PRIVACY POLICY
Virtual Women’s Expo (“VWE”) has created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to protect your privacy and to fully disclose what information we collect and how we use it. Please note your use of our site (the “Digital Offering”) is also governed by the Terms of Use.
A. What Information Do We Collect About You?
We may collect the following personal information from you:
VWE collects personal information from you when you visit a site and/or send us information or communications. Some portions of this Digital Offering may require you to give us personal information such as your name, age, zip code, and email address (and, if applicable, financial information such as your credit card information.)
If you communicate with us by email, complete online forms, surveys or contest entries, we may collect any personal information you provide in such communications.
As you browse our Digital Offering, the Digital Offering collects log file, IP address of your computer, and other standard tracking data we use to evaluate Digital Offering traffic and usage patterns. In addition, such information is aggregated with tracking data from all Digital Offering visitors.
If you submit financial information, we use that information primarily to collect payments for your purchases, orders, registrations, etc. VWE uses a third party to process credit card transactions and does not store credit card information.
B. How Do We Use Your Information?
We will use your information for the following purposes:
To provide you with the products and services you have requested and to communicate with you about those products and services.
To design additional services or products for customers’ use.
To let you know about any products or services which we believe may be of interest to you. You will always be able to unsubscribe or opt-out of receiving these messages.
To invite you to participate in informational programs.
To conduct surveys and/or market research purposes related to any of the above.
C. How Do We Share Your Information?
We may share your personal information consistent with the terms of this Privacy Policy:
We may share information about your engagement with any of our services including receipt of, and/or action related to our emails, activity on our sites including content and/or advertisements viewed and actions taken or Personal Information otherwise provided by you and we may combine and link user data from other sources.
If you opt in, we may share your personal information with VWE’s partners, sponsors, advertisers and third parties licensed or permitted to access your personal information.
In order to comply with the Federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, we also may provide lists of customers who have opted-out of email promotion for VWE products to other companies, so they can be removed from mailings those companies sent on VWE’s behalf. In addition, if you unsubscribe from our mailings, your removal instruction may also be supplied to the third party and added to their own suppression file. If you continue receiving email after opting out, please contact us at hello@virtual-womens-expo.com.
We may buy or sell business assets. If we are selling an asset or assets, including website (s) which are acquired by another company, personal, usage and financial information may be transferred as part of the change of ownership.
We may provide aggregated usage or tracking information collected from our Digital Offerings to third parties.
Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, we will keep your personal information private and will not share it with third parties, unless such disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with a court order or other legal process; (b) protect our rights or property; (c) enforce our terms of service; or (d) to allow our suppliers to perform their contractual responsibilities on our behalf.
D. Updates to Your Information
Updating Visitor Information
You have the option of accessing, correcting, updating and modifying your personal information or visitor profile, at any time and as often as desired. If you desire to delete your personal information, please contact us at hello@virtual-womens-expo.com.
E. Third Party Content and Affiliate Links
Our Digital Offerings contain both Third Party Content and external links to other Digital Offerings including suppliers, advertisers and affiliates. VWE may have affiliate relationships with certain third parties. When you make a purchase using one of our affiliate links, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the quality, correctness, content of, or information gathered by, these other Digital Offerings. We do not endorse any of these Digital Offerings or the products or services associated with such Digital Offerings merely because they are linked to our Digital Offering. Third parties may collect user data directly from you for their own use and subject to their own privacy policies. We recommend that you review the privacy policies of these third parties before providing any of your personal information.
F. Marketing
VWE uses all features of Google Analytics for Display Advertisers. Google Analytics does not store any visitor specific data and we will not use visitor specific data in any way related to Google Analytics, Google Adwords, and Remarketing. VWE uses remarketing with Google Adwords and analytics to display content specific advertisements to visitors that have previously visited our site when those visitors go to other websites that have the Google Display Network implemented. VWE and other third party vendors, including Google, use cookies together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on visitors past visits to our website. Visitors can opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertisers and opt out of customized Google Display Network ads by visiting the Ads Preferences Manager at www.google.com/ads/preferences/.
Opt-In Option
Visitors to this Digital Offering shall have the option to decide if they want to receive informational and/or promotional emails from VWE. Should visitors choose to receive emails from VWE, any email they receive will include instructions on how to be removed from a VWE email list. If you continue receiving email after opting out, please contact us at hello@virtual-womens-expo.com.
Visitors shall also have the option to decide if they want to allow VWE to share their information with Third Party Content providers. Any email they receive should include instructions on how to be removed from third party email lists. If you continue receiving emails after opting out, please contact us at hello@virtual-womens-expo.com.
