VOICE4EQUITY DATA PRIVACY POLICY

VOICE4EQUITY DATA PRIVACY POLICY

Voice4Equity takes data privacy and security seriously.  This privacy policy (“policy”) will help you understand how Voice4Equity (“us”, “we”, “our”) uses and protects the data you provide to us when you visit and use our website and other online tools, products, and services (“website”, “service”).

We reserve the right to change this policy at any given time. If you want to make sure that you are up to date with the latest changes, we advise you to frequently visit this page.

1. INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US

Account And Profile Information: If you create an account, Voice4Equity asks for and collects information necessary to perform the functions of the website and related applications. We collect your username, your email address, your password, and any other information and content that you upload to our website for authentication and customer care purposes.

Actions You Take: We collect information about the actions you take when using the Services. This may include your interactions with the website, services, and other users.

Transactional Information: If you purchase products or services from us, we will collect certain information from you, including your name, address, email address, and information about the product or service you are purchasing. We use industry-standard payment processor services to handle payment information.

2. INFORMATION WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT

Device, Location, And Usage Information: We may collect information about your device and internet connection including device type, screen size, browser and operating system.  We may also collect general location information through your IP address to approximate your location in order to provide services.  We may also collect other usage information such as browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), device settings, mobile carrier name, pages visited, links clicked, the requested URL, and search terms.

Cookies and tracking software: We may receive information from cookies, which are pieces of data your browser stores and sends back to us when making requests, and similar technologies. We use this information to improve your experience, understand user activity, personalize content and advertisements, and improve the quality of our Services.

3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM OTHER SOURCES

We may receive information from third party sources that you or your administrator make available to us. For example, if you are using Google or Microsoft to sign in to your account, we may be provided basic information like your name and email address as permitted by your Google or Microsoft account settings.

4. HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

To Provide Voice4Equity Services To You: We use the information you provide to authenticate you, to personalize your Voice4Equity account, to provide customer support, and to process operations for you. We provide you access to Voice4Equity features and functionality based on your account status, and provide appropriate interactions with other Voice4Equity users based on your preferences or administrator settings.

For Analytics And Usage Purposes: We gather certain information to understand how account holders interact with our service. In some cases, we make decisions about new features or improvements based on usage patterns of account holders.

For Communication: We use the information we gather to process customer support requests or to communicate about changes and updates to our service.  For example we send out email notifications to you regarding account renewals and payments processed. Depending on your settings, you may receive notifications in app or via email for activities that occur in your account.

For Customer Support: We use information you provide to help resolve your support requests, analyze data logs, and improve your interaction with the Service.

For Safety And Security: We use your information to verify your account, detect any areas of suspected fraudulent activity, or examine violations of our policies.

For Protecting Our Legitimate Business Interests And Rights: Where required by law, or as necessary to protect our rights and the rights of others, we may use information about you in connection with legal directives, compliance issues, audits, or requests by law enforcement.

For Promotional Purposes: With your consent, we may include information about you in testimonials, features, and promotions of Voice4Equity on our site and in social media.

5. HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Collaborators and user interaction: The content you create may be shared with other service users to whom you give permission and an administrator/s.  This information may include any profile information and comments that you share.

Organization Administrators: Certain functions may be provided to administrators to view and access your information for the purposes such as fulfilling contractual obligations, providing help and support, and managing violations to our terms of use or organization policies .

Service Providers: Voice4Equity works with third-party service providers to provide website and application development, hosting, backup, storage, maintenance, payment processing, image and video processing, authentication, analysis and other services for us, which may require them to access or use information about you.

Links To Third-Party Sites: We may allow you to share your public comments and interactions through third-party sites. For example, you may use a public URL for a project or profile to publish to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc. The content you share to those sites are subject to the privacy policies of the site you share to.

Testimonials: From time to time, we may share your content, only with your prior permission, for purposes of providing testimonials and use cases of our services.

Law Enforcement And Enforcement Of Our Rights: We may be required to share information about you in exceptional circumstances if we must comply with applicable laws, enforce our privacy policy and terms of use, protect the security of our services, respond to emergencies, and/or protect and enforce our legal rights.

Business Transfer: We may transfer any information collected during a sale, merger or acquisition of our services, and will do so in a way consistent with our principles of protecting your privacy.

6. HOW WE STORE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Storage And Security: We take measures to ensure that your data is secure. Although it is impossible to ensure 100% security of data due to the complexity of the internet, we employ available safeguards to prevent compromise. In the very unlikely event that data is compromised, we will take whatever commercially reasonable steps are available to us to resolve any associated issues.

How Long We Keep Data: We will keep your personal information for as long as is needed to fulfill the purposes of providing our Services under this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. If your account is managed under an organization agreement, we will keep your information as long as is required by your administrator.

7. YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING ACCESS AND CONTROL OF YOUR INFORMATION

Accessing And Changing Your Information: Our services give you the ability to change, correct, and update certain information about you. Please contact us at admin@voice4equity.com to make any such requests.

Erasure Of Your Information: You have the right to the erasure of your personal data in a timely manner. The circumstances for erasure include: the personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the processing is for direct marketing purposes; and the personal data have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; for compliance with a legal obligation; or for exercising rights in legal claims.

Withdrawal Of Consent: To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, however it will not affect the processing that has already taken place. You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by contacting us at admin@voice4equity.com.

Copies Of Your Information: Please contact us at admin@voice4equity.com and/or the address below with requests under data protection laws for your information.

Data Storage: Voice4Equity is based in the United States and we process and store information on servers located in the United States.

EEA Users:  Users in the European Economic Area have the right to request access to, rectification of, or erasure of their personal data; to data portability in certain circumstances; to request restriction of processing; to object to processing; and to withdraw consent for processing where they have previously provided consent.  EEA users also have the right to lodge a complaint with their local supervisory authority.  As required by applicable law, we collect and process information about individuals in the EEA only where we have a legal basis for doing so.

Children: Voice4Equity does not collect data from children who are under 13 years of age. If you have reason to believe that we have obtained information for someone under the age of 13 without proper consent, please contact us at admin@voice4equity.com and we will rectify the situation in a reasonable manner.

Student Data: Certain personal data, such as student personal data, is subject to FERPA. We comply with requirements imposed on service providers by FERPA when processing such personal data at the instruction of an organization providing said data. To see the requirements imposed on service providers, please review Responsibilities of Third-Party Service Providers under FERPA.

California Residents: If you are a California resident, the California Privacy Act permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of your personal data by Voice4Equity to a third party for the third party’s direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us as indicated below.

8. CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy, please send an email to admin@voice4equity.com or write us:

Voice4Equity LLC
1220 Main St Suite 400

Vancouver, WA 98660

Effective Date: December 1, 2021

Last Updated Date: September 1, 2022