Wolverine World Wide, Inc. Supplier Privacy Notice
Wolverine World Wide, Inc., referred to collectively with its affiliated entities and portfolio of brands, as “Wolverine,” “we,” “us,” or “our”, takes data privacy seriously. This privacy policy (the “Policy”) describes: the types of information we collect about Suppliers to Wolverine how we use and share that information; and the choices you can make with respect to your personal information.
Personal Information We Collect Directly from You
You provide us with your personal information when you communicate with us:
- by corresponding with us by email, or via other direct interactions with us (in person, over the phone or otherwise);
- by completing the “Contact Us” form on our website;
- by submitting promotional information to us (by email, phone or otherwise); and
- when you attend an event, or an exhibition/trade fair that we have attended.
Personal Information Collected from other sources
We collect personal data about you through the following interactions:
- when you provide it to us; or
- by way of a referral from another supplier or industry specialist;
- publicly available sources – for example, use such sources to help us keep the contact details we already hold for you accurate and up to date or for professional networking purposes, e.g. LinkedIn.
General Information
We collect personal information you choose to provide, which is likely to include:
- basic personal details such as your name, job title, business or employer name;
- contact data such as your telephone number and postal or email address;
- information about you role or your business;
- any other personal data relating to you that you may provide.
Business Owner Information
As part of our commitment to corporate social responsibility (which you can read more about here), we will ask whether the business you represent is owned by people from diverse backgrounds. If you are the business owner and you share this information we will process information about your educational background, ethnicity, sexuality and gender identity which is special category data.
Please do not submit information that you do not want us to have.
How we use your personal data
We will only use your personal data where we are permitted to do so by applicable law. Under UK data protection law, the use of personal data must be justified under one of a number of legal grounds. The principal legal grounds that justify our use of your personal data are:
- Legal obligation: where we need to use your information to comply with our legal obligations.
- Legitimate interests: where we use your information to achieve a legitimate interest and our reasons for using it outweigh any prejudice to your data protection rights.
- Legal claims: where your information is necessary for us to defend, prosecute or make a claim against you, us or a third party.
- Consent: where you have consented to our use of your information (you will have been presented with a consent form or facility in relation to any such use and may withdraw your consent through an unsubscribe or similar facility).
We may use your personal data in the following ways. In each case, we note the categories of data processed and the grounds that we rely on to use your personal data.
Who we share your personal data with
Within Wolverine’s corporate family
Wolverine will share your personal information with brands, subsidiaries and affiliates, and their agents and employees for a number of different reasons. For example, we may share your personal information to fulfil your requests, to ensure prompt payment of an invoice, to comply with law, and to enforce our rights.
Our affiliated companies and brands are part of our global business (full details on the location of our businesses can be found here). As such, your personal data might be transferred beyond the country in which you reside. Please note, Wolverine has put in place appropriate safeguards to ensure that the transfer of personal data originating in the UK and EEA may be lawfully shared with colleagues in the United States and other ‘third countries’ (as defined by the UK GDPR). For more information about this please contact Wolverine’s Data Protection Officer.
Third Parties
We will share your personal data with a variety of the following third parties:
- our professional advisors (e.g. legal, financial, business, risk management or other advisors), bankers and auditors;
- our insurers and insurance brokers;
- third party service providers whose systems or services we use to run certain functions of our business, such as payment processing, technology and IT services, word processing, photocopying and translation services (we have agreements in place with these service providers to protect the confidentiality and security of information (including personal data) shared with them);
- in the course of dialogue with our regulators as applicable;
- potential investors, or buyers of some or all of our business, or during a re-structuring of our business. Such data recipients will be bound by obligations of confidentiality.
How long we keep your personal data
We will retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which this data was collected and any other permitted linked purpose. If your personal data is used for multiple purposes we will retain it until the purpose with the latest period expires; but we will stop using it for the purpose with a shorter period once that period expires. Our retention periods are also based on our business needs and industry good practice.
What rights you have in relation to your personal data
If you have any questions about our use of your personal data, you should first contact us via the details provided below. Under certain circumstances and in accordance with UK and EU applicable data protection laws, you may have the right to require us to:
- provide you with further details on the use we make of your information;
- provide you with a copy of information that we hold about you;
- update any inaccuracies in the personal data we hold;
- delete any personal data that we no longer have a lawful ground to use;
- where processing is based on consent, to withdraw your consent so that we stop that particular processing;
- object to any processing based on the legitimate interests ground unless our reasons for undertaking that processing outweigh any prejudice to your data protection rights; and
- restrict how we use your information whilst a complaint is being investigated.
You may also ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.
We are also required to take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal data remains accurate. In order to assist us with this, please let us know of any changes to the personal data that you have provided to us by contacting us using the details below or by using any relevant facilities that we provide.
While it is our policy to respect the rights of individuals, please be aware that your exercise of these rights is subject to certain exemptions to safeguard the public interest (e.g. the prevention or detection of crime), our interests (e.g. the maintenance of legal privilege) and some of these rights may be limited (for example the right to withdraw consent) where we are required or permitted by law to continue processing your personal data to defend our legal rights or meet our legal and regulatory obligations.
If you contact us to exercise any of these rights we will check your entitlement and respond in most cases within a month.
If you are not satisfied with our use of your personal data or our response to any exercise of these rights, you have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”). The ICO’s contact details are available here.
How you can contact us
Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns about your personal information or require assistance in managing your choices.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or how we process your personal data, you can contact us using the below details:
Email: DataProtectionOfficer@wwwinc.com
Wolverine World Wide, Inc.
Attn: Data Protection Officer
9341 Courtland Dr. NE
Rockford, MI 49351
How we will update this Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice was last updated in July 2022.
We may update the Privacy Notice from time to time. We will inform you of any updates by email.