Privacy Policy
We understand that your privacy is important to you. We are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data. This Privacy Statement describes how we handle and protect your personal data when we collect it through our website, applications, and digital assets and through our externally facing business activities, such as service offerings, events, surveys, and communications, and when we interact with you and collect data from you for use by and on behalf of VShift.
Remember, you are not required to share your personal data with us, but failing to do so may result in us being unable to properly provide you with our full range of services or a good user experience with our solutions, websites services or newsletters.
Please note we do not share or sell your personal data under any circumstances, including as those terms are defined in California Civil Code § 1798.140, other than as provided below.
Additionally, our website may contain links to other third-party websites. If you follow a link to any of those third-party websites, please note that they have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies or processing of your personal information. Please check these policies before you submit any personal information to such third-party websites.
Information we collect about you
We will collect and process all or some of the following personal information about you:
- Information you provide to us, such as when using the contact form or any subscription forms or career opportunity forms on our website, including your name, email address, and other contact details.
- Our correspondence: We will typically keep a record of that correspondence.
- Survey or questionnaire information: If we ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, we will collect the information provided in the completed surveys or questionnaires; and
- Website and communication usage, such as details of your visits to the website and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies including, but not limited to, your IP address and domain name, your browser version and operating system, traffic data, location data, web logs and other communication data, and the resources that you access.
How we use your personal information
In this section, we set out the purposes for which we use personal information that we collect via our website.
Please note that, in addition to the disclosures we have identified below, in some circumstances we may also disclose personal information to service providers, contractors, agents and affiliates of VShift that perform activities described in this statement on our behalf.
- To communicate effectively with you and conduct our business, including to respond to your queries, to otherwise communicate with you, or to carry out our obligations arising from any agreements entered between you and us, which in some circumstances may include passing your data to third parties such as agents or contractors or to our advisors (e.g. legal, financial, business, or other advisors).
- To provide you with marketing materials, updates and offers, where you have chosen to receive these. We may also use your information for marketing our own and our selected business partners’ products and services to you by post, email, SMS, and phone. Where required by law, we will ask for your consent at the time we collect your data to conduct any of these types of marketing. We will provide an option to unsubscribe or opt-out of further communication on any electronic marketing communication sent to you or you may opt out by contacting us directly.
- For research and development purposes to better understand your and our other clients’ services and marketing requirements and to better understand our business and develop our products and services.
- To monitor certain activities such as queries and transactions to ensure service quality, compliance with procedures and to combat fraud.
- To inform you of changes to our services and products.
- To ensure website content is relevant and is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device, which may include passing your data to business partners, suppliers and/or service providers.
- To re-organize or make changes to our business for example if we: (i) are subject to negotiations for the sale of our business or part thereof to a third party; (ii) are sold to a third party; or (iii) undergo a re-organization, we may need to transfer some or all of your personal information to the relevant third party (or its advisors) as part of any due diligence process for the purpose of analyzing any proposed sale or re-organization. We may also need to transfer your personal information to that re-organized entity or third party after the sale or re-organization for them to use for the same purposes as set out in this statement.
- In connection with legal or regulatory obligations or as part of dialogue with our regulators as applicable which may include disclosing your personal information to third parties, the court service, regulators and/or law enforcement agencies in connection with enquiries, proceedings, or investigations by such parties or where compelled to do so. Where permitted, we will direct any such request to you or notify you before responding unless to do so would prejudice the prevention or detection of a crime.
Security and storage of your personal information
- No data transmission over the Internet or website can be guaranteed to be secure from intrusion. However, we maintain commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information in accordance with data protection legislative requirements.
- All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers and accessed and used subject to our security policies and standards. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential and for complying with any other security procedures that we notify you of. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
- We will retain your personal information for as long as is necessary for the processing purpose(s) for which it was collected and any other permitted linked purpose (i.e. to comply with certain regulatory requirements). Our retention periods are based on business needs and your information that is no longer needed is either de-identified (and the de-identified information is retained) or securely destroyed in accordance with our internal retention policy.
Your rights and contacting us
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes. You can exercise the right at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” option on any electronic marketing communication sent to you or by contacting us directly.
We will use reasonable endeavors to ensure that your personal information is accurate. To assist us with this, you should notify us of any changes to the personal information that you have provided to us by contacting us directly.
If you have need to contact us or have any questions in relation to this Privacy Statement, please contact us at info@vshift.com
Children
The website is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose information of children under the age of thirteen (12) without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. In an instance where such information was collected, it would be purely accidental and unintentional.
Changes to our Privacy Statement
We may change the content of our website and consequently our Privacy Statement may change from time to time in the future. If we change this Privacy Statement, we will update the date the Privacy Statement was last changed below. If these changes are material, we will take reasonable steps to notify you of the changes.
This Privacy Statement was last updated on February 16, 2024