Privacy Policy

Challenge Your World Privacy Policy

Challenge Your World is committed to protecting your privacy at all times.  We want you to feel comfortable while visiting the www.challengeyourworld.com Web site (the “Site”) and therefore we respect and are committed to ensuring your privacy.  It is our belief that you should understand the way we use the information that you provide.  This Privacy Policy also explains how you can ask questions, review and update your Personal Information.  We invite you to take a few minutes to read the following paragraphs detailing our Privacy Policy, which is enforced when visiting our Site and participating in our contests.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, any information that identifies or describes a particular individual, including but not limited to name, postal address, e-mail address, photo or telephone number, as the case may be, is considered Personal Information.

By using this Site, you consent to the terms of our online Privacy Policy and any subsequent modification thereto, as well as to Challenge Your World’s processing and collection of Personal Information.  If you have objections to this Privacy Policy, you should not access or use the Site.

In general, you can visit Challenge Your World’s web pages without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Information about yourself.

For our internal purposes, we gather date, time, browser type, name of the internet service provider, the referral site, the pages requested, navigation history and IP address of all visitors to our site. This information does not contain anything that can identify users personally. We use this information for internal statistic and audit purposes.

We also use this information to measure site activity to benefit challengeyourworld.com users. This same information may be shared with third parties in order to provide these services or to analyze, store, or aggregate the information. It may also be shared with other third parties, working with us to improve the services of Challenge Your World or this Site.

When you create an account online, Challenge Your World may ask for your first and last name, address, email address, a photo, telephone numbers and other Personal Information.  You will also be asked for Personal Information when you submit certain information, comments, blog or when you participate in our contest or platform.

The Personal Information requested when creating an account is used to establish your online profile.  Specific information provided in creating your profile, including your name, photo and address is displayed on the Challenge Your World Site. We also use your Personal Information to evaluate your submissions and to allow us to communicate with you.  The information also enables Challenge Your World to customize services and to alert you to news and services from Challenge Your World and other sources that may be of interest to you and to allow you to access certain limited-access areas of the Site.

Challenge Your World may share Personal Information within the Challenge Your World Family. The Challenge Your World Family includes Challenge Your World, our franchisors, our franchisees, our subsidiaries and our affiliates. Of course, any use of this information by the Challenge Your World Family will comply with this policy.

Companies or persons may be engaged by Challenge Your World to perform a variety of functions, such as assisting with the evaluation of your submissions, providing technical services for our Site, etc. These companies or persons may have access to Personal Information if needed to perform such functions. However, these companies or persons may only use such Personal Information for the purpose of performing that function and may not use it for any other purpose.

Challenge Your World does not sell, transfer or disclose Personal Information to third parties. However, Challenge Your World may sell, transfer or disclose any content or information other than Personal Information that is posted or submitted on our Sites.  Furthermore, with your permission, we will, on occasion send marketing information on behalf of our business partners about products or services they provide that may be of interest to you. You may be asked if you wish to receive marketing materials from Challenge Your World’s business partners. If you elect to receive such materials, Challenge Your World will not share your Personal Information with such partners but rather will send a mailing or email on behalf of the partners.

We may disclose Personal Information if we are required to do so by law or we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process; (2) protect and defend our rights and property; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of this Site; or (4) protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public (among other things, this means that if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, information about you may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions).

Members of the Challenge Your World Site may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account and utilizing the profile editing tools.  The changes to the information will be made immediately. Members who wish to delete their account may do so by clicking on the “Delete Account” button in the Member Profile section.  Although deleted information may persist in backup storage for some period of time, the information will not be available to other Members or users of the Challenge Your World Site.

We are committed to protecting the security of your Personal Information. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

A cookie is a small line of data that is sent to your Internet browser from a web server and stored on you computer’s hard drive.  Cookies can track how and when you use a site, and which site you visited immediately before.  A cookie does not damage your system.  A cookie identifies your browser and not you.  We use cookies to identify which areas of the Site you have visited, so the next time you visit those pages may be readily accessible.  If you do not wish to receive a cookie, use the options in your web browser.  To that effect, click on the help section of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.  This provides you with anonymity, but it also makes it very difficult to offer you customized services.

You also have a role in protecting the security of your information; for example, you should guard your password and not permit unauthorized use of your account.

To the extent that our websites contain links to other sites, the owners of those sites are responsible for the privacy practices or content of those other sites. Challenge Your World does not endorse and will not be responsible for the privacy practices on third party websites.

This Web site sometimes makes forums and blogs available to its users.  Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas will be public information and will not be considered Personal Information.  You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your Personal Information to such areas. 

Challenge Your World will retain your Personal Information only as long as it is required for the reasons it was collected.  Members may change or delete their Personal Information as described in “Changing or Deleting Personal Information”.

Challenge Your World reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time.  If Challenge Your World decides to amend this Privacy Policy, we will post the amended terms on the Site so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone.  The posting of amended terms shall constitute notice to you.  All amended terms shall be effective immediately upon such notice.  Your continued use of the Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgement of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy. 

If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, please feel free to contact Challenge Your World at 514-750-4937 or by e-mail at: privacy@challengeyourworld.com.