1. Overview
The use of the www.backmywork.com website (the “Website”) provided by Wowfunds International Limited (“we,” “us,” “Backmywork.com”) is subject to the provisions of this privacy policy (“Policy”), including any amendments or updates hereto. This policy is incorporated into and subject to the Wowfunds Terms and Conditions. If there are any inconsistencies between this policy and our terms and conditions, this policy will prevail. If you do not agree with the terms set forth in this policy, please do not use the website.
2. General
We are committed to protecting and preserving your privacy. This policy, together with our Terms and Conditions and any other underlying agreements or terms, explains how any data we collect from you or that you provide to us will be processed by us. It is, therefore, essential that, in order to better serve you and fulfill our obligations to you, the information you give us might get to other bodies to foster the efficiency of the service to be rendered. We are committed to protecting the privacy of our users and the information that you share in connection with your use of the service.
By using our website, you are accepting the practices described in this policy. This policy also describes how we process, use, and disclose the information you provide us when you use our website.
By using this website, you consent to the use of the information that you provide to us in accordance with this policy. We do update this policy from time to time, so please review it regularly. If we materially alter our policy, we will notify you of such changes by posting a notice on our website. Your continued use of the website will be deemed your agreement that your information may be used in accordance with the new policy. If you do not agree with the changes, then you should stop using the website and notify us that you do not want your information used in accordance with the changes.
3. Information that you provide us
We will collect the information that you provide to us when you make use of the service, such as when you:
- Send questions or comments via the service.
- Make an inquiry.
- Email or chat with the Backmywork.com Platform
- Fill out our surveys.
- Otherwise communicate with us through or about the services.
Information collected may contain personal information such as your name, email address, billing and contact information, and other identifying information you may provide to the Backmywork.com Platform (“Personal Information”). Aggregated, non-personally identifying information is not your personal information. We may use aggregated, non-personally identifying information to operate, analyze, improve, and optimize our website and service.
4. How we use the information
Our data collection allows us and the advertising networks we use on the website to understand your activity on our website and on other websites. We may recognize your devices to provide you with personalized experiences and relevant content across the devices you use. Our platform uses a variety of technologies to collect this information, including persistent and session cookies, web beacons, and pixel-tracking technology. The information we collect includes the number of log-ins, actions taken, data displayed or clicked on (e.g., UI elements, links), and other login information (e.g., browser type, IP address, date and time of access, cookie ID, referrer URL, etc.), as well as the support of a project or campaign. We use this information to analyze trends, administer the service, track users’ movements around the service, gather demographic information about our user base as a whole, and better tailor our services to our users’ needs.
We also collect the information you choose to provide us in relation to your fundraiser or project, and we display it through our platform. For example, you can provide a project or donation title, choose to upload images, and describe your donation goal(s) or campaign. When you make payments or donations to support a campaign or project on the Backmywork.com Platform, we collect your contact details (such as name and email address), zip code, country, and any other information you choose to provide us (such as a description of why you have donated or made the relevant payment). Our payment processors collect your credit or debit card details and other information necessary to process the donation, such as your home address, telephone numbers, email addresses, and login and password details.
We use the data we collect to operate and improve offerings through the website; to help authenticate your identity when you visit and transact with the website; to prevent fraud; to remember your preferences and registration information; to present, help measure, and research the effectiveness of our various offerings; to customize e-mail communications (by determining which e-mails you open and act upon); and to customize the content provided to you.
We are able to deliver, personalize, and improve our website by using the data we have about your activities and interests. We may use this data to maintain and improve the website, fulfill your requests, and, when authorized by you, contact you and detect and defend against fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful activity.
We will not use the personal information we collect for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you with notice and/or updating this Privacy Policy.
5. Data sharing with third parties
When you use the website to make a purchase or otherwise make a contribution or donation to support an Artiste, creative, or individual’s campaign or project, we will share your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and occupation with the creator so that they can recognize and thank you or fulfill any obligations they may have.
The Creator may also use that personal information to contact you with more information about the mission and activities of that campaign or project.
Examples of these practices include: sending a thank-you letter to acknowledge a donation; sending out by post or email advertising or marketing materials to you about the campaign or project you supported; or contacting you because you have contributed in the past to ask you for further support for that campaign or project or a new project.
We do not need your consent to process your data for legal purposes or for many administrative purposes, but in some cases, we may need and will request your consent for direct marketing purposes. To the extent we share any such personal information with third-party campaigns or fundraisers that you have supported, those third parties shall treat it in accordance with their respective privacy policies.
We share data with our service providers, including ad networks, website analytics companies, and hosting partners. We also share information we have about you for the purposes described in this policy, including providing the website and our services to you and providing information to our payment processors as described above.
We do not otherwise sell, license, or share information that individually identifies our platform users with any other individuals or entities. However, we may share your information with affiliated businesses and third parties if necessary to provide our services or products to you, in response to legal processes, legal requests, claims that any content violates the rights of third parties, or as otherwise required by law or for protection of the rights, property, or personal safety of our users, us, or our personnel.
