General Privacy Statement 

Your privacy is important to us. We do not sell your personal data or information that you have shared with us.

We take reasonable steps to keep your personal information safe from loss, unauthorized activity or misuse.

The following General Privacy for the Universal Womens Network Inc. (the “UWN”) as it relates to the www.universalwomensnetwork.com (the “Website”) describes how we collect, store, use and distribute the information collected about our users through our website, programs and services.

By browsing, registering or placing an order on this site, you consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your information under the terms of this policy.

EU and California visitors to our website, please review the separate GDPR and CCPA Policies outlined below.

Types of Data Collected

We collect various information for purposes to provide you with access to membership, podcasts, awards, magazines, blogs, programs or other services. The types of personal information Universal Womens Network™ Inc. (“UWN”) collects the personal information you voluntarily choose to provide such as:

• First name and last name
• Email address
• Phone Number
• Business name
• Role or Position
• Website ULR
• Logos
• Any personal data you post on our website
• Address including Province or State, Postal Code or Zip code
• Social Media Handles Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,
• Cookies and Data usage.
• IP Address is collected by your web browser whenever you visit a page on a website. This information is recorded on the database on our website.
• Sponsor and or Third Party links to sponsor websites or other third-party websites not owned or controlled by us.
• Any other information that you provide to use by contact forms, over the phone, by email or any other form of communication provided by yourself.

Our web server logs may collect additional information, such as the domain names of visitors to our websites, in order to measure the use of our websites and to improve content. We may use cookies to manage areas of our website and to deliver a better website experience to our users. You may choose to change the settings on your computer to reject cookies, although, in that case, you may not be able to use certain features on our site.

Use of Information

 We collect only information that is voluntarily provided by you and undertake that such information will be kept strictly confidential. We collect information for the following purposes:

• To activate your membership or contact you if a problem arises with your membership.
• To complete bios for purposes not limited to, speaking, blogs, special features on our website, newsletter, podcast interviews, magazine features, and award features which you have voluntarily provided for purposes of marketing or promotion.
• To complete the Nomination Package requirements for the awards competition.
• To activate the UWN membership.
• To maintain our services.
• To notify you about changes to our services.
• To allow you to participate in special offers, features if you choose to participate.
• To provide customer support.
• To gather analyst or information so that we can improve our services.
• To provide you with news, special offers and general information about events, services, and promotions, which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
• The UWN publishes members’ names, business addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses as well as certain other company-specific optional information such as social media, website links, bios, logos and other marketing materials (“Membership Information”) provided by members for the purpose of contacting members. By applying for membership in UWN, you consent to UWN sharing your Membership Information with other UWN members with your consent.
• If you withdraw your application for membership or resign your membership, UWN will delete your Membership Information within a commercially reasonable time.

Retention of Personal Data

We retain personal information only as long as is necessary to provide you with the requested product, service or information and then delete or destroy this information as appropriate to do so within a reasonable time unless we are prevented from doing so by law for example to resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

 Google and Third-Party Analytics

We may use Third-Party companies and individuals to monitor and analyze the use of our website.

Google Analytics – Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website, This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt out by having made your activity on the website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out browser add-on. For more information about Google Analytics visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

Payment Processing

We may provide paid products and or services. We use third-party services for payment processing. We do not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly by you to our third-party payment processors which are governed by their own Privacy Policies. The payment processors adhere to standards set and managed by the PCI-DDS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) requirements for payment processing for Visa, Mastercard, and American Express to help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The third-party payment processors we work with are:

PayPal – See PayPal’s Privacy Policy https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Re-occurring payments for membership or services may be paused or cancelled by user by updating your setting directly with PayPal.

Disclosure of Personal Information

UWN does sell or provide your personal information, including contact details to third parties. In special circumstances, contact details will be shared with third parties only with your consent. Examples of this may include special letters of recognition from third parties for the award program.

Disclosures of information will be made in circumstances where UWN has entered into a contractual arrangement with a third party, and the purpose of that contract is the provision of a product, service or benefit. In such circumstances, information disclosure will be limited to information strictly necessary for the provision of the contracted benefit or service.

