Privacy Policy

 

GENERAL
Visual Eyes, Inc., is committed to maintaining the privacy of personal information that you provide to us when using this site. This Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information received about you when you visit or subscribe to services as applicable. We may make content or services from other Web sites including affiliated or co-branded Web sites available to you from links located herein. These other Web sites are not subject to this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you review the privacy policy at each such Web site to determine how that site protects your privacy.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT
General:
When you register, and at other times, we will collect personally identifiable information from you that may include your name, age, address, e-mail address, credit-card number and facts about your computers, profession, investing habits and similar information. We do not, however, knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen.

Surveys:
We may conduct occasional online surveys. For example you may see a pop-up window offering you the optional opportunity of participating in a survey. These surveys are entirely voluntary and you may easily decline to participate.
 
Web Site Usage Information:
We automatically collect IP addresses and Web site usage information from you when you visit the Services. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors and subscribers use and navigate our Web sites, including the number and frequency of visitors and subscribers to each Web page, and the length of their visits.
 
HOW WE USE INFORMATION COLLECTED
We may use information in the following ways:

  • For the purposes for which you specifically provided the information including, for example, to enable us to process, validate and verify subscriptions.
  • To send you e-mail notifications about our new or existing products and services, special offers, or to otherwise contact you.
  • To enhance existing features or develop new features, products and services.
  • To provide advertisers and other third parties with aggregate information about our user base and usage patterns.
  • To allow us to personalize the content and advertising that you and others see based on personal characteristics or preferences.

We may combine the information that we collect from you with information that you provide to us in connection with your use of our other products, services and Web sites.
We may hire other companies to perform services on our behalf including, without limitation, facilitating some aspects of the Services, sending e-mail, and fulfilling purchase requests. These other companies may be supplied with or have access to your personally identifiable information solely for the purpose of providing these services to us or on our behalf.

We use third parties, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to deliver ads to you on our behalf. These third-party ad servers may be supplied with or have access to your personally identifiable information solely for the purpose of providing these services to us or on our behalf. They also may also collect and use non-personally identifiable information about your visits to the Services and other Web sites in order to present advertisements that may be of interest to you.
 
Except as specifically set forth in this Privacy Policy, we will not share your personally identifiable information outside of VE unless you "opt in" to having your personally identifiable information shared with a company that is not affiliated with us.
 
THIRD PARTY AND CORPORATE SUBSCRIPTIONS
If your access to the Services is provided by your employer or a third party, we may notify your employer or that third party when you access the Services. In doing so, we may reveal limited amounts of your personally identifiable information such as your name or email address. In some cases, your employer or the third party providing your access may provide us with limited amounts of personal information about you to facilitate your access to the Services and so that we may identify you when providing it with user and usage information.
 
DISCUSSIONS
The blog and survey section of VE website provides you with an opportunity to tell us what you think and read what other readers have to say. When you use these features we may make public any information that you provide including your name, location and e-mail address.
 
YOUR ABILITY TO CHOOSE
We may offer you the opportunity to choose whether to receive certain communications from us at the time you give us your personally identifiable information.
 
COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS
We may employ cookie technology. We use web beacons (invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or clear GIFs) on our site in order to recognize users and assess traffic patterns. We also include Web beacons in our e-mail messages including newsletters in order to count how many e-mail messages have been opened.
 
ADS FOR THE SERVICES
When you view an ad for the Services on other sites, our third-party advertising company may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. The Services and our advertising company may also use Web beacons (invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or clear GIFs) to note which Services pages you visit after viewing our ads. The information that is collected through the use of these images is not personally identifiable and is used only to track response to our advertising efforts.
 
SECURITY
The personally identifiable information we collect about you is stored in limited-access servers. We will maintain safeguards to protect the security of these servers and your personally identifiable information.
 
DATA RETENTION
We retain your information for as long as necessary to permit us to use it for the purposes that we have communicated to you and comply with applicable law or regulations.
 
POLICY MODIFICATIONS
When we make any material change to this Privacy Policy, we will inform you by posting a notice on the home page of this site that the policy has been updated and by changing the date on this page noting when the policy was last updated.
 
TRANSFER TO U.S. OR OTHER COUNTRIES
Your information may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country where VE has facilities, and by subscribing to our services, you consent to the transfer of information outside of your country.