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PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: January 16th, 2023

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Virtual Discovery, Inc. operates this Site, https://www.virtualdiscovery.net. This Privacy Policy describes our practices on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service, and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

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By accessing or using this Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please read this policy carefully. If you do not agree with this policy and our practices, you may choose not to visit this Site. This policy may be updated, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Definitions

  • Personal Information We Collect & Why

  • Data Transfer

  • Data & Security Management 

  • Children's Privacy

  • Links to Other Sites

  • Californian Residents' Rights

  • European Residents' Rights

  • Cookie Policy

  • Changes to the Privacy Policy

  • How to Contact Us

 

DEFINITIONS
 

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.

  • Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Virtual Discovery, Inc.

  • Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

  • Country refers to the United States of America

  • Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet

  • Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

  • Service refers to the Website 

  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.

  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

  • Website (also referred to “Site”) refers to Virtual Discovery, accessible from https://virtualdiscovery.net

  • You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT & WHY

 

Personal Data

While using Our Site, we may require that you provide certain personal information that can be used to contact or identify you. We use your Personal Data to provide, maintain, and secure our Services. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address

  • Primer name and last name

  • Phone number

  • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

  • Usage Data

 

Usage Data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site. We automatically log this information about You and Your device when You visit the Site. This data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, browser language, device operating system and version type, and user web page requests made through the Site, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Site by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Site or when You access the Site by or through a mobile device.

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Communications Data

We may ask for certain personal data to provide the products and services you request. For example, when you contact customer service and request to receive communications. This personal information that you share with us includes contact details, such as name, email, telephone number, shipping/billing address, and other provided details by the user. We may use your Personal Information to contact you about our services to initiate business meetings or for marketing purposes. Site users will be aware when they are providing information for such services, and they will be able to opt out of external communications.

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COOKIES & INFORMATION CAPTURE

Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer's internal memory. Like many sites, we use "cookies" to collect information. By using this Site, you have given permission for the Site to use third-party code and libraries that use cookies to collect information and improve Our services. We use both functional and performance cookies on Our Site.

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Essential: These Cookies are essential to provide services and features on this Site. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. For other services you may have to re-enter your preferences every time you use the Site.

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Functional: These cookies allow Us to improve our Platform functionality and are always enabled. These cookies can improve the speed with which we can process your request and allow us to remember Service preferences you have selected.

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You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. Please find more information in out Cookies Policy. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may also contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Us to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics. Web beacons can be disable through your browser like cookies. In emails and other contact information, there may be web beacons in images.

For More information on cookies see our “Cookies Policy” section.

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Third-Party Products & Service Data

We use third-party services to help provide you with Services & Products on our Site. Third-party vendors, including Google and Wix, use cookies to determine analytics and provide web services. Wix is used to host our Site. Google is used to provide Website analytics information. These third-party services may collect information used to identify you, and the personal information provided through these services are subject to their privacy policies.

Links to the privacy policy of third-party service providers used by the Site:

 

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the digital advertising alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

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HOW YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS USED

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.

  • To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

  • To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.

  • To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

  • For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct 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 Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.

  • For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving our Service, products, services, marketing, and your experience. We may also use personal data about how you use our Platform to prevent, detect or investigate fraud, illegal use, and violations with our Terms of Service.

 

DATA TRANSFER

The personal information you provided to Us is shared in order to carry out our business dealings, including to generate content, maintain/fulfill services, and provide products. Information shared with us own our Service, includes that shared on our Site and communication on services or content we provide outside of our Site. Per our Privacy Policy, it will be made evident when you are sharing your Personal Information with us.  

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.

  • For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.

  • With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.

  • With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.

  • With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

 

Retention & Deletion of Your Personal Data

Your information is processed at Our operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. This information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in Your jurisdiction.

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You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You. To do so, you may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.

