PRIVACY NOTICE
Last updated January 01, 2019
Thank you for
choosing to be part of our community at Vennco LLC
("
Company
",
"we", "us", "our"). We are committed to
protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or
concerns about this privacy notice, or our practices with regards to your personal information,
please contact us at contact@catfacts.co.
When you
visit our website catfacts.co (the
"Website"),
and more generally, use any of our services (the "Services",
which include the
Website
), we
appreciate that you are trusting us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously.
In this privacy notice, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we
collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read
through it carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not
agree with, please discontinue use of our Services immediately.
This privacy notice applies to
all information collected through our Services (which, as described above, includes
our
Website
), as well as, any
related services, sales, marketing or events.
Please read this privacy
notice carefully as it will help you understand what we do with the information that we
collect.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION
DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to
us
In
Short: We collect personal
information that you provide to
us.
We collect personal
information that you voluntarily provide to us when you
register on the
Website,
express an interest in obtaining information
about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the
Website
or otherwise when you contact
us.
The personal
information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the
Website
, the choices you make and the products and features you use. The personal information we
collect may include the following:
Personal
Information Provided by You. We collect
names;
phone numbers;
email addresses;
passwords;
and other similar information.
Payment
Data. We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such
as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code associated
with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored by
Stripe
.
You may find their privacy notice link(s) here:
https://stripe.com/privacy
.
All personal
information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate, and you must notify us of
any changes to such personal information.
Information automatically
collected
In
Short: Some information — such
as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics
— is collected automatically when you visit our
Website
.
We automatically
collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the
Website
. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or
contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser
and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name,
country, location, information about how and when you use our
Website
and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain
the security and operation of our
Website
, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Like many
businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.
The information we
collect includes:
- Log and
Usage Data. Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage and performance
information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our
Website
and which we record in log files. Depending
on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information,
browser type and settings and information about your activity in the
Website
(such as the date/time stamps associated
with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches and other actions you take such as which
features you use), device event information (such as system activity, error reports (sometimes
called 'crash dumps') and hardware settings).
- Device
Data. We collect device data such as information about your computer, phone, tablet or
other device you use to access the
Website
. Depending on the device used, this device data may include information such
as your IP address (or proxy server), device and application identification numbers, location,
browser type, hardware model Internet service provider and/or mobile carrier, operating system
and system configuration information.
- Location
Data. We collect location data such as information about your device's location, which
can be either precise or imprecise. How much information we collect depends on the type and
settings of the device you use to access the
Website
. For example, we may use GPS and other
technologies to collect geolocation data that tells us your current location (based on your IP
address). You can opt out of allowing us to collect this information either by refusing access
to the information or by disabling your Location setting on your device. Note however, if you
choose to opt out, you may not be able to use certain aspects of the Services.
Information collected from other
sources
In Short: We may
collect limited data from public databases, marketing partners,
and other outside
sources.
In order to enhance
our ability to provide relevant marketing, offers and services to you and update our records, we may
obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners,
affiliate programs, data providers,
as well as from other third parties. This information includes mailing
addresses, job titles, email addresses, phone numbers, intent data (or user behavior data), Internet
Protocol (IP) addresses, social media profiles, social media URLs and custom profiles, for purposes
of targeted advertising and event promotion.
2. HOW DO WE USE
YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We process
your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the
fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations,
and/or your consent.
We use personal
information collected via our
Website
for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal
information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter
into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal
obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed
below.
We use the
information we collect or receive:
- To
facilitate account creation and logon process. If you choose to link your account
with us to a third-party account (such as your Google or Facebook account), we use the
information you allowed us to collect from those third parties to facilitate account creation
and logon process for the performance of the contract.
- To post
testimonials. We post testimonials on our
Website
that may contain personal
information. Prior to posting a testimonial, we will obtain your consent to use your name and
the content of the testimonial. If you wish to update, or delete your testimonial, please
contact us at
contact@catfacts.co
and be sure to include your name, testimonial location, and
contact information.
- Request
feedback. We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about
your use of our
Website
.
- To
enable user-to-user communications. We may use your information in order to enable
user-to-user communications with each user's consent.
