Privacy Policy

World Association of Spades is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State

of South Carolina.

WAOS is committed to protecting your privacy and developing best practices to best serve ourconstituents. This Statement of Privacy applies to personal information provided to WAOS via

website and / or promotional event registration. By providing your personal information to

WAOS you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

World Association of Spades only collects information for lawful purposes of the organization,

or as otherwise required by applicable law, including personally identifiable information, such

as your e-mail address, name, home or work address, company name, job title, telephone

number, location (based on your IP address), and information interests and preferences. WOAS

will not release such collected information outside of the organization for unrelated purposes

without your written consent, or except as may be required by applicable law

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We do not collect personal information unless you submit that information to us. We obtain

information about you when you use our website or complete a contact form. You can also

provide us personal information in person or via phone, personal emails, or US Post. Like many

other websites, the WAOS website uses cookies. Cookies are small pieces of information sent

by an organization to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to

recognize you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and

patterns and do not identify you as an individual. This helps us to improve our website and

deliver a better, more personalized service. We use several marketing platforms that utilize

cookies to help analyze user behavior and better target our marketing to you.

 

We use marketing platforms provided by Google, Facebook, Inc., Microsoft/LinkedIn,

Twitter, Flickr and YouTube to place advertising.

Third Party Services

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We use a number of third parties to process personal or aggregated (anonymous) data on our

behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the

appropriate legislation. All of these third parties are based in the USA and are EU-U.S Privacy

Shield compliant.

• Google (Privacy policy) https://policies.google.com/privacy

• Facebook (Privacy policy) https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

• LinkedIn (Privacy policy) https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

• Twitter (Privacy policy) https://twitter.com/en/privacy

• Flicker (Privacy policy) https://www.flickr.com/help/privacy

• YouTube (Privacy policy) https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/user-settings/privacy/

 

Use of your Personal Information

WAOS uses the personal information it collects only for the purposes of administering the

programs of the organization. It does not sell, rent or lease its contact lists to unaffiliated third

parties. WAOS and / or its partner organizations may, from time to time, contact you about a

program or new initiative that may be of interest to you. Additionally, we will only retain your

information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the

purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

 

Security of your Personal Information

WAOS is committed to protecting the personal information it collects, and takes every

reasonable measure to secure your personal information from unauthorized access, use or

disclosure. WAOS maintains the personally identifiable information you provide on computer

servers in a controlled, secure environment, with safeguards implemented to prohibit

unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

Request to Exercise Individual Rights

To exercise any of your rights as described below, please contact us in writing, via email or

postal mail as indicated above, so that we may consider your request under applicable law.

 

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Please be aware that your request will not be accepted for review unless you provide the

following:

• The name, user ID, pseudonym, email address, or other identifier that you have used to use our

Platform, or if you are not a registered user of the service, or have not otherwise previously

interacted with us, your first and last name and an address where we can correspond with you.

• State or Country in which you are located.

• Clear description of the information or content you wish to receive or to be deleted or

corrected, or the action you wish to be taken; and

• Sufficient information to allow us to locate the content or information to be deleted, removed

or corrected

 

For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the personal data

associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request. In addition,

please note that, depending on the nature of your inquiry, request or complaint, we may need to

verify your identity before implementing your request and may require proof of identity, such as

in the form of a government issued ID and proof of geographical address. We will try to comply

with your request as soon as reasonably practicable. However, we reserve the right to refuse to

act on a request that is manifestly unfounded or excessive (for example because it is repetitive)

and/or, in some cases, to charge a fee that takes into account the administrative costs for

providing the information or the communication or taking the action requested.

 

Right Not to Provide Consent or to Withdraw Consent

We may seek to rely on your consent in order to process certain personal data. Where we do so,

you have the right not to provide your consent, and the right to withdraw your consent at any

time. If you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing

conducted based on consent before it’s withdrawn.

 

Right of Access

You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not we collect or process personal

data concerning you and, if this is the case, you have the right to request a copy of such personal

data in digital format.

 

Right of Rectification

You have the right to require that we correct any inaccurate personal data concerning you, and

that we complete incomplete personal data.

 

Right of Erasure

In certain circumstances, you have the right to request that we erase personal data concerning

you; for example, if it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was originally

collected.

 

Right to Restrict Processing

In certain circumstances, you have the right to request that we restrict the processing of the

personal data that we have collected about you; for example, where you believe that the personal

data that hold about you is not accurate or lawfully held.

 

Right to Data Portability

In certain circumstances, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you

have provided us in a structured, commonly used, machine readable format, and the right to

obtain the data that we transmit to another entity where technically feasible.

 

Right to Object to the Processing

In certain circumstances, you have the right to request that we stop processing your personal

data.

 

Right to Object to the Processing for Direct Marketing Purposes

You have the right to request that we stop sending you marketing communications.

 

Right Not to be Subject to Decisions Based Solely on Automated Processing that Produce

Legal Effects

In certain circumstances, you have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on

automated processing – including profiling – that produces legal effects or similarly affects you.

 

Right to Complain to a Supervisory Authority

You have the right to lodge complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe that our

processing of personal data relating to you infringes the WAOS. To exercise your rights, please

contact us at worldassocationofspades@gmail.com.

 

Changes to this Statement

WAOS will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and legislative

improvements. WAOS encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of

how WAOS is protecting your information.

 

Contact Information

World Association of Spades welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If

you believe that WAOS has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us by email at

worldassocationofspades@gmail.com, by mail at P.O. Box 21055, Hilton Head, SC 29925; or

by telephone at 843-540-0603. . We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly

determine a proper remedy to the problem.

Generally speaking, a Privacy Policy often addresses these types of issues: the types of information the website is collecting and the manner in which it collects the data; an explanation about why is the website collecting these types of information; what are the website’s practices on sharing the information with third parties; ways in which your visitors an customers can exercise their rights according to the relevant privacy legislation; the specific practices regarding minors’ data collection; and much much more. 

To learn more about this, check out our article “Creating a Privacy Policy”.