BARR Center Privacy Policy
Last Updated January 2026
We at the BARR Center (“BARR”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is designed to help you understand how we collect, use, safeguard, share, and disclose your personal information in connection with the use of our website. It also explains your rights and choices with respect to your personal information.
This Policy applies when you interact with our website located at https://www.barrcenter.org, the BARR member portal and any other websites, pages, features or content we own or operate (collectively, the “Site(s)”);
Please read this entire Policy to make sure that you fully understand it. By using our Sites, you agree to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Policy, and you agree to the accompanying Terms and Conditions. Our Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) govern all use of our Sites, and together with the Privacy Policy, constitute your agreement with us. If you do not agree with or you are not comfortable with any part of this Policy or the Terms, please immediately discontinue access or use of our Sites.
We may, in our sole discretion, modify or update this Policy from time to time. If we make a change to this Policy that we believe materially changes how we use your personal information or reduces your rights, we will notify you here or by means of a notice on our home page.
Types of Information We Collect
The information we gather is either information (for example, your name and address) that you voluntarily supply when you request information, or information gathered on usage patterns and preferences as visitors navigate the web site, use our services such as e-mail, or read our e-mail newsletters.
Cookies
To help make our web site more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we use a standard feature of browser software, called a “cookie”, to assign each visitor a unique, random number that resides on your computer. The cookie does not identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access our site. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself, we won’t know who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer as the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. A cookie cannot read unrelated data off your computer. We use cookies to help us deliver a better, more personalized service. For example, we use cookies to track the pages and services on our web site visited by our users. We can build a better web site if we know which pages and features our users are visiting and how often.
Browser Level Information and IP Addresses
Our web server automatically collects limited information about your computer configuration when you visit our web site, including the type of browser you use, the operating system you are running, the resolution of your computer monitor, the web site that referred you, and your IP address. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers connected to the Internet to identify your computer so that data such as the web pages you want to view can be transmitted to you. We use IP address information for systems administration and trouble-shooting purposes.
Google Analytics
This website shares information with Google through Google Analytics. The BARR Center uses Google Analytics data to improve online communications and inform general communications decisions. Your web browser automatically sends certain information to Google, including the URL of the page you’re visiting and your IP address. Google may also set cookies on your browser or read cookies already there.
Examples of data collected include:
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- Number of users
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- Session statistics
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- Approximate geolocation
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- Browser and device information
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- User clicks and downloads
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- User characteristics (such as age and gender)
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- Page views
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- Scrolls
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- Outbound clicks
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- Site search
To learn how you can control the information shared by your device with Google, visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. For more information about Google’s Privacy and Terms, visit https://policies.google.com/.
Links
This website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.
Other Disclosures
We may occasionally release information about our visitors when release is appropriate to comply with law, to protect the rights, property or safety of visitors to our sites, the public, our customers, or our government and its employees, agents, partners and affiliates.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You may send us an email at communications@barrcenter.org to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us.
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to communications@barrcenter.org.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Contact Us
Feel free to contact us about this privacy policy by emailing communications@barrcenter.org.
By mail: ATTN: Data Subject Request
The BARR Center
5115 Excelsior Blvd. #476
St. Louis Park, MN 55416
