Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for World Cultural Threads

Effective Date: September 26, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how World Cultural Threads (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit our website, https://worldculturalthreads.com (the “Site”).

It is strongly recommended that you consult with a legal professional to ensure this Privacy Policy is complete and complies with all applicable laws and regulations in your jurisdiction, including but not limited to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://worldculturalthreads.com.

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

We are committed to transparency and collecting only the data that is necessary for the functioning of our website and to provide you with the best possible experience. The types of personal information we may collect include:

Comments: When you leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact Forms: When you use our contact forms, we collect your name and email address so we can respond to your inquiries.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Site and hold certain information.3 Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site. We use cookies for purposes such as:
- To operate our Site.
- To remember your preferences and various settings.
- To perform analytics to improve our Site.
Analytics: We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Site.2 This may include collecting your IP address, browser type, and browsing behavior to understand how users interact with our website.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data

Under the GDPR, we process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:

Your consent.
The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.
The processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as for analytics and to improve our services.
The processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.

How We Use Your Data

We use the collected data for various purposes:

To provide and maintain our website.
To notify you about changes to our website or any products or services we offer.
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our website when you choose to do so.
To provide customer support.
To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our website.
To monitor the usage of our website.
To detect, prevent and address technical issues and spam.

Who We Share Your Data With

We do not sell your personal data. We may share your personal information with third-party service providers to perform various functions, such as website hosting, data analysis, and email delivery. These third parties are obligated to protect your personal information and are restricted from using it for any other purpose. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

How Long We Retain Your Data

We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. For example, if you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Your Rights Over Your Data

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
The right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of personal information – The CCPA gives California residents the right to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of their personal information.

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [Your Contact Email Address].

Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.2 This includes using security measures like encryption and secure servers (HTTPS). However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

Children’s Privacy

Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top.