Data Protection

WhereWeChat

DATA POLICY

This Policy describes the information we process to support WhereWeChat, other products, services, and features offered by WHEREWECHAT ONLINE SERVICES LIMITED and WHEREWECHAT ONLINE SERVICES LLC (hereinafter would be referred to as "WWC" or "Wherewechat" within this document). By using our services, you consent to the collection and use of your information as described in this policy. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring compliance with applicable data protection laws and regulations, including relevant laws, such as GDPR, NDPA, CCPA. You can find additional tools and information in the Wherewechat Settings. If you have any questions or concerns about this policy, please contact us.

What kinds of information do we collect?

To provide the Wherewechat Products and services, we must process information about you. The type of information that we collect depends on how you use our Products. You can learn how to access and delete information that we collect by visiting the Wherewechat settings

Things that you and others do and provide.

Information and content you provide:
Personal Information: When you register, create a profile, or interact with our platform, we collect personal information such as your name, email address, phone number, and any other details you voluntarily provide.
Device Information: We automatically collect information about your device, including its type, operating system, unique device identifiers, and IP address. We also gather data on your usage patterns, interactions with the platform, and navigation through the site.

We collect the content, communications and other information you provide when you use our Products, including when you sign up for an account, create or share content and message or communicate with others.

This can include information in or about the content that you provide (e.g. metadata), such as the location of a photo or the date a file was created. It can also include what you see through features that we provide, such as our camera, so we can do things such as suggest masks and filters that you might like, or give you tips on using camera formats.

Our systems automatically process content and communications that you and others provide to analyse context and what's in them for the purposes described below. Learn more about how you can control who can see the things you share.

Data with special protections: You can choose to provide information in your Wherewechat profile fields or life events about your religious views, political views, who you are "interested in" or your health.

This and other information (such as racial or ethnic origin, philosophical beliefs or trade union membership) could be subject to special protections under the laws of your country.

Networks and connections:

We collect information about the people, Pages, accounts, hashtags and groups that you are connected to and how you interact with them across our Products, such as people you communicate with the most or groups that you are part of.

We also collect contact information if you choose to upload, sync or import it from a device (such as an address book or call log or SMS log history), which we use for things such as helping you and others find people you may know and for the other purposes listed below.

Your usage:

We collect information about how you use our Products, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, the people or accounts you interact with and the time, frequency and duration of your activities. For example, we log when you're using and have last used our Products, and what posts, videos and other content you view on our Products.

We also collect information about how you use features such as our camera.

Information about transactions made on our Products:

If you use our Products for purchases or other financial transactions (such as when you make a purchase in a game or make a donation), we collect information about the purchase or transaction.

This includes payment information, such as your credit or debit card number and other card information, other account and authentication information, and billing, delivery and contact details.

Things others do and information that they provide about you:

We also receive and analyse content, communications and information that other people provide when they use our Products.

This can include information about you, such as when others share or comment on a photo of you, send a message to you or upload, sync or import your contact information.

Device information:

As described below, we collect information from and about the computers, phones, connected TVs and other web-connected devices you use that integrate with our Products, and we combine this information across different devices that you use.

For example, we use information collected about your use of our Products on your phone to better personalise the content (including ads) or features that you see when you use our Products on another device, such as your laptop or tablet, or to measure whether you took an action in response to an ad that we showed you on your phone or on a different device.

Information that we obtain from these devices includes:

Device attributes: information such as the operating system, hardware and software versions, battery level, signal strength, available storage space, browser type, app and file names and types, and plugins.
Device operations: information about operations and behaviours performed on the device, such as whether a window is foregrounded or backgrounded, or mouse movements (which can help distinguish humans from bots).
Identifiers: unique identifiers, device IDs and other identifiers, such as from games, apps or accounts that you use, and Family Device IDs (or other identifiers unique to Wherewechat Company Products associated with the same device or account).
Device signals: Bluetooth signals, information about nearby Wi-Fi access points, beacons and mobile phone masts.
Data from device settings: information that you allow us to receive through device settings that you turn on, such as access to your GPS location, camera or photos.
Network and connections: information such as the name of your mobile operator or ISP, language, time zone, mobile phone number, IP address, connection speed and, in some cases, information about other devices that are nearby or on your network, so we can do things such as help you stream a video from your phone to your TV.
Cookie data: data from cookies stored on your device, including cookie IDs and settings. Learn more about how we use cookies in the Wherewechat Cookies Policy.

