Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from WithVesta.com (the “Site”).
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
- “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
- “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:
Communicate with you;
Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site--you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
DO NOT TRACK
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
YOUR RIGHTS
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.
Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.
DATA RETENTION
When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at support@withvesta.com.
Cookie Policy
Cookies and other information we collect automatically
Like most platforms, we log IP addresses and use cookies and similar technologies that allow us to recognize you and customize your experience and information about how you access our Platforms. For more information on how we use cookies and related technologies, please see below.
What are Cookies?
A cookie is a text file containing a small amount of information that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or mobile application. They are used to recognize your computer as you navigate between pages on a website or when you return to a previously visited website or mobile application. Cookies are widely used to make the platform work or function more efficiently or to provide information to the platform owner.
We use cookies to enhance your online experience (for example, by remembering your language and/or product or service preferences) and to better understand how our Platform is used. We use cookies to help us better understand how our Platform is used. For example, cookies may allow us to determine if you have previously visited our Platform or if you are a new visitor to our Platform. Cookies can also help us ensure that the advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
There are two broad types of cookies:
1. First-party cookies (cookies), which we serve directly to your computer or mobile device. Third party cookies are provided by a third party service provider on our platform and are used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits our platform again.
2. Third party cookies are provided by third party service providers on our platform and can be used by the service provider to recognize your computer or mobile device when it browses another platform.
Third party cookies are most commonly used for platform analytics or advertising purposes. The length of time a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device may vary. We use both "session cookies" and "permanent cookies". Session cookies exist only while your browser is open and are automatically deleted when your browser is closed. Permanent cookies continue to exist after your browser is closed and can be used to recognize your computer or mobile device when you open your browser to browse the Internet again.
Type of Cookies we use
Our Platform provides only the following types of cookies to your computer or mobile device.
Essential Cookies
These cookies are essential for us to provide you with the services available through our Platform and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Without these cookies, it would not be possible to provide you with the services you have requested, such as transaction pages and secure login accounts.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies serve various purposes related to the display, execution and functionality of our platform. Their overall purpose is to improve your experience and browsing experience on our Platform. For example, some of these cookies allow us to identify your language preference, product or other platform preferences.
Analytical Cookies
These cookies are used to collect information about how you use our Platform. The information collected is aggregated in the aggregate and does not identify you personally. The information collected includes the number of customers to our Platform, the platform that referred you to our Platform, and the pages of our Platform that you have viewed. We use this information to make our Platforms work more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information, and to monitor the level of activity on our Platforms.
Advertising Cookies
When you visit our Platform or click on an advertisement or promotional area on the Platform, these cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and to help us evaluate the effectiveness of advertisements and promotions. These are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited the platform and this information is shared with other organizations, such as advertisers. Content Sharing and Social Networking Cookies These cookies enable the sharing of pages and content by you through third party social networking and other platforms. The companies that provide these cookies may also use your information to provide targeted advertising on other platforms.
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies, which will be displayed on your browser's first visit to our Platform (including the first visit after clearing your browser's cookies). You can choose to accept or decline cookies on the hover screen that appears on your browser when you first access our platform (including the first time you access it after clearing your browser's cookies). However, please note that if you choose to reject cookies, you may not be able to use all of the features of our Platform. You can set your browser to prevent cookies from our Platform from being placed on your computer or mobile device by changing your browser settings. To do this, please follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually found in the "Help", "Tools" or "Edit" functions). We are not responsible for the effectiveness of or compliance with any third party opt-out choices.
IP Addresses
We may collect information about your computer or mobile device, including your IP address, operating system, login time and browser type, when available. We use this information to better understand how you use our platform and for internal reporting purposes. We may share this information, on an anonymous basis, with advertisers, sponsors or other companies or organizations.
About Advertising
Our Platform may use third parties, such as network advertisers and ad exchanges, to provide you with advertisements on third-party platforms after you have left our Platform, and we may use third-party analytics and other service providers to evaluate information about your use of the Platform and your viewing of advertisements and our content and provide such information to us and/or third parties. We may also use third-party analytics and other service providers to evaluate information about your use of the Platform and your viewing of advertisements and our content, and may provide such information to us and/or third parties. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements, which may be based on your visit to the Platform and other apps and sites you visit. Third party ad-serving may allow us to target your advertising to products and services that may be of interest to you. We do not control third party tracking technologies, even if they are associated with our Platform or our advertisements.
Our statement of conduct does not apply to the information collection practices used by these third parties or to the use of information collected by such third parties. Relevant third party terms of service, privacy policies, permissions, notices and choices should be reviewed with respect to their collection, storage and sharing practices. We make no representations regarding the policies or practices of third-party advertisers or ad networks or exchanges or related third parties. You have choices regarding the delivery of advertisements.
You may opt-out of receiving certain types of behavior-based advertising by visiting the third party websites described in the "How to Manage or Delete Cookies" section above. We are not responsible for the effectiveness of or compliance with any third party opt-out choices.