Effective Date

September 13, 2024

Last Updated

September 13, 2024

General Statement

Worldsphere, Inc. (hereinafter “WORLDSPHERE”) values our employees, partners, clients, and vendors. We remain committed to keeping personal information obtained during the general course of business secure. WORLDSPHERE provides this Privacy Policy to explain our practices and policies relating to the collection, use, sharing, retention, destruction, and security practices of personal information. WORLDSPHERE respects laws and regulations from countries around the world and it is our intention to provide individual rights of access and satisfactory security measures.

Personal information

‘Personal information’ is any information about an individual that can directly or indirectly distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, associate or link an individual to private information, distinguish one person from another, or be used to re-identify anonymous data.

Personal information is also known as ‘personal data’. This information may be stored both electronically and in physical documents. Personal information may include, but is not limited to, a name, address, phone number, email address, IP address, credit card number, identification number(s), date of birth, photo ID’s, and other similar information. WORLDSPHERE describes the personal information we collect in the sections below.

Privacy Principles

• WORLDSPHERE is committed to protecting the privacy of the personal information of our employees, partners, clients and vendors.
• WORLDSPHERE maintains physical, technological and administrative safeguards to protect personal information.
• WORLDSPHERE permits only authorized employees and approved contractors, including but not limited to consultants, to have access to some or all personal information as needed.

Collection of your Personal Information

Generally, you can visit the WORLDSPHERE website or applications without providing any personal information. However, in order to access some parts of our websites or applications, we may need to collect personal information from you. WORLDSPHERE obtains and uses personal information, as defined below, for its business use and for local, state, federal and foreign country reporting requirements. We may collect, store and use the following kinds of information. Providing personal information to us is voluntary.

Overall, your personal information may be used for the following reasons:

1. Browser based data such as IP Address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, etc.
2. Personal information during registration of our websites, applications, or platforms such as name, email addresses, full mailing or physical address, company name, title, industry, and phone number(s);
3. Username and password;
4. Information for subscribing into our email newsletters

Collection of personal information will occur when responding to a job posting on our website and will consist of the personal information included on the resume and/or cover letter.

Use of your Personal Information

We use the information collected for legally required reporting to governmental or regulatory entities, marketing of our products, supporting products purchased and providing continuing services. Personal information submitted via our websites may be used for the purposes outlined in this policy.

Authorized use of personal information includes:

1. Providing WORLDSPHERE’s solutions to you and your business;
2. Providing WORLDSPHERE online products and services to you and your business;
3. Personalizing and enhancing your experience on our online platforms;
4. Confirmations, statements, invoices, or other necessary emails to ensure a high level of customer service;
5. Email communication;
6. Newsletters and other email communication mailing lists that you have subscribed to;
7. Sending notification on updates to this policy.

Where applicable, clients may have the option of providing, or not providing, personal information.

Sharing of Information

WORLDSPHERE may share personal information with third-parties. Doing so allows us to efficiently conduct our business. Information may be shared with or obtained by third-party service providers who provide us with services such as data hosting or processing, credit card processing, credit checks or processing and fulfilling reservations or purchases. We believe these providers exercise reasonable care to protect personal information and third-party contracts restrict the use of personal information to the purposes for which it was provided to them.

Personal information may also be disclosed if necessary: as required by law or regulation; to comply with legal, regulatory or administrative requirements of governmental authorities; to comply with a court order, subpoena, search warrant or other valid legal process; in connection with legal action, claim or dispute, including, but not limited to, the collection of debts; and for the protection of persons or property.

Record Retention and Data Destruction

WORLDSPHERE keeps personal information for as long as is necessary for business purposes, or as legally required by the appropriate state, federal and regulatory bodies or other countries. Beyond that time period, records, both physical and electronic, are destroyed.

Data Security

WORLDSPHERE uses security safeguards to protect Personal Information from unauthorized access. We have written policies and procedures in place to set forth physical, administrative and technological safeguards around data security. We train our employees in these policies and procedures.

