Privacy Policy - Vi3 Global

(Last Modified: March 3, 2023)

This Privacy Policy applies to use of the website located at https://vi3global.com (the “Site”). The Site is owned and operated by Valmarc Corporation (“Valmarc”, “we”, or “us”).

Protecting your information online is important to Valmarc. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, and how we will and will not use the information you entrust to us, through the Site.

This policy applies to information we collect:

On the Site or through web forms on the Sites.
In e-mail, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Site.

It does not apply to information collected:

by us offline or through any other means, including information collected through any other electronic means or on any other website operated by us or any third party; or
by any other third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the Site.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Site. By accessing or using the Site, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of the Site after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We may collect several types of information from and about users of our Site, including:

information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
information that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your location or company name; and/or
information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Site and usage details.

We may collect this information:

Directly from you when you provide it to us, as described below.
Automatically as you navigate through the Site, as described below.

We protect this information using industry-standard security measures (see Data Security below).

Information You Provide to Us

The information we may collect on or through our Site may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Site. This also includes information provided at the time of requesting information about a product or service.
Information that you provide when you report a problem with our Site.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses), if you contact us or communicate through the Site.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes
Your search queries on the Site.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Site, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and any pages and resources that you access and use on the Site.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, device type, location, operating system and browser type.

We do not use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).

We do not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals.

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information that you may provide to us, or that we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. The information helps us to improve our Site and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Site according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Site.
Collect statistical data on website use allowing us to improve our Site and use the data for marketing purposes.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). Our site uses cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Site.
Web Beacons. Pages of the Site and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs. pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit Valmarc, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an e-mail and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

The technologies we use to collect information about your use of the Site include the Demographic and Interest Reporting features of Google Analytics. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit the Site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they visited prior to coming to our Site. We use the information we obtain from Google Analytics to improve our Site. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information about you. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our Site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our Site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use [add link] and the Google Privacy Policy [add link]. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to our Site by disabling cookies on your browser.

Third-party Use of Cookies

We do not use any third-party cookies (such as Google advertising cookies) on the Site. In some cases, where a page on our Site includes context from social network, such as a Twitter feed, those services may set a cookie even when you do not click a button. We cannot access information collected by those cookies set by social networks, just as social networks cannot access cookies we set ourselves.

Links to Other Internet Sites and their Privacy Policies

Our Site may include links to other Internet sites as a convenience to Site visitors. Valmarc is not responsible for personal information that you voluntarily disclose to other third parties that you reach through links or otherwise through our Site, and any such information disclosed will be governed by the privacy policies associated with those sites.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

To present our Site and its contents to you.
To provide you with information about the products and services on our Site.
To provide you with information that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide such information.
To notify you about changes to our Site or any products or services we offer or provide though our Site.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Site.
To understand how you use and interact with our Site and the people or things you are interested in on our Site.
To evaluate and improve our products and services, and/ or develop new products or services.
To conduct audit and troubleshooting activities.
To enforce our Privacy Policy.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our products and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please contact our Chief Administrative Officer (see Contact Us below for details on how to contact our Chief Administrative Officer). For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To our advisors and to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Site users is among the assets transferred.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government, court or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Valmarc, our customers or others.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Promotional Offers from Valmarc. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by Valmarc to promote our products or services, you can opt-out by contacting our Chief Administrative Officer (see Contact Us below for details on how to contact our Chief Administrative Officer). If we have sent you a promotional e-mail, you may send us a return e-mail asking to be omitted from future e-mail distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to Valmarc as a result of a purchase, customer service experience or other transactions.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.

Children Under the Age of 13

The content of our Site is not targeted to or intended for, children under 13 years of age. Valmarc does not market products or services to this age group, and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Site or on or through any of its features, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact our Chief Administrative Officer (see Contact Us below for details on how to contact our Chief Administrative Officer).

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You may send us an e-mail at support@vi3global.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Site that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact our Chief Administrative Officer (see Contact Us below for details on contacting our Chief Administrative Officer).

Your UK and European Union Privacy Rights

If you are a resident of the European Union (“EU”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”), you may have additional rights, as detailed in this section. Every EU user is entitled to the following rights:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data from us. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request us to complete information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain condition.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected about you to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact our Chief Administrative Officer (See Contact Us below for details on how to contract our Chief Administrative Officer).

To process your personal information, we rely on the following legal bases: (i) to perform the contract we have with you to provide the Site; (ii) for compliance with legal obligations to which we are or to which we may become subject (including tax obligations, and requests from law enforcement agencies or other competent authorities with jurisdiction over us and our Site); and (iii) for the purposes of our legitimate interests in providing the Site to you, making suggestions to you regarding service offerings, venues, and other offerings, monitoring the Site for fraud or misuse, and ensuring the functionality of our Site.

To the extent that you have provided consent for us to process certain of your personal information, you may withdraw your consent at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact our Chief Administrative Officer (See Contact Us below for details on how to contract our Chief Administrative Officer). You may also contact us at any time to request that we cease some or all of the processing of your personal information, whether or not such processing was the result of your specific consent or some other identified legal basis. It is your choice whether you share personal information with us, and it is your choice whether you revoke consent at any time or otherwise request us to cease processing your information. There is no legal consequence to you if your refrain from providing or otherwise revoke consent to our processing of your personal information. However, please note that our ability to provide the Site and other services to you may be impacted if you do not share certain personal information with us in connection with your use of the Site or other services.

Data Security

We have built our Site using industry-standard security measures and authentication tools to protect the security of your personal information. For security of transactions, we use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, which encrypts any personal information you enter into our forms. We also have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, Valmarc cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to our Site over the Internet, and Valmarc is not liable for the illegal acts of third parties, such as hackers.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Do not share your password with anyone.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Site home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Site home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable e-mail address for you, and for periodically visiting our Site and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Us

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at support@vi3global.com or by contacting our Chief Administrative Officer at:

Vi3/Valmarc Corporation
163 Highland Ave. #1153
Needham, MA 02494 USA

Please be sure to include your full name, address, telephone number and e-mail address so that we may reach you with a response. You may also call (617) 221-5505.