Effective: January 2021
Updated: January 2021
Around the globe, consumers trust Bright Horizons to provide high-quality education and care, operate with integrity, and empower them to thrive. Respecting the privacy rights of our consumers is an integral part of building and maintaining that trust. This Notice explains how Bright Horizons collects and uses its consumers' personal information.
This Notice applies to any prospective, current or former consumers of Bright Horizons' services, websites, apps and social media (Consumers). Bright Horizons' services include child and adult care (e.g., in-home care, center care, information and resources), parental leave toolkit, coaching, consulting, educational advising and tuition assistance (Services).
This Notice covers our Services globally. Consumers can click on the links below for additional terms that apply to Consumers residing in certain regions or receiving Services in those regions. The region-specific terms only apply to the Services that operate in those geographic locations or as applicable law requires.
A separate Global Staff and Supplier Privacy Notice applies to prospective, current and former staff and suppliers (including employees, apprentices, agency workers and contractors).
For simplicity throughout this Notice, 'we', 'us' and 'our' means Bright Horizons and 'you' or 'your' means Consumer.
Bright Horizons is made up of a number of companies. This section gives you the legal name of the Bright Horizons' company responsible for processing your personal information.
Bright Horizons has a Global Privacy Officer (who also acts as its Data Protection Officer for the UK and the Netherlands) and can be contacted at dataprivacy@brighthorizons.com.
We limit the collection of your personal information to what is necessary. We do not sell your personal information to any third parties. Below we have highlighted the main reasons for collection:
Consumers receiving Services in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands and any other country in the European Economic Area: read additional information that applies to you.
There are a variety of contexts under which we will collect your personal information.
When you visit our websites or use our applications (apps) or social media, we collect your personal information from:
Our website is not intended for use by children under 16 years of age nor do we knowingly collect personal information from children under 16 through our website. If you are under 16, please do not use or provide any information on our website.
When you call our Contact Centers, we will collect your personal information from:
When you receive Services from us, we will collect your personal information from:
If you are a prospective consumer, we will process:
If you are a current or former consumer, we will process:
Residents of California: read additional information that applies to you.
Consumers receiving Services in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands and any other country in the European Economic Area: read additional information that applies to you.
We consider your personal information confidential and do not share it with anyone else except as described in this Notice. There are limited circumstances that require us to disclose your personal information to others in order to deliver Services and meet our contractual/legal obligations or legitimate business interests. Examples include:
Electronic Information | Some personal information may remain on electronic storage data systems in the country where we provide the service. However, our primary electronic storage facilities and contact centers are in the United States. Please note that we (or our Affiliates, service providers or agents) may process personal information in other countries, where your personal information may be subject to the laws of that jurisdiction, including laws regarding the disclosure of personal information to government authorities. We ensure appropriate safeguards are in place before we transfer personal information to any other country. Consumers receiving Services in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands and other country in the European Economic Area: learn more about how we safeguard your information and comply with privacy laws. | |
Hardcopy Information | The hardcopy of personal information we collect remains in the country where you receive the services or provide the information. |
Whenever we collect or process your personal information, we'll only keep it for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and as required under law. At the end of that retention period, your information will either be deleted completely or anonymised, for example by aggregation with other information so that it can be used in a non-identifiable way for research, statistical analysis and business planning.
To ask for your information to be amended, please follow one of the steps below as applicable to the Services you receive:
To ask for direct marketing communications to stop, please follow the steps below:
Please note that you may continue to receive communications for a short period after changing your preferences while our systems are fully updated.
If you have any questions about your privacy rights, you can contact our Global Privacy Officer at dataprivacy@brighthorizons.com.
Residents of California: read additional information that applies to you.
Consumers receiving Services in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands and any other country in the European Economic Area: read additional information that applies to you.
We utilise appropriate technical, organisational, and physical safeguards to protect your personal information we process in both physical and electronic formats. We provide data protection, privacy and security training and conduct internal periodic quality assurance audits to ensure we maintain these standards.
