Privacy Policy


Thank you for visiting worldcreative.thinkific.com. Our course and site is hosted by Thinkific Labs Inc. (“Thinkific”). They provide us with the online course creation platform that allow us to sell our product/services to you.



Your data is stored through Thinkific’s data storage, databases and the general Thinkific application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.


What information do we collect and what do we do with it?


When you enroll as a student or subscriber (“learner”) on our site (worldcreative.thinkific.com), as part of the enrolling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name and email address.


Email marketing: we may send you emails about our site and related course(s), registration, course content, your course progress or other updates. We may also use your email to inform you about changes to the course, survey you about your usage, or collect your opinion.


How do you get my consent?


When you provide us with personal information to become a learner on our site, make a purchase, or participate in the course, you imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.


If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.


How do I withdraw my consent?


If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by contacting us at [email protected] or mailing us at:


World Creative

P.O. Box 62

Malverne, NY 11565


Disclosure


We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service worldcreative.thinkific.com/pages/terms.


Payment


If you make a purchase on our site, we use a third party payment processor such as Stripe or Paypal. Payments are encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction.


All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.


PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our site and related courses and its service providers.


For more insight, you may also want to read Thinkific’s Terms of Service here https://www.thinkific.com/resources/privacy-policy/ or Privacy Statement here https://www.thinkific.com/resources/terms-of-service/ .



We value every customer, prospective employee and employee and want you to trust our business and privacy practices. If you have any questions about the content of this policy, we encourage you to contact us as outlined below.


Social Media Platforms

When you visit one of World Creative’s pages on a third party social networking platform such as Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube or Twitter, you may encounter social media plugins such as Facebook “Like”, Tweets, Pinterest “Pin” buttons, etc. When you use these social networking platforms and plugins, your username and password for the services and other information available about you or collected from you on these services may be shared with us.


When you use social networking platforms and plugins, you share your PII with the operators of those platforms and their privacy policy and applicable terms of use apply to the use and disclosure of such PII.


Do Not Track (DNT)

We do not respond to or honor “Do Not Track” (also known as DNT) signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers. To learn more about browser tracking signals and DNT, please visit http://allaboutdnt.org..


World Creative's Use of Your Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

In addition to any other uses described in the Policy, we use PII collected from you for the following purposes:

for the specific purpose for which it was provided by you;

to improve the content, appearance and utility of our website or stores;

to personalize and optimize your online shopping experience with us;

to develop, market, sell or provide products and services;

to monitor the effectiveness of our adverts online and our marketing campaigns;

to conduct surveys, research and evaluations;

to provide you with customer service support;

to manage and develop our business and operations, administer accounts, and collect and process payments;

to detect and protect us and other third parties against negligence, fraud, theft and other illegal activities;

as permitted by, and to comply with, any legal or regulatory requirements, process or provisions; and

if you submit a resume, we may use the information you provide solely for the purpose of evaluating you as a candidate for employment and to contact you about prospective employment.

We may combine your PII from multiple sources and with information from third parties, including demographic or public information.


World Creative's Sharing of your PII

We may share your PII with our subsidiaries or affiliated companies, including those located in other countries. We also may share your PII with selected third parties who provide services to us, including to process payments, provide electronic online investor information, monitor Website activity, serve Website content, help to maintain our customer database, administer emails, surveys, or contests and administer and maintain employment application information. Such third parties may have access to, store and process your PII to provide services on our behalf, which may occur in the United States or in countries outside of the United States. Our service providers are not authorized to use your PII for any purpose other than to provide the services that World Creative has contracted from them. We also must always reserve the right to disclose PII about you as required by law, in response to legal process including law enforcement requests, and where needed to protect the safety, property, or legal rights of World Creative.


Occasionally we may provide a link to a third party website, which is not owned or operated by World Creative. If you elect to provide your PII on that third party website, this information will be subject to that third party website’s privacy policy and security practices. We are not responsible or liable for any content presented by or contained on any independent website, including, but not limited to, any advertising claims or marketing practices. We also are not responsible or liable for any privacy or security policies of these third party sites.


In the unlikely event that World Creative or substantially all of its assets are acquired by another company, or due to any merger, reorganization or liquidation, your PII may be one of the transferred assets, however it will remain subject to any pre-existing privacy policy unless you consent otherwise.


World Creative never sells any PII that you provide to us for use by any third party. However, from time to time, we may provide aggregated (statistical) and anonymized information about our customers, sales, online traffic patterns and related information to reputable third parties who help us improve our business and services. These statistics do not include PII.


Promotions and Third Parties

From time to time, World Creative may run promotions offering special deals, coupons, discounts, chances to win contests, and other prizes. These promotions may necessitate the involvement of third parties. In order to participate in these promotions, World Creative may require certain basic information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, and age. This and other required information may be stored by World Creative in order to help us better understand how we can design and market our products for you and others. This information may also be shared with third party promotional partners involved in the specific promotion for which you signed up. Unless otherwise stated in the terms and conditions of the promotion, your participation is not an automatic opt in to receive marketing materials from World Creative.


Your Information - Your Rights 

Right to Unsubscribe

You have the right to unsubscribe from receiving marketing emails from World Creative, as well as the right to unsubscribe from any of the programs that we offer. You can unsubscribe by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any World Creative email that you receive, or by emailing us at [email protected] with your request, or by clicking here.


Please note that if you already have requested products or services when you decide to withdraw consent, there may be a short period of time for us to update your preferences and ensure that we honor your request.


Update, Modify or Correct Your Information 

The accuracy, integrity and security of your PII is very important and World Creative takes reasonable steps to ensure that these priorities are addressed. We encourage you to contact us to update or correct your PII if it changes or if you believe that any information that we have collected about you is inaccurate. Consistent with legal requirements and limitations, World Creative also permits you to obtain a copy of PII that we hold about you. To do so, please email us at [email protected] with your request, or click here.


Please note that we will likely require additional information from you in order to honor your request, such as to ensure proper authentication or to verify the business branch of World Creative to which the information was provided.


California Residents

Under California law, if you are a resident of California, you are entitled once per year to request and obtain certain information regarding World Creative’s disclosure, if any, of your PII to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately prior calendar year. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to [email protected] with your full name, e-mail address, and postal address in your message. In response to your request, World Creative will provide you with a notice describing the cost-free means to opt-out of our sharing your PII with third parties with whom the Company does not share the same brand name, if the third party will use it for their direct marketing purposes.


Questions or Concerns

As stated above, we welcome your queries concerning the protection and correction of your PII. If you have any questions or concerns about any of World Creative’s practices in respect of PII please do contact us at:


By email:

[email protected], or


By post:

World Creative
P.O. Box 62
Malverne, NY
 11565


When contacting us, please be sure to provide us with your correct contact information in order to be sure we handle your request correctly.

Following any incidence of communication from you to World Creative some of your PII may be retained for a period of time for financial, legal or technical reasons.


Our Commitment to Children's Privacy

This Website is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. World Creative adheres to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and we do not knowingly register or otherwise collect PII from any child under the age of 13 without the prior verifiable consent of the child’s parent or guardian.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

World Creative reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this privacy policy at any time. You should check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes to this privacy policy will be considered your consent to those changes. In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your PII in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If a notification is appropriate, to the extent we have your email address, we may notify you by email.


Date Created: 9/30/2020