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1. About this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to your access to or use of our website, applications and other services, including activities that reference or link to this Privacy Policy (each activity is referred to as a "Service").
We may provide you with other privacy notices, terms or notices that supplement this Privacy Policy. WIND LINK LIMITED. owns or manages the "Services" described in this article and is the primary controller of your personal information provided to, collected by, or for the "Services".
During the registration process for our products and services and other registration forms, we will indicate the types of personal information you must provide and the types of personal information we request. You may choose not to submit the information we request, but doing so may limit or prevent WIND LINK LIMITED. from providing services to you.
To understand how personal information contained in our services is handled (for example in a body of case law), please see our Fair Processing Statement.
2. Information we collect
We collect information about you in three ways: directly from your input, from third-party sources, and through automated technologies.
2.1 Data you provide to us
The types of personal information we collect directly from you, depending on how you interact with us and the Services, may include:
Contact details, such as your name, email address, postal address, social media aliases and telephone numbers;
Account login credentials, such as username and password, password hints, and similar security information;
Other account registration and profile information, such as job title, educational/professional background and qualifications, and photograph;
payment information, such as credit or debit card numbers;
Comments, feedback and other information you provide to us, such as search query data and questions, or messages you send to customer support; and/or
interests and communication preferences, including preferred language.
2.2 Data from your organization
We may obtain personal information about you from the organization you are employed or affiliated with in order to activate and manage your access to and use of that organization's subscription to the Services, including:
Contact details, such as your name and organizational email address, postal address and telephone number;
Other account registration information, such as job title; and/or organization user ID
2.3 Data from other sources
We may also obtain your contact details and other information about you from our affiliates and other third parties, including:
The social network used when you grant permission to the Service to access your data on one or more social networks;
service providers who can help us identify locations to target certain products to your location;
Businesses with which we partner to provide co-branded services or participate in co-marketing activities; and/or
Publicly available sources and data suppliers from which we obtain data to verify or supplement existing information.
2.4 Data generated when using the "Services", including cookies
The Service may automatically collect information about how you and your device interact with the Service, including:
Computer, device and connection information, such as IP address, browser type and version, operating system and other software installed on your device, mobile platform and device unique identifiers, and other technical identifiers, bug reports and performance data;
Usage data, such as the features you use, the settings you choose, your URL clickstream data, including date and time stamps of referring and exit pages, the search terms you use, and the information you visit or search for on the Service page;
For Educational Services, course modules and exam questions you viewed, answered, or completed; and/or
For location-aware "services," the region, city, or town where your device is located in order to provide you with content more relevant to your location.
We collect this data through our servers and through the use of cookies and other technologies. A cookie is a small text file placed on your hard drive by a web server at your domain and can be read by that server. We may use cookies and other technologies to store your preferences and settings, help you log in, provide targeted advertising, and analyze site operations. You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools. However, if you block certain cookies, you may not be able to register, log in, or access certain parts of the Service or fully use the Service. For more details, please see the Service's Cookie Policy.
3. How we use your information
Depending on how you interact with us and the Services, we will use your personal information to:
provide, activate and manage your access to and use of the Services;
process and fulfill requests, orders, downloads, subscriptions or other transactions;
Provide technical, product and other support to help keep the Service up, safe and stable;
to enhance and improve the Service and our other products, activities and services, and to develop new products, services and benefits;
Provide you with customized content and other personalization settings to make the Services more relevant to your interests and location;
To respond to your requests, inquiries, comments and concerns;
notify you of changes, updates and other announcements related to the Services and our other products and services;
To communicate targeted advertising, promotional messages, notices, and other information related to the Services and your interests;
To provide you with promotional messages and other information about our products, events and services, our affiliates and third parties (such as sponsors);
Invite you to participate in user tests and surveys, as well as draws, sweepstakes, contests and similar promotions;
To identify usage trends and conduct data analysis, including for research, auditing, reporting and other business operations, including determining the effectiveness of our promotions and evaluating our business performance, or otherwise as set out in a customer agreement conduct; and/or
To comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
If you are an administrator of an organization that subscribes to the Services, we will use your contact details to communicate information to you about your organization's subscriptions and related services. If you provide us with the contact details of your colleagues, we may contact them individually with information about the Services, which may refer to you in the process.
