Privacy Policy
Last Updated May 03, 2023
VERTAKS LLC and any of its affiliates (collectively “Company”, “VERTAKS “,
we”, or “us”) operates an online marketplace
for connecting users (a “User” or “you”) with relevant service providers in a geographic
area (the “Services”) via https://vertaks.com/
or at any affiliated web location (the “Website” or “Websites”).
VERTAKS is owned and operated by
VERTAKS LLC (the “Company”). Your use of the Services is subject to the terms and conditions
set forth in this Privacy
Policy (the “Privacy Policy”). PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR
USING THE COMPANY SERVICE, YOU
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL THE TERMS OF THIS
PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR TERMS
OF SERVICE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO SUCH TERMS, EXIT THIS PAGE AND DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE
COMPANY SERVICE. We are
committed to respect and protect the privacy of the personal information we obtain from you
through the Services and we
have created this Privacy Policy to inform you about how we collect, use and share your
personal information, and about
our privacy practices in general. We are always ready to address your questions and concerns
regarding this policy and
our privacy practices. If you would like to contact customer service, please contact us at
the email address at the end
of this Privacy Policy. We continually strive to find new ways to enhance your experience
with the Services and we may
modify this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our privacy practices.
You are encouraged to review
this Privacy Policy periodically and to check the “Last Updated” date at the top of the
Privacy Policy for the most recent version. If we
make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of
notice through the Website, the
Application, or any other part of the Services.
- Terms of Service. Use of the Services is subject to the terms of our Terms of Service
through our online form, which is
hereby incorporated and made part of this Privacy Policy. By using the Services, you
agree to be bound by our Terms of
Service.
- Types and Uses of Collected Information. Company collects two types of information about
you:
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2.1 Personally Identifiable Information. Personally Identifiable Information is
information that identifies a specific
person. When you engage in certain activities via the Services, including but
not limited to creating an account,
sending feedback, or otherwise participating in the Services (collectively,
“Identification Activities”), we may ask you
to provide certain information about yourself. If you elect to engage in an
Identification Activity we may ask you to
provide us with certain personal information about yourself, such as your name,
address, email address, telephone number
and/or any other information you provide to us, to create your account of
profile, send communications about them to
you, and populate forms for future transactions. If you enroll in the Services
through a third party (such as Facebook
or Google) then Company may receive Personally Identifiable Information from
such third party and by using the Services,
you consent to such receipt of Personally Identifiable Information and its use
pursuant to this Privacy Policy by
Company. We may use or share Personally Identifiable Information to provide
products and/or services to you, to enable Third-Party Providers to provide
products and/or services to you, enhance the operation of the Services, improve
our marketing and promotional efforts, analyze use of the Services, and tailor
your experience with third parties as
provided below in this Privacy Policy. We may also use Personally Identifiable
Information to troubleshoot, resolve
disputes, accomplish administrative tasks, contact you, enforce our agreements
with you, including our Terms of Service
and this Privacy Policy, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law
enforcement activities.
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2.2 Non-Personally Identifiable Information. Non-Personally Identifiable
Information is information that does not
identify a specific person. This type of information may include things like the
Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) of the
website you visited before coming to the Services or otherwise participating in
the Services, the URL of the website you
visit after leaving the Services, the type of browser you are using, your
Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, mobile
carrier information, mobile device information, or general and/or aggregated
location data that does constitute
Personally Identifiable Information. We, and/or our authorized Third-Party
Service Providers, may automatically collect
this information when you visit or use the Services using electronic tools like
Cookies and Web beacons or Pixel tags,
as described below in this Privacy Policy. We use Non-Personally Identifiable
Information to troubleshoot, administer
the Services, analyze trends, gather demographic information, comply with
applicable law, and cooperate with law
enforcement activities. We may also share this information with our authorized
Third-Party Service Providers to measure
the overall effectiveness of our products and services.
- How we use your personal data.
- 3.1 In this Section 3 we have set out:
- (a) the general categories of personal data that we may process, and
- (b) the purposes for which we may process personal data.
- 3.2 We may process data about your use of our website and services ("usage
data"). The usage data may include your IP
address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system,
referral source, length of visit, page views
and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency
and pattern of your service use. The
source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system. This usage data may
be processed for the purposes of
analyzing the use of the website and services. The legal basis for this
processing is your consent or our legitimate
interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.
- 3.3 We may process your account data ("account data"). The account data may
include your name and email address. The
source of the account data is you. The account data may be processed for the
purposes of operating our website,
providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services,
maintaining back-ups of our databases and
communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is your consent or
our legitimate interests, namely
monitoring and improving our website and services.
