We care about your privacy and the security of your information. We want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information, including personal information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in conjunction with your access to our digital products and services.
This website contains links to other websites for your convenience and information. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those sites.
Who We Are
This is the blog page of William Watkins, Chairman of The Earl Wentz and William Watkins Foundation. Contact wwatkins@ewwwf.org.
Our website address is: www.williamweighsin.com
What Personal Data We Collect and Why
When you use this website by, among other actions, ordering a product, providing registration details, setting newsletter preferences, browsing our site, completing a survey, entering a contest or otherwise interacting with this website, we gather personal information. Personal information is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. Several different types of personal information can be gathered when you interact with this website, depending on the type of product or service being used. Collection of personal information is necessary to delivering you this website or to enhance your customer experience.
We may collect the following personal data from our site visitors and users: your name, email address, and personal account preferences; transactional data, such as purchase information; and technical data, such as information about cookies.
If you disclose any personal information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the the services of this website, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
By default WordPress does not collect any personal data about visitors, and only collects the data shown on the User Profile screen from registered users.
Comments and Surveys
We offer you opportunities to engage in public activities on williamweighsin.com. “Public activities” are any actions you take on our website that are designed to be visible to other users, including comments, survey responses, recommendations, reader reviews, ratings or any other items that you submit. If you choose to engage in public activities, you should be aware that any personal information you submit can be read, collected and used by other users of these services. We are not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in the course of your public activities and we have no responsibility to publish, take down, remove or edit any of your public activities or submissions (except as required by applicable laws).
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
We and our service providers collect personal information from you through voluntary surveys or feedback programs conducted via williamweighsin.com, through our service providers’ platforms, by phone, by mail or during in-person interviews or focus groups. We will ask you for your consent to the processing of information at the point of collection.
All content (e.g., comments and survey responses) you choose to submit in the course of your public activities on this website becomes the sole and exclusive property of williamweighsin.com and The Earl Wentz and William Watkins Foundation.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment or participate in a survey on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article or post, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded Content From Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.These web sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
What We Do With the Personal Information We Collect From You
We collect, use or otherwise process personal information as allowed under applicable law, including where based on one or more of the following:
– The consent you provide to us at the point of collection of your personal information;
– The performance of the contract we have with you;
– The compliance of a legal obligation to which we are subject; or
– The legitimate interests of williamweighsin.com or The Earl Wentz and William Watkins Foundation or both, a third party or yourself. “Legitimate interest” is a technical term under the regulation. It means that there are good reasons for the processing of your personal information and measures are taken to minimize the impact on your privacy rights and interests. “Legitimate interest” also references our use of your data in ways you would reasonably expect and that have a minimal privacy impact. We have a legitimate interest in collecting and processing personal information, for example: (1) to ensure that our networks and information are secure; (2) to administer and generally conduct business within williamweignsin.com or The Earl Wentz and William Watkins Foundation or both; and (3) to prevent fraud.
A) Provide the Services You Request From Us. We use the information we gather about you to enable your use of our website’s services and fulfill your requests for certain products and services, such as providing our website’s functionality to you, arranging access to your registered account, providing you with customer service, responding to your inquiries, requests, questions, suggestions, compliments or complaints, completing your transactions, sending you administrative information (such as change of our terms, conditions, or policies), and enabling you to participate in and renew participation in services, polls, promotions, surveys, panels or research, and message boards. We will engage in these activities to manage our relationship with you or comply with a legal obligation.
B) Analysis and Development of New Products and Services. We perform statistical, demographic and marketing analyses of users of our website services, and their subscribing and purchasing patterns, so we can analyze or predict our users’ preferences for product and services development purposes, to determine our promotional campaign effectiveness so we can adapt our campaign to the needs and interests of our users, and to generally inform our board and staff about the nature of our subscriber base. We use this information for analytical purposes, including analysis to improve customer relationships, to support strategic business decisions and our marketing tactics and to measure and track our brand health. We will engage in these activities to manage our relationship with you, to comply with a legal obligation, or because we have a legitimate interest in doing so.
C) Customizing Your Experience. We use the information that we have to better understand you and customize certain features of our website services to provide you with an enhanced experience including to show you offerings, promotions or products that may be of interest to you, based on the demographic information, type of device you are using to access our website services, your usage of our services and your reading history. We will provide personalized services because we have a legitimate interest.
D) Administrative Purposes. We and our service providers use the information we have about you for the following legitimate business purposes:
For auditing purposes, to verify that our internal processes function as intended and comply with legal, regulatory and contractual requirements;
For fraud and security monitoring purposes, including, for example, to detect and prevent cyberattacks; and
To understand and assess satisfaction with our services.
We engage in these activities to manage our relationship with you, to comply with a legal obligation, or because we have a legitimate interest.
Sharing The Personal Information We Gather
A) Sharing With Service Providers. We contract with other companies, agents or contractors (“service providers”) to provide services on our behalf. These services are, for example, credit-card, payment and billing processing, fulfillment of orders, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, shipping, email distribution, list processing and analytics, research surveys/interviews/focus group management and analysis, or promotions management. In the course of performing these services, our service providers have access to your information including your personal information.
B) Sharing With Other Third Parties. We will not sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party (except our service providers) to use your email address without your permission. Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to restrict our use or sharing of aggregated or de-identified information in any way.
We may use a third-party payment service to process payments made through our website’s services. If you wish to make a payment through our website’s services, your personal information will be collected by such third party and not by us, and will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy, rather than this Privacy Policy. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, this third party’s collection, use and disclosure of your personal information.
C) Compliance With Legal Process. We may access, preserve and disclose personal information if we are required to do so by law or we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process; (2) protect and defend our rights and property; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the services of williamweighsincom or The Earl Wentz and William Watkins Foundation or both; (4) protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public (among other things, this means that if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, information about you may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions); and (5) cooperate with public and government authorities (which may be outside your country of residence).
D) By Using williamweighsin.com and Its Services, You May Elect to Disclose Personal Information.
i) Public Activities: see above for more details on such activities. Public activities may be included in our RSS feeds, APIs and other distribution formats. As a result, your public activities may appear on other websites, blogs, or feeds.
ii) Through Your Social Sharing Activity: When you connect your williamweighsin.com account with your social media account, you will share information with your friends associated with your social media account, with other users, and with your social media account provider. By doing so, you authorize us to facilitate this sharing of information, and you understand that the use of shared information will be governed by the social media provider’s privacy policy.