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  1. Collection of personal information
  2. How to update your Personal Information and privacy preferences
  3. How your personal information is used
  4. Legal bases for processing
  5. Sharing information with Service Providers/Agents
  6. Data retention and portability
  7. Your options (cancel)
  8. Protection of your personal information
  9. Cookies and tracking technologies
  10. Changes to the Privacy Policy
  11. Non-discrimination
  12. Links to third party websites
  13. Social media widgets
  14. Single sign-on
  15. Referral Program Emails
  16. Children
  17. Entities that collect personal information
  18. Data Privacy Framework with UK Extension and Swiss U.S. Data Privacy Framework
  19. Privacy complaints

Last updated June 29, 2024.

This Privacy Statement describes how Vantstock manages personal data and information and respects your privacy. This policy may be changed from time to time. We encourage visitors and users of our websites to regularly review our Privacy Policy.

All “Personal Information” (which is defined as any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact or locate the person to whom such information pertains) that we collect and maintain will be subject to this Privacy Policy, as amended from time to time. times.

Vantsotck is made up of different legal entities. This privacy notice is issued on behalf of the Vantsotck group of companies. When we refer to “Vantsotck”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice, we are referring to the Vantsotck entity that acts as the controller or processor of your information, as explained in more detail in the “Entities that collect Personal Information” below.

1. Collection of personal information

As a visitor to the Site, you can participate in many activities without providing any personal information.

However, when you register to use a Vantstock website and license content, order products or services as a Vantstock subscriber to provide the services to you, we may collect the following personal information from you:

  • Contact information, such as your name, telephone number, address and email address; It is
  • Billing information, such as your credit card number, expiration date, card type, and billing address;
  • Demographic information, such as your job title, job description, company name, and company type; It is
  • Profile data, including your username and password, details about your activity on the Site, including search terms, purchasing plans and the Content you license.

As with most websites, when you use the Site, Vantstock or third-party subprocessors engaged by Vantstock may also collect certain technical and routing information about your computer to facilitate your use of the Site and its services. For example, we may record environmental variables such as browser type, operating system, CPU speed, and your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address. We use these environmental variables to facilitate and track your use of the Site and its services. Vantstock also uses these environmental variables to measure traffic patterns on the Site. To better understand the needs of our Site visitors, we may occasionally combine this information with your Personal Information.

To reduce errors in our database, authenticate our users, and prevent abuse of our system, we may occasionally supplement the Personal Information you submit to us with information from third-party sources. For example, we may supplement your contact information with address information provided by the Google Maps API or the US Postal Service to qualify your information and avoid errors in our database. Where we use the Google Maps API, the Google Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference only with respect to personal information processed by Google. We may supplement the information we collect directly from you with information stored in third-party databases, such as demographic information or company information, in order to make it more likely that any marketing communications we send you will be relevant and of interest to you. You can find a list of any third-party subprocessors we use to process information here.

2. Updating your personal information and privacy preferences

Upon request, Vantstock will provide you with information and access to your Personal Information that we process.

You have the right to access and correct or delete your Personal Information and privacy preferences at any time. This can be done by clicking on the “My Account” link, where you can view and make changes to most of your Personal Information immediately.

If you wish to delete your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide services to you, please visit the “Contact“ link on the website and ask us to delete your account. For security reasons, certain Personal Information can only be changed by contacting support. We will respond to your request promptly within a reasonable time.

3. How your personal information is used

Vantstock collects your information to provide services to you, meet our legal obligations, and improve our products and services. We do not sell, rent or share your personal information to or with third parties in any way other than as described in this Privacy Policy. Vantstock may use this information to:

  • Authenticate and provide access to Vantstock websites and services.
  • Process your financial transactions.
  • Send order/renewal confirmations to you.
  • Register your rights, if any, to technical support or other benefits that may be made available to registered users.
  • Respond to requests, questions and concerns directed to customer service.
  • Manage your account.
  • Send your requested product or service.
  • Keep you informed about special offers from Vantstock and selected third parties.
  • Administer promotions and sweepstakes in which you participate and inform you of the result.
  • Investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities and/or violations of our Terms of Service.
  • Meet our product/service research and development needs and to improve our Site, services and offerings; It is
  • Personalize your experience, including targeting our services, search results and offers to you.
  • We store information we collect through cookies, log files, transparent images and/or third-party sources to create a summary of your preferences. We link your personal information and/or your usage history to the information in the summary to provide you with personalized promotions and marketing offers, to improve the site content for you and/or to determine your preferences.