- 3.4 We may process your information included in your personal profile on our
website ("profile data"). The profile data
may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, profile
pictures, and company name. The profile data
may be processed for the purposes of enabling and monitoring your use of our
website and services. The legal basis for this processing is your consent or our
legitimate
interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.
- 3.5 We may process information that you post for publication on our website or
through our services ("publication
data"). The publication data may be processed for the purposes of enabling such
publication and administering our
website and services. The legal basis for this processing is your consent or our
legitimate interests, namely monitoring
and improving our website and services.
- 3.6 We may process information contained in any inquiry you submit to us
regarding goods and/or services ("inquiry
data"). The enquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering,
marketing and selling relevant goods and/or
services to you. The legal basis for this processing is your consent or our
legitimate interests, namely monitoring and
improving our website and services.
- 3.7 We may process [information relating to transactions, including purchases of
goods and services, that you enter into
with us and/or through our website ("transaction data"). The transaction data
may include first and last names, an email
address to be used as a login, billing contact information, credit card number
and a password. The transaction data may
be processed for the purpose of supplying the purchased goods and services and
keeping proper records of those
transactions. The legal basis for this processing is the performance of a
contract between you and us and/or taking
steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract and our legitimate
interests.
- 3.8 We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of
subscribing to our email notifications and/or
newsletters ("notification data"). The notification data may be processed [for
the purposes of sending you the relevant
notifications and/or newsletters. The legal basis for this processing is your
consent or our legitimate interests,
namely monitoring and improving our website and services.
- 3.9 We may process information contained in or relating to any communication
that you send to us ("correspondence
data"). The correspondence data may include the communication content and
metadata associated with the communication.
Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using
the website contact forms. The
correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you
and record-keeping. The legal basis for
this processing is your consent or our legitimate interests, namely monitoring
and improving our website and services.
- 3.10 We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where
necessary for the establishment, exercise
or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative
or out-of-court procedure. The legal
basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and
assertion of our legal rights, your
legal rights and the legal rights of others.
- 3.11 In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal
data set out in this Section 3, we may
also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for
compliance with a legal obligation to
which we are subject, or] in order to protect your vital interests or the vital
interests of another natural person.
- 3.12 Please do not supply any other person's personal data to us unless we
prompt you to do so.
- Providing your personal data to others.
- 4.1 We may disclose your inquiry data to one or more of those selected
Third-Party Providers of services on or linked
from our website, identified on our website for the purpose of enabling them to
connect you with their Services.
- 4.2 In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this
Section 4, we may disclose your personal
data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation
to which we are subject, or in order to
protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
We may also disclose your personal data
where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of
legal claims, whether in court
proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
- Release of Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
- 5.1 We may disclose or share Non-Personally Identifiable Information with Third
Party Service Providers and the public.
For example, we may share aggregated demographic information (which does not
include any Personally Identifiable
Information) or use Third Party Service Providers to track and analyze
Non-Personally Identifiable usage and volume
statistical information from our users to administer the Services. We may also
publish this aggregated information for
promotional purposes. Such data is collected on our behalf and is owned and used
by us.
- 5.2 We may use Third Party Advertising companies to serve ads when you
participate in the Services. These companies may
use Non-Personally Identifiable Information about your visits and use of the
Services, and visits to other websites or
locations to provide, through the use of network tags, advertisements about
goods and services that may be of interest
to you.
- Choices on Collection/Use of Information. You can always choose not to provide certain
information, although a certain
level of information is required to engage and participate in the Services. Other users
may be able to identify you, or
associate you with your account, if you include personal information in the content you
post publicly. You can reduce
the risk of being personally identified by using the Services pseudonymously, though
doing so could detract from the
credibility of your contributions to the Services.
- About cookies.
- 7.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and
numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web
browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the
server each time the browser requests a
page from the server.
- 7.2 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a
persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser
and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user
before the expiry date; a session cookie, on
the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser
is closed.
- 7.3 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies
a user, but personal information that we
store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from
cookies.
- 7.4 We use cookies for the following purposes:
- (a) authentication - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our
website and as you navigate our website.
- (b) status - we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged
into our website.
- (c) security - we use cookies as an element of the security measures to
protect our website and services generally.
- (d) advertising - we use cookies to help us to display advertisements
that may be relevant to you.
