1. Introduction
WOW Community (https://wowwomencommunity.com/) appreciates your trust and values your privacy. We are a women-focused community dedicated to creating empowering experiences, events, and resources for our members. This Privacy Policy explains how WOW Community collects, uses, and protects your information. By using our website and services, you acknowledge and agree to the terms outlined in this policy.
2. Data Collected
Data Storage Location
WOW Community operates from India, and our website is hosted on secure, industry-standard servers. Our hosting provider follows strong data protection practices to ensure that your personal information is stored safely and handled in compliance with applicable privacy regulations, including GDPR where relevant.
We use reputable hosting services that prioritize security, encryption, and privacy-focused infrastructure to safeguard all user data.
Registration Data
If you register on the WOW Community website, we collect and store the information you provide, including your chosen username, email address, and any additional personal details added to your member profile. You may view, update, or delete your personal information at any time (except for your username). Authorized WOW Community administrators may also access and manage this information to maintain your account and ensure smooth platform functionality.
Purchase Data
If you make any purchases or paid registrations through the WOW Community website—such as event tickets, membership plans, workshops, or merchandise—we collect and store the necessary transaction details. This may include your name, email address, contact information, payment confirmation, and purchase history.
Support Data
If you are a registered member of the WOW Community and request assistance through our support channels, we collect the information you provide when submitting a support request. This may include your name, email address, and any details you choose to share regarding your issue.
Support requests are handled securely, and only the information you voluntarily submit is used to help resolve your query. WOW Community ensures that all support-related data is managed responsibly and kept confidential.
By submitting a support request, you provide consent for us to use this information solely for customer assistance and service-related communication.
Comments
When you leave a comment on the WOW Community website, we collect the information you provide in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser user-agent details. This data is used to help us detect and prevent spam, maintain website security, and ensure a safe environment for all community members.
Contact Form
Information submitted through the contact forms on the WOW Community website is sent directly to our official community email. All submissions are handled securely and used only for the purpose of responding to your inquiries, offering support, or providing requested information.
These messages are stored only for customer service and communication purposes. They are never used for marketing, and we do not share them with any third parties unless required for service-related reasons or legal obligations.
Google Analytics
WOW Community uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website and to improve user experience. All analytics data collected is anonymous and does not include any personally identifiable information.
If you prefer not to have your activity tracked for analytics purposes, you may opt out at any time by using the official Google Analytics Opt-out tool.
Cases for Using the Personal Data
WOW Community may use your personal information in the following situations:
To verify and identify you when you interact with our website or member services.
To provide technical support or assistance when needed.
To send important updates, announcements, or information related to events, community activities, or changes to our services.
To monitor account activities for security purposes, prevent fraudulent actions, and protect member data.
To personalize your experience on the website, making it more relevant and user-friendly.
To ensure the smooth operation, performance, and administration of our website and member platform.
3. Embedded Content
Some pages on the WOW Community website may include embedded content such as YouTube videos, social media posts, maps, or other external media. Embedded content from third-party websites behaves exactly the same as if you visited those websites directly.
These external sites may collect data about you, use cookies, implement their own tracking technologies, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content — especially if you are logged into their platform while viewing it.
The Facebook Page plugin may be used on the WOW Community website to display updates, posts, or community highlights from our official Facebook page. Facebook has its own independent cookie and privacy policies, which we do not control.
No Facebook cookies are installed, and your IP address is not shared with Facebook unless you actively interact with or consent to viewing the embedded Facebook content.
For more details, please refer to Facebook’s official Privacy Policy.
The WOW Community website may use the Twitter embed feature to display our latest posts or updates from our official Twitter (X) account. Twitter has its own cookie practices and privacy policies, which we do not control.
Your IP address and other data are not shared with Twitter unless you choose to interact with or consent to viewing the embedded Twitter content.
For more information, please refer to Twitter’s (X) official Privacy Policy.
Youtube
The WOW Community website may display embedded YouTube videos to share event highlights, announcements, or other content. YouTube has its own cookie practices and privacy policies that operate independently from ours.
No YouTube cookies are placed, and your IP address is not shared with YouTube unless you choose to interact with or consent to viewing the embedded video.
For more information, please refer to YouTube’s official Privacy Policy.
4. Cookies
The WOW Community website uses cookies — small text files stored on your device — to improve your browsing experience. Cookies help the website remember your preferences, enhance functionality, support features such as event registrations or forms, and provide anonymous analytics data through tools like Google Analytics.
