Effective Date September 1, 2021
WGD Consulting Inc. (WGD) recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of your information. This Privacy Policy governs the collection of your data received through your use or interaction with the website or other online service (collectively, the “Services”) that links or refers to it. WGD will treat your personal information according to WGD’s Global Privacy Notice.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
We collect and use Personal Information to manage your relationship with WGD Consulting Inc. and better serve you when you are using the Services by personalizing and improving your experience. We also may use such information to analyze how users use the Services and related analysis, research, reporting, and troubleshooting and as we believe is necessary or appropriate to protect, enforce, or defend legal rights, privacy, safety or property, whether our own or that of our employees or agents or others, and to comply with applicable law.
Information we collect
- Information You Provide Directly – We collect information you provide us directly, including when you contact us using a “Contact Us” form on the site, send us an e-mail, or enter a search query on the Services. This includes text characters and any audio, video, and graphic information formats included in the message.
- Information We Collect Automatically – Our servers automatically log information about your use of and visits, including through the use of cookies, Web beacons, and similar technologies to help personalize content and ads, and to analyze website traffic. For example, we may collect your IP address, the type of web browser and operating system used to access the Services, the time and duration of your visits, and information about the content and webpages you view and the features you access.
- Information from Third Parties – We may receive additional information about you from other publicly and commercially available sources, as permitted law. We may combine all information we collect or receive about you and use or disclose it in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.
Cookies and Other Technologies
The Services — as well as certain third parties that provide content and other functionality on the Services — use a variety of technologies to learn more about how people use the Services and the Internet. This section provides more information about some of those technologies and how they work.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files used to store information about users on the users’ own computer. Cookies may be used to recognize you as the same user across different visits to the website. Knowing how a user is using the Services through cookies enables us to tailor our content and Services to more effectively meet visitors’ needs. It also enables us to improve the quality of your visit by making sure that the Services are properly formatted for your computer and web browser. Some Internet browsers can be configured to warn you each time a cookie is being sent or to refuse cookies completely. Refer to your browser help menu for more information.
You can also manage cookie tracking directly through the third-party service providers that we use:
- Google Analytics: You may prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
- Google Analytics: You may prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
- Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this Site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Service, available at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html, and the Google Privacy Policy, available at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.To learn more about how Google collects and processes data in connection with Google Analytics, visit http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
Other local storage
Local Shared Objects (also referred to as “Flash cookies”) and HTML5 local storage are similar to cookies in that they are stored on your computer and can be used to store certain information about your activities and preferences. These objects are stored in different parts of your computer from ordinary browser cookies, however. Many Internet browsers allow you to disable HTML5 local storage or delete information contained in HTML5 local storage using browser controls.
Web beacons. Web beacons can be embedded in web pages, videos, or emails, and can allow a web server to read certain types of information from your browser, check whether you have viewed a particular web page or email message, and determine, among other things, the time and date on which you viewed the Web beacon, the IP address of your computer, and the URL of the web page from which the Web beacon was viewed.