4. Sharing your information
4.1 Your organization
If you access the Services through subscriptions managed by your organization, your personal information and certain usage data collected through the Services may be accessed or shared by administrators authorized by your organization for their use in For usage analysis, subscription management and compliance, training course progress, performance and remediation, cost attribution, and departmental budgeting.
4.2 Application Licensor
If you access a third-party application's licensor on the Service through a license agreement with the licensor, personal information associated with that third-party application may be shared with that licensor for the purpose of complying with the license agreement and the terms of the Privacy Policy, which provide you with access to this application.
4.3 Our group companies and "service" providers
Depending on the Services provided, we share information with:
The branches, firms and divisions of the WIND LINK LIMITED. group of companies worldwide, and group companies that provide technology, customer service and other shared service functions; and/or our service providers, suppliers, agents and representatives Agencies, including but not limited to payment processors, customer support departments, email service providers, event venues and service providers, IT service providers, marketing service providers, research providers, postal companies and freight forwarders;
The purpose of sharing is to process the information necessary to provide the Services, complete transactions, fulfill your requests, or otherwise perform on our behalf as set forth in our instructions and in this Privacy Policy and any other applicable confidentiality and security measures.
4.4 Your Choices
We may share your personal information with our affiliates and sponsors, joint venture entities and other third parties (including entities for which we act as agents, licensees, application hosts or publishers) so that they can share with you To send information about products and services that may be of interest to you, as determined by your choices in managing your communication preferences and other settings.
The Services may allow you to post and share personal information, comments, materials and other content. Any such information that you publicly disclose may be collected and used by others. Exercise caution when disclosing personal information in such public areas.
4.5 For legal reasons
We also disclose your personal information when we believe it is necessary to achieve the following reasonable purposes: to comply with any applicable laws, regulations, legal process or other legal obligations; to detect, investigate and help prevent security, fraud or technical issues; and/or to protect WIND LINK LIMITED The rights, property or safety of Technology Co.Limited., our users, employees, or others; and to complete corporate matters, such as asset transfers, acquisitions by, or mergers with other companies.
5. Basis for processing information
When we collect or otherwise process any personal information within the framework of applicable data protection laws, our purposes are:
To provide "Services", to complete transactions, to perform a contract with you, or to perform an action at your request prior to entering into a contract;
to comply with applicable laws or other legal obligations;
perform tasks in the public interest;
To enable our clients to comply with their legal obligations;
perform operations with your consent (if applicable); and/or
To operate our business, protect the security of our systems, customers and users, detect or prevent fraud, or defend other legitimate interests described in Sections 2-4 above (except where interests are overridden by your privacy rights).
Where we rely on your consent to process personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time; you may have the right to object to our processing of personal information where we exercise legitimate interests.
6. Data retention
We will retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to provide the "Services", complete the transaction you have requested, or for other necessary purposes, including complying with legal obligations, maintaining business and financial records, resolving disputes, maintaining security, Detect and prevent fraud and abuse, enforce protocol content, and more. If you access the Services through a subscription managed or sponsored by your organization, we will retain your organization's contact details for continued communication with you after your organization terminates the subscription.
7. Where the information is processed
We may store and process your personal information in your region or in other countries where WIND LINK LIMITED. and its affiliates and service providers maintain servers and facilities, including Australia, China, France, Germany , Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Mauritius, Netherlands, Philippines, Singapore, United Kingdom and United States. We will take various measures, including contractually, to ensure the continued protection of information stored anywhere, in accordance with the standards of protection required by applicable law.
Some of the services of certain US entities within the WIND LINK LIMITED. group of companies have been certified under the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield frameworks in accordance with the US Department of Commerce.
