Privacy policy

Introduction

Wordminds Translations Ltd. (“Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://wordminds.com/ “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• on this Website.
• in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Website.
• through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provides dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
• when you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
• any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on our Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices about your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, we will assume your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using our Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy section below). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features about yourself, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at privacy@wordminds.com.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number and/or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
• that is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or
• about your Internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.

We collect this information:

• directly from you when you provide it to us.
• automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
• from third parties, for example, our business partners.

Third-Party Processors

Our carefully selected partners and service providers may process personal information about you on our behalf as described below:

• Digital Marketing Service Providers: We periodically appoint digital marketing agents to conduct marketing activity on our behalf, such activity may result in the compliant processing of personal information. For more details, please send us an email to privacy@wordminds.com.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

• information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
• records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• your search queries on the Website.
  

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (“posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. As a consequence, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• information about your computer and Internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

Technology services providers may use technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). See below how you can opt out of behavioral tracking:

• Firefox users – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-turn-do-not-track-feature
• Chrome users – https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2790761?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
• Opera users – https://help.opera.com/Windows/12.10/en/notrack.html
• Internet Explorer users – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17288/windows-internet-explorer-11-use-do-not-track
• Safari users – https://www.apple.com/privacy/control/

Please check your Internet browser vendors for additional detailed information, which is updated from time to time.

The information we collect automatically statistical data, and may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• speed up your searches.
• recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
• web beacons. Pages of our Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
  

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see the Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information section below.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• to present our Website and its contents to you.
• to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• to fulfil any other purpose for which you provide it.
• to provide you with notices about your account and/or subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.
• to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• to notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
• to allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
• in other ways, we may describe to you when you provide the information.
• for any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please send us an email stating your request to privacy@wordminds.com. For more information, see the Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information section below.

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• to our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
• to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Wordminds’ assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Wordminds about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
• to third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to or not opted out of these disclosures. For more information, see the Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information section below.
• to fulfil the purpose for which you provide it.
• for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• with your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Wordminds, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• tracking technologies and advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• disclosure of your information for third-party advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out in the browser you are using: Firefox users, Chrome users, Opera users, Internet Explorer users, Safari.
  Please check your Internet browser vendors for additional detailed information.
• promotional offers from the company. If you do not wish to have your email address and/or contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to privacy@wordminds.com. This opt-out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.
• targeted advertising. If you do not want us to use the information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to privacy@wordminds.com.
• we do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website https://thenai.org/.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by sending us an email stating your request to privacy@wordminds.com – to request access to, or the correction or deletion of any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

The safety and security of your information also depend on you. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website’s home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. If you want to receive an e-mail from us about changes please send us a notification at privacy@wordminds.com. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: privacy@wordminds.com.