Webelievethetruth.com - Privacy statement

Last update: September 2018 View changes

Your privacy is important to us. This privacy statement explains the personal data we process, how we process it, and for what purposes.

Webelievethetruth offers a place to share, validate and discuss true stories and statements. A place to find proof, confirm, disprove and validate context of statements and stories so we can find out what we believe is truth or not. It can be used to help people validate their own beliefs and find our common truth as humanity. References to webelievethetruth in this statement include services, websites, apps, software, servers, and devices used to operate weblievethetruth.

Please read the details in this privacy statement which provide additional relevant information. This statement applies to all interactions with you and webelievethetruth, as well as other products that display this statement.


Personal Data We Collect


Webelievethetruth only collects data from you through your interactions on the website. You provide some of this data directly, and we get some of it by collecting data about your interactions, use and experiences with our website. The data we collect depends on the context of your interactions and the choices you make and by the features you use. We may obtain data about you trough e-mail or social media.

You have choices when it comes to the technology you use and the data you share. When we ask you to provide personal data, you can decline. Our product requires some personal data like e-mail to provide you with a service. If you choose not to provide data necessary to provide you with a feature, you cannot use that feature. Likewise, where we need to collect personal data by law or to enter into or carry out a contract with you, and you do not provide the data, we will not be able to enter into the contract; or if this relates to an existing product you’re using, we may have to suspend or cancel it. We will notify you if this is the case at the time. Where providing the data is optional, and you choose not to share personal data, features like personalization that use such data will not work for you.

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How We Use Personal Data


Webelievethetruth uses the data we collect to provide you an interactive experience. In particular, we use data to:

  • process stories and statements created by you;
  • process voting on stories and statements you confirm or disprove;
  • provide our products, which includes updating, securing, and troubleshooting, as well as providing support. It also includes sharing data, when it is required to provide the service or carry out the transactions you request;
  • Improve and develop our products;
  • Personalize our products and make recommendations;

We also use data to operate our business, which includes analyzing performance, meeting legal obligations, developing workforce, and doing research.

In carrying out these purposes, we combine data we collect from different contexts (for example, from your use of website and/or app) to give you a more seamless, consistent, and personalized experience, to make informed business decisions, and for other legitimate purposes.

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Personal Data We Share


We only share personal data with your explicit permission! We may share data with controlled affiliates and subsidiaries; with vendors working on our behalf; when required by law or to respond to legal process; to protect our customers; to protect lives; to maintain the security of our products; and to protect our and its users’ rights and property.

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How to access & control your personal data


You can make choices about our collection and use of your data. You can control your personal data that we obtained, and exercise your data protection rights, by contacting webelievethetruth or using various tools we provide. You can access and control your data and will depend on which features you use. For example, you can:

  • You can always choose if you want to receive promotional e-mails, SMS messages, telephone calls, and postal mail from webelievethetruth.
  • You can also access and clear your data or end your account whenever you want from your account page.
  • End your account, your account will be deleted and everything that is attached to your account will be anonymized.

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Cookies ad Similar Technologies


Cookies are small text files placed on your device to store data that can be recalled by a web server in the domain that placed the cookie. We use cookies and similar technologies for storing and honoring your preferences and settings, enabling you to sign-in, combating fraud, analyzing how our products perform, and fulfilling other legitimate purposes.

We also use “web beacons” to help deliver cookies and gather usage and performance data. Our websites may include web beacons, cookies, or similar technologies from third-party service providers.

You have a variety of tools to control the data collected by cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies. For example, you can use controls in your Internet browser to limit how the websites you visit are able to use cookies and to withdraw your consent by clearing or blocking cookies.

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Other important privacy information


Below you will find additional privacy information, such as how we secure your data, where we process your data, and how long we retain your data.

Security of Personal Data

Webelievethetruth is committed to protecting the security of your personal data. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. We don't store or process any highly confidential data such as credit card numbers. Our website is protected by SSL encryption.

Where We Store and Process Personal Data

Webelievetheruth is hosted on a third party VPS provided by TransIP. The data used on this website is stored in a SQL database. For more information about the privacy of your stored data follow this link to the Privacy Statement of TransIP: https://www.transip.nl/legal-and-security/privacy-policy/

Our Retention of Personal Data

Webelievethetruth retains personal data for as long as necessary to provide the products and fulfill the transactions you have requested, or for other legitimate purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing our agreements. Because these needs can vary for different data types, the context of our interactions with you or your use of products, actual retention periods can vary significantly. You can always delete your account, all data stored on your account will be anonymized immetiatly after deleting your personal account data.

Advertising

Advertising allows us to provide, support, and improve some of our products and is a way to help us host these services so you an use it for free. Again, no personal data is shared without your explicit permission!

Collection of data from Children

Webelievethetruth collects age, and if there is an age in your jurisdiction under which parental consent or authorization is required to use the product, the product will either block users under that age or will ask them to provide consent or authorization from a parent or guardian before they can use it. We will not knowingly ask children under that age to provide more data than is necessary to provide the product.

Once parental consent or authorization is granted, the child's account is treated much like any other account. The child can access communication services, and can freely communicate and share data with other users of all ages.

Changes to This Privacy Statement

We update this privacy statement when necessary to provide greater transparency or in response to:

  • Feedback from customer, regulators, industry, or other stakeholders;
  • Changes in our products; or
  • Changes in our data processing activities or policies.

When we post changes to this statement, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top of the statement and describe the changes in the Change History page. If there are material changes to the statement, such as a change to the purposes of processing of personal data that is not consistent with the purpose for which it was originally collected, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes before they take effect or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to learn how webelievethetruth is protecting your information.

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Complaints and contact us

If you have a privacy concern, complaint, or a question for our Chief Privacy Officer or Data Protection Officer, please contact us by e-mail. We will respond to questions or concerns within 30 days. You can also raise a concern or lodge a complaint with a data protection authority or other official with jurisdiction.

E-mail: www.weblievethetruth@gmail.com

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