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Privacy Policy

Last Revised: 26 March 2018

This Privacy Statement (“Statement”) applies to the website located at worldwingsinternational.net and any other websites owned and operated by World Wings International that direct the viewer or user to this Statement. In this Statement, the terms “World Wings International,” “we,” and “us” refers to World Wings International, Inc. Websites that are owned and operated by World Wings International may contain links to websites that are owned and operated by other companies. This Statement does not apply to websites and services that are owned and operated by third parties.

Information We Collect

As you use our services, we collect certain information about you and the services you use. The information we collect falls into three different categories: (1) information you give us; (2) information we collect from you automatically when you use our services; and (3) information we collect from other sources.

Information You Give Us

We collect information you give us when you use our services. Some examples of using our “services” are when you visit one of our websites, create a World Wings International account, or participate in a survey. The information you give us may include your first or last name, username, password, email address, postal address, phone number, historical information about your connection to World Wings, such as your prior base(s) during your employment with Pan Am, years at such bases, demographics information, and any other information you choose to give us.

Information We Collect When You Use Our Services

When you use our services, we may collect information about the services you use and how you use them. This information includes:

Device and Website Use Information – When you use a computer, tablet, smart phone or other device to access our websites or subscribe via our online properties, we may collect information about the device and how you use it.
This information may include the type of device, your operating system, your browser (for example, whether you used Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome or another browser), your internet service provider, your domain name, your internet protocol (IP) address, your device identifier (or UDID), the date and time that you accessed our service, the website that referred you to our website, the web pages you requested, and the date and time of those requests. To collect this information, we use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies. Read more about cookies, web beacons and similar technologies.

Location Information – When you use a smart phone or other mobile device to access our services, use a computer to access our website or use our mobile application, we may collect information about your physical location.

We may use this information to better understand how the Site is used and to recommend enhancements to the Site. We do not share this information with any third party.

How We Use the Information We Collect

We may use the information we collect about you in a variety of ways, including:

to process your purchases of memberships;
to communicate with you about orders, purchases, services, accounts, and programs;
to respond to your inquiries and requests for information;
to post your comments or statements on our websites;
to inform you about our events or other purposes relevant to our activities;
to maintain and improve our sites and the services we offer;
to detect, prevent, or investigate security breaches or fraud; and
to maintain appropriate records for internal administrative purposes.

How We Share the Information We Collect

We may share your information in the following circumstances:

When We Work Together – We may share the collected information between World Wings International, its executive board, its chapter officers, and members for proper management and analysis and decision making, including decisions regarding the expansion and promotion of our organization.

When We Work with Service Providers – We may share your information with service providers that provide us with support services, such as credit card processing, website hosting, email delivery, location mapping, postal mail processing and delivery, and analytics services. We require the companies to refrain from collecting, using and disclosing your information except when they are performing work for us or when the disclosure of your information is required by law.

When Sharing Helps Us Protect Lawful Interests – We may disclose your information if we believe that the disclosure is required by law, if we believe that the disclosure is necessary to enforce our agreements or policies, or if we believe that the disclosure will help us protect the rights, property, or safety of World Wings or our members.

When the Information Does Not Identify You – We may share your information in a way that does not directly identify you. For example, we may combine information about you with information about other people and share the combined information in a way that does not link your information to you.

How We May Allow Others to Collect Your Information

When you use our websites or other services, we may allow third parties to collect information about you by setting their own cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies on our websites. Read more about cookies, web beacons and similar technologies. The information collected by third parties may include the type of device, your operating system, your browser, your internet service provider, your domain name, your internet protocol (IP) address, the date and time that you accessed our service, the website that referred you to our website, the web pages you requested, and the date and time of those requests.

We allow third parties to collect this information on our websites for the following purposes:

To Collect Information on How Our Websites and Services Are Used – We allow certain service providers to use the information collected on our websites and services to help us learn about our audience and how people use our websites. The companies that use this information for this purpose do not match the information to individual users. In other words, statistical information collected by third parties regarding website usage or performance is not matched or linked to you.
To Make the Services of Other Companies Work on Our Websites – We allow companies to use special technologies to make certain parts of our websites work. For example, cookies may be needed to deliver video content.