Information from partners:

Advertisers, app developers and publishers can send us information through Wherewechat Business Tools that they use, including our social plugins (such as the Like button), Wherewechat Login, our APIs and SDKs, or the Wherewechat pixel.

These partners provide information about your activities off Wherewechat – including information about your device, websites you visit, purchases you make, the ads you see and how you use their services – whether or not you have a Wherewechat account or are logged in to Wherewechat. For example, a game developer could use our API to tell us what games you play, or a business could tell us about a purchase you made in its shop.

We also receive information about your online and offline actions and purchases from third-party data providers who have the rights to provide us with your information.

Partners receive your data when you visit or use their services, or through third parties that they work with. We require each of these partners to have lawful rights to collect, use and share your data before providing us with any data. Learn more about the types of partners we receive data from.

To learn more about how we use cookies in connection with Wherewechat Business Tools, review our Wherewechat Cookie Policy.

How do we use this information?

We use the information that we have (subject to choices you make) as described below, and to provide and support the Wherewechat Products and related services described in the Wherewechat Terms .

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

Service Provision: To provide, operate, and maintain our platform; to customize and personalize your experience; and to communicate with you regarding our services, updates, and promotions.
Analytics and Improvement: To analyze usage patterns, conduct research, and improve the functionality, performance, and user experience of our platform.

Here's how:

Provide, personalise and improve our Products.

We use the information we have to deliver our Products, including to personalise features and content (including your News Feed, events, quizzs, contests,live news, jobs, musics, property listings, E-learning, etc., and ads) and make suggestions for you (such as groups, quizzs, contests, live news or events you may be interested in or topics (forums) you may want to follow/join) on and off our Products.

To create personalised Products that are unique and relevant to you, we use your connections, preferences, interests and activities based on the data that we collect and learn from you and others (including any data with special protections you choose to provide); how you use and interact with our Products; and the people, places or things that you're connected to and interested in on and off our Products.

Learn more about how we use information about you to personalise your Wherewechat experience, including features, content and recommendations in Wherewechat (WHEREWECHAT ONLINE SERVICES LIMITED) Products; you can also learn more about how we choose the ads that you see.

Information across Wherewechat Products and devices:

We connect information about your activities on different Wherewechat Products and devices to provide a more tailored and consistent experience on all Wherewechat Products that you use, wherever you use them. For example, we can suggest that you join a group or events on Wherewechat that includes people you follow, or communicate with using our Mobile and Deskstop Messenger.

We can also make your experience more seamless, for example, by automatically filling in your registration information (such as your phone number) from one in Wherewechat Product when you sign up for an account on a different Product.

Location-related information:

We use location-related informations - such as your current location, where you live, the places you like to go, and the businesses and people you're near to - provide, personalise and improve our Products, including ads, for you and others.

Location-related information can be based on things such as precise device location (if you've allowed us to collect it), IP addresses and information from your and others' use of Wherewechat Products (such as check-ins or events you attend or want to attend).

Product research and development:

We use the information we have to develop, test and improve our Products, including by conducting surveys and research, and testing and troubleshooting new products and features.

Face recognition:

If you have it turned on, we use face recognition technology to recognise you in photos, videos and camera experiences.

The face recognition templates that we create may constitute data with special protections under the laws of your country.

Learn more about how we use face recognition technology, or control our use of this technology in Wherewechat Settings.

Ads and other sponsored content:

We use the information we have about you – including information about your interests, actions and connections to select, and personalise ads, offers and other sponsored content that we show you.

Learn more about how we select and personalise ads, and your choices over the data we use to select ads and other sponsored content for you in the Wherewechat Settings and Settings.

Provide measurement, analytics and other business services:

We use the information that we have (including your activity off our Products, such as the websites you visit and ads you see) to help advertisers and other partners measure the effectiveness and distribution of their ads and services, and understand the types of people who use their services and how people interact with their websites, apps and services.

Promote safety, integrity and security:

We use the information that we have to verify accounts and activity, combat harmful conduct, detect and prevent spam and other bad experiences, maintain the integrity of our Products, and promote safety and security on and off Wherewechat Products. For example, we use data that we have to investigate suspicious activity or breaches of our Terms or Policies, or to detect when someone needs help.

Communicate with you:

We use the information that we have to send you marketing communications, communicate with you about our Products and let you know about our Policies and Terms. We also use your information to respond to you when you contact us.

