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Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 14, 2026 · Last Reviewed: July 14, 2026

1. Who We Are and Scope of This Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how The World Conservative Forum Corporation, a Texas corporation headquartered in Dallas, Texas (“WCF,” “the Forum,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal data when you visit or interact with www.thewcf.com and its subdomains (collectively, the “Site”). Where The World Conservative Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization (the “Institute”), collects personal data through the Site, including in connection with charitable contributions or educational programming, this Policy applies with equal force, and references to WCF include the Institute in that context. Additional information regarding the relationship between the two entities appears in our Entity Disclosure.

For visitors located in the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area, or Switzerland, The World Conservative Forum Corporation is the controller of personal data collected through the Site. This Policy applies to the Site only. Engagements, memberships, and portal participation are governed by separate written agreements, which control in the event of any conflict with this Policy.

2. Personal Data We Collect

Information you provide to us. When you submit a Request for Introduction, contact us, register for a convening, subscribe to communications, contribute to the Institute, or access the Portal, we collect the information you choose to provide. This may include your name, title, organization, email address, telephone number, mailing address, professional background, the nature of your interest in the Forum, the content of your correspondence, and Portal credentials. Contributions to the Institute are processed by third-party payment processors; we do not store complete payment card numbers on our systems.

Information collected automatically. When you use the Site, we and our service providers automatically collect certain information through server logs, cookies, and similar technologies, including IP address, device and browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and the dates and times of access.

Information from other sources. Consistent with the Forum’s selective, by-invitation model, we may review publicly available professional information, references, and information provided by existing principals and members in connection with evaluating prospective principals, members, and invitees.

3. How We Use Personal Data

  • To respond to Requests for Introduction, inquiries, and correspondence;
  • To evaluate prospective principals, members, and invitees in connection with the Forum’s by-invitation admission model;
  • To administer the Portal, convenings, engagements, and Institute programs, and to process contributions;
  • To send communications regarding the Forum’s activities, publications, and events, subject to your right to opt out at any time;
  • To operate, secure, maintain, and improve the Site, including analytics, debugging, and fraud and abuse prevention;
  • To comply with applicable law, respond to lawful requests, enforce our agreements, and protect the rights, property, and safety of the Forum, the Institute, our principals, and others.

We do not sell personal data, and we have not sold personal data in the preceding twelve months. We do not process personal data for targeted advertising, and we do not share personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Where the UK GDPR, the EU GDPR, or the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection applies, we process personal data on the following legal bases: performance of a contract or steps taken at your request prior to entering a contract (for example, administering an engagement or the Portal); our legitimate interests in operating a selective advisory, media, and convening organization, communicating with prospective and current principals, and securing the Site, balanced against your rights and interests; your consent, where required, which you may withdraw at any time; and compliance with legal obligations.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The Site uses strictly necessary cookies that enable core functionality such as security, session management, and accessibility, and performance and analytics cookies that help us understand how visitors use the Site. You may control cookies through your browser settings; disabling cookies may limit certain Site functionality. Where required by applicable law, we honor recognized universal opt-out preference signals, such as the Global Privacy Control, and we will present a consent mechanism to visitors in jurisdictions that require one before non-essential cookies are set.

6. How We Disclose Personal Data

  • Between affiliated entities: The World Conservative Forum Corporation and The World Conservative Institute share personal data with one another as reasonably necessary to administer programs, engagements, and contributions, consistent with this Policy;
  • Service providers: hosting, analytics, communications, payment processing, event management, and information technology providers acting on our behalf under contractual confidentiality and data protection obligations;
  • Professional advisors: lawyers, accountants, auditors, and insurers, under duties of confidentiality;
  • Convening partners: where you register for an event presented with a co-host or venue partner, and only as necessary to administer that event;
  • Legal and safety: to comply with law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, to enforce our Terms of Use and other agreements, and to protect the rights, property, and safety of the Forum, the Institute, our principals, and the public;
  • Corporate transactions: in connection with a reorganization, merger, or transfer of assets, subject to continued protection of personal data consistent with this Policy.

7. International Data Transfers

The Forum is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and maintains a presence in Washington, DC and London, England. Personal data collected through the Site is processed in the United States and may be accessed from other jurisdictions in which we or our service providers operate. Where we transfer personal data of UK, EEA, or Swiss residents to a jurisdiction that has not received an adequacy determination, we implement appropriate safeguards, including the UK International Data Transfer Addendum and the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, as applicable.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal data only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including to maintain business and contribution records for audit, tax, and legal compliance purposes, to defend or assert legal claims, and to honor opt-out requests. Retention periods vary by data category and purpose; when data is no longer needed, it is deleted or de-identified.

9. Security

We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal data against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, and destruction, including access controls, encryption in transit, and restricted internal access on a need-to-know basis. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

10. Your Privacy Rights

United States state law rights. Depending on your state of residence, including under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act and comparable laws of other states, you may have the right to confirm whether we process your personal data, to access it, to correct inaccuracies, to obtain a portable copy, to delete personal data you provided, and to opt out of the sale of personal data, targeted advertising, and certain profiling. As stated above, we do not sell personal data or engage in targeted advertising. To exercise these rights, contact us at privacy@thewcf.com. We will verify your request using information associated with your interactions with the Site. If we decline to act on your request, you may appeal by replying to our decision with the subject line “Privacy Appeal.” If your appeal is denied, Texas residents may contact the Office of the Texas Attorney General to submit a complaint.

UK, EEA, and Swiss rights. Where applicable law provides, you may request access to, rectification or erasure of, or restriction of the processing of your personal data; object to processing based on legitimate interests; request data portability; and withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority, including the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

11. Children’s Privacy

The Site is directed to professionals and is not intended for individuals under eighteen years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under thirteen. If you believe a child has provided personal data through the Site, contact us at privacy@thewcf.com and we will delete it.

12. Third-Party Sites and Services

The Site may link to websites and services we do not control. This Policy does not apply to those third parties, and we are not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party site you visit.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may revise this Policy from time to time. The effective date at the top of this Policy reflects the most recent revision. If we make a material change to how we collect, use, or disclose personal data, we will post a prominent notice on the Site before the change takes effect. Your continued use of the Site after a revised Policy is posted constitutes acceptance of the revision.

14. Contact

The World Conservative Forum Corporation, Attn: Privacy, Dallas, Texas. Email: privacy@thewcf.com.