If the UWN is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal information may be transferred. We will provide prior notice before personal information is transferred and becomes the subject of a new Privacy Policy.

Links to Other Sites

The General Privacy Statement applies to our website, and not to websites owned by Sponsors or other third parties. We may provide links to sponsor websites or the websites of third parties. The owner of that site will have its own privacy policy concerning your private information.

We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of third-party sites or services.

Third-Party Service Providers

We may contract or employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate Services on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist in analyzing how our service is being used, or for purposes of the awards competition.  These third parties may have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on behalf of UWN and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purposes.

Security of Personal Information

Although UWN takes commercially reasonable steps to protect the electronic transmission of information, including payment information, that you submit to UWN through the Site.

The UWN does not guarantee the security of any information transmitted to or from the Site.

You understand and agree to assume the security risk for any information you provide using the Site.  The personal information you provide may be transmitted, used, stored and otherwise processed outside of the country where you submitted that information, including jurisdictions that may not have data privacy laws that provide equivalent protection to such laws in Canada.

Updating

We make every effort to keep personal information as accurate, complete, current and relevant as necessary for the identified purposes. Upon written request, you may update your personal information currently stored by UWN. You also have the right to access and view your personal information upon written request. To make a request, please send a letter to: Attention: Privacy Officer

We will reply to your request within forty-five (45) days after receipt of the request, or if we are not able to respond within this time period, we will send you a notice of extension. If we are not able to disclose all the personal information, we hold on to you, we will give you a reason for our inability to do so, unless prohibited by law.

Unsubscribing From Our Email Data Base

If you do not want to receive e-mail or communications regarding UWN events, membership, services, promotions and or programs, you may opt-out to receive communications by unsubscribing to our newsletter subscription. You can opt out at any time. Member is responsible for updating any personal member contact or information by logging in to the member profile.

Children Privacy Information

Our services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13. Persons under the age of 13 should not submit personal information to UWN. Award Nominations Packages must include a Letter of Consent for anyone under the age of 18.

Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, UWN may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required by law or court order.

Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, UWN may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required by law or court order.

Amendments to this General Privacy Statement

The UWN reserves the right to modify or amend this General Private Statement at any time. We will contact you via email and or newsletter 14 days prior to the changes to the Privacy Statement becoming effective. We will update the website with the effective date to reflect the updated Privacy Statement. Once the Effective Date has lapsed, your consent may be bound by the modified and/or amended Privacy Statement.

Questions:

Please direct any questions concerning UWN’s privacy or practices to the Privacy Officer – Attention Privacy Officer –  admin@universalwomensnetwork.com.

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GDPR and CCPA Privacy Statement

Personal Data Usage Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If the user is from the United Kingdom (UE), the UWN legal basis for collecting personal information is described in this General Privacy Statement except as set out for the following, your information will not be used for any other purposes without your consent.

We collect the following information in order to:

• To perform a contract or service with you
• You have given us permission to do so
• For payment processing
• The processing is in our legitimate interest and its not overridden by your rights
• To comply with the law

 Types of Data Collected

We collect various information for purposes to provide you with access to membership, podcasts, awards, magazines, blogs, programs or other services. The types of personal information Universal Womens Network™ Inc. (“UWN”) collects the personal information you voluntarily choose to provide such as:

• First name and last name
• Email address
• Phone Number
• Business name
• Role or Position
• Website ULR
• Logos
• Any personal data you post on our website
• Address including Province or State, Postal Code or Zip code
• Social Media Handles Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,
• Cookies and Data usage.
• IP Address is collected by your web browser whenever you visit a page on a website. This information is recorded on the database on our website.
• Sponsor and or Third Party links to sponsor websites or other third-party websites not owned or controlled by us.
• Any other information that you provide to use by contact form, over the phone, by email or any other form of communication provided by yourself.

Our web server logs may collect additional information, such as the domain names of visitors to our websites, in order to measure the use of our websites and to improve content. We may use cookies to manage areas of our website and to deliver a better website experience to our users. You may choose to change the settings on your computer to reject cookies, although, in that case, you may not be able to use certain features on our site NTD.

