Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Vital Collective Care (“Vital Collective Care“) operates Vital Collective Care website and may operate other websites. It is Vital Collective Care policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Vital Collective Care collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Vital Collective Care purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Vital Collective Care visitors use its website. From time to time, Vital Collective Care may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Vital Collective Care also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on Vital Collective Care blogs/sites. Vital Collective Care only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Personally Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Vital Collective Care websites choose to interact with Vital Collective Care in ways that require Vital Collective Care to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Vital Collective Care gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at Vital Collective Care to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Vital Collective Care are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Vital Collective Care collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Vital Collective Care. Vital Collective Care does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Vital Collective Care may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Vital Collective Care may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Vital Collective Care does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Vital Collective Care discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Vital Collective Care behalf or to provide services available at Vital Collective Care websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Vital Collective Care websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.

Vital Collective Care will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Vital Collective Care discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Vital Collective Care believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Vital Collective Care, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of an Vital Collective Care website and have supplied your email address, Vital Collective Care may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Vital Collective Care and our products.

If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Vital Collective Care takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Vital Collective Care uses cookies to help Vital Collective Care identify and track visitors, their usage of Vital Collective Care website, and their website access preferences. Vital Collective Care visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Vital Collective Care websites, with the drawback that certain features of Vital Collective Care websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Opting out of Cookies

Most web browsers allow some control of non-essential cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

One thing to note: if you opt to not allow the saving of cookies using your browser, you are likely to see the Cookie Information pop-up every time you visit most websites, as it is likely your preference will not be saved. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Business Transfers

If Vital Collective Care, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Vital Collective Care goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Vital Collective Care may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Vital Collective Care and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Vital Collective Care may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Vital Collective Care sole discretion. Vital Collective Care encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a Vital Collective Care account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.