Privacy Policy
Last Updated: December 31, 2019
Table of Contents
1. Introduction.
2. Collection of Personal Data.
3. Use of Personal Data.
4. Sharing of Personal Data.
5. Employment Applications.
6. Cookies and Similar Technologies.
7. Sensitive Personal Data and Children’s Data.
8. Links.
9. Access, Correction, and Other Rights.
10. Security and Integrity of Personal Data.
11. International Transfers.
12. Updates.
13. Contact Us.
1. Introduction.
Vettir is data services provider delivering contact details at a premium for marketers and business professionals. To learn more about our business, click here.
This Privacy Policy describes the privacy practices for information collected by Vettir on any website where the policy has been posted by Vettir as well as our browser plug-ins. Please read it carefully. By using our website, services, or browser plug-ins, you accept this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions, please contact us using the information in the “Contact Us” section at the end of this policy.
2. Collection of Personal Data.
Vettir collects information using:
- Our browser plug-ins if you choose to install them;
- Your professional networking, customer relationship management, or social media platforms if you choose to link them;
- Our website; or
- With your consent.
When you install our browser plug-ins; link your professional networking, customer relationship management, or social media platforms, we may obtain information about your contacts, related information, or other content on your browser. We may also collect information about your use of our products or services. We also collect information about you or your contacts from our service providers, partners, or other sources of publicly available information.
The personal data that Vettir may collect includes:
- Biographic information, such as names and age;
- Contact information, such as addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and professional networking or social media platform contact information;
- Professional information, such as your title, industry, professional and employment background, and profile;
- Preferences and interests, such as contact preferences, preferred language;
- Credentials, such as usernames and passwords for Vettir website accounts;
- Financial data, such as credit and debit card or bank account information relating to your purchases from Vettir; and
- Other information you may provide to us.
We may also collect other identifying information we may obtain from you, as disclosed in other policies or notices.
You may choose not to provide us with your personal data. If you choose not to provide us with your personal data, we may be unable to provide you with all functional aspects of our products and services.
3. Use of Personal Data.
A. Providing Products and Services.
Vettir may use your personal data to provide you or our other customers with our products and services. For example, our browser plug-in provides our users and customers with business contact and other related information.
We may use your contact information to communicate with you about your order of our products or services, including to process payments or send receipts. Vettir may also use your personal data to add new features or capabilities to our products or services or otherwise improve them. We may use your personal data to administer your website account with us. We may use your personal data to help us provide after-sales care, such as product servicing, warranties, or recalls. We may also use your personal data to produce aggregate or statistical data about our customers, users, products, services, or industry.
Our legal bases for processing your personal data to provide you with our products and services are the performance of contracts and the furtherance of Vettir’s legitimate business interests. Our legitimate business interests may relate to fraud detection and prevention, risk assessment, or improvement of our products and services. If you choose not to provide your personal data where it is required as part of a contract for our products or services or to create your website account, we may be unable to provide you with our products or services.
To buy products and services from Vettir, we may need your biographic information and financial information. If you purchase a product or service from Vettir, we may also collect and use additional information from your purchase transaction, such as the cost of the transaction, type of service or product purchased, payment type, currency, and location of payment.
B. Communications and Customer Service.
Vettir may use your personal data to communicate with you and provide you with customer service. For example, we may request personal data from you regarding surveys or contests. We may use survey information for monitoring or improving this website, our services, or products. Additionally, we may use your personal data to respond to inquiries, provide support, address issues or disputes, or otherwise manage our relationship with you. We may also retain and use records regarding the content and nature of our communication with you, whether by email, telephone call, internet chat, fax or otherwise. We may merge personal data with other information Vettir has about you.
Our website allows users to engage in discussion by commenting on our blog posts. Note that blogs are public. Any information you include in a comment on a blog may be read, collected, and used by anyone.
Participation in our surveys or contests is voluntary and you may choose to participate and disclose this personal data. We may use your contact information (such as name and billing address) and demographic information (such as zip code or age) for these surveys or contests. We may use this information to notify the winners and award prizes.
Our legal bases for processing your personal data for communications and customer service purposes are your consent or furthering Vettir’s legitimate business interests, which include continuing and improving customer relations and updating customer details and preferences.
C. Marketing.
We may use your personal data so that we, or our affiliates, can market, advertise, or otherwise promote products and services that may be of interest to you based on your profile. We may advertise to you on websites or using email or professional networking or social media platforms. Unless you ask us not to, Vettir may contact you in the future to tell you about new products or services. We may use your personal data for website analytics and customer relationship management purposes.