Use of Information

 We collect only information that is voluntarily provided by you and undertake that such information will be kept strictly confidential. We collect information for the following purposes:

• To activate your membership or contact you if a problem arises with your membership.
• To complete bios for purposes not limited to, speaking, blogs, special features on our website, newsletter, podcast interviews, magazine features, and award features which you have voluntarily provided for purposes of marketing or promotion.
• To complete the Nomination Package requirements for the awards competition.
• To activate the UWN membership.
• To maintain our services.
• To notify you about changes to our services.
• To allow you to participate in special offers, and features if you choose to participate.
• To provide customer support.
• To gather analysis or information so that we can improve our services.
• To provide you with news, special offers and general information about events, services, promotions, which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
• The UWN publishes members’ names, business addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses as well as certain other company-specific optional information such as social media, website links, bios, logos and other marketing materials (“Membership Information”) provided by members for the purpose of contacting members. By applying for membership in UWN, you consent to UWN sharing your Membership Information with other UWN members with your consent.
• If you withdraw your application for membership or resign your membership, UWN will delete your Membership Information within a commercially reasonable time.

Retention of Personal Data

We retain personal information only as long as is necessary to provide you with the requested product, service or information and then delete or destroy this information as appropriate to do so within a reasonable time unless we are prevented from doing so by law for example to resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

 Google and Third-Party Analytics

We may use Third-Party companies and individuals to monitor and analyze the use of our website.

Google Analytics – Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website, This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt out by having made your activity on the website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out browser add-on. For more information about Google Analytics visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

Payment Processing

We may provide paid products and or services. We use third-party services for payment processing. We do not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly by you to our third-party payment processors which are governed by their own Privacy Policies. The payment processors adhere to standards set and managed by the PCI-DDS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard)requirements for payment processing for Visa, Mastercard, and American Express to help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The third-party payment processors we work with are:

PayPal – See PayPal’s Privacy Policy https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Re-occurring payments for membership or services may be paused or cancelled by user by update your setting directly with PayPal.

Disclosure of Personal Information

UWN does sell or provide your personal information, including contact details to third parties. In special circumstances, contact details will be shared with third parties only with your consent. Examples of this may include special letters of recognition from third parties for the award program.

Disclosures of information will be made in circumstances where UWN has entered into a contractual arrangement with a third party, and the purpose of that contract is the provision of a product, service or benefit. In such circumstances, information disclosure will be limited to information strictly necessary for the provision of the contracted benefit or service.

If the UWN is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal information may be transferred. We will provide prior notice before personal information is transferred and becomes the subject of a new Privacy Policy.

Links to Other Sites

The General Privacy Statement applies to our website, and not to websites owned by Sponsors or other third parties. We may provide links to sponsor websites or the websites of third parties. The owner of that site will have its own privacy policy concerning your private information.

We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of third-party sites or services.

Third-Party Service Providers

We may contract or employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate Services on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist in analyzing how our service is being used, or for purposes of the awards competition.  These third parties may have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on behalf of UWN and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purposes.

Security of Personal Information

Although UWN takes commercially reasonable steps to protect the electronic transmission of information, including payment information, that you submit to UWN through the Site.

The UWN does not guarantee the security of any information transmitted to or from the Site.

You understand and agree to assume the security risk for any information you provide using the Site.  The personal information you provide may be transmitted, used, stored and otherwise processed outside of the country where you submitted that information, including jurisdictions that may not have data privacy laws that provide equivalent protection to such laws in Canada.

Updating

We make every effort to keep personal information as accurate, complete, current and relevant as necessary for the identified purposes. Upon written request, you may update your personal information currently stored by UWN. You also have the right to access and view your personal information upon written request. To make a request, please send a letter to: Attention: Privacy Officer

We will reply to your request within forty-five (45) days after receipt of the request, or if we are not able to respond within this time period, we will send you a notice of extension. If we are not able to disclose all the personal information, we hold on you, we will give you a reason for our inability to do so, unless prohibited by law.