- To
manage user accounts. We may use your information for the purposes of managing our
account and keeping it in working order.
- To send
administrative information to you. We may use your personal information to send you
product, service and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms,
conditions, and policies.
- To
protect our Services. We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep
our
Website
safe and secure (for example, for
fraud monitoring and prevention).
- To
enforce our terms, conditions and policies for business purposes, to comply with legal and
regulatory requirements or in connection with our contract.
- To respond to legal
requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we
may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.
- Fulfill and manage
your orders. We may use your information to fulfill and manage your orders,
payments, returns, and exchanges made through the
Website
- Administer prize
draws and competitions. We may use your information to administer prize draws
and competitions when you elect to participate in our competitions.
- To deliver and
facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may use your information to
provide you with the requested service.
- To respond to user
inquiries/offer support to users. We may use your information to respond to
your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our
Services.\
- To send
you marketing and promotional communications. We and/or our third-party marketing
partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is
in accordance with your marketing preferences. For example, when expressing an interest in
obtaining information about us or our
Website
, subscribing to marketing or
otherwise contacting us, we will collect personal information from you. You can opt-out of our
marketing emails at any time (see the "WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY
RIGHTS" below).
- Deliver
targeted advertising to you. We may use
your information to develop and display personalized content and advertising (and work with
third parties who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its
effectiveness.
- For
other business purposes. We may use your
information for other business purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends,
determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our
Website
, products, marketing and your experience. We may use
and store this information in aggregated and anonymized form so that it is not associated with
individual end users and does not include personal information. We will not use identifiable
personal information without your consent.
3. WILL YOUR
INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH
ANYONE?
In
Short: We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws,
to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business
obligations.
We may process or
share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:
- Consent: We may process your data if you have
given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
- Legitimate Interests: We may process your data
when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
- Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered
into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our
contract.
- Legal
Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do
so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court
order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in
response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
- Vital
Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to
investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected
fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal
activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
More specifically,
we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following
situations:
- Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your
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.
- Vendors, Consultants and Other Third-Party Service
Providers. We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers,
contractors or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such
information to do that work. Examples include: payment processing, data analysis, email
delivery, hosting services, customer service and marketing efforts. We may allow selected third
parties to use tracking technology on the
Website
, which will enable them to
collect data on our behalf about how you interact with our
Website
over time. This information may
be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain
content, pages or features, and better understand online activity. Unless described in this
notice, we do not share, sell, rent or trade any of your information with third parties for
their promotional purposes.
- Third-Party Advertisers. We may use third-party
advertising companies to serve ads when you visit or use the
Website
. These companies may use
information about your visits to our Website(s) and other websites that are contained in web
cookies and other tracking technologies in order to provide advertisements about goods and
services of interest to you.
- Affiliates. We may share your information with
our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy notice.
Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other
companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
- Business Partners. We may share your information
with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or
promotions.
4. DO WE
USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING
TECHNOLOGIES?
In Short: We may use cookies
and other tracking technologies to collect and store your
information.
We may use
cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store
information. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse
certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Notice
.
5. WHAT IS
OUR STANCE ON THIRD-PARTY
WEBSITES?
In Short: We are not
responsible for the safety of any information that you share with third-party providers
who advertise, but are not affiliated with, our Website.
The
Website
may
contain advertisements from third parties that are not affiliated with us and which may link
to other websites, online services or mobile applications. We cannot guarantee the safety
and privacy of data you provide to any third parties. Any data collected by third parties is
not covered by this privacy notice. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and
security practices and policies of any third parties, including other websites, services or
applications that may be linked to or from the
Website
. You
should review the policies of such third parties and contact them directly to respond to
your questions.
6. HOW LONG
DO WE KEEP YOUR
INFORMATION?
In Short: We keep your
information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy
notice unless otherwise required by law.
We will
only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out
in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law
(such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will
require us keeping your personal information for longer than
the period of time in which users have an account with us
.
When we
have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will
either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example,
because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely
store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is
possible.
7. WHAT ARE
YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short:
You may review, change, or terminate your account
at any time.
If you have
questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at
contact@catfacts.co
.
Account
Information
If you would at any time like to review or
change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:
-
Contact us using the contact information provided.
