PRIVACY STATEMENT
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SECTION 1 - WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION?
When you purchase something from our store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address.
When you browse our store, we also automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system.
Email marketing (if applicable): With your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products and other updates.
SECTION 2 - CONSENT
How do you get my consent?
When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.
If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.
How do I withdraw my consent?
If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by contacting us at contact@visionminer.com or mailing us at:
Vision Miner
3183 Airway Ave Costa Mesa California US 92626
SECTION 3 - DISCLOSURE
We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.
SECTION 4 - SHOPIFY
Our store is hosted on Shopify Inc. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you.
Your data is stored through Shopify’s data storage, databases and the general Shopify application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.
Payment:
If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then Shopify stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.
All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover.
PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
For more insight, you may also want to read Shopify’s Terms of Service (https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms) or Privacy Statement (https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy).
SECTION 5 - THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.
However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.
For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.
In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.
As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act.
Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.
Links
When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.
Google analytics:
Our store uses Google Analytics to help us learn about who visits our site and what pages are being looked at
SECTION 6 - SECURITY
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.
If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.
SECTION 7 - COOKIES
Here is a list of cookies that we use. We’ve listed them here so you that you can choose if you want to opt-out of cookies or not.
_session_id, unique token, sessional, Allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc).
_shopify_visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, Used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits
_shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.
cart, unique token, persistent for 2 weeks, Stores information about the contents of your cart.
_secure_session_id, unique token, sessional
storefront_digest, unique token, indefinite If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.
PREF, persistent for a very short period, Set by Google and tracks who visits the store and from where
SECTION 8 - AGE OF CONSENT
By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.
SECTION 9 - CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
If our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.
QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at support@visionminer.com or by mail at
Vision Miner
[Re: Privacy Compliance Officer]
3183 Airway Ave Costa Mesa California US 92626
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Effective Date: 8:00am (PST), August 6, 2017
Thank you for visiting Vision Miner located at http://www.visionminer.com (the “Site”). Vision Miner (“We”, “Us”) is committed to protecting the Privacy of your personally identifiable information. We provide this Privacy Agreement (“Privacy Policy”) in order to explain our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is used by us. You must agree to this Privacy Policy, in its entirety, including our use of cookies in order to register an account (“Account”) with Vision Miner, and log-into your Account as member of Vision Miner. Your acceptance of both this Privacy Policy and our use of cookies on the Site shall be deemed a blanket acceptance of such Privacy Policy and cookie usage for all future attempts to log-in and access your Account. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy in its entirety, you are not authorized to register for an Account on Vision Miner.
Registration
When you register for an Account on any given day, we use a password-protected third party portal to store your personal information, and we may share your personal information with such third party (“Third Party Agent”) as is necessary for the performance of your Account and Vision Miner.
Personal Information
We collect personally identifiable information when you register for an Account or otherwise choose to provide personally identifiable information to us. Personally identifiable information is any information that can be used to identify or locate a particular person or entity. This may include, but is not limited to business entity name and/or your title with the applicable business entity, as well as your personal and/or business entity related e-mail address, mailing address, daytime and/or cellular telephone numbers, fax number, account information, or any other information requested on the applicable Subscriber registration form. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, your account information shall be considered “Sensitive Information.” We will never sell, market, or disclose your personal information to third parties. All information within Vision Miner is preserved for internal use, and will be protected at all times.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We may collect certain non-personally identifiable information about you when you visit certain pages of this Site and/or register for an account on Vision Miner, such as the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you being used, your IP address, the domain name of your Internet service provider, and share such information with our Partners. We use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of the Site, which enables us to personalize and speed up your internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze Site usage.
Cookies and Web Beacons
To enhance your experience with the Site, we use “cookies.” You cannot register or log-in to Vision Miner without agreeing to “accept cookies” that we use with the Site. Cookies are small packets of data stored on your computer. Cookies are used by your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information. We use cookies to understand Site usage and to improve the content and offerings on the Site. You may set your browser to warn you that cookies are in use, or to block the use of cookies. Most browsers are set to accept cookies. If your browser is not set to accept cookies, certain uses of the Site may require you to go to your browser user preferences to enable cookies. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. If you use different computers, operating systems or browsers, or use multiple computers or browsers, you will need to repeat this process for each computer and each browser. To find out more about cookies, please visit www.cookiecentral.com. In addition, we may collect information using web beacons, which are commonly referred to in the industry as web bugs, pixel tags or Clear GIFs. Web beacons are electronic images that may be used on the Site, in your Account, or in our emails to deliver cookies, count visits, and determine if an email has been opened and acted upon.
Use of Information
We use your personally identifiable information to send you information regarding your Account and Vision Miner updates and notifications. We also track your compliance with our Terms of Service, and use it to validate, and monitor activity for feedback purposes. When registering for an account, you agree that Vision Miner or our Partners may contact you at any time with updates, or any other information that we may deem appropriate for you to receive in connection with your account on Vision Miner.