Research and innovate for social good:

We use the information that we have (including from research partners who we collaborate with) to conduct and support research and innovation on topics of general social welfare, technological advancement, public interest, health and well-being. For example, we analyse information that we have about migration patterns during crises to aid relief efforts.

How is this information shared?

Your information is shared with others in the following ways:

We may disclose your information to third parties in the following circumstances:

Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who assist us in operating our platform, including but not limited to hosting services, data analytics, and customer support.
Legal Compliance: We may disclose your information if required by law or if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to comply with legal obligations, protect our rights, investigate fraud, or respond to government requests.

Sharing on Wherewechat Products

People and accounts that you share and communicate with

When you share and communicate using our Products, you choose the audience for what you share. For example, when you post on Wherewechat, you select the audience for the post, such as a group, all of your friends, the public or a customised list of people. Similarly, when you use Deskstop Messenger, mobile apps or any WHEREWECHAT ONLINE SERVICES LIMITED products to communicate with people or businesses, those people and businesses can see the content you send.

Your network can also see actions that you have taken on our Products, including engagement with ads and sponsored contents. We also let other accounts see who has viewed their Wherewechat Stories and products/contents such as job listings, property listings, music listings, store listing, etc.

Public information can be seen by anyone, on or off our Products, including if they don't have an account.

This includes your Wherewechat username, any information you share with a public audience, information in your public profile on Wherewechat, and content you share on a Wherewechat Page, or any other public forum, such as Wherewechat Marketplace.

You, other people using Wherewechat and we can provide access to or send public information to anyone on or off our Products, including in other WHEREWECHAT ONLINE SERVICES LIMITED Products, in search results or through tools and APIs.

Public information can also be seen, accessed, reshared or downloaded through third-party services such as search engines, APIs and offline media such as TV, and by apps, websites and other services that integrate with our Products.

What is public information?

Something that’s public can be seen by anyone. That includes people who aren’t your friends, people off Wherewechat and people who use different media such as print, broadcast (ex: television) and other sites on the Internet. For example, if you use our services to provide a real-time public comment to a television show, that may appear on the show or elsewhere on Wherewechat.

What information is public?

Information you share that is always public:

Some of the information you give us when you fill out your profile is public, such as your age range, language and country.

We also use a part of your profile, called your Public Profile, to help connect you with friends and family.

Your Public Profile includes your name, gender, username and user ID (account number), profile picture, cover photo and networks. This info is also public. Some of the ways this helps us connect you are:

Your name, profile picture and cover photo help people recognize you
Gender helps us describe you (example: "Add her as a friend")
Listing your networks (e.g: school, workplace) allows others to find you more easily
Username and user ID (ex: your account number) are in the URL of your profile
Age range helps provide you with age-appropriate content
Language and country help us provide appropriate content and experiences

Information you share publicly:

When you choose to share something with Public (example: when you select Public from the 'audience selector'), it’s considered public information.

If you share something and you don’t see an Audience Selector or another privacy setting, that information is also public.

You can always use the audience selector to control who you share with when you post to Wherewechat.

Stuff other people share:

If other people share info about you, even if it’s something you shared with them but did not make public, they can choose to make it public.

Also when you comment on other people’s public posts, your comment is public as well.

Posts on Wherewechat Pages or public groups:

Wherewechat Pages and public groups are public spaces. Anyone who can see the Page or group can see your post or comment.

Generally, when you post or comment on a Page or to a public group, a story can be published in News Feed as well as other places on or off Wherewechat.

Remember that public information can:

Be associated with you, even off Wherewechat
Show up when someone does a search on Wherewechat or on another search engine
Be accessible to Wherewechat-integrated games, applications and websites you and your friends use
Be accessible to anyone who uses our APIs, such as our Graph API

Content that others share or reshare about you:

You should consider who you choose to share with, because people who can see your activity on our Products can choose to share it with others on and off our Products, including people and businesses outside the audience that you shared with. For example, when you share a post or send a message to specific friends or accounts, they can download, screenshot or reshare that content to others across or off our Products, in person or in virtual reality experiences such as Wherewechat Spaces.

Also, when you comment on someone else's post or react to their content, your comment or reaction is visible to anyone who can see the other person's content, and that person can change the audience later.

People can also use our Products to create and share content about you with the audience they choose. For example, people can share a photo of you in a story, mention or tag you at a location in a post, or share information about you in their posts or messages.

