Privacy Statement
Welcome To The World takes the privacy of your personal information very seriously and will use your information only in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information or a list of our customers to third parties.
Please note that your personal information will be stored and processed on
our computers in the United States. The laws on holding personal data in the
United States may be less stringent than the laws of your country but Welcome
To The World will hold and transmit your personal information in a safe, confidential
and secure environment. If you object to your personal information being transferred
or used as described in this Privacy Policy, please do not use Welcome to The
World forms or services.
Notification of Changes
This policy may be revised over time as new features are added to Welcome To
The World services or as we incorporate suggestions from our customers. If
we are going to use or disclose your personally identifiable information
in a manner materially different from that stated at the time we collected
the information, you will have a choice as to whether or not we use or disclose
your information in this new manner. Any material changes will be effective
only after we provide you by e-mail with at least 30 days' notice of the
amended Privacy Policy (if you have closed your Welcome To The World account,
you will not be contacted to notify you of the amended Policy and your personal
information will not be used or disclosed in this new manner).
We will post the amended Privacy Policy prominently on our Web site so that
you can always review what information we gather, how we might use that information,
and whether we will disclose it to anyone. Please check the Welcome To The
World Web site at www.wttwww.com at
any time for the most current version of our Privacy Policy.
A Special Note About Children. Children are not eligible to use our services and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us or use our services.
Information We Collect
To open a Welcome To The World account, you must provide your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address. Payment for all services is due upon completion of services. A 50% deposit is required.
Transaction Information
When you use PayPal to send money to Welcome To The World or request money
from Welcome To The World, we ask you to provide information related to each
transaction, including the amount of the transaction, the type of transaction
(purchase of goods, purchase of services, or simple money transfer ("quasi-cash"))
and the e-mail address or phone number of any third party. We retain this
information for each of your transactions through PayPal. We also collect
the Internet address (IP address) of the computer or device you use to access
your PayPal account, in order to help detect possible instances of unauthorized
transactions.
Information About You From Third Parties
In order to protect all our customers against potential fraud, we verify with
third parties the information you provide. In the course of such verification,
we receive personally identifiable information about you from such services.
In particular, if you register a credit card or debit card with Welcome To The World, we
will use card authorization and fraud screening services to verify that your
card information and address matches the information that you supplied to
Welcome To The World, and that the card has not been reported as lost or stolen.
If you register your online business with Welcome To The World or if you
send or receive high overall payment volumes through Welcome To The World,
in some circumstances we will conduct a background check on your business by
obtaining information about you and your business from a credit bureau or a
business information service such as Dun & Bradstreet. If you incur a
debt to Welcome To The World, we will generally conduct a credit check on you
by obtaining additional information about you from a credit bureau, to the
extent permitted by law. Welcome To The World, at its sole discretion, also
reserves the right periodically to retrieve and review a business and / or
consumer credit report for any account, and reserves the right to close an
account based on information obtained during this credit review process.
Additional Verification
If we cannot verify the information that you provide, or if you request a refund
by check to an address other than your verified credit card billing address,
we ask you to send us additional information by fax (such as your drivers' license,
credit card statement, and/or a recent utility bill or other information linking
you to the applicable address), or to answer additional questions online to help
verify your information.
Web Site Traffic Information
Because of the way that World Wide Web communication standards work, when you
arrive at or leave the Welcome To The World Web site, we automatically receive
the Web address of the site that you came from or are going to. We also collect
information on which pages of our Web site you visit while you are on the
Welcome To The World site, the type of browser you use and the times you
access our Web site. We use this information only to try to understand our
customers' preferences better and to manage the load on our servers, so as
to improve our service and your experience with Welcome To The World. We
do not track the Web sites that you visit before or after you leave the Welcome
To The World site.
Our Use of "Cookies"
"Cookies" are small files of data that reside on your computer and allow us
to recognize you as a Welcome To The World customer if you return to the Welcome To The World site using
the same computer and browser. We send a "session cookie" to your computer
if and when you log in to your Welcome To The World account by entering your e-mail address
and password. These cookies allow us to recognize you if you visit multiple
pages in our site during the same session, so that you don't need to re-enter
your password multiple times. Once you log out or close your browser, these
session cookies expire and no longer have any effect.
In addition, we use cookies to process our referral
program. Our cookie files are encoded so that
your e-mail address and other information can only be interpreted by Welcome
To The World.
Customer Service Correspondence
If you send us correspondence, including e-mails and faxes, we retain such
information in the records of your account. We will also retain customer
service correspondence and other correspondence from Welcome To The World to you. We retain
these records in order to measure and improve our customer service, and to
investigate potential fraud and violations of our User Agreement. We may,
over time, delete these records if permitted by law.