Upon
your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and
information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our
files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce
our Terms of Use and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.
Cookies and similar technologies: Most
Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to
set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or
reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our
Website
.
To opt-out of interest-based advertising by advertisers on our
Website
visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
Opting out of email marketing: You can
unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in
the emails that we send or by contacting us using the details provided below. You will then
be removed from the marketing email list — however, we may still communicate with you, for
example to send you service-related emails that are necessary for the administration and use
of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes. To
otherwise opt-out, you may:
-
Contact us using the contact information
provided.
8. CONTROLS
FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web
browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track
("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have
data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage no uniform
technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As
such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that
automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online
tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that
practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.
9. DO
CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY
RIGHTS?
In Short: Yes, if you are a
resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your
personal information.
California
Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our users who
are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge,
information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties
for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we
shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a
California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in
writing to us using the contact information provided below.
If you are
under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with
the Website
, you have the
right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the
Website
. To request
removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and
include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in
California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the
Website
, but please be
aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems
(e.g. backups, etc.).
CCPA Privacy
Notice
The California Code of Regulations defines a
"resident" as:
(1) every
individual who is in the State of California for other than a temporary or transitory
purpose and
(2) every
individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is outside the State of
California for a temporary or transitory purpose
All other
individuals are defined as "non-residents."
If this
definition of "resident" applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights and obligations
regarding your personal information.
What categories of personal information do we
collect?
We have
collected the following categories of personal information in the past twelve (12)
months:
Category
|
Examples
|
Collected
|
|
A. Identifiers
|
Contact details, such as real name, alias,
postal address, telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal
identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address and
account name
|
NO
|
|
B. Personal information categories listed in
the California Customer Records statute
|
Name, contact information, education,
employment, employment history and financial
information
|
YES
|
|
C. Protected classification characteristics
under California or federal law
|
Gender and date of birth
|
NO
|
|
D. Commercial information
|
Transaction information, purchase history,
financial details and payment information
|
NO
|
|
E. Biometric information
|
Fingerprints and
voiceprints
|
NO
|
|
F. Internet or other similar network
activity
|
Browsing history, search history, online
behavior, interest data, and interactions with our and other websites,
applications, systems and advertisements
|
NO
|
|
G. Geolocation data
|
Device location
|
NO
|
|
H. Audio, electronic, visual, thermal,
olfactory, or similar information
|
Images and audio, video or call recordings
created in connection with our business activities
|
NO
|
|
I. Professional or employment-related
information
|
Business contact details in order to provide
you our services at a business level, job title as well as work history and
professional qualifications if you apply for a job with
us
|
NO
|
|
J. Education Information
|
Student records and directory
information
|
NO
|
|
K. Inferences drawn from other personal
information
|
Inferences drawn from any of the collected
personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for
example, an individual’s preferences and
characteristics
|
YES
|
We may also
collect other personal information outside of these categories instances where you interact
with us in-person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of:
- Receiving help through our customer support
channels;
- Participation in customer surveys or contests;
and
- Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to
respond to your inquiries.
How
do we use and share your personal information?
Vennco LLC collects and shares your personal information
through:
- Targeting cookies/Marketing cookies
- Click redirects:
__________
.
- Social media plugins:
__________
.
We use social media features, such as the Facebook Like button, and widgets, such as
the 'Share This' button on our Website. Such features may process your Internet
Protocol (IP) address and track which page you are visiting on our Website. We may
place a cookie to enable the feature to work correctly. If you are logged in on a
certain social media platform and you interact with a widget or button belonging to
that social media platform, this information may be recorded to your profile of such
social media platform. To avoid this, you should log out from that social media
platform before accessing or using the
Website
.
Social media features and widgets may be hosted by a third party or hosted directly
on our Website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy
notices of the companies that provide them. By clicking on one of these buttons, you
agree to the use of this plugin and consequently the transfer of personal
information to the corresponding social media service. We have no control over the
essence and extent of these transmitted data as well as their additional
processing.
More information about our data collection and sharing
practices can be found in this privacy notice
.
You
may contact us
by email at
contact@catfacts.co,
or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this
document.