If you are uncomfortable with what others have shared about you on our Products, you can report the content, tell the person to halt or remove you or your content (untag you) or better still block the person if you like or make account profile activities visible to only you, or you & your family and friends depending on your privacy choice.

Information about your active status or presence on our Products:

People in your networks can see signals telling them whether you are active (online/offline) on our Products, including whether you are currently active on all our products or on some part of our products realm such as deskstop Messenger or Wherewechat mobile apps or Wherewechat website or music listings, jobs listings, property listing platform/realm (marketplace), or when you last used our Products.

Apps, websites and third-party integrations on or using our Products:

When you choose to use third-party apps, websites or other services that use, or are integrated with our Products, they can receive information about what you post or share. For example, when you play a game with your Wherewechat friends or use a Wherewechat Comment or Share button on a website, the game developer or website can receive information about your activities in the game or receive a comment or link that you share from the website on Wherewechat.

Also, when you download or use such third-party services, they can access your public profile on Wherewechat, and any information that you share with them.

Apps and websites that you use may receive your list of Wherewechat friends if you choose to share it with them. But apps and websites that you use will not be able to receive any other information about your Wherewechat friends from you, account activities (although your friends and followers may, of course, choose to share this information themselves). Information collected by these third-party services is subject to their own terms and policies, not this one.

Devices and operating systems providing native versions of Wherewechat (i.e. where we have not developed our own first-party apps) will have access to all information that you choose to share with them, including information that your friends share with you, so they can provide our core functionality to you.

Note: We are in the process of restricting developers' data access even further to help prevent abuse. For example, we will remove developers' access to your Wherewechat data if you haven't used their app in three months, and we are changing login, so that in the next version, we will reduce the data that an app can request without app review to include only name, username and bio, profile photo and email address. Requesting any other data will require our approval.

New owner:

If the ownership or control of all or part of our Products or their assets changes, we may transfer your information to the new owner.

Sharing with third-party partners:

We work with third-party partners who help us provide and improve our Products or who use Wherewechat Business Tools to grow their businesses, which makes it possible to operate our companies and provide free services to people around the world.

We don't sell any of your information to anyone and we never will. We also impose strict restrictions on how our partners can use and disclose the data we provide.

Here are the types of third parties that we share information with:

Partners who use our analytics services;

We provide aggregated statistics and insights that help people and businesses understand how people are engaging with their posts, listings, Pages, jobs, events, videos and other contents on and off the Wherewechat.com Products. For example, Page admins and business profiles receive information about the number of people or accounts who viewed, reacted to or commented on their posts, as well as aggregate demographic and other information that helps them understand interactions with their Page or account.

Advertisers:

We provide advertisers with reports about the kinds of people seeing their ads and how their ads are performing, but we don't share information that personally identifies you (information such as your name or email address that by itself can be used to contact you or identifies who you are) unless you give us permission. For example, we provide general demographic and interest information to advertisers (for example, that an ad was seen by a woman between the ages of 25 and 34 who lives in Madrid, Lagos, Abuja, Ghana, etc and likes software engineering) to help them better understand their audience.

We also confirm which Wherewechat ads led you to make a purchase or take an action with an advertiser.

Measurement partners:

We share information about you with companies that aggregate it to provide analytics and measurement reports to our partners.

Partners offering goods and services in our Products:

When you subscribe to receive premium content, or buy something from a seller in our Products, the content creator or seller can receive your public information and other information that you share with them, as well as the information needed to complete the transaction, including shipping and contact details.

Vendors and service providers:

We provide information and content to vendors and service providers who support our business, such as by providing technical infrastructure services, analysing how our Products are used, providing customer service, facilitating payments or conducting surveys.

Researchers and academics:

We also provide information and content to research partners and academics to conduct research that advances scholarship and innovation that supports our business or mission and enhances discovery and innovation on topics of general social welfare, technological advancement, public interest, health and well-being.

Law enforcement or legal requests:

We share information with law enforcement or in response to legal requests in the circumstances outlined below.

Learn more about how you can control the information about you that you or others share with third-party partners in the Wherewechat settings

How do the WHEREWECHAT ONLINE SERVICES LIMITED work together?

Wherewechat share infrastructure, systems and technology with other WHEREWECHAT ONLINE SERVICES LIMITED products outside wherewechat.com (which include MYIMHOST AKA IMMACULATE HOST and AIMEAGLES SMS MARKETING COMPANY) to provide an innovative, relevant, consistent and safe experience across all WHEREWECHAT ONLINE SERVICES LIMITED products and services that you use.