Information Sharing
As a general rule, and other than in connection with the limited exceptions set forth below, we will not sell, share or rent your personally identifiable information to or with others. We may from time to time, provide such information to certain partners for efficiency issues relating to your account. All third-party vendors used will agree to protect the confidentiality of information provided by us.
Conditions for sharing your personally identifiable information with other parties:
Where required by law, or requested by a court of legal jurisdiction. In the event of a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or interests.
Where you are in violation of this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service (TOS). In the case of a dispute regarding conduct in relation to our Privacy Policy or TOS. Where we determine, in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is necessary to protect Vision Miner or partners, or necessary to protect Vision Miner from liability of any kind. The aforementioned includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection.
We will do our best to inform the affected member of any governmental queries regarding your account and privacy to the best of our ability before disclosing such information. Your privacy is important to us.
International Transfer of Data
As part of your membership in Vision Miner, we may share information that we collect about, including personal information to our partners or other third parties across borders, and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. If you are located in the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that you are transferring information and permitting the transfer of information, including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction. By registering with Vision Miner you consent to the transfer of your information to the United States, and the use and disclosure of information about you, including personal information, as described in this Privacy Policy.
Data Retention
Subject to any mandatory obligations to delete data, your information may be retained by us and in our Third Party Agent portal, server logs, databases and records indefinitely.
Third Party Links
Our Sites may contain links to external websites (“Third Party Websites”). Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of Third Party Websites. We encourage you to be aware of this when you leave our Sites. Please read the privacy policies of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Vision Miner.
Others
Your acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy, in its entirety, shall extend to your employees, family, friends, associates, or Others that may access to our Sites via your computer, mobile device, or internet connection. By registering, you agree that anyone accessing your Vision Miner account(s), or visits the Site while under your employment understands, complies, and agrees to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Minors
We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate and monitor the interactive activities of their children. We will never knowingly collect any personal information about individuals under the age of eighteen (18) years of age. If we obtain knowledge that we have collected information on a minor, that information will be immediately deleted from our database.
Security
Vision Miner strives to safeguard and protect our account holders’ information. When members submit personally identifiable information to Vision Miner, their personally identifiable information is protected both online and offline. When our registration process asks registrants to submit Sensitive Information, and when we transmit such Sensitive Information, that Sensitive Information is encrypted and protected with SSL encryption software. While we use SSL encryption to protect Sensitive Information online, we protect all other user information online and offline. The Third Party Agent servers that we utilize to store personally identifiable information in are kept in a secure physical environment. The Third Party Agent has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of personally identifiable information stored on its servers.
Although Vision Miner takes precautions when managing your data, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed 100% secure, even with encryption. Therefore, we cannot warrant that your information will be absolutely secure. Any transmission of data at or through our Site is at your own risk. However, access to your personally identifiable information is strictly limited, and not accessible to the public. Only staff, and third party agents, that need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to your information when it relates to an internal task. Our staff is dedicated to ensuring the security and privacy of all user information. Staff not adhering to our written policies are subject to disciplinary action, and/or removal. In compliance with applicable federal and state laws, we shall notify you and any applicable regulatory agencies in the event that we learn of an information security breach with respect to your personally identifiable information. You will be notified via e-mail in the event of such a breach. Please be advised that notice may be delayed in order to address the needs of law enforcement, determine the scope of network damage, and to engage in remedial measures. You acknowledge that you provide your personally identifiable information to us with knowledgeable consent and at your own risk.
Deleting or Updating
If you would like to delete or update your personal information, simply email us at: support@visionminer.com We will process your request where possible, subject to the terms and conditions contained herein, within a reasonable period of time after receipt. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify and confirm you are who you say you are before granting access or making corrections. This is to ensure that no one else other than yourself is requesting the information to be deleted or updated without your express permission and consent.
Opting Out of Receiving E-mail
You may at any time choose to stop receiving emails containing general information regarding Vision Miner by following the instructions at the end of each email or by contacting us at support@visionminer.com If you should you be contacted by any of our Partners through email, you can easily opt-out or unsubscribe at the end of each email to stop receiving additional emails, notice, or updates. There may be a short delay of up to a few business days while your request is being verified, deployed and processed across our servers. Vision Miner may continue to contact you for the purpose of communicating information relating to your account, as well as respond to any inquiries, requests, or services rendered.
Notification of Changes
We reserve the right to change or update this Privacy Policy at any time by posting a clear and conspicuous notice on the Site explaining that we are changing our Privacy Policy. All Privacy Policy revisions or amendments will take effect immediately upon their posting on the Site. Please check the Site periodically for any changes. Your continued use of the Site and/or acceptance of our e-mail communications following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance and acknowledgement of any and all changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, or would like more information on our privacy practices, please contact us at: support@visionminer.com
SMS Privacy and Security
At Vision Miner, we take your privacy seriously. If you opt in to receive SMS updates, we assure you that your phone number and personal information are kept strictly confidential. We do not sell, share, or distribute your phone number or SMS opt-in status to any third parties for marketing, sales, or any other purposes. SMS communications are used exclusively for Vision Miner updates and information related to your requests or orders. You may opt out at any time by replying “STOP” to any of our messages, and your privacy will remain fully protected.
