Australia Applicant Privacy Statement

The Privacy Act 1998 (Cth) and the associated Australian Privacy Principles (together "the Act") set out certain requirements for the collection, use, disclosure and handling of your personal information.

When you register, and apply for a position with Williams-Sonoma, Inc. or one of its related entities, the personal information that we collect from you may be used for the purpose of assessing your application or for any other purpose required or permitted by law, including:

• to assess your suitability for the position(s) you apply for;
• to conduct any or all of the following pre-employment screening checks:
  • confirmation of education and / or previous employment;
  • reference checks;
  • confirmation of professional memberships;
  • directorship searches; and
  • company checks; and
• for any other purposes related to the above or otherwise necessary to give effect to the purposes listed above.

If your application is unsuccessful or you choose not to accept any offer of employment we make, the information will not be held for longer than necessary, after which time it will be deidentified or destroyed. If your application is successful, the information will form part of your employment file and we will be entitled to process it for all relevant purposes in connection with your employment. As the information will then form part of an employee record, we are no longer required to meet certain requirements contained in the Act in relation to that information.

If you choose to register for email alerts about future vacancies, your name and email address will be used solely for the purpose of providing you with details of vacancies which match your selected criteria. You can withdraw your consent to receive such email alerts at any time by contacting us using the contact details below. We do not sell or pass on your details to any other organisation or use them for any other purpose ourselves without your consent.

We store your personal information in the United States. In using your personal information for the purposes outlined above, it may be necessary for us to:

• disclose your personal information to our employees, related bodies corporate and other third parties including external service providers such as our software systems provider; and/or
• send your personal information to our related bodies corporate in the United States and third parties located overseas.

Our privacy policy provides further details on how we manage your personal information, including how it may be disclosed, how you can request access to, or seek correction of, the personal information we hold about you and the options available to you should you have a complaint about how we manage the privacy of your personal information. You can access our privacy policy by visiting our website (https://www.williams-sonoma.com.au/privacy-policy) or by requesting a hard copy of the policy using the following contact details:

• Human Resources, Williams-Sonoma, Inc., Address.
• WILLIAMS-SONOMA AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
  Suite 202, Level 2, 2 Grosvenor St
  Bondi Junction, NSW 2022
• AGraham@wsgc.com

Declaration

Please read the declaration below and, should you be content to do so, indicate your acceptance by clicking "I agree to the above" at the foot of this page. If you do not provide this personal information, you only provide some of the personal information we request, or you are not prepared to provide the declaration below, we may be unable to assess your application.

In line with the Privacy Act 1998 (Cth), I agree to this information being collected, used, disclosed and handled for the purposes identified in this privacy statement. All of the details which I have provided are correct to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any misrepresentation of this material may result in the termination of my application or employment.

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Canada Applicant Privacy Notice

This Careers Privacy Notice has been prepared by Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, pottery barn kids, and west elm, which are each owned and operated by Williams-Sonoma Canada, Inc. (“WSI Brands”, “we”, “us”, “our”). We are committed to respecting your privacy. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what job-related information we may collect from you, how we use and disclose such information, and your ability to access, review, correct the information. This Privacy Policy applies the personal information we collect in connection with the job application process, including through the WSI Careers Site available at https://ehac.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1. For further information regarding the manner in which we treat your personal information, please see the Williams-Sonoma Canada Inc. Privacy Policy.

Job Applicant Information We Collect and Use

When you create a job applicant profile on the WSI Careers Site or otherwise apply for a job at WSI, we collect personal information including your name, contact information (such as mailing address, phone number and/or email address), education history, experience and history, skills and interests, availability, confirmation that you are over the age of majority in your province, and any other information you voluntarily provide to us in your application, resume, cover letter, or interview process. We use this information to evaluate your qualifications and suitability for the desired position, process your application, and contact you for further information. We may also keep this information on file to consider you for future job opportunities or to otherwise meet legal or business requirements. If you accept an offer of employment, this information will be used as part of the onboarding process and will form part of your employee file.

As part of the job application process, we may also collect personal information in the course of background verifications, including, but not limited to, a criminal background check, a job reference check, and verification of any information you have provided.

Job Alerts

If you sign-up to receive job alerts by email, we will send you notifications of new WSI jobs that meet your interests and experience. You can stop receiving job alerts by email at any time by following the “unsubscribe” instructions included in each email and text message.

How we Share Personal Information

We may share personal information with third parties (including our affiliates) who provide services on our behalf, including hosting the Careers Site, conducting background verifications, and assessing job applications.

Your personal information may be maintained and processed by third party service providers in the US or other jurisdictions. Our service providers are given the information they need to perform their designated functions, and we do not authorize them to use or disclose personal information for their own marketing or other purposes. For more information on how we may share your information, please see “Sharing of Personal Information” in the WSI Canada Privacy Policy.

WSI Brands and our Canadian, US and other service providers may provide your personal information in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry or order, or to an organization in the case of a breach of an agreement or contravention of law, or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable Canadian, US or other law.

Safeguards and Retention

We maintain reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the personal information in our custody and control against theft, loss and unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

Remember to close your browser window when you have finished your visit. This is to ensure that others cannot access your information, especially if you are sharing a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place.

We have personal information retention processes designed to retain personal information of job applicants for no longer than necessary for the purposes stated above or to otherwise meet legal requirements. If you would like to withdraw your job application, please contact us as set out below.

You May Access and Update Personal Information

You have the right to access, update, and correct inaccuracies in your personal information in our custody and control, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law. You may request access, updating and corrections of inaccuracies in personal information we have in our custody or control by emailing or writing to us at the contact information set out under “Contact Us” below. We may request certain personal information for the purposes of verifying the identity of the individual seeking access to their personal information records.

Contact Us

Please contact us if:

• you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy,
• you wish to access, update, and/or correct inaccuracies in your personal information, or
• you otherwise have a question or complaint about the manner in which we or our service providers treat your personal information.

You may contact us by email at HR@wsgc.com or by mail to the following address: Williams-Sonoma Canada, Inc., c/o Williams-Sonoma, Inc., Attn: HR Recruiting Department, 3250 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA 94109.

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Avis sur la protection des renseignements personnels – candidats et candidates du Canada

Le présent avis sur la protection des renseignements personnels relatif aux carrières a été préparé par Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, pottery barn kids et west elm, entreprises dont Williams Sonoma Canada, Inc. est la propriétaire-exploitante (les « marques WSI », « nous », « notre » et « nos »). Nous sommes résolus à respecter votre vie privée. La présente politique de protection des renseignements personnels a pour but de vous informer sur les renseignements liés à l’emploi que nous pourrions recueillir de vous, sur la façon dont nous les utilisons et les communiquons et sur les moyens mis à votre disposition pour y accéder, les examiner et les corriger. La présente politique de protection des renseignements personnels s’applique aux renseignements personnels que nous recueillons dans le cadre du processus de demande d’emploi, notamment par l’intermédiaire du site Carrière de WSI que vous pouvez consulter à https://ehac.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1. Pour obtenir plus de renseignements sur la façon dont nous traitons vos renseignements personnels, veuillez vous reporter à la politique de renseignements personnels de Williams-Sonoma Canada Inc. (en anglais seulement).

