PRIVACY POLICY

Word Thread, including any affiliates and subsidiaries (“Word Thread,” “we,” “us,” or “our”),

values the trust you place in us when you use our affiliated websites and online services

(collectively, our “Websites”). This Privacy Policy describes our collection, use, disclosure, and

retention of information we collect from or about you. This Privacy Policy applies to our

Websites that post or link to it, regardless of how you access or use them, including through

mobile devices.

BY USING OUR WEBSITES, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY

POLICY AND OUR TERMS OF USE, AND YOU ARE CONSENTING TO OUR

COLLECTION, USE, DISCLOSURE, AND RETENTION OF INFORMATION AS

DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Websites. We may

make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes to our

Websites. Your continued use of our Websites following the posting of any changes will mean

you accept those changes.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that you may submit to third-party websites or

mobile applications that may link to the Websites or be linked to on the Websites. We are not

responsible for the actions or privacy practices of third-party websites and applications; please

consult those websites and applications directly to understand their privacy practices.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We collect, process, and retain information from you and any devices you may use when you use

or interact with our Websites, and in other ways described below.

• Information You Give Us: We receive and store information provided to us or given to

us in any other way, including your name, mailing address, phone number, email address,

picture, date of birth, payment information, registration information, social media and

messaging platform handle, optional biographic and demographic information,

professional and licensure information, information for wallets you create or connect via

our Websites, survey responses, and any other information that you voluntarily provide.

This includes information that you share with us on third-party websites and platforms.

• Information We Automatically Collect: We receive and store certain types of

information whenever you use our Websites. Our Websites may use “cookies,” tagging,

and other tracking technologies to help enable us to enhance or personalize your online

experience. This information includes computer and connection information such as

statistics on your page views, traffic to and from our Websites, referral URL, ad data,

your IP address, device identifiers, transaction history, and your web log information.

• Location Information: When you visit our Websites or interact with our online services,

we may receive information about your location and your device, including a uniqueidentifier for your device. Location information allows us to provide location-based

services, such as advertising and other personalized content.

• Information From Social Media: When you interact with us or our Websites on a social

media platform, we may collect the personal information that you make available to us,

including your account ID, username, and other information included in your posts. If

you choose to log into your account with or through a social networking service, we and

that service may share certain information about you and your activities. When you give

us permission, we may also collect information from your social media account on your

behalf.

• Information From Other Sources: We may supplement the information we collect with

information offline or from third parties.

HOW WE USE INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM OR ABOUT YOU

We use the information we collect from or about you to help us personalize and continually

improve your experience on the Websites, including providing our services, responding to

requests for information, analyzing and compiling trends and statistics, and communicating with

you. For information about how to manage information about you and the choices you have, see

the Your Choices section below.

We also may use information about you to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve the Websites and for internal or other business purposes;

• Fulfill your requests for information;

• Communicate with you;

• Detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or

illegal;

• Optimize, perform analysis, or improve our Websites, products, services, and operations;

• Provide customer support;

• Send you offers or other communications about our products and services, such as special

or promotional events, including services, products, or events for which we collaborate or

co-offer with a third party;

• Administer contests, sweepstakes, promotions, and surveys; and

• Post user-generated content provided by users.

We may use the information from one portion of the Websites on other portions of the Websites,

and we may combine information gathered from multiple portions of the Websites. We also may

use or combine information that we collect offline, or that we collect or receive from third-party

sources for many reasons, including to enhance, expand, and check the accuracy of our records.

Additionally, we may use information collected from a particular browser or device with another

computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such information was

collected.

We may retain information we collect from or about you for as long as reasonably required to

satisfy the purposes for which we have collected the information, or as required by law,whichever is longer. This means we will retain information about you both while you are an

active user of our Websites and after you cease to be an active user.

HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH OTHERS

We share information we collect from or about you with third parties as described below. In

addition, we may share information that does not personally identify you, such as aggregate

information, de-identified information, device identifiers, or other unique identifiers with third

parties. For information about how to manage information about you and the choices you have,

see the Your Choices section below.

• Third-Party Service Providers: We engage third-party service providers to perform

functions on our behalf such as: hosting, content syndication, content management,

technical integration, marketing, analytics, customer service, fraud protection, payment

processing, fulfillment, and shipping. These third parties may have access to information

about you when needed to perform their functions.

• Business Partners: We may share information that personally identifies you with

business partners who provide products and services that we think you may be interested

in.