Our legal basis for processing your personal data for marketing purposes is Vettir’s legitimate business interests relating to marketing, advertising, and promoting our products and services.
D. Legal and Compliance.
Vettir may also use your personal data in connection with our legal or compliance obligations. These obligations may include cooperating or complying with government or law enforcement investigations, litigation, discovery, regulatory requirements, corporate investigations, dispute resolution, collections, national security, public interest, or others.
Our legal bases for processing your personal data for legal and compliance purposes are to meet legal obligations or legitimate business interests relating to compliance with other local laws that we may be subject to.
4. Sharing of Personal Data.
Vettir may share your personal data for the purposes of providing our products or services, communications and customer service, marketing, and as a part of our legal and compliance obligations.
When Vettir shares your personal data, we do so consistent with this Privacy Policy or to the extent necessary to carry out the purposes described in this policy, and as required or permitted by applicable law.
Our service providers may include information technology providers, communications technology providers, email or marketing services providers, contact information verification services providers, consultants, auditors, attorneys, outsourcing services service providers, financial services providers, payment processing and billing service providers, customer service providers, or others.
In providing you with communications and customer service and marketing, we may share your personal data with customer relationship management service providers, advertising and marketing service providers, social media platforms (where you use those services to connect with us), and others.
We may also share your personal data to comply with our legal and compliance obligations; enforce our agreements; detect, prevent, or address fraud or other suspected illegal activity; and protect our rights and the rights of others. As a part of legal and compliance efforts, we may share personal data with our attorneys, governmental entities, supervisory authorities, law enforcement agencies, or others as required or permitted by applicable law. Vettir may share personal data as part of corporate transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures; however, your personal data remains subject to promises made in this Privacy Policy during those transactions.
Vettir may also share your personal data with its employees, contractors, service providers, and others.
5. Employment Applications.
If you are applying for a job at Vettir, we may collect information from you, including application information, resumes, and employment records; information received from references; work eligibility and equal opportunity employment information (as required or permitted by applicable law); or other information.
We may use your personal data to consider your employment application. We may share your personal data relating to your application with our employees, affiliates, subsidiaries, and service providers, including recruiting service providers, hiring consultants and agencies, information and technology service providers, human resources information system providers, and others. Please also review additional terms that may apply when you submit your application.
6. Cookies and Similar Technologies.
We may use “cookies”, web beacons, or similar technologies on our website. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a website visitor’s device to help us improve access, use, and security of our website and identify repeat visitors to our website. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to enter a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our website. Web beacons are objects embedded into webpages that allow us to monitor site activity. Cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies can also help us track and target your interests so that we can enhance your experience on our website, conduct analytics, determine the effectiveness of promotional campaigns, and direct advertisements or other marketing activities.
We may also collect other automated information from you, such as your browser type and language, your operating system, your Internet Protocol address, the date and time of your visit, the duration of your visit, the URLs of websites you visited before and after visiting our website, the web search that landed you on our website, and web pages and advertisements you view and links you click on within our website.
Some of our business partners, such as advertisers or our merchandise vendors, may also use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies on our website. We may use cookies and similar technologies from AddThis, Intercom, Disqus, Mixpanel, and others. These cookies and similar technologies may collect personal data about you over time and across different websites when you use our website. You may opt out of such collection by using the hyperlinks included above. Vettir websites do not currently respond to browser Do-Not-Track signals.
You may also accept or reject those cookies or block those technologies. Your browser’s help section should explain how to configure your browser’s cookie handling. Your browser may also have add-ons that may help you manage web beacons and similar technologies. Please note that some portions of our websites (such as customer portal) require the use of cookies to function properly.
We may also include integration or links to social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and others. These features for the social media platforms may also use cookies or similar technologies. They may collect your information, such as your IP address, device and browser type, and the web page you visited. You may also wish to review the privacy policies for those social media platforms to learn how they treat your information. We may collect information about you from those platforms when you access our website using those platforms.
7. Sensitive Personal Data and Children’s Data.
Vettir does not knowingly collect nor use sensitive personal data (such as data that reveal racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership). Vettir does not knowingly collect or use personal data from children.
8. Links.
This website contains links to other websites, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other websites. Please be aware when you leave our website and read the privacy policy of any other website that collects your information.