In some situations, Vantstock may be required to comply with legal obligations and disclose personal data in response to requests from authorities, for example, to comply with national security or law enforcement regulations.

As required by law (for example, to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or legal process on Vantstock), and when we believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, avoid litigation, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud and/or responding to a Government request. We may also disclose information about you to comply with our legal obligations if we determine that such disclosure must be made for reasons of national security, law enforcement or other matters of public importance.

4. Legal bases for processing

For individuals located in the European Economic Area and the UK, we base the processing of your personal data on the following legal bases:

  • Where processing is necessary for us to perform our contract with you:
  • Provide access to Vantstock websites and services to fulfill the terms of our contract with you;
  • Personalize your experience, including targeting our services, search results and offers to you.
  • Provide information so that you can make decisions about Vantstock services;
  • Process your financial transactions and send order/renewal confirmations to you;
  • Register your rights, if any, to technical support or other benefits that may be made available to registered users;
  • Respond to your customer service requests, questions and concerns;
  • Manage your account.
The processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or other natural person:
  • Investigate and protect against intellectual property violations;
  • Confirm the validity of Vantstock content licenses;
  • Investigate, prevent, or take action regarding violations of our Terms of Service.
Process in accordance with Vantstock’s legitimate interests:
  • Provide, improve and personalize our website and services;
  • Manage our operations and fulfill our contractual obligations with our customers and employees;
  • Analyze and understand how our online platforms are being used;
  • Maintain the security and integrity of our websites, mobile applications and other services;
  • Send you requested product or service information and keep you informed about special offers and services from Vantstock and selected third parties;
  • Manage promotions and contests;
  • Research and develop products/services to improve our Site, services and offerings.
Processing is necessary to comply with Vantstock’s legal obligations, including:
  • Investigate and protect against intellectual property violations, fraud, spam, harassment, crime and security;
  • Compliance with applicable money laundering, bribery, corruption and sanctions laws and regulations; It is
  • Obey security laws related to the issuance of financial statements and other obligations.

 

5. Sharing information with Service Providers/Agents

Vantstock uses one or more third-party credit and debit card payment processing companies to bill you for our items and services. To our knowledge, these companies do not retain, share, store or use personal information for any other purpose.

We also share personal information with certain companies that perform services on our behalf. We only share the personal information necessary to perform these services. We require all companies with which we share personal information to protect the data in accordance with this policy and to limit the use of such personal information to performing services for Vantstock. Third-party subprocessors are Paypal and Stripe.

We do not sell or otherwise provide personal information to other companies so that

6. Data retention and portability

We will store your information for as long as your account is active and as necessary to provide services to you, as necessary to validate or implement content use licenses, or as necessary to comply with our legal obligations. If you would like to delete your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you with our services, please visit the “Contact us” link telling us that you want to cancel your account. If you cannot access your account, contact us. We will respond to your request within 30 days. We will retain and use your information for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

7. Your options (cancel)

Vantstock does not sell your personal data or personal information to any third party. We use third-party advertising services to manage the advertisements we serve on other websites. Our partners may use technologies such as cookies and trackers to collect information about your activities on this and other websites in order to serve ads based on your browsing and interests. To prevent this information from being used for the purpose of personalizing ads, you can opt out of this feature by clicking here (or, if you are in the European Union, here). This action does not prevent you from receiving advertisements. You will continue to receive generic advertisements.

Vantstock will use your personal information only for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement, and will not use your personal information for an objectively different purpose without your express authorization.

You may opt out of receiving email updates, newsletters and/or emails from Vantstock partners by emailing us at the “Contact us” link on the Site and making the appropriate selections. The option to opt-out of such communications is also available during the subscription process. Vantstock will continue to contact you when there are changes to the Terms of Service or Requester Terms of Service, as applicable. In addition, we will also send you service-related announcements, including, but not limited to, a registration email, benefit notification emails, emails triggered automatically by actions you take on the Site, and billing-related notices. In general, you may not opt out of receiving these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option of deactivating your account

You can request the deletion of your personal data from our systems. If you cannot access your account, contact us.

