How Bedloe collects, uses, and protects personal information. This document is placeholder scaffolding pending legal review.
Bedloe is operated by Steeb99, LLC, a California limited liability company. This Privacy Policy explains how Bedloe collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information when you visit bedloe.co, communicate with us, submit information through our forms, purchase services, or otherwise interact with Bedloe.
By using our website or services, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
The information we collect depends on how you interact with Bedloe.
Contact Information
We may collect your:
Professional and Career Information
Because Bedloe provides media and public relations services, clients and prospective clients may provide information concerning their professional background, including:
Intake and Questionnaire Information
Clients may submit detailed information through Bedloe questionnaires, onboarding forms, interviews, email, or other communications. This information is used to understand the client's background and develop appropriate media strategy and content. Clients should provide only information they are authorized and comfortable providing to Bedloe.
Documents and Files
You may voluntarily provide photographs, resumes, biographies, press materials, supporting documents, links, presentations, company materials, research, or other files.
Communications
We may retain emails, messages, call notes, form submissions, support requests, and other communications with Bedloe.
Transaction Information
When you purchase services, we may collect transaction details, billing information, purchase history, and payment status. Payment card information may be processed directly by third-party payment processors. Bedloe generally does not receive or store complete payment card numbers when transactions are processed through those providers.
Website and Device Information
When you use our website, we or our service providers may automatically collect information such as:
Bedloe may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, understand website usage, measure marketing performance, improve our services, and support advertising where applicable.
Your browser may allow you to block or delete cookies. Some website functionality may not operate properly if certain cookies are disabled.
Where required by applicable law, we will provide additional choices or obtain consent for non-essential cookies.
Bedloe may use personal information to:
Public relations necessarily involves sharing certain information with third parties for potential public dissemination.
When you engage Bedloe to pursue media coverage, you authorize Bedloe to share information approved or supplied for that purpose with appropriate writers, editors, journalists, publishers, media organizations, contractors, and other parties involved in developing or publishing coverage.
Once information is published by a third-party media organization, it becomes subject to that organization's policies and practices. Bedloe cannot control how publicly available information is subsequently indexed, archived, reproduced, quoted, or processed by third parties.
We may disclose personal information in the following circumstances.
Service Providers and Contractors
We may use service providers and contractors that assist with:
These parties may receive information reasonably necessary to perform services for Bedloe.
Media Partners
When necessary to provide requested PR services, information may be shared with writers, journalists, editors, publishers, and other media-related parties.
Business Transfers
Information may be transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar business transaction involving Steeb99, LLC or Bedloe.
Legal Requirements
We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, legal process, a court order, or a lawful government request.
Protection of Rights
We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property, security, or safety of Bedloe, Steeb99, LLC, our clients, users, or others.
Bedloe does not sell personal information for money.
Depending on the advertising and analytics technologies used on our website, certain data transfers could be treated as “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or a “sale” under some U.S. state privacy laws even when no money changes hands.
Where applicable law gives users the right to opt out of such processing, Bedloe will honor legally required requests and provide the mechanisms required by applicable law.
Bedloe does not knowingly sell or share personal information of individuals under 16 for targeted advertising.
If you provide a mobile telephone number or consent to receive text messages from Bedloe, mobile information and SMS consent will be used for the purposes disclosed when consent is obtained.
Mobile opt-in information and consent will not be sold or shared with third parties for their own marketing or promotional purposes.
Information may be provided to service providers that assist Bedloe in delivering text messages and operating its communications systems.
Consent to receive marketing text messages is not a condition of purchasing Bedloe's services where prohibited by law.
For individuals in jurisdictions that require a legal basis for processing personal information, Bedloe may process information based on:
Contract
Processing may be necessary to provide services you request or perform an agreement with you.
Consent
We may rely on consent where you have voluntarily agreed to particular processing. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent subject to applicable law.
Legitimate Interests
We may process information when reasonably necessary for legitimate business interests, such as operating our business, communicating with clients, improving services, protecting our systems, and marketing our services, provided those interests are not overridden by applicable individual rights.
Legal Obligations
We may process information when necessary to comply with applicable laws or legal obligations.
Legal Claims
We may process information when necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal rights.
Bedloe uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information.
These measures may include access controls, secure service providers, encryption where appropriate, authentication controls, backups, and other security practices.
No method of electronic storage or internet transmission is completely secure. Bedloe therefore cannot guarantee that personal information will never be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed without authorization.
Bedloe retains personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including providing services, maintaining business and transaction records, complying with legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing agreements.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, client relationship, contractual obligations, legal requirements, and operational needs.
When information is no longer reasonably required, Bedloe may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it, subject to applicable law and technical limitations involving backups and archival systems.
Depending on where you live and which privacy laws apply to Bedloe's processing of your information, you may have rights concerning your personal information.
These may include the right to:
These rights are not absolute and may be subject to exceptions under applicable law.
Bedloe will not unlawfully discriminate against an individual for exercising applicable privacy rights.
Requests may be submitted to ck@bedloe.co.
Bedloe may need to verify your identity before completing a request.
California residents may have privacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, when those laws apply to the business and processing at issue.
Applicable rights may include rights to know, access, correct, or delete certain personal information and to opt out of certain sales or sharing.
Not every provision of California's consumer privacy laws applies to every business. Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to represent that Bedloe is subject to a statutory requirement that does not legally apply to it.
Bedloe will nevertheless make reasonable efforts to respond appropriately to legitimate privacy inquiries.
If applicable data protection laws in your jurisdiction grant you additional rights, Bedloe will process valid requests in accordance with those laws.
Individuals protected by the GDPR or UK GDPR may, where applicable, have rights including access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, portability, and withdrawal of consent.
Bedloe is based in the United States. If you provide information to Bedloe from another country, your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States and other jurisdictions in which our service providers operate.
Those jurisdictions may have data protection laws that differ from the laws in your country.
Where legally required, Bedloe will use an appropriate mechanism for international transfers of personal information.
Where Bedloe is legally required to recognize Global Privacy Control or another legally recognized opt-out preference signal, Bedloe will process supported signals as required by applicable law.
Traditional “Do Not Track” browser signals do not currently operate under a single universally accepted standard. Bedloe's response to such signals may therefore depend on applicable law and the technologies used on the website.
Bedloe's services are intended for adults and professional clients.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through our services.
If we learn that personal information from a child under 13 has been collected without appropriate authorization, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, publishers, social media services, payment providers, or other services.
Bedloe does not control the privacy practices of independent third parties. This Privacy Policy does not govern information collected directly by those organizations.
We encourage users to review the privacy policies of third-party services before providing personal information to them.
You may opt out of promotional email communications by using the unsubscribe mechanism provided in the message or by contacting Bedloe.
Opting out of promotional communications does not prevent Bedloe from sending transactional, administrative, contractual, or service-related communications where appropriate.
Bedloe may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our services, technology, business practices, or legal requirements.
The current version will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.
Where required by law, Bedloe will provide additional notice or obtain consent before material changes become effective.
Questions, concerns, or privacy requests may be directed to:
Bedloe
Operated by Steeb99, LLC
Email: ck@bedloe.co
