How We Collect Information

WIMG collects personal information in a variety of ways, including when you register with WIMG on our websites or through initial interactions via our email communications, when you subscribe to WIMG services through our websites, when you use WIMG products or services via the websites, when you visit WIMG websites or the websites of certain WIMG partners, and when you enter Internet-based promotions or sweepstakes sponsored or administered by WIMG.

User Registration

When you register on our websites, we ask for and collect information such as your name, email address, zip code, occupation, industry as well as other pertinent information. For some products and services we may also ask for your address and information about you and/or your business's activities. Once you register with WIMG and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

Email Broadcasts

Users may elect to participate in a variety of WIMG email broadcasts, ranging from daily news to supplier hot deals. WIMG collects personal information in connection with the registration for and use of such services.

Contests

Users may elect to participate in promotions and/or promotional contests that WIMG conducts from time to time on behalf of its clients. WIMG collects personal information in connection with user registration for and participation in such promotions and contests.

Educational Programs

Users may elect to participate in educational programs such as Seminars, Webinars, etc. that WIMG conducts from time to time. WIMG collects personal information in connection with user registration for and participation in such programs.

Events

Users may elect to participate in events that WIMG conducts from time to time. WIMG collects personal information in connection with user registration for and participation in such programs.


Cookies

"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. WIMG or its advertisers may send a cookie to your computer through your browser. WIMG uses cookies to track page requests and the duration of each user's visit and the use of cookies allows us to provide a user's browser with information tailored to the visitor's preferences and needs and to also streamline the user's visits to our websites. You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your browser. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or allow your browser to show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept cookies, your experience at our websites may be diminished and some features may not work as intended.

IP Addresses

WIMG automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, WIMG cookie information, and the website page you request. WIMG uses this information to help diagnose problems with our servers, for system administration, and to examine our website traffic in aggregate. The information may be collected and used to improve the content of our Web pages and to customize content and/or layout for each user.

Purchases

If you are purchasing something from a WIMG website, we need to know personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, mailing address, credit card number, and expiration date. This allows us to process and fulfill your order and to notify you of your order status. This information may also be used by WIMG to notify you of related products and services. Credit card information will not be shared or sold to unaffiliated third parties for any purpose without your express permission, except as necessary to process the transaction.

Use of Information

If you elect to provide us personal information, we use it primarily to deliver the service you requested. WIMG may use personal information in a variety of ways including the following:

- WIMG may use personal information collected through its websites to send out targeted email promotions on behalf of its advertisers and industry partners.

- WIMG may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies in order to better deliver products and services that may be of interest and benefit to you.

- WIMG may use personal information to contact users regarding renewing subscriptions to WIMG services and products.

- WIMG may use personally identifiable information to send notification of WIMG's or our partners' products and services by such methods as email and/or postal mail.

- If you provide financial information, we use that information primarily to verify your credit and collect payments for your purchases, orders, subscriptions, etc.

- WIMG may send product announcements or special edition e-letters to online registrants.

- If you participate in a WIMG educational program, virtual tradeshow, or other time-sensitive program, we may contact you to remind you of upcoming deadlines or additional information concerning these programs.

- WIMG occasionally conducts subscriber and/or user surveys to better target our content to our audiences. The aggregated information collected is sometimes shared with our advertisers; however, we will do not share specific individual information with a third-party.

- WIMG offers lead generation opportunities to its travel industry audiences. These opportunities may become available by completing an education course or other online programs. WIMG may externally share contact information (which includes street addresses, phones numbers and email addresses) collected from users of its websites/lead generation programs. Users of these products may opt-out of sharing contact information in our lead generation program at any time through the website's user dashboard or by emailing support@worthit.com.

- WIMG operates several websites featuring its travel-related content and services. WIMG may share personal information collected from users of its websites internally across these websites to better serve its users.

WIMG has numerous products and services and therefore numerous email and promotion lists. In an effort to allow users to tailor their participation in WIMG services and promotions, WIMG provides users the ability to choose specific lists or products of interest and opt-out options are product and use/list specific. All email promotions sent from WIMG provide an opt-out link at the bottom of the email pursuant to which users can opt-out of specific products and promotions. If you receive one of these emails and wish to unsubscribe please follow the instructions given in each email or contact support@worthit.com.

From time to time we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our Privacy Policy. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our websites and email communications.

 

Sharing of Information Collected with Third Parties

In general, WIMG does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you have requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

- We may provide personal information about our users to trusted partners and vendors who work on behalf of, or with WIMG under confidentiality and similar agreements prohibiting such parties' further use of the information. These companies may use your personal information to help WIMG communicate with you about offers from WIMG and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to use or share this information.

- When you register for an educational program, contest, event, webinar, or other promotion that is sponsored by a third party, the third party will be provided personally identifiable information unless otherwise posted in connection with the promotion. The third party may contact you in regard to current or future educational opportunities, contests, events or promotions.

- WIMG may offer white-labeled products to its third-party partners that may include contact information of users of its websites/education programs/lead generation programs. The products are solely offered to third-party partners as a way to help travel professionals generate more leads. Users may universally opt out of these programs through the WIMG website's user dashboard or by emailing support@worthit.com.

- WIMG may from time to time share personal information such as email addresses with trusted third parties who deliver content that is likely to be of interest to the user and subject to opt-out obligation on the part of such third party.

- We may share personal information where we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, a court order, or legal process served on WIMG, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

- We may share such information where we have a good faith belief that it is necessary in order to investigate (or assist in the investigation of), prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of WIMG's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

- If WIMG is acquired by or merged with another company, we will transfer information about you to this other company in connection with the acquisition or merger.

Discussion Groups

Forums/Chats/Blogs: Discussion groups are available for our users on our websites. Participants should be aware that information disclosed in these discussion lists is made available to all members and thus becomes public information. We suggest that you exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal identifiable information in such discussion groups. WIMG is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

Users may elect to participate in user forums to exchange information relevant to and of interest to Users of the website. To participate in the forums, users will be required to submit information such as a public username, identifying picture or image, areas of expertise, biographical information, and other similar personally identifying information. Your forum username, number of posts, date and time of your post, areas of expertise, and uploaded picture or image will be publicly available to Users of our websites. In addition, and other information designated by you in the registration process for public display will also be available to any User of our websites.

Security

WIMG websites take commercially reasonable precautions to protect your personal information. When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as credit card and payment information, we re-direct users to industry standard SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encrypted servers. As a result, sensitive data you submit to our websites such as credit card and payment information is transmitted securely over the Internet.