PRIVACY STATEMENT
Our commitment is to put users first. We strive to be transparent about how we collect and
use your information, to keep your information secure and to provide you meaningful choices. This
Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information WiT, its affiliates (“Women in
Technology,” “us,” “our” or “we”) collect, why we collect it and what we do with it. This policy applies
to We-Ace brands, mentors, websites, apps, advertising services, products, services or technologies
(we’ll
collectively refer to these as “Services”).
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How we use this Information
We are able to deliver, personalize, and improve our Services by combining and using the information
we have about you (including information we receive on and off our Services) to understand how you
use and interact with our Services and the people or things you’re connected to and interested in.
We also may use the information we have about you for the following purposes:
- Provide, maintain, improve, and develop relevant features, content, and Services.
- Analyze your content and other information (including emails, messages between you and mentors,
service providers, We-Ace employees, and other communications). You can review and control
certain
types of information tied to your We-Ace account by using Privacy Controls.
- Fulfill your requests and when authorized by you.
- Help advertisers and publishers connect to offer relevant advertising in their apps and
websites.
- Match and serve targeted advertising (across devices and both on and off of our Services) and
provide targeted advertising based on your device activity, inferred interests and location
information.
- Contact you with information about your account or with marketing messages, which you can also
control.
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Associate your activity across our Services and your different devices as well as associate any
accounts you may use across Services together provided by We-Ace and partner websites. We may
associate activity and accounts under a single user ID.
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Carry out or support promotions
- Conduct research and support innovation.
- Create analytics and reports for external parties, including partners, publishers, advertisers,
apps, third-parties and the public regarding the use of and trends within our Services and ads,
including showing trends to partners regarding general preferences, the effectiveness of ads and
information on user experiences. These analytics and reports may include aggregate or
pseudonymized information.
- Provide location-based Services, advertising, search results, and other content consistent with
your location settings.
- Combine information we have about you with information we obtain from business partners or other
companies, such as your activities on other sites and apps
- Detect and defend against fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful activity.
We may provide you with controls to manage your experience with us. For example, you can review or
edit your account information, manage your marketing preferences, or opt out of targeted ads. If you
opt out, you will continue to see ads, but they may not be as relevant or useful to you.
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How We Share This Information
We-Ace shares information within its affiliated brands, service providers and companies and with the
mentor, assigned to you. We also share information we have about you for the purposes described in
this Privacy Policy, including to provide Services that you have requested (including when you
connect with third-party apps and widgets). We do not sell, license or share information that
individually identifies our customers with companies, organizations or individuals outside of WiT
unless one of the following circumstances applies:
- With Your Consent. We will share information with companies, organizations or individuals
outside of WiT, when we have your consent.
- Within WiT. Information may also be shared within WiT, including with other We-Ace
Services
and affiliates. We-Ace affiliates may use the information in a manner consistent with their
privacy
policies.
- With Mentors. We will share information and everything in your profile to the mentors,
employers and service providers which are assigned to you. Our terms for partners, does not
allow them to relay this information to anyone else except WiT. However, in a situation where a
new mentor or service provider is assigned to you, the information needs to be passed, that too
via We-Ace and with the consent of the user.
- With Partners. We may share your information with nonaffiliated companies who are:
- Trusted Partners. We provide user information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or
with We-Ace based on our directions and in compliance with appropriate confidentiality
measures. Learn more.
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Advertising, Analytics and Business Partners (Limited to Non-Personally Identifiable
Information). We may share aggregated or pseudonymous information (including demographic
information) with partners, such as publishers, advertisers, measurement analytics, apps, or
other companies. For example, we may tell an advertiser how its ads performed or report how
many people installed an app after seeing a promotion. We do not share information that
personally identifies you (personally identifiable information is information like name or
email address) with these partners, such as publishers, advertisers, measurement analytics,
apps, or other companies.
- When you use third-party apps, websites or other products integrated with our Services, they
may collect information about your activities subject to their own terms and privacy
policies.
- We allow other companies that show advertisements on our webpages or apps to collect
information from your browsers or devices. Other companies' use of cookies and other data
collection technologies are subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Like many
companies, we may allow cookie matching with select partners. But these parties are not
authorized to access We-Ace cookies.
- For Legal and Other Purposes. We may access, preserve and disclose information to
investigate, prevent, or take action in connection with: (i) legal process and legal requests;
(ii) enforcement of the Terms; (iii) claims that any content violates the rights of
third-parties; (iv) requests for customer service; (v) technical issues; (vi) protecting the
rights, property or personal safety of WiT, its users or the public; (vii) establishing or
exercising our legal rights or defending against legal claims; or (viii) as otherwise required
by law.
- This may include responding to lawful governmental requests. Learn more about how we
evaluate and respond to these requests.
- New Ownership. If the ownership or control of all or part of Verizon, We-Ace or a
specific
Services changes as a result of a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, we may transfer your
information to the new owner.
When you use or interact with any of our Services, you consent to the data processing, sharing,
transferring and uses of your information as outlined in this Privacy Policy. Regardless of the country
where you reside, you authorize us to transfer, process, store and use your information in countries
other than your own in accordance with this Privacy Policy and to provide you with Services. Some of
these countries may not have the same data protection safeguards as the country where you reside.
We-Ace may process information related to individuals in the Indian Subcontinents and may transfer that
information from the Indian Subcontinents through various compliance mechanisms, including data
processing agreements based on the Indian Standard Contractual Clauses. By using our Services, you
consent to us transferring information about you to these countries. For more information, please visit
our Data Transfer page.
We reserve the right to change this policy at any time to reflect changes in the law, our data
collection and use practices, the features of our Services, or advances in technology. Please check this
page periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Services following the posting of changes to
this policy will mean you accept those changes. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy,
we will post the updated Privacy Policy here and notify you by email or by means of a notice on our
website prior to the changes becoming effective.
This Privacy Policy Applies Only to WiT. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of
companies that We-Ace does not own or control, or to people that We-Ace does not employ or manage. In
addition, some affiliated products, may have different privacy policies and practices that are not
subject to this Privacy Policy.