However, please note that no computer system or information can ever be fully resilient against every possible hazard or risk. We do maintain appropriate levels of security in accordance with data protection, privacy and security laws and regulations in the territories we operate and keep these under review.
You also play a valuable part in protecting the security of your personal information. You should never share with anyone your password to access any accounts that you created or which we created for you. When using a browser to access your account, after you have finished you should log out and exit your browser to prevent unauthorised users from returning to your account.
If you believe that someone has improperly used your account or provided information about you that you didn't authorise, please contact us immediately at dataprivacy@brighthorizons.com.
This Notice is subject to change in order to remain compliant with data protection and privacy laws in the territories in which we operate. Please check back periodically, especially before you provide any personal information.
This Notice was last updated in November 2020.
We hope this Notice has been helpful in setting out the way we process your personal information and how we do this in a transparent and accountable manner.
If you have any questions that haven't been covered by this Notice, please contact our Global Privacy Officer at dataprivacy@brighthorizons.com.
Effective: December 2019
Updated: November 2020
This Bright Horizons website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of this website. This helps us to provide you with an optimised experience when you browse our website and allows us to make continual improvements to this website. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or hard drive of your device used to visit this website. This Global Cookie Notice provides you with information about cookies we use and how to control them for this website.
"Affiliate" - an affiliate is a website operator who can send traffic to our website using links from another website. The affiliate is paid an agreed commission from the referral by Bright Horizons.
"First-Party and Third-Party Cookies" - whether a cookie is 'first' or 'third' party refers to the domain placing the cookie. First-Party cookies are those set by us when visited by the user at the time - the website displayed in the URL window. Third-Party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than us. If a user visits our website and another entity sets a cookie through our website, then this would be a Third-Party cookie.
"Persistent Cookies" - these cookies remain on a user's device for the period of time specified in the cookie.
"Session Cookies" - these cookies allow us to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser. Session cookies are created temporarily and once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.
"Social Media Cookies" - these cookies are also known as "analytics cookies" and collect information about how visitors use our website. This information is aggregated to provide us insights in how the website is being used.
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie, to develop a record of the user's online activity. Cookies on this website may be delivered in a first-party (set by the Bright Horizons website) or third-party (set by another website) context and may also be set in association with emails you receive from us.
Cookies help us enhance your experience when using the website. They also help us understand how people use our website, such as which pages are most popular, so that we can make continuous improvements for delivering an optimum experience.
"Personal data," "personal information" and "personally identifiable information" have become common terms used across jurisdictions around world and are used in various statutes and regulations in different contexts and are assigned different meanings. For example, under the California Consumer Privacy Act 2018 (CCPA), the term "personal information" refers to any information that "identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household." The CCPA includes a non-exhaustive list of data types that fall within that definition. That list includes "unique personal identifiers," a term which itself is defined as including "cookies" that are used to "recognise a . . . device that is linked to a consumer or family, over time and across different services." In this context, certain cookies will be considered "personal information" for the purposes of the CCPA.
Similarly, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) defines personal data as "any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person." Where such link exists, then such a cookie becomes part of the set of "personal data."
Not all cookies are the same or have the same purpose. We use the following five types of cookies on our website:
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These cookies are also referred to as "first-party essential cookies" and "session cookies". These session cookies are essential to enable you to navigate the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. These cookies are strictly necessary for the website to function and can't be switched off in our systems. They're usually only set in response to actions made by you that amount to a request for services, such as booking a tour of a nursery or center; setting your privacy preferences; logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the website won't work as a result. These cookies don't store any personal data/information or personally identifiable information (PII).
