Privacy Policy

Version: April 2019

Who we are

Whatcom Business Alliance understands that the key to a robust local economy is the availability of a skilled workforce.

With that in mind, WBA launched the Youth Engagement Initiative (YEI) in 2018 to help prepare the emergent workforce and to connect them with local employers.

Under the Youth Engagement Initiative umbrella, a YES Whatcom campaign was created to raise awareness of career options, hands-on learning experiences, paid internships and apprenticeship programs that are available at Whatcom organizations.

The YES Whatcom awareness campaign, and this website, create space for families, educators, businesses and policy-makers to align with a common goal: To connect youth with local careers while also contributing to the local economy in positive ways.

Our website address is https://yeswhatcom.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Analytics

Google Analytics is installed on this site to track user interactions. Google Analytics uses cookies for this purpose. Here’s a bit of info from Google on how the Analytics platform uses cookies:

“Google Analytics is a simple, easy-to-use tool that helps website owners measure how users interact with website content. As a user navigates between web pages, Google Analytics provides website owners JavaScript tags (libraries) to record information about the page a user has seen, for example the URL of the page. The Google Analytics JavaScript libraries use HTTP Cookies to “remember” what a user has done on previous pages / interactions with the website.”

For more information on Google Analytics’ use of cookies, click here. And here’s how Google uses information from sites like ours who use their services: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Contact forms

On our contact form (https://yeswhatcom.com/contact/), we collect a name, email address and message. This is so we can contact you in response to any questions or comments you might have.

Cookies

If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

Google Analytics is installed on this site to track user interactions. Google Analytics uses cookies for this purpose. Here’s a bit of info from Google on how the Analytics platform uses cookies:

Embedded content from other websites

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.

Job forms and company profiles

This site collects information specific to Whatcom County companies, including company profile info and data specific to open positions, internships and apprenticeships. We collect this information in order to provide robust information for prospective employees. Depending on the nature of your company or business, some of the information requested for a company profile or job posting might be of a personal nature. Please do not include any information in your company profile or job posting that you would not want to be made public.

Mailing list

You have the option of submitting your email address to join our mailing list. We use MailChimp for our mailing services. Any email address you submit via our form is sent to MailChimp and stored there for the purpose of our sending you our newsletter. MailChimp has shared some information online about how their policies protect your data. You can find that information in Section 3, Privacy for Contacts, of MailChimp’s policy (https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/).

Media

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.

How long we retain your data

For users who register on our website, we store the personal information you provide in your 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.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

To receive a copy of your data or to have your data erased, please send us a message via our Contact form, call us at (360) 746-0418 or write to us at 2423 E Bakerview Road, Bellingham, WA 98226.

Changes to this policy

We may change this privacy policy at any time. All updates to this policy are effective immediately upon notice, which we may give by any means, including (but not limited to) updating this online version of the policy or sending you an email, if we have an address on file. Please review this privacy policy often to ensure that you are up-to-date on changes that may affect you.

Contact us

If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, or if you would like to receive a copy of your data or have it erased, please send us a message via our Contact form, call us at (360) 746-0418 or write to us at 2423 E Bakerview Road, Bellingham, WA 98226.