This WFS Community – Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how Women for Sobriety, Inc. (“WFS”, “we”, or “our”), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, collects, uses, discloses, and secures personal information through our community platform at https://wfsonline.org/ (the “Service”). As used in this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means information that identifies, relates to, or describes an identified or identifiable natural person.
Note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to personal information that you submit to our other websites, such as https://womenforsobriety.org/, or any other third parties, such as organizations conducting research studies, or that are collected by them from you, even if those third party websites are linked to our Service or listed in our Cookie Policy.
Through the Service. We collect and store the following personal information, use it for typical business purposes (including security and anti-fraud purposes), and as described more specifically below:
From other users. We may receive the personal identifiers listed above about an individual from users when they invite the individual to join the Service through the invite-a-friend function. We use the information to contact the individual to invite them to use the Service.
Automatically through the Service. When you use our Service, we and our third party partners, such as analytics providers including Google Analytics, collect information by automated methods like cookies, web beacons, and web server logs.
A “cookie” is a small data file that we transfer to your browser or mobile device. Most web browsers provide controls whereby you can choose to block receipt of cookies, to delete cookies, or to be prompted before cookies are received. Please note that, if you delete or choose not to receive cookies from our Service, the functionality of the Service may be impaired. To find out more about cookies, including how to manage or delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Note that the Service does not respond to browser do-not-track signals.
We may use these technologies to collect personal identifiers (such as your IP address), information about your device (such as your browser characteristics, device IDs and characteristics, operating system version, and language preferences) and information concerning your usage of our Service, (including the link you used to reach a given webpage). We use this information to determine how many users have visited particular webpages or opened messages or alerts, and we may also use such information to improve the performance of the Service, to improve our marketing activities, and to enforce our website service terms and prevent malicious conduct.
In some cases, our third party partners may process information collected by cookies and related technologies that we permit them to use on the Website. Please see our Cookie Policy for more details.
You may opt out of receiving marketing emails from us by using the unsubscribe link located in a marketing email.
We may share any of the categories of personal information listed above for our business and commercial purposes and as described below.
To provide, protect, and improve our Service. We disclose personal information as necessary to provide the Service, such as with third party providers in connection with providing services to you. For example, we may provide your personal information to our third party providers to send informational and marketing emails and to provide and improve the Service. We require that third party providers use personal information only for that purpose, and we also require assurances that they will appropriately protect personal information entrusted to them. We also may access, preserve, and disclose information if we believe that such action is necessary in our judgment to comply with a legal obligation or to protect and defend our rights or property, or those of others. For example, we may provide information, including IP address information, to our third party providers to protect the Service, such as for fraud detection purposes.
Legal and similar disclosures. We may access, preserve, and disclose information concerning you if required to do so by law or if we believe that such action is necessary in our judgment to comply with a legal obligation.
Other sharing. We may share information as described under the “Information Collection and Processing” section above and for other business purposes as otherwise explained in this Privacy Policy.
Sales, mergers, acquisitions, or other assets transfer. In the event of a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another entity (whether by private sale, through operation of law, as part of a divestiture plan, or otherwise), we will provide personal information and transaction history associated with each such business unit to the persons and/or entities assuming control of such business unit or as otherwise necessary to complete the transaction as permitted by law or contract.
We strive to process your information securely, in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and in accordance with information security requirements imposed by applicable law. We cannot, however, be responsible for Internet communications that are inherently not completely secure.
You understand that we may transfer your personal information to the United States and around the world, to the extent permissible under applicable law. By providing your information and through your use of the Service, and to the extent permissible under applicable law, you consent to such international data transfers and processing in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law.
The Service may contain links to other websites and applications (such as Zoom), and other websites may link to the Service. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of such other websites, and we are not responsible for the actions and privacy policies of the third parties that operate or interact with those websites.
The Service is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you may not use our Service. We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use personal information from children under 13 years of age. If we believe that any information has been posted by a child under the age of 13, we will promptly delete that information. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under the age of 13, please notify us at [email protected].
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to request that we update or correct any information that you have provided to us, please send an email to [email protected] or call us at (215) 536-8026.
Certain jurisdictions impose specific legal requirements and privacy rights with respect to personal information, and we will comply with restrictions and any requests you submit as required by applicable law. For example, you may have the right to review, correct, and delete personal information we have about you, or to consent or withdraw consent to certain uses or sharing of personal information. You can log into your account with the Service to access and update the information that you have provided to us through your use of the Service or otherwise, or you can delete your account. Also, if you would like to request access to such information or that we update, correct, or delete any such
information, please send an email to us
When you make a request, we may require that you provide information and follow procedures so that we can verify a request you make and your jurisdiction before responding to it. The verification steps we take may differ depending on your jurisdiction and the request you make. We will match the information that you provide in your request to information we already have on file to verify your
identity. If we are able to verify your request, we will process it. If we cannot verify your request, we may ask you for additional information to help us verify your request.
We will respond to your request within the time period required by applicable law. However, we may not always be able to fully comply with your request, and we will notify you in that event.
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time, and the revised version will be effective when it is posted and will apply to personal information received after that date. If we make any material changes, we will provide notice of such changes on the Service for a reasonable period of time (which we estimate will be approximately two weeks). We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically, especially if you don’t visit the Service regularly.
Effective: August [insert], 2022
This table lists third party cookies that may be used on our Service and that may collect and use information, including for analytics purposes, with respect to our Service.
| Name of Cookie | Service Provider or Trusted Partner | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Name of Cookie | Service Provider or Trusted Partner | Purpose | Link to privacy notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics* | Services usage analytics | https://privacy.google. com/ |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Services usage analytics | https://privacy.google. com/ |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Services usage analytics | https://privacy.google. com/ |
*Like most websites, we use Google Analytics to collect and process certain
website usage data. To learn more about Google Analytics and how to opt out,
please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. In addition, you can click
the following link in order to find out more information about your options with
respect to Google Analytics and other Google services:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.