These cookies are designed to make your experience smoother and more personalized. However, if you prefer, you can disable cookies on this site or any other website at any time.
The most effective way to do this is by adjusting your browser settings. For guidance, please refer to your browser’s help section or documentation.
Necessary Cookies (Additional for Logged in Customers)
The WOW Community website uses essential WordPress cookies to ensure that registered members can log in securely and use member-only features. These necessary cookies include:
wp-auth – Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in users and verify passwords.
wordpress_logged_in_{hash} – Confirms when a user is logged in and who they are.
wordpress_test_cookie – Checks whether cookies are enabled in your browser to ensure the website functions properly.
wp-settings-[UID] – Stores your individual user settings. The number represents your unique User ID. This helps customize your view of the WordPress admin area and, in some cases, the front-end experience.
wp-settings-{time}-[UID] – Stores time-based settings for your specific User ID to personalize your admin interface.
5. Who Has Access To Your Data
If you are not a registered member of the WOW Community website, we do not collect or store any personal information that can identify you.If you are a client with a registered account, your personal information can be accessed by:
If you have a registered account, your personal information may be accessed only by:
Authorized system administrators who manage the website and ensure its secure operation.
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WOW Community support team members, but only when necessary to assist you, troubleshoot issues, or manage your account.
6. Third Party Access to Your Data
We don’t share your data with third-parties in a way as to reveal any of your personal information like email, name, etc. The only exceptions to that rule are for partners we have to share limited data with in order to provide the services you expect from us. Please see below:Envato Pty Ltd
For the purpose of validating and getting your purchase information regarding licenses for this theme, we send your provided tokens and purchase keys to Envato Pty Ltd and use the response from their API to register your validated support data. See the Envato privacy policy here: Envato Privacy Policy.Ticksy
Ticksy provides the support ticketing platform we use to handle support requests. The data they receive is limited to the data you explicitly provide and consent to being set when you create a support ticket. Ticksy adheres to the EU/US “Privacy Shield” and you can see their privacy policy here: Ticksy Privacy Policy.7. How Long We Retain Your Data For
When you submit a support ticket or a comment, its metadata is retained until (if) you tell us to remove it. We use this data so that we can recognize you and approve your comments automatically instead of holding them for moderation.
If you register on our website, we also store the personal information you provide in your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except changing your username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
8. Security Measures
We use the SSL/HTTPS protocol throughout our site. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so that personally identifiable information is not captured/hijacked by third parties without authorization.
In case of a data breach, system administrators will immediately take all needed steps to ensure system integrity, will contact affected users and will attempt to reset passwords if needed.
9. Your Data Rights
General Rights
If you have a registered account on this website or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we retain, including any additional data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any of the personal data we have stored. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. In short, we cannot erase data that is vital to you being an active customer (i.e. basic account information like an email address). If you wish that all of your data is erased, we will no longer be able to offer any support or other product-related services to you.GDPR Rights
Your privacy is critically important to us. Going forward with the GDPR we aim to support the GDPR standard. AncoraThemes permits residents of the European Union to use its Service. Therefore, it is the intent of AncoraThemes to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation. For more details please see here: EU GDPR Information Portal.10. Third Party Websites
may post links to third party websites on this website. These third party websites are not screened for privacy or security compliance by AncoraThemes, and you release us from any liability for the conduct of these third party websites.
All social media sharing links, either displayed as text links or social media icons do not connect you to any of the associated third parties unless you explicitly click on them.
Please be aware that this Privacy Policy, and any other policies in place, in addition to any amendments, does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to members of the Service or Site. AncoraThemes bears no responsibility for the information collected or used by any advertiser or third party website. Please review the privacy policy and terms of service for each site you visit through third party links.
11. Release of Your Data for Legal Purposes
At times it may become necessary or desirable to AncoraThemes, for legal purposes, to release your information in response to a request from a government agency or a private litigant. You agree that we may disclose your information to a third party where we believe, in good faith, that it is desirable to do so for the purposes of a civil action, criminal investigation, or other legal matter. In the event that we receive a subpoena affecting your privacy, we may elect to notify you to give you an opportunity to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or we may attempt to quash it ourselves, but we are not obligated to do either. We may also proactively report you, and release your information to, third parties where we believe that it is prudent to do so for legal reasons, such as our belief that you have engaged in fraudulent activities. You release us from any damages that may arise from or relate to the release of your information to a request from law enforcement agencies or private litigants.
Any passing on of personal data for legal purposes will only be done in compliance with laws of the country you reside in.