V2 Communications (“V2”) is committed to respecting the privacy rights of website visitors. The following policy describes how we collect, protect, use, and share information we receive from you.
Effective Date: July 31, 2020
This Privacy Policy explains how V2 Communications (“V2” or “we”) collects personal information through our website at https://www.v2comms.com (our “Website”) in the course of our public relations activities and when you provide us your information by telephone or email or at an in-person event or otherwise engage with us.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT
Information you provide to us
Certain parts of our Website may ask that you voluntarily provide us with personal information. For example, we may ask you to provide us your name, address, telephone number or email address and contact preferences when you subscribe to our newsletters or other communications, download any of our resources or contact us through the Website. If you choose to correspond with us through email or in person, we collect and retain other information that you give us, such as your name and business contact information, your email address, content of your email message, your website address and our response.
When you apply for a job with V2, we collect the employment-related information you submit, such as job preferences, work history and similar information provided in your application.
Information we collect automatically
When you interact with our Website and marketing emails, we collect certain information automatically. Some of this automatically-collected information is personal information under certain laws.
The information we collect automatically includes your IP address, browser and operating system information, clickstream data (referring website address, web pages visited, time and date of visit and links clicked), device type and ID, cookie ID, language and other technical information.
HOW WE USE INFORMATION
We use the information that we collect on or through the Website:
- To respond to your requests or provide you with information that you request;
- To communicate with you about updates to our services;
- To maintain our Website and tailor our Website to your needs;
- For data analysis, such as identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our marketing and to enhance, customize and improve our Website;
- To comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements;
- To prevent, detect, identify, investigate, respond and protect against potential or actual claims, liabilities, prohibited behavior and criminal activity; and
- To notify you about important changes to our Website and other information and resources that we think you will find valuable. You may notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these emails by contacting us at [email protected] or clicking the “unsubscribe” link in our emails.
HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
We disclose your personal information to:
- Our vendors and business partners that or who provide data processing services to us, such as services that provide functionality on the Website or enhance the security of our Website;
- An actual or proposed acquirer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any proposed purchase, investment, merger or acquisition of all or any part of our business. We will inform the acquirer that it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy; and
- Any other person or entity with your consent where required or otherwise as permitted by applicable law.
We also may share personal information with any competent law enforcement body, regulatory or government agency, court or other third party if we determine disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights or (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person.
HOW WE USE COOKIES AND SIMILAR TRACKING TECHNOLOGY ON THE WEBSITE
The Website uses cookies and similar data collection technology.
Cookies generally. A cookie is a small data file that contains a unique identification number that is stored in your web browser when you surf the Internet. For example, cookies store information about your computer, the type of browser you use, how many times you visit the Website and similar technical information.
Cookies set by us are called “first party cookies.” First-party cookies enable us to track how often people are using the Website, the specific pages visited and similar actions. Cookies set by other parties are called “third party cookies.” Third-party cookies enable certain features, such as social media widgets, analytics, interactive content and (for some websites but not our Website) targeted advertising. The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your browser or device both when it visits the Website and when it visits other websites.
You can set your web browser to reject cookies. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use the Website. You may, however, find that some areas of the Website are slower or do not function at all if cookies are disabled. To learn more about cookies generally, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Generally, the information collected through data collection technology does not directly identify you to us personally and is aggregated with other data to create audience segments.
Why we use cookies. Some cookies – known as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies – are required for technical reasons in order for the Website to operate.
Analytics cookies enable us to collect information about how the Website is used and improve your experience of the Website. One of our analytics cookies is set by Google Analytics to collect aggregate information about use of the Website and report website trends to us. Google Analytics does not directly identify individual users. You can learn about Google’s practices at https://safety.google/privacy/privacy-controls/.
Advertising cookies are used to infer your interests based on your online activities and target ads that are most relevant to you based on the inferred interests. That is, when you surf the Internet, you may see different kinds of ads, such as ads next to search results. Sometimes, these ads are based on the content of the pages on which they appear and sometimes these ads are generated by matching the particular ad to your interests as inferred from your online activities collected over time. At this time, V2 does not use advertising cookies or targeted advertising in connection with the Website.
The Website also may from time to time use clear GIFs (also known as pixel tags or web beacons). A clear GIF is computer code that contains a unique identifier that enables us to monitor user activity and traffic of the Website. We may use GIFs to gather aggregate information on visits to the Website, track usage of Website links and assist with features of the Website.
Our Policy On Do Not Track Signals. Most web browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) or similar feature that signals to websites that a user does not want to have his or her online activity and behavior tracked. If a website that responds to a particular DNT signal receives the DNT signal, the browser blocks that website from collecting certain personal information about the browser’s user. Not all browsers offer a DNT option and DNT signals are not yet uniform. For this reason, many website operators, including V2, do not respond to DNT signals.
HOW WE PROTECT AND RETAIN INFORMATION
We use administrative, physical and technical safeguards intended to protect the personal information that we collect from and about you through the Website. Our safeguards are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information and include (as applicable) measures to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and a procedure for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness in preserving the security of personal information.
We retain personal information that we collect through the Website for as long as we have a legitimate business need to do so. When we no longer have a legitimate business need, we dispose of personal information in accordance with applicable law.
CHOICES ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you receive marketing emails from us, you can opt out at any time by clicking the opt-out or unsubscribe link in the marketing email. Once you opt out, we will no longer send you marketing emails but still may send you emails with transactional information.
If you are a resident of California or located in the EU, please see our California Privacy Notice or Privacy Notice for Individuals Located in European Union, respectively, below to learn more about the privacy rights available to you. If you are located in a jurisdiction with data protection laws that you believe offer you privacy rights not described in this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY NOTICE
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) offers residents of the State of California – referred to as “Consumers” in CCPA – certain privacy rights with respect to their Personal Information. This California Privacy Notice describes the privacy rights available to California Consumers and how to exercise them.
In CCPA, “Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California Consumer or household.
California Privacy Rights
If you are a California Consumer, then CCPA gives you the following rights:
- You have the right to request information about the Personal Information that we collected about you (see table below) and how and why we collect it.
- You have the right to opt out of V2’s sale of your Personal Information when and if V2 sells your Personal Information. In CCPA, “sale” means transferring or making available Personal Information to third parties for monetary or other valuable consideration. WE DO NOT SELL PERSONAL INFORMATION.
- You have the right to request information about our disclosure for business purposes of your Personal Information to third parties.
- You have the right to request the deletion of your Personal Information.
- You have the right to not be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights.
The following table lists categories of Personal Information that generally match the categories in the definition of Personal Information in CCPA. We indicate for each listed category the specific types of Personal Information in the category that we have collected within the past 12 months. We use all of the Personal Information that we collect for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and table below.