G. Cookies and Web Beacons
A “cookie” is a bit of data sent by a website through the browser to the computer of the user visiting the site, and enables the site to return the results the browser expects. VWE uses temporary, session-specific cookies to ensure visits to its website are smooth and customized for the visitor. Such cookies allow us to provide a visitor’s browser with information tailored to the visitor’s preferences and needs. VWE also uses permanent or persistent cookies that remain on a visitor’s computer after the visitor leaves a VWE website.
If you do not want your browser to accept cookies, you can turn off the cookie acceptance option in the browser’s settings. However, disabling the cookie support function of the browser will prevent our website from functioning properly and you may not be able to utilize fully all of the site’s features and information.
Pixel Tags
Like many websites, VWE may also use pixel tags, also known as beacons, spotlight tags or web bugs, to improve our understanding of site traffic, visitor behavior, and response to promotional campaigns, as a supplement to our server logs and other methods of traffic and response measurement. Pixel tags are sometimes used in conjunction with small Javascript-based applications, also for the purpose of traffic measurement. We may also implement pixel tags provided by other companies, for the same purpose. You can disable pixel tags by changing your browser settings to omit images and disable Javascript; or there are commercial software packages available that can omit pixel tags and most advertisements.
H. How We Secure Your Personal Information
We believe our products should be safe and secure for all our users. In order to fulfill this, we treat security as our top priority and guide our decisions based on this principle. This Digital Offering takes commercially reasonable precautions to protect your information. When appropriate, we use SSL encryption technology on our Digital Offering and a secure server to encrypt information transmitted between your browsers and our server. As a result, data you submit to our Digital Offering such as credit card and payment information is transmitted using commercially reasonable security over the Internet.
I. “Do Not Track” Requests
Some web browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature. This feature allows you to tell websites you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked over time and across websites. These features are not yet uniform across browsers. As this is a browser setting, VWE does not monitor or respond to “Do Not Track” requests.
J. California Privacy Rights
The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides consumers (i.e., California residents) with specific rights, subject to some limitations and the verification of their identity, regarding their personal data:
Consumers have the right to request access to the specific pieces of personal information VWE has collected, disclosed or sold about them in the last twelve (12) months, including the categories of information, sources and business purposes of collection, as well as the categories of third parties to whom VWE has disclosed or shared the personal information.
Consumers have the right to request deletion of their personal information (subject to certain exceptions).
Consumers have the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal data.
Consumers have the right to receive equal service and price and not be discriminated against for exercising their privacy rights under the CCPA.
In order for VWE to process an “Exercise Your Rights Request,” VWE will make a reasonable effort to confirm your identity before processing your request. We will verify your request by matching your name and email address you provide in your request against the name and email address we have in our system. Please submit your requests by sending us an email at hello@virtual-womens-expo.com.
You may designate an authorized agent to make an “Exercise Your Rights” request on your behalf in accordance with the CCPA. VWE may require that you provide the authorized agent with written permission to act on your behalf and that the authorized agent verify their identity directly with us.
We may share your personal information with third party partners in ways that may constitute a “sale” under CCPA. You may request that we not “sell” your personal information going forward. Please submit requests by using the “Exercise Your Rights” interactive web form.
When you submit an “Exercise Your Rights” Request, VWE will do its best to respond to your request as soon as possible, and, in any event, no later than forty-five (45) days after receiving your request. You may only make a request twice within a twelve (12) month calendar year.
After we have completed reviewing your request, we may store the information we provide to you for a reasonable amount of time after fulfilling your request in case you have additional inquiries. After the information is no longer necessary, we will automatically delete this information from our records.
Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code permits California residents to request from a business, with whom the California resident has an established business relationship, certain information about the types of personal information the business has shared with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of the third parties with whom the business has shared such information during the immediately preceding calendar year. Please submit an email to request your “Exercise Your Rights” options.
K. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
As a visitor to VWE Digital Offerings, you warrant and represent that you are 18 yrs of age or over the age of majority in your local jurisdiction. VWE is in compliance with the requirements of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13.
L. Notification of Changes
VWE reserves the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, change, update or modify this Privacy Policy, simply by posting such change, update or modification on the Digital Offering. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the Digital Offering. Please check back often to review the latest version of our Privacy Policy.
M. Your Acceptance of these Terms
By using our Digital Offering, products or services, you signify your acceptance of the terms of the VWE Privacy Policy and our practices in relation to the collection, use and disclosure of the information you provide or that we collect from other sources, as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to the terms of the VWE Privacy Policy, please do not use the Digital Offering, products and/or services and exit the Digital Offering immediately.
N. Contact Us
If you have any questions on our Privacy Policy, or questions about our handling of your Personal Information and/or Financial Information, you can contact us at hello@virtual-womens-expo.com.
Last updated 2.1.21