Unsubscribing From Our Email Data Base

If you do not want to receive e-mail or communications regarding UWN events, membership, services, promotions and or programs, you may opt-out to receive communications by unsubscribing to our newsletter subscription. You can opt out at any time. Member is responsible for updating any personal member contact or information by logging in to the member profile.

Children Privacy Information

Our services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13. Persons under the age of 13 should not submit personal information to UWN. Award Nominations Packages must include a Letter of Consent for anyone under the age of 18.

Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, UWN may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required by law or court order.

Amendments to this General Privacy Statement

The UWN reserves the right to modify or amend this General Private Statement at any time. We will contact you via email and or newsletter 14 days prior to the changes to the Privacy Statement becoming effective. We will update the website with the effective date to reflect the updated Privacy Statement. Once the Effective Date has lapsed, your consent may be bound by the modified and/or amended Privacy Statement.

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Personal Data Usage Under the California Privacy Protection Agency (CCPA)

If the user is from the state of California, the UWN legal basis for collecting personal information is described in this General Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us. We do not sell your personal data or information that you have shared with us.

We take reasonable steps to keep your personal information safe from loss, unauthorized activity or misuse. We adhere to the privacy policies set out by the CCPA. For further information regarding CCPA, visit: https://cppa.ca.gov/

Except as set out for the following, your information will not be used for any other purposes without your consent. We collect the following information in order to:

• To perform a contract or service with you
• You have given us permission to do so
• For payment processing
• The processing is in our legitimate interest and its not overridden by your rights
• To comply with the law

For California visitors to our site, this  General Privacy Statement adheres to the CCPA with certain rights regarding their personal information, including:

• The right to delete personal information collected from them;
• The right to know what personal information a business has collected about them and how it is used and shared;
• The right to opt out of the sale and sharing of their personal information; and
• The right to non-discrimination for exercising their CCPA rights.
• The right to correct inaccurate personal information that a business has about them; and, The right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information collected about them.

Types of Data Collected

We collect various information for purposes to provide you with access to membership, podcasts, awards, magazines, blog, programs or other services.

The types of personal information Universal Womens Network™ Inc. (“UWN”) collects the personal information you voluntarily choose to provide such as:

• First name and last name
• Email address
• Phone Number
• Business name
• Role or Position
• Website ULR
• Logos
• Any personal data you post on our website
• Address including Province or State, Postal Code or Zip code
• Social Media Handles Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,
• Cookies and Data usage.
• IP Address is collected by your web browser whenever you visit a page on a website. This information is recorded on the database on our website.
• Sponsor and or Third Party links to sponsor websites or other third-party websites not owned or controlled by us.
• Any other information that you provide to us by contact form, over the phone, by email or any other form of communication provided by yourself.

Our web server logs may collect additional information, such as the domain names of visitors to our websites, in order to measure the use of our websites and to improve content. We may use cookies to manage areas of our website and to deliver a better website experience to our users. You may choose to change the settings on your computer to reject cookies, although, in that case, you may not be able to use certain features on our site.

Use of Information

We collect only information that is voluntarily provided by you and undertake that such information will be kept strictly confidential. We collect information for the following purposes:

• To activate your membership or contact you if a problem arises with your membership.
• To complete bios for purposes not limited to, speaking, blogs, special features on our website, newsletter, podcast interviews, magazine features, and award features which you have voluntarily provided for purposes of marketing or promotion.
• To complete the Nomination Package requirements for the awards competition.
• To activate the UWN membership.
• To maintain our services.
• To notify you about changes to our services.
• To allow you to participate in special offers, and features if you choose to participate.
• To provide customer support.
• To gather analysis or information so that we can improve our services.
• To provide you with news, special offers and general information about events, services, and promotions, which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
• The UWN publishes members’ names, business addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses as well as certain other company-specific optional information such as social media, website links, bios, logos and other marketing materials (“Membership Information”) provided by members for the purpose of contacting members. By applying for membership in UWN, you consent to UWN sharing your Membership Information with other UWN members with your consent.
• If you withdraw your application for membership or resign your membership, UWN will delete your Membership Information within a commercially reasonable time.

