Privacy Policy
Worth Charting ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our Terms of Service and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting www.worthcharting.com (“our site”) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice closely to understand what we do:
Information we may collect from you
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.
Information we receive from other sources.
We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site
Uses Made of this information
We use information held about you in the following ways
Information you give to us. We will use this information:
· to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
· to provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about;
· to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you. If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant unsubscribe box situated on the form or email on which we collect your data;
· to notify you about changes to our service;
· to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
Information we collect about you. We will use this information:
· to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
· to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
· to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
· as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
· to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
· to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.
Disclosure of your information
1. We may share your personal information with any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries.
2. We may share your information with selected third parties including:
a. Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you.
b. Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others. We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users. We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target. We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience. When we share personal data with these companies we require them to keep it safe, and they must not use your personal data for their own marketing purposes.
c. Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.
d. Credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.
3. We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
a. In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets. If the transfer or sale goes ahead, the organisation receiving your personal data can use your data in the same way as us.
b. If Worth Charting or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets. If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Service or terms and conditions of supply and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Worth Charting, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
4. Legal Requirements:
a. We may disclose your Information if required to do so by law, or in the good faith belief that such action or disclosure is necessary or appropriate to: (i) operate the Platform, (ii) comply with any legal obligation, report unlawful activity, cooperate with law enforcement, or protect against legal liability, (iii) protect and defend our rights, property, personnel, suppliers, sponsors, agents or licensors, or (iv) protect the personal safety of vendors, users of the Platform or the public.
To Limit Our Sharing
Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing.
You may choose to opt out of data sharing with non-affiliates. Please call 212-624-2383 if you wish to opt out of data sharing with non-affiliates.
How We Protect Your Information and Data
· We will not share your personally identifiable information with third parties and our marketing partners except as permitted by law to those third-party persons or entities that perform services for us on your behalf. This may also include disclosure to protect against fraud, or as part of an audit or examination; and disclosure to protect and defend our rights and property or to act in an emergency or to protect someone’s safety.
We are committed to safeguarding and protecting your personal data and we maintain appropriate security measures to protect your personal data from improper, unauthorised, unlawful or accidental disclosure, destruction, alteration, use, access, loss or damage. These measures include:
· designating employees responsible for the security program;
· identifying and assessing security risks;
· developing policies for the storage, access, and transportation of personal data;
· imposing disciplinary measures for violations of the security program;
· limiting access by terminated employees;
· overseeing the practices of third-party vendors;
· restricting physical access to records;
· monitoring and reviewing the scope and effectiveness of the security program; and
· documenting steps taken in response to data security incidents.
Our computer system security standards include:
· securing user credentials;
· restricting access to personal data on a need-to-know basis;
· encrypting the transmission and storage of personal data;
· monitoring of security systems;
· updating firewalls, security patches, anti-virus, and anti-malware software; and
· training employees on the proper use of the computer security systems.
DO NOT TRACK
Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. DNT is a way for users to inform websites and services that they do not want certain information about their webpage visits collected over time and across websites or online services. Please note that we do not respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers.
Notice to Residents of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), Switzerland and the UK
Purposes of Processing
We process your Personal Information to process your requests, to administer the Service, facilitate access by Service Providers and Third-Party Businesses, make marketing communications, facilitate health, safety and legal requests, , transfer or sell our business, and to combine data sets.
Legal Basis for Processing
We rely on the legitimate interest basis of processing for the other activities described above because processing Personal Information is necessary to provide you with our Products and to respond to your requests, our activities are reasonably expected by our customers, and those activities do not unduly and negatively affect the privacy rights of our customers. When you make a purchase, sign-up to attend or participate at an event or conference, or engage in another type of transaction with us, we may process your Personal Information to fulfill that contract. We may also process your Personal Information to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject and cooperate with regulators and enforcement bodies.
Transfers
Your Personal Information may be processed in or transferred to the U.S. or elsewhere in the world. We will ensure that transfers of Personal Information to a third country or an international organization are subject to appropriate safeguards (such as contractual commitments) in accordance with applicable legal requirements to ensure that your data is adequately protected. For more information on the appropriate safeguards in place, please contact the Data Protection Officer by email at ksimon@worthcharting.com or as described at the end of this section.
Erasure and Restriction of Personal Data
Unless otherwise provided for in this data protection declaration for individual cases, your Personal Information may be erased if this data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or was in any other way processed and if there are no legal obligations that require us to keep it. We will also erase your Personal Information processed by us upon request, in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, if the conditions described therein are met. If your Personal Information is required for other legally permissible purposes, the data will not be erased, but its processing will be restricted in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR. In the event of a restriction, the data will not be processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to Personal Information that we must keep for commercial or tax reasons.
Individual Rights
If you are a resident of the EEA, Switzerland or the United Kingdom, you are entitled to the following rights. Please contact our Data Protection Officer to exercise these rights by email at ksimon@worthcharting.com or as described at the end of this section. In order to verify your identity, we may require you to provide us with Personal Information prior to accessing any records about you.
Right to access and rectify your Personal Information. You have the right to obtain information about our processing of your Personal Information and a copy of your Personal Information that we store. You have the right to request that we update your Personal Information if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
Right to request erasure of your Personal Information. You have the right to have your Personal Information erased from our systems if the Personal Information is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected or you withdraw consent and no other legal basis for processing exists.
Right to restrict our processing of your Personal Information. You have the right to restrict our processing if you contest the accuracy of the Personal Information we store about you, our processing is deemed unlawful and you oppose erasure of your Personal Information, or we no longer need the Personal Information for the purposes for which we collected it but we must store it to comply with our legal obligations.
Right to portability of your Personal Information. You have the right to receive your Personal Information and to transmit it to another controller where our processing is based on consent you gave us and was carried out by automated means.
Right to object to our processing of your Personal Information. You have the right to object to our processing where we process Personal Information based on legitimate interest.
Right to lodge a complaint. You have the right to lodge a complaint about our collection and processing of your Personal Information to your Data Protection Authority. Contact details for Data Protection Authorities are available at http://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htm.
Data Protection Officer. If you are a Data Protection Authority in the EEA or UK with questions about this Privacy Policy or the Service, please contact us directly by contacting our Data Protection Officer by email at ksimon@worthcharting.com. Alternatively, you can contact our Data Protection Officer at the following address:
Data Protection Officer – Kimberly Simon
445 Park Avenue 9th Floor, New York, NY 10022
ksimon@worthcharting.com
Changes to our privacy policy
This version was last updated on April 19, 2022 and historic versions can be obtained by contacting us. Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@worthcharting.com
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