This privacy notice (the “COVID-19 Privacy Notice”) explains how WeWork Companies LLC and our affiliates (collectively, “WeWork,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes your Personal Information in connection with our response to COVID-19 and supplements the WeWork Privacy Policy for People Data for employees and the Global Privacy Policy for members, vendors, visitors and guests.
In connection with WeWork’s response to COVID-19, we may collect Personal Information, including Health Data (defined below): (i) directly from you; (ii) obtained about you from others; (iii) when you visit a WeWork office; and (iv) from other sources.
Information we may collect about you, including when you visit our office:
Information we collect about you from other sources:
We may obtain the following Personal Information about you from the following sources, which we use in the ways described in the section below:
Third Party Name | Categories of Data Collected |
Our vendors (including security personnel) | Your contact details, Health Data, and any relevant WeWork offices you have attended. |
Our members | Your contact details, Health Data, and any relevant WeWork offices you have attended. |
Visitors and guests | Your contact details, Health Data, and any relevant WeWork offices you have attended. |
Co-workers and your employer | Your contact details, Health Data, and any relevant WeWork offices you have attended. |
2.1 Personal Information and Health Data
Data protection law requires us to have a valid reason to process your Personal Information. The law refers to each reason as a ‘lawful basis’. The purposes for which we use your Personal Information and the lawful basis on which we rely are to comply with our legal obligations, to protect you or another’s vital interests, and in furtherance of our legitimate interests, as detailed below. In addition, to the extent Personal Information is considered Health Data (i.e., a special category of information under applicable law), we will process this information: (i) only where our processing is necessary for us to carry out our obligations in the field of employment (these obligations include protecting the health and safety of our employees and workspaces); (ii) with your explicit consent (we will rely on explicit consent only where we rely on consent as a lawful basis in this paragraph); or (iii) where relevant, in defense of legal claims.
Where necessary to comply with our LEGAL OBLIGATIONS
We will use your Personal Information to comply with our legal obligations:
Where it is in your or another individual’s VITAL INTERESTS
We will use your Personal Information to notify individuals you have been in close contact with and who may now be at risk of COVID-19 infection. We will do this in order to protect the health of our employees, members, visitors and guests. Any such notifications will be conducted on an anonymous basis.
Where there is a LEGITIMATE INTEREST
We may use and process your Personal Information where it is necessary for us to pursue our legitimate interests as a business, or that of a third party, for the following purposes:
Where you have provided CONSENT
We may use and process your personal information where you have consented for us to do so for the following purposes:
You may withdraw your consent for us to use your information in any of these ways at any time.
Your information may be disclosed to or processed by our third party service providers, agents and subcontractors (“Suppliers”) and other individuals for the purposes set out above as follows:
Recipient / relationship to us | Industry sector (& sub-sector) |
Security vendors | Security |
Facilities and technology service providers including saas, scanning, and data destruction providers | IT (Data Management) |
Insurers and insurance brokers | Insurance (Underwriting & Broking) |
Legal, security and other professional advisers, auditors, and consultants | Professional Services (Legal & Accounting) |
Health officials | Healthcare |
Members, Visitors, Guests, Employee | Various |
If you have symptoms associated with COVID-19 or report that you have tested positive for COVID-19, we will use your Personal Information to notify individuals you have been in close contact with and who may now be at risk of COVID-19 infection. We will do this in order to protect the health of our employees, members, visitors and guests. Any such notifications will be conducted on an anonymous ‘no names’ basis.
For information about where we store your Personal Information, how long we retain your Personal Information, and your rights under data protection law, please visit the WeWork Privacy Policy for People Data for employees and the Global Privacy Policy for members, visitors and guests which this COVID-19 Privacy Notice supplements. .
For more information about our contact details and when to contact us, please visit the WeWork Privacy Policy for People Data for employees and the Global Privacy Policy for members, visitors and guests which this COVID-19 Privacy Notice supplements.
LAST UPDATED: July 21, 2020