatic data tracking technologies(“Automatic Tracking Technologies”), to collect certain data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including the following types of data:
Device Data. Data when you interact with the Platform such as technical data about your device including your IP address; unique identifiers and device type; domain, browser type, version, and language; operating system and system settings; and similar device data.
Usage Data. Data about your visits to and usage of our Platform including traffic data, logs, general location and time zone based on your IP address, heat maps that show where your mouse is on a Digital Assets page, other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Digital Assets, and navigation paths within the Digital Assets. This data may include links clicked, Digital Assets page views, searches, features used, items viewed, or time spent on the Digital Assets.
The Automatic Tracking Technologies we may use include the following:
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate settings on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Digital Assets. For information on how to manage your cookie preferences, please see the Your Choices About Your Data section below. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Digital Assets.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Digital Assets may use locally stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store data about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Digital Assets. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
Log Files. Log files are software-generated files containing data about the operations, activities, and usage patterns of an application, server, or IT system, such as what was done and at what time.
SDKs. A Software Development Kit or “SDK” represents a consolidated package of pre-existing code, enhancement tools, and guidance documents that can be installed and used to develop applications for a particular digital asset. SDKs allow our partners to directly extract data from our Digital Assets. The data collected has numerous applications including offering us insightful analytics about our Digital Assets’ usage, enabling social media incorporation, introducing new attributes or capabilities to our Digital Assets, or assisting in tracking and enhancing the efficacy of our online advertisements.
Web Beacons. Pages of our Digital Assets may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or for other related Digital Assets statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Digital Assets content and verifying system and server integrity).
1.3 Data We Collect from Other Sources
We may receive the data described above from other sources such as service providers and other third parties who help us provide the Platform or market our Platform to you. These other sources we may receive data from include the following:
Publicly Available Source. Data that is publicly available.
Service Providers. We may use service providers to provide the Platform to you or for any other purpose described in the How We Use Your Data section below. These service providers have contractual obligations regarding how they are allowed to use the data we provide to them which is limited to the purpose in which we provide it and for no other purpose.
Other Third Parties. We may use other third parties to assist us with providing the Platform to you or for any other purpose described in the How We Use Your Data section below. These third parties may provide us data about you such as data about your interaction with our Platform, marketing campaigns, or events in which we and you participate. These third parties’ privacy notices govern the collection and disclosure of your data by such third party.
Ministry Partners. We may receive personal data about prospective students from ministry partners and other organizations with whom we have established relationships for recruitment and outreach purposes.
2. How We Use Your Data
We, along with our service providers or other third parties, may use your data for the purposes described below. As part of these purposes, your data may be processed using artificial intelligence technologies (“AI”) including AI that generates images, text, audio, or video from user inputs (i.e., generative AI). When we use AI to process your data, we implement appropriate safeguards to protect your privacy and data security. We may use your data for the following purposes:
Provide and Improve our Interaction Channels. To provide the Interaction Channels to you, including personalizing the content, and features that match your activities, preferences, and settings on the Interaction Channels and to monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with Interaction Channels.
Provide and Improve our Offerings. To effectively deliver the Offerings you request as well as to, administer, present, support, maintain, and improve our products or services.
Communicate with You. To communicate with you, including when you request additional information from us, or when we contact you about your account such as reminders about your subscription renewal or a material change to our policies that affect you, or in connection with the Platform you have purchased from us. If we collect your phone number with consent to communicate with you via text messages, we will only do so for the purpose provided at the time you consented.
Advertise and Market to You. To send advertising or marketing communications (including targeted advertisements) about products or services offered by us and others, and provide news and information that we believe may be of interest to you and to analyze and enhance our marketing communications and strategies. For information about managing your marketing preferences, see the Your Choices About Your Data section below.
Provide Safety and Security. To detect and protect against malicious, deceptive, or illegal activity, including fraudulent transactions, errors, negligence, violations of any applicable terms, security incidents, and harm to the rights, property, or safety of us and our users, customers, employees, or others.
Troubleshoot. To identify and debug errors that impair the existing intended functionality of our Platform.
