Personal data can be any information about you that may be used to identify you, such as your first or full name, email address, phone number, title, or similar. Providing personal data is not required to browse the Website. We use web analytics tools to analyze the traffic to our Website and visitor behavior but the information collected for this purpose is anonymous and cannot be linked with you. As a result, these are not your personal data. 

In this Policy, “Services” shall mean any services, and functions offered on our Website. These include displaying information on data services including such as databases, APIs, or similar data solutions and products, the searching and filtering feature for these, viewing other users’ reviews on these products as well as data providers and companies, giving reviews and ratings on these products as well as data providers and companies, creating user accounts, requesting support from Worldindata through contact forms, connecting Users and Data Providers via email in cases users request contact with a Data Provider or submit their interests in buying the data through Worldindata, and similar. To clarify, Worldindata aims to act as a bridge between Users and Data Providers to get them connected. For this aim, Worldindata may send Data Providers emails with the respective Users’ email visible to the Data Partners and their employees to get you connected. By agreeing to this Privacy & Data Policy, you agree and accept that your email may be transferred to the Data Providers you wish to connect through Worldindata, within the scope of the Services we provide.

We process the following personal data: name, company title, country, address, and email address through our Website. Our Website also allows posting reviews on the data products, data providers, or similar and uploading a profile picture for your account. Any information you may publish publicly in your reviews and the profile picture that contains information about you would also be your personal data.

We process your personal data:

• To inform you of the changes in this Policy, our Terms and Conditions of service, or our practices that may affect you or require your permission,
• To provide you with the Services and to improve or maintain the quality of the Services,
• To answer your support requests,
• To contact you for the promotion of our existing or future services or for marketing purposes (you may opt-out anytime),
• To ensure personal data security and to avoid and prevent any unauthorized process, access, transfer, duplication, destruction, and alteration of it,
• To contact you about matters arising from your use of the Services such as your reviews, data providers that wish to contact you, unauthorized access to your account, compliance with the Terms and Conditions, or similar,
• To comply with our obligations arising from the applicable law and take the necessary measures to ensure we continue to do so if there are further changes in the law,
• To comply with other legal obligations. Sometimes, courts or other authorities may require us to transfer and in other ways process your personal data for an ongoing investigation, lawsuit, or judicial proceeding. We are obliged to process the required personal data to the extent that we comply with these requirements. Likewise, in the case of our legitimate interest in protection against misuse or abuse of the Services or the use of our Website, we may transfer your personal data to courts or relevant authorities for protection against any wrongful acts against Worldindata,
• To comply with our obligations arising from the Terms and Conditions of use.