Information que nous recueillons et utilisons au sujet des candidats et candidates

Lorsque vous créez le profil d’une personne qui postule un emploi sur le site Carrière de WSI ou que vous postulez autrement un emploi chez WSI, nous recueillons des renseignements personnels, notamment vos nom et coordonnées (comme votre adresse postale, numéro de téléphone et/ou courriel), des renseignements sur vos études, expériences, antécédents, compétences et intérêts, disponibilités, la confirmation que vous êtes majeur dans votre province et tout autre renseignement que vous nous fournissez volontairement dans votre demande, CV ou lettre d’accompagnement ou encore lors des entrevues. Nous utilisons ces renseignements pour évaluer vos compétences, déterminer si vous répondez aux exigences du poste souhaité, traiter votre demande et communiquer avec vous pour obtenir d’autres renseignements. Nous pouvons également conserver ces renseignements au dossier en vue de considérer votre candidature lorsque d’autres occasions d’emploi se présenteront ou encore pour répondre à des exigences légales ou commerciales. Si vous acceptez une offre d’emploi, ces renseignements seront utilisés dans le cadre de l’accueil et de l’intégration des nouveaux employés et feront partie de votre dossier d’employé.

Nous pourrions également recueillir des renseignements personnels à l’occasion des vérifications sur vos antécédents que nous effectuons durant le processus de demande d’emploi, y compris, sans limitation, vos antécédents judiciaires, la vérification de vos références et des renseignements que vous avez fournis.

Alertes emplois

Si vous vous inscrivez à la réception d’alertes emplois par courriel, nous vous enverrons des notifications sur les nouveaux emplois de WSI qui répondent à vos intérêts et à votre expérience. Vous pouvez mettre fin à la réception d’alertes-emplois par courriel à tout moment en suivant les directives de désinscription figurant dans chaque courriel et texto.

Façon dont nous communiquons les renseignements personnels

Nous pouvons communiquer les renseignements personnels à des tiers (dont les membres de notre groupe) qui fournissent des services pour notre compte, y compris héberger le site Carrière, effectuer des vérifications d’antécédents et évaluer des demandes d’emploi.

Vos renseignements personnels pourraient être conservés et traités par des tiers fournisseurs de services aux États Unis ou dans d’autres territoires. Nos fournisseurs de services ne reçoivent que les renseignements dont ils ont besoin pour exercer les fonctions qui leur sont attribuées. Nous ne les autorisons pas à utiliser ou à communiquer des renseignements personnels pour leurs propres activités commerciales ou d’autres fins. Pour obtenir plus de renseignements sur la façon dont nous communiquons vos renseignements personnels, veuillez vous reporter à la rubrique Partage des renseignements personnels (Sharing of Personal Information) de la politique des renseignements personnels de WSI Canada.

Les marques WSI et nos fournisseurs de services canadiens, américains et autres pourraient fournir vos renseignements personnels en réponse à un mandat de perquisition ou à une autre enquête ou ordonnance valide légitime, ou à une organisation en cas de violation d’une convention ou de la loi, ou encore comme les lois canadiennes, américaines ou autres applicables l’exigent ou l’autorisent.

Mesures de sécurité et conservation

Nous mettons en œuvre des mesures de protection physique, électronique et procédurale raisonnables dans le but de protéger les renseignements personnels qui sont sous notre garde et contrôle contre le vol, la perte et l’accès, l’utilisation, la modification et la communication non autorisés. Il est malheureusement impossible de garantir à 100 % la sécurité des transmissions de données par Internet.

N’oubliez pas de fermer la fenêtre de votre navigateur lorsque vous finissez votre visite. Cette précaution a pour but d’empêcher qu’une personne accède à vos renseignements, surtout si vous partagez un ordinateur avec quelqu’un d’autre ou si vous utilisez un ordinateur dans un endroit public.

Nous disposons de processus de conservation des renseignements personnels conçus pour que la conservation des renseignements personnels des personnes qui postulent un emploi ne dure que le temps nécessaire aux fins énoncées précédemment ou pour satisfaire aux exigences légales. Si vous souhaitez retirer votre demande d’emploi, veuillez communiquer avec nous tel qu’il est indiqué ci après.

Accès et mise à jour des renseignements personnels

Vous avez le droit d’accéder à vos renseignements personnels dont nous avons la garde et le contrôle, de les mettre à jour et d’en corriger les inexactitudes, sous réserve de certaines exceptions prévues par la loi. Vous pouvez demander l’accès à ces renseignements personnels, leur mise à jour et la correction d’inexactitudes qui s’y trouvent en communiquant avec nous par courriel ou par la poste aux coordonnées indiquées à la rubrique « Pour communiquer avec nous » ci après. Nous pouvons demander certains renseignements personnels pour vérifier l’identité de la personne qui demande l’accès à ses renseignements personnels.

Pour communiquer avec nous

Veuillez communiquer avec nous si :

• vous avez des questions ou des commentaires au sujet de la présente politique de protection des renseignements personnels,
• vous souhaitez accéder à vos renseignements personnels, les mettre à jour ou en corriger les inexactitudes, ou
• vous avez par ailleurs une question ou une plainte à formuler concernant la façon dont nous ou nos fournisseurs de services traitons vos renseignements personnels.

Vous pouvez communiquer avec nous par courriel à l’adresse HR@wsgc.com ou par la poste à l’adresse suivante : Williams-Sonoma Canada, Inc., c/o Williams-Sonoma, Inc., Attn: HR Recruiting Department, 3250 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA 94109.

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China Applicant Privacy Notice

Personal Data We Collect

In connection with your application process we collect the following “Personal Data”: your name, email address, phone number, home address, prior employment history, education history, and other information that is capable of identifying you personally.

Personal Data Processing and Sharing

We process your Personal Data based on our legitimate interests, to provide services requested by you, and to comply with legal requirements. We process your Personal Data as necessary for us to evaluate your employment application and to provide you with services necessary to onboard you as an employee, should you receive a job offer from Company.

We will retain your Personal Data so long as necessary and as required by applicable law.

We may transfer your Personal Data to Company’s parent, subsidiary, and affiliated companies for the purposes listed above. We will take reasonable and appropriate security measures, including implementing standard contractual clauses, to provide for the safe transfer and storage of your Personal Data.

We will also disclose your Personal Data if it is necessary in order to comply with law, law enforcement, or to respond to legal requests.

Your Rights

With respect to your Personal Data, you have the right to:

• request access to and be provided with information on the processing of your Personal Data;
• request corrections of your Personal Data if such Personal Data proves inaccurate or incomplete;
• request your personal data to be deleted (i) if it is no longer necessary for the purposes described in this Notice, (ii) where applicable, should you decide to withdraw your consent where you gave it, (iii) where applicable, should you object to its processing for direct marketing purposes, (iv) should you identify that it would have been unlawfully processed, (v) should we be under a legal obligation to erase it to comply with PRC law and always provided that we are not under a legal obligation to keep it;
• restrict the processing of your personal data (i) if you contest its accuracy; (ii) if the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure; (iii) if it is no longer needed for the purposes set out in this Notice, but you require it for the establishment, exercise, or defense of a legal claim, (iv) where applicable, if you object to profiling;
• object to the processing of your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes or to any processing which we would have grounded on our legitimate interest (e.g. profiling); and
• receive Personal Data which you provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to transmit those to another provider provided these are processed based on your consent or our contract.

