Vitis LLC is committed to protecting the privacy of our customers’ personal information. This statement applies with respect to the information that Vitis LLC collects from Vitis LLC website, located at www.vitis.com. Amendments to this statement will be posted at this URL and will be effective when posted. By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of this information in the manner we describe. Your continued use of this site following the posting of any amendment, modification or changes shall constitute your acceptance thereof.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
Vitis LLC collects non-personally identifiable information about you in a number of ways, including tracking your activities through your IP address, computer settings or most-recently visited URL. Vitis LLC may also ask you to provide certain non-personally identifiable information about yourself such as your buying preferences, etc. Vitis LLC does not collect any personally identifiable information about you unless you voluntarily submit such information to us, by, for example, filling out a survey or registration form. The types of information that may be requested include your name, address, email address, and telephone number.
In general, Vitis LLC will only use the information you provided for the purpose for which such information was provided. Vitis LLC may also use this information to deliver to you information about our company and promotional material from some of our partners, trend analysis and site administration. Your information may also be used to contact you when necessary and may be shared with our affiliates and other companies that may want to contact you with offers consistent with your stated preferences. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings from Vitis LLC and other entities by following the instructions set forth in the opt-out section below. Non-personal demographic and profile data is used to tailor your experience at our site, showing you content Vitis LLC believes you might be interested in. This information may also be shared with advertisers on an aggregate, non-personal basis.
USE OF IP ADDRESSES
Vitis LLC uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our website.
USE OF COOKIES
When you view our website, Vitis LLC might store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a “cookie” or similar file. Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your hard drive, not on our site. Cookies do not spy on you or otherwise invade your privacy, and they cannot invade your hard drive and steal information. Rather, they help you navigate a website as easily as possible. Vitis LLC uses cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to prevent you from re-entering all your registration information data at each connection.
USE OF WEB BEACONS
We also may use "web beacons" (also often referenced as "clear GIFs", "clear pixals", "web bugs", "1x1 GIFs", or "1x1 pixals") which are tiny graphic image files, imbedded in a web page in GIF, jpeg or HTML format, that provide a presence on the web page and send back to its home server information from your browser, such as the IP address, the URL of the page on which the web beacon is located, the type of browser that is accessing the site and the ID number of any cookies on your computer previously placed by that server. We may use web beacons to collect non-personal information about your use of our website and the websites of selected sponsors and advertisers, and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information collected by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our website and selected sponsors' and advertisers' sites. Our web beacons are not used to track your activity outside of our website or those of our sponsors'. We do not link non-personal information from web beacons to personally identifiable information without your permission.
SERVICE PROVIDERS
We sometimes engage unaffiliated businesses to assist us in providing you certain services. For example, we may use third parties to provide advertising, marketing and promotional assistance, provide email services, or facilitate our online services. In those instances, we may need to share your personal information with them. We require these companies to use your personal information only to provide the particular product or service and do not authorize them to use your personal information for any other reason.
We sometimes offer promotions in conjunction with a third party sponsor. If you choose to participate in one of those promotions, we may share your information with the sponsor if they need it to send you a product or other special promotion they offer.
FINANCIAL INFORMATION AND PAYMENT PROCESSING
We use third party payment processing services, which are responsible for processing and maintaining the financial information needed to process your payments. We are not generally privy to this information at any time, and you should review the privacy policy of such service providers.
BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING VITIS LLC
As Vitis LLC continues to develop, we may buy, sell or combine with other businesses. If so, personal and non-personal information that we or other businesses have collected will likely be transferred as part of the transaction. If we sell our business, we will attempt to ensure that requests made of us regarding email communications will be honored.
THIRD PARTY ADVERTISERS
We use third-party advertising companies to deliver specific advertisements to you, which appear on pages throughout our website. These companies collect non-personal information about your visits to our website and other websites in order to provide advertisements about products and services that may be of interest to you. These companies may also aggregate your non-personal information for use in targeted advertising, marketing research, and other similar purposes. These companies may place their own cookies on your computer. If you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from collecting and using this information, you may visit each third party advertiser’s website directly and opt-out.
SECURITY
Our site has industry standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. While there is no such thing as “perfect security” on the Internet, Vitis LLC will take all reasonable steps to insure the safety of your personal information.
OTHER WEBSITE AND LINKS
Our website may contain links to other websites, including websites directed to children. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of any of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors or other websites to which we provide links from our website. You should check the applicable privacy policy of the website in question when linking to other websites.
CORRECTIONS, DELETIONS AND UPDATES
Vitis LLC allows its users the option to change or modify information previously provided. This may be done through the following methods: (1) access the “My Account” section of their Vitis LLC profile and input updated information directly, (2) email the information to admin@vitis.com or (3) visit the Customer Service section of the site and follow the appropriate instructions. Unfortunately, to the extent that such information is also stored in other databases, Vitis LLC cannot always ensure that such corrections, deletions or updates will reach the other databases. Vitis LLC will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that your information is removed from or corrected in our records. However, we reserve the right to retain in our archival files any information we remove from or change in our active website databases. We may retain such information to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our terms and conditions of use. In addition, it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to us. A copy of your personal information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate.
CHOICE OPT-OUT
You may opt-out of receiving communications from our partners, and from us, by the following means: (1) send an email to val@vitis.com or (2) visit the My Account section of the site and delete your account.
PUBLIC FORUMS
The site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
MINORS
Our website is not designed for use by minors without their parent's supervision. If you are under 18, you may use our website only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. We ask that anyone under the age of 18 not submit any personal information through our website. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from people under the age of 18, and therefore we do not knowingly distribute such information to third parties.
Vitis LLC has no way of distinguishing the age of individuals who access our website, and so Vitis LLC carries out the same Privacy Policy for individuals of all ages. If a minor has provided us with personally identifying information without parental or guardian consent, the parent or guardian should contact us to remove the information and opt out of promotional opportunities.