privacy policy

Introduction

The purpose of World Class Business Leaders is to facilitate peer-to-peer know-how exchange between managers. Joining World Class Business Leaders means sharing information about yourself with other managers and communicating with them. The amount and type of information you decide to share and with whom you share it is up to you. We follow data privacy best practices from around the world and want to make sure that we only store the minimum personal information required. We make sure that we delete all records when you object to our storage or we do not need them anymore. In addition, we also do not want to send anything you that is either not relevant or interesting to you. Therefore, even if we contact you with a legitimate interest in any of our campaigns, you will find an easy way to unsubscribe and make sure you will not hear from us anymore. If you have any complaints or requests, please contact us immediately at privacy@wcbleaders.com. The nature of our services requires that we collect personal information about our members. We take measures to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of that information at any time. Your personal information will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other organization for any reason whatsoever without your consent. By providing us with your information and visiting this web site, you accept and consent to the practices described in this privacy policy.

What information do we collect and how do we use it?

We collect information from you
- When you create an account to become a World Class Business Leaders member, such as your name, email address, company, job title and password.
- For the business matching. In order to use the World Class Business Leaders services, you need to give us some information about your function(s) in your company, areas of interest, priorities and challenges. All information you provide will be treated as strictly confidential unless you choose to publish it and will be only used for the matching process. If we identify you as a great fit for our excellence circle of business leaders, we may collect information to get in touch and invite you.
- When you create your personal profile. The information you provide when posting a personal profile will be seen by all potential matches identified by World Class Business Leaders. What information is publicly viewable is clearly stated on our site. You have the option to remove your information from the site at any time. At no time will any personal contact information be disclosed unless you choose to publish it.
- To improve our services and web site. There may be data (that does not personally identify you) collected to monitor and improve World Class Business Leaders services and performance. For example, when you visit a web page, the URL requested is automatically recorded, as is the time and date requested and the browser software being used. Specific or aggregate information may be collected to help maintain accurate accounts, assist in marketing our products and services and to help make our web site useful to you. For example, our server recognizes your IP address, domain name and the pages that you visit. This data is gathered in an aggregate manner for quality control and improvement of our sites. From time to time, World Class Business Leaders may provide aggregate statistical information about sales, browsing patterns and navigation techniques to reputable third parties. This is not personally identifiable information and assists World Class Business Leaders in improving products and services offered.

We use the information you provide to
- Match you with other members to provide you with valuable business contacts as well as know-how exchange possibilities
- Enable you to share your information and communicate with other members
- Enable your matches to contact you
- Administer your account with us and customize our services
- Communicate with you through email and phone. We may send you emails that help inform new members about the features of the services. We will also send you messages relating to the functioning of the services, new World Class Business Leaders products and to inform you about your new matches.

Information control

You can
- Review, enhance or edit your personal profile
- Change your settings to control visibility of your information
- Control the messages you receive from World Class Business Leaders either through www.worldclassbusinessleaders.com or by clicking the link to the email settings included in every World Class Business Leaders email
- Close your World Class Business Leaders account which deletes all of the stored information on you. At any time, you can ask us at privacy@wcbleaders.com about the extent of data held on you as well as request the deletion of all personal data.

Security

Personal information you provide will be secured in accordance with industry standards and technology. Since the internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to World Class Business Leaders. There is no guarantee that information may not be accessed, copied, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by a breach of any of our physical, technical or managerial safeguards.
You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information, and for controlling access to your email communications at all times.

Google Analytics

This web site uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies which are text files placed on your computer to help the web site analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the web site (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the web site, compiling reports on web site activity for web site operators and providing other services relating to web site activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this web site. By using this web site, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Changes to our privacy policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page and update the privacy policy modification date below.
Last privacy policy change: May 1st, 2020