8. Protection of your personal information

The personal information you provide as a result of your use of the Site is protected in several ways.

Your account profile access is available through a unique password and customer ID chosen by you. This password is encrypted. You should endeavor to use a complex alphanumeric password, which should not be disclosed to anyone.

Your personal information is stored on secure servers to which only selected Vantstock employees and suppliers have password access.

Your personal information is encrypted whenever it is transmitted to Vantstock.

When you provide sensitive information (such as your credit card number) on our order forms, we encrypt that information using the TLS protocol

We strive to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Although we consider the importance of the personal information we collect, process and store and the current state of technology to establish these protective measures for your personal information, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

If you have questions about security on our websites, please contact us.

9. Cookies and tracking technologies

The website may automatically collect information as you browse, such as your Internet provider, browser type and version, operating system, device type, average time spent on our websites, pages viewed, information accessed, IP address used to connect your computer to the Internet and other relevant statistics. Such information is referred to as web analytics or clickstream data.

We may combine this automatically collected data with other information we have collected about you. We do this to improve the services we offer through marketing, data analysis and to improve website functionality.

Technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by Vantstock and its affiliates, data analysis services and services to provide more features and functionality to the website. These technologies are used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement around the site, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by companies, individuals, or both.

A cookie is a small, unique text file that a website can send to your computer when you access it. We may use session cookies, which end when the user closes the browser, and/or persistent cookies, which remain on the computer until they are manually deleted. Most browsers alert the user to the use of cookies or do not allow such use. If you don’t want to allow cookies in your browser, you can set it to reject them or notify you when a website tries to use one. Rejecting cookies may affect your website experience.

We partner with third parties to display ads on our site or to manage ads on other sites. Our partners may use technologies such as cookies to collect information about your activities on this and other websites in order to serve ads based on your browsing and interests. This action does not prevent you from receiving advertisements. You will continue to receive generic advertisements.

We use mobile analytics software to better understand the functionality of our Mobile Software on your phone. This software may record information such as your frequency of use of the application, events that occur within the application, aggregate usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded from. We do not link the information we store within the data analysis software to any identifiable information you submit within the application.

10. Changes to the Privacy Policy

Vantstock reserves the right to change the Privacy Policy from time to time in its sole discretion by providing notice via email or on the Site home page when significant changes are made to this Privacy Policy, prior to the changes being made. come into force. If, as a consequence of such changes, you wish to change the permissions for Vantstock to use your personal information, follow the procedure described in the “Updating your personal information and privacy preferences” section.

We will assume that you are aware of, and subject to, any material changes to the Privacy Policy following the posting of such notice, except in the following situation: at the time you provide personal information to Vantstock, if given the opportunity (such as at this time ) to limit the use of this information for the purposes of communicating with you, whether by Vantstock or third parties, Vantstock will not change your preference in this regard without your explicit consent. However, if Vantstock is acquired by or merges with another entity, Vantstock may provide to such entity, without your consent, information relating to the part of the business that was sold or merged. However, Vantstock will provide notice of such asset sales, acquisitions or mergers on this Site.

11. Non-discrimination

Vantstock will not discriminate against any user who exercises their rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act or other privacy or data protection law. We will not deny services to users who exercise rights under a privacy law, and we do not charge differential prices to users who choose to exercise rights under an applicable privacy law.

12. Links to third party websites

Our website includes links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from those of Vantstock. If you submit personal data to any of these sites, this information will be governed by their respective privacy policies. We recommend that you review the privacy policies of every website you visit.

13. Social media widgets

Our websites may have social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button and widgets, such as the “Share” button, as well as mini-programs. Such features may collect your IP address, know which page you are visiting on our website and use cookies to function properly. Social media features and widgets may be hosted directly on our website or on third-party websites. Your interactions with these features are governed by the respective company’s privacy policy.

14. Single sign-on

To access our website, you must create an account. Such services will authenticate your identity and offer the option to share certain personal data with us, such as name and email address to automatically populate the registration form.

15. Referral Program Emails

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a colleague about our site, share a collection, or invite someone to join a team account, we will ask for your colleague’s name and email address. We will automatically send your colleague a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the Site. Vantstock stores this information for the sole purpose of sending a single email, monitoring the success of our referral program, and managing access to collections.

Your colleague may contact us to request that we remove this information from our database.

