Privacy Policy

WWC Global LLC (“WWC Global”, “us” or “we”) is committed to protecting your privacy and your personal data. Personal data means any information that identifies you as an individual person and also includes information referred to as “personally identifiable information” under applicable data privacy laws, rules, or regulations. This Privacy Policy describes how WWC Global handles and protects your personal data in connection with WWC Global's business activities and on websites, applications, and communications (collectively, “the Sites”), in our capacity as data controllers.

WWC Global collects personal data in the course of its business activities. We also collect personal data on certain areas of the Sites when you register for or apply for jobs, create a user profile, register for WWC Global emails and alerts, and/or participate in public user posting areas (such as bulletin boards, discussion forums and surveys). The personal data collected varies and may include information that you provide, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, and background information required to apply for a job.

We may also automatically collect information about the devices you use to interact with our Sites. The information we automatically collect may include IP address, device identifier, web browser, and browsing information collected through cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) on our Sites. We may also automatically collect information about how you use the Sites, such as what you have searched for and viewed on the Sites. The information automatically collected may be associated with a unique identifier as well as with any other personal data you have provided.

WWC Global may also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as service providers, in the course of its business activities.

WWC Global uses your personal data to fulfill your requests for information, personalize content that you view or receive on the Sites, evaluate and improve our services, distribute emails and alerts to you, recruit and evaluate job applicants, analyze the Sites’ performance and functioning, enforce our terms of use, comply with all applicable laws and corporate reporting obligations, and accomplish other purposes you may initiate or request. In some situations, the collection of personal data may be required for the operation of the Sites, or in the course of WWC Global’s business activities. We may keep any of your personal data on file and use it to contact you.

WWC Global and its service providers may use first and third party Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to manage our Sites and our services and collect analytics about how you use them.

In connection with our mobile applications, WWC Global may use third party service providers to analyze user activity to fix errors, monitor usage, and improve the performance of the mobile applications. For example, WWC Global receives reports on some of our mobile applications’ aggregate usage and browsing patterns, including information about the type of device used, articles accessed, and other events occurring within our apps. WWC Global also receives reports on certain errors occurring within mobile applications.

Our processing of your personal data for the purposes mentioned above is based:

• in part, on our legitimate interests in promoting and protecting WWC Global, building and maintaining relationships. recruitment, and providing our services;
• in part, on your consent, for example if you create a user profile, or register for our emails or alerts, or for business purposes that support web operations such as understanding and enhancing the quality of your experience on the Sites;
• in part, to comply with the law, when certain information is necessary to satisfy our legal or regulatory obligations.

WWC Global will not intentionally disclose or transfer (and will take reasonable steps to prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure of) your personal data to third parties without your consent or as otherwise permitted by law, whether for such third parties’ own marketing purposes or otherwise, except as follows. WWC Global may provide access to your personal data to third party service providers engaged by WWC Global to provide services related to the Sites as well as related to WWC Global’s business activities. We maintain processes designed to ensure that any processing of personal data by third party service providers is consistent with this Privacy Policy and protects the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of your personal data.

We also may share your personal data with third party service providers who perform services and functions on our behalf to support our interactions with you, including, for example, processing recruitment materials, administering surveys, or communicating with you.

In addition, we may disclose information about you:

• To enforce our terms of use;
• If we are required to do so by law or legal process, but will attempt to minimize such disclosure to only that reasonable necessary to comply;
• In response to lawful requests from public authorities and other government officials or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity;
• To protect the rights, property, or safety of WWC Global, the Sites, our users, affiliates and/or business partners, and any third party we interact with to provide the Sites;
• To detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or to prevent physical harm or financial loss;
• To support auditing and compliance; or
• To comply with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
• In addition, we may disclose or transfer your personal data in the event of a re-organization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, or other transfer or disposition of all or any portion of our business.

You should be aware that whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by others. WWC Global is not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users publicly disclose in any such forums on the Sites.

