BPM Microsystems – Privacy Policy

BPM Microsystems, Inc. – Privacy Policy

Effective Date: June 26, 2026
Last Updated: June 26, 2026

BPM Microsystems, Inc. ("BPM", "we", "us", or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information entrusted to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard information when you visit our website, communicate with us, download software or documentation, request information, attend events or webinars, receive marketing communications, or otherwise interact with BPM Microsystems.

BPM is a business-to-business provider of semiconductor device programming systems, automated programming systems, socket adapters, software, support, and related services. Our website and services are intended primarily for companies, engineers, manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, and other professional representatives acting in a business capacity.

This Privacy Policy is intended to describe our general privacy practices. It does not create contractual rights beyond those required by applicable law.

1. Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through or in connection with:

The BPM Microsystems website, including www.bpmmicro.com and related pages;
Customer portals, secure areas, software download areas, and technical-resource areas;
Contact forms, sales inquiries, support requests, quote requests, and information requests;
Event registrations, webinar registrations, and marketing campaigns;
Email, telephone, live chat, and other business communications;
Business relationships with customers, distributors, representatives, suppliers, service providers, and partners.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites, platforms, or services that BPM does not control, even if those websites or services are linked from our website.

2. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with BPM. In most cases, the information we collect is business contact information or information related to a business relationship.

2.1 Business Contact Information

We may collect business contact information, such as:

Name;
Company or organization name;
Job title or role;
Business email address;
Business telephone number;
Business mailing address;
Country, region, or territory;
Distributor, representative, or customer affiliation.

2.2 Account and Access Information

If you access secure areas of our website, customer portals, or software download areas, we may collect information needed to create, manage, authenticate, and support your account, such as usernames, account identifiers, passwords or password credentials, access permissions, download history, and account activity logs. Passwords are intended to be stored using appropriate security practices rather than in plain text.

2.3 Inquiry, Form, and Communication Information

When you submit a form, request a quote, contact Sales or Support, register for an event, request device support, or communicate with BPM, we may collect the information you provide. This may include the content of your request, product interests, application details, company requirements, device information, project timing, purchase or service history, and related correspondence.

2.4 Technical and Usage Information

When you visit our website, we and our service providers may collect technical and usage information, such as:

IP address and approximate geographic region derived from IP address;
Browser type and version;
Device type, operating system, and device identifiers;
Referring website or campaign source;
Pages viewed and links clicked;
Files, documents, or software downloaded;
Date, time, and duration of website activity;
Cookie identifiers and similar online identifiers;
Error logs, security logs, and performance information.

2.5 Information from Business Partners and Service Providers

We may receive business contact information or related business information from distributors, representatives, marketing platforms, analytics platforms, CRM systems, event organizers, lead-generation sources, or other business service providers, where permitted by law.

2.6 Sensitive Personal Information

BPM does not intentionally collect sensitive personal information unrelated to our business purposes, such as personal medical information, government identification numbers, financial account credentials, personal household information, or information about children. Please do not submit sensitive personal information through our website unless specifically requested for a legitimate business or legal purpose.

3. How We Use Information

We use information for legitimate business purposes, including to:

Respond to inquiries, quote requests, device support requests, and customer support requests;
Provide requested products, services, software, documentation, downloads, or technical resources;
Create, authenticate, and manage access to secure areas of our website;
Support customer, distributor, supplier, and partner relationships;
Process orders, fulfill contractual obligations, and manage commercial transactions;
Send business communications, product updates, technical information, event invitations, and marketing communications where permitted by law;
Improve our website, products, services, marketing, and customer experience;
Analyze website traffic, usage patterns, campaign performance, and content effectiveness;
Measure and improve advertising effectiveness;
Protect the security, availability, and integrity of our website, systems, and business operations;
Detect, prevent, and respond to fraud, abuse, security incidents, or technical issues;
Comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal process, and contractual obligations;
Protect BPM’s legal rights and the rights of our customers, users, and business partners.

4. Legal Bases for Processing Where Required

Where a legal basis for processing is required, BPM may process personal information based on one or more of the following grounds:

Performance of a contract or steps taken before entering into a contract;
BPM’s legitimate business interests, such as communicating with business contacts, operating our website, providing support, improving our services, and protecting our systems;
Consent, where consent is required for marketing communications, cookies, or similar technologies;
Compliance with legal obligations;
Protection of legal rights, including establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims.

Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw that consent as described in this Privacy Policy or through the relevant consent mechanism, such as the Cookie Settings tool.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website uses cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, and similar technologies to operate the website, remember user choices, protect the site, analyze usage, improve performance, support marketing, and measure advertising effectiveness.

BPM uses CookieYes to provide a cookie consent banner and cookie preference controls. Visitors may manage cookie preferences through the cookie banner or Cookie Settings tool made available on the website.

5.1 Cookie Categories

Depending on your location, consent choices, and website activity, cookies may be grouped into categories such as:

Necessary cookies: These cookies are required for the website to operate, maintain security, remember consent choices, support forms, and provide access to secure or account-related areas. Necessary cookies generally cannot be disabled through the cookie banner.
Functional cookies: These cookies help the website remember preferences, support enhanced functionality, display embedded content, and improve user experience.
Analytics cookies: These cookies help BPM understand how visitors use the website, which pages are visited, how visitors arrive at the site, and how website content and downloads perform.
Performance cookies: These cookies may be used to measure and improve website performance, loading behavior, reliability, and usability.
Advertising or marketing cookies: These cookies may be used to measure advertising effectiveness, support business-to-business marketing activities, and evaluate campaign performance.
Other cookies: Some cookies may not initially fit into the categories above. These are reviewed and categorized as part of BPM’s cookie management process.

5.2 Managing Cookie Preferences

Where applicable, non-essential cookies can be accepted, rejected, or managed through the CookieYes banner and Cookie Settings tool. Necessary cookies are generally required for the website to function and cannot be disabled through the cookie banner.

You may also manage cookies through your browser settings. Browser controls may allow you to delete cookies, block cookies, or receive alerts when cookies are being used. Blocking certain cookies may affect website functionality or limit access to certain features.

For more detailed information about cookies used on the BPM website, please refer to the Cookie Policy or Cookie Declaration made available through the website and maintained through CookieYes.

6. Analytics, Advertising, and Third-Party Services

BPM uses selected third-party service providers to support website operations, analytics, advertising effectiveness, customer relationship management, marketing automation, website security, forms, embedded media, and customer support. These services may use cookies or similar technologies, subject to your choices and applicable law.

Examples of service categories and providers that may be used on or in connection with our website include:

Website analytics and performance measurement, such as Google Analytics;
Advertising and campaign measurement, such as Google Ads;
Customer relationship management and marketing automation, such as Salesforce and Salesforce Account Engagement (Pardot);
Business social-media and advertising technologies, such as LinkedIn;
Embedded video and multimedia content, such as YouTube;
Website security, content delivery, and bot protection, such as Cloudflare;
Website forms and form processing, such as WPForms;
Customer support or live chat technologies, such as Salesforce Live Agent or similar support tools.

The specific technologies used on our website may change over time as our website, marketing programs, and business systems evolve. We aim to keep our Cookie Policy and cookie inventory reasonably current through periodic review and scanning.

Third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and terms. BPM does not control the privacy practices of third-party websites or platforms that are not operated by BPM.

7. How We Share Information

BPM does not sell personal information for money. BPM does not rent personal information or sell marketing lists.

We may share information in the following circumstances:

Service providers: We share information with trusted service providers that help us operate our website, host our systems, provide analytics, support marketing, process forms, provide CRM and marketing automation tools, protect our website, or support customer communications.
Distributors, representatives, and business partners: Where appropriate, we may share business contact information with BPM distributors, representatives, or partners to respond to inquiries, support sales activity, provide customer service, or fulfill a business request.
Legal and compliance purposes: We may disclose information if required by law, subpoena, court order, regulatory request, or legal process, or if necessary to protect BPM’s legal rights, users, customers, business partners, or the security of our systems.
Business transactions: We may disclose information in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, or similar business transaction, subject to appropriate safeguards.
With consent: We may share information for other purposes with your consent or at your direction.

Some online advertising or analytics activities may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under certain privacy laws even when no money is exchanged. Where required, BPM provides mechanisms such as “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” or cookie preference controls to allow users to exercise applicable choices.