9. Access, Correction, and Other Rights.
Depending on circumstances and applicable law, you may have the right to access, correct, object, or delete your personal data. You may do so by contacting us using the information in the “Contact Us” section at the end of this Privacy Policy. We may need to verify your identity and the applicability of the rights under the law to you before we grant your right to object, access, correct, or delete. Once we do, we will provide you with a copy of the personal data that you request access to as soon as practically possible. As permitted by applicable law, we may limit these rights. For example, we may limit them where they adversely affect other individuals’ personal data, trade secrets, or intellectual property, among other reasons. We will tell you the reasons for any denial of your request.
Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with a local supervisory authority; the right to have Vettir restrict the processing of your personal data; the right of portability of your personal data; or the right to withdraw any consent relating to the processing of your personal data. Your withdrawal of consent, if any, does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
If you wish to completely remove any individual profile from our directory, please email privacy@vettir.com with subject line “Remove.” If you make this choice, your name, employment history, web references, and contact information (including email address) will be removed from our search results as soon as possible. Unless otherwise required by applicable law, Vettir does not remove company information or summaries from its directory.
You may opt out of any future emails from us at any time by using the unsubscribe links included in our email communications to you. You may also opt out of other communications from us by contacting us using the information in the “Contact Us” section below.
You may remove any browser plug-in using your browser’s plug-in settings. You may revoke access to your professional networking, customer relationship management, or social media platforms using the settings relating to those email service providers or platforms. Please refer to the help section of those email service providers or platforms for additional help.
California Consumer Privacy Act
10. Security and Integrity of Personal Data.
Vettir takes some precautions to try to protect your personal data both online and offline and to try to keep personal data accurate, current, complete, and reliable for its intended use. We use various security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. When collecting or transmitting confidential information, such as credit card numbers, Vettir protects that information through encryption.
Vettir retains personal data for as long as reasonably required to comply with our legal obligations and in compliance with our data retention policies and procedures. We also retain your personal data for as long as reasonably required for our business purposes, including to provide our services to our customers, to resolve disputes, and for the safety, security, and reliability of our products and services.
11. International Transfers.
Vettir is the data controller for the personal data collected on this website, through our browser plug-ins, and through other means. Vettir may store, access, or use your personal data in the United States or in any other country where Vettir or service providers do business or maintain facilities. Therefore, we may transfer personal data between different jurisdictions.
Where required to by its customers, Vettir transfers personal data in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation and other applicable law. For example, Vettir may use standard contractual clauses issued by the European Commission for data transfers to data controllers and data processors established outside of the European Union, European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK.
12. Updates.
Vettir may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as permitted by law. When we update these terms, we will post them on this page and change the “last updated” date on the policy. If we make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will notify you either by a prominent notice on our website before the changes take effect or emailing you about those changes. Where required by applicable law, we will revise this Privacy Policy if we change the purposes of the processing of your personal data.
Please review our website and policies frequently to learn how Vettir uses your personal data. Your continued use of our website after our notification means that you have accepted our updated privacy policy.
It is Vettir policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to vettir.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “vettir.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
12. Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Vettir collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Vettir purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Vettir visitors use its website. From time to time, Vettir may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Vettir also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on http://vettir.com blog posts. Vettir only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
14. Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Vettir websites choose to interact with Vettir in ways that require Vettir to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Vettir gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at http://vettir.com to provide a username and email address.
15. What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
16. Advertisements
Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Vettir and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
17. Links To External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
18. Vettir uses Google AdWords for remarketing
Vettir uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
19. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Vettir discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Vettir behalf or to provide services available at Vettir website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Vettir website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Vettir will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Vettir discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Vettir believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Vettir, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of http://vettir.com and have supplied your email address, Vettir may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Vettir and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Vettir takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
20. Aggregated Statistics
Vettir may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Vettir may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Vettir does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
21. Affiliate Disclosure
This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.
22. Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, Vettir uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Vettir uses cookies to help Vettir identify and track visitors, their usage of http://vettir.com, and their website access preferences. Vettir visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Vettir websites, with the drawback that certain features of Vettir websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Vettir use of cookies.
23. E-commerce
Those who engage in transactions with Vettir – by purchasing Vettir services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Vettir collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Vettir. Vettir does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
24. Business Transfers
If Vettir, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Vettir goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Vettir may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
25. Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
26. Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Vettir may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Vettir sole discretion. Vettir encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
27. How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
28. What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
29. Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
30. Contact Us.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or any of your rights under it, you may contact us at:
Vettir
Attention: CCPA Officer
Vettir Inc,.
945 McKinney St, #574
Houston, TX 77002
Or by email at privacy@vettir.com
Or by calling 408.459.9441