The Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute (BUEI) collects and retains essential personal information from members, donors, prospective donors and other key stakeholder groups. This information is necessary for delivering BUEI’s programmes, maintaining stakeholder engagement and managing donor relationships. BUEI is a registered Bermuda charity in good standing and depends on donations received from members, individuals, businesses, and philanthropic foundations to support operations and programming. Personal data is a critical component of managing stakeholder relationships and helps fortify BUEI’s engagement with our members, supporters and programme participants.

BUEI Is Committed To Protecting Your Privacy

BUEI’s privacy practices and procedures for handling personal information are guided by Bermuda’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). We are committed to upholding best practice and adhering to applicable laws that protect your privacy. As such, all stakeholders have the right to:

• • • Access your personal information at any time, upon request
    • Understand how BUEI is using your personal information
    • Request that BUEI make corrections, deletions or edits to your personal information

Click HERE to learn more about BUEI’s privacy practices or contact us to exercise your privacy rights.

Sensitive Personal Information

As a standard practice, other than gender for the purpose of certain programming needs, BUEI does not typically collect or retain sensitive personal information such as:

• • • Race, Ethnic Background
    • Sex, Sexual Preferences
    • Physical or Mental Health Status
    • Disabilities, Biometric or Genetics Information
    • Religion, Religious Beliefs

On occasions where BUEI may need to collect sensitive information, we will not retain the information or link it to personal data records.

BUEI is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring transparency in our data practices.

For more information on the Personal Information Privacy Act, visit GOV.BM