Privacy Policy
Our policy governs the collection of personal and business information through the WorldAccelerator.com website and program (the “Website”), mobile applications, and/or our platform and services (collectively the “World Accelerator Program”). This policy describes the types of information we may collect from visitors and how that information is used. Please read this policy carefully before providing us with any information. If you have questions about this policy, please contact us.
The policy was last updated as of the date below and this represents the current policy in effect and governing all personal information collected both before and after this date (see below section Changes to this Privacy Policy).
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Applicants interested in applying must agree to our Application Rules before submitting their ideas which state that teams that submit a business idea understand that ideas submitted are not confidential and may be published by World Accelerator for visitors to vote on and comment. Multiple people may have the same idea and ideas may be thought of or implemented by someone else. World Accelerator is looking for ideas and the best teams to implement them. While we are requesting your ideas and why you are the right team to implement them, we request that information that you deem as proprietary should not be submitted.
Unregistered users
If you do not register, then the information we collect from you is
limited. We log your IP address in order to help diagnose problems
with our services and track usage statistics. Your IP address may
vary each time you visit, or it may be the same. We may log other
non-personal information such as the type of internet browser that
you use or your connection speed. It would be extremely difficult
for us to identify you through your IP address, browser type, or
other non-personal information that we collect and we make no
attempt to do so. If you reach us by clicking on a link or
advertisement on another website, we may log that information.
We may place a small “cookie” file on your computer’s hard
drive. A cookie may contain information that allows us to track your
path through our Website and to determine whether you have visited
us before. You may elect not to accept cookies by changing settings
in your browser; however, by not accepting cookies some or all of
the functions of the Website may not work for you. Unless you
register with us, the cookie contains no personally identifiable
information. We may use cookies to help us understand how visitors
use our Website and to help us to improve. We also compile this
information and use it in the aggregate to determine common themes
and trends among our visitors. From time to time our Website also
may run usability testing to help us improve the functions of our
Website for all users. This may include recording random tests that
track users’ actions and movements on specific pages of our Website.
Our tests are contained to our Website and we do not track users’
behavior on other websites.
Registered users
Registered Users are users that sign up at our Website. You can register to take advantage of personalization features as well as enhanced services that we offer. If you choose to register with us, in addition to information that we collect above we may collect personal information including, but not limited to names, birthdates, relationships, addresses, email addresses, user names and passwords and other contact information. Also you will be able to add text, comments, files, images, audio, video or other personal materials (collectively “Content”) to certain areas of our Website and to participate with more of our site features. The information we collect may vary, but we only collect the information that you manually supply to us or otherwise authorize us to collect. We may store all or some of that information in a cookie file on your hard drive, so that our system will recognize you each time you visit. In that way, we can save your preferences between visits and present you with a customized experience each time you visit. If you reach our Website through one of our partners and you choose to register with us, we may be required to give our partner your registration information.
Billing Information
Financial information including credit card and bank account information, and other such billing information are passed directly to the stated payment processor and are not stored on our servers unless you authorize such storage.
HOW WE USE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We use personal information to provide you with a custom and
personal experience at our Website. Registering also allows you to
log in to our Website to personalize your experience and gain access
to information you may have stored during previous use of our
Website. We may use your personal information to periodically
contact you with news or important information, to provide you with
other information or invitations related to our Wesite, and to
request your feedback. In addition to these periodic updates, we may
email you additional marketing materials that you have requested or
that we believe would be of interest to you based upon information
you’ve provided. These marketing materials might include opt-in
newsletters and partner offers. You may opt-out of any or all
marketing communications in any commercial e-mail we send or at any
time (opt-out links are provided in all marketing-related emails and
any fax or mail correspondence we send you will also include opt-out
instructions). You may not opt-out of service messages or standard
service newsletters or announcements; however, if you wish to not
receive such communications you may cancel your account.
We may also use certain information that you provide in order to
present you with advertising and offers that you may find
interesting. This benefits both of us. It benefits us because
advertising helps pay the bills, and we can charge our advertisers
more if they know that their ads will be seen by somebody more
likely to find it useful. It benefits you because you see
advertising that is more likely to be interesting to you and because
it permits us to offer you a broader range of free services.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may share some of your personal information with third-parties
engaged in providing services to us where the sharing of information
is necessary to provide our services. We also may share your
information in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a
divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, and in the
unlikely event of bankruptcy. We require all such parties to agree
to privacy requirements at least as stringent as our privacy
requirements, to use any such personal data solely for the purpose
of providing the specified services to us, and to comply with
applicable laws.
We may also share personal information
that is de-identified and compiled in aggregated summaries with
third parties who may utilize such information for purposes,
including but not limited to, data analysis and analytics purposes.
We must cooperate with legal authorities, and may in some
circumstances be required to disclose personally identifiable
information in response to requests from law enforcement
authorities, or in response to a subpoena or other legal process. We
can turn over information about you if we believe we must in order
to prevent a violation of the law, and by accepting this policy, you
consent to our doing so, in our sole discretion. You also consent to
our disclosing information about you in the course of legal
proceedings if we are legally required to do so, if we reasonably
believe that doing so may mitigate our liability, or if doing so
will assist us in enforcing our legal rights.
Except in the specific situations described HEREIN, we will not disclose, share, rent, or sell the personal information you provide to us with any third party.
Applicants interested in applying must agree to our Application Rules before submitting their ideas which state that teams that submit a business idea understand that ideas submitted are not confidential and may be published by World Accelerator for visitors to vote on and comment. Multiple people may have the same idea and ideas may be thought of or implemented by someone else. World Accelerator is looking for ideas and the best teams to implement them. While we are requesting your ideas and why you are the right team to implement them, we request that information that you deem as proprietary should not be submitted.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use commercially reasonable efforts to implement all generally accepted, industry-standard best practices for the protection of personal information. However, no website or platform is entirely secure, and we cannot guarantee that your personal information will not be intercepted or accessed by others. While we have taken commercially reasonable precautions to protect the personal information that you provide to us, you should exercise discretion in what you provide to us, as there is always a risk that our Website or platform may be compromised via a malicious attack, a system failure, a human error, or another vulnerability, which could result in the disclosure of personal information to third parties. Any third parties that we share personal information with will be solely responsible for securing any personal information that they receive from us. All such personal information will be protected in accordance with such third parties’ security practices and procedures then in-effect.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change this policy should we deem it advisable to do so. We will always post the latest date indicating the most current policy in effect. Any update will automatically apply so we encourage you to review. If we make material changes that will affect personal information we have already collected from you, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the changes and give you the opportunity to amend or cancel your registration. We take your privacy seriously; please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.
