PRIVACY POLICY
At World WebX, we believe privacy is a fundamental right. World WebX is founded on the principle of helping photographers within our platform where users can share their photos with the community, buy and sell, build websites and search for photos, like or comment on them.
INFORMATION COLLECTED BY WORLD WEBX
We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our website. This information allows us to provide you with a customized and efficient experience. We collect the following types of information from our World WebX users.
INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US
We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features.
REGISTRATION
In order for you to use World WebX services you must complete a registration form. As part of this registration form, we require certain personal information.
USER PROFILE
To allow you to express yourself beyond just the information collected during registration, we enable you to provide additional information, such as your first and last names, email address, social media account names, your birthday, a bio, favorite URLs, and instant messaging IDs. In addition, you may choose to include photos of yourself in your profile. As indicated below, in the section titled "Sharing Your Information", you can control how your information is displayed and used.
AUTOMATIC INFORMATION
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. World WebX and its authorized agents automatically receive and record certain "traffic data" on their server logs from your browser including your IP address, World WebX cookie information, and the page you requested. World WebX uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends and administer the website. This does not involve collecting any of your personal information.
In addition to the "traffic data", World WebX and its authorized agents may collect information about the device you're using to access World WebX, its operating system, unique device identifier, device settings such as language and crash data. Which data is specifically collected depends on the type of device and/or system running on that device. This data is again used to help us diagnose problems with the site and/or mobile apps and analyze usage trends. This does not involve collecting any of your personal information.
World WebX may collect and use information regarding the geographic location of your devices. If the location data contains your personal information, then World WebX will treat this location data in accordance with this Policy. World WebX may collect and, on any page, display the total counts that page has been viewed. This includes User Profile pages.
Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While World WebX will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available.
E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS
World WebX is very concerned about your privacy and we will never provide your email address to a third party without your explicit permission, as detailed in the "Sharing Your Information" section below. World WebX may send out emails with World WebX-related news, products, offers, surveys or promotions. You may also receive notification emails from World WebX, which inform you of actions (e.g. friend requests) that have been performed on the site. If you do not want to receive email from us, please visit the Email Preferences section of your User Profile and/or follow the instructions contained in the unwanted e-mail message. However, please note that in all cases you will continue to receive all system emails (e.g. those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal notices (e.g. updates to our policies) from us.
USE OF COOKIES
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. World WebX cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or e-mail address is.
World WebX utilizes third-party services like Google Analytics to help analyze how our site is used. These services, including Google Analytics, also use cookies to collect information about visitors to our site (including IP addresses) in an anonymous form that does not include personal information.
The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We recommend that you leave the cookies activated because cookies allow you to use some of World WebX's coolest features. Some of our business partners, like our advertisers, may use cookies on our website. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies.
SHARING YOUR INFORMATION
Because World WebX enables people to discover and share information with one another, information about the people who use World WebX is an integral part of the World WebX experience. Rest assured that we will not rent or sell your personal information to anyone and that we will share your personal information only as described below:
World WebX Personnel: World WebX personnel and authorized consultants and/or contractors may have access to user information if necessary in the normal course of World WebX business.
Business Transfers: In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if World WebX, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred.
Protection of World WebX and Others: We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with a law; to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other policies; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of World WebX, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
User Profile information: Information collected during registration and subsequent visits, such as your full name and location, may be displayed to other World WebX users in your User Profile. The User Profile is the area on World WebX where we allow you to tell other World WebX users about yourself. You may control what personal information is displayed in your User Profile by visiting the Settings section of your User Profile.
Followers' Activity: Much like other online social networks, World WebX allows non-followers to browse your followers’ activity.
Service Providers: World WebX may share user information as well as information from tools such as cookies, log files, device identifiers and location data, with third-parties that help World WebX provide services to you (“Service Providers”). Our Service Providers will be given access to your information as is reasonably necessary for World WebX to provide our services. World WebX requires Services Providers to protect your data in a manner consistent with this Policy and to limit the use of such information to the performance of services for World WebX. World WebX may also remove parts of data that can identify you and share anonymized data with Service Providers, including combining your information with other information in a way that it is no longer associated with you.
With Your Consent: Except as noted above, we will contact you when your personal information is shared with third parties or used for a purpose incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, and you will be able to opt out to prevent the sharing of this information.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information and data stored on our Site.
Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data processed by World WebX.
Users entitled to broader protection standards may exercise any of the rights described below. In all other cases, Users may inquire with World WebX to find out which rights apply to them.
In particular, Users have the right to do the following:
Right to obtain a copy of your personal information:
You have the right to obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
Right to rectification:
You may request that we rectify any inaccurate and/or complete any incomplete personal information. We will then correct our records, and notify any third parties to whom such personal information may have been transmitted as described above.
Right to data portability:
You may request a copy of all personal information you have provided to us after which we will transmit those data to another data controller of your choice.
Right to opt-out of marketing communications:
You can exercise this right by clicking on the "unsubscribe" or "opt-out" link in the marketing emails we send you.