16. Children

We do not intend to solicit or collect personal information from any person under the age of 18. If you are under 18, please do not provide information on this website or use our services. If you believe that your child under 18 has provided us with personal information, please contact us to have the data removed and your child’s account terminated.

17. Entities that collect personal information

Data controller (place of incorporation or organization)

For all individuals regardless of location:

Vantstock, Inc.

New York

Email: support@vantstock.com

We have appointed a Vantstock Group Data Protection Officer (DPO) who is responsible for overseeing issues relating to this privacy notice. If you have any questions, concerns or requests about this privacy notice, how we manage your personal information or any other matter relating to your personal information, please contact our DPO.

Other members of the Vantstock group of companies may be involved in the processing of Personal Information as described in our information on sub-processing within the Vantstock Group.

18. EU-US Data Privacy Framework with UK Extension and Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework

complies with the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (EU-US DPF), the UK Extension to the EU-US DPF and the Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-US DPF) as set out by the US Department of Commerce. Vantstock has certified to the US Department of Commerce that it adheres to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework Principles (EU-US DPF Principles) with respect to the processing of personal data received from the European Union based on the EU-US DPF and of the UK (and Gibraltar) under the UK extension to the EU-US DPF. has certified to the US Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework Principles (Switzerland-US DPF Principles) with respect to the processing of personal data received from Switzerland on the basis of the Swiss-US DPF. If there is any conflict between the terms of this privacy policy and the EU-US DPF Principles and/or the Swiss-US DPF Principles, the Principles will prevail. To learn more about the Data Privacy Framework (DPF) program and view our certification, visit https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/.

Vantstock, Inc. is responsible for the processing of personal data that it receives under the EU-US DPF, the UK Extension to EU-US DPF and the Switzerland-US DPF and subsequently transfers to a third party acting as a agent on your behalf. Vantstock, Inc. complies with the EU-US DPF Principles and the Swiss-US DPF Principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the EU, UK and Switzerland, including the onward transfer liability provisions.

The Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over Vantstock, Inc.’s compliance with the EU-US DPF, the UK Extension to the EU-US DPF, and the Swiss-US DPF. In certain situations, Vantstock, Inc. may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

In compliance with the EU-US DPF, the UK Extension to the EU-US DPF and the Swiss-US DPF, Vantstock, Inc. is committed to addressing unresolved complaints about our processing of personal data received in reliance on the DPF EU-US, the UK Extension to the EU-US DPF and the Swiss-US DPF to TRUSTe, a US-based alternative dispute resolution provider. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your DPF Principles complaint from us, or if we have not resolved your DPF Principles complaint to your satisfaction, please visit https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request for more information or to file a complaint. These dispute resolution services are provided at no cost to you.

For complaints relating to the EU-US DPF, the UK extension of the EU-US DPF and compliance with the Swiss-US DPF not resolved by any of the other DPF mechanisms, you have the possibility, under certain conditions, to invoke binding arbitration. More information can be found on the official DPF website: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/article/ANNEX-I-introduction-dpf?tabset-35584=2.

19. Privacy complaints

Individuals located in certain countries, including the European Economic Area, have certain statutory rights in relation to their personal data. Subject to any exemptions provided by law, you may have the right to request access to Personal Data, seek to update, delete or correct that Information and request to restrict further processing of your Personal Data.

To the extent that Vantstock’s processing of your Personal Data is subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation, Vantstock relies on its legitimate interests, described above, to process your data. When Vantstock processes certain Personal Data for Vantstock’s own direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object to Vantstock’s use of your Personal Data for this purpose at any time by clicking on the “Contact us” link and opting out of receiving all emails.

You can request the deletion of your Personal Data from our systems and/or opt-out of further processing of your Personal Data by visiting the “Contact us” page

If you wish to make any other objection to the processor of your personal data, you can also object to the processing by sending your objection via the “Contact us” link.

Vantstock takes its users’ privacy concerns seriously. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or if you believe that Vantstock has not complied with this Privacy Policy with respect to your Personal Information, please contact the Data Protection Officer.

For all individuals please contact support@vantstock.com

Subject to applicable law, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority or the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, who is the main supervisory authority for Vantstock in the European Union. If you are a resident of the European Economic Area and believe that we hold your Personal Data within the scope of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you may direct questions or complaints to your local data protection authority or our primary supervisory authority support@vantstock.com.