WWC Global may provide links to third party websites or information as a service to our users. If you use these links, you will leave the Sites. Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by WWC Global of the third party, the third party website, or the information contained therein, and WWC Global shall not be responsible or liable for your use thereof. Such use shall be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to those sites.

WWC Global has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personal data from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized WWC Global personnel and third party service providers with a legitimate business need to know are provided access to personal data, and these employees and service providers are required to treat this information as confidential. We also have procedures in place to deal with suspected data security breaches, and will notify you of a suspected data breach where we are legally required to do so. Despite these precautions however, WWC Global cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal data. Therefore, any transmission remains at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features in order to prevent unauthorized access.

WWC Global retains personal data, as necessary, for the duration of the relevant business relationship.

We may also retain personal data for longer than the duration of the business relationship should we need to retain it to protect ourselves against legal claims, use it for analysis or historical record-keeping, or comply with our information management policies and schedules. If you request that we delete your personal data, WWC Global will make reasonable attempts to delete all instances of the information in their entirety. For requests for access, corrections, or deletion, please refer to the “Your Rights” section of this Privacy Policy.

The Sites are not designed for or directed at children under 16 years of age, and WWC Global does not intentionally collect or maintain personal data about anyone under this age.

Where granted by applicable law, you may have the right to request access to the personal data that we have collected about you for the purposes of reviewing, modifying, or requesting deletion of the data. You may also have the right to request a copy of the personal data that we have collected about you and to have any inaccuracies in that data corrected. In certain circumstances, you may also request that we cease processing your personal data.

If you would like to make a request to access, review, or correct the personal data we have collected about you, or to discuss how we process your personal data, please contact us at wwcglobal.com/contact. To help protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity, such as requiring a password and user ID, before granting access to your personal data. We will make reasonable attempts to promptly investigate, comply with, or otherwise respond to your request as may be required by applicable law. Different laws may prevent us from providing access to your personal data or otherwise fully complying with your request depending upon the circumstances and the request, such as for example, where producing your information may reveal the identity of someone else.

If you have registered for WWC Global emails or alerts, or you receive invitations to survey or events from WWC Global and you prefer not to receive future email communications from us, please unsubscribe at the bottom of the email or write to wwcglobal.com/contact to unsubscribe from all WWC Global communications.

If you are a California resident, you have the rights outlined in this section. As required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), this Privacy Policy describes the categories of personal data collected, processed, and disclosed by WWC Global, the categories of sources for that data, and the business or commercial purposes for which that data is collected, processed, and disclosed.

In addition, under California law, you may have the right (up to two times in any 12-month period) to request more information about WWC Global’s collection, use, disclosure, and sale of personal data about you including:

• The categories of personal data about you that we have collected in the preceding 12 months and the categories of sources of that information,
• The categories of sources from which we have collected that information in the preceding 12 months,
• The commercial or business reason(s) we have collected, used, disclosed, or sold that information, and
• The categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed or sold that information in the preceding 12 months.
• In addition, upon receipt of a verifiable request from you establishing your identity, you may have the right to know about the specific pieces of personal data that we have collected about you and/or shared with third parties in the preceding 12 months.

You may also have the right to request deletion of personal data about you that we have collected or maintain, which we will honor subject to certain limitations set forth under California law.

If you are a California consumer and you would like to exercise your privacy rights, please send us an email at wwcglobal.com/contact or call us at (813) 639-8658. Please describe your request in sufficient detail to allow us to understand, evaluate, and respond to it. When we process your request, we also require you to provide certain personal data about you in order to verify your identity in accordance with requirements under CCPA. This may include your first and last name, email address, physical address, telephone number, and information about your relationship with us or other information needed to verify your identity. WWC Global will not discriminate against you based on your exercise of any of these rights.

By using the Sites, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your personal data by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Sites. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that increase our rights to use personal data that we have previously collected about you, we will obtain your consent either through an email to your registered email address or by prominently posting information about the changes on our Sites.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at wwcglobal.com/contact.