If
you are using an authorized agent to exercise your right to opt-out we may deny a
request if the authorized agent does not submit proof that they have been validly
authorized to act on your behalf.
Will your information be shared with anyone
else?
We
may disclose your personal information with our service providers pursuant to a
written contract between us and each service provider. Each service provider is a
for-profit entity that processes the information on our behalf.
The
current list of our service providers can be found in below.
We
may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as for
undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. This
is not considered to be "selling" of your personal data.
Vennco LLC
has disclosed the following categories
of personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in
the preceding twelve (12) months:
- Category A. Identifiers, such as contact
details, like your real name, alias, postal address, telephone or mobile
contact number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet
Protocol address, email address and account name.
- Category B. Personal information, as defined
in the California Customer Records law, such as your name, contact
information, education, employment, employment history and financial
information.
- Category C. Characteristics of protected
classifications under California or federal law, such as gender or date of
birth.
- Category D. Commercial information, such as
transaction information, purchase history, financial details and payment
information.
- Category F. Internet or other electronic
network activity information, such as browsing history, search history,
online behavior, interest data, and interactions with our and other
websites, applications, systems and advertisements.
- Category K. Inferences drawn from any of
the personal information listed above to create a profile or summary
about, for example, an individual's preferences and
characteristics.
Your rights with respect to your
personal data
Right to request deletion of the data -
Request to delete
You can ask for the deletion of your personal
information. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will
respect your request and delete your personal information, subject to
certain exceptions provided by law, such as (but not limited to) the
exercise by another consumer of his or her right to free speech, our
compliance requirements resulting from a legal obligation or any processing
that may be required to protect against illegal
activities.
Right to be informed - Request to
know
Depending on the circumstances, you have a
right to know:
- whether we collect and use your personal
information;
- the categories of personal information
that we collect;
- the purposes for which the collected
personal information is used;
- whether we sell your personal information
to third parties;
- the categories of personal information
that we sold or disclosed for a business purpose;
- the categories of third parties to whom
the personal information was sold or disclosed for a business purpose;
and
- the business or commercial purpose for
collecting or selling personal information.
In accordance with applicable law, we are not
obligated to provide or delete consumer information that is de-identified in
response to a consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a
consumer request.
Right to Non-Discrimination for the
Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights
We will not discriminate against you if you
exercise your privacy rights.
Verification
process
Upon receiving your request, we will need to
verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have
the information in our system. These verification efforts require us to ask
you to provide information so that we can match it with information you have
previously provided us. For instance, depending on the type of request you
submit, we may ask you to provide certain information so that we can match
the information you provide with the information we already have on file, or
we may contact you through a communication method (e.g. phone or email) that
you have previously provided to us. We may also use other verification
methods as the circumstances dictate.
We will only use personal information provided
in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. To
the extent possible, we will avoid requesting additional information from
you for the purposes of verification. If, however, if we cannot verify your
identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that
you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your
identity, and for security or fraud-prevention purposes. We will delete such
additionally provided information as soon as we finish verifying
you.
Other privacy
rights
- you may object to the processing of your
personal data
- you may request correction of your
personal data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant, or ask to
restrict the processing of the data
- you can designate an authorized agent to
make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We may deny a request from
an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been
validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with the
CCPA.
- you may request to opt-out from future
selling of your personal information to third parties. Upon receiving a
request to opt-out, we will act upon the request as soon as feasibly
possible, but no later than 15 days from the date of the request
submission.
To exercise these rights, you can contact
us
by email at contact@catfacts.co,
or by referring to the contact details at the bottom
of this document. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would
like to hear from you.
10. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS
NOTICE?
In Short: Yes, we will
update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant
laws.
We may update this privacy notice from time to
time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date and
the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we
make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by
prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a
notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to
be informed of how we are protecting your information.
11. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US
ABOUT THIS
NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about this
notice, you may
email us at contact@catfacts.co
or by post to:
Vennco LLC
__________
__________
12. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW,
UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM
YOU?
Based on the applicable laws of your country,
you may have the right to request access to the personal information we
collect from you, change that information, or delete it in some
circumstances. To request to review, update, or delete your personal
information, please submit a request form
by clicking here
. We will respond to your request
within 30 days.