8. Data Security
We will implement various technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security commensurate with the risks of the personal information we process. These measures are designed to ensure the integrity, confidentiality and availability of personal information.
9. Children's Privacy
We do not knowingly collect information from or target children under the age of 14 for the Services.
10. Your Communication Preferences
When registering for the Services, you may customize and manage your communication preferences and other settings by updating your account features and preferences, using an "opt-out" mechanism such as "unsubscribe" or in the content of communications you receive other avenues provided, or contact us directly. We reserve the right to notify you of changes or updates to the Service when necessary.
11. Accessing and Updating Your Information
11.1 Your Account
The Service may allow registered users to directly access and review their account information at any time, and to make corrections or updates after logging in. It is the user's responsibility to keep such information up to date. Registered users may also close their accounts directly through the Service or by contacting the Service's customer support department.
11.2 Your rights
You have the right to request, free of charge, in accordance with applicable privacy and data protection laws:
access your personal information;
correct or clear your personal information;
restrict or object to our processing of your personal information; and /li>
Migrate your personal information.
If you wish to exercise these rights, please submit your request in writing through our Privacy Center. or by emailing your request to support@windlink.com.
We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law. To protect your privacy and security, we may require verification of your identity.
12. Changes
We will update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes on this page with an updated revision date. Once we make any material changes, we will give notice through the "service" or other means.
13. Contact Information
If you have any questions, comments, complaints or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our handling of your information, please contact us through our Privacy Center, or email support@windlink.com
13.1 Data deletion
If you need to delete user data, you can also contact customer service through our app or send an email to support@windlink.com
14. Supplementary Notices
14.1 Authors/Contributors
We process your portion when we contract with you to create content for any of our services (such as writing books, legal analysis content, review articles, instructional content, or legal opinions for distribution to our subscribers) relevant personal information. Such information includes:
name, organisation and contact details;
Work experience, title, scope of practice, affiliation and expertise in the field;
Professional resume or personal data (including your image, photo or voice) produced by you or approved by you may be published on our Services and sent to us together with any content you produce for WIND LINK LIMITED. provided by subscribers;
Financial information, used to pay for your work;
Peer-reviewed editorials and reviewer articles and feedback; and
Administrative information, such as author work progress updates.
The above information is processed to facilitate the publication of the work and to implement, manage and perform the contract we have signed with you.
You may choose not to allow WIND LINK LIMITED. to contact you to create content for us by contacting us through the communication channels provided to you by our content development team, or by contacting us through the contact details provided in this policy.
Please see the main sections of this Privacy Policy for details about your rights, information retention, where information is processed, and contact details for inquiries about privacy and data protection.
14.2 California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, please see our California Consumer Privacy Act Notice.
14.3 Jurisdiction-specific notices
For more information on our processing of personal data as required by applicable local law, please see our supplemental information on data processing.
WIND LINK LIMITED. Fair Handling Statement
By nature, some of the content we provide in our database services will contain personal information. This Fair Processing Statement will provide details about the personal information contained in our services.
Case law, legal analysis and review
In cases where local legislation or court injunctions apply, we may include personal information in the case law provided in the Services and in the legal analysis that references this case law.
It should be emphasized that such personal information is subject to administrative court/public records requests. This information is provided to WIND LINK LIMITED. by public bodies for the purpose of maintaining and protecting legal rules, and released by WIND LINK LIMITED. to customers. In addition, our users can make use of the text of historical case law (including understanding the circumstances of each case cited therein), which is important to improve the overall effectiveness of the legal system.
Although authors of theses, journals, and jurisprudence reviews we provide through the Services may have access to such recorded material, we do not have any control over the content of the court records themselves. It is up to the court to decide what personal information to retain in the records it discloses, balancing the public interest in the disclosure against the individual's right to privacy.
Please see the main sections of this Privacy Policy for details about your rights, information retention, where information is processed, and contact details for inquiries about privacy and data protection.
Effective Date: May 25, 2018
Last updated: September 9, 2022