WorldTruth Privacy Policy
We believe you should always know what data we collect from you and how we use it, and that you should have meaningful control over both. We want to empower you to make the best decisions about the information that you share with us.
That’s the basic purpose of this Privacy Policy.
You should read this policy in full, but here are a few key things we hope you take away from it:
1. Information You Share With Us
We require certain information to provide our services to you. For example, you must have an account in order to upload or share content on WorldTruth. When you choose to share the information below with us, we collect and use it to operate our services.
1.1 Basic Account Information
You must create an account to use our service. If you do choose to create an account, you must provide us with some personal data so that we can provide our services to you. On WorldTruth this includes a display name (for example, “Cozumel”), a username (for example, @Cozumel), a password, and an email address or phone number. Your display name and username are always public, but you can use either your real name or a pseudonym. You can also create and manage multiple WorldTruth accounts, for example to express different parts of your identity.
1.2 Public Information
Most activity on WorldTruth is public, including your profile information, your time zone and language, when you created your account, and your posts and certain information about your posts like the date and time. You also may choose to publish your location in your posts or your WorldTruth profile.
You are responsible for your posts and other information you provide through our services, and you should think carefully about what you make public, especially if it is sensitive information.
1.3 Contact Information and Address Books
We use your contact information, such as your email address or phone number, to authenticate your account and keep it - and our services - secure, and to help prevent spam, fraud, and abuse. We also use contact information to personalize our services, enable certain account features (for example, for login verification), and to send you information about our services. If you provide us with your phone number, you agree to receive text messages from WorldTruth to that number as your country’s laws allow. WorldTruth also uses your contact information to market to you as your country’s laws allow, and to help others find your account if your settings permit. You can use your settings for email and mobile notifications to control notifications you receive from WorldTruth. You can also unsubscribe from a notification by following the instructions contained within the notification or here.
If you email us, we will keep the content of your message, your email address, and your contact information to respond to your request.
1.4 Direct Messages and Non-Public Communications
We provide certain features that let you communicate more privately or control who sees your content. For example, you can use Direct Messages to have non-public conversations on WorldTruth or protect your posts. When you communicate with others by sending or receiving Direct Messages, we will store and process your communications and information related to them. This includes link scanning for malicious content, link shortening URLs, detection of spam and prohibited images, and review of reported issues. We share the content of your Direct Messages with the people you’ve sent them to; we do not use them to serve you ads. Note that if you interact in a way that would ordinarily be public with WorldTruth content shared with you via Direct Message, for instance by liking a post, those interactions will be public. When you use features like Direct Messages to communicate, remember that recipients have their own copy of your communications on WorldTruth - even if you delete your copy of those messages from your account - which they may duplicate, store, or re-share.
1.5 Payment Information
You may provide us with payment information in order to purchase gold memberships or other offerings provided as part of our services. No payment information is stored on our servers. All payment information is stored with our payment providers and we have no access to it.
1.6 How You Control the Information You Share with Us
Your Privacy and safety settings (https://www.worldtruth.mx/user/privacy/) let you decide:
2. Additional Information We Receive About You
We receive certain information when you use our services or other websites or mobile applications that include our content, and from third parties including advertisers. Like the information you share with us, we use the data below to operate our services.
2.1 Location Information
We require information about your signup and current location, which we get from signals such as your IP address or device settings, to securely and reliably set up and maintain your account and to provide our services to you.
Subject to your settings, we may collect, use, and store additional information about your location - such as your current precise position or places where you’ve previously used WorldTruth - to operate or personalize our services including with more relevant content like local trends, stories and suggestions for people to follow.
2.2 Links
In order to operate our services, we keep track of how you interact with links across our services. This includes links in emails we send you and links in posts that appear on other websites or mobile applications.
If you click on an external link or ad on our services, that advertiser or website operator might figure out that you came from WorldTruth, along with other information associated with the ad you clicked such as characteristics of the audience it was intended to reach. They may also collect other personal data from you, such as cookie identifiers or your IP address.
2.3 Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your computer or mobile device. Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional website usage data and to operate our services. Cookies are not required for many parts of our services such as searching and looking at public profiles. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, many browsers’ settings can be set to decline cookies or alert you when a website is attempting to place a cookie on your computer. However, some of our services may not function properly if you disable cookies. When your browser or device allows it, we use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our services, to monitor aggregate usage patterns, and to personalize and otherwise operate our services such as by providing account security, personalizing the content we show you including ads, and remembering your language preferences.