Right to withdraw consent:
You may withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information at any time. Such withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your previous consent. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, you may not be able to benefit from certain service features for which the processing of your personal information is essential.
Right to object to processing:
You may request that we stop processing your personal information. Please note you may not be able to benefit from certain service features for which the processing of your personal information is essential.
Right to erasure:
You may request that we erase your personal information and we will comply, unless there is a lawful reason for not doing so.
Access their Data:
Users have the right to learn if Data is being processed by World WebX, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the Data undergoing processing.
Restrict the processing of their Data:
Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of their Data. In this case, World WebX will not process their Data for any purpose other than storing it
Have their Personal Data deleted or otherwise removed:
Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their Data from World WebX.
Receive their Data and have it transferred to another controller:
Users have the right to receive their Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that the Data is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on the User's consent, on a contract which the User is part of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.
Lodge a complaint:
Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority.
LAWFUL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION
Our lawful basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.
However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you or may otherwise need the personal information to protect vital interests.
If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal information).
Similarly, if we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), we will make clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are.
If you have questions about or need further information concerning the lawful basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us.
ADVERTISING
Ads appearing on our site may be delivered to Users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile non-personal identification information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
SECURITY TECHNOLOGY
We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the personal information that we collect and process about you. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information. In particular, we: hold personal information in secure facilities and where the information is held electronically, on secure servers use encrypted transmission links whenever we can use other safeguards such as firewalls, authentication systems (e.g., passwords), and access control mechanisms to control unauthorized access to systems and data regularly review our information collection, storage, and processing practices, including physical security measures, to guard against unauthorized access to systems restrict access to personal information to our employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations. World WebX may discipline or terminate individuals who maliciously acquire information, without being entitled to its access.
Once client information is no longer needed, World WebX will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify the information as long as World WebX is not required by applicable laws and regulations.
We will take this seriously and deal promptly with any accidental or unauthorized disclosure of personal information. We follow the relevant scheme for notifiable data breaches where applicable and when handling accidental or unauthorized disclosures of personal information.
KEEPING INFORMATION SECURE
Your World WebX account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. Protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by logging off once you have finished using a shared computer.
Only employees who need personal information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to it. All of our employees are kept up to date on our privacy and security practices.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
The Website may contain links to third-party websites, whose information practices may be different than WorldWebX.com’s. Visitors should consult such third-party sites’ privacy notices as World WebX.com does not have any control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties. World WebX.com does not make any representations or warranties as to the security of any information (including, without limitation, credit card and other personal information) you might be requested to give any third party.
These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by World WebX.com of the contents on such third-party websites. World WebX.com cannot ensure that you will be satisfied with any products or services that you purchase from a third-party site that links to or from the website since these sites are owned and operated by independent retailers.
World WebX.com is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites and does not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third-party sites. World WebX.com has not taken any steps to confirm the accuracy or reliability of any of the information contained in such third-party sites. If you decide to access linked third-party sites, you do so at your own risk. World WebX.com strongly encourages you to make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any online or off-line transaction with any of these third parties.
WAYS TO CONTROL DISPLAY AND USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
As stated previously, you can always opt not to disclose information, but then you may be unable to use certain features on our website.
By visiting your User Profile, you can correct, amend, add or delete personal information on our website.
If you do not wish to receive email from us or other World WebX users, please visit the Settings of your User Profile and/or follow the instructions contained in the unwanted e-mail message.
However, please note that you will continue to receive all system emails (e.g. those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal notices (e.g. updates to our policies) from us.
As explained earlier, the "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. Please note, however, that if your browser does not accept cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of some of our attractive features.
CHILDREN UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE
You must be 18 years and older to register to use the World WebX website. As a result, World WebX does not specifically collect information about children. If we learn that World WebX has collected information from a child under the age of 18, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. We recommend that minors between the ages of 14 and 18 ask and receive their parents' permission before using World WebX or sending information about themselves or anyone else over the Internet.
INFORMATION MODIFICATION OR DELETION
You have the right at any time to request information about what personal data we process about you and to demand correction, deletion and/or restriction of your personal data stored by us. For your security, we will ask you to verify your details in the event of such a request or change. Please send contact us: [email protected]
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
World WebX may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the World WebX website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.
CONDITIONS OF USE
If you decide to visit the World WebX website or use any of our official mobile applications, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of United States law.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS
By accessing the Website, you signify your assent to the World WebX.com Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Website. You should visit this page periodically, as we may, from time to time, update this Privacy Policy and such changes shall be effective immediately upon posting on the Website and without further notice to you. Your continued access to the Website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy shall be deemed an acceptance of such changes by you. World WebX.com will, however, use personally-identifiable information only in accordance with the version of the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected.
OPT-OUT
You are not required to supply any of the personal information that we may request; however, failure to do so may result in our being unable to open or maintain your account or to provide services to you. While we make every effort to ensure that all information we hold about you is accurate, complete, and up to date, you can help us considerably in this regard by promptly notifying us if there are any changes to your personal information.
ENQUIRIES AND FURTHER DETAILS
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information please contact us at [email protected].