If you wish to exercise any of your above rights, please reach out to Lucy Lu in the global human resources team at LLu1@wsgc.com /(+86)18516208316.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Notice or about how we will handle your Personal Data, please contact
Lucy Lu, Human Resources
Williams-Sonoma Technical Service (Dongguan)
Company Limited Shanghai Branch
Units A,D,E & F of Level 16, Tower D,
West Link,
No.2337 Gudai Road,
Minhang District
Shanghai, China 201100

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INDIA APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE

Effective Date: May 2020

This Privacy Notice explains how Williams-Sonoma India Pvt. Ltd. ("WSIPL") collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes personal information about our India.-based associates, officers, directors, contractors, freelancers, contingent workers, consultants and other outsourced and temporary workers (collectively, "personnel"), and their family members or other individuals about whom we process personal information as a result of the relationships those individuals have with personnel (collectively, "related persons"). Personnel are required to provide a copy of this Privacy Notice to all related persons to whom this Privacy Notice applies.

This Privacy Notice is not a contract and does not create any legal rights or obligations. This Privacy Notice also is not intended to replace other notices or disclosures we may provide to you in connection with your role in our organization, which will supersede any conflicting disclosures contained in this Privacy Notice.

What is Personal Information?

When we use the term "personal information" in this Privacy Notice, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to you within the context of your role as a member of our personnel or a related person. It does not include aggregated or anonymized information that is maintained in a form that is not capable of being associated with or reasonably linked to you. For information about your rights and collection of personal information as a customer of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. and its family of brands, please refer to the privacy policy located on the homepage of each brand.

Our Collection and Use of Personal Information

The types of personal information we collect, the way we collect it and how we use it will depend on the relationship you have with us.

Personnel

Collection of Personal Information

In connection with your role as a member of our personnel, we collect certain personal information about you, which may include:

• Contact Information: such as your full name, email address (personal and work), home address, business address, telephone number and emergency contact information.
• Identification Materials: such as your image, national identification numbers, passport number, driver's license number or vehicle license plate number.
• Professional Information: such as your hire date, employment location, business unit, department, supervisor, job title, position/grade, hours and days worked, working arrangement, work restrictions or accommodations, employee identification number, licenses and certifications, attendance, career goals, performance reviews, disciplinary records and information needed to establish your eligibility to work for us, including visa information.
• Education & Training Information: such as your highest level of education, the schools you attended and when you were in attendance, degrees, certificates or other educational qualifications you earned.
• Financial Information: such as your salary, bonus, benefits, expenses, stock or equity grants, bank account and routing information and corporate credit card number.
• Benefits Information: such as your eligibility for benefits, information about your family members and other related persons under your benefits, and claims relating to your benefits.
• Medical Information: such as observations, inquiry responses, and testing results.
• Equal Opportunity Information: such as age, race, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability or accommodation request, or marital or veteran status when you choose to provide it, but it will not be used in employment-related decisions unless specifically permitted by law.
• Security Information: such as your work-related accounts and passwords, technical details about your use of work-related devices, your access to physical and electronic work-related locations, and photographs, videos and other visual images of you.
• Other Work-Related Information: We also collect any personal information you choose to share with us or we receive from a third party in connection with your work for us, a grievance you are involved in, an agreement you enter into with us or additional roles you take on as a part of our organization.

Although we often collect the personal information described above directly from you, we also collect this information from supervisors, colleagues, customers, vendors, publicly available sources and other third parties you may interact with as a member of our personnel. In addition, we may also collect this information through service providers and other third parties that collect it on our behalf, such as communications providers, payroll providers and benefits providers.

Use of Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect about our personnel to:

• Conduct organizational planning and development, including budget planning and administration;
• Analyze and monitor compliance with our personnel and compliance policies and practices;
• Administer recruiting, onboarding, staffing, leave, personnel evaluations, promotions, performance management, training, discipline, participation in available activities or programs and any other processing in connection with work-related purposes;
• Authorize, grant, administer, monitor (including by video surveillance) and terminate access to or use of company systems, facilities, records, property and infrastructure;
• Communicate with and between personnel, as well as with designated emergency contacts;
• Support and manage personnel, including providing resources needed for personnel to perform their roles with us;
• Facilitate personnel compensation, payroll, and benefit planning and administration (e.g., salary, tax withholding, insurance);
• Conduct performance reviews and evaluations, as well as make decisions about promotions and job mobility;
• Manage business travel (e.g., car service/rentals, flights, hotels) and personnel expenses (e.g., reimbursement, corporate credit card).
• Operate our business, including marketing our personnel to customers, facilitating the work of our personnel and providing the products and services made available to our customers;
• Investigate, document and report work-related injuries, illness or grievances;
• Conduct internal investigations, audits, compliance, risk management, problem resolution and security operations;
• Fulfill contractual obligations to you and other third parties;
• Maintain a safe and healthy work environment;
• Comply with applicable law, rule, regulation, legal proceeding and government investigations, including relating to tax reporting and immigration.

Related Persons

Collection of Personal Information

At times, we receive personal information about our personnel's family members and other related persons in connection with emergency contacts and the benefits and services we provide, which may include:

• Contact Information: such as your full name, email address, home address, business address, telephone number and emergency contact information.
• Identification Materials: such as your image national identification number, passport number, driver's license number or vehicle license plate number.
• Benefits and Services Information: We also collect personal information necessary to extend the benefits and services that may be available to you as a family member or related person of our personnel, including insurance-related information, claims-related information, and disbursement-related information.

Although we often collect the personal information described above directly from you, we also collect this information from the personnel related to you, as well as our benefit administrators. In addition, we may also collect this information through service providers and other third parties that collect it on our behalf, such as communications providers.

Use of Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect about related persons to:

• Communicate with you about benefits and services you are eligible for, events or activities our personnel invite you to, or in the event of an emergency;
• Administer the benefits and services you are eligible for;
• Respond to requests and inquiries you may send to us;
• Conduct internal investigations, audits, compliance, risk management, problem resolution and security operations;
• Fulfill contractual obligations to you and other third parties;
• Comply with applicable law, rule, regulation, legal proceeding and government investigations, including relating to tax reporting and immigration.

Our Disclosure of Personal Information

We may share your personal information with the following third parties for the purposes described below:

• Within Williams-Sonoma (which includes its affiliates in other jurisdictions): We share personal information relating to personnel and related persons within our family of companies for internal administrative purposes and uses that are consistent with this Privacy Notice. For example, the WSI entity responsible for payroll may receive personal information about personnel employed by another Williams-Sonoma entity in order to determine the proper compensation to be provided.
• Benefit Administrators: In order to provide our personnel and related persons benefits and services available to them, we share personal information with the third parties we engage to offer and administer the benefits and services on our behalf. These third parties may also collect additional personal information from you in connection with these benefits and services, which will be subject to the relevant third party's own privacy policies and notices.
• Payroll and Tax Providers: We share personal information with third parties who assist us in processing our payroll and other compensation-related obligations, including our tax withholding and reporting obligations.
• Other Service Providers: In addition to the third parties identified above, we engage other third parties to perform certain functions on our behalf in connection with the uses of personal information described in the Our Collection and Use of Personal Information section above, including assisting us with our personnel management, benefits and services offerings and other related business operations. Depending on the function the third party serves, the service provider may process personal information on our behalf or have access to personal information while performing functions on our behalf.
• Business Transaction or Reorganization: We may take part in or be involved with a corporate business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets. We may disclose personal information to a third party during negotiation of, in connection with or as an asset in such a corporate business transaction. Personal information may also be disclosed in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.
• Legal Obligations and Rights: We may disclose personal information to third parties, such as legal advisors and law enforcement:
  • in connection with the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
  • to comply with laws and regulations or to respond to lawful requests and legal process;
  • to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of our agents, customers, and others, including to enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of use;
  • to detect, suppress, or prevent fraud;
  • to reduce credit risk and collect debts owed to us;
  • pursuant to orders issued by courts, tribunals and other authorities or pursuant to mandate under law;
  • when complying with legal process, for verification of identity, or for preventing, detecting, investigating and for prosecution and punishment of incidents including cyber incidents, fraud or imminent harm, and ensuring the security of our network and services;
  • to protect the health and safety of us, our customers, or any person; or
  • as otherwise required by applicable law.
• Consent: We may disclose personal information about you to certain other third parties with your consent.