• Sale, Assignment or Change of Control: We may change our ownership or corporate

organization while providing the Websites. We may transfer some or all information

about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition,

sale of assets, or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction.

Under such circumstances, we will request the acquiring party to follow the practices described

in this Privacy Policy with respect to previously collected information. Nevertheless, we cannot

promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat

information about you in the same way as described in this Privacy Policy.

• Law Enforcement, Legal Process, and Emergency Situations: We may also use or

disclose information we collect from or about you if required to do so by law or on the

good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply

with legal process served on us or our Websites; (b) protect and defend our rights or

property, the Websites, or our users; (c) respond to a third party that alleges that you have

infringed their intellectual property rights; or (d) act to protect the personal safety of us,

users of the Websites, or the public.

• Public Areas, Interactive Features, and Activities: Please remember that any

information you share in public areas, including in your public profile, or on social

sharing features becomes public and anyone may take and use that information. Please be

careful about what you disclose and do not post any information that you expect to keep

private. Please consult the applicable guidelines, if any, for use of these features. We

cannot control who views information that you post in public areas of the Websites or on

third-party messaging platforms, like Discord, and are not responsible for how third

parties, including other users, may use or disclose information that you post or otherwiseshare with other users or third parties. If you are under the age of eighteen and a

registered user, you may have a content or information you have posted removed from

public display by deleting the message yourself or contacting the community manager.

• At Your Direction: Our Websites may give you the ability to share certain information

with other users or other third parties, such as by scanning your “My Code.” When you

engage these features on our Websites, you are authorizing us to share your information.

Once shared, we have no control over how those third parties will use or further disclose

your information.

HOW TO ACCESS AND UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION

If you have an account with us, you can update information you have provided by logging into

your account and editing the information. Please note that you may not be able to change some

information, like your username, after your account is established. You may be required to

provide us with sufficient information to verify your identity prior to accessing any records

containing information about you. We may not accommodate a request to change information

about you if we believe doing so would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the

information to be incorrect.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Like many websites, we use tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons, and similar

technologies to record your preferences, track the use of our Websites, your interactions with our

emails, and measure exposure to our online advertisements. We may also use these technologies

to monitor traffic, improve the Websites, and make them easier to use and more relevant. Most

web browsers automatically accept cookies, but, if you prefer, you can usually modify your

browser setting to disable or reject cookies. In addition, you may also render some web beacons

unusable by rejecting or removing their associated cookies. If you delete your cookies or if you

set your browser to decline cookies, some features of the Websites may not work or may not

work as designed.

We use third-party analytics services on the Websites, including Google Analytics. These

analytics service providers use cookies or other tracking technologies to help us analyze how

users interact with and use our Websites, compile reports about activity on the Websites, and

provide us other services. The technologies may collect information such as your IP address,

time of visit, whether you are a return visitor, any referring website, general location, and other

information. We do not use these analytics service providers to gather information that

personally identifies you. The information generated by Google Analytics will be transmitted to

and stored by Google and will be subject to Google’s privacy policies. To learn more about

Google’s partner services and to learn how to opt-out of tracking of analytics by Google, click

here.

We work with third-party companies who also use these technologies to provide advertisements

on our Websites and other third-party websites. These third parties may use these technologies to

collect information about you when you use the Websites. They may collect information about

your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. Theymay also use persistent identifiers to track your Internet usage across other websites in their

networks beyond our Websites. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based

advertising or other targeted content. While we do not knowingly provide these entities with

information that personally identifies you, such third parties may, with sufficient data from other

sources, be able to personally identify you, unknown to us. More information about how to opt-

out of these cookies is available in the Choices section below.

The cookies used on our Websites are divided into four general categories:

• Necessary: Cookies that are essential to make our Websites usable by enabling basic

functions like page navigation, access to secure areas of the Website, and whether you

have opted-out of certain non-necessary cookies. The Websites cannot function properly

without these cookies. These mandatory cookies cannot be de-selected from our consent

manager.

• Preferences: Cookies that enable our Websites to remember information that changes the

way the Websites behaves or looks, like your preferred language or region that you are in.

• Analytics and Statistics: Cookies that help us understand how visitors interact with our

Websites by collecting and reporting about your device’s interactions.

• Marketing: Used to track devices across websites to display ads that are relevant and

engaging to our visitors to show you our ads on third-party websites. You may also deny

or delete these cookies via your browser settings.

Some content, applications, and advertisements on the Websites may be served by unaffiliated

third parties. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be

used. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices on any website not operated by

us to which our Websites links or that links to our Websites.

Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. Our information collection,

disclosure practices, and the choices that we provide will continue to operate as described in this

Privacy Policy, whether or not a Do Not Track signal is received.

YOUR CHOICES ABOUT HOW INFORMATION ABOUT YOU IS USED AND

SHARED

In many instances, you have choices about the information you provide and how we use that

information. These choices are described below. California residents and data subjects in Europe

have additional rights as set forth in the sections entitled Notice to Residents of California and

Notice to Residents of the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom

below.

• Marketing Emails: By providing us with an email address, you acknowledge that we

may use your email address to communicate with you. You can opt out of receiving

notifications, service-related communications regarding your account or yourtransactions, promotional and other marketing emails from us by using the “unsubscribe”

feature in our marketing emails.

• Interest-Based Advertising Choices: You also have choices related to interest-based

advertising. Many browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify

your browser’s setting to decline cookies if you prefer. Note that if you choose to remove

cookies, you may remove opt-out cookies that affect your advertising preferences.

Many of the third-party advertisers that place tracking tools on our Websites are members of

programs that offer you additional choices regarding the use of information about you for

advertising. You can learn more about the options available to limit these third parties’ use of

your information by visiting the websites for the Network Advertising Initiative and the Digital

Advertising Alliance.

Similarly, you can learn about your options to opt-out of mobile app tracking by certain

advertising networks through your device settings. For more information about how to change

these settings, see the support information for Apple, Android, or Windows devices.

Please note that opting out of participating advertising networks services does not mean that you

will not receive advertising while using our Websites or on other websites, nor will it prevent the

receipt of interest-based advertising from third parties that do not participate in these industry

programs.

NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF CALIFORNIA

This section is part of our Privacy Policy but applies only to residents of California. State law

provides you with certain rights to receive disclosure regarding the collection, use, and sharing of

“personal information,” as well as rights to access, delete, and restrict the sale of certain personal

information we collect about you. You or your authorized agent may submit a request to exercise

these rights by sending us an email. You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment

for the exercise of the privacy rights conferred by applicable law.

Collection and Use of Personal Information: The general sections of this Privacy Policy

describe the types of personal information we collect, how we collect it, and how we use it. The

following is a list of categories of personal information that we may have collected from or about

consumers and the sources of that information:

• Identifiers: Name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP

address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers. This information is

provided by you, automatically collected when you interact with our Website, or is

provided by a third party.

• Customer records: Name, address, telephone number, education, employment, or

payment account number. This information is provided by you, automatically collected

when you interact with our Website, or is provided by a third party.• Protected classifications: Race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. This

information is provided by you, such as voluntarily disclosed as part of a job application.

• Commercial information: Records of products or services purchased, obtained, or

considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. This information is

automatically collected based on your interactions with our Website, your purchases, and

your subscriptions.

• Internet or other electronic network activity information: Browsing history, search

history, and information regarding interactions with our Website or advertisements. This

information is automatically collected when you interact with our Website or is provided

by a third party, such as an advertising or analytics provider.

• Geolocation: General or precise location information. This is provided by you when you

provide your address or other location information, check-in at a location, or is inferred

based on your IP address.

• Professional and education data: Employer, title, professional license numbers, work

history, and educational background. This information is provided by you, such as your

conference registration or job application, or is provided by a third party.

• Inferences: Information about your preferences, characteristics, predisposition,

demographic info, attitudes, and favorites. This information is provided by you,

automatically collected when you interact with our Website, or is provided by a third

party.

We collect and use the above categories of personal information for the purposes described

above in the sections entitled How We Use Information We Collect From or About You, How

We Share Your Information with Others, and Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.

We limit disclosures of personal information for business purposes to service providers, as

described above.

Sale of Personal Information and Right to Opt Out: State law requires companies to include

certain disclosures, including a “Do Not Sell My Personal Info” link on their websites. We do not

knowingly sell the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age. To opt-out of the

sale to third parties, please send us an email and use the cookie manager on our Website to

disable non-necessary cookies. Please note that your right to opt-out does not apply to our

sharing of data with service providers, with whom we work and who are required to use the data

on our behalf.

The following categories of personal information that are disclosed for a business purpose or

“sold” and the related categories of third parties:

• Identifiers: Name, email, unique personal identifiers, online identifiers, IP address, or

other similar identifiers to affiliates, business partners, advertising and marketing

companies, data analytics providers, and social networks.• Internet or other electronic network activity information: Information regarding your

interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement to affiliates, business

partners, advertising and marketing companies, data analytics providers, and social

networks.

