World Textile Information Network Ltd ("WTiN" or "We", "us"), respect your privacy and we are committed to protecting your privacy through our compliance with this policy.
World Textile Information Network (WTiN) is committed to safeguarding the privacy of all our products.
This privacy policy is designed to tell you about how we collect and use information so that you can make an informed choice about using any WTiN Products. This policy may be supplemented by additional terms disclosed to you in connection with the Product.
What information do we collect?
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) collection
Automatic information collection
We use information gathered through these tools to gather broad information about our audiences and their geographic locations, and to otherwise improve the Products. By allowing us to understand how you use our Products, these tools can help us provide you with a better, more relevant online experience.
We reserve the right to use new technologies, as they become available, to gather additional, relevant information from our users and improve our Products and your experience of them.
Use of Personal Data
Other Users and Third Parties You Share Information With
Certain features allow you to display or share information with other users or third parties. For example, you may share GenerativeWTiN conversations with other users via shared links or send information to third-party applications via custom actions. Be sure you trust any user or third party with whom you share information.
Right to Opt-out
Please note that WTiN has a number of product offerings, and we allow you to opt out selectively. If you wish to remove your email address from a specific list, please use the 'email preferences' link provided in the email you have (in the footer). Alternatively, you can let us know by sending an email to privacy@wtin.com. Website registered users or subscribers can edit their newsletter preferences by visiting the 'My WTiN' section on the site.
Website registered users or subscribers can edit their newsletter preferences by visiting the 'My WTiN' section on the site.
Information collected through third-party tools is gathered directly by such third party, not by WTiN, and is subject to the third party's applicable privacy policy.
Period of Grace
Should you request that we amend or suppress records containing your Personal Data we will endeavour to do so promptly; however, you may receive communications for a transitional period whilst we process your records.
Correcting and Updating Your Information
If you are a registered user or subscriber to WTiN.com, you can access your account information and make corrections or updates upon log-in. The accuracy of such information is solely your responsibility. You may also separately contact us to request access to other PII about you which is in our possession. If you request to deactivate your account or delete your PII, we will endeavour to fulfil your request, but some PII may persist in backup copies for a certain period of time and may be retained as necessary for legitimate business purposes or to comply with our legal obligations.
Disclosure of your information
In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you:
International Data Transfers
Data we collect may be transferred to, stored and processed in any country or territory where one or more of WTiN service providers are based or have facilities. While other countries or territories may not have the same standards of data protection as those in your home country, we will continue to protect personal data that we transfer in line with this privacy policy.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we ensure similar protection and put in place at least one of these safeguards:
We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been found to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data.
We may also use approved contracts that use Standard Contractual Clauses for the protection of personal data where appropriate, with our service providers based in countries outside the UK. These contracts give your personal data the same protection it has in the UK.
WTiN (or our service providers) may process your Personal Data in countries other than your country of residence, whose data protection laws may not be as extensive as in the UK and the European Union. However, we have taken appropriate steps to ensure the same level of protection for the processing carried out in those countries as within the UK and the European Union.
If you are not situated in the UK or the European Union whilst using the website, information which you provide shall be transferred from a country (such as the United States and Japan) which does not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the UK and European Union. You expressly agree to such transfers.
Choice of two notice of changes
Will WTiN ever change this Privacy Policy?
We're constantly trying to improve our Products so we may need to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please note that if you have opted not to receive direct marketing from us, you may still receive necessary service updates. If you haven’t provided us with your email address, those legal notices will still govern your use of the Products, and you are still responsible for reading and understanding them. Please check back regularly for any updates to this Privacy Policy.
With your consent, we use Google Analytics to measure use of the rebuilt WTiN website. It receives a limited page path, a generic page title and the origin of an external referring site. We do not send search text, account identifiers, form entries or URL query strings. You can reject or withdraw consent through Cookie settings in the footer.
For signed-in partners, WTiN records account activity, including sign-ins, pages and articles viewed, searches submitted, downloads requested and use of data tools. We do not record search text in these activity reports. Eligible partners are included by default and can stop new collection in My WTiN → Privacy & activity. Authorised WTiN staff can view and export these reports. We do not automatically delete activity records on a fixed schedule; deleting a partner account removes its linked activity and preferences. The WTiN Weekly Newsletter and personalised Digest have separate choices in My WTiN: Notifications and Your digest, respectively. Public newsletter sign-up requires email confirmation. Sales enquiries remain available to Sales after being marked closed, including contact details, with no automatic deletion. We use service providers for hosting, email delivery, newsletters and analytics; Google Analytics operates only with your consent, as described above.