2.4 Log Data
We receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our services, which we refer to as “Log Data,” even if you have not created an account. For example, when you visit our websites, sign into our services, interact with our email notifications, use your account to authenticate to a third-party service, or visit a third-party service that includes WorldTruth, we may receive information about you. This Log Data includes information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, and cookie information. We also receive Log Data when you click on, view, or interact with links on our services, including when you install another application through WorldTruth. We use Log Data to operate our services and ensure their secure, reliable, and robust performance. For example, we use Log Data to protect the security of accounts and to determine what content is popular on our services. We also use this data to improve the content we show you.
We use information you provide to us and data we receive, including Log Data and data from third parties, to make inferences like what topics you may be interested in, how old you are, and what languages you speak. This helps us better design our services for you and personalize the content we show you.
2.5 WorldTruth for Web Data
When you view our content on third-party websites that integrate WorldTruth content such as page like boxes or WorldTruth buttons, we may receive Log Data that includes the web page you visited. We use this information to better understand the use of our services, to protect the safety and integrity of our platform, and to show more relevant content, including ads. We do not associate this web browsing history with your name, email address, phone number, or username, and we delete, obfuscate, or aggregate it after no longer than 30 days. We do not collect this data from browsers that we believe to be located in the European Union or EFTA States.
2.6 Advertisers and Other Ad Partners
WorldTruth is ad free.
2.7 Personalizing Across Your Devices
When you log into WorldTruth on a browser or device, we will associate that browser or device with your account for purposes such as authentication, security, and personalization.
3. Information We Share and Disclose
As noted above, WorldTruth is designed to broadly and instantly disseminate information you share publicly through our services. In the limited circumstances where we disclose your private personal data, we do so subject to your control, because it’s necessary to operate our services, or because it’s required by law.
3.1 Sharing You Control
We share or disclose your personal data with your consent or at your direction, such as when you authorize a third-party web client or application to access your account or when you direct us to share your feedback with a business. If you’ve shared information like Direct Messages or protected posts with someone else who accesses WorldTruth through a third-party service, keep in mind that the information may be shared with the third-party service.
3.2 Service Providers
We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to us in the United States, Ireland, and other countries. For example, we use a variety of third-party services to help operate our services, such as hosting user uploaded content. We do not share your private personal data with such service providers. We share your payment information with payment services providers to process payments; prevent, detect, and investigate fraud or other prohibited activities; facilitate dispute resolution such as chargebacks or refunds; and for other purposes associated with the acceptance of credit and debit cards. At no time is your payment information ever kept, or processed on, WorldTruth servers.
3.3 Law, Harm, and the Public Interest
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy or controls we may otherwise offer to you, we may preserve, use, or disclose your personal data if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to protect the safety of any person; to protect the safety or integrity of our platform, including to help prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actors on our services, or to explain why we have removed content or accounts from our services; to address fraud, security, or technical issues; or to protect our rights or property or the rights or property of those who use our services. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including a government’s, request to disclose your personal data.
3.4 Affiliates and Change of Ownership
In the event that we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your personal data may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal data as transferred to the new entity. We may also disclose personal data about you to our corporate affiliates in order to help operate our services and our affiliates’ services.
4. Managing Your Personal Information With Us
You control the personal data you share with us. You can access or rectify this data at any time. You can also deactivate your account. We also provide you tools to object, restrict, or withdraw consent where applicable for the use of data you have provided to WorldTruth. And we make the data you shared through our services portable and provide easy ways for you to contact us.
4.1 Accessing or Rectifying Your Personal Data
If you have registered an account on WorldTruth, we provide you with tools and account settings to access, correct, delete, or modify the personal data you provided to us and associated with your account. You can download certain account information, including your posts, by contacting us and asking for this.
4.2 Deletion
We keep Log Data for a maximum of 18 months. Please contact us if you want your account to be deleted. We give you a cooldown period of 24 hours to change your mind, after this your account will be permanently deleted and all your data erased.
Keep in mind that search engines and other third parties may still retain copies of your public information, like your profile information and public posts, even after you have deleted the information from our services or deleted your account.