Storage and Retention

Your personal information will reside on WSIPL’s, servers or our vendor’s servers located in India and across the globe. It may also reside on our third-party service providers’ servers (including cloud servers), if your personal information is required to be disclosed to them in accordance with the terms of this privacy notice.

Data Security

WSIPL has implemented appropriate security practices and procedures designed to protect your personal information from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, damage, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized access, unauthorized use, etc. in accordance with applicable law.

Please ensure that any personal information that you share with us is shared securely.

Access and Accuracy

You have a right to review, update and correct your personal information that we hold. Should you need to update or correct any personal information provided by you, please contact us at the following RAgarwal@wsgc.com and we will make reasonable efforts to incorporate the changes in your personal information that we hold, as soon as practicable.

You may also at any time withdraw your consent to the use of your personal information by communicating the same to WSIPL in writing. In such an event, WSIPL will be entitled to immediately terminate your association with WSIPL or cancel some of the benefits that you are otherwise entitled to, for the processing of which, we require access to your personal information.

Contact Us

In case of any grievances or complaints in relation to the processing of your personal information by WSIPL, the same may be addressed to the WSIPL Grievance Officer at the
Williams-Sonoma India Private Limited
4th Floor, Building Number 68.
Sector 44, Gurugram, Haryana New Delhi - 122002

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Singapore Applicant Privacy Notice

Personal Data We Collect

In connection with your application process we collect the following “Personal Data”: your name, email address, phone number, home address, prior employment history, education history, and other information that is capable of identifying you personally.

Personal Data Processing and Sharing

We process your Personal Data to provide services requested by you and to comply with legal requirements. We process your Personal Data as necessary for us to evaluate your employment application and to provide you with services necessary to onboard you as an employee, should you receive a job offer from Company.

We will retain your Personal Data for (i) up to six months following the completion of the application process, if your application is unsuccessful or (ii) so long as necessary to employ you and provide you with services related to your employment and as required by applicable law, if the application process results in your employment at the Company.

We will transfer your Personal Data to the United States and take reasonable and appropriate security measures, including implementing standard contractual clauses, to provide for the safe transfer and storage of your Personal Data.

We will disclose your Personal Data to Company’s parent, subsidiary, and affiliated companies for the purposes listed above. We will disclose your Personal Data to our service providers and contractors who assist us with providing services necessary for the purposes listed above. We will also disclose your Personal Data to government or law enforcement officials or private parties if it is necessary in order to comply with law or to respond to legal requests (including court orders and subpoenas).

Your Rights

With respect to your Personal Data, you have the right to:

• request access to and be provided with information on the processing of your Personal Data;
• request corrections of your Personal Data if such Personal Data proves inaccurate or incomplete;
• withdraw your consent to our processing of your Personal Data.

Your rights are subject to the limits prescribed under applicable law. We may refuse your request, and/or continue to process your Personal Data without consent, to the extent that is permitted under applicable law. If you wish to exercise any of your above rights, please reach out to Ee Jean Teo in the global human resources team at ETeo1@wsgc.com (65) 6831 5907. Although we urge you to contact us to find a solution for every concern you may have, you always have the right to lodge a complaint with your competent data protection authority.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Notice or about how we will handle your Personal Data, please contact Ee Jean Teo, HR Director, Williams Sonoma Singapore Pte Ltd, 18 Tai Seng Street #07-07, Tai Seng, Singapore 539775.

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U.S. APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE

Effective Date: January 1, 2020; Updated: January 1, 2023

This Privacy Notice explains how Williams-Sonoma, Inc. ("WSI") collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes personal information about our U.S.-based associates, officers, directors, contractors, freelancers, contingent workers, consultants and other outsourced and temporary workers (collectively, "personnel"), and their family members or other individuals about whom we process personal information as a result of the relationships those individuals have with personnel (collectively, "related persons"). Personnel are required to provide a copy of this Privacy Notice to all related persons to whom this Privacy Notice applies.

This Privacy Notice is not a contract and does not create any legal rights or obligations. This Privacy Notice also is not intended to replace other notices or disclosures we may provide to you in connection with your role in our organization, which will supersede any conflicting disclosures contained in this Privacy Notice.

What is Personal Information?

When we use the term "personal information" in this Privacy Notice, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to you within the context of your role as a member of our personnel or a related person. It does not include aggregated or anonymized information that is maintained in a form that is not capable of being associated with or reasonably linked to you. For information about your rights and collection of personal information as a customer of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. and its family of brands, please refer to the privacy policy located on the homepage of each brand.

Our Collection and Use of Personal Information

The types of personal information we collect, the way we collect it and how we use it will depend on the relationship you have with us.

Personnel

Collection of Personal Information

In connection with your role as a member of our personnel, we collect certain personal information about you, which may include:

• Contact Information: such as your full name, email address (personal and work), home address, business address, telephone number and emergency contact information.
• Identification Materials: such as your image, social security number or other national identification number, passport number, driver's license number or vehicle license plate number.
• Professional Information: such as your hire date, employment location, business unit, department, supervisor, job title, position/grade, hours and days worked, working arrangement, work restrictions or accommodations, employee identification number, licenses and certifications, attendance, career goals, performance reviews, disciplinary records and information needed to establish your eligibility to work for us, including visa information.
• Education & Training Information: such as your highest level of education, the schools you attended and when you were in attendance, degrees, certificates or other educational qualifications you earned.
• Financial Information: such as your salary, bonus, benefits, expenses, stock or equity grants, bank account and routing information and corporate credit card number.
• Benefits Information: such as your eligibility for benefits, information about your family members and other related persons under your benefits, and claims relating to your benefits.
• Medical Information: such as observations, inquiry responses, immunization records and testing results.
• Equal Opportunity Information: such as age, race, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability or accommodation request, or marital or veteran status when you choose to provide it, but it will not be used in employment-related decisions unless specifically permitted by law.
• Security Information: such as your work-related accounts and passwords, technical details about your use of work-related devices, your access to physical and electronic work-related locations, and photographs, videos and other visual images of you.
• Other Work-Related Information: We also collect any personal information you choose to share with us or we receive from a third party in connection with your work for us, a grievance you are involved in, an agreement you enter into with us or additional roles you take on as a part of our organization.

Although we often collect the personal information described above directly from you, we also collect this information from supervisors, colleagues, customers, vendors, publicly available sources and other third parties you may interact with as a member of our personnel. In addition, we may also collect this information through service providers and other third parties that collect it on our behalf, such as communications providers, payroll providers and benefits providers.

Use of Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect about our personnel to:

• Conduct organizational planning and development, including budget planning and administration;
• Analyze and monitor compliance with our personnel and compliance policies and practices;
• Administer recruiting, onboarding, staffing, leave, personnel evaluations, promotions, performance management, training, discipline, participation in available activities or programs and any other processing in connection with work-related purposes;
• Authorize, grant, administer, monitor (including by video surveillance) and terminate access to or use of company systems, facilities, records, property and infrastructure;
• Communicate with and between personnel, as well as with designated emergency contacts;
• Support and manage personnel, including providing resources needed for personnel to perform their roles with us;
• Facilitate personnel compensation, payroll, and benefit planning and administration (e.g., salary, tax withholding, insurance);
• Conduct performance reviews and evaluations, as well as make decisions about promotions and job mobility;
• Manage business travel (e.g., car service/rentals, flights, hotels) and personnel expenses (e.g., reimbursement, corporate credit card).
• Operate our business, including marketing our personnel to customers, facilitating the work of our personnel and providing the products and services made available to our customers;
• Investigate, document and report work-related injuries, illness or grievances;
• Conduct internal investigations, audits, compliance, risk management, problem resolution and security operations;
• Fulfill contractual obligations to you and other third parties;
• Maintain a safe and healthy work environment;
• Comply with applicable law, rule, regulation, legal proceeding and government investigations, including relating to tax reporting and immigration.

Related Persons

Collection of Personal Information

At times, we receive personal information about our personnel's family members and other related persons in connection with emergency contacts and the benefits and services we provide, which may include:

• Contact Information: such as your full name, email address, home address, business address, telephone number and emergency contact information.
• Identification Materials: such as your image, social security number or other national identification number, passport number, driver's license number or vehicle license plate number.
• Benefits and Services Information: We also collect personal information necessary to extend the benefits and services that may be available to you as a family member or related person of our personnel, including insurance-related information, claims-related information, and disbursement-related information.

Although we often collect the personal information described above directly from you, we also collect this information from the personnel related to you, as well as our benefit administrators. In addition, we may also collect this information through service providers and other third parties that collect it on our behalf, such as communications providers.

Use of Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect about related persons to:

• Communicate with you about benefits and services you are eligible for, events or activities our personnel invite you to, or in the event of an emergency;
• Administer the benefits and services you are eligible for;
• Respond to requests and inquiries you may send to us;
• Conduct internal investigations, audits, compliance, risk management, problem resolution and security operations;
• Fulfill contractual obligations to you and other third parties;
• Comply with applicable law, rule, regulation, legal proceeding and government investigations, including relating to tax reporting and immigration.

Our Disclosure of Personal Information

We may share your personal information with the following third parties for the purposes described below:

• Within WSI: We share personal information relating to personnel and related persons within our family of companies for internal administrative purposes and uses that are consistent with this Privacy Notice. For example, the WSI entity responsible for payroll may receive personal information about personnel employed by another WSI entity in order to determine the proper compensation to be provided.
• Benefit Administrators: In order to provide our personnel and related persons benefits and services available to them, we share personal information with the third parties we engage to offer and administer the benefits and services on our behalf. These third parties may also collect additional personal information from you in connection with these benefits and services, which will be subject to the relevant third party's own privacy policies and notices.
• Payroll and Tax Providers: We share personal information with third parties who assist us in processing our payroll and other compensation-related obligations, including our tax withholding and reporting obligations.
• Other Service Providers: In addition to the third parties identified above, we engage other third parties to perform certain functions on our behalf in connection with the uses of personal information described in the Our Collection and Use of Personal Information section above, including assisting us with our personnel management, benefits and services offerings and other related business operations. Depending on the function the third party serves, the service provider may process personal information on our behalf or have access to personal information while performing functions on our behalf.
• Business Transaction or Reorganization: We may take part in or be involved with a corporate business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets. We may disclose personal information to a third party during negotiation of, in connection with or as an asset in such a corporate business transaction. Personal information may also be disclosed in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.
• Legal Obligations and Rights: We may disclose personal information to third parties, such as legal advisors and law enforcement:
  • in connection with the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
  • to comply with laws and regulations or to respond to lawful requests and legal process;
  • to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of our agents, customers, and others, including to enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of use;
  • to detect, suppress, or prevent fraud;
  • to reduce credit risk and collect debts owed to us;
  • to protect the health and safety of us, our customers, or any person; or
  • as otherwise required by applicable law.
• Consent: We may disclose personal information about you to certain other third parties with your consent.

California Privacy Rights

If you are a resident of California, you may have certain privacy rights under California Consumer Privacy Act in California ("State Privacy Laws"). This section generally describes those rights and how you can exercise them with WSI. This Notice does not apply to personal information that is governed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, or the California Financial Information Privacy Act as permitted by State Privacy Laws.

Rights Requests

Right to Know Information

You can request the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.

Please note that we may not be able to provide you with all of your personal information, if doing so would:

• Disclose our trade secrets;
• Violate an evidentiary privilege;
• Adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others;
• Restrict our ability to:
  • Comply with law or a legal or regulatory inquiry, investigation, subpoena, or summons;
  • Cooperate with certain law enforcement or government agency requests;
  • Exercise or defend legal claims;
  • Collect or use information that is deidentified or aggregated.

Right to Know Categories of Information

You can also request the following categories of information:

• The categories of personal information we have collected about you.
• The categories of sources from which the personal information was collected.
• The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we shared personal information.

Right to Deletion

You can also request that we delete your Personal Information that we have collected from you. We may not delete all of your Personal Information if one of the following exceptions applies:

• Transactional: to complete a transaction for which the Personal Information was collected, provide a good or service requested by you, or perform a contract we have with you;
• Security: to detect data security incidents; preserve the integrity or security of systems; or investigate, report, or prosecute those responsible for any such action;
• Error Correction: to debug or repair any errors;
• Legal: to protect against fraud, harassment, malicious or deceptive activities, or illegal activity or to comply with applicable law or a legal obligation, or exercise rights under the law, such as the right to free speech; to assist another party with any of its obligations under applicable privacy laws, including State Privacy Laws; or
• Internal Use: to use your Personal Information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information (i.e. to improve our Services);
• As otherwise appropriate and permitted by applicable law (including State Privacy Laws)

We will also maintain a record of your requests under State Privacy Laws.

Right to Correct

You may also request that we correct certain inaccurate information that we have about you.

How to Submit a Request

To submit a request under this section, please click here. You can also call us at (800) 421-2164 to submit your request by phone.

You must provide us with your full name and answers to at least three of the following questions: (1) What was the month and year of your hiring date?; (2) What is your WSI employee ID number?; (3) What was your last job title with WSI?; (4) What is your WSI store number or name of your corporate location? Failure to provide all of the foregoing information will prevent us from processing your request. Further, in order to verify your identity, we will match that information to the information we have on our systems.

If you wish to make multiple requests under this section, we recommend sending the deletion request last, as we will not be able to fulfill your other requests once we have deleted your Personal Information. In order to designate an authorized agent to act on your behalf you must send a signed, written authorization to HRRecordsCORP@wsgc.com.

Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

We do not knowingly "sell" or "share" the personal information of employees. Under State Privacy Laws, "sell" means renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a your personal information by us to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration. Under State Privacy Laws, "share" means disclosing your personal information by us to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising, in exchange for money or anything else of value.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your Rights under State Privacy Laws and we will not deny you goods or services, charge you a different price, or provide you with a lesser quality of services if you exercise any of your rights under State Privacy Laws.