In the event of an actual or suspected breach, WORLDSPHERE follows the steps outlined in its Incident Response Plan. Payment related data, if stored on our secure servers, will be encrypted and stored with a multi-key encryption algorithm or hashed.  Transmission of data on the internet is insecure and transmission of data over the internet cannot be 100% guaranteed.

User is responsible for keeping secure passwords generated on WORLDSPHERE online applications. WORLDSPHERE hashes passwords and does not have access to passwords through back-end systems. WORLDSPHERE will never ask for a password other than on the log in page of the WORLDSPHERE online solution.

Links to Third Party Web Sites

WORLDSPHERE websites may contain links to third party sites. These links are provided for convenience purposes and are not under the control of WORLDSPHERE. WORLDSPHERE does not make representations and warranties, expressed or implied, regarding the content of these linked sites. These links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship or affiliation by WORLDSPHERE with respect to a third party, a third party’s web site, the content of a third party’s web site, or products or services provided by a third party.

The information practices of those web sites linked to our website is not covered by this Policy. WORLDSPHERE is not responsible for the privacy policies of websites to which it links. If you provide information to such third parties different rules regarding the collection and use of your Personal Information may apply. We strongly suggest you review such third party’s privacy policies before providing data to them.

Cookies and Other Technologies

Cookies are used on WORLDSPHERE websites. By using on or more of our websites, you agree that cookies are to be placed on your device as further explained below.

Cookies are small pieces of data that a website sends to your computer’s web browser while you are navigating through it. They have many different purposes, but mainly, cookies enable you to navigate between pages easily, remembering your preferences, and eventually improving the user experience. These cookies may then be stored on your machine to identify your computer.

1. Types of Cookies

We use several types of cookies on our Sites, as categorized below:

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Strictly necessary cookies used on WORLDSPHERE websites:

• Login/authentication cookies
• Session cookies

Functionality cookies

These cookies allow a website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. They may be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. They do not gather any information about you that could be used for advertising or remembering where you have been on the internet outside of our website.

Functionality cookies used on WORLDSPHERE websites:

• Registered visitor functionality cookies
• Social plug-in content sharing cookies

Performance cookies

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages they go to more often, and if they get error messages from web pages. All information collected by means of these cookies is anonymized, aggregated and only used to develop and track traffic patterns and the volume of use of our website and to improve how our website works. This information is for WORLDSPHERE’s exclusive use and is not shared with any third-party or connected to any other information.

Performance cookies used on the WORLDSPHERE websites:

• Analytic cookies

Targeting cookies

These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are targeted to be relevant to you, limit the number of times you see an advertisement, and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising agencies with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often they will be linked to a website functionality provided by the other organization.

We do not have third-party advertising on our website.

We use targeting cookies only for our own analytic purposes.

1. Use of Cookies

We may use Personal Information collected from our cookies to identify user behavior and to serve content and offers based on your profile.

The performance cookies used on this website do not collect Personal Information:

Other cookies can collect Personal Information:

• If a user is a registered user
• If we send you a targeted email which includes web beacons, cookies or similar technologies we will know whether you open, read, or delete the message
• When you click a link in a marketing e-mail you receive from WORLDSPHERE, we will also use a cookie to log what pages you view and what content you download from our websites, even if you are not registered at or signed into our site.

1. Other Non-Cookie Technologies:

WORLDSPHERE also enables the use of technologies that perform functions similar to cookies such as web beacons or other technologies that may be included in marketing e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on. Web beacons do not place information on your device but may work in conjunction with cookies to monitor website activity.

1. “Do-Not-Track” Signals:

Some web browsers may transmit “do-not-track” signals to the websites with which the browser communicates. As of the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy, an industry standard has not yet been established on how to respond to these signals. Therefore, our website does not currently recognize or respond to these signals. However, at this time you can generally express your privacy preferences regarding the use of most cookies through your web browser.