We and others may use a variety of technologies to collect information about your device and use of our services. These technologies include cookies and web beacons:

Cookies – Cookies are small data files that are sent from a website’s server and are stored on your device’s hard drive either for only the duration of your visit (“session cookies”) or for a fixed period of time (“persistent cookies”). Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can change your browser settings to give you the choice to accept a cookie or reject cookies altogether. For more information about changing your browser settings, please see the section of this Statement titled, “Your Choices .”

We mainly use cookies for the following purposes:

Website Functionality – Some cookies (considered “strictly necessary”) are required to allow you to access and use our websites. Without these cookies, our websites do not work properly.
Performance Monitoring – Some cookies (considered “performance” cookies) help us analyze and estimate traffic on our website. They show us how visitors interact with our website, whether there are any errors, which pages are not used often, which pages take a long time to load, which pages users tend to visit and in what order. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you and are only used to help us improve how our website works and understand user interests.
User Convenience – Some cookies (considered “functionality” cookies) remember information to save you the trouble of entering information every time you visit or use a particular website. For example, a cookie may remember your username to save you time when you log in to your account.

Web Beacons – Web beacons are small, transparent images that are embedded in web pages, applications, and emails that are sometimes called “clear gifs,” “single pixel gifs”, “page tags” or “web bugs.” We may use web beacons to track the web pages you visit, or to find out if an email has been opened and acted on.

Information Collection Choices

You can make choices about the information we collect about you:

Location Information – When you use a smart phone or other mobile device to access our websites, we may collect information about your physical location only if (a) “location services” for the mobile application is enabled; or (b) the permissions in the mobile device allow communication of this information. If you do not want us to collect your location information, you can opt out of sharing this information by changing the relevant preferences and permissions in your mobile device.

Cookies – If you want to reject cookies, you must take action to select the appropriate settings in your browser. Each browser’s cookie control is a little different, but the most common browsers (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari) have a preference or option you can select so the browser notifies you if a site wants to set a cookie and typically provides an option to accept or reject the cookie before the cookie is set. If you choose to remove or reject cookies, it will affect many features or services on our websites. If you want to learn the correct way to modify your cookie settings, please use the Help menu in your browser. For additional information about cookies, including how to refuse cookies, please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org .

“Do Not Track” Technology – Some newer web browsers have a “Do Not Track” preference that transmits a “Do Not Track” header to the websites you visit with information indicating that you do not want your activity to be tracked. We currently do not respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals.

Changing Your Information or Deleting Your Account

You may change most of your personal information by logging into your account. If you want us to change your information, cancel your account, or stop us from using your information, please contact us as described in the “Contact Us” section, below. We will make every effort to promptly respond to your request. We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain expired accounts for a maximum of five years. If you ask us to delete your account, we will remove your information within 60 days.

How We Protect Your Information

World Wings International protects your information using technical, physical, and administrative security measures to reduce the risk of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure or modification of your information. Some of our safeguards include firewalls, data encryption, physical access controls, and administrative informational controls. When you transmit highly sensitive information through our website, we encrypt the transmission of that information using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. While we have employed security technologies and procedures to assist safeguarding your personal information, no system or network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

Use by Minors

We do not intend for our websites or online services to be used by anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe we may have collected information about a child, please contact us as described in the “Contact Us” section, below.

Changes to This Privacy Statement

This Statement went into effect on the date noted at the top of this webpage. We may update this Statement from time to time. If we make material changes, we will post the updated Statement on this page and change the date at the top of this webpage. We encourage you to look for updates and changes to this Statement by checking this date at the top of this webpage. We will notify you of any modifications to this Statement that might materially affect the way we use or disclose your personal information prior to the change becoming effective by means of a message on this website.

Contact Us

We welcome your questions, comments and concerns about privacy. You may use this form to ask World Wings International a privacy question or correct personal information found in your WorldWingsInternational.net profile. You can contact World Wings International at https://worldwingsinternational.net/contact-us.