Sensitive Personal Information

We do not collect or process Sensitive Personal Information, as defined by California law, for inferring characteristics or use or disclose Sensitive Personal Information for purposes other than those permitted by law.

Data Retention

We will store your Personal Information for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or as required by law.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or requests in connection with this Privacy Notice or other privacy-related matters, please contact legal@wsgc.com.

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VIETNAM APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE

Effective Date: May 2020

This Privacy Notice explains how Williams-Sonoma Vietnam LLC ("WSVN") collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes personal information about our U.S.-based associates, officers, directors, contractors, freelancers, contingent workers, consultants and other outsourced and temporary workers (collectively, "personnel"), and their family members or other individuals about whom we process personal information as a result of the relationships those individuals have with personnel (collectively, "related persons"). Personnel are required to provide a copy of this Privacy Notice to all related persons to whom this Privacy Notice applies.

This Privacy Notice is not a contract and does not create any legal rights or obligations. This Privacy Notice also is not intended to replace other notices or disclosures we may provide to you in connection with your role in our organization, which will supersede any conflicting disclosures contained in this Privacy Notice.

What is Personal Information?

When we use the term "personal information" in this Privacy Notice, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to you within the context of your role as a member of our personnel or a related person. It does not include aggregated or anonymized information that is maintained in a form that is not capable of being associated with or reasonably linked to you. For information about your rights and collection of personal information as a customer of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. and its family of brands, please refer to the privacy policy located on the homepage of each brand.

Our Collection and Use of Personal Information

The types of personal information we collect, the way we collect it and how we use it will depend on the relationship you have with us.

Personnel

Collection of Personal Information

In connection with your role as a member of our personnel, we collect certain personal information about you, which may include:

• Contact Information: such as your full name, email address (personal and work), home address, business address, telephone number and emergency contact information.
• Identification Materials: such as your image, identification card number or other national identification number, passport number, driver's license number or vehicle license plate number.
• Professional Information: such as your hire date, employment location, business unit, department, supervisor, job title, position/grade, hours and days worked, working arrangement, work restrictions or accommodations, employee identification number, licenses and certifications, attendance, career goals, performance reviews, disciplinary records and information needed to establish your eligibility to work for us, including visa information.
• Education & Training Information: such as your highest level of education, the schools you attended and when you were in attendance, degrees, certificates or other educational qualifications you earned.
• Financial Information: such as your salary, bonus, benefits, expenses, stock or equity grants, bank account and routing information and corporate credit card number.
• Benefits Information: such as your eligibility for benefits, information about your family members and other related persons under your benefits, and claims relating to your benefits.
• Medical Information: such as observations, inquiry responses, and testing results.
• Equal Opportunity Information: such as age, race, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability or accommodation request, or marital or veteran status when you choose to provide it, but it will not be used in employment-related decisions unless specifically permitted by law.
• Security Information: such as your work-related accounts and passwords, technical details about your use of work-related devices, your access to physical and electronic work-related locations, and photographs, videos and other visual images of you.
• Other Work-Related Information: We also collect any personal information you choose to share with us or we receive from a third party in connection with your work for us, a grievance you are involved in, an agreement you enter into with us or additional roles you take on as a part of our organization.

Although we often collect the personal information described above directly from you, we also collect this information from supervisors, colleagues, customers, vendors, publicly available sources and other third parties you may interact with as a member of our personnel. In addition, we may also collect this information through service providers and other third parties that collect it on our behalf, such as communications providers, payroll providers and benefits providers.

Use of Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect about our personnel to:

• Conduct organizational planning and development, including budget planning and administration;
• Analyze and monitor compliance with our personnel and compliance policies and practices;
• Administer recruiting, onboarding, staffing, leave, personnel evaluations, promotions, performance management, training, discipline, participation in available activities or programs and any other processing in connection with work-related purposes;
• Authorize, grant, administer, monitor (including by video surveillance) and terminate access to or use of company systems, facilities, records, property and infrastructure;
• Communicate with and between personnel, as well as with designated emergency contacts;
• Support and manage personnel, including providing resources needed for personnel to perform their roles with us;
• Facilitate personnel compensation, payroll, and benefit planning and administration (e.g., salary, tax withholding, insurance);
• Conduct performance reviews and evaluations, as well as make decisions about promotions and job mobility;
• Manage business travel (e.g., car service/rentals, flights, hotels) and personnel expenses (e.g., reimbursement, corporate credit card).
• Operate our business, including marketing our personnel to customers, facilitating the work of our personnel and providing the products and services made available to our customers;
• Investigate, document and report work-related injuries, illness or grievances;
• Conduct internal investigations, audits, compliance, risk management, problem resolution and security operations;
• Fulfill contractual obligations to you and other third parties;
• Maintain a safe and healthy work environment;
• Comply with applicable law, rule, regulation, legal proceeding and government investigations, including relating to tax reporting and immigration.

Related Persons

Collection of Personal Information

At times, we receive personal information about our personnel's family members and other related persons in connection with emergency contacts and the benefits and services we provide, which may include:

• Contact Information: such as your full name, email address, home address, business address, telephone number and emergency contact information.
• Identification Materials: such as your image, identification card number or other national identification number, passport number, driver's license number or vehicle license plate number.
• Benefits and Services Information: We also collect personal information necessary to extend the benefits and services that may be available to you as a family member or related person of our personnel, including insurance-related information, claims-related information, and disbursement-related information.

Although we often collect the personal information described above directly from you, we also collect this information from the personnel related to you, as well as our benefit administrators. In addition, we may also collect this information through service providers and other third parties that collect it on our behalf, such as communications providers.

Use of Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect about related persons to:

• Communicate with you about benefits and services you are eligible for, events or activities our personnel invite you to, or in the event of an emergency;
• Administer the benefits and services you are eligible for;
• Respond to requests and inquiries you may send to us;
• Conduct internal investigations, audits, compliance, risk management, problem resolution and security operations;
• Fulfill contractual obligations to you and other third parties;
• Comply with applicable law, rule, regulation, legal proceeding and government investigations, including relating to tax reporting and immigration.

Our Disclosure of Personal Information

We may share your personal information with the following third parties for the purposes described below:

• Within WSVN: We share personal information relating to personnel and related persons within our family of companies for internal administrative purposes and uses that are consistent with this Privacy Notice. For example, the WSVN entity responsible for payroll may receive personal information about personnel employed by another WSVN entity in order to determine the proper compensation to be provided.
• Benefit Administrators: In order to provide our personnel and related persons benefits and services available to them, we share personal information with the third parties we engage to offer and administer the benefits and services on our behalf. These third parties may also collect additional personal information from you in connection with these benefits and services, which will be subject to the relevant third party's own privacy policies and notices.
• Payroll and Tax Providers: We share personal information with third parties who assist us in processing our payroll and other compensation-related obligations, including our tax withholding and reporting obligations.
• Other Service Providers: In addition to the third parties identified above, we engage other third parties to perform certain functions on our behalf in connection with the uses of personal information described in the Our Collection and Use of Personal Information section above, including assisting us with our personnel management, benefits and services offerings and other related business operations. Depending on the function the third party serves, the service provider may process personal information on our behalf or have access to personal information while performing functions on our behalf.
• Business Transaction or Reorganization: We may take part in or be involved with a corporate business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets. We may disclose personal information to a third party during negotiation of, in connection with or as an asset in such a corporate business transaction. Personal information may also be disclosed in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.
• Legal Obligations and Rights: We may disclose personal information to third parties, such as legal advisors and law enforcement:
  • in connection with the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
  • to comply with laws and regulations or to respond to lawful requests and legal process;
  • to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of our agents, customers, and others, including to enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of use;
  • to detect, suppress, or prevent fraud;
  • to reduce credit risk and collect debts owed to us;
  • to protect the health and safety of us, our customers, or any person; or
  • as otherwise required by applicable law.
• Consent: We may disclose personal information about you to certain other third parties with your consent.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or requests in connection with this Privacy Notice please contact HR@wsgc.com.

