Last updated March 20,
2023
This privacy notice for Knox Virtual Solutions ( " Company ,"
"we," "us," or
"our" ), describes how and why we
might collect, store, use, and/or share ( "process" ) your information when
you use our services ( "Services"), such as when
you:
- Visit our website
at https://knoxvirtualsolutions.com , or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice
- Download and use
our mobile application ( Knox Virtual Solutions) , our Facebook application Knox Virtual Solutions) , or any other application of ours that links to this privacy notice
- Engage with us in other related
ways, including any sales, marketing, or events
Questions or concerns?
Reading this privacy notice will help you understand
your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our
policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still
have any questions or concerns, please contact us at andrea@knoxvirtualsolutions.com .
SUMMARY OF
KEY POINTS
This summary
provides key points from our privacy notice, but you can find out
more details about any of these topics by clicking the link
following each key point or by using our table of contents below to
find the section you are looking for. You can also click
here to go directly to
our table of contents.
What personal
information do we process? When you visit, use, or
navigate our Services, we may process personal information
depending on how you interact with Knox
Virtual Solutions and the Services, the
choices you make, and the products and features you use. Click
here to
learn more.
Do we process any
sensitive personal information? We may process sensitive
personal information when necessary with your consent or as
otherwise permitted by applicable law. Click here to
learn more.
Do we receive any
information from third parties? We do not receive any
information from third parties.
How do we process your
information? We process your information to provide,
improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for
security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may
also process your information for other purposes with your
consent. We process your information only when we have a valid
legal reason to do so. Click here to
learn more.
In what situations and
with which parties do we
share personal information? We may share information
in specific situations and with specific third parties. Click
here to
learn more.
How do we keep your
information safe? We have organizational and technical processes
and procedures in place to protect your personal information.
However, no electronic transmission over the internet or
information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100%
secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers,
cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be
able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal,
or modify your information. Click here to
learn more.
What are your
rights? Depending on where you are located
geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have
certain rights regarding your personal information. Click
here to
learn more.
How do you exercise
your rights? The easiest way to exercise your rights is
by filling out our data subject request form available here , or by contacting us. We will
consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable
data protection laws.
Want to learn more about what
Knox Virtual Solutions does with any
information we collect? Click here to
review the notice in full.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO
WE
COLLECT?
Personal information you
disclose to
us
In
Short:
We collect personal information that you
provide to
us.
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information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Services,
express an interest in obtaining
information about us or our products and Services, when you
participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you
contact us.
Personal Information
Provided by You. The personal information that we
collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the
Services, the choices you make, and the products and features
you use. The personal information we collect may include the
following:
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phone numbers
email addresses
mailing addresses
job titles
usernames
passwords
Sensitive
Information. When
necessary, with your consent or as otherwise permitted by
applicable law, we process the following categories of sensitive
information:
financial data
Social Media Login
Data. We may provide you with the option to register
with us using your existing social media account details, like your
Facebook, Twitter, or other social media account. If you choose to
register in this way, we will collect the information described in the
section called " HOW DO WE
HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL
LOGINS? "
below.
All personal
information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and
accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal
information.
Information collected
when you use our Facebook application(s). We by
default access your Facebook basic account information,
including your name, email, gender, birthday, current city, and
profile picture URL, as well as other information that you choose
to make public. We may also request access to other permissions
related to your account, such as friends, check-ins, and likes, and
you may choose to grant or deny us access to each individual
permission. For more information regarding Facebook
permissions, refer to the Facebook Permissions
Reference
page.
In Short:
We process your information to provide,
improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for
security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may
also process your information for other purposes with your
consent.
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We process
your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on
how you interact with our Services, including:
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ul>- To send administrative
information to you. We may process your information to
send you details about our products and services, changes to our
terms and policies, and other similar information.
- To enable user-to-user
communications. We may process your information if
you choose to use any of our offerings that allow for
communication with another user.
- To request feedback.
We may process your information when necessary to
request feedback and to contact you about your use of our
Services.
- To send you marketing
and promotional communications. We may process the
personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if
this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can
opt out of our marketing emails at any time. For more information,
see
" WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS? " below).
