Privacy Policy
EFFECTIVE AS OF July 13, 2012
WSI
Corporation ("WSI") is strongly committed to protecting your privacy.
This Privacy Policy discloses how we collect, use and share information we
gather about you on the Service and the choices you have regarding our use of
and your ability to correct the information. The ÒServiceÓ includes WSI's Intellicast¨
Boating application. We hope that this disclosure will enhance your experience and
reinforce the trust that you place in WSI's products and services.
1.
Information Collected by us within the Services
In order to maximize your experience and to
provide you with enhanced products and services, WSI may collect personally
identifiable information (ÒPIIÓ) from you, including your name and e-mail
address Some examples of instances when we collect personally identifiable
information include when you:
á Complete a survey
á Send us an e-mail message or
complete an inquiry form to receive additional information
We also may
collect certain information through automated means, such as:
á Specific geographic location where
you are currently located
á Information about your device and
device capabilities
á Information about your device
operating system
á Information about how you use the
Services
á Your activities on the Services
á IP address
á Device identifier
á Carrier information
Location Information. In certain instances in our Services, you
will be able to input specific location information in order for us to bring up
the weather for that location. For that Service, we will ask you to input
specific location such as address, city and state or zip code.
To offer you certain Services and engage
in the other uses described below, on some devices we provide you the option to
opt-in to allow us to use your physical geographic location using GPS, cellular
network location based services on your device. You may at any time opt-out
from these geo-location services by going to the settings on your device.
Alerts and notifications. In certain of our Services, you have the
ability to receive push notifications for weather related updates. To provide
these services, we may need to collect your device information and mobile
carrier information, in addition to the zip code or geographic area to which
the alert, update or notification pertains. If you no longer wish to receive these
types of notifications you may opt-out by turning them off within the settings
of your mobile device or the particular Service for which you registered.
2.
How We Use and Share Your
Information
One of the most
valuable assets of our business is you. Except as described below WSI does not
rent, sell or share personally identifiable information about you with other
people or nonaffiliated companies.
A. WSI and its Affiliates
We use information
collected on the Services, and disclose information to third parties, including
your physical geographic location, to help fulfill your requests or in
connection with the operation of the Services, for example to service your
account, conduct a transaction or provide a service that you have requested, display
information that we believe matches your interests and profile, facilitate
updates to the Services, provide support, improve the working of the Services,
and compile statistics about our users and your use of the Services. We and
such third parties may on occasion combine information about you with
information obtained from other parties to market to you products or services
that may be of interest to you.
B.
Third-Party Processors
When your information is collected on the Services, it
may be shared with selected third parties in connection with the operation of
the Services or the provision of services to you ("Third Party
Processors"). These Third Party Processors may include, for example,
companies that process credit card information for WSI, that deliver materials
to you via e-mail or postal service, that organize, administer, process, or
provide advertising services, and/or that analyze data on our behalf to help us
provide more relevant offers to you and to eliminate the delivery of duplicate
offers as well as correcting and/or updating users' data based on information
we provide them. We also provide your information to third party mapping
service providers to provide you map content for the Services. Third party
processors are authorized to use your information that we provide to them only
to carry out the service they are providing for WSI. We require that the third
party processors securely store the personally identifiable data we provide to
them and maintain it so that it can be accessed when needed for future
purposes, and all such Third Party Processors are contractually bound by us to
keep the personally identifiable information confidential.
C.
Other Web Sites, Other Services,
and Links
Like
many Web sites on the Internet and other Internet-based services, many of our
Services link to pages located on Web sites or services maintained by various
other entities. In some cases you may link to pages of other Web sites that are
framed with elements of our Services such as in the header or footer. In that
case the URL will identify the site you are visiting. In other cases, such as
advertisements, you will be connecting to another site or service when you
click on or otherwise activate those opportunities, including click-to-call,
click-to-text, and click-to-email opportunities. These other sites and services
are not bound by our privacy policy, and we are not responsible for their
information collection practices. The privacy policies of other organizations
may differ from ours, for example, with respect to the level of security, use of
cookies, and collection, use and disclosure of personally identifiable
information.
Some of our Services use third party operating systems,
platforms, communication services, devices, and software elements (such as
mobile device operating systems, wireless services, mobile phone and tablet
devices), and some of our Services are provided by third party distributors,
device makers, device operators, platform operators, and communication
services. WSI does not control these third party entities, products and
services, and they may collect, use, process, transmit and disclose your
information. For example, these
third party elements may gather information from our Services, including our
applications, in a manner that overrides your settings and preferences in our
Services. As WSI does not control
or have knowledge of their data handling practices, we recommend that you
review their privacy notices, terms of use and license agreements.
