Wyda Game Pty Ltd (ABN 76 649 648 117) t/a Wyda (we, us, our) respects your right to the protection of your personal information. This Privacy Policy details how we, collect, use, and disclose your personal information.
We are the developer and supplier of Wyda, a cloud hosted business acumen computer simulation provided on a software-as-a-service basis.
This Privacy Policy takes into account the requirements of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles, as well as the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 and the Information Privacy Principles.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please take the time to check our website and review it regularly to ensure you are aware of our current Privacy Policy.
Personal information: is information or an opinion, whether true or not and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual who is identified or reasonably identifiable.
The types of personal information we may collect about you include:
Given the nature of Wyda, and the services that we provide, it is not practicable for you to remain anonymous when dealing with us. To the extent that it is lawful and practicable for us to enable you to use a pseudonym, we will accommodate that request. However, if personal information is not provided in full where we have indicated that it is required or when it is otherwise requested, we may not be able to provide access to Wyda or process your application for employment, and our employees, contractors and consultants may not be able to provide services to you, either in an effective manner or at all.
We collect personal information in a variety of ways, including:
We only collect, use and disclose personal information where that information is reasonably necessary for purposes which are directly related to one or more of our functions or activities. These include:
If you are a customer, we also use your personal information:
If you are a user, we also use your personal information to:
Where purchased by your employer, we will collate information about you and your performance while playing Wyda (including accuracy, behavioural indicators, ethical choices, communication style, problem solving approach and ability, and ability to interpret different types of data such as visual and non-visual), and will evaluate this information by automated purposes to create a profile about you.
The manner in which such automated profiling is undertaken is regularly reviewed in light of the use of anonymised data for analytical, development and optimisation purposes. Where your employer has purchased this information, your employer may use the information for its own organisational purposes. You should contact your employer directly if you wish to discuss your employer's use of this information.
If your employer has purchased this information, we will also provide you with a copy of it. You may contact us using the details set out below if you have any concerns about the conclusions made during this automated profiling process.
Personal information: We will only disclose personal information (excluding sensitive information) to third parties where it is necessary as part of our business, where we have your consent, or where permitted by law. This means that we may disclose personal information (excluding sensitive information) to:
Sensitive information: We will only disclose sensitive information with your consent or where permitted by law. This means that we may disclose sensitive information to:
If you are a user, we will disclose the following information to your employer:
We store your personal information in Australia. Where we disclose your personal information to third parties, those third parties may store, transfer or access personal information outside of Australia. We will only disclose your personal information overseas in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles.
Where we disclose your personal information to third parties, those third parties may store, transfer or access personal information outside of New Zealand, which may not have an equivalent level of data protection laws as those in New Zealand. Before disclosing any personal information to an overseas recipient, we will comply with Information Privacy Principle 12 and only disclose the information if:
We take reasonable steps to make sure that the personal information we collect is accurate, complete and up-to-date. These steps include maintaining and updating personal information when we are advised by individuals that their personal information has changed and at other times as necessary.
Your choice: Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you provide personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect our ability to work with you as a customer or supplier of our business.
Correction: You are in control of any personal information you provide to us. If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, or would like to otherwise correct the personal information we have about you or change your preferences for contact from us, you can do so by accessing your dashboard, or letting us know by contacting us using the details listed below. If you contact us directly, we may request additional information to verify your identity. Please note, in some situations, we may be legally permitted to not correct your personal information. If we cannot correct your information, we will advise you as soon as reasonably possible and provide you with the reasons for our refusal and any mechanism available to complain about the refusal.
Access: You can access the personal information we currently hold about you (including any information we have used for profiling purposes) or request that we change that personal information at any time. An administrative fee may be payable for the provision of such information. We endeavour to respond to any such request within a reasonable period. We will allow you to access or make the changes unless we are required or permitted under applicable law to withhold the information. If we cannot agree to make requested changes to personal information, we will provide you with a written notice which sets out the reasons for our refusal and the mechanisms available to complain about the refusal, and attach this statement to our records.
Restrict and unsubscribe: You have an absolute right to opt-out of direct marketing at any time. You can do this by following the instructions in the communication where this is an electronic message, or by contacting us using the details set out below.
Complaints: If you wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the complaint. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take in response to your complaint. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (if you are an Australian resident), or the Office of the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner (if you are a New Zealand resident).
Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.
We take reasonable steps to protect the personal information we hold from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
These steps include a properly configured firewall, encrypted transmission of electronic data where required/appropriate, up-to-date anti-virus software, regular monitoring of all network traffic and strict access control policies on electronic data. There is also securing of paper files in locked cabinets and physical access restriction to these files.
