Privacy Policy
Updated 21 March 2024
Vzy (“we” or “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy (together with our Cookie Policy) sets out the basis on which any personal information (as defined in the Delaware Online Privacy and Protection Act (“DOPPA”)) (the “Personal Information”) we collect from account holders or individual users or visitors to our Platform at www.vzy.co or that is uploaded to our application https://app.vzy.co/ (hereinafter our “Platform”) will be processed by us.
Account holders, users and visitors of our Platform or owners of Personal Information collected by us (each, “you”) should read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your Personal Information and how we will treat it.
By providing any Personal Information to us, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure and transfer of such Personal Information in the manner and for the purposes set out below. If you are a Citizen of the European Union, please also refer to our GDPR Compliance Statement.
The Operator
The responsible entity is:
Vzy, Inc.
2055 Limestone Rd Ste 200c,
Wilmington, DE, 19808, USA
Web: www.vzy.co
E-mail: [email protected]
Your Rights
You may have the right to request, twice in a 12-month period, the following information about the personal information we have collected about you during the past 12 months:
the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you,
the categories of sources from which we collected the personal information,
the business or commercial purpose for which we collected or sold the personal information,
the categories of third parties with whom we shared the personal information, and
the categories of personal information about you that we sold or disclosed for a business purpose, and the categories of third parties to whom we sold or disclosed that information for a business purpose.
You also may have the right to request that we provide you with (1) a list of certain categories of personal information we have disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year and (2) the identity of those third parties. In addition, you have the right to request that we delete the personal information we have collected from you.
You have the right to opt out of the sale of your information. To opt out, please contact us [email protected].
To submit a request related to other rights, you may contact us using [email protected].
To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your request. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request.
We will not deny, charge different prices for, or provide a different level or quality of goods or services if you choose to exercise these rights.
Collection and Disclosure
During the prior 12-month period, we may have:
a) Collected the following categories of personal information about you:
identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier (such as a device identifier, cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers and similar technology, customer number, unique pseudonym, or user alias, telephone number and other forms of persistent or probabilistic identifiers), online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name,
bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, and other financial information,
commercial information, including records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, and
Internet and other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with our Platform.
b) Collected personal information about you from the following categories of sources:
from you, for example, when request access, or through your interaction with our Platform,
third parties such as your employer, company administrator or business partner, through their use of our Platform,
our affiliates,
social media networks,
personal information you provide or that we obtain from publicly available sources (such as social media channels),
marketing and business information enrichment sources, and
advertising networks.
c) Collected personal information about you for the following business or commercial purposes:
performing services, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing services, providing analytics services, or providing similar services,
auditing related to a current interaction with you and concurrent transactions,
short-term, transient use as part of the same interaction,
detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity,
debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality,
undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration, and
undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service that is owned, or controlled by us.
d) Disclosed for a business purpose the following categories of personal information about you:
identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier (such as a device identifier, cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers and similar technology, customer number, unique pseudonym, or user alias, telephone number and other forms of persistent or probabilistic identifiers), online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name,
signature, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, and other financial information,
commercial information, including records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, and other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies,
Internet and other electronic network activity information, and information regarding your interaction with our Platform or services, and
professional information.
e) Shared your personal information for the business purposes described above with the following categories of third parties:
our affiliates and subsidiaries,
vendors who provide services on our behalf,
persons connected to your business, such as your end users, company administrator or business partner,
our customers and partners, to inform them about their users’ use of our services and our Platform, and
our joint marketing partners, sales partners and other business partners.
Cooperation with processors and third parties
If, in the course of our processing, we disclose data to other persons and companies (Amazon AWS, Stripe, Netlify, MongoDB, Google, Sendy.co, Cloudflare CDN, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud Hosting), transmit it to them or otherwise grant them access to the data, this will only be done on the basis of a legal permission (e.g. if a transmission of the data to third parties is necessary for the performance of the contract, you have consented, a legal obligation provides for this or on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. when using agents, web hosts, etc.).
When using AI Supported Services
We process the data of our service users in order to be able to provide our AI Supported Services as well as to ensure security and to further develop them. Of course, we also process your prompt inputs as well as the content that is provided or submitted to us by the relevant data owner, as necessary for the operation of the services. In terms of third party processors involved in our AI Supported Services we are using Open AI and Google Bard. The legal basis for data processing is the fulfillment of our contractual obligations and, in individual cases, the fulfillment of our legal obligations as well as your consent.
Zapier
For the integration of various databases and web tools, we use Zapier, a service of Zapier Inc. Zapier is a web service that allows to link actions between different apps and thus synchronize the apps with each other. In this way, they create an automated workflow between two or more apps. The data collected with Zapier depends on which apps are connected. Some of these are personal personal information.We have no knowledge of how Zapier uses it or how long it is stored. The legal basis for data processing is the fulfillment of our contractual obligations and, in individual cases, the fulfillment of our legal obligations as well as your consent.
Referrals
To implement our referral program, we process the data of the referrer and the referral recipient that we have collected in connection with the referral using the services of Tolt, Inc. The processing is carried out exclusively for the implementation of the our Referral program and is necessary for this purpose, as participation would otherwise not be possible. The personal data will be transmitted and used there exclusively for the implementation of our referral program.
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.
Personal information and children
The services available on our Platform are aimed at people aged 18 and over. We will not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information from minors under the age of 18 without first obtaining consent from a legal guardian through direct offline contact. The parent or guardian will be provided with (i) information about the specific type of personal information being collected from the minor, (ii) the purpose for which it will be used, and (iii) the opportunity to object to any further collection, use or storage of such information. We comply with youth protection laws.
Updating your information
If you believe that the information, we hold about you is inaccurate or that we are no longer entitled to use it and want to request its rectification, deletion, or object to its processing, please do so within your user account or by contact us using [email protected]. For your protection and the protection of all of our users, we may ask you to provide proof of identity before we can answer the above requests.
Keep in mind, we may reject requests for certain reasons, including if the request is unlawful or if it may infringe on trade secrets or intellectual property or the privacy of another user. Also, we may not be able to accommodate certain requests to object to the processing of personal information, notably where such requests would not allow us to provide our service to you anymore.
Data Breaches/Notification
Databases or data sets that include Personal information may be breached inadvertently or through wrongful intrusion. Upon becoming aware of a data breach, we will notify all affected individuals whose Personal information may have been compromised, and the notice will be accompanied by a description of action being taken to reconcile any damage as a result of the data breach. Notices will be provided as expeditiously as possible after which the breach was discovered.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
When it comes to the collection of Personal Data from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online. We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.
CAN SPAM Act
The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations. To be in accordance with CAN SPAM, we agree to the following: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us, and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.
Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
If we process your Personal Data for the purpose of sending you SMS marketing communications, you may manage your receipt of marketing and non-transactional communications from us by replying or texting ‘STOP’ if you receive our SMS communications. In this respect, the data processing is carried out solely on the basis of our consent in personalized direct advertising per SMS.
Changes
This Privacy Policy and our commitment to protecting the privacy of your personal information can result in changes to this Privacy Policy. Please regularly review this policy to keep up to date with any changes.
Queries and Complaints
Any comments or queries on this Privacy Policy should be directed to us. If you believe that we have not complied with this Privacy Policy or acted otherwise than in accordance with data protection law, then you should notify us.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on Sunday, November 19, 2023