Questionnaires, Surveys and Profile Data
From time to time, we offer optional questionnaires and surveys to our users
for such purposes as collecting demographic information or assessing users'
interests and needs. The use of the information collected will be explained
in detail in the survey itself. If we collect personally identifiable information
from our users in these questionnaires and surveys, the users will be given
notice of how the information will be used prior to their participation in
the survey or questionnaire.
Non-client Recipients and Requests
When a client either sends a payment to, or requests a payment from, an individual
who is a client of Welcome TO The World, we will retain the information that
the client submits to us, including, for example, the other party's email address
and/or name, for the benefit of the client who is attempting to accept a payment
from a 3rd party, so that the client can see a complete record of his or her
transactions, including uncompleted transactions. Although this information is
stored indefinitely, we will not market to the non-client in any way at any time.
Additionally, these non-clients have the same rights to access and correct information
about themselves (assuming that their email addresses were correct enough to
reach them) as anyone else who uses Welcome To The World.
Our Use and Disclosure of Information
Internal Uses
We collect, store and process your personal information on servers located
in the United States. We use the information we collect about you in order
1) to provide our services and process your transactions, 2) to provide customer
service, 3) to determine your eligibility to receive offers for special features
or products, such as the Welcome To The World referral bonus, and 4)
to improve our products and services. At your option (as indicated in your
Welcome To The World Profile settings), we use the information you provide
to access specific third party services on your behalf and perform the actions
that you request us to perform, such as purchasing scripts and hosting servers
We authorize access to individually identifiable information about our users
only to those employees who require it to fulfill their job responsibilities.
Disclosure to Third Parties
Welcome To The World will not sell or rent any of your personally identifiable information to third parties. Welcome To The World will not share any of your personally identifiable information with third parties except in the limited circumstances described below, or with your express permission (and with other Welcome To The World customers as described above). These third parties are limited by law or by contract from using the information for secondary purposes beyond the purposes for which the information is shared.
1.We disclose information that we in good faith believe is appropriate to
cooperate in investigations of fraud or other illegal activity, or to conduct
investigations of violations of our User Agreement. For example, this means
that if we conduct a fraud investigation and conclude that one side has engaged
in deceptive practices, we can give that person or entity's contact information
(but not bank account or credit card information) to victims who request it.
2.
We disclose information in response to a subpoena, warrant, court order, levy,
attachment, order of a court-appointed receiver or other comparable legal process,
including subpoenas from private parties in a civil action.
3.
We disclose information to your agent or legal representative (such as the
holder of a power of attorney that you grant, or a guardian appointed for you).
Internet Address Information
We use IP addresses, browser types and access times to analyze trends, administer
the site, improve site performance and gather broad demographic information
for aggregate use.
Information Security
Welcome To The World is committed to handling your customer information with
high standards of information security. Your credit card and bank account information
are stored only in encrypted form on computers that are not connected to the
Internet. We restrict access to your personally identifiable information to employees
who need to know that information in order to provide products or services to
you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with
federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information. We test our
security systems regularly and also contract with outside companies to audit
our security systems and processes. For more information on Welcome To The World's
security practices, please contact us.
The security of your Welcome To The World account also relies on your protection
of your Welcome To The World password. You may not share your Welcome To The
World password with anyone. Welcome To The World will never ask you to send your
password or other sensitive information to us in an e-mail, though we may ask
you to enter this type of information on the Welcome To The World website, which
will always have a URL beginning with https://www.wttwww.com/.
Any e-mail or other communication requesting your password, asking you to provide
sensitive account information via email, or linking to a website with a URL that
does not begin with https://www.wttwww.com/ should be treated as unauthorized
and suspicious and should be reported to Welcome To The World immediately using
the contact form available from the footer of any Welcome To The World page .
If you do share your Welcome To The World password with a third party for any
reason, including because the third party has promised to provide you additional
services such as account aggregation, the third party will have access to your
account and your personal information, and you may be responsible for actions
taken using your password. If you believe someone else has obtained access to
your password, please change it immediately by logging in to your account at www.wttwwwl.com/ and
changing your Profile settings, and also contact us right away.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or any of our services,
Welcome To The World's information practices, or your dealings with Welcome
To The World, you can contact us using the contact form available from the
footer of any Welcome To The World page, call 508-643-9862 Monday through Friday
between the hours of 9am and 9pm EST, or write us at Welcome To The World,
106 Broad Street, North Attleboro, MA 02760-1145.
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