Privacy Policy (US)
This privacy notice was last changed on 20th June 2024, last checked on 20th June 2024, and applies to citizens of the United States.
This privacy notice for VDart (doing business as VDart, VDart Group, and VDart) (“we,” “us,” or “our”) explains how and why we might collect, store, use, and process your information when you use our services (“Services”) and website, when you:
- Visit our website at https://www.vdart.com, or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice.
- Download and use our application(s), including mobile applications, or any other application of our that links to this privacy notice.
- Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, partnerships, or events.
We recommend you carefully read this statement. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. In our processing, we comply with the requirements of privacy legislation. That means, among other things, that:
- We clearly state the purposes for which we process personal data. We do this by means of this privacy notice.
- We aim to limit our collection of personal data to only the personal data required for legitimate purposes that is voluntarily provided by you;
- We obtain your express written consent to process your personal data in cases requiring your consent;
- We take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data and also require this from parties that process personal data on our behalf;
- We respect your right to access your personal data or have it corrected or deleted, at your request.
Questions or concerns? If you have any questions or concerns, or want to know exactly what personal data we keep of you of yours we keep, please contact us or email us at csm@vdartinc.com.
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us and our Products and Services, when you participate in activities with the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.
Personal information provided by you
The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:
- First name
- Last name
- Phone numbers
- Email addresses
- Mailing addresses
- Job titles
- Contact or authentication data
- Contact preferences
- Billing addresses
Sensitive information provided by you
We do not collect sensitive information.
Information automatically collected
Some information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (i.e. your name or contact information).
Automatically collected information includes
The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
The personal information we collect may include the following:
- IP address
- Browser and device characteristics
- Geolocation data
- Operating system
- Language preferences
- Referring URLs
- Country
- Information on how and when you use our Services
- Other technical information
Like many businesses, our website uses cookies and similar technologies. For more information about this, please refer to our Cookie Policy on our Cookie Policy (US) webpage.
Information collected from other sources
We may collect limited data from public databases, marketing partners, social media platforms, and other outside sources.
Other sources of information collected
In order to enhance our ability to provide relevant marketing, offers, and services to you and update our records, we may obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, affiliate programs, data providers, social media platforms, and from other third parties.
For purposes of targeted content, advertising, and event promotion, the information we collect from other sources may include the following:
- IP addresses
- Job titles
- Email addresses
- Phone numbers
- Intent data (or user behavior data)
- Social media profiles or URLs
2. HOW WE PROCESS AND USE YOUR INFORMATION
Processing information
We process your information to provide improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.
We process your information for a variety of reasons
The personal information that we collect and process depends on how you interact with our Services for a variety of reasons, including:
- To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user, for the requested service.
- To respond to user inquiries, and solve any potential issues you might have with the requested service.
- To send administrative information to you, details about our products or services, changes to terms and policies, and other similar information
- To request feedback when necessary and contact you about your use of our Services.
- To send you marketing and promotional communications for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences.
Legal bases we rely on to process your information
We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e., legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfill our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business interests.
Explanation of valid legal bases we rely on to process your information
- Consent – We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e., consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
- Calling and SMS Messaging Consent – We only send SMS messages to users who have provided their express written consent by opting in on one of our forms. This opt-in process clearly explains the types of messages you will receive (e.g., marketing promotions, order updates).
- Email Consent – You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional email communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we or any other company that links to this Privacy Notice sends, or you can contact us to withdraw your consent at any time.
- Performance of a Contract – We may process your
Legitimate Interests
We may process your information where we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests and those interests do not outweigh your interest and fundamental rights and freedoms, such as:
- Send users information about special offers and discounts on our products and services.
- Develop and display personalize and relevant advertising content for our users, and support our marketing activities.
- Analyze how our services are used, how our users use our products and services so we can improve them, and improve the user experience to engage and retain users.
- Diagnose problems and/or prevent fraudulent activities.
Legal Obligations
We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which are involved.
Vital Interests
We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests such as situations involving potential threats or the safety of any person.
3. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
Third Parties
We do not share data with third parties.
Selling and disclosure of personal data to third parties
We have not sold consumers’ personal data in the preceding 12 months. A list of the categories we have disclosed for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months:
- Internet activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement.
Third-party Websites
This privacy statement does not apply to third party websites connected by links on our website. We cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. We recommend you read the privacy statements of these websites prior to making use of these websites.