- (f) analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyze the use and
performance of our website and services; and
- (g) cookie consent - we use cookies to store your preferences in
relation to the use of cookies more generally.
- Cookies used by our service providers and/or affiliates.
- 8.1 Our service providers, affiliates and partners use cookies and those cookies
may be stored on your computer when you
visit our website.
- 8.2 We may use Google Analytics or similar tools to analyze the use of our
website. Google Analytics gathers information
about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our
website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy
policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
- Managing cookies
- 9.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies.
The methods for doing so vary from
browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain
up-to-date information about blocking and
deleting cookies via these links:
- (a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
(Chrome);
- (b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
(Firefox);
- (c)http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/
(Opera);
- (d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
(Internet Explorer);
- (e)https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411
(Safari); and
- (f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
(Edge).
- 9.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many
websites.
- 9.3 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our
website.
- Security of Information.
- 10.1 In the event you are provided with an opportunity to establish and account
or profile on our Site, you may be able
to access your Personally Identifiable Information via the Services with your
password and username. This password is
encrypted. We advise against sharing your password with anyone. If you access
your account via a third-party site or
service, you may have additional or different sign-in protections via that
third-party site or service. You need to
prevent unauthorized access to your account and Personal Information by
selecting and protecting your password and/or
other sign-in mechanism appropriately and limiting access to your computer,
browser, or mobile device by signing off
after you have finished accessing your account. Unauthorized entry or use,
hardware or software failure, and other
factors, may compromise the security of user information at any time. If we
believe that the security of your
information may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that
development.
- 10.2 We are committed to taking all reasonable precautions to safeguard the
privacy of personal information which has
been provided by its users. We use technical, contractual, administrative and
physical security steps to protect your
personal information. Security measures such as restricted access and the use of
passwords and encryption have been
adopted to protect your personal information against loss or theft, as well as
unauthorized access, disclosure, copying,
use or modification. Our employees have been trained to respect your privacy at
all times and those employees with
access to your personal information shall use your personal information strictly
in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We will protect your credit card information by using industry standard
encryption technology.
- 10.3 Please be aware that no data transmission over the Internet or via e-mail
is completely secure and therefore we
cannot guarantee protection of all personal information in all cases. For
example, we cannot guarantee protection
against interception, misappropriation, misuse, or alteration, or that your
information will not be disclosed or
accessed by the unauthorized acts of others. Consequently, we cannot ensure or
warrant the security of any information
you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. If you provide us with your
credit card number, you should not send
it electronically unless the email is encrypted, or your browser indicates that
the access to our website is secure.
Materials posted to online forums such as bulletin boards or chat rooms are
public, not secure, and may be viewed by
anyone. Any personal information you post may be collected and used by anyone
and may result in unsolicited messages
from other parties.
- Data Retention and Account Termination. We will remove your public posts from view
and/or dissociate them from your
account profile, but we may retain information about you for the purposes authorized
under this Privacy Policy unless
prohibited by law. For example, we may retain information to prevent, investigate, or
identify possible wrongdoing in
connection with the Services or to comply with legal obligations. Please note that
businesses cannot remove their
business listings, ratings, or reviews by closing their accounts.
- Notice of Privacy Rights to California Residents. California law requires that we
provide you with a summary of your
privacy rights under the California Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and the
California Business and Professions Code. As required by COPPA, we will provide you with
the categories of Personally Identifiable
Information that we collect through the Services and the categories of third-party
persons or entities with whom such
Personally Identifiable Information may be shared for direct marketing purposes at your
request. California law requires
us to inform you, at your request, (1) the categories of Personally Identifiable
Information we collect and what third
parties we share that information with; (2) the names and addresses of those third
parties; and (3) examples of the
products marketed by those companies. COPPA further requires us to allow you to control
who you do not want us to share
that information with. To obtain this information, please send a request by email or
physical mail to the address found
below. When contacting us, please indicate your name, address, email address, and what
Personally Identifiable
Information you do not want us to share with our marketing partners. The request should
be sent to the attention of our
legal department and labeled “California Customer Choice Notice.” Please allow 30 days
for a response. Also, please note
that there is no charge for controlling the sharing of your Personally Identifiable
Information or requesting this
notice.
- Children. The Services are not directed to people under the age of eighteen (18). If you
become aware that your child
has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us at the
email address listed below. If
we become aware that a child under this age has provided us with personal information,
we take steps to remove such
information and terminate the child’s account.
- Customer Service. For assistance or questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the
Services, you may contact us at the
address below.
Contact Info: info@vertaks.com