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Modalités et conditions

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. et les membres de son groupe (« WSI ») fournissent les informations et les services affichés sur le présent site Web (le « Site »). En accédant au site ou en l’utilisant, vous indiquez que vous acceptez les présentes modalités et conditions (les « Modalités »). Le terme « membres de son groupe » désigne les dirigeants, les employés, les administrateurs, les sociétés mères, les filiales, les membres du même groupe, les mandataires et les concédants de licence de WSI.

1. LOIS ET RÈGLEMENTS L’utilisateur s’engage à ne pas utiliser le Site d’une façon qui contrevient à toute loi ou tout règlement international, fédéral, étatique, provincial et local.

2. DROITS D’AUTEUR ET MARQUES DE COMMERCE. Les informations et le contenu disponibles sur le Site ou par son intermédiaire appartiennent à WSI ou à ses concédants de licence et sont protégés par les lois sur le droit d’auteur, les marques de commerce et les autres droits de propriété intellectuelle. Les utilisateurs ne doivent pas modifier, copier, distribuer, transmettre, afficher, publier, vendre, accorder sous licence ou utiliser autrement les informations ou le contenu disponibles sur le Site ou par son intermédiaire, ni créer des œuvres dérivées de ceux-ci, à des fins commerciales ou publiques. Les utilisateurs ne doivent pas utiliser les marques de commerce, les éléments de marque, les logos et les marques de service pour quelque fin que ce soit sans la permission écrite de WSI. Tous droits réservés.

3. ALTÉRATIONS. L’utilisateur s’engage à ne pas modifier, déplacer, effacer ou altérer autrement des éléments du Site, et à ne pas y faire des ajouts. L’utilisateur s’engage également à ne pas décompiler, rétroconcevoir, désassembler ou reproduire ou utiliser de manière illégale tout logiciel, tout document protégé par le droit d’auteur ou par une marque de commerce, tout secret commercial ou tout autre renseignement exclusif contenu dans le Site. Vous vous engagez à ne pas avoir accès au Site d’une manière qui envoie plus de demandes aux serveurs de WSI qu’un être humain peut raisonnablement en produire au cours d’une même période, et à ne pas recueillir, notamment par moissonnage du Web, des renseignements concernant des personnes identifiables.

4. AUCUNE GARANTIE. DANS TOUTE LA MESURE PERMISE PAR LES LOIS APPLICABLES, LES INFORMATIONS, LES DOCUMENTS ET TOUT AUTRE CONTENU DISPONIBLES SUR LE PRÉSENT SITE SONT FOURNIS « TELS QUELS » ET « SELON LA DISPONIBILITÉ », SANS AUCUNE GARANTIE DE QUELQUE NATURE QUE CE SOIT, EXPRESSE, IMPLICITE, PRÉVUE PAR LA LOI OU AUTRE, NOTAMMENT AUCUNE GARANTIE DE QUALITÉ MARCHANDE, D’ADAPTATION À UN USAGE PARTICULIER OU D’ABSENCE DE CONTREFAÇON, NI AUCUNE GARANTIE DÉCOULANT DES PRATIQUES COMMERCIALES ÉTABLIES OU DE L’USAGE DU COMMERCE. WSI NE DONNE AUCUNE GARANTIE ET NE FAIT AUCUNE DÉCLARATION QUANT À L’EXACTITUDE OU À L’EXHAUSTIVITÉ DE CES INFORMATIONS, DE CES DOCUMENTS OU D’UN TEL AUTRE CONTENU. WSI MODIFIE, AMÉLIORE OU MET À JOUR PÉRIODIQUEMENT, SANS PRÉAVIS, L’INFORMATION ET LES DOCUMENTS PRÉSENTÉS SUR LE PRÉSENT SITE. DANS TOUTE LA MESURE PERMISE PAR LES LOIS APPLICABLES, WSI ET LES MEMBRES DE SON GROUPE NE PEUVENT ÊTRE TENUS RESPONSABLES DE CE QUI SUIT : A) DES ERREURS OU DES INEXACTITUDES DANS LE CONTENU, B) DES LÉSIONS CORPORELLES OU DES DOMMAGES MATÉRIELS DÉCOULANT DE VOTRE ACCÈS AU SITE OU DE VOTRE UTILISATION DE CELUI CI; C) DE TOUT ACCÈS NON AUTORISÉ À NOS SERVEURS SÉCURISÉS OU À DES RENSEIGNEMENTS PERSONNELS OU À DES DONNÉES CONCERNANT LES UTILISATEURS, OU DE LEUR UTILISATION NON AUTORISÉE; D) DE TOUTE INTERRUPTION DE LA TRANSMISSION DE DONNÉES VERS LE SITE OU À PARTIR DU SITE; E) DES BOGUES, DES VIRUS, DES CHEVAUX DE TROIE ET DES ÉLÉMENTS SIMILAIRES QU’UN TIERS PEUT TRANSMETTRE SUR LE SITE OU PAR L’INTERMÉDIAIRE DU SITE; OU F) DES PERTES OU DES DOMMAGES DE QUELQUE NATURE QUE SOIT SUBIS PAR SUITE DE L’UTILISATION DE TOUT CONTENU AFFICHÉ SUR LE SITE OU AUQUEL LE SITE DONNE ACCÈS. DANS TOUTE LA MESURE PERMISE PAR LES LOIS APPLICABLES, VOUS RECONNAISSEZ QUE VOUS UTILISEZ LE SITE À VOS PROPRES RISQUES ET QUE VOUS ASSUMEZ L’ENTIÈRE RESPONSABILITÉ DE TOUS LES COÛTS LIÉS À L’ENTRETIEN OU À LA RÉPARATION DE TOUT MATÉRIEL QUE VOUS UTILISEZ POUR AVOIR ACCÈS AU SITE ET POUR L’UTILISER.

