Privacy Policy
Effective date: July 29, 2021
At Metawork, we take your privacy seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy to learn
how we treat your personal data. By using or accessing our Services in any manner, you
acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined below, and you hereby
consent that we will collect, use and share your information as described in this
Privacy Policy.
If you have a disability, you may access this Privacy Policy in an alternative format by contacting help@metawork.com.
If you have a disability, you may access this Privacy Policy in an alternative format by contacting help@metawork.com.
What this Privacy Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy covers how we treat Personal Data that we gather when you access or
use our Services. “Personal Data” means any information that identifies or relates to a
particular individual and also includes information referred to as “personally
identifiable information” or “personal information” under applicable data privacy laws,
rules or regulations. This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of companies we
don’t own or control or people we don’t manage.
Personal Data
Categories of Personal Data We Collect
We collect the following categories of Personal data:
- Profile or Contact Data
- First and last name
- Device/IP Data
- IP address
Except as set forth herein, we do not share your Personal data.
Categories of Sources of Personal Data
We collect Personal Data about you from the following categories of sources:
- You
- When you provide such information directly to us.
- When you create an account or use our interactive tools and Services.
- When you use the Services and such information is collected automatically.
- Through Cookies (defined in the “Tracking Tools and Opt-Out” section below).
- If you download and install certain applications and software we make available, we may receive and collect information transmitted from your computing device for the purpose of providing you the relevant Services, such as information regarding when you are logged on and available to receive updates or alert notices.
- When you provide such information directly to us.
Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data
- Providing, Customizing and Improving the Services
- Creating and managing your account or other user profiles.
- Providing you with the products, services or information you request.
- Meeting or fulfilling the reason you provided the information to us.
- Providing support and assistance for the Services.
- Personalizing the Services, website content and communications based on your preferences.
- Doing fraud protection, security and debugging.
- Carrying out other business purposes stated when collecting your Personal Data or as otherwise set forth in applicable data privacy laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”).
- Marketing the Services
- Marketing and selling the Services.
- Corresponding with You
- Responding to correspondence that we receive from you, contacting you when necessary or requested, and sending you information about Metawork or the Services.
- Sending emails and other communications according to your preferences or that display content that we think will interest you.
- Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms
- Fulfilling our legal obligations under applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process, such as preventing, detecting and investigating security incidents and potentially illegal or prohibited activities.
- Protecting the rights, property or safety of you, Metawork or another party.
- Enforcing any agreements with you.
- Responding to claims that any posting or other content violates third-party rights.
- Resolving disputes.
We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we
collected for materially different, unrelated or incompatible purposes without providing
you notice.
Legal Obligations
We may share any Personal Data that we collect with third parties in conjunction with
any of the activities set forth under “Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal
Terms” in the “Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data” section
above.
Business Transfers
All of your Personal Data that we collect may be transferred to a third party if we
undergo a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other transaction in which that third party
assumes control of our business (in whole or in part). Should one of these events occur,
we will make reasonable efforts to notify you before your information becomes subject to
different privacy and security policies and practices.
Data that is Not Personal Data
We may create aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data from the Personal Data we
collect, including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable
to a particular user. We may use such aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data and
share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze,
build and improve the Services and promote our business, provided that we will not share
such data in a manner that could identify you.
Tracking Tools and Opt-Out
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear
GIFs and JavaScript (collectively, “Cookies”) to enable our servers to recognize your
web browser, tell us how and when you visit and use our website, analyze trends, learn
about our user base and operate and improve our Services and our website. Cookies are
small pieces of data– usually text files – placed on your computer, tablet, phone or
similar device when you use that device to access our website. We may also supplement
the information we collect from you with information received from third parties,
including third parties that have placed their own Cookies on your device(s). Please
note that because of our use of Cookies, our website does not support “Do Not Track”
requests sent from a browser at this time.
We use the following types of Cookies:
We use the following types of Cookies:
- Essential Cookies: Essential Cookies are required for providing you with features or services that you have requested. For example, certain Cookies enable you to log into secure areas of our website. Disabling these Cookies may make certain features and services unavailable.
- Performance/Analytical Cookies: Performance/Analytical Cookies allow us to understand how visitors use our our website. They do this by collecting information about the number of visitors to our website, what pages visitors view on our website and how long visitors are viewing pages on our website. Performance/Analytical Cookies also help us measure the performance of our advertising campaigns in order to help us improve our campaigns and the our website’s content for those who engage with our advertising. For example, Google LLC (“Google”) uses cookies in connection with its Google Analytics services. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our website is subject to the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You have the option to opt-out of Google’s use of Cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page at www.google.com/privacy_ads.html or the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
You can decide whether or not to accept Cookies through your internet browser’s
settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature, which will
prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, as well as (depending on the
sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new
Cookie in a variety of ways. You can also delete all Cookies that are already on your
device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every
time you visit our website and some of the Services and functionalities may not work.
To explore what Cookie settings are available to you, look in the “preferences” or “options” section of your browser’s menu. To find out more information about Cookies, including information about how to manage and delete Cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
To explore what Cookie settings are available to you, look in the “preferences” or “options” section of your browser’s menu. To find out more information about Cookies, including information about how to manage and delete Cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
Data Security and Retention
We seek to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use and disclosure using
appropriate physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures
based on the type of Personal Data and how we are processing that data. You should also
help protect your data by appropriately selecting and protecting your password and/or
other sign-on mechanism; limiting access to your computer or device and browser; and
signing off after you have finished accessing your account. Although we work to protect
the security of your account and other data that we hold in our records, please be aware
that no method of transmitting data over the internet or storing data is completely
secure.
We retain Personal Data about you for as long as you have an open account with us or as otherwise necessary to provide you with our Services. In some cases we retain Personal Data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule or regulation. We may further retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form where that information would not identify you personally.
We retain Personal Data about you for as long as you have an open account with us or as otherwise necessary to provide you with our Services. In some cases we retain Personal Data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule or regulation. We may further retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form where that information would not identify you personally.
Personal Data of Children
We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data about children under 13 years of
age; if you are a child under the age of 13, please do not attempt to register for or
otherwise use the Services or send us any Personal Data. If we learn we have collected
Personal Data from a child under 13 years of age, we will delete that information as
quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 13 years of age may have provided
Personal Data to us, please contact us at help@metawork.com.
State Law Privacy Rights
California Residential Rights
Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled
to contact us to prevent disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for such third
parties’ direct marketing purposes; in order to submit such a request, please contact us
at help@metawork.com. However,
please note we do not disclose Personal Data to third parties for such third parties’
direct marketing purposes.
Nevada Residential Rights
If you are a resident of Nevada, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of certain
Personal Data to third parties who intend to license or sell that Personal Data. You can
exercise this right by contacting us at help@metawork.com with the subject line “Nevada Do Not Sell Request” and providing us with your name and
the email address associated with your account. However, please note that we do not sell
Personal Data to third parties.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We’re constantly trying to improve our Services, so we may need to change this Privacy
Policy from time to time, but we will alert you to any such changes by placing a notice
on the Metawork website, by sending you an email and/or by some other means. Please note
that if you’ve opted not to receive legal notice emails from us (or you haven’t provided
us with your email address), those legal notices will still govern your use of the
Services, and you are still responsible for reading and understanding them. If you use
the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you
agree to all of the changes. Use of information we collect is subject to the Privacy
Policy in effect at the time such information is collected.
Contact Information:
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we
collect and use your Personal Data or your choices and rights regarding such collection
and use, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
- (650) 453-8428
- www.metawork.com
- help@metawork.com