Effective date: September 23, 2020
This privacy policy describes West General, LLC (hereafter referred to as 'WGL') policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of information, and what we do to protect it. By using the Site, you expressly consent to the information handling practices described in this Privacy Policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from WGL. In this policy, “we”, “us”, “company” and “our” refer to WGL.
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
Types of InformationPersonal Data - While using our site and service or when you submit forms, provide comments to a blog, call or otherwise communicate with us, create a profile, or upload data, you may be asked to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). This information may include, but is not limited to Email address, First name and last name, Phone number, Address, State / Province, ZIP/Postal code, City, Cookies and Usage Data.
Usage Data - When you use our site or open one of our HTML emails, we may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address),browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Tracking & Cookies Data - When you use the site, we may use cookies and similar tracking technologies, such as Google Analytics, to track the activity on our site and service and hold certain website activity information. Cookies are small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters, which may include an anonymous unique identifier and are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are tags, scripts and beacons to collect and track information and to analyze and improve our Service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. We may use both session cookies (a session cookie disappears after you close your browser) and persistent cookies (a persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Site). Persistent cookies can be removed. Please review your web browser help section to learn the right way to change your cookie settings.
Information from Other Sources - We may also obtain information, including personally identifiable information, from other sources and third parties other than the Site. If we combine or include information from other sources with personally identifiable information that we collect through the Site, we will treat the combined information as personally identifiable information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Use of InformationWGL uses the information you provide or that we collect to develop, operate, maintain, enhance, improve and provide all of the features and services found on the Site now and in the future, including notifying you about changes to our Service, to allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so, to provide customer care and support, to provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service, to monitor the usage of the Service, to detect, prevent and address technical issues.
Disclosure of DataLegal Requirements - We may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, to protect and defend the rights or property of WGL Inc, to prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service, to protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public, to protect against legal liability
Service Providers - We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Analytics - We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service such as Google Analytics or similar services.
Data Security - The security of your data is important to us, but please note that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Other Sites - Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly recommend you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We assume no responsibility and have no control for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.
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nternational visitors - The technology systems underlying the Site are located within the United States and other jurisdictions, and the Terms are governed by United States law. If you choose to use the Site from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that you are transferring your personally identifiable information outside of those regions to the United States and other jurisdictions for storage and processing, and by providing your personally identifiable information on the Site you consent to such transfer, storage, and processing.
Merger or Acquisition - In the event that all or a portion of the company or its assets are acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information that we have collected from users, including personal information, in connection with such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control.
Your Choices - You may, of course, decline to share certain personally identifiable information with us, in which case company may not be able to provide to you some or all of the features and functionality found on the Site. We may retain information you submit for a variety of purposes. Please note that once you have shared information with others through the Site, it may be re-shared by the recipients, and your subsequent modification or removal of that information will not necessarily affect all copies previously propagated by others.
Data Retention - We will retain your data for as long as needed to provide you services. We may retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. Where possible (and subject to the foregoing),we generally remove your data from active user databases promptly upon request, but a longer period may be required to delete other copies stored on our servers. Note that we do not delete from our servers, files are common with other users, and that we may retain archival copies of all of your data stored in connection with routine information technology backups.
Changes and Updates to This Privacy Policy - We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact UsIf you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to be removed from our systems, please contact us:
wgl@westgeneral.com