5. LIMITATION DE LA RESPONSABILITÉ. DANS TOUTE LA MESURE PERMISE PAR LES LOIS APPLICABLES, WSI NE POURRA EN AUCUN CAS ÊTRE TENUE RESPONSABLE DES DOMMAGES QUE VOUS POURRIEZ SUBIR, Y COMPRIS DES DOMMAGES ACCESSOIRES, SPÉCIAUX OU CONSÉCUTIFS (NOTAMMENT TOUTE PERTE DE PROFITS OU TOUS DOMMAGES DÉCOULANT D’UNE INTERRUPTION DES ACTIVITÉS, DE LA PERTE D’INFORMATIONS, DE PROGRAMMES OU D’AUTRES DONNÉES), QUELLE QU’EN SOIT LA CAUSE ET EN VERTU DE TOUT CAUSE D’ACTION OU THÉORIE DE LA RESPONSABILITÉ (Y COMPRIS EN VERTU D’UN CONTRAT, DE LA NÉGLIGENCE OU D’UNE AUTRE THÉORIE DE LA RESPONSABILITÉ DÉLICTUELLE), MÊME SI WSI AVAIT ÉTÉ INFORMÉE DE LA POSSIBILITÉ DE TELS DOMMAGES. DANS LA MESURE MAXIMALE PERMISE PAR LES LOIS APPLICABLES, NOTRE RESPONSABILITÉ CUMULATIVE TOTALE ENVERS VOUS OU ENVERS TOUT TIERS EN VERTU DES PRÉSENTES MODALITÉS NE DÉPASSERA PAS 100 $.

6. PROTECTION DES RENSEIGNEMENTS PERSONNELS. La déclaration de confidentialité (Privacy Statement) de WSI décrit la façon dont nous utilisons et protégeons les renseignements que vous nous fournissez. L’utilisateur reconnaît et convient qu’en fournissant à WSI des renseignements personnels par l’intermédiaire du Site, il consent à ce que de tels renseignements soient transmis au-delà des frontières nationales conformément aux pratiques commerciales habituelles de WSI et à sa déclaration de confidentialité.

7. SÉCURITÉ. La sécurité des informations transmises par le biais d’Internet ne peut jamais être garantie. WSI ne peut être tenue responsable de toute interception ou interruption d’une communication faite par l’intermédiaire d’Internet, ni de toute perte ou modification des données. Il incombe à l’utilisateur de préserver la sécurité de tout mot de passe, identifiant utilisateur ou autre forme d’authentification. WSI peut suspendre sans préavis votre utilisation du Site en cas de soupçons d’infraction à la sécurité.

8. INDEMNISATION. Dans toute la mesure permise par les lois applicables, vous convenez d’indemniser WSI et de la dégager de toute responsabilité relativement à l’ensemble des réclamations, coûts, procédures, requêtes, pertes, dommages et frais (y compris, notamment, les frais juridiques raisonnables et les honoraires raisonnables d’avocats) de quelque nature que ce soit, découlant d’une violation réelle ou alléguée des présentes Modalités par vous ou par quiconque utilise votre compte, ou s’y rapportant. Si nous assumons une défense à cet égard, vous devrez coopérer raisonnablement avec nous dans le cadre d’une telle défense.

9. TRIBUNAUX COMPÉTENTS/DROIT APPLICABLE. Les présentes Modalités sont régies par les lois de l’État de la Californie et par lois fédérales applicables, et elles doivent être interprétées conformément à l’ensemble de ces lois, sans égard aux principes régissant les conflits de lois. Sauf tel qu’il est indiqué ci-après à l’article 12, l’utilisateur convient que toutes procédures relatives au présent Site et aux présentes Modalités devront être introduites devant un tribunal étatique ou fédéral situé à San Francisco, en Californie, et qu’un tel tribunal aura compétence exclusive à cet égard.

10. ARBITRAGE. L’utilisateur reconnaît que dans le cadre des présentes Modalités, l’utilisateur et WSI ont convenu de soumettre à l’arbitrage tout différend futur entre eux découlant des présentes Modalités ou s’y rapportant. Ainsi, tout différend futur pouvant survenir entre les parties (y compris entre l’utilisateur et tout tiers mandataire de WSI), en vertu d’un contrat, d’une loi, d’un délit, d’une fraude, d’une information fausse ou trompeuse, de la discrimination, de la common law ou d’une autre théorie du droit, y compris, notamment, tout différend ou toute réclamation se rapportant à ce qui suit : un congédiement injustifié; un préjudice personnel, physique ou émotionnel; une diffamation; le salaire ou toute autre rémunération; des titres de capitaux propres, des options, des actions ou toute participation; des pénalités; des avantages sociaux; le remboursement des dépenses; de la discrimination ou du harcèlement, y compris, notamment, de la discrimination ou du harcèlement fondé sur la race, la couleur, le genre, la grossesse, la religion, le pays d’origine, l’ascendance, l’âge, l’état matrimonial, une incapacité physique, une incapacité mentale, un problème de santé, l’orientation sexuelle ou toute autre caractéristique protégée par la loi; des représailles; la violation d’une loi, d’un règlement, d’une ordonnance ou de la constitution d’un gouvernement fédéral, étatique, provincial ou autre (dans sa version adoptée initialement et dans sa version modifiée); l’établissement, l’exécution ou l’interprétation des présentes Modalités; les relations entre les parties, y compris le type de relation; ainsi que les réclamations et autres différends aux termes, entre autres, des lois, codes et ordonnances suivants : Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII); Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; Americans with Disabilities Act; Fair Labor Standards Act; Employee Retirement Income Security Act; Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act; Family and Medical Leave Act; California Fair Employment and Housing Act; California Family Rights Act; California Labor Code; California Civil Code; California Wage Orders, ou toute autre loi ou règlement fédéral, étatique, provincial ou local, quel que soit le moment où ces réclamations ou ces différends sont respectivement présentées ou soulevés et dans la mesure où ils ne peuvent pas être réglés par les parties elles-mêmes, seront réglés de façon définitive et exécutoire au moyen d’un arbitrage qui se déroulera à San Francisco, en Californie, conformément à la loi intitulée Federal Arbitration Act et conformément aux Employment Arbitration and Mediation Rules alors en vigueur de l’American Arbitration Association, lesquelles sont disponibles au www.adr.org. WSI prendra en charge l’ensemble des frais et coûts relatifs au processus d’arbitrage, mais il est entendu que chacune des parties devra acquitter les honoraires d’avocats, les frais ou les autres dépenses qu’elle engage, notamment à l’égard de dépositions, de témoins ou d’experts, comme si l’affaire avait été portée devant un tribunal. Dans le cadre de toute procédure d’arbitrage qui se déroule conformément au présent paragraphe, les parties ont le droit d’obtenir la communication de la preuve, d’assigner des témoins et de contre-interroger les témoins de l’autre partie. L’arbitre rend par écrit une décision finale mentionnant les motifs de la sentence arbitrale. Les deux parties sont liées par la présente convention d’arbitrage, mais celle-ci ne couvre pas les différends qui, selon la loi, ne peuvent pas être soumis à l’arbitrage. LES PARTIES RENONCENT À LEUR DROIT DE FAIRE TRANCHER UN TEL DIFFÉREND PAR UN JUGE OU UN JURY. LES PARTIES CONVIENNENT ÉGALEMENT QUE CHACUNE D’ELLES PEUT PRÉSENTER DES RÉCLAMATIONS CONTRE L’AUTRE, MAIS UNIQUEMENT À TITRE INDIVIDUEL ET NON À TITRE DE DEMANDEUR OU DE MEMBRE D’UN GROUPE DANS LE CADRE D’UNE ACTION COLLECTIVE.

11. MODIFICATION DES PRÉSENTES MODALITÉS

Nous pouvons apporter des modifications aux présentes Modalités. Le cas échéant, nous le signalerons en affichant les Modalités modifiées sur le Site. Ces modifications entreront en vigueur à la date de révision indiquée sur les Modalités révisées. Si vous continuez d’utiliser le Site, vous êtes réputé avoir accepté les Modalités révisées.

Dernière mise à jour : le 15 mai 2020

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