Policy Brief Purpose

SpiderWorld  Data Protection Policy refers to our commitment to treat the information of employees, customers, stakeholders, and other interested parties with the utmost care and confidentiality.

With this policy, we ensure that we gather, store and handle data fairly, transparently, and with respect to individual rights.

 

Scope

This policy refers to all parties (SpiderWorld employees,  Vendors/Associates, Members, etc.) who provide any amount of information to us.

Who is covered under the Data Protection Policy?

Employees of SpiderWorld and its subsidiaries must follow this policy. Vendors/Associates, partners, and any other external entity connected / sharing data are also covered. Generally, our policy refers to anyone we collaborate with or acts on our behalf and may need occasional access to data.

Policy Elements

As part of our operations, we need to obtain and process information. This information includes any offline or online data that makes a person identifiable such as names, addresses, usernames and passwords, digital footprints, photographs, logos, social security numbers, financial data, etc.

SpiderWorld collects this information in a transparent way and only with the full cooperation and knowledge of interested parties. Once this information is available to us, the following rules apply.

 

Our data will be:

 

 

• • Kept up-to-date
• • Collected fairly and for lawful purposes only
• • Processed by SpiderWorld within its legal and moral boundaries
• • Protected against any unauthorized or illegal access by internal or external parties

 

 

 

Our data will not be:

 

 

• • Communicated informally
• • Stored for more than a specified amount of time
• • Transferred to organizations, states or countries that do not have adequate data protection policies
• • Distributed to any party other than the ones agreed upon by the data's owner (exempting legitimate requests from law enforcement authorities)

 

In addition to ways of handling the data, SpiderWorld has direct obligations towards people to whom the data belongs. Specifically, we must:

 

 

• • Let people know which of their data is collected
• • Inform people about how we'll process their data
• • Inform people about who has access to their information
• • Have provisions in cases of lost, corrupted, or compromised data
• • Allow people to request that we modify, erase, reduce, or correct data contained in our databases

 

Actions

To exercise data protection we're committed to:

• • Restrict and monitor access to sensitive data
• • Develop transparent data collection procedures
• • Train employees in online privacy and security measures
• • Build secure networks to protect online data from cyberattacks
• • Establish clear procedures for reporting privacy breaches or data misuse
• • Include contract clauses or communicate statements on how we handle the data
• • Establish data protection practices

Disciplinary Consequences

All principles described in this policy must be strictly followed. A breach of data protection guidelines will invoke disciplinary and suspension from the membership/Association.