Privacy Policy

Website Privacy Policy 

Introduction

Worth & Company, Inc. (“Company” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy (“Notice” or “Privacy Notice”).

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://www.worthandcompany.com/ (our “Website“) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• On this Website.
• Directly from you.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Notice.
• Through the Google Analytics platform. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google LLC (“Google”) that tracks and reports Site traffic. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics, available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this Notice carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Notice. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Notice). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Notice periodically for updates.

Information We Collect About You

Some of the information we collect can directly or indirectly identify you. This is called your “Personal Information”. We collect this information in a variety of ways through our websites, social media pages, online, and offline. The types of information we may collect includes:

• Contact Information. For example, we may collect your name, mailing address, telephone number and email address. We may also collect your mobile phone number.
• Information You Submit. We may collect information you choose to provide, including your Contact Information, when you send us a message through the “Contact Us” page or similar features on our Sites, submit through an online comment, contact our sales, or support teams, or otherwise communicate with us.
• Business Information. For example, we may collect your business contact information. We may also collect information about your employer and your job title.
• Demographic Information. We may collect demographic information such as your date of birth, age, education, and zip code.
• Sensitive Information. We may collect certain sensitive personal information, including identification numbers and information revealing racial or ethnic origin.
• Device Information. For example, we may collect information about how you access our Sites, including data about the device and network you use, such as your hardware model, operating system version, mobile network, IP address, unique device identifiers, browser type, and app version.
• Account Information. Certain portions of the Sites may allow you to create a user account. In connection with that account, we may collect your username and password.
• Commercial Information. We may collect personal information that could identify you and relates to the products or services in which you are interested or have considered or purchased. We may also collect personal information about your purchasing habits, or consuming history or tendencies.
• Usage Information. We may collect information regarding your activity on our Sites. For example, we may collect information regarding what Site features are useful or most frequently used, access times, pages viewed, and links clicked.
• Information We Derive. We may derive information or draw inferences about you based on the information we collect. For example, we may make inferences about your approximate location based on your IP address or infer that you are interested in certain services provided by the Company based on your browsing behavior.
• Other Information. If you use our Sites, we may collect information about the browser you are using. We might look at what site you came from, or what site you visit when you leave us.

How We Collect Your Information

We collect your information in different way. Below are some examples of how we may collect your information.

• Directly From You. We collect information your provide directly to us, such as when you:
  • Submit an inquiry to us.
  • Register for an event.
  • Complete an online form.
  • Contact our support team.
  • Interact with our social media page or via email.
  • Otherwise interact with us.
• For example, when you:
  • Visit and navigate our Website on any device.
  • Click on a sponsored link or third-party advertisements.
• From Third Parties. We may receive information about you from other sources, such as:
  • Our business partners or affiliates
  • Social media sites
• Through the Use of Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies. As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
  • Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
  • We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).

How We Use Your Information

We process your personal information for the following purposes:

• To Run and Improve Our Sites and Business. We may use your information to make our Website and business better. We may also use your information to provide you with information about our business.
• To Provide Client Support. This includes responding to client support requests.
• To Respond to Your Requests or Questions. This may include responding to your feedback.
• To Communicate with You. We may communicate with you about your account or our relationship. We may also contact you about this Notice.
• For Marketing Purposes. We may provide you with information about Company and our business initiatives. This includes using your information to personalize your experience on our Website. For more information about your choices related to these communications, see the Rights and Choices Regarding Your Information section below.
• For Administrative Purposes. This includes using your information for accounting, employment, record keeping, backup, and administrative purposes.
• For Security Purposes. This could include protecting our company and clients who use our services. It may also include protecting our Website.
• As Otherwise Permitted or Required by Law or As We May Notify You.

We do not respond to “Do Not Track” Requests or Headers.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How we Use and Disclose Information.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website and our e-mail may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Information.

Disclosure of Your Information

In certain circumstances, we disclose (or permit others to directly collect) information about you. We may disclose the categories of personal information described above in the following ways:

• With Our Affiliates. We may disclose your information with our parent, subsidiary, and other affiliated entities.
• With Our Service Providers. We may disclose your information with third parties who perform services on our behalf. For example, this may include companies that assist us with web hosting, fraud prevention, customer service, marketing, and advertising.
• With Our Business Partners. For example, this may include data aggregators, advertisers, media buying agencies, advertising networks and advertising service providers.
• For Corporate Transactions. For example, if we merge with, acquire or are acquired, or sell part of our business to another entity, we may disclose personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, such corporate transactions. This may include an asset sale, corporate reorganization or other change of control.
• To Comply With the Law or To Protect Ourselves and Others. For example, this could include responding to a court order or subpoena. It could also include disclosing information if a government agency or investigatory body requests. We might disclose information when we are investigating a potential fraud.
• With Professional Advisors. We disclose personal information to our legal, financial, insurance, and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our business interests.
• Where You Have Asked Us or Provided Consent to Disclose Your Information with a Third-Party. We make personal information available to third parties if you directed us to do so or when we have your consent.
• For Other Reasons We May Describe to You.

