Effective Date: July 12, 2019
Suppliers, service providers, and other vendors (collectively, “vendors”) help us provide a variety of Services to our members and communities and otherwise support our business. This Vendor Privacy Policy describes how The We Company uses certain categories of Personal Information from vendors and potential vendors and provides certain other information about vendor privacy practices. Please see The We Company’s Global Privacy Policy for additional information, including for the definitions of capitalized terms that are not defined here.
If you intend to provide us with Personal Information about other individuals, such as your colleagues, you must provide a copy of the Global Privacy Policy and this Vendor Privacy Policy to the relevant individuals, directly or through your employer.
How We Use Your Personal Information
This section supplements our Global Privacy Policy to provide more information about some of the ways in which we use vendors’ information. If you are a vendor, the Personal Information we use includes:
Contact Information, Professional Information, and Verification Information so that we may identify you, evaluate and screen potential vendors, register selected vendors, contact you, including to respond to inquiries or troubleshooting requests and to deliver notifications and other operational communications, and process invoices.
We also may use your Contact Information and Verification Information to provision and de-provision access, protect against fraud, abuse, or harm, verify your identity, and otherwise provide a Secure Environment (generally, to meet our legal obligations or to meet our legitimate interests);
Payment Information, where appropriate, to process a financial transaction with you, including payments for the provision of goods and services (generally, to meet our contractual obligations to you); and
Other Personal Information and company information, including information from publicly and commercially available sources like public business records and government records, to evaluate and screen potential vendors, engage and register vendors, process invoices, provision and de-provision access, and for other business execution, management, and administrative purposes.
We also use your Device and Usage Information, Other Personal Information, and company information to prepare aggregate use statistics, analyze, provide, better tailor, and improve our products and Services, otherwise enhance your engagement with us, for legal and regulatory compliance, including litigation and defense of claims, and as otherwise described in our Global Privacy Policy.
For more information about how we use your Personal Information to meet our contractual obligations, to meet our legal obligations, in accordance with our legitimate interests, and, where applicable, with your consent, please see our Global Privacy Policy.