When you
use our Site, you may voluntarily provide information about yourself and your
organization, including your name, email address, and any other information you
choose to provide. We collect this information when you register as a user of
the Site, contact us, or interact with us for any other purpose.
We also
automatically collect information relating to your interactions with us and our
Site, including browser type, IP address, pages visited and other activities on
the Site, device type, time and date of visit, and other information we collect
through the use of cookies, web beacons, tags, and similar technologies. See
the “Digital Advertising & Analytics” section of this Privacy Policy to
learn more about the use of this information and the choices available to you.
We may use
provided information for any lawful purpose, including the following:
- To
contact you by email or other forms of communication regarding updates or
informative communications related to our mission and initiatives, your
and/or your organization’s relationship with us, and the functionalities,
products, or contracted services we provide to you or your organization;
- To
provide and maintain our Site, including to monitor the usage of our
services;
- To
respond to your inquiries and manage requests you submit to us;
- To
manage your account, including to manage your registration as a user of
the Site and the personal data you provide;
- To
provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other
goods, services, and events we offer that may be of interest to you;
- To
operate and improve our services;
- To
operate, personalize, and improve the Site, including for advertising and
analytics purposes;
- To
prevent and detect fraud;
- To
comply with the law and maintain the security of the Site; or
- With consent, or as otherwise disclosed at the time information is
collected.
We may
share the information we collect with other parties, including the following:
- With
our participating companies and organizations;
- With
third-party service providers or vendors who process data on our behalf to
help our business operations, such as email service providers;
- With
third parties or other vetted partners;
- With
affiliates, including our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint
venture partners, or other companies under common control, in which case
we will require such affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy;
- When
necessary to comply with our legal and/or regulatory obligations, or when
we are compelled to do so by a governmental agency, court, or other entity
(e.g., in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process);
- When
necessary or appropriate to protect or defend the rights, safety, or
property of We Mean Business, users of the Site, or any other person,
including to enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of use;
- In the
event of a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, transfer of control, joint
venture, or other business combination involving us, or our related
companies; or
- With your consent, or as otherwise disclosed at the time of data
collection or sharing.
We may
share information that has been de-identified or aggregated without limitation.
To prevent
unauthorized access, use, or disclosure of information we collect, we have put
in place commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial
procedures designed to safeguard personal data.
Cookies are
small files placed on your device when viewing a website. You can instruct your
browser to refuse all cookies. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may
not be able to use some parts of the Site. We use both “persistent” and
“session” cookies for the purposes set out below:
NECESSARY COOKIES
Type:
Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose:
These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the
Site and to enable you to use its features. They help to authenticate users and
prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services
you have requested cannot be provided, and we use these cookies only to provide
you with those services.
FUNCTIONAL COOKIES
Type:
Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose:
These cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the Site, such
as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these
cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you
having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the Site.
PERFORMANCE COOKIES
Type:
Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Third-Parties
Purpose:
These cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Site and how
users use the Site. The information gathered via these cookies may directly or
indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the
information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier
associated with the device you use to access the Site. We may also use these
cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see
how our users react to them.
TARGETING COOKIES
Type:
Persistent
Cookies
Administered by: Third Parties
Purpose: These cookies are set by our
advertising partners and may be used by those companies to build a profile of
your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites. If you do
not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
We may
partner with ad networks and other ad serving providers (“Advertising
Providers”) that serve ads on behalf of us and others on non-affiliated
platforms. Some of those ads may be personalized, meaning that they are
intended to be relevant to you based on information Advertising Providers
collect about your use of the Site and other sites or apps over time, including
information about relationships among different browsers and devices. This type
of advertising is known as interest-based advertising.
We may also work with third parties that collect
data about your use of the Site and other sites or apps over time for
non-advertising purposes. We use Google Analytics and other third-party
services to improve the performance of the Site and for analytics and marketing
purposes. For more information about how Google Analytics collects and uses
data when you use our Site, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners, and to
opt out of Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.We may
provide links on the Site to third-party websites or apps, including plug-ins
that link to social media sites such as Facebook and YouTube. These websites
and apps are independent from We Mean Business and have their own separate
privacy policies. We Mean Business is not responsible for the privacy practices
or content of such third-party websites or apps. We recommend that you review
the third-parties’ privacy polices before you visit these websites or apps to
learn about their data practices.
The Site
may also include integrated social media tools or “plug-ins,” such as social
networking tools offered by third parties. If you use these tools to share
information or you otherwise interact with these features on the Site, those
companies may collect information about you and may use and share such
information in accordance with your account settings, including by sharing such
information with the general public. Your interactions with third-party
companies and your use of their features are governed by the privacy notices of
the companies that provide those features. We encourage you to carefully read
the privacy notices of any accounts you create and use.
We may use
personal data to provide newsletters, communications, or other information that
may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving these communications
from us by following the “unsubscribe” link or instructions provided in such
emails or by contacting us at hr@wmbcoalition.org.
Note that
you cannot opt out of emails that provide information about your organization’s
climate pledges or that confirm donations.
This
section applies to visitors that access the Site or provide information to us
from the European Economic Area (“EEA”), Switzerland, or the United Kingdom
(“UK”).
LEGAL BASIS FOR
PROCESSING
We may rely
on the following legal bases to process personal data about you:
Consent:
where you have provided your consent to process personal data for one or
more specific purposes, such as for email promotional messages. You have
the right to withdraw consent by contacting us
at hr@wemeanbusinesscoalition.org, and with respect to email, you can
also withdraw consent as described above;
Performance
of a contract: where processing personal data is necessary for the
performance of an agreement with you or your organization or you have
requested we do something before creating a contract, such as making a
climate pledge or providing a donation;
Legal
obligation: where processing personal data is necessary to fulfill our
legal and regulatory obligations;
Vital
interests: where processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of
you or another person;
Legitimate interest: Where it is necessary to process personal data
for purposes of an important commercial or business interest.
DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS
You have
the right to:
- Request
access to the personal data we hold about you;
- Request
correction and/or erasure of personal data we hold about you;
- Request
that we restrict processing of personal data about you in certain
circumstances;
- Object
to any automated decision-making based on your conduct, such as analytics
for direct marketing conducted by us;
- Request
the transfer of personal data we hold about you to another party (i.e.,
the right of data portability) where processing is based on our contract
with you or on your consent);
- Withdraw your consent to process personal data, where we previously
obtained your consent.
To exercise
any of these rights, please contact us using the “Contact Us” section below.
Please note that We Mean Business may be unable to afford these rights to you
under certain circumstances, such as if we are legally prevented from doing so.
Additionally, you have the right to lodge a complaint against us. To do so,
contact the data protection authority in your country of residence.
RETENTION OF PERSONAL DATA
We will
retain personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out
in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use personal data to the extent
necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required
to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and
enforce our legal agreements and policies.
We will
also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally
retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to
strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of the Site, or we are
legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA
Personal data we collect may be transferred to
and maintained on servers or databases located outside of your state, province,
country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may
differ from those in your jurisdiction, including in the United States. When
transferring personal data to countries outside the EEA or the UK, we will take
all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that adequate controls are in place to
assure the protection of personal data.
We may
change this Privacy Policy from time to time. You should check this page
periodically to learn of any updates. If we make changes to this Privacy
Policy, we will post the amended version on our Site and the effective date
will be updated.