4.3 Object, Restrict, or Withdraw Consent
When you are logged into your WorldTruth account, you can manage your privacy settings and other account features here (https://www.worldtruth.mx/user/privacy/) at any time.
4.4 Portability
To download the information you have shared through our services please contact us and specify the format you would like. We aim to complete all requests within 24 hours during weekdays.
4.5 Additional Information or Assistance
Thoughts or questions about this Privacy Policy? Please let us know by contacting us here (https://www.worldtruth.mx/contact/).
If you are located in the European Union or EFTA States, you can confidentially contact WorldTruth’s Data Protection Officer here (https://www.worldtruth.mx/cozumel/). If you wish to raise a concern about our use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local supervisory authority.
5. Children and Our Services
Our services are not directed to children, and you may not use our services if you are under the age of 13. You must also be old enough to consent to the processing of your personal data in your country (in some countries we may allow your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf).
6. Our Global Operations and Privacy Shield
To bring you our services, we operate globally. Where the laws of your country allow you to do so, you authorize us to transfer, store, and use your data in the United States, Ireland, and any other country where we operate. In some of the countries to which we transfer personal data, the privacy and data protection laws and rules regarding when government authorities may access data may vary from those of your country. Learn more about our global operations and data transfer here.
When we transfer personal data outside of the European Union or EFTA States, we ensure an adequate level of protection for the rights of data subjects based on the adequacy of the receiving country’s data protection laws, contractual obligations placed on the recipient of the data (model clauses may be requested by inquiry as described below), or EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield principles.
WorldTruth complies with the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield principles (the “Principles”) regarding the collection, use, sharing, and retention of personal data from the European Union and Switzerland.
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our processing of your personal data and will always be at https://worldtruth.mx/privacy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you via a site-wide update or email to the email address associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
Effective: June 03, 2018
We believe you should always know what data we collect from you and how we use it, and that you should have meaningful control over both. We want to empower you to make the best decisions about the information that you share with us.
That’s the basic purpose of this Privacy Policy.
You should read this policy in full, but here are a few key things we hope you take away from it:
[*]WorldTruth is essentially public and posts are immediately viewable and searchable by anyone around the world. We give you non-public ways to communicate on WorldTruth too, through friends-only posts and Direct Messages. You can also use WorldTruth under a pseudonym if you prefer not to use your name.
[*]When you use WorldTruth, even if you’re just browsing, we receive some personal information from you like the type of device you’re using and your IP address.
[*]We give you control through your settings to limit the data we collect from you and how we use it, and to control things like account security and marketing preferences.
[*]If you have questions about this policy, how we collect or process your personal data, or anything else related to our privacy practices, we want to hear from you. You can contact us at any time.
1. Information You Share With Us
We require certain information to provide our services to you. For example, you must have an account in order to upload or share content on WorldTruth. When you choose to share the information below with us, we collect and use it to operate our services.
1.1 Basic Account Information
You must create an account to use our service. If you do choose to create an account, you must provide us with some personal data so that we can provide our services to you. On WorldTruth this includes a display name (for example, “Cozumel”), a username (for example, @Cozumel), a password, and an email address or phone number. Your display name and username are always public, but you can use either your real name or a pseudonym. You can also create and manage multiple WorldTruth accounts, for example to express different parts of your identity.
1.2 Public Information
Most activity on WorldTruth is public, including your profile information, your time zone and language, when you created your account, and your posts and certain information about your posts like the date and time. You also may choose to publish your location in your posts or your WorldTruth profile.
You are responsible for your posts and other information you provide through our services, and you should think carefully about what you make public, especially if it is sensitive information.
1.3 Contact Information and Address Books
We use your contact information, such as your email address or phone number, to authenticate your account and keep it - and our services - secure, and to help prevent spam, fraud, and abuse. We also use contact information to personalize our services, enable certain account features (for example, for login verification), and to send you information about our services. If you provide us with your phone number, you agree to receive text messages from WorldTruth to that number as your country’s laws allow. WorldTruth also uses your contact information to market to you as your country’s laws allow, and to help others find your account if your settings permit. You can use your settings for email and mobile notifications to control notifications you receive from WorldTruth. You can also unsubscribe from a notification by following the instructions contained within the notification or here.
If you email us, we will keep the content of your message, your email address, and your contact information to respond to your request.