We do not sell any sensitive personal information. We may also disclose aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you. The Company processes, maintains, and uses this information only in a de-identified fashion and will not attempt to re-identify such information, except as permitted by law.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at:

Worth & Company, Inc.
6263 Kellers Church Road
Pipersville, PA 18947
(267) 362-1100
info@worthandcompany.com

Please mark your inquiries “COPPA Information Request”. Parents can learn more about how to protect children’s privacy on-line here.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

You have certain choices about how we use your information. Certain choices you make are browser and device specific.
OPTING OUT OF TARGETED ADVERTISING, SHARING AND SALES:
We may process personal information to understand and improve your experience with our Website and to serve you advertisements. Some of these activities may be considered “sales” or “sharing” of your personal information or “targeted advertising” under certain privacy laws.

Depending on where you reside, you may have the right to opt out of targeted advertising, sharing, and sales of your personal information.
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS:
You can opt out of receiving our marketing communications by using the unsubscribe link within each email. Note that, as long as you maintain an account with us or receive services, you will continue to receive administrative messages from us regarding your account and the services.
NONDISCRIMINATION:
We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.
COOKIES & OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES:

• Cookies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to analyze visits to and use of our Sites and interactions with our marketing communications. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can adjust your browser to control cookies to require your affirmative acceptance for new cookies, automatically reject cookies and/or delete or disable existing cookies. How you do so depends on the type of cookie and the browser that you are using. For more information on how to control browser cookies, click here. If information about your browser is not available through this page, please search your browser for instructions about how to opt-out of cookie collection.
• Flash Cookies: You may need to take an additional action to manage flash cookies, which you can learn more about here. Why? Because flash cookies cannot be controlled through your browser settings.
• Google Analytics: We may use Google Analytics on our Sites to help us understand how you use our Sites. You can learn about how to opt-out of Google Analytics here.
• Email Tools: You can also change your email settings to block the automatic download of images in email messages, as such images may contain technologies that help us understand how you interact with the message.
• Note that deleting or blocking cookies may impact your experience on our Sites, as some features may not be available. Certain options you select are browser and device specific.

OUR DO NOT TRACK POLICY:

• Some browsers have “do not track” features that allow you to tell a website not to track you. These features are not all uniform. We do not currently respond to those signals. If you block cookies, certain features on our sites may not work. If you block or reject cookies, not all of the tracking described here will stop.
• Options you select are browser specific.

OTHER RIGHTS INCLUDING ACCESS, CORRECTION, AND DELETION

• You may also have the right to assert a legal right regarding our collection and use of your information under applicable law, depending on where you reside. Under these applicable laws, you may have a number of rights, including:
• The right not to provide your personal information to us;
• The right to object, stop, or limit the processing of your personal information;
• The right to request the erasure or restriction of processing of your personal information in our possession;
• The right to have your information transferred to another data controller in a portable format;
• The right to withdraw your consent;
• The right to access to your information and request from us a description, or a copy, of the types of personal information we have stored about you; and
• The right to request an update, correction or amendment of your personal information.
• To exercise any of these rights (as applicable), or to request more information, contact us at info@worthandcompany.com or through the contact information listed at the bottom of this Statement.
• We may verify your request by asking you to provide information related to your recent interactions with us. If we deny your request, you may appeal our decision by contacting us by emailing info@worthandcompany.com or by calling 267-362-1100. If you have concerns about the results of an appeal, you may contact the attorney general in the state where you reside.

Data Security

We have implemented reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we take commercially reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Retention of Your Information

We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise received by us, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of your personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements, including the statute of limitations periods.

For California Residents

For purposes of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Personal Information does not include publicly available information or de-identified or aggregated information. We do not currently, and we have no current plans to begin “selling” or “sharing” (as defined in the CCPA) your Personal Information. You may opt-out of any future selling of certain Personal Information by contacting info@worthandcompany.com. When making this request, please include your full name, address and specific request.

Within the previous twelve (12) months, we have collected the following categories of Personal Information (the “Categories”) for a business purpose, and we may have disclosed: (a) categories A through H (listed below); and (b) your Personal Information, to the parties described in the Disclosure of Your Information section above.

A
Personal Identifiers
A name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers.

B
Personal Information Categories
Account information, education, employment, or necessary financial information.

C
Protected Classifications
Age, gender expression or sexual orientation.

D
Commercial Information
Records of Services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

E
Internet or Similar Activity
Browsing history, search history, cookie information, communications information, and information on a consumer’s interaction with the Services.

F
Geolocation Data
Physical location.

G
Professional & Employment
Current or past job title.

H
Inferences Drawn from Other Personal Information
Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

 

Shine the Light:

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Services that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to info@worthancompany.com.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to revise this Notice from time to time and will post an updated copy of our Privacy Notice on our Website. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this Notice. It is your responsibility to review this Notice periodically to ensure that you understand any revisions to it. If you do not agree with this Notice, please do not use our Website.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this Notice and our privacy practices, contact us at:

Worth & Company, Inc.
6263 Kellers Church Road
Pipersville, PA 18947
(267) 362-1100
info@worthandcompany.com

Last modified: February 28, 2024