Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 29th, 2024

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using our website and services.

1. Introduction

Welcome to Vesotera (“Vesotera”, “Vesotera.com”, “www.vesotera.com”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We are committed to protecting the privacy of all visitors and users of our website and services. 

This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use our website and services, and tells you about your privacy rights and how you are protected.

We use your personal data to provide and improve our website and services. By using our website and services, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with any part of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our website and services.

2. What Information We Collect

We collect the following types of information:

a. Personal Information: We collect personal information when you use our contact forms, fill out forms to access membership perks, subscribe to our newsletter, participate in our free and/or paid publications, subscribe to our memberships, purchase merchandise through third-party platforms that we link to, or engage with our services. This information may include your name, username, email, phone number, address, and country.

b. Subscription Information: We collect information related to your subscriptions to our services, including paid and/or free publications, memberships, and newsletter subscriptions. This information may include your name, username, email, phone number, address, country, subscription preferences, and subscription activity. This information helps us manage and deliver the subscription services you have chosen, whether free or paid, and to communicate important updates or offers related to your subscription.

c. Usage Data: We collect information on how you access and interact with our website and services through analytics tools and tracking technologies such as Google Analytics. This may include information such as your Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, device type, browser version, the pages of our website and services that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

When you access the website and services by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device's unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website and services or when you access the website and services by or through a mobile device.

3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and services, and hold certain information.

Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our website. The technologies we use may include:

- Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept Cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our website and services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our website and services may use Cookies.

- Web Beacons. Certain sections of our website and services, and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

This site uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic. Information about your use of this site is shared with Google. For more detailed information about cookies and your choices regarding cookies, please read Google's Cookies Policy.

4. How We Use Your Information

The information we collect serves the following purposes:

- To provide and maintain our services and website, including monitoring the usage of our website and services.

- To manage your account: To manage your registration as a user of the website and services. The personal data you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the website and services that are available to you as a registered user.

- For the performance of a contract: The development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services you have purchased or of any other contract with us through the website and our service.

- To contact you: To contact and communicate with you, respond to your inquiries, and send you requested information by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

- To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.

- To manage your requests: To attend and manage your requests to us.

- To notify you about changes to our service.

- To detect, prevent, and address technical issues.

- For business transfers: We may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by us about our website, services, and users is among the assets transferred.

- To improve and personalize your experience on our website.

- To monitor the usage of our services.

- To manage subscriptions: We may use your personal information to manage and fulfill your subscriptions to our publications and newsletters. This includes processing your subscription requests, managing your preferences, sending you communications related to your subscription, and providing you with the content included in your subscription packages. This also involves using your email address to send notifications and offers that may be of interest to you, with your consent where required.

- To administer consent: We may collect and manage your consent through checkboxes on forms related to communications, subscriptions, memberships, access to perks, or other interactions. This includes your agreement to receive newsletters, marketing materials, and other communications from us. You have the ability to withdraw your consent at any time via the subscription management tools, by following the unsubscribe instructions included in communications, or by contacting us.  

- To facilitate membership perks and promotions: We may use your information to administer membership perks and promotions, such as access to exclusive content, special offers, and direct communications as part of our subscription services. This includes managing your preferences and eligibility for these perks, and delivering relevant content and offers that enhance your membership experience.

- To support facilitated merchandise transactions: If you purchase merchandise through a third-party website and/or platform that we link to, we may receive limited data related to your purchase, such as your name, contact information, address, country, and details of the items purchased. This information is used to support and manage your order. Please review the privacy policy of the respective third-party platform to understand how your personal data is handled during merchandise transactions.

- For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, gathering valuable information, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving our website, products, services, marketing, and your experience.

5. Legal Basis for Processing

The processing of your data is based on the following legal grounds:

- Consent: We process your personal data with your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.

- Legitimate Interests: We process data for legitimate business purposes, which include analyzing the use of our website to improve our services.

6. Sharing of Information

We may share your personal information with third parties in the following situations:

- With service providers: We may share your information with service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, marketing assistance, monitoring and analyzing the use of our website and services, to contact you. Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on our behalf. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by us to facilitate the website and services, to provide the website and services on our behalf, to perform services related to the website and services, or to assist us in analyzing how the website and services are used.

- For business transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of our assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

- With affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with Us.

- With business partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.

- With other users: when you share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.

- Legal requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

- With your consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

7. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, is processed at our operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

8. Your Rights

You have the right to delete or request that we assist in deleting the personal data that we have collected about you.

Our website and services may give you the ability to delete certain information about you from within the website and services.

You have the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of your personal data. If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us at the details provided in this Privacy Policy.

Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

9. Data Retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our website and services, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

10. Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business transactions

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

We may disclose your personal data in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to:

- Comply with a legal obligation

- Protect and defend our rights or property

- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with our website and services

- Protect the personal safety of users of our website and services, or the public

- Protect against legal liability

11. Security

The security of your personal data is of utmost importance to us. Please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we cannot guarantee absolute security, we are committed to implementing and maintaining robust technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

Technical and Organizational Security Measures:

- Data Encryption: We use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption for data transmitted to and from our website. You can recognize an SSL-secured connection by the padlock symbol shown by your web browser.

- Access Controls: When applicable, we limit access to your personal data to employees and service providers who need to know this information to provide services to you. They are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations.

- Incident Response: If a data breach occurs, we may notify you and any applicable regulator.

12. Children's Privacy

Our website and services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent's consent before we collect and use that information.

13. Links to Other Websites

Our website and services may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We may let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our website and services, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at vesotera.contact@gmail.com.

For a comprehensive understanding of our policies, terms, conditions, and disclaimers, we encourage you to also read our Terms & Conditions, Disclaimer, and Google's Cookies Policy.