Venture Visuals, LLC, and its affiliates or assigns (hereinafter referred to as “VV“) operates and manages the Website platform accessible at www.bruceventure.com including all its subdomains (the “Platform“), where independent content uploaders can upload, publish, share and sell their original videos, services or other tangible goods to users, and where uploaders and users can interact (our “Services“), and this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy“) governs our information practices and describes how we collect, use, share, and protect your information when using our Services through the Platform. By using the Platform, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, and you understand and agree that such Privacy Policy complements any terms and conditions or end-user agreement applicable to your use of the Platform, which can be found on the Website.
YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD AND THE AGE OF MAJORITY AND LEGAL CONSENT IN THE JURISDICTION IN WHICH YOU LIVE OR RESIDE TO AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. USE OF THE PLATFORM IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.
VV reserves the right to update or otherwise modify this Privacy Policy if necessary. In such case, such modifications shall become effective immediately and shall be incorporated to the Privacy Policy. The current version of the Privacy Policy is available on the Platform indicating the effective date. If the changes to the Privacy Policy are significant in nature, we will notify you by email or by posting a prominent notice on the Platform. You will be deemed to have accepted these changes if you continue to use the Platform after any such changes. You are encouraged to periodically check our Privacy Policy: you agree and understand that it is up to you to be knowledgeable of the Privacy Policy to see if anything has changed. VV will not be liable for your neglect of your legal rights.
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT
The term “personal information” means information that specifically identifies any individual, such as name, date of birth and email address, and any other information that is required by applicable law to be treated as “personal information”. When browsing through the Platform, you can do so by being a user (“User“) or a registered member (“Member“). For more clarity, all Members are Users, but not all Users are Members.
Users
While you browse the Platform as a User, your device’s operating system and unique ID, IP address, access times, MAC address, location and language may be logged automatically. This information may be stored locally on the device you are using and may be communicated to VV, notably to ensure proper usage and functioning of the Platform, but also for statistical purposes and in order to improve the Platform and its features.
Members
In addition to the above, upon your first use of the Platform as a Member, you will be prompted to provide information in order to create your account and profile linked to your account. This information may be, but is not limited to your name, date of birth, email address, physical address as well as any other information necessary to provide you with the Services and that is required by applicable law to be treated as “personal information.”
Whenever you browse the Platform, we collect data about all of your interactions with the Services and other Users, including Users uploading content on the Platform, via server log files. This information may be associated with your account and profile, IP address or device ID for the purpose of providing you with the Services and improving your experience. When you make a purchase, we might collect information about such purchase and your payment method, and we keep information on your purchase history. The information is mostly used to support your interaction with the Platform as well as to prevent fraud.
WHY WE COLLECT THIS INFORMATION
Our primary goal in collecting and using your personal information is to create your account, provide the Services to you, improve our Services, contact you, conduct research and generate reports for internal use. This information we collect is necessary to provide you with the Platform, and we do not collect any information, which is not strictly required by the nature of the Platform. Also, VV may sometimes collect personal information that you willingly provide us, for instance when you contact us, inform us of any request, or inform us of any problem regarding the Platform. Furthermore, VV may also collect certain data regarding your use of the Platform, such as the features used or the sections navigated, or any other data to identify the operating system of the device that you are using. This data cannot be used to identify you personally.
The information is collected and used notably for the following reasons:
- to create your account and profile;
- to send related information, including confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
- to ensure proper functioning of the Platform;
- to address any problems which are brought to our attention;
- to evaluate and improve the content and features of the Platform;
- to respond to feedback and questions and provide customer support;
- to tailor your experience with the Platform;
- to prevent fraud;
- to enhance the experience and enjoyment using our Services; and
- to contact you about your experience with the Platform and notify you about company news and promotions.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION STORED AND COMMUNICATED
VV keeps your information for a period of time it deems reasonable either to fulfill identified purposes, such to ensure proper functioning of the Platform, or in accordance with the law, whichever time frame is longer. Once your information is no longer required to be kept, we ensure it remains anonymous or destroy it in a way, which ensures protection against unauthorized access or communication. We never disclose your personal information to anyone outside of MV without your consent, except for the following:
- our providers whose services have been retained to carry out duties on our behalf (e.g. data processing or storage). VV takes the necessary means to ensure that these third-party providers process your information for the sole purpose identified by VV;
- VV may engage other companies and individuals to perform services. Such services may include analyzing data. These service providers may have access to personal information in connection with the performance of their services for VV;
- VV may share your information in connection with any merger, sale of assets, change of control, or a financing or acquisition of all or a portion of its business to another company;
- VV may share aggregate or anonymous information about you with advertisers, publishers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties;
- any public authority if the law so requires, to defend our rights, prevent fraud, or otherwise in compliance with the law. In the event where VV is required to divulge information or to provide a copy of such information to a governmental authority under law or pursuant to a court order, VV will attempt to notify you beforehand, to the extent, however, that it is legally authorized to do so.
- may send you notifications through the Platform to send you updates, or other Services related notifications. You can edit and modify your settings at any time through the Platform, including your profile picture and general preferences, as well as your notification preferences. Furthermore, you understand that, as a Member using the Platform, you may be publicly identified by the alias you are using through the Platform, and all the content posted by you will be visible to other Users. Thus, you are the one controlling the information displayed or posted on your account or profile, and the information you share through the Platform in general, and you are solely and fully responsible for any consequences arising out of such displayed or posted information.
SECURITY
All data is stored on servers with high-security safeguards, protected against misuse and access by unauthorized individuals. Your use of the Platform may involve the transfer, storage and processing of your information to and in various countries around the world where our servers are located and our databases are operated that may have different levels of privacy protection than your country. By using the Platform, you consent to your information being transferred to our facilities and to the facilities of those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Privacy Policy.
We endeavor to maintain appropriate physical, procedural and technical security with respect to our offices and information storage facilities. Any information is only made available to individuals (employees or agents) who require access to such information to carry out their responsibilities.
While VV takes reasonable means to protect your privacy, please be aware that no method of transmitting information over the Internet or storing information is completely secure and thus VV cannot guarantee the absolute security of that information during the transmission or storage on its systems or of its subcontractors. VV cannot warrant or represent that your information will be protected against, loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties.
HYPERLINKS AND THIRD PARTIES
The Platform may incorporate links to other sites or resources on the Internet for your information, such as third-party social media or social-networking sites or apps. By clicking on such links or by posting through such links you leave the Platform. Any personal information you submit through these sites is subject to such sites’ privacy policy. VV does not exercise any control on the operation of any third parties’ websites or applications and the fact that they are listed on the Platform does not incur VV’s liability in any manner.
Also, when you purchase Content on the Platform, you will be redirect to our payment service provider’s site. In general, the third-party payment providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us. We recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.
Note that the scope of this Privacy Policy is limited to data collected or received by VV through your use of the Services. VV is not responsible for the activities of third party people or companies, the content of their sites, their use of information, personal or not, you provide to them, or any products or services they may offer. Any link to those sites does not establish our sponsorship of, or affiliation with, those individuals or companies.
COOKIES
We may use cookies (small text files placed on a device’s hard disk) or similar technology to collect some non-identifiable information regarding your computer or mobile device and your activities in order to help improve the user experience (e.g. store user’s preferences and settings and authenticate purposes). You can manage your cookie settings directly on your browser, or when applicable, on your device, however, be aware that if you disable or remove cookies, some parts of the Platform might not work properly.
GENERAL INFORMATION
We offer you choices regarding the collection, usage, retention and disclosure of your personal information and we will respect the choices you make. You have the right to refuse further collection, usage, retention and/or disclosure of your personal information by notifying us. However, please note that by doing so your access to our Services might be limited. If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, on access to personal information, or the collection, use and disclosure of personal information, on how to file a complaint or even correct or update your personal information, please
contact our privacy officer at: ( info@bruceventure.com). We will do our best to treat your request promptly. Please note that we may sometimes deny your request under relevant laws.