Where we disclose personal information for a purpose set forth herein, we enter into a contract with the third party that describes the purpose and requires the third-party recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
6. Sharing your information
We may share your information as follows:
- With Other Users or Supporters: We may share information about you, your interactions with the service, or other similar information with other users of our services.
- With Other Backmywork.com Platform Services: We may share information about you, your interactions with the service, or other similar information with other Backmywork.com Platform Services, including those of which you are not a user.
- With Third Parties: We may share information about you with third parties, whether designated by you, or with other third parties, including our service providers, business partners (investors and VCs), and other organizations as we may choose.
- With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with third parties, such as vendors and service providers who provide assistance with billing, payment processing, marketing, data analytics support, and other services associated with our services, including any provision of goods through our services.
- With Business Partners and Affiliates: We may share your personal information with our channel partners, subsidiaries, affiliates, joint ventures, or any other company to fulfill obligations and requests, deliver support, and provide users and our customers’ users with information about the Platform. The platform does not control how a business partner may use your personal information. Our business partners are responsible for managing the use of personal information collected in these circumstances.
- With Project Creators: supporters are able to share personal information with creators. If consent is given by supporters, creators will have access to the supporter’s name, email address, mailing address, and phone number, depending on whether that information was entered at registration. No creator will have access to the billing addresses or credit card information of any supporters.
- For compliance with laws and for other legitimate business purposes; we may share your personal information when we believe disclosure is necessary or required by law, due to corporate restructuring, change of control, regulation, or regulatory action, to protect users, the integrity of the service, and to defend or exercise our legal rights. We may also disclose your personal information when it may be necessary for other legitimate purposes, as reasonably determined by the Triangle Platform. And generally, we may share information with the general public, such as your name, username, profile picture, and any content you post.
7. Cookies
Backmywork.com uses cookies to collect information about your access to and use of the platform, including navigation and use of platform features, and to customize elements of the layout to improve the platform. As we adopt additional technologies, we may gather additional information through other methods. We will notify you of such changes with updates to this policy.
You may instruct your browser to stop accepting cookies at any time or set it to prompt you before accepting cookies. Please consult your browser’s settings for further technical information. If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use all portions or functionality of the service. We or our third parties may use “Flash Cookies” to store your preferences for volume control or to personalize certain video features. Flash cookies are different from browser cookies because of the amount and type of data and how the data is stored. Cookie management tools provided by your browser will not remove Flash cookies.
8. Communication
We may send you emails, including marketing, promotional, and third-party-related communications. By agreeing to this policy, you agree to these emails. You may, however, opt out of these emails at any time by unsubscribing or selecting this option through our services.
If you access the Services through a mobile device and if you have chosen to provide us with your mobile number or other electronic means to your mobile device, you agree that we can communicate with you regarding the service or your use of the service by text message, SMS, and MMS.
9. Data controls
You have the ability to manage or review your account information, marketing preferences, and user data. For any of these controls or opt-outs, please contact us at privacy@backmywork.com.
By contacting us, you can do any or all of the following
- Edit your account information and settings, including profile and contact data.
- unsubscribe from marketing messages or newsletters
- opt out of ad retargeting or other ad network functions
- access, manage, and remove geo-location information associated with your account.
- delete your account login credentials.
- Make your account inaccessible.
- remove or anonymize any content you have posted to the website or shared with others on the website.
10. Third-party payment services and websites
Third-party payment service providers manage and process all of our users’ payment transactions but do not receive, process, store, or view any payment information.
By accessing third-party websites through our website, you are consenting to the terms and privacy policies of those websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for those third parties or their policies whatsoever, as we have no control over them.
11. User’s age
Special Note for Parents: Backmywork.com does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information on the website from persons under eighteen (18) years of age, and no part of our website is directed to persons under eighteen (18). If you are under eighteen (18) years of age, then please do not use, access, or submit any information to the website at any time or in any manner. If Backmywork.com learns that personally identifiable information of persons under eighteen (18) years of age has been collected on the website without verified parental consent, then Backmywork will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.
By using our website, you affirm that you are over eighteen (18) years of age. We are not liable for any damages that may result from a user’s misrepresentation of his or her age. Parents or legal guardians of children under eighteen (18) cannot agree to these terms on their behalf.
12. Retention of your information
We shall retain your information for as long as we deem necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and for our legitimate business operations. When we no longer need to retain your information, we will take all reasonable steps to remove it from our records and/or anonymize it so that you can no longer be identified from it in accordance with our internal document retention policies.
13. Security
Backmywork.com is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. You are solely responsible for all actions or disclosures of your information or any access to your account. No method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while the platform uses reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal information, the Backmywork.com platform cannot guarantee its absolute security.
14. Changes to this privacy policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time and for any reason. We will endeavor to provide you with advanced notice of such updates, but you are ultimately responsible for consulting this privacy policy regularly for any changes. Continued use of our services shall indicate your acknowledgment of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms of such changes. If you do not agree, you should immediately discontinue your use of the services.