Examples include:
These cookies are also referred to as "first-party cookies", "third-party cookies" or "performance cookies". These cookies allow us or third-parties to count visits, traffic sources and collect information about how visitors use our website. We do this so we can measure and optimise the user experience. For example, we can learn which pages visitors go to most often and if they get error messages from webpages. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous, so won't identify you personally. If you don't allow these cookies on the device you use to visit the website, we'll not know when you've visited our website and won't be to monitor its performance.
Examples include:
These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.
Examples include:
These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They don't store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you don't allow these cookies, you'll experience less targeted advertising.
Examples include:
These cookies are also referred to as "analytics cookies" and are always "third-party cookies". These cookies may be set through our website by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other websites. They don't store personal data/information directly but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you don't allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
These cookies are set by a range of social media services, such as Facebook that we've added to the website to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. These cookies can track your browser across other websites and building up a profile of your interests and can impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you don't allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these social media sharing tools.
Examples include:
To manage cookies in a web browser, you should go to Tools/Internet options/Security and Privacy Tabs to adapt the browser to your preferences. If you use different devices in different locations, you'll need to ensure that each browser is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.
Some modern browsers have a feature that will analyse website privacy policies and allow a user to control their privacy preferences. These are known as 'P3P' features (Privacy Preferences Platform).
You can easily delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser. For example, if you're using Microsoft Windows Explorer:
If you're not using Microsoft Windows Explorer, then you should select 'cookies' in the 'Help' function for information on where to find your cookie folder.
Collection of your personal data/information from our analytics cookies can be deleted. If cookies are deleted, the information collected prior to the preference change may still be used, however, we'll stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information from your user experience. When a user opts out of being tracked for marketing purposes, a new cookie is placed to prevent user data from being tracked. Users who have opted out may still see these cookies in a web browser, but data will not be collected.
For further information, contact the Global Privacy Officer at dataprivacy@brighthorizons.com.
Effective: November 2020
Updated: November 2020
We are disclosing information about our data processing practices as required by the United Kingdom's Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This DPA/GDPR Addendum supplements the information contained in the Bright Horizons Global Privacy Consumer Notice and applies exclusively to Consumers using Services in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands and any other country within the European Economic Area.
Bright Horizons relies on the following legal basis for processing your personal information.
We may process some of your personal information outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Whenever we transfer personal information out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by putting in place appropriate safeguards and protections.
For transfers to the United States, we rely on the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission that afford personal information the same protections it has in Europe and have completed appropriate risk assessments as required under the European Court of Justice ruling for Case C-311/18 Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Ltd and Maximilian Schrems ("Schrems II").
Please contact the Global Privacy Officer at dataprivacy@brighthorizons.com if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal information out of the EEA.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions LLC does not rely on the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework to transfer your personal information out of the European Economic Area. However, Bright Horizons Family Solutions LLC remains certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework and does comply with its requirements as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information we transfer from the United Kingdom and European Union to the United States. Bright Horizons Family Solutions LLC certified to the Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles. The Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over our compliance with the Privacy Shield.
If there is any conflict between the terms in our Global Privacy Notice, DPA/GDPR Notice and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall apply. Learn more about the Privacy Shield program and view our certification.
Under certain circumstances, you have the right to invoke binding arbitration for complaints regarding our Privacy Shield compliance that you have been unable to resolve through any of the other Privacy Shield mechanisms. Learn more about the binding arbitration mechanism.
In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, Bright Horizons Family Solutions LLC commits to the following:
You have the right to request:
Please contact the Global Privacy Officer at dataprivacy@brighthorizons.com if you would like to:
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
In circumstances where we are processing your personal information based on our legitimate interest, you can ask us to stop for reasons connected to your individual situation. We must then do so unless we believe we have a legitimate overriding reason to continue processing your personal information that doesn't infringe your rights and freedoms. You have the right to challenge our decision to the Supervisory Authority or seek legal redress through the courts.
If you feel that your personal information hasn't been handled correctly, or you are unhappy with our response to any requests you have made regarding the use of your personal information, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant Supervisory Authority.
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