Privacy Policy

1. Personal Information We Collect

We may collect the categories of personal information listed below. We collect it directly from you, automatically from your browser and device, and from our service providers and advertising partners. They are as follows:

• Identifiers: Name, username, email, telephone number, mailing or shipping address, IP address, account identifiers, and account credentials;
• Advertising interactions: Records of interactions with advertisements;
• Internet or network activity: Browser and device data, referring and viewed pages, access times, searches, links clicked, and cookie or advertising identifiers;
• Geolocation data: Approximate location inferred from an IP address. We do not collect precise geolocation unless separately disclosed and consented to; and
• Inferences: Preferences or interests inferred from activity and interactions with content or advertisements.

We use account login credentials only to authenticate users, secure accounts, prevent fraud, and provide requested services. We do not use or disclose them to infer characteristics about users.

Information posted publicly may be viewed, copied, or used by others. Do not post information you do not want made public.

2. How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information to operate and improve the Services; provide interactive features; send marketing emails about the Services; respond to users; analyze traffic and audience interests; personalize and measure content and advertising; prevent fraud or misuse; enforce our terms; and comply with law.

We may provide contact information that you have given us, such as your email address or telephone number, to Google in hashed or otherwise protected form so that Google can determine whether it corresponds to a Google account and help us deliver, exclude, or measure advertising. Google processes this information in accordance with its applicable terms and privacy practices. Where required by law, we obtain consent before using personal information for Customer Match advertising.

3. Cookies and Advertising

We and third-party vendors, including Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft, use cookies and similar technologies to operate the Services, understand site use, prevent fraud, and serve and measure advertisements. Third parties may place and read cookies on your browser, or use web beacons, IP addresses, or similar technologies to collect information as a result of ad serving on the Services.

Google uses advertising cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to the Services or other websites. Google and its partners may use those cookies to serve personalized ads. You may opt out of personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings at https://adssettings.google.com/. You may opt out of some other vendors’ personalized advertising at https://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or https://optout.networkadvertising.org/. Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the Services. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as the pages you view, how long you stay, and how you arrived at the Services, and Google provides us with reports based on that information. Google processes this information in accordance with its applicable terms and privacy practices.

We use the LinkedIn Insight Tag, which allows LinkedIn to collect information about visits to the Services, such as the pages viewed, the referring page, IP address, device and browser characteristics, and the time of the visit. LinkedIn uses this information to provide us with aggregated reports on the performance of our LinkedIn advertising and on the audience that visits the Services, and to show ads on LinkedIn to people who have visited the Services. LinkedIn processes this information in accordance with its applicable terms and privacy practices, described in the LinkedIn Privacy Policy at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. LinkedIn members can manage how LinkedIn uses this information for advertising in their LinkedIn account settings.

We use Microsoft Clarity to understand how visitors use the Services and to improve them. Clarity records how you interact with the Services, such as clicks, mouse movements, scrolling, and the pages you view, and presents this information to us as usage metrics, heatmaps, and session replays. Clarity uses cookies and similar technologies to do so, and we may connect Clarity data with our Google Analytics data for the same visit. Microsoft processes this information in accordance with its applicable terms and privacy practices, described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement at https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement.

You may control cookies through your browser.

We and our advertising partners may use cookies, device identifiers, and activity over time and across websites to personalize ads, measure performance, develop audience insights, and improve advertising services. Where required, we obtain consent before Google or other partners store or access advertising cookies or collect, share, or use personal information for these purposes.

4. How We Disclose Personal Information

We disclose personal information to service providers that help us operate the Services, such as hosting, security, email, analytics, technical-service, and customer-service providers. We disclose account login credentials to hosting and security providers for business purposes and do not disclose them to advertising or analytics partners.

We also disclose online identifiers (such as IP addresses and cookie or advertising identifiers), advertising interactions, internet or network activity, approximate location, and inferences, including audience classifications or interest segments, to Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and other advertising and analytics partners to analyze use of the Services and to serve, personalize, and measure advertising. As described in Section 2, we may also provide contact information that you have given us, such as your email address or telephone number, to Google in hashed or otherwise protected form for Customer Match advertising. If WorldBids uses purchase, transaction, or customer-relationship information to create or measure Customer Match audiences, that information may also be disclosed to Google for advertising and measurement. We do not sell personal information for money.

We may also disclose personal information when required by law, to protect rights or safety, in connection with a business transaction, at a user’s direction, or with the user’s consent.

5. Your Choices

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails through the link in each email, change available account settings, manage cookies through your browser, and use the advertising opt-out tools above. We do not currently respond to browser "Do Not Track" settings because there is no uniform standard.

6. Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to provide the Services, maintain business records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud or misuse, and enforce our agreements. The length of time we retain information will vary depending on the type of information, how it is used, and any applicable legal or operational requirements. Where information is no longer needed, we will delete, deidentify, or securely retain it where required by law. We may retain limited information, such as email suppression records, for longer where necessary to honor unsubscribe or other privacy requests. WorldBids will remove information from active Customer Match audiences when reasonably necessary to honor an applicable deletion or consent-withdrawal request.

7. Security and Children

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, but no transmission or storage method is completely secure. The Services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without verifiable parental consent. Contact us if you believe a child under 13 provided information so we can review and, where appropriate, delete it.

8. Changes and Contact Information

We may update this Privacy Policy by posting the revised version and changing the "Last Updated" date. If required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent.

Questions and privacy requests may be directed to: