Introduction
Worldwin is committed to protecting your personal information when you use its services and website. This Privacy Statement relates to its use of any personal information you provide through the Worldwin website.
In order to provide you with the best experience, Worldwin is sometimes required to collect information about you.
Worldwin is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information Worldwin is legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information.
What information will Worldwin collect about me?
When you sign up to participate in or receive a service from Worldwin, it may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of your name, email address, postal address or website URL. Different services may ask for different information.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable Worldwin to provide you with the services you selected.
Worldwin also uses cookies and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). Worldwin uses analysis software (Google Analytics, Awstats) to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.
How will Worldwin use the information it collects about me?
Worldwin uses your personal information in a number of ways including the following:
- to contact you about a submission you have made to the website, including any content you provide
- to personalise the way Worldwin presents content to you
- to analyse and improve the services offered by Worldwin
When will Worldwin contact me?
Worldwin may contact you:
- in relation to any service you have signed up for
- where you have opted to receive further correspondence
- in relation to a contribution you have made on or to Worldwin
You may opt-out of receiving marketing material and other information from us at any time.
Will Worldwin share my personal information with anyone else?
NO. Worldwin will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies). Worldwin does not sell or otherwise transfer any personal data to commercial companies or other organisations, with the exception of web statistics (see below) which is hosted and managed by a third-party company (Google, Inc). Worldwin collects this information to help it to understand how the website is used in order to maintain and improve it and to deal with your requests such as managing your account(s) and providing you with information about products and services.
Cookies, Web Statistics and third party monitoring
Worldwin maintains continuous logs of its web server activity. These log files include the details of website users’ IP address, browser type and page last visited etc. The log files are used to analyse how the website is being used by visitors and may be kept in an anonymised form for historical records.
Worldwin’s website uses hosted web analytics software. This hosted service is provided and managed by a third-party company (Google, Inc). The service ‘Google Analytics’ uses ‘cookies’ (a text file sent to users’ computers as they browse our website) to help analyse how users navigate Worldwin’s website. The information generated by the cookie regarding this website (including IP addresses) will be anonymised and transmitted to and stored by Google, Inc. on servers that may be hosted in the United States. Google, Inc. will use this information for the purpose of evaluating use of Worldwin’s website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other related services to Worldwin.
Google, Inc. may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google, Inc’s. behalf. Google, Inc. will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google, Inc. You may decline the use of cookies by configuring your web browser to do so, but it may affect your user experience. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google, Inc. in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Offensive or inappropriate content on the Worldwin website
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on this website or otherwise to Worldwin, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on Worldwin, Worldwin may use your personal information to stop such behaviour.
Where Worldwin reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the laws of the Cayman Islands (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), Worldwin may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school email/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
How long will Worldwin keep my personal information?
Clonmel will hold your personal information on its systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service. Where you contribute to Worldwin, it will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted.
Can I find out what personal information Worldwin holds about me?
Under the Data Protection Law you have the right to request a copy of the personal information Worldwin holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (Worldwin charges $100 for information requests and will require you to prove your identity with 2 pieces of approved photographic identification.) Worldwin will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on its files.
Changes to the Worldwin Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to the Worldwin website.