- To deliver
targeted advertising to you. We may process your
information to develop and display
personalized content and advertising tailored to your interests, location, and more.
- To post
testimonials. We post testimonials on our Services that
may contain personal information.
- To evaluate and improve our Services, products,
marketing, and your experience. We may process your
information when we believe it is necessary to identify usage
trends, determine the effectiveness of our promotional
campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our Services, products,
marketing, and your experience.
- To determine the
effectiveness of our marketing and promotional
campaigns. We may process your information to better
understand how to provide marketing and promotional campaigns
that are most relevant to you.
In
Short: We may share information in specific
situations described in this section and/or with the following third
parties.
We may need to share your personal
information in the following
situations:
- Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
In
Short: If you choose to register or log in to
our Services using a social media account, we may have access
to certain information about
you.
Our Services offer you the ability
to register and log in using your third-party social media account
details (like your Facebook or Twitter logins). Where you choose
to do this, we will receive certain profile information about you
from your social media provider. The profile information we
receive may vary depending on the social media provider
concerned, but will often include your name, email address,
friends list, and profile picture, as well as other information you
choose to make public on such a social media platform. If you
log in using Facebook, we may also request access to other
permissions related to your account, such as your friends,
check-ins, and likes, and you may choose to grant or deny us
access to each individual permission.
We will use the information we
receive only for the purposes that are described in this privacy
notice or that are otherwise made clear to you on the relevant
Services. Please note that we do not control, and are not
responsible for, other uses of your personal information by your
third-party social media provider. We recommend that you review
their privacy notice to understand how they collect, use, and
share your personal information, and how you can set your
privacy preferences on their sites and apps.
5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP
YOUR
INFORMATION?
In
Short: We keep your information for as long
as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in
this privacy notice unless otherwise required by
law.
We will only keep your personal
information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out
in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required
or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal
requirements). No purpose
in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for
longer than the period of time in which users
have an account with us .
When we have no
ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal
information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if
this is not possible (for example, because your personal
information has been stored in backup archives), then we will
securely store your personal information and isolate it from any
further processing until deletion is possible.
6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR
INFORMATION
SAFE?
In
Short: We aim to protect your personal
information through a system of organizational and technical security
measures.
We have implemented
appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures
designed to protect the security of any personal information we
process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure
your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or
information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100%
secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers,
cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be
able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal,
or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect
your personal information, transmission of personal information to
and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access
the Services within a secure environment.
7. DO WE COLLECT
INFORMATION FROM
MINORS?
In
Short: We do not knowingly collect data
from or market to children
under 18 years of age .
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from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the
Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are
the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor
dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that personal
information from users less than 18 years of age has been
collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable
measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you
become aware of any data we may have collected from children
under age 18, please contact us at andrea@knoxvirtualsolutions.com .
8. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY
RIGHTS?
In
Short:
You may review, change, or terminate your account at
any time.
If you are located in the EEA or
UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal
information, you also have the right to complain to your local data
protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details
here: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorit
ies/index_en.htm.
If you are located in Switzerland,
the contact details for the data protection authorities are available
here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.htm
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Withdrawing your
consent: If we are relying on your consent to
process your personal information, which may be express and/or
implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to
withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your
consent at any time by contacting us by using the contact details
provided in the section "
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US
ABOUT THIS NOTICE? " below .
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will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its
withdrawal nor, when
applicable law allows, will it affect the
processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on
lawful processing grounds other than consent.
Opting out of
marketing and promotional
communications: You
can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional
communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link
in the emails that we send, replying "STOP" or
"UNSUBSCRIBE"
to the SMS messages that we send, or by contacting us using the
details provided in the section " HOW CAN YOU
CONTACT US ABOUT THIS
NOTICE? " below. You will then be
removed from the marketing lists. However, we may still
communicate with you — for example, to send you service-related
messages that are necessary for the administration and use of
your account, to respond to service requests, or for other
non-marketing purposes.
Account
Information
If
you would at any time like to review or change the information in
your account or terminate your account, you can:
Log in to your account settings and update your user account.