When no longer required, personal information is destroyed in a secure manner or deleted.
While we are committed to security, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk.
We do not use cookies, but we do use authtokens to store the user's JWT (a JSON web token is a standardized, optionally validated and/or encrypted container format to securely transfer information between two parties), and user Id to stores the user's identity tokens.
Overview: We may use artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies and its corresponding data analysis, including AI Technologies provided by third parties (AI Technologies) in our business operations and the provision of our services. We will only use AI Technologies when legally permitted and necessary for our business operations.
How we use AI Technologies: We may use AI Technologies for the following purposes:
Data Protection and Security: Where we use service providers who provide AI Technologies to us, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that such service providers handle your personal information according to privacy law, including by ensuring that we have contracts in place requiring the service provider to protect personal information.
We may input your personal information into platforms provided by AI Technology service providers which may then be used to train the service provider’s AI Technology model based on that information.
Your Rights and our Commitments: We will treat information generated or inferred by the AI Technologies about individuals as personal information and you maintain all rights over your personal information as outlined in this privacy policy, regardless of whether AI Technologies are used in processing. When using AI Technologies with your personal information:
We consider the security of our systems a top priority. But no matter how much effort we put into system security, there can still be vulnerabilities present.
If you discover a vulnerability, we would like to know about it so we can take steps to address it as quickly as possible. We would like to ask you to help us better protect our clients and our systems.
Please do the following:
What we promise:
Our website may contain links to other parties’ websites. We do not have any control over those websites and we are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any personal information which you provide whilst visiting those websites. Those websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy.
You can contact us with questions or concerns about privacy by emailing us at hello@wydagame.com.
Under the GDPR individuals located in the EU and the UK have extra rights which apply to their personal information. Personal information under the GDPR is often referred to as personal data and is defined as information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (individual). This Appendix 1 sets out the additional rights we give to individuals located in the EU and UK, as well as information on how we process the personal information of individuals located in the EU and UK. Please read the Privacy Policy above and this Appendix carefully and contact us at the details at the end of the Privacy Policy if you have any questions.
This Appendix applies to the personal information set out in the Privacy Policy above. This includes any Sensitive Information also listed in the Privacy Policy above which is known as ‘special categories of data’ under the GDPR.
We collect and process personal information about you only where we have legal bases for doing so under applicable laws. We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal information, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate. Note that we may process your personal information for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please reach out to us if you need further details about the specific legal ground, we are relying on to process your personal information where more than one ground has been set below:
1 - To enable you to access and use our software, including to provide you with a login, analytics of user participation and to provide the scores of users to whom you have provide licences.
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2 - To work with you as a customer, user or supplier of our business, including to register your attendance at our events.
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3 - To contact and communicate with you about our business, including in response to any support requests you lodge with us or other enquiries you make with us.
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4 - To contact and communicate with you about any enquiries you make with us via our website.
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5 - For internal record keeping, administrative, invoicing and billing purposes.
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6 - For analytics, market research and business development, including to operate and improve our business, associated applications and associated social media platforms.
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7 - For advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our events and experiences and information that we consider may be of interest to you.
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8 - To run promotions, competitions and/or offer additional benefits to you.
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9 - If you have applied for employment with us, to consider your employment application.
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10 - To comply with our legal obligations or if otherwise required or authorised by law.
Type of Data:
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If you have consented to our use of data about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place. Where we are using your data because we or a third party have a legitimate interest to do so, you have the right to object to that use though, in some cases, this may mean no longer doing business with us. Further information about your rights is available below.
The privacy protections available in the countries to which we send data for the purposes listed above may be less comprehensive than what is offered in the country in which you initially provided the information. Where we transfer your personal information outside of the country where you are based, we will perform those transfers using appropriate safeguards in accordance with the requirements of applicable data protection laws and we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and Appendix 1. This includes:
We will only retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal information for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you and how we are process it (commonly known as a "data subject request"). You may also have a right in accordance with applicable data protection law to have your personal information rectified or deleted, to restrict our processing of that information, to object to decisions being made based on automated processing where the decision will produce a legal effect or a similarly significant effect on you, to stop unauthorised transfers of your personal information to a third party and, in some circumstances, to have personal information relating to you transferred to you or another organisation.
If you are not happy with how we are processing your personal information, you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the relevant Data Protection Authority based on where you live. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the Data Protection Authority, so please contact us in the first instance using the details set out above in our Privacy Policy.
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