8. Marketing Communications

Business contacts may receive product updates, technical information, webinar invitations, event notices, distributor communications, service updates, or other business-to-business marketing communications from BPM. We send marketing communications where permitted by applicable law and based on business context, consent, prior relationship, or legitimate business interest, as applicable.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the communication or by contacting BPM. Even if you opt out of marketing communications, we may still send transactional or service-related communications, such as responses to inquiries, support communications, account notices, software download information, or legally required notices.

9. International Data Transfers

BPM Microsystems is headquartered in the United States. If you are located outside the United States, information submitted through our website or provided to BPM may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other countries where BPM, its affiliates, distributors, representatives, or service providers operate.

Data protection laws in those countries may differ from the laws in your jurisdiction. Where required, BPM takes steps designed to provide appropriate protection for personal information transferred internationally.

10. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to support business relationships, provide products and services, maintain account access, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and protect BPM’s legal rights.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, the nature of the business relationship, legal or contractual requirements, and operational needs. When information is no longer required, we take reasonable steps to delete, de-identify, or anonymize it, subject to backup, archival, legal, or compliance requirements.

11. Security

BPM uses administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These safeguards may include secure hosting, access controls, password protections, encryption where appropriate, firewalls, monitoring, backups, and other security practices.

No method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure. While we work to protect information, we cannot guarantee absolute security. Users are responsible for protecting their account credentials and notifying BPM promptly of any suspected unauthorized access.

12. Your Privacy Rights and Choices

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding personal information we maintain about you. These may include the right to:

Request access to personal information;
Request correction of inaccurate information;
Request deletion of eligible information;
Object to or restrict certain processing;
Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
Request information about certain disclosures;
Opt out of certain marketing communications;
Opt out of certain cookie, analytics, or advertising technologies where applicable.

To submit a privacy request, contact BPM at info@bpmmicro.com. We may need to verify your identity and authority before fulfilling certain requests. We will respond to privacy requests as required by applicable law.

13. California Privacy Information

California residents may have additional rights under applicable California privacy laws. BPM’s website and services are primarily business-to-business in nature and are intended for business representatives, but we provide the following information for transparency.

13.1 Categories of Personal Information

Depending on your interaction with BPM, we may collect categories of information such as identifiers, business contact information, internet or network activity information, commercial or business relationship information, professional or employment-related information in a business context, and communications or inquiry information.

13.2 Purposes for Collection and Use

We collect and use information for the business purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including responding to inquiries, providing products and services, supporting customer and distributor relationships, operating and securing our website, improving our services, conducting analytics, measuring advertising effectiveness, and complying with legal obligations.

13.3 Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

BPM does not sell personal information for money and does not rent personal information. However, certain analytics, advertising, or marketing technologies used on business websites may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under some privacy laws because they involve the disclosure of online identifiers or usage information to third-party platforms for advertising or measurement purposes.

Where required, BPM provides choices through the CookieYes consent banner, Cookie Settings tool, and “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” mechanisms. If you exercise an opt-out choice, BPM will process that preference as required by applicable law and as technically feasible through our consent-management tools.

13.4 Exercising California Privacy Rights

California residents may submit privacy requests by contacting info@bpmmicro.com. BPM will not discriminate against individuals for exercising privacy rights required by applicable law.

14. Third-Party Websites and Embedded Content

Our website may include links to third-party websites or embedded content, such as videos, maps, social media features, partner pages, distributor sites, or external resources. These third parties may collect information when you interact with their content or websites.

BPM is not responsible for the privacy practices, security practices, or content of third-party websites or platforms that BPM does not control. We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies and cookie practices of third-party websites before providing personal information or interacting with embedded content.

15. Children’s Privacy

BPM’s website, products, and services are intended for business users and are not directed to children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information to BPM, please contact us so that we can take appropriate action.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our business practices, website technologies, service providers, legal requirements, or operational needs. When we update this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of the document. Material changes will be posted on our website as appropriate.

We encourage visitors to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

17. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise privacy rights, or need to contact BPM regarding privacy matters, please contact:

BPM Microsystems, Inc.
15000 Northwest Freeway
Houston, Texas 77040 USA
Email: info@bpmmicro.com