Upon your request to terminate
your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and
information from our active databases. However, we may retain
some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot
problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our legal terms
and/or comply with applicable legal
requirements.
If you have questions or comments about
your privacy rights, you may email us at andrea@knoxvirtualsolutions.com .
9. CONTROLS FOR
DO-NOT-TRACK
FEATURES
Most web browsers
and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications
include a Do-Not-Track ( "DNT" ) feature or setting you
can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data
about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At
this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT
signals has been finalized . As such, we do not
currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other
mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to
be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that
we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice
in a revised version of this privacy
notice.
10. DO CALIFORNIA
RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY
RIGHTS?
In
Short: Yes, if you are a resident of
California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to
your personal
information.
California Civil Code Section
1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our users
who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a
year and free of charge, information about categories of personal
information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct
marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third
parties with which we shared personal information in the
immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California
resident and would like to make such a request, please submit
your request in writing to us using the contact information
provided below.
If you are under 18 years of age,
reside in California, and have a registered account with Services,
you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you
publicly post on the Services. To request removal of such data,
please contact us using the contact information provided below
and include the email address associated with your account and a
statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the
data is not publicly displayed on the Services, but please be
aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively
removed from all our systems (e.g. , backups, etc.).
CCPA Privacy
Notice
The California Code of
Regulations defines a "resident"
as:
(1) every individual
who is in the State of California for other than a temporary or
transitory purpose and
(2) every
individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is
outside the State of California for a temporary or transitory
purpose
All other individuals are defined
as "non-residents."
If this definition of
"resident" applies to you, we must
adhere to certain rights and obligations regarding your personal
information.
What categories of
personal information do we
collect?
We have collected the following
categories of personal information in the past twelve (12)
months:
Category | Examples | Collected |
A.
Identifiers | Contact
details, such as real name, alias, postal address, telephone or
mobile contact number, unique personal identifier, online identifier,
Internet Protocol address, email address, and account
name | |
B. Personal
information categories listed in the California Customer Records
statute | Name,
contact information, education, employment, employment history,
and financial information | |
C. Protected
classification characteristics under California or federal
law | Gender
and date of birth | |
D. Commercial
information | Transaction information,
purchase history, financial details, and payment
information | |
E. Biometric
information | Fingerprints and
voiceprints | |
F. Internet or other
similar network activity | Browsing history, search history,
online | |
G. Geolocation
data | Device
location | |
H. Audio, electronic,
visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar
information | Images
and audio, video or call recordings created in connection with our
business activities | |
I. Professional or
employment-related
information | Business
contact details in order to provide you our Services at a business
level or job title, work history, and professional qualifications if you
apply for a job with us | |
J. Education
Information | Student records and directory
information | |
K. Inferences drawn from other
personal information | Inferences drawn
from any of the collected personal information listed above to
create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s
preferences and
characteristics | |
L. Sensitive Personal Information |
- Receiving help through our
customer support channels;
- Participation in customer surveys
or contests; and
- Facilitation in the delivery of our
Services and to respond to your inquiries.
How do we use and
share your personal
information?
You may contact us
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contact details at the bottom of this
document.
If you are using an authorized agent to exercise your
right to opt out we may deny a request if the authorized agent does not submit
proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your
behalf.
Will your information be
shared with anyone
else?
We may disclose your personal
information with our service providers pursuant to a written
contract between us and each service provider. Each service
provider is a for-profit entity that processes the information on our
behalf, following the same strict privacy protection obligations
mandated by the CCPA.
We may use your personal
information for our own business purposes, such as for
undertaking internal research for technological development and
demonstration. This is not considered to be "selling" of your personal
information.
Your rights
with respect to your personal
data
Right to request deletion of
the data — Request to
delete
You can ask for the deletion of
your personal information. If you ask us to delete your personal
information, we will respect your request and delete your personal
information, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such
as (but not limited to) the exercise by another consumer of his or
her right to free speech, our compliance requirements resulting
from a legal obligation, or any processing that may be required to
protect against illegal activities.
Right to be informed —
Request to know
Depending on the circumstances,
you have a right to know:
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information we collected about you.
In accordance with
applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete
consