VIOS Website Privacy Policy
VIOS Partners, Inc. (“VIOS Partners” and, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, “VIOS,” “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our”), values your privacy rights. Please take a moment to review our policies and practices described below. By visiting our website, you consent to these policies and practices. If you do not consent to the terms below, please do not continue to use the website.
What Information Do We Collect?
We collect your IP address when you access this website.
We may collect certain personally identifiable information (“PII”) about you if you contact us through an email address listed on our website and submit such information. For example, we may collect your name, company name, address, city, state, zip/postal code, country, e-mail address, phone number, fax number, and any other information that you choose to provide to us in your subject line and message. If you send us your resume, we naturally receive the information you include in your resume.
Registered users may access a non-publicly available section of our website that requires entry of a username and password. We collect that username and password both when you register and whenever you enter it in order to access the non-publicly available section of our website.
We collect general information about you when you visit our website, such as whether you have accessed the page before and the time of your last visit. We accomplish this through a cookie placed on your computer (see below for a description of how cookies function). Further, if you log into the non-publicly available section of our website, we separately track your navigation within that section of our website through the use of an additional cookie.
We may also receive PII about you from third parties who collect PII from you and pass it on to us. For example, (i) where we are conducting due diligence on potential investment opportunities; and (ii) where we conduct verification or anti-money laundering checks on prospective investors or where we receive contact details and other PII from intermediaries. Furthermore, your employer may provide us with your PII for use in connection with the services that we provide to our clients. In such cases, the relevant third party is responsible for ensuring that you have been informed that your PII has been shared with us and for ensuring that they have a right to share it, but once we are holding your PII, we will only handle it in accordance with this policy.
Some of this PII is collected and processed to enable us to enter into a contract with you, some for the purpose of legal compliance and some for the purposes of our legitimate business interests (being to carry out and improve our business, support our clients, and staff, as well as analyze the use of our website).
How Is Your Information Used?
We consider the PII we collect from you to be confidential. If you submit your e-mail address or other PII to us via our website by requesting information or contacting someone at the Company, we will use this information only to the extent necessary to respond to your request(s) and as discussed below.
As is the case with many websites, our servers automatically collect your IP address when you visit our website, and we may associate that address with your domain name or that of your Internet access provider. We may also capture certain “clickstream data” pertaining to your usage of the VIOS website. Clickstream data includes, for example, information about your computer or device, Web browser and operating system and their settings, the referring page that linked you to the VIOS website, the pages, content or ads you see or click on during your visit, and when and for how long you do so, items you download, the next Web site you visit when you leave the VIOS website, and any search terms you have entered on the VIOS website or a referral website.
Certain federal and state laws or regulations may require us to share information about you. For example, if you are involved in a legal matter with a third party, we may be ordered to provide information to a court or other party. Similarly, applicable regulators may request information concerning fund investors. In these circumstances, only specific information will be shared when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud or respond to a government, judicial, or other legal requests, or to comply with the law. We may also use or disclose your information as permitted by law to collect debts, detect and prevent fraudulent activity, or protect the rights or property of the Company, our clients and investors, our website, its users, or third parties, or when we otherwise believe in good faith that the law requires it.
How Do We Use Cookies?
When you access our website (www.VIOS.com) , we may use technologies such as cookies to learn about your visit. A cookie is a piece of information that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the website and help us to analyze web traffic and identify which pages of our website are being used.
A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer, nor will it be used to identify you by name. Cookies do not allow us to collect information about you, other than information about how you use the website and the personal information you choose to share with us (including personal information you automatically share with us by way of your browser settings).
When you access our website from within the European Union you may see a message banner on our website which describes the types of cookies we use, what information they might collect, and which also requests that you indicate your consent to us using those cookies by ticking a box. You can decide if and how your computer will accept cookies by choosing whether to tick this box, however, if you choose to not tick this box (thereby declining cookies), some of the functionality of our website might be impaired. If you are accessing the website from outside the European Union you may choose whether to accept cookies from our website by configuring the preferences option within your web browser.
In particular, we use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features.
- Performance cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often and if they get error messages from these pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor; all information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our website works.
- Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your language or the region you are in) and provide more enhanced personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of the website that you can customize. The information these cookies collect is anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activities on other websites.
- Cookies may be deployed by us and/or by our service providers or partners on our behalf. Cookies enable us to assign a unique number to you and relate your website usage information to other information about you, including personal information you choose to share with us. They also enable us to recognize you when you access the VIOS website using different Web browsers and different computers or devices.
- We may match information collected from you through different means or at different times, including both personal information and website usage information, and use such information along with information obtained from other sources (including third parties) such as demographic information and updated contact information.
- We utilize Google Analytics for our website analytics. If you would prefer not to have your data used in this way, you can find out how to opt-out via the Google website here.
- If you would like further information more generally about cookies, you can find it by visiting the website “All About Cookies” here. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
To What Third Parties Do We Disclose Your Personally Identifiable Information?
To provide necessary business services to an investor’s account, we may disclose information to outside service providers. These service providers work at VIOS’s direction and only the PII necessary for them to perform their functions is shared. They are required to safeguard your information and only use it for authorized purposes. We might also disclose your PII to other third parties as described in this Privacy Policy under “How Is Your Information Used?” and “What If There Is a Change in Corporate Control?”
Your Access Rights
You may review, update or modify certain of the PII that we have about you by contacting us using the “Contact Us” information on the VIOS website. We may ask you to verify your identity and to provide other details before we are able to provide you with any information, correct any inaccuracies, or delete any information. Your right to delete your information is subject to our records retention policies and any applicable law.
How Do We Protect Personally Identifiable Information Collected on This Website?
We take precautions to protect the PII in our possession from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, the Company does not expressly or implicitly warrant or represent that its level of security meets or exceeds any particular standard. You should not expect that any internet transmission is ever 100% secure or Completely error-free. While we strive to protect visitors’ personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information visitors transmit to us. Visitors do so at their own risk.
If you correspond with us by e-mail, you should be aware that your transmission might not be secure. A third party could view the information you send in transit by such means. We will have no liability for disclosure of your information due to errors or unauthorized acts of third parties during or after transmission.
What If There Is a Change in Corporate Control?
In the event of any proposed or actual corporate change in control resulting from, for example, a proposed or actual sale to, or proposed or an actual merger with, another entity, or in the event of a proposed or actual sale of assets, or a proposed or actual liquidation, the Company reserves the right to disclose transfer your personal information to the prospective or new party in control or the party acquiring assets.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify, alter or otherwise update this policy at any time. We will notify you of material changes to this privacy policy by posting the revised policy with the revised date on the VIOS website. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about protecting the PII we collect. In some cases (for example, if we significantly expand our use or sharing of your PII), we may also tell you about changes by additional means, such as sending an e-mail to the e-mail address we have on file for you. In some cases, we may request your consent to the changes.