Rights Requests: As noted above, you have the right to request that we disclose what personal

information we collect, use, and sell, as well as the right to request that we delete certain

personal information that we have collected from you. You or your authorized agent may submit

a request to exercise these rights by using our Request for Information or Request for Deletion

tools or sending us an email. We will require you to verify your identity before we can act on

your request. You are required to provide your name and email address to start the verification

process.

Financial Incentives: We may run promotions from time to time and ask you to share personal

information with us. We will always give you clear notice about these types of programs when

you sign up, and participation is always voluntary. If you change your mind, you will be able to

opt-out, and if you do not participate, you will still be able to use our services.

California “Shine the Light” Rights: If you are a California resident and customer, California

law permits you to request certain information regarding the disclosure of your information

about you by us and our related companies to third parties for the third parties' direct marketing

purposes. To make such a request, please send us an email.

NOTICES TO RESIDENTS OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA,

SWITZERLAND, AND UNITED KINGDOM

This section is part of our Privacy Policy but applies only to residents of the European Economic

Area (EEA), Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. For purposes of data protection law, Word

Thread is the controller.

Purposes of Processing: As described in the other sections of our Privacy Policy, we process

your personal data to administer our Websites, process your requests, facilitate access by our

service providers and third parties, send marketing communications, respond to your requests in

connection with employment opportunities, transfer or sell our business, to combine data sets,

and for the other purposes set forth in our Privacy Policy. Also as explained above, we may also

use, transfer, and otherwise use personal data acquired from you directly or by the use of cookies

or other tracking technologies to remember your preferences, conduct analytics, and serve you

with advertising.

Legal Basis: We have several different legal grounds on which we collect and process personal

data, including (a) as necessary to perform a transaction (such as registering for a conference,

subscribing to our newsletters, inquiring about employment, or responding to your requests); (b)

as necessary to comply with a legal obligation; (c) where you have provided consent; and (d)

necessary for legitimate interest when such processing is reasonably expected by you and does

not unduly and negatively affect your privacy rights. If you would like to withdraw your consent,

please use the options that are described in the Your Choices section above. Please keep in mind

that additional basis may still exist for processing that is not based on your consent.Transfers: Your personal data may be transferred to and processed in the United States or

elsewhere in the world that may not provide the same level of data protection as your home

country. We will ensure that transfers of personal data are subject to appropriate safeguards in

accordance with applicable legal requirements to ensure that your data is adequately protected.

Your Rights: You have certain rights under applicable law. These rights include (1) to obtain

information about the processing of your personal data and a copy of your personal data that we

store; (2) to request that we update your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete; (3) to

request the deletion of your personal data if it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it

was collected or if you withdraw consent and no other legal basis for processing exists; (4) to

restrict the processing if you contest the accuracy of your personal data, if our processing is

deemed unlawful and you oppose deletion, or if we no longer need the personal data but must

store it to comply with our legal obligations; (5) to receive your personal data and to transfer it to

another controller; (6) to object to our processing when we process your personal data based on

legitimate interest; and (7) to lodge a complaint about our collection or processing of your

personal data with your Data Protection Authority (DPA).

If you would like to exercise rights (1) through (6), please send us an email. To verify your

identity, we may require you to provide us with personal data prior to accessing any records

about you. If you would like to file a complaint with your DPA, contact details for the DPAs in

the EEA and the UK are available at ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/structure/data-protection-

authorities/index_en.htm and for Switzerland at https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home/

the-fdpic/links/data-protection---switzerland.html.

You are not required to provide all personal data identified in this Privacy Policy to use our

Websites, purchase our services, or to interact with us offline, but certain functionality may not

be available to you. If you do not provide your personal information, we may not be able to

respond to your requests, perform a transaction with you, or provide you with marketing that we

believe you would find valuable. We do not use automated decision-making without human

intervention, including profiling, in a way that produces legal effects concerning you or

otherwise significantly affects you.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• Users Under Thirteen: Our Websites are intended for users ages thirteen and older only.

If we become aware of information in our database that was collected from a child under

thirteen, we will delete such information.

• Users Outside of the United States: If you use our Websites outside of the United

States, you understand and consent to the transfer of information we collect from or about

you to, and the collection, processing, and storage of information about you in, the United

States and elsewhere. The laws in the U.S. and these countries may be different than the

laws of your country.