Facilitate Corporate Transactions. In anticipation of or in connection with a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which the data held by us is among the assets transferred.
Obtain Your Consent. In accordance with: (a) the way we describe to you when you provide the data to us; (b) your instruction or intentional direction; or (c) any other way when you consent.
Comply with Legal Obligations. To comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, including our tax obligations and those related to the prevention of fraud and money laundering, and those required for you to benefit from rights recognized by law, or any regulatory requirements or provisions.
In addition to the descriptions above regarding how we may use your data, we may also use it in the following ways:
Aggregated or De-identified Data. The data we collect via Automatic Tracking Technologies may include personal data. We may process it or associate it with data we collect in other ways or receive from other sources. We may use that aggregated data to enhance and personalize your experience with us, for promotional purposes, testing our IT systems, research, data analysis, improving our Digital Assets, developing new products and features, and for other purposes described in this Privacy Notice. We may use, without restriction, data that is aggregated or de-identified and is maintained in a form that cannot reasonably be used to infer data about, or otherwise be linked to, a particular individual or household.
Inferences from Your Data. In addition to the types of data and sources of data we describe above, we may also draw inferences or derive data about you based on other types of data we collect about you to create a profile reflecting your interest, preferences, and characteristics. We may use this data to enhance your experience on the Digital Assets, to track analytics about the usage of our Digital Assets, or to serve advertisements, including targeted advertisements to you.
4. How We Protect Your Data
We have implemented reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security measures designed to secure your personal data from accidental loss and unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.
The safety and security of your data also depend on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Platform, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Do not share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of data via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to our Platform. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained in the Platform. In the event of a data breach that compromises your personal data, we will notify you and any applicable regulatory authorities as required by applicable law.
5. Retention of Your Data
We will retain your personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide you with the Platform and fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Notice. If you ask us to delete your personal data or if you have an account with us and you delete your account, we will delete your personal data within a reasonable timeframe, typically within 30-60 days, though there may be some latency in deleting this data from our servers and back-up storage. We may retain certain personal data if necessary to comply withour legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements, and we will inform you of any such retention when you request deletion.
When we process personal data, we determine the retention period taking into account various criteria, such as the type of Platform provided to you, the nature and length of our relationship with you, the impact on our Platform we provide to you if we delete some data from or about you, and mandatory retention periods provided by law.
6. Your Choices About Your Data
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal data you provide to us. Below are options for your personal data. If you are a resident of a U.S. state with an applicable comprehensive privacy law, you may have additional options and/or rights concerning your data, please see the U.S. specific disclosure to learn more.
6.1 Accessing, Correcting, and Deleting Your Data
You can review and change your personal data by logging on to your account and correcting the data. If you do not have an account or cannot access certain personal data through your account, you may contact us using the information in the How to Contact Us section below to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data. We will respond to your request within the timeframe required by applicable law.
6.2 Automatic Tracking Technologies
You may be able to block or disable Automatic Tracking Technologies on your device at any time by changing your preferences or options menus in your browser. You may also be able to reject or delete the Automatic Tracking Technologies that are stored on your device. However, blocking, disabling, or deleting Automatic Tracking Technologies may limit your ability to view all the pages on our Digital Assets. Each browser provides different mechanisms for managing Automatic Tracking Technologies. Look at your browser’s help menu to determine the best way to modify your browser’s Automatic Tracking Technologies storage. You can usually find these settings in the “Options” or “Preferences” menu of your browser. You can use the “Help” or similar option in your browser for more details. You can still use our Digital Assets if you block or delete our Automatic Tracking Technologies, but your ability to access certain Digital Asset features may be limited.
To specifically find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to block and delete cookies, please visit: https://www.aboutcookies.org/.
The Platform also uses Google Analytics, which uses cookies or other Automatic Tracking Technologies to help us analyze how users interact with and use the Digital Assets, compile reports on activity, and provide other services related to activity and usage. Google Analytics may collect information such as your IP address, time of visit, whether you are a return visitor, and referring website. To learn more about how Google Analytics collects and processes data you may visit http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. For more information on how to opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites you use, visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
6.3 Targeted Advertising
We work with certain analytics and advertising providers, as described in the Whom We Share Your Data With & the Purpose of Disclosure section above and allow these analytics and advertising providers through our Digital Assets to place Automatic Tracking Technologies on your browser or device to collect data about you. The data they collect may be associated with your personal data or they may collect data, including personal data, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this data to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. While we do not control these third parties’ Automatic Tracking Technologies or how they may be used, we require our third-party advertising partners to comply with applicable privacy laws and to provide appropriate privacy protections for your personal data. We cannot, however, guarantee their compliance.
Some of our analytics and advertising providers may be members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) and/or are subject to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising published by the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”). You can obtain more information about these companies’ information collection practices and opt-out of receiving interest-based advertising from participating NAI and DAA members by going to the NAI’s website at http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1 or the DAA’s website at optout.aboutads.info. In addition, your mobile device settings may provide the functionality to limit our, or our partners’,ability to engage in ad tracking or targeted advertising using the Google Advertising ID or Apple ID for Advertising associated with your mobile device.
If you opt-out of targeted advertisements, you will still see advertisements online, but they may be less relevant to you. Please note that we may also work with companies that do not participate in the opt-out mechanisms described above. Even after using these opt-out mechanisms, you may receive targeted advertising from other companies. We do not control these third-party opt-out links,whether our advertising partners participate in these programs, or the continued availability or accuracy of these opt-out mechanisms. We are not responsible for the functionality or effectiveness of third-party opt-out tools.
6.4 Our Email Marketing to You
If you do not wish to receive our marketing emails, you may unsubscribe by following the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email or by contacting us through the contact information in the How to Contact Us section at the bottom of this Privacy Notice. After you unsubscribe from marketing emails, you may continue to receive transactional or relationship emails, such as order confirmations, account notifications, and service-related communications. If you have provided more than one email address to us, you may continue to be contacted unless you request to unsubscribe each email address you have provided.
6.5 Do Not Track Signals
Some web browsers (including Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome) incorporate a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) or similar feature that signals to websites that a user does not want to have his or her online activity and behavior tracked.
Please note that we do not recognize or respond to any signal which your browser might transmit through the DNT feature your browser might have. If you wish to disable Automatic Tracking Technologies on our Digital Assets, you should not rely on any “DNT” feature your browser might have.
7. Links to Other Third-Party Digital Assets
We may provide links to digital assets such as websites, applications or services that we do not own or operate (“third-party digital assets”). Those links are provided for your convenience. If you follow the link and visit those third-party digital assets, they too may collect data about you. We do not own or control any third-party digital assets, and we are not responsible for the practices employed by third-party digital assets linked to or from our Digital Assets. We recommend that you review the privacy notices of other third-party digital assets before authorizing third-party access to your data.
8. Children Under the Age of 13
Our Platform is not directed at or intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under the age of 13 may provide any personal data to or on the Platform. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any personal data on the Digital Asset or through any of its features, register, or in connection with the Platform. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that datawithin a reasonable time period. If you believe we might have any personal data from or about a child under 13, please contact us using the information in the "How to Contact Us" section below.
9. International Visitors
We are based in the United States. When we obtain personal data about you, we may process such data outside of the country in which you reside, including in the United States. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide personal data to us, please note that we transfer your personal data to the United States for processing. By using the Platform, you consent to the transfer and processing of your personal data in the United States, which may have different data protection laws than those in the country where you reside. Where required by applicable law, we implement appropriate safeguards for such transfers, including standard contractual clauses or other legally recognized transfer mechanisms.
10. Disabilities
This Privacy Notice is available to consumers with disabilities. To access this Privacy Notice in an alternative downloadable format, please click here. If you require this Privacy Notice in an alternative format or need assistance accessing our Platform, please contact us using the information in the "How to Contact Us" section below.
11. Shine the Light
“Shine the Light” law (Civil Code § 1798.83) permits users of the Offerings who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal data to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us at the information provided in the How to Contact Us section below.
12. How to Contact Us
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Notice and our practices in general, contact us at:
Physical Address
8695 West Marigold Street
Boise, ID 83714