We also process information about you across the WHEREWECHAT ONLINE SERVICES LIMITED for these purposes, as permitted by applicable law and in accordance with their Terms and Policies. For example, we process information from AIMEAGLES SMS PORTAL about accounts sending spam on its service so we can take appropriate action against those accounts on Wherewechat, AIMEAGLES SMS PORTAL, Desktop Messenger or mobile apps.

We also work to understand how people use and interact with WHEREWECHAT ONLINE SERVICES LIMITED and AMEAGLES SMS MARKETING COMPANY Products, such as understanding the number of unique users on different WHEREWECHAT ONLINE SERVICES LIMITED Products.

How can I manage or delete information about me?

Your Rights and Choices

You have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:

Access and Correction: You have the right to access and update your personal information stored on our platform. You can do this through your account settings or by contacting us directly.
Opt-Out: You can choose to opt-out of receiving promotional communications from us by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in such communications.
Data Retention and Security :We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

We provide you with the ability to access, rectify, port and control your data. Learn more in your Wherewechat settings

We store data until it is no longer necessary to provide our services and Wherewechat Products or until your account is deleted – whichever comes first. This is a case-by-case determination that depends on things such as the nature of the data, why it is collected and processed, and relevant legal or operational retention needs.

For example, when you search for something on Wherewechat, you can access and delete that query from within your search history at any time, but the log of that search is deleted after six months.

If you submit a copy of your valid photo ID for account verification purposes, we delete that copy 30 days after submission.

When you delete your account, we delete things that you have posted, such as your photos and status updates, and you won't be able to recover this information later.

Information that others have shared about you isn't part of your account and won't be deleted.

If you don't want to delete your account but want to temporarily stop using the Products, you can deactivate your account instead.

To delete your account at any time, please visit the Wherewechat settings or contact us to unpublish, delete, suspend or block your account.

How do we respond to legal requests or prevent harm?

We access, preserve and share your information with regulators, law enforcement or others:

In response to a legal request (e.g. a search warrant, court order or subpoena) if we have a good-faith belief that the law requires us to do so. This may include responding to legal requests from jurisdictions outside of the Nigeria when we have a good-faith belief that the response is required by law in that jurisdiction, affects users in that jurisdiction and is consistent with internationally recognised standards.
When we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to: detect, prevent and address fraud, unauthorised use of the Products, breaches of our Terms or Policies, or other harmful or illegal activity; to protect ourselves (including our rights, property or Products), you or others, including as part of investigations or regulatory enquiries; or to prevent death or imminent bodily harm. For example, if relevant, we provide information to and receive information from third-party partners about the reliability of your account to prevent fraud, abuse and other harmful activity on and off our Products.

Information we receive about you (including financial transaction data related to purchases made with or on Wherewechat) can be accessed and preserved for an extended period when it is the subject of a legal request or obligation, governmental investigation or investigations of possible violations of our terms or policies, or otherwise to prevent harm.

We also retain information from accounts disabled for term breaches for at least a year to prevent repeat abuse or other term breaches.

How do we operate and transfer data as part of our global services?

We share information globally, both internally within the WHEREWECHAT ONLINE SERVICES LIMITED, and externally with our partners and with those you connect and share with around the world in accordance with this Policy.

Your information may, for example, be transferred or transmitted to, or stored and processed in NIGERIA or other countries outside of where you live for the purposes as described in this Policy.

These data transfers are necessary to provide the services set forth in the Wherewechat Terms, and to globally operate and provide our Products to you.

We utilise standard contract clauses, rely on the European Commission's adequacy decisions about certain countries, as applicable, and obtain your consent for these data transfers to the United States, Nigeria and other countries.

How will we notify you of changes to this Policy?

We'll notify you before we make changes to this Policy and give you the opportunity to review the revised Policy before you choose to continue using our Products.

In some cases we might not notify you as the case may be, so we advise and encourage you to always check here, go through this our privacy policy and tems of sevice.

How to contact Wherewechat (WHEREWECHAT ONLINE SERVICES LIMITED) with questions

You can learn more about how privacy works on Wherewechat and Terms.