1.4 Direct Messages and Non-Public Communications
We provide certain features that let you communicate more privately or control who sees your content. For example, you can use Direct Messages to have non-public conversations on WorldTruth or protect your posts. When you communicate with others by sending or receiving Direct Messages, we will store and process your communications and information related to them. This includes link scanning for malicious content, link shortening URLs, detection of spam and prohibited images, and review of reported issues. We share the content of your Direct Messages with the people you’ve sent them to; we do not use them to serve you ads. Note that if you interact in a way that would ordinarily be public with WorldTruth content shared with you via Direct Message, for instance by liking a post, those interactions will be public. When you use features like Direct Messages to communicate, remember that recipients have their own copy of your communications on WorldTruth - even if you delete your copy of those messages from your account - which they may duplicate, store, or re-share.
1.5 Payment Information
You may provide us with payment information in order to purchase gold memberships or other offerings provided as part of our services. No payment information is stored on our servers. All payment information is stored with our payment providers and we have no access to it.
1.6 How You Control the Information You Share with Us
Your Privacy and safety settings (https://www.worldtruth.mx/user/privacy/) let you decide:
[*]Whether your posts are publicly available on WorldTruth
[*]Whether others can tag you in a photo
[*]Whether you will be able to receive Direct Messages from anyone on WorldTruth or just your friends
[*]Whether others can find you based on your email or phone number
[*]Whether you want to block or mute other WorldTruth accounts
2. Additional Information We Receive About You
We receive certain information when you use our services or other websites or mobile applications that include our content, and from third parties including advertisers. Like the information you share with us, we use the data below to operate our services.
2.1 Location Information
We require information about your signup and current location, which we get from signals such as your IP address or device settings, to securely and reliably set up and maintain your account and to provide our services to you.
Subject to your settings, we may collect, use, and store additional information about your location - such as your current precise position or places where you’ve previously used WorldTruth - to operate or personalize our services including with more relevant content like local trends, stories and suggestions for people to follow.
2.2 Links
In order to operate our services, we keep track of how you interact with links across our services. This includes links in emails we send you and links in posts that appear on other websites or mobile applications.
If you click on an external link or ad on our services, that advertiser or website operator might figure out that you came from WorldTruth, along with other information associated with the ad you clicked such as characteristics of the audience it was intended to reach. They may also collect other personal data from you, such as cookie identifiers or your IP address.
2.3 Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your computer or mobile device. Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional website usage data and to operate our services. Cookies are not required for many parts of our services such as searching and looking at public profiles. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, many browsers’ settings can be set to decline cookies or alert you when a website is attempting to place a cookie on your computer. However, some of our services may not function properly if you disable cookies. When your browser or device allows it, we use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our services, to monitor aggregate usage patterns, and to personalize and otherwise operate our services such as by providing account security, personalizing the content we show you including ads, and remembering your language preferences.
2.4 Log Data
We receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our services, which we refer to as “Log Data,” even if you have not created an account. For example, when you visit our websites, sign into our services, interact with our email notifications, use your account to authenticate to a third-party service, or visit a third-party service that includes WorldTruth, we may receive information about you. This Log Data includes information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, and cookie information. We also receive Log Data when you click on, view, or interact with links on our services, including when you install another application through WorldTruth. We use Log Data to operate our services and ensure their secure, reliable, and robust performance. For example, we use Log Data to protect the security of accounts and to determine what content is popular on our services. We also use this data to improve the content we show you.
We use information you provide to us and data we receive, including Log Data and data from third parties, to make inferences like what topics you may be interested in, how old you are, and what languages you speak. This helps us better design our services for you and personalize the content we show you.
2.5 WorldTruth for Web Data
When you view our content on third-party websites that integrate WorldTruth content such as page like boxes or WorldTruth buttons, we may receive Log Data that includes the web page you visited. We use this information to better understand the use of our services, to protect the safety and integrity of our platform, and to show more relevant content, including ads. We do not associate this web browsing history with your name, email address, phone number, or username, and we delete, obfuscate, or aggregate it after no longer than 30 days. We do not collect this data from browsers that we believe to be located in the European Union or EFTA States.
2.6 Advertisers and Other Ad Partners
WorldTruth is ad free.
2.7 Personalizing Across Your Devices
When you log into WorldTruth on a browser or device, we will associate that browser or device with your account for purposes such as authentication, security, and personalization.
