Where’s Your World Member Agreement and Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2007 Where’s Your World, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the Where’s Your World, Inc. Member Agreement and Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy describes how we handle your personal information for our services on the Where’s Your World websites/Worlds. It applies generally to the Where’s Your World.com website and other websites/Worlds where this policy appears in the footer of the page (“the Sites/Worlds”). Some Where’s Your World-branded websites/Worlds or websites/Worlds we operate may be governed by separate privacy policies. The policy that applies on any of our domains or sub domains is always the policy that appears in the footer of each website.
Our subsidiaries’, webchisees, and joint ventures’ privacy practices are similar to those described in this Privacy Policy. Subject to the requirements of applicable law, we strive to provide a consistent set of privacy practices throughout the global Where’s Your World community. By accepting the Privacy Policy and the Member Agreement in registration, you expressly consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance for new members and is otherwise effective on January 1st, 2007.
You can browse the Sites/Worlds without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to us. If you choose to provide us with personal information, you consent to the transfer and storage of that information to our servers located in the United States.
We may collect and store the following personal information:
We don't sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We may combine your information with information we collect from other companies (such as demographic data) to improve and personalize our services. If you don't wish to receive marketing communications from us, simply indicate your preference once you sign-in on in the AboutMe page or when or when prompted anywhere else at WheresYourWorld.com.
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. You agree that we may use your personal information to:
We may disclose personal information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that provided content violates the rights of others, or protect anyone's rights, property, or safety.
We may also share your personal information with:
Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy and our ability to keep the community free from bad actors, we will not otherwise disclose your personal information to law enforcement, other government officials, or other third parties without a subpoena, court order or substantially similar legal procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss or to report suspected illegal activity.
Your Member ID is displayed throughout Where’s Your World and is therefore available to the public. All of your activities on the Site/Worlds will be traceable to your Member ID. Other people can see certain participation from you, your associated comments in Blogs, and so on. Notices are sent to other community members regarding suspicious activity and policy violations on the Site/Worlds and refer to Member IDs and specific items. Therefore, if you associate your name with your Member ID, the people to whom you have revealed your name to will be able to personally identify your Where’s Your World activities.
Our Sites/Worlds enable you to share personal and financial information in order to complete certain transactions. We encourage you to disclose your privacy practices and respect the privacy of other members. We cannot guarantee the privacy or security of your information and therefore we encourage you to evaluate the privacy and security policies of your purchasing transactions before entering into a transaction and choosing to share your information. To help protect your privacy, we allow only limited access to other affiliates, webchisees, or business partners for purchasing, shipping, and financial information in order to facilitate your transactions.
You agree to use member information only for:
We use "cookies" (small files placed on your hard drive) on certain pages of the Site/World to help analyze our web page flow, customize our services, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety..
A few important things you should know about cookies are that:
We and our members do not tolerate spam. Make sure to set your Where’s Your World notification preferences so we communicate to you as you prefer. You are not licensed to add other Where’s Your World members, even a member who has added you to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express consent. To report Where’s Your World spam or spoof emails to Where’s Your World, please forward the email to spam@wheresyourworld.com . You may not use our communication tools to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our Member Agreement. We do filter and automatically scan messages before they are sent for viruses and other illegal or prohibited content but do not permanently store email messages sent through these tools. If you send an email to an email address that is not registered in our community (via Refer a Friend or other tool), we do not permanently store that email or use that email address for any marketing purpose. We do not rent or sell these email addresses.
Your password is the key to your account. Use unique numbers, letters, and special characters and do not disclose your Where’s Your World password to anyone. If you do share your password or your personal information with others, remember that you are responsible for all actions taken in the name of your account. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately notify Where’s Your World and change your password.
You can see, review and change most of your personal information by logging into the Site/World. Generally, we will not manually modify your personal information because it is very difficult to verify your identity remotely. You must promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate. Once you make a public posting, you may not be able to change or remove it. Upon your request, we will close your account and remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably possible, based on your account activity and in accordance with applicable law. We do retain personal information from closed accounts in order to comply with law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Where’s Your World Members Agreement, and take other actions otherwise permitted by law.
Your information is stored on our web host servers located in the United States. We treat data as an asset that must be protected and use lots of tools (encryption, passwords, physical security, etc.) to protect your personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure. However, as you probably know, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, and other members may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the Site. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private.
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. If you disclose your information to others, on our Sites/Worlds or other Sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. Since Where’s Your World does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on the Site. All amended terms automatically take effect 30 days after they are initially posted on the Site. In addition, we will notify you in accordance with your notification preferences. If your questions are not answered online, you may write to us at: Where’s Your World Inc., 220 Red Maple Dr., Kissimmee, Florida 34742, or by using the Contact Us section of our Sites/Worlds.