Privacy Policy

VSI Inc. ("VSI" or "we") is committed to maintaining the accuracy, security and privacy of your personal and business information (“Information”). Because we gather important Information from our visitors and customers, we have established this Policy as a means to communicate our information gathering and dissemination practices. We reserve the right to change this Policy and will provide notification of the change at least thirty (30) business days prior to the change taking effect. This VSI Privacy Policy is a statement of principles and guidelines concerning the protection of the Personal Information of our customers, service providers and other individuals ("you").

Consent

BY SUBMITTING INFORMATION TO VSI OR ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS AND AGENTS, YOU AGREE THAT WE MAY COLLECT, USE AND DISCLOSE SUCH INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND AS PERMITTED OR REQUIRED BY LAW. Subject to legal and contractual requirements, you may refuse or withdraw your consent to certain of the identified purposes at any time by contacting VSI's Chief Privacy Officer. If you refuse or withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you or continue to provide you with certain services or information which may be of value to you. If you provide VSI or our service providers and agents with personal information of another individual, you represent that you have all necessary authority and/or have obtained all necessary consents from such person to enable us to collect, use and disclose such Information for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy.

What Information do we collect?

We require customers who register to use the services offered HACCP Control Point to give us contact information, such as your name, company name, address, phone number, and e-mail address, and financial qualification and billing information, such as billing name and address, credit card number, and the number of users within the organization that will be using the HACCP Control Point services. In the event you express interest in attaining additional information, or when you register for the HACCP Control Point services, we may also ask for additional personal information, such as title, department name, fax number, or additional company information, such as annual revenues, number of employees, or industry. You can opt out of providing this additional information by not entering it when asked. Subscribers to the services can update or remove their personal information at any time by logging into the Website and editing your Personal Information within your account. You can view your updated profile to confirm that your edits have been made.

What do we do with it?

We collect and use your Information for the following purposes:

1. to establish and manage customer relationships and provide notifications to you. This may include the sharing of Information by and between VSI personnel for support purposes;
2. to consider whether VSI should establish a commercial relationship with customers, suppliers and other third parties, including to evaluate credit standing and to match credit bureau or credit reporting agency information;
3. to establish and maintain commercial relationships with subscribers, such as administering accounts, collection and processing payments and to fulfill contractual obligations;
4. to understand and respond to subscriber needs and preferences, including to contact and communicate with such parties and to conduct surveys, research and evaluations;
5. to develop, enhance, market, sell or otherwise provide VSI products and services;
6. to develop and manage our databases;
7. to develop and manage VSI's business and operations;
8. to detect and protect VSI and other third parties against error, negligence, breach of contract, fraud, theft and other illegal activity, and to audit compliance with VSI policies and contractual obligations;
9. to engage in business transactions, including the provision of products and services involving VSI;
10. as permitted by, and to comply with, any legal or regulatory requirements or provisions; and
11. for any other purpose to which you consent.

To whom do we disclose your Information?

Except as set out below, VSI does not disclose your Information to third parties.

All financial and billing information that we collect through HACCP Control Point is used solely to check the qualifications of prospective customers and to bill for the service. This billing information is not used by VSI for marketing or promotional purposes. VSI uses a third-party intermediary to manage the credit card processing. This intermediary is solely a link in our fee collection process and is not permitted to store, retain, or use the information provided, except for the sole purpose of credit card processing.

We also collect, on an aggregated and non-identifiable basis, statistics and other information about projects in order that we can better understand how VSI can be improved and enhanced.

Where do we store your Information?

Your Information is stored in secured locations and on servers controlled by VSI, located at the offices of our service provider.

How do we protect your Information?

To help protect the confidentiality of your Information, VSI employs administrative and technological safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of your Information. For instance, we operate secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. In addition, where Information is sent to a third party for processing, we make sure, through our contracts with them, that all such Information is kept secure.

Privacy and our Website

1. Cookies - When an individual visitor accesses the HACCP Control Point website, we may use a browser feature called a ‘cookie' to collect information such as the type of Internet browser and operating system the visitor uses, the domain name of the website from which the visitor came, date and duration of the visit, number of visits, average time spent on our website, pages viewed and number of cookies accumulated. A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that identifies the visitor's browser, but not necessarily the visitor, to our computers each time our website is visited. Unless a visitor specifically informs us (e.g. by registering for an event or sending us correspondence from the website), we will not know who the individual visitors are. In addition to the identified purposes described in our Privacy Policy, we may use this website information and share it with other organizations with whom we have a commercial relationship to measure the use of our website, to improve the functionality and content of the website and to facilitate usage by a visitor. Visitors can reset their browsers either to notify them when they have received a cookie or refuse to accept cookies. However, if a visitor refuses to accept cookies, he or she may not be able to use some of the features available on our website.
2. Online Communications – In order to provide our website visitors with a service or information, visitors may voluntarily submit Personal Information to us for purposes such as asking a question, obtaining information, reviewing or downloading a publication, participating in a seminar or other event, and participating in contests and surveys. If you are known to VSI as a registered user of an online service, we may combine and store Personal Information about your use of our website and the online information you have provided with certain other online and offline information we may have collected.
3. E-Mail Communications - Occasionally, we may send marketing or promotional e-mail communications to you with information that may be useful, including information about the services of VSI and other third parties with whom we have a relationship. We will include instructions on how to unsubscribe and inform us of preferences if you decide you do not want to receive any future marketing or promotional e-mails from VSI.
4. Links - Our website may contain links to other websites which are provided as a convenience only. Visitors are advised that other third party websites may have different privacy policies and practices than VSI, and VSI has no responsibility for such third party websites.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

VSI reserves the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make a change to this Privacy Policy, we will post such changes on our website and make such revised policy and changes available upon request to the VSI Chief Privacy Officer. However, VSI will obtain the necessary consents required under applicable privacy laws if it seeks to collect, use or disclose your Personal Information for purposes other than those to which consent has been obtained unless otherwise required or permitted by law.