1. How To Accept Or Refuse Cookies

If you do not want to receive cookies from our website, you may set your browser to refuse cookies or to notify you when you receive a cookie, which you may then accept or refuse upon such notice. You can also generally set your browser to turn off cookies. To understand how to do this, please consult your browser’s “Tools” section, or any other similar heading.

We recommend that you leave the cookies active. Bear in mind that if you block, turn off or otherwise reject our cookies, some web pages may not display properly, or you will not be able to use any website services that require you to sign in.

Conditions of Use

Your use of our website and applications constitutes your acceptance of the terms and conditions in this Privacy Policy as modified from time to time.

How to Access, Correct Personal Information, and Choice

WORLDSPHERE offers choices about the collection, use, and sharing of personal information. For example, you may choose (opt out) whether your personal information is to be disclosed to a third party or to be used for a purpose that is materially different from the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized by you. You can contact WORLDSPHERE regarding your choices via email, phone or letter as noted below in the Contact Information section.

WORLDSPHERE offers transparency in the personal information that we collect and maintain. To ensure that your personal information is correct and up to date, you may review and update your profile by logging into your account. Alternatively, users can contact WORLDSPHERE via email, phone or letter as noted below in the Contact Information section.

WORLDSPHERE permits individuals to request deletion of personal information that is demonstrated to be inaccurate or incomplete. If you request access, correction, amendment or deletion of your personal information and you have more than one account with us, you will need to instruct us on each account separately. Reasonable access to personal information will generally be provided within thirty (30) calendar days at no cost to you, subject to limited exceptions prescribed by law or excessive requests. Please note that personal profile information supplied by you on-line via the website can be accessed by you on-line at any time and at no charge. Therefore, transfer of your information to a third-party can be completed by you directly or through WORLDSPHERE, upon request. A formal data access request would be required.

Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email or contacting customer care.

We aim to keep our information about you as accurate as possible. If you would like to access, update, review or change the details you have supplied us with, please contact us as set out below. If you desire to make a formal data access request or complaint regarding the handling or protection of your information, WORLDSPHERE will be happy to help you using the contact information listed below. You may also make a request or complaint by filling out the Data Access Request Form on our website Worldsphereps.com.

Based on the General Data Protection Regulation and under EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF), the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. DPF), you have a right to lodge a complaint or inquiry with our organization and, where applicable with your supervisory authority or other applicable enforcing authority.

California Privacy Rights / Notice for California Residents

California residents who have provided personal information to WORLDSPHERE may obtain information regarding WORLDSPHERE’s disclosures, if any, of personal information to third parties for third-party direct marketing purposes. Requests must be submitted to the following email address:

Email: privacy@worldsphere.ai

Within 30 days of receiving such a request, we will provide a California Privacy Disclosure, which will include a list of certain categories of personal information disclosed during the preceding calendar year to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, along with the names and addresses of the third parties. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. We reserve our right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the email address that is specified in this section.

Changes to this Policy

WORLDSPHERE reserves the right to modify or change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting such changes on the website or within our online solution sets. Any such change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting, and reflected with the updated Date Modified. Your continued provision of information to us or use of our website and applications following the posting of changes to the Privacy Policy means that you accept the changes and our use of your personal information in accordance with the revised Privacy Policy.

We will indicate on the home page of the website or online solution set if a material change to the Privacy Policy has been made.

WORLDSPHEREPS Website Disclaimer

While WORLDSPHERE strives to make the information on this website as timely and accurate as possible, WORLDSPHERE makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this site, and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this site.  No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third-party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of this website or its links to other Internet  resources.

Reference in this site to any specific commercial product, process, or service or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public and does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by WORLDSPHERE.  Some WORLDSPHERE website pages contain links to third-party websites. The linked sites are not under the control of WORLDSPHERE and WORLDSPHERE is not responsible for the contents of any linked website. These links are provided as a convenience only and shall not be construed as an endorsement of, sponsorship of, or affiliated with the linked Website by WORLDSPHERE.

WORLDSPHERE collects information that is used for marketing and information distribution purposes.