The World Thinks (aka theworldthinks.com) (“Company,” “we,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of theworldthinks.com, including any content, functionality and services offered on or through theworldthinks.com (the “Website”), whether as a guest or a registered user.
When accessing the Website, we will learn certain information about you automatically and through voluntary actions you may take during your visit. This policy applies to information we collect on the Website and in email, text, or other electronic messages between you and the Website.
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website.
AGE OF CONSENT
By using this Site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence, and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this Site.
theworldthinks.com does not knowingly solicit or collect personally identifiable information online from children under 13. If you become aware of any personally identifiable information we have collected from children under 13, please contact us, and it will be removed.
Minors under 18 years of age may have the Personal Information that they provided through the Site deleted by contacting us requesting deletion.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
When you access the Website, the Company will learn certain information about you during your visit. The Website provides various places for users to provide information. We collect information that users provide by filling out forms on the Website, communicating with us via contact forms, providing comments or other feedback, and providing information when ordering a product via the Website.
We use the information you provide us to provide the Service, deliver the requested product, improve our overall performance, and provide you with offers, promotions, and communication.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGY.
As you navigate through our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies, including Google Analytics, to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This will generally include information about your location, your traffic pattern through our Website, and any communications between your computer and our Website. Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type.
The information we collect automatically is used for statistical data and will not include personal information. We use this data to improve our Website and our service offerings. To the extent that you voluntarily provide personal information to us, our systems will associate the automatically collected information with your personal information.
USE OF COOKIES AND PIXELS
Like other commercial websites, our Website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” and server logs to collect information about how our Site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Site, the websites visited just before and after our own, and your IP address.
A cookie is a minimal text document, often including an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that Site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Website can send its cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
The Company reserves the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.
The World Thinks may use cookies and tracking technology to gather information such as browser type and operating system, track the number of visitors to the Site, and understand how visitors use the Site. Personal information cannot be collected via cookies and other tracking technology; however, if you previously provided personally identifiable information, cookies may be tied to such information. Third parties, such as our advertisers, may also use cookies to collect data while serving ads to you. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies. Google, in particular, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this Site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visits to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of using the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
THIRD-PARTY USE OF COOKIES
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information, or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioural) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties tracking technologies or how they may be used. You should contact the responsible provider directly if you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content.
International Transfer
Your information, including Personal Information, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers outside your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Information, to the United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by submitting such information, represents your agreement to that transfer.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Our Service may contain links to other sites not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party’s Site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every Site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for any third-party sites or services’ content, privacy policies or practices.
COMMENTS
Comments submitted to this Website are the responsibility of the commenter. We reserve the right to remove or edit comments at our discretion. Site URLs (if provided) are published along with comments. Email addresses are required with the submission of comments. Still, they are only disclosed if the commenter deliberately does so by entering the email address in the main comment box in addition to the box clearly labelled for the email address.
The World Thinks reserves the right to delete any comments deemed not beneficial to the readership. This includes but is not limited to comments containing profanity, self-promotion, harassment, threats, or spam.
EMAIL INFORMATION
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages, your email address, and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications we employ to maintain information received online, by mail, and by telephone. This also applies when you register for our Website, sign up through any of our forms using your email address or purchase on this Site. For further information, see the email policies below.
Email Policies
We are committed to keeping your email address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the Disclosure of Your Information section.
We will maintain the information you send via email by applicable federal law.
In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all emails sent from our organization will clearly state who the email is from and provide clear information on contacting the sender. In addition, all email messages will contain concise information on removing yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further email communication from us.
Our emails allow users to opt out of receiving communications from our partners and us by reading the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of any email they receive from us at any time.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials may opt out of receiving these communications by clicking the unsubscribe link in the email.
HOW AND WHY WE COLLECT INFORMATION
The Company collects your information to record and support your participation in your selected activities. We use this information to track your preferences and to keep you informed about the products and services you have chosen to receive and any related products and services. As a visitor to this Website, you can engage in most activities without providing any personal information. Only when you seek to download resources or purchase products are you required to provide information?
Suppose you receive any free resources, participate in any free training programs, register for a webinar, a live event, or a seminar, or purchase any products the Company sells on this Website. In that case, we will automatically enroll you in our email newsletter. You can unsubscribe anytime if you do not wish to receive this communication. We include an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email. If you ever have trouble unsubscribing, you can contact us here requesting to unsubscribe from future emails.
HOW DO WE USE THE INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE TO US?
We use personal information for purposes of presenting our Website and its contents to you, providing you with information, providing you with offers for products and services, providing you with information about your subscriptions and products, carrying out any contract between you and the Company, administering our business activities, providing customer service, and making available other items and services to our customers and prospective customers.
From time to time, we may use the information you provide to make you offers to purchase products and services provided by third parties in exchange for a commission to be paid to us by such third parties. Third parties will receive your information if you opt to participate in such promotions.
From time to time, we may use the information you provide to us to display advertisements to you that are tailored to your characteristics, interests, and activities.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
Generally, we do not sell, rent, lease or otherwise transfer any information collected, whether automatically or through your voluntary action.
We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries, affiliates, and service providers to provide our services to you.
We may disclose your personal information to a third party, including a lawyer or collection agency, when necessary to enforce our terms of Service or any other agreement between you and the Company.
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights or when compelled by a court or other governmental entity to do so.
HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION AND SECURE INFORMATION TRANSMISSIONS?
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, and we strive to implement and maintain reasonable, commercially acceptable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information we store to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of the Personal Information we have collected from you.
We employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information you provide and the information we collect automatically.
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at your own risk. Credit Card information and other sensitive information are never transmitted via email.
The Company may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to our Site, what information is of most and slightest interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.
For site security purposes and to ensure that this Service remains available to all users, the Company uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage.
POLICY CHANGES
Our policy is to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. Suppose we change how we treat our users’ personal information. In that case, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active, and deliverable email address for you and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Log Files
The World Thinks follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, The World Thinks uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
Google DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.website.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Our Advertising Partners
Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.
Google – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of The World Thinks. Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on The World Thinks, which are sent directly to users’; browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit. Note that The World Thinks has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to: Request that a business that collects a consume’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers. Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected. Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
VISITORS’ GDPR RIGHTS
If you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain information and rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. Those rights include:
We will retain any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of:
- You ask us to delete the information.
- We have decided to cease using our existing data providers.
- The Company decides that the costs of retaining it outweigh the data’s value.
- You have the right to request access to the Company’s data and to either rectify or erase your data.
- You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.
- You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data.
- To exercise these rights, please get in touch with us.
- To the extent that you provided consent to the Company’s processing of your data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred before your withdrawal of consent.
- You have the right to complain to a supervisory authority with jurisdiction over the General Data Protection Regulation issues.
We require only the reasonably necessary information to enter into a contract with you. We will not need you to consent to any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.
CONTACT US
The Company welcomes your questions or comments regarding the Privacy Policy: The World Thinks
Last updated Sep 28, 2023