Links To Other Websites
As part of the Service, we may provide links to or compatibility with other websites or applications. However, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by those websites or the information or content they contain. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by us through the Site and the Service. Therefore, this Privacy Policy does not apply to your use of other websites accessed by selecting a link on our Site or via our Service. To the extent that you access or use the Service through or on another website or application, then the privacy policy of that other website or application will apply to your access or use of that site or application. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of other websites before proceeding to use them.
We are not responsible for the safety of any information that you share with third parties that we may link to or who advertise on our Services, but at not affiliated with, our Services.
4. COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Cookie Notice
Like many businesses, our website uses cookies and similar technologies. For more information about this, please refer to our Cookie Policy on our Cookie Policy (US) webpage.
Details in our Cookie Policy may include:
- We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google.
- Google may not use the data for any other Google services.
- The inclusion of full IP addresses is blocked by us.
Controls for Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) Signals
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized.
How we respond to Do-Not-Track Signals
Our website responds to and supports the Do-Not-Track (DNT) header request field, or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If you turn DNT on in your browser, those preferences are communicated to us in the HTTP request header, and we will not track your browsing behavior.
5. SECURITY
How do we keep your information safe?
We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.
We are committed to the security of personal data
We take appropriate security measures to limit abuse of and unauthorised access to personal data. This ensures that only the necessary persons have access to your data, that access to the data.
6. AMENDMENTS TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time.
Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We reserve the right to make amendments to this privacy statement
It is recommended that you consult this privacy statement regularly in order to be aware of any changes. In addition, we will actively inform you wherever possible.
7. ACCESSING AND MODIFYING YOUR DATA
If you have any questions or want to know which personal data we have about you, please contact us. Please make sure to always clearly state who you are, so that we can be certain that we do not modify or delete any data of the wrong person. We shall provide the requested information only upon receipt of a verifiable consumer request. You can contact us by using the information below.
You have the following rights:
8. Right to know
8.1 Right to know what personal information is being collected about you
A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that collects personal information about the consumer disclose to the consumer the following:
- The categories of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
- The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.
- The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
- The categories of third parties with whom the business shares personal information.
- The specific pieces of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
8.2 The right to know whether personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom
A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that sells the consumer’s personal information, or that discloses it for a business purpose, disclose to that consumer:
- The categories of personal information that the business collected about the consumer.
- The categories of personal information that the business sold about the consumer and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, by category or categories of personal information for each third party to whom the personal information was sold.
- The categories of personal information that the business disclosed about the consumer for a business purpose.
8.3 The Right to equal service and price, even if you exercise your privacy rights
We shall not discriminate against a consumer because the consumer exercised any of the consumer’s privacy rights, including, but not limited to, by:
- Denying goods or services to the consumer.
- Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties.
- Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to the consumer, if the consumer exercises the consumer’s privacy rights.
- Suggesting that the consumer will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
However, nothing prohibits us from charging a consumer a different price or rate, or from providing a different level or quality of goods or services to the consumer, if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to the consumer by the consumer’s data.
8.4 The right to delete any personal information
1. A consumer shall have the right to request that a business delete any personal information about the consumer which the business has collected from the consumer.
2. A business that receives a verifiable request from a consumer to delete the consumer’s personal information pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section shall delete the consumer’s personal information from its records and direct any service providers to delete the consumer’s personal information from their records.
3. A business or a service provider shall not be required to comply with a consumer’s request to delete the consumer’s personal information if it is necessary for the business or service provider to maintain the consumer’s personal information in order to:
- Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by the consumer, or reasonably anticipated within the context of a business’s ongoing business relationship with the consumer, or otherwise perform a contract between the business and the consumer.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity.
- Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- (Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act pursuant to Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of Part 2 of the Penal Code.
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the businesses’ deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, if the consumer has provided informed consent.
- To enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with the expectations of the consumer based on the consumer’s relationship with the business.
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Otherwise use the consumer’s personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which the consumer provided the information.
9. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.
Our website is not designed to attract children and it is not our intent to collect personal data from children under 18 years of age.
By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services.
10. Contact Details - HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS PRIVACY NOTICE?
Contact us
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at: info@vdartinc.com or csm@vdartinc.com
You also may contact us by phone at:
Toll free phone number: (800) 371 1664
Phone number: (678) 685-8650
You also may contact us by post at:
VDart
11180 State Bridge Road, Suite 302
Alpharetta, GA 30022
United States
Website: https://www.vdart.com