If you have questions about this Policy, you can contact us as described below. We may resolve disputes that you have with us in connection with our Privacy Policies, practices and terms of sevices.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

Wherewechat (WWC) reserves the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect changes in our practices, legal requirements, or other relevant factors. Any such updates or modifications will be effective immediately upon posting the revised Privacy Policy on our website or application. We will notify you of any material changes by any of the following ways:

Posting a prominent notice on our website or within our application prior to the change becoming effective;
Updating the effective date at the top of this Privacy Policy;
Sending a notification to the email address associated with your account, where applicable.

We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about our information practices and your rights. Your continued use of WWC services following the posting of any changes constitutes your acceptance of those changes. If you do not agree to the updated terms, you should discontinue your use of our services and close your account.

Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, you may contact us using the following details:

Email Address: Compliance@wherewechat.com
Physical Address: ISOLO ROAD IKOTUN EGBE LAGOS

We are committed to responding to your inquiries promptly and addressing any concerns you may have about our privacy practices. Your feedback is important to us, and we strive to ensure that your experience with WWC is positive and secure.

Data Retention and Security

Wherewechat (WWC) takes the security of your personal information seriously and implements a variety of measures to safeguard your data. Personal information is retained for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including to meet any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you with our services. In some cases, we may retain data for longer periods to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements. Specific retention periods include:

User Account Data: Retained until the account is deleted or as required by law.
Transaction Data: Retained for a period consistent with accounting and tax requirements.
Communication Data: Retained as long as necessary for customer service purposes and to maintain a record of correspondence.

Data Security

We implement robust security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. These measures include, but are not limited to:

Encryption: Data is encrypted both in transit and at rest using industry-standard protocols.
Access Controls: Access to personal information is restricted to authorized personnel who require it for their job functions.
Security Assessments: Regular security assessments, including vulnerability scans and penetration testing, are conducted to identify and mitigate potential risks.
Firewall: we have implemented firewalls as part of our security measures to protect your data from breach or any attack as another layer of protection to the encrypted data.

Despite our efforts, no security measures are completely impenetrable. We urge you to take steps to keep your personal information safe, such as choosing strong passwords and keeping them confidential.

User Rights and Choices

You have the right to access, correct, and delete your personal information, as well as to restrict or object to its processing. You also have the right to data portability, allowing you to obtain and reuse your personal information for your own purposes across different services. To exercise these rights, you can:

Access and Correction: Log into your account to view and update your personal information.
Deletion: Contact us at [insert email address] to request the deletion of your account and personal information.
Objection and Restriction: Reach out to us at [insert email address] to object to or request the restriction of certain processing activities.
Data Portability: Request a copy of your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

We will respond to your requests in accordance with applicable data protection laws in different countries, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for EU residents and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) for California residents, and within a reasonable timeframe.

Third-Party Services

Our services may include links to or integrations with third-party websites, applications, or services. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of such third parties. WWC is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party services. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any third-party services you interact with.

Children's Privacy

Our services are not intended for use by individuals under the age of 18 (or the equivalent minimum age in the relevant jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under this age. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under the relevant age, we will take steps to delete such information as soon as possible.

WWC urges guardians and well-intending adults to always monitor and report any activity of/to minors for immediate redress.

International Data Transfers

WWC operates globally, and your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in countries other than your own. We take steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, regardless of where it is processed. These steps include:

Data Transfer Agreements: Implementing standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission to ensure adequate protection of personal information transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
Adequacy Decisions: Ensuring transfers are made to jurisdictions that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection by relevant data protection authorities.

By using our services, you consent to the transfer of your personal information to countries outside of your country of residence, which may have different data protection rules than in your country.

Automated Decision-Making and Profiling

WWC may use automated decision-making and profiling to provide certain services, including personalized recommendations and targeted advertising. These processes involve the automated analysis of your personal information to evaluate, analyze, or predict aspects concerning your preferences, interests, or behavior.

Profiling: We use profiling to better understand your preferences and tailor our services accordingly. You have the right to object to profiling for direct marketing purposes.

Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal information based on the following legal grounds:

Consent: Where you have given your consent for processing (e.g., for receiving marketing communications).
Contractual Necessity: To perform our contract with you (e.g., to provide the services you have requested).
Legal Obligation: To comply with legal obligations (e.g., tax and accounting requirements).
Legitimate Interests: For our legitimate business interests (e.g., to improve our services and enhance security), provided these interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.

While endeavouring to be compliant with major data policies in different countries we also ensure to remain flexible and transparent to meet every country in the middle, kindly reach out to us for any adjustment, complaint or observation.

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