Privacy Statement
VPInstruments operates the www.vpinstruments.com website, and associated websites which may be in subdomains, which provides the SERVICE.
This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service. If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which is accessible at www.vpinstruments.com, unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.
Consent
By using the Site, you are indicating your acceptance to follow and be bound by this Privacy Policy in its entirety, as it may be modified from time to time without prior notice or indication to you to that effect, as well as by the Terms and conditions of use of the Site, as published from time to time on this page.
You authorise VPInstruments to collect and to retain all relevant information relating to your use of this Site and you hereby authorise any party to provide us with such information. You understand and agree that unless you notify VPInstruments of the contrary by e-mailing us, you further authorise us to disclose, on a confidential basis, to any party with whom VPInstruments has business relations, all relevant information relating to your dealings with us and this Site.
By using the Site, you are also indicating your understanding of the fact that whenever you submit information through this Site, you explicitly authorise us to collect, use and disclose such information within the parameters set out in the present Privacy Policy, as amended from time to time.
If you have provided us with Personal Data and wish to withdraw your consent to its retention, use or disclosure, please contact us as described at the bottom of this privacy staement.
You may withdraw or withhold your consent, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice, or by ticking the relevant boxes on the forms when you submit or we collect Personal Data from you (as applicable). If you withdraw your consent to certain uses of your Personal Data, we may no longer be able to provide certain of our products or services. Where we have provided or are providing services to you, your consent will be valid for so long as necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or otherwise at the time of collection.
There are instances where we may be permitted or required by law to collect, use or disclose your Personal Data without your consent including, for example, to comply with a court order, to comply with national or international regulations or a legally permitted enquiry by a government agency, or to collect a debt owed to us.
Information Collection and Use
For a better experience while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you.
Purposes of collection and processing of personal data
VPInstruments collects and processes personal data for the following purposes:
- contacting customers;
- marketing of VPInstruments products and services (including targeted email marketing and personal sales calls);
- collecting and handling feedback;
- submitting requested information;
- providing better user experience (including optimizing and personalizing VPInstruments websites);
- creation, utilization and browsing of transaction history; and
- providing the products or services inquired or ordered from VPInstruments
Collection and processing of personal data is based on the legitimate interest of VPInstruments to process the data due to you being the contact person of VPInstruments’s client company.
Log Data
We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
Cookies
Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Our website uses these “cookies” to collection information and to improve our Service. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:
- To facilitate our Service;
- To provide the Service on our behalf;
- To perform Service-related services; for example e-mailing, or
- To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
We want to inform our Service users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.
Security
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Transfer of personal data
VPInstruments shall not provide your personal data to a third party without your permission, except when necessary for processing or fulfilling your order, including without limitation, providing necessary information to relevant finance-related companies, logistics and transport service providers and authorized after-sales service providers, as well as responding to your requests or answering your inquiries, or as necessary for protecting VPInstruments, its website users’ and/or the public’s rights, property and/or safety.
VPInstruments may share personal data within the VPInstruments group of Companies for the purposes described in this Policy. Such sharing may involve transferring data to and from other countries in which VPInstruments operates, has business activities or is otherwise present. VPInstruments may use third party service providers in implementing its marketing campaigns. For the purposes of the implementation of such marketing campaigns, VPInstruments may transfer personal data to third party service providers.
Additionally, VPInstruments may share your contact details and online behavior data, such as Site visits and e-mail click-throughs, with channel partners for the purpose of sales and marketing of VPInstruments products and services.
Because VPInstruments is committed to protecting your privacy, VPInstruments does not engage in the practice of selling or trading personal data to third parties for their promotional purposes.
VPInstruments may transfer your information both in and out of the European Union. Such transfers will be carried out in compliance with applicable laws and necessary safeguards. Please note, however, that laws applicable to the processing of personal data in such countries may be different from those applicable in the Netherlands or your home country.
Retention of personal data
VPInstruments has the right, but not the obligation, to retain and use such information stored in VPInstruments databases and other information obtained from your current or previous activities on this Site for a reasonable period of time, not exceeding any legal requirements or limitations, to resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems, to enforce VPIntrumentss rights, and to enforce the terms and conditions of this Policy. Personal data will be deleted when it becomes obsolete for the purposes of this Policy in accordance with VPInstruments data retention policies.
Disclosures required by law
If VPInstruments is compelled by law, court order or other judicial process to disclose any of your personal data to a court or a third party, VPInstruments will attempt to give you prior notice using the contact information you have provided. You hereby authorize VPInstruments to disclose any information collected of you for any of the above mentioned purposes, including without limitation, disclosing information in connection with an investigation of intellectual property infringements or other activity that is illegal or may expose VPInstruments to legal liability.
Links to Other Sites
Our Service 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. Therefore, we strongly advise you to 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.
Children’s Privacy
Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.
Your rights
You may at any time exercise your right to request access to your personal data and/or right to have incomplete, incorrect, unnecessary or outdated personal data deleted or updated by contacting VPInstruments. You also have the right to request restriction of, or object to, the processing of your personal data, where applicable. Please note that by requesting VPInstruments to delete your personal data, VPInstrumentsmay not be able to provide you the products, services or information you have inquired or ordered.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us. You may contact VPInstruments at any time in order to check personal data collected by VPInstruments. VPInstruments can be contacted by sending an e-mail to the following address: privacy@vpinstruments.com. VPInstruments strives to solve any disagreements through negotiations but needs to point out that you have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority.