Wi-Fi Alliance Services Privacy Policy

Your right to privacy is very important. We recognize that when you choose to provide us with personal information (defined as information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can be associated with you), you trust us to act in a responsible manner. We make every effort to preserve user privacy. This Privacy Policy describes the personal information that Wi-Fi Alliance Services (“Wi-Fi Alliance Services,” “us,” “we” or “our”) collects through your interactions with the Wi-Fi Alliance Services website (http://wi-fi.com) (the “Website”), and how we collect, use, safeguard and disclose that information. By using this Site, you acknowledge and agree that you have read and understand the data practices described in this Privacy Policy.  

Automatic Collection of Personal Information
When you visit our Website, we may automatically collect your device information and other unique identifiers, such as IP address, and may automatically collect information about your interactions with our Website through cookies. This information is used to improve the content of our Website, and any web browser cookies we deploy are only used to collect aggregate statistics that help us measure the effectiveness of our Website content as well as our navigational design. We do not use cookies for targeted advertising. Please see the section “Cookies and Online Interactions” for more information about the cookies that we use and how we use them

Collection of Voluntarily Submitted Personal Information
Wi-Fi Alliance Services may collect the email addresses of those who communicate with us by email, and the email addresses, postal addresses, and telephone numbers provided by visitors voluntarily completing our online web forms, such as a membership application, survey, document request, meeting registration, and other Website subscriptions.

Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information in the following situations, as permitted by applicable law.

• Service Providers. We work with third parties that provide services on our behalf.  Such services may include website hosting and website usage analytics.  We may disclose personal information to these third parties for the purpose of enabling them to provide these services. We may need to provide your name and delivery address to third parties that we use for the purposes of delivering specific services to you (e.g., customer support, or a shipping company if you have asked us to send something to you.)

• Consent. We may disclose personal information in accordance with any consent you provide.

• Government agencies, regulators, and professional advisors. We may disclose personal information if we are required to do so by law or pursuant to legal process, in response to a request from government officials or law enforcement authorities, as necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of illegal activity, to comply with our legal obligations, and defend our legal interests

• Certain Transactions. We may disclose or transfer personal information to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, whether such acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

We have not disclosed your personal information for direct marketing purposes in the preceding twelve (12) months.

Security
We take appropriate steps to protect your privacy and implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information in storage and in transmission. However, no method of transmitting or storing data is completely secure. As a result, although we strive to protect personal information about you, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us through or in connection with the Site.  If you have reason to believe that personal information is no longer secure, please notify us immediately by contacting us in accordance with the last section below.  In the event of a breach that we are required by law to inform you of, we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law.

Any information you have access to via Wi-Fi Alliance Services systems, such as other members’ email addresses, must be used for Wi-Fi Alliance Services business purposes only. It is strictly forbidden to use Wi-Fi Alliance Services contacts for any external gain, including sending product marketing or company promotions. Providing Wi-Fi Alliance Services members’ contact information to third parties is strictly forbidden unless you have documented express consent from the Wi-Fi Alliance Services member in question. 

Control of Your Information
You can help Wi-Fi Alliance Services maintain the accuracy of your information by notifying us of any changes to your address, title, company name, phone number, or email address.

Website visitors may opt-in to receive email updates from us, and we allow you to change your election to receive/not receive information from us. At any time, a user may opt out of receiving email updates from Wi-Fi Alliance Services by following the unsubscribe instructions in the email.

External Links
Our Website may provide links to third-party sites. Since we do not control those websites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third-party websites.

Children’s Privacy
Our Website is not intended for persons under 13 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal information from persons under 13 through our Website, we will take appropriate steps to delete this information.

Cookies and Online Interactions
We use various technologies to collect and store information, including cookies, pixel tags, local storage, such as browser web storage or application data caches, databases, and server logs (collectively for purposes of this section, “cookies”). Cookies are small bits of data cached or stored on your computer or mobile device based on your Internet activity. We may use cookies to monitor individual activity in aggregate to improve the Website and provide features that are tailored to your needs. This section describes how we use cookies and other data-collection technologies and how you can manage cookies that are not required to operate our sites and mobile applications.

We differentiate between cookies that are essential for the technical features of the Website and analytics cookies. We do not use advertising cookies.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to prevent this. If you disable cookies, your ability to use some features of the Website may be limited. For mobile devices, you may be able to manage certain cookies using your built-in mobile device settings and controls, or the settings within your mobile application, where applicable. Choices are browser- and/or device-specific. If you clear your cookies from your browser on any of your devices, your choices will need to be reset. You should check how to do this on your device(s) and operating systems.

Do Not Track Signal
Some web browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” (DNT) or similar feature that signals to websites that a visitor does not want to have his/her online activity and behavior tracked. Not all browsers offer a DNT option and there is currently no industry consensus for how to recognize or respond to a DNT signal. For these reasons, Wi-FI Alliance Services does not currently respond to DNT signals.

Updates to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices, technology, legal requirements, and other factors.  When changes are made to this Privacy Policy, they will become effective immediately upon posting.  We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for the latest information on our information processing practices.  To the extent that our Privacy Policy changes in a material way, the Privacy Policy that was in place at the time that you submitted personal information to us will generally govern that information unless we receive your consent (express or implied) to the new Privacy Policy where and as required by applicable law.

How to Contact Us
Wi-Fi Alliance Services
Email: info@wi-fi.com
Last update: July 2023