3. Information We Share and Disclose
As noted above, WorldTruth is designed to broadly and instantly disseminate information you share publicly through our services. In the limited circumstances where we disclose your private personal data, we do so subject to your control, because it’s necessary to operate our services, or because it’s required by law.
3.1 Sharing You Control
We share or disclose your personal data with your consent or at your direction, such as when you authorize a third-party web client or application to access your account or when you direct us to share your feedback with a business. If you’ve shared information like Direct Messages or protected posts with someone else who accesses WorldTruth through a third-party service, keep in mind that the information may be shared with the third-party service.
3.2 Service Providers
We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to us in the United States, Ireland, and other countries. For example, we use a variety of third-party services to help operate our services, such as hosting user uploaded content. We do not share your private personal data with such service providers. We share your payment information with payment services providers to process payments; prevent, detect, and investigate fraud or other prohibited activities; facilitate dispute resolution such as chargebacks or refunds; and for other purposes associated with the acceptance of credit and debit cards. At no time is your payment information ever kept, or processed on, WorldTruth servers.
3.3 Law, Harm, and the Public Interest
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy or controls we may otherwise offer to you, we may preserve, use, or disclose your personal data if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to protect the safety of any person; to protect the safety or integrity of our platform, including to help prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actors on our services, or to explain why we have removed content or accounts from our services; to address fraud, security, or technical issues; or to protect our rights or property or the rights or property of those who use our services. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including a government’s, request to disclose your personal data.
3.4 Affiliates and Change of Ownership
In the event that we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your personal data may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal data as transferred to the new entity. We may also disclose personal data about you to our corporate affiliates in order to help operate our services and our affiliates’ services.
4. Managing Your Personal Information With Us
You control the personal data you share with us. You can access or rectify this data at any time. You can also deactivate your account. We also provide you tools to object, restrict, or withdraw consent where applicable for the use of data you have provided to WorldTruth. And we make the data you shared through our services portable and provide easy ways for you to contact us.
4.1 Accessing or Rectifying Your Personal Data
If you have registered an account on WorldTruth, we provide you with tools and account settings to access, correct, delete, or modify the personal data you provided to us and associated with your account. You can download certain account information, including your posts, by contacting us and asking for this.
4.2 Deletion
We keep Log Data for a maximum of 18 months. Please contact us if you want your account to be deleted. We give you a cooldown period of 24 hours to change your mind, after this your account will be permanently deleted and all your data erased.
Keep in mind that search engines and other third parties may still retain copies of your public information, like your profile information and public posts, even after you have deleted the information from our services or deleted your account.
4.3 Object, Restrict, or Withdraw Consent
When you are logged into your WorldTruth account, you can manage your privacy settings and other account features here (https://www.worldtruth.mx/user/privacy/) at any time.
4.4 Portability
To download the information you have shared through our services please contact us and specify the format you would like. We aim to complete all requests within 24 hours during weekdays.
4.5 Additional Information or Assistance
Thoughts or questions about this Privacy Policy? Please let us know by contacting us here (https://www.worldtruth.mx/contact/).
If you are located in the European Union or EFTA States, you can confidentially contact WorldTruth’s Data Protection Officer here (https://www.worldtruth.mx/cozumel/). If you wish to raise a concern about our use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local supervisory authority.
5. Children and Our Services
Our services are not directed to children, and you may not use our services if you are under the age of 13. You must also be old enough to consent to the processing of your personal data in your country (in some countries we may allow your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf).
6. Our Global Operations and Privacy Shield
To bring you our services, we operate globally. Where the laws of your country allow you to do so, you authorize us to transfer, store, and use your data in the United States, Ireland, and any other country where we operate. In some of the countries to which we transfer personal data, the privacy and data protection laws and rules regarding when government authorities may access data may vary from those of your country. Learn more about our global operations and data transfer here.
When we transfer personal data outside of the European Union or EFTA States, we ensure an adequate level of protection for the rights of data subjects based on the adequacy of the receiving country’s data protection laws, contractual obligations placed on the recipient of the data (model clauses may be requested by inquiry as described below), or EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield principles.
WorldTruth complies with the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield principles (the “Principles”) regarding the collection, use, sharing, and retention of personal data from the European Union and Switzerland.
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our processing of your personal data and will always be at https://worldtruth.mx/privacy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you via a site-wide update or email to the email address associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
Effective: June 03, 2018