Retention of Personal Data

We retain personal information only as long as is necessary to provide you with the requested product, service or information and then delete or destroy this information as appropriate to do so within a reasonable time unless we are prevented from doing so by law for example to resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Google and Third-Party Analytics

We may use Third-Party companies and individuals to monitor and analyze the use of our website.

Google Analytics – Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website, This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt out by having made your activity on the website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out browser add-on. For more information about Google Analytics visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

Payment Processing

We may provide paid products and or services. We use third-party services for payment processing. We do not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly by you to our third-party payment processors which are governed by their own Privacy Policies. The payment processors adhere to standards set and managed by the PCI-DDS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) requirements for payment processing for Visa, Mastercard, and American Express to help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The third-party payment processors we work with are:

PayPal – See PayPal’s Privacy Policy https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Re-occurring payments for membership or services may be paused or cancelled by user by updating your setting directly with PayPal.

Disclosure of Personal Information

UWN does sell or provide your personal information, including contact details to third parties. In special circumstances, contact details will be shared with third parties only with your consent. Examples of this may include special letters of recognition from third parties for the award program.

Disclosures of information will be made in circumstances where UWN has entered into a contractual arrangement with a third party, and the purpose of that contract is the provision of a product, service or benefit. In such circumstances, information disclosure will be limited to information strictly necessary for the provision of the contracted benefit or service.

If the UWN is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal information may be transferred. We will provide prior notice before personal information is transferred and becomes the subject of a new Privacy Policy.

Links to Other Sites

The General Privacy Statement applies to our website, and not to websites owned by Sponsors or other third parties. We may provide links to sponsor websites or the websites of third parties. The owner of that site will have its own privacy policy concerning your private information.

We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of third-party sites or services.

Third-Party Service Providers

We may contract or employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate Services on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist in analyzing how our service is being used, or for purposes of the awards competition.  These third parties may have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on behalf of UWN and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purposes.

Security of Personal Information

Although UWN takes commercially reasonable steps to protect the electronic transmission of information, including payment information, that you submit to UWN through the Site.

The UWN does not guarantee the security of any information transmitted to or from the Site.

You understand and agree to assume the security risk for any information you provide using the Site.  The personal information you provide may be transmitted, used, stored and otherwise processed outside of the country where you submitted that information, including jurisdictions that may not have data privacy laws that provide equivalent protection to such laws in Canada.

Updating

We make every effort to keep personal information as accurate, complete, current and relevant as necessary for the identified purposes. Upon written request, you may update your personal information currently stored by UWN. You also have the right to access and view your personal information upon written request. To make a request, please send a letter to: Attention: Privacy Officer

We will reply to your request within forty-five (45) days after receipt of the request, or if we are not able to respond within this time period, we will send you a notice of extension. If we are not able to disclose all the personal information, we hold on you, we will give you a reason for our inability to do so, unless prohibited by law.

Unsubscribing From Our Email Data Base

If you do not want to receive e-mail or communications regarding UWN events, membership, services, promotions and or programs, you may opt-out to receive communications by unsubscribing to our newsletter subscription. You can opt out at any time. Member is responsible for updating any personal member contact or information by logging in to the member profile.

Children Privacy Information

Our services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13. Persons under the age of 13 should not submit personal information to UWN. Award Nominations Packages must include a Letter of Consent for anyone under the age of 18.

Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, UWN may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required by law or court order.

Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, UWN may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required by law or court order.

Amendments to this General Privacy Statement

The UWN reserves the right to modify or amend this General Private Statement at any time. We will contact you via email and or newsletter 14 days prior to the changes to the Privacy Statement becoming effective. We will update the website with the effective date to reflect the updated Privacy Statement. Once the Effective Date has lapsed, your consent may be bound by the modified and/or amended Privacy Statement.

Questions: Please direct any questions concerning UWN’s privacy or practices to the Privacy Officer – Attention Privacy Officer –  admin@universalwomensnetwork.com.

General Privacy Policy – Updated Feb 2023