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DATA SECURITY & MANAGEMENT

We value your trust in providing us with your Personal Information, thus we strive to use commercially acceptable means of protecting the personal information of our users.  We have implemented reasonable administrative, physical, and technical safeguards designed to reduce the risk of accidental loss or unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure of personal information in our possession or under our control. However, all methods of transmission over the Internet and methods of electronic storage can be subject to decreased security and reliability. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of Personal Information. We retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy unless otherwise permitted by the law.

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Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency). The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend the rights or property of the Company, prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service, protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public, or protect against legal liability.

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CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

Our Site is not intended for children. We consider children to be anyone:

  • under the age of 16, or under the age needed to consent in the processing of personal information in your country of residence for residents of Europe

  • under the age of 13 for residents outside of Europe

 

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided Us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers. If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

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LINKS TO OTHER SITES

This Site may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Once a user had been redirected to an external site, we strongly advise they review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

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CALIFORNIAN RESIDENTS' RIGHTS

If you are a resident of the State of California and you have provided your personal information to us, you have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). You have the right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use disclose, and sell. Contact us to exercise your right to know. You have the right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell. Please contact us if you wish to exercise your right to know. You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information we collect and maintain. You have the right not to be discriminated against by us for exercising any of the rights under the CCPA. We disclose your personal information to third parties for analytics purposes. You have the right to opt out of sharing personal information by declining our cookies or by deleting all cookies stored in your browser and setting up your browser to block cookies from being saved. 

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EUROPEAN RESIDENT’S RIGHTS 

The information provided in this “European Resident’s Rights” section applies only to individuals in Europe. References to “personal information” in this Privacy Policy are equivalent to “personal data” defined in European data protection legislation. Virtual Discovery, Inc. is the controller of your personal information covered by this Privacy Policy for European data protection legislation purposes.

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Information Use & Processing

We use your personal information only as permitted by law, and processing is based on your consent.  Where we rely on your consent, you have the right to withdraw it at any time in the manner indicated when you consent or in the Service. Our grounds for processing the personal information described in this Privacy Policy are below:

  • To comply with our legal obligations.

  • To provide our Service or take steps you request before signing up for the Service.  If we have not entered into a contract with you, we process your personal information based on our legitimate interest in providing the Service you access and request.

  • To send marketing communications

  • For compliance, fraud prevention, and safety

 

We do not use your personal information for these activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).

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Use for New Purposes

We may use your personal information for reasons not described in this Privacy Policy where permitted by law, and the reason is compatible with the purpose for which we collected it.  If we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and explain the applicable legal basis.

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Sensitive personal information 

We ask that you do not provide us with any sensitive personal information (e.g., information related to racial or ethnic origin, passwords, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background, or trade union membership) on or through the Service, or otherwise to us.

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If you provide us with any sensitive personal information when you use the Service, you must consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal information, you must not submit such sensitive personal information through our Service.

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Automated Decision-Making and Profiling

We do not use automated decision-making or profiling regarding your personal information.

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Retention

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for fraud prevention purposes.

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To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

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When we no longer require the personal information we have collected about you, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible, then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.  If we anonymize your personal information (so that it can no longer be associated with you), we may use it indefinitely without further notice.

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Your Rights

European data protection laws give you certain rights regarding your personal information. Therefore, if you are a European resident in Europe, you may ask us to take any of the following actions regarding the personal information that we hold:

  • Access.  Provide you with information about our processing of your personal information and give you access to your personal information.

  • Correct. Update or correct inaccuracies in your personal information.

  • Delete. Delete your personal information.

  • Transfer. Transfer a machine-readable copy of your personal information to you or a third party.

  • Restrict. Restrict the processing of your personal information.

  • Object. Object to our reliance on our legitimate interests as the basis of our processing of your personal information that impacts your rights.

 

You may submit these requests by email to info [at] virtualdiscovery.net. We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and process your request.  However, applicable law may require or permit us to decline your request.  If we decline your request, we will tell you why subject to legal restrictions. 

If you would like to submit a complaint about our use of your personal information or our response to your requests regarding your personal information, you may contact us or submit a complaint to the data protection regulator in your jurisdiction.  You can find your data protection regulator here.

