This is the Privacy Policy of the Wireless Power Consortium, Inc. (“WPC”, “we” or “us”). This privacy policy provides you with information on how WPC, and our employees, volunteers, contractors and partners doing business on behalf of WPC, process personal data. This privacy policy applies to all personal data processed by or on behalf of WPC, including any personal data associated with your use of the wirelesspowerconsortium.com website (the “Site”).
What information do we collect?
WPC collects the following personal data.
You are not obliged to provide your personal data to us. However, in some cases it might be necessary that you provide your personal data to us to enter into a contract with us, become a member or to use or benefit from some of our services and offerings.
HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
WPC uses (and, where specified, shares) personal information for the following purposes, on the following legal bases:
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To register you as a user and to process your membership or registration requests. This may include management of payment, fees and charges and collecting money owed to us. |
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To manage our relationship with you, including to communicate about the terms of our relationship, respond to your requests and to notify you about changes to our terms or privacy policy. |
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To administer and protect our business and the Site (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, and reporting and hosting of data). |
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To track and document specification and standards development participation and manage the certification program, including as necessary to ensure compliance with policies and procedures, legal and certification requirements. |
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To deliver relevant content and marketing to you. |
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Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study the use of our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
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To use data analytics to improve the Site, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences. |
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Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of users for our products and services, to keep the Site updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
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To protect WPC content and services. |
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Necessary for our legitimate interests (to operate our business and prevent activities and enforce our terms and conditions) |
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To include members in and manage a Member Directory. |
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Necessary for our legitimate interests (to coordinate and communicate with our members and to operate our business). |
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To engage with third parties in connection with services that these individuals or entities perform for or with WPC. |
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Necessary for our legitimate interests (to receive services that are useful to WPC in connection with the operation and administration of its business and improvement of its offerings). |
We may have to share your personal data with the following third parties for the purposes set out in the table above.
We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
HOW CAN YOU CONTROL YOUR INFORMATION?
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing. Users can contact us at the Contact page to verify the status and update their user information and preferences.
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by means of the Contact page at any time.
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of your membership, registration for an event, purchase of a service, or entering into a contract or other transactions.
FOR HOW LONG WILL WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We will only keep your personal information (name, email address, physical address) in an identifiable form for as long as it is reasonably necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was originally collected or any additional uses you have agreed to. After that, we will either delete the information or de-identify it so that it is no longer associated with you.
PERSONAL DATA ABOUT MINORS AND CHILDREN
WPC does not knowingly collect or solicit personal data from or about children under 16. If it is discovered that any information from a child under 16 is collected in violation of this policy, such information will be removed immediately. If you believe WPC has any information from or about anyone under 16, please use the Contact page.
THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
You may find content on our Site that link to the sites and services of our members, service providers, and other third parties. WPC does not control the content or links that appear on these sites and is not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Site.
COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS
Cookies and web beacons are electronic placeholders that are placed on your device by websites to track your individual movements on that website over time. WPC uses both session-based cookies (which last only for the duration of the user’s session) and persistent cookies (which remain on your device and provides information about the session you are in and waits for the next time you use that site again).
You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies or alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, some parts of the Site may not function properly.
COLLABORATION WITH AUTHORITIES
WPC will investigate complaints, report data breaches and coordinate with the appropriate regulatory authorities when required. Privacy related questions, complaints or other issues can be sent via the applicable form on our Contact page.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
As a global organization, WPC engages in a number of international activities. In connection with the management of those activities, WPC may transfer information to other countries. By submitting your information to WPC, you consent to such transfers and to the processing of this information in other countries.
If personal data is collected from EU residents and transferred to countries outside the EU/EEA we have implemented appropriate safeguards for these transfers to protect this data.
YOUR EUROPEAN UNION PRIVACY RIGHTS
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation EU 2016/679) (also known as GDPR), if you are an individual protected by the GDPR, such as an EU resident, you have certain rights as a data subject: you have the right to request access to and rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing concerning the data subject or to object to processing as well as the right to data portability. If the processing of your personal data is based on consent you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
To request information about or avail yourself of those rights, please use the appropriate form on the Contact page, and make sure to indicate that it is a “GDPR Request”.. When filling out the form, please describe, with specificity, the GDPR right you are requesting assistance with. Please note additional information may be requested prior to initiation of a request and that WPC reserves the right to charge a fee with respect to certain requests. However, generally any requests are free of charge. Upon WPC’s completion of its review you will be notified if your request has been granted, denied, or exemptions apply.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
WPC has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When this privacy policy is updated, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage you to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how WPC is helping to protect the personal information collected. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS
By using the Site or otherwise providing us with personal data, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site or provide us with personal data. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
CONTACT US
WPC is the controller with respect to the personal data collected by or in connection with WPC. You can contact us through the appropriate form at the Contact page.
WPC has appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact the data privacy manager via the Contact page.
LAST MODIFIED: 27 August 2020
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