This notice explains how the Berklee Asia Rising website and BAR Network handle information. It applies to public pages, member accounts, profiles, connection requests, opportunities, editorial participation, safety tools, project credits, and BAR photo collections.
This website is independently operated by Berklee Asia Rising and is not owned or operated by Berklee College of Music. Berklee systems and external services have their own privacy practices. BAR does not sell member information or use it for unrelated advertising.
1. What this notice covers
BAR includes a public website and a member environment. Public pages present BAR programming, performances, editorial work, photos, project records, and professional credits. The member environment supports account access, professional profiles, collaboration requests, editorial submissions, opportunities, and safety tools.
Some information is public by design. Other information is limited to verified members, BAR administrators, or the person who submitted it. The sections below explain those differences.
2. Information BAR handles
Account and security information
BAR may handle an invited email address, display name, account role, password credentials, sign-in sessions, account claim and password-recovery records, and acknowledgement of current community standards.
Professional profile information
Members may add a creative and professional focus, practice areas, education context and graduation year, general location, relationship to BAR, skills, genres, availability, biography, work links, social links, and a profile photo. Members choose the visibility of their profile and selected fields.
Participation and communication
BAR may handle connection requests, opportunity interest, partner inquiries, editorial drafts and reviews, photo submissions, reports, blocks, and account-support requests. These records may include the information a person submits about a project, timing, compensation, rights, safety, or another relevant concern.
Public work and credits
BAR may synchronize public video titles, descriptions, thumbnails, publication details, and names or roles listed in public YouTube descriptions. BAR also maintains project and participation records supplied or approved by the founder and project teams.
Technical information
The website and its hosting services may process an IP address, browser and device information, request time, pages requested, and security or diagnostic events. This information supports delivery, abuse prevention, rate limiting, troubleshooting, and system integrity.
3. How information is used
BAR uses information to:
- create, secure, and support member accounts;
- display information that members choose to publish;
- help people discover relevant professional skills, interests, and documented work;
- route connection requests, opportunities, partnerships, and editorial activity;
- document projects, participation, and professional credits;
- deliver requested account and administrative notices;
- review safety concerns and apply community standards; and
- protect, maintain, and improve the website.
BAR does not provide directory information for data harvesting, list resale, unrelated promotion, or unsolicited mass outreach.
4. What other people can see
Member profiles support three visibility levels: public, verified members, and private. Members can also make location, education status, availability, and connection preferences more restrictive than the rest of their profile.
Email addresses, passwords, account-recovery information, private reports, blocks, and administrative records are not displayed in the public directory. Connection requests are shared only with the members involved and administrators needed for safety or support. When a member sends a connection request, BAR asks for explicit confirmation before using that sender’s account email as the reply address. The recipient’s email remains hidden from the sender unless the recipient chooses to reply.
Published articles, approved photos, public project records, and professional credits can be visible to anyone. Public credits may remain part of a historical project record even if a related member account is later deactivated or deleted. A person may request a factual correction or raise a privacy concern about a public record.
5. Services that support BAR
BAR currently relies on a small group of service providers:
- Cloudflare supports website delivery, security, server functions, relational data, and uploaded image storage.
- Resend supports transactional email such as password recovery, member invitations, connection-request notifications, and administrative notices when those features are enabled.
- Google and YouTube provide public channel metadata and video playback or links. When a visitor plays or opens YouTube content, Google may process information under its own terms and privacy practices.
BAR shares information with these services only as needed to operate the relevant feature. BAR may also disclose information when required by law, to protect personal safety, or to investigate misuse of the service.
6. Retention and member choices
BAR keeps account and participation information for as long as reasonably needed to operate the service, maintain accurate project and safety records, meet legal obligations, and resolve concerns. Short-lived claim, recovery, and session records expire according to the security settings of the system.
Members can change profile visibility, pause connection requests, update professional information, download a copy of their BAR account data, request deactivation, or request deletion from Member Home. Deletion requests are reviewed so that private account information can be handled separately from published articles, approved photos, and factual public credits.
To correct a credit, ask about a photo, or make a privacy request without access to Member Home, contact eklee@berklee.edu.
7. Security
BAR uses measures designed to protect member information, including password hashing, hashed account-recovery and invitation tokens, expiring sessions, secure cookies, access controls, rate limiting, and encrypted service secrets.
No online service can promise absolute security. Members should use a unique password, protect access to their email account, and report unexpected account activity promptly.
8. Contact and updates
Questions, access requests, corrections, or privacy concerns can be sent to eklee@berklee.edu. Please include enough information to identify the relevant account, project, image, or credit without sending unnecessary sensitive information.
BAR may update this notice when its features, service providers, or legal responsibilities change. The current revision date will appear at the top of this page.
For an immediate threat to personal safety, contact the appropriate emergency or campus service before using BAR’s reporting or privacy channels.