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Cross-Border Data Transfer
Additionally, we are processing your personal information to fulfill contracts we might have with or otherwise to pursue our business interests. Please note that your information will be transferred outside Europe, including the United States. 

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If we transfer your personal information out of European Economic Area to a country not deemed by the European Commission to provide an adequate level of personal information protection, the transfer will be performed:

  • Pursuant to the recipient’s compliance with standard contractual clauses or Binding Corporate Rules

  • Pursuant to the consent of the individual to whom the personal information pertains

  • As otherwise permitted by applicable European requirements

  • You may contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal information out of Europe

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COOKIE POLICY

 

What is a Cookie?

A “cookie” is a string of information that assigns you a unique identifier that is stored on your computer or electronic device. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. Your browser then provides that unique identifier to use each time you submit a query to the Site.

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Use of Cookies

We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies when you visit our Site. Cookies and other tracking technologies help us understand how the Website is being used and improve your user experience. We do this to facilitate operation, customize the Site, and improve your experience. For example, we use cookies on the Website to keep track of pages you have read or visited, record your user preferences, and communicate information to third-party analysis information.

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Types of Cookies

We use “first-party” and “third-party” cookies when you visit the Site to improve the experience. A first-party cookie is created and stored by the website you are visiting directly, and it can be either permanent or temporary. A third-party cookie may be placed on your computer when you visit the Site by companies that run certain services we offer. These cookies allow third parties to gather and track certain information about you. For example, we use third-party cookies to handle our analytics processing through Google Analytics.

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Cookies can also be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website. Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close your web browser.

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We use the cookies mentioned above for the purposes set out below:

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Necessary/ Essential Cookies: Our Site is hosted using Wix. Wix uses some necessary cookies to provide You with the services and features available through the Site. For example, they are used for security, anti-fraud, system monitoring, debugging, and preventing fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

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Functional Cookies: Functional cookies allow Us to collect customer analytics data, remember language settings, and carry out other useful functions that help provide a good user experience. Functional cookies allow us to offer you the best possible experience when accessing and navigating our website and its features. Some of these may be manually disabled in your browser but may affect the Site’s functionality.

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Analytics Cookies: Analytics cookies monitor how users reach the Site and interact with and move around once on the Site. In addition, these cookies let us know what features on the Site are working the best and what features on the Site can be improved. We use Wix Analytics Cookies and Google Analytics Cookies.

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Wix Analytics cookies determine unique visitors, which we need to provide accurate site traffic data. These cookies are created and stored when you visit the site directly. Some of these can be disabled by disabling cookies in the browser.

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Google Analytics cookies are third-party cookies offered by Google’s Analytics service that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

    - More Information about How Google Analytics Uses Cookies: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en-US

    - To Opt Out of Cookies for Google Analytics: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881

 

Personalization Cookies: Personalization cookies are used to recognize repeat visitors to the Site. We use these cookies to record your browsing history, the pages you have visited, and your settings and preferences each time you visit the Site.

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Security Cookies: Security cookies help identify and prevent security risks. We use these cookies to authenticate users and protect user data from unauthorized parties.

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Site Management Cookies: Site management cookies are used to maintain your identity or session on the Site so that any information you enter is retained from page to page. These cookies cannot be turned off individually, but you can disable all cookies in your browser.

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Your Choices Regarding Cookies

Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. However, you can remove or reject cookies in your browser’s settings.

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If you prefer to avoid using Cookies on the Website, you must first disable the Cookies in your browser and then delete the Cookies saved in your browser associated with this website. You may use this option to prevent the use of Cookies at any time. However, please be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the Website.

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To delete Cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse Cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

 

For any other web browser, please visit your web browser's official web pages.

You can also visit www.internetcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to control cookies and check browser/device settings for how to control cookies on various browsers and devices. More information about opting out of third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising can be found by visiting www.aboutads.info. In addition, you may opt out of some third-party cookies through the Network Advertising Initiative’s Opt-Out Tool.

 

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy is effective as of December 20th, 2022, and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page. We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

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HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at  info [at] virtualdiscovery.net

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