We respects your privacy and will not share your information with third parties without your consent. You can control what information is available to other WSCO members and the public through the privacy settings in your profile.
At WSCO, accessible from thewsco.org, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy contains types of information that is collected and recorded by the WSCO and how we use it. If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us. By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to provide, operate, and maintain our website; improve, personalize, and expand our website; understand and analyze how you use our website; develop new products, services, features, and functionality; communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes; send you emails and find and prevent fraud.
The WSCO follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Like any other website, the WSCO uses “cookies”. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.
WSCO’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-parties for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
The WSCO does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Under the CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information), among other rights, California consumers have the right to request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers; request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected; request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights under GDPR and UKGDPR. Every user is entitled to the right to access (you have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service); the right to rectification (you have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete); the right to erasure (you have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions); the right to restrict processing (you have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions); the right to object to processing (you have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions); the right to data portability (you have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions). If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
As is common practice with almost all websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This policy describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or “break” certain elements of the sites functionality.
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or account forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However, you can contact us if you are still looking for more information.
WSCO Memberships are not refundable. If you make a mistake in purchasing a membership please contact us as soon possible.
Funds from registration will be used to plan for/cover the expenses of the conference. Thus, with the exception of extenuating circumstances that require approval of the executive WSCO board, refunds will not be provided beyond March 1, 2024.