Virect Privacy Policy

Virect is committed to protecting your privacy and providing you a safe online experience. This Privacy Statement applies to the Virect Website, services, and its data collection and usage. By using the Virect Website and services, you consent to the data practices described herein.

Collection of Personal Information

When you register through the Virect Website, Virect collects personally identifiable information: name, social security number, address, e-mail, mailing address, phone number, and credit card information. The Virect Website may be utilized anonymously.

Virect may also automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Website addresses. This information is used by Virect for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Virect Website.

Virect is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Websites outside of the Virect family of Websites.

Use of Personal Information

Virect collects and uses your personal information to operate the Virect Website and deliver the services you have requested. Virect may also use personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Virect and its affiliates.

Virect may utilize your collected personal information in one of the following ways:

To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
To improve our Website (we continually strive to improve our Website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
To process transactions - Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
To send periodic emails - The email address you provide for order processing will only be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order.

Disclosure to Third Parties

Virect takes your privacy seriously. Virect does not send personal user-level information to advertisers and/or partners. Virect’s advertising partners provide contextual targeting services that solely rely on cookie-level tracking which contains no identifying information. Virect does not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our Website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. Virect may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Information you provide in your public business profile will be shown to the users as a part of your public business profile.

Virect does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Virect may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party.

Virect may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Virect, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Virect does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Virect keeps track of the Websites and pages our customers visit within Virect, in order to maintain recently used pages or reports and to offer such services to Virect users.

Virect will never disclose any personal data without explicit permission from the customer, except, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Virect or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Virect; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Virect or the public.

Protection of Personal Information

Virect secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure by implementing a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. Virect secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information is transmitted to other Websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via SSL. SSL certificates encrypt communication between the Virect Website and your web browser, preventing others from eavesdropping.

However, Virect does not ensure the confidentiality of any communications made by you through the Website. Virect adheres to the accepted industry practices in securing the transmission of data to, from and through the Website, but you understand, agree and acknowledge that Virect cannot and does not guarantee the security of data transmitted over the Internet or public networks in connection with your use of the Website and services.

Use of Cookies

The Virect Website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you register with Virect, a cookie helps Virect recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, etc. When you return to the same Virect Website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Virect features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Virect Website.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Because Virect values your privacy, we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act (OPPA). Virect will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent, except as provided expressly herein. As part of the California Online Privacy Protection Act, all users of our site may make any changes to their information at anytime by logging into the account link.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We are in compliance with the requirements of Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA); we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our Website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years of age or older.

User Consent

By using the Virect Website, you consent to Virect’s Privacy Policy.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Virect will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect company and customer feedback. Virect encourages you to periodically review the Privacy Policy to be informed of how Virect is protecting your information.

DMCA Policy

If you believe that content available by means of the Website (as defined in our Terms of Service) infringes one or more of your copyrights, please notify us by providing a written notice (“Infringement Notice”) containing the information described below to the designated agent listed below. If Virect takes action in response to an Infringement Notice, it will make a good faith attempt to contact the party that made such content available by means of the most recent email address, if any, provided by such party to Virect.

Your Infringement Notice may be forwarded to the party that made the content available or to third parties such as ChillingEffects.org.

Please be advised that you will be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) if you materially misrepresent that a product or activity is infringing your copyrights. Thus, if you are not sure content located on or linked-to by the Website infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting an attorney. Please follow these steps to file a notice: Verify that the webpage in question is hosted by Virect. We only host pages that have "Virect.com” in their URL. Contact the listing party directly. Go to the listing post in question and send an email with your complaint to see if the matter can be resolved directly between you and the listing party. Send your complaint to our designated agent. If the issue cannot be resolved directly with the listing party, send your complaint to our designated agent at (we prefer email):

Chee-Hyung Yoon
yoon@virect.com
679 3rd St #5F, San Francisco, CA 94107

Please include the following:

A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf;
An identification of the copyright claimed to have been infringed;
A description of the nature and exact location of the content that you claim to infringe your copyright, in sufficient detail to permit Virect to find and positively identify that content; for example we require a link to the specific blog post (not just the name of the blog) that contains the content and a description of which specific portion of the blog post – an image, a link, the text, etc – your complaint refers to;
Your name, address, telephone number and email address; and A statement by you: (a) that you believe in good faith that the use of the content that you claim to infringe your copyright is not authorized by law, or by the copyright owner or such owner’s agent; (b) that all of the information contained in your Infringement Notice is accurate, and (c) under penalty of perjury, that you are either the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.

Last updated: May 23, 2015

Please contact us at privacy@virect.com with any questions regarding this Privacy Policy.