D.
Use by Us of IP Addresses and Information Saved by Other
Technologies
WSI and Third Party Processors acting on our
behalf use various Internet technologies which help us to manage the operations
of our Services and track usage behavior so that we can tailor information and
advertisements to make your visits more enjoyable and meaningful. These
Internet technologies include:
á
IP Addresses: numbers assigned to individual computers
which accompany every packet of information across the Internet.
á
Beacons: electronic tags.
Information that WSI collects via the
technologies described in this section may be linked to other information about
you. WSI uses the technologies described in this section, alone or in
combination, to provide and administer our services, understand user behavior,
manage services operations, measure the effectiveness of advertisements and our
service operations, target advertising, help diagnose problems, recognize
repeat visitors, track and analyze usage behavior, facilitate your access to
and use of our services, and count users who have visited certain areas of our
Services we wish to track.
WSI
contracts with certain Third Party Processors to track,
analyze and report data about the usage of our Services using these Internet
technologies. These Third Party Processors include:
á
Google and its Google Analytics product. To obtain information about the privacy and
security practices of GoogleÕs Analytics product, use the following link:
Google: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/
á
Flurry and its Flurry Analytics product. To obtain information about the privacy
and security practices of FlurryÕs Analytics product, use the following link:
Flurry: http://www.flurry.com/about-us/legal/privacy.html
These
opt-outs are device specific and may not work on all devices. You can also opt out of
future information collection from our Services by uninstalling the
application.
E.
Purchase or Sale of Businesses
WSI
continually looks for ways to improve our business, including purchasing or
selling all or part of a business or company. If we buy or sell a business,
databases containing personally identifiable information will likely be
transferred as part of the sale. If we buy a business, we will honor the
requests of that business' former customers regarding their personally
identifiable information. If in connection with a sale there will be material
changes to the way personally identifiable information is being used, affected
consumers will be notified via e-mail and will be given the opportunity to
opt-out.
F.
Other Limitations on Privacy
We may provide personally identifiable information without your
permission (i) pursuant to judicial or other
government subpoenas, warrants, or orders; (ii) where WSI believes our property
or an individual's safety or security is at risk; iii) if we find that your
actions violate our Legal Restrictions and Terms of Use; or iv) where otherwise
required by law.
3. Opting-Out, Corrections and Cancellations
If you receive an offer or promotion from WSI or a third party
related to WSI you must have opted in. To ensure we have your consent, we make
sure that each e-mail sent to you by WSI presents the additional opportunity to
opt-out of receiving future e-mails.
4. Children's Privacy
WSI is committed to protecting the safety and privacy of young people
using the Internet. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable
information from children under the age of 13 and believe that children should
get their parents' or guardians' consent before giving out any personal
information.
Our Services may contain links to third party Web sites geared to
children. The linked sites are not under the control of WSI. We are not
responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a
linked site, nor are we responsible for the privacy practices of the operators
of those sites with respect to children. We strongly encourage parents and
guardians to review the privacy policies of all linked sites.
5.
International Transfer
WSI, and all
associated Services and systems, including registration, is housed on
servers operated in the United States. If you are located in the European Union
or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that information we
collect (including cookies) will be processed and stored in the United States, a jurisdiction in which the
data protection and privacy laws may not offer the same level of protection as
those in the country where you reside or are a citizen. By using our Services
and providing information to use, you consent to the transfer to and processing
of the information in the United States.
6.
Our Commitment to Security
Keeping
the information you provide to WSI secure is important to us. We have put in
place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to protect and
safeguard your data. Of course, although WSI uses standard industry practices
to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee that your
communications with the Services will never be unlawfully intercepted, or that
your personal information will never be unlawfully accessed by third parties.
7.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
WSI reserves the right to alter our Privacy
Policy as business needs require. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we
will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we
gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to
anyone. All changes to this policy will be posted on the Services prior to the
time they take effect. In the event that we make material changes to the way we
use personally identifiable information, affected consumers who have provided
us with an e-mail address will be notified via e-mail and will be given the
opportunity to opt-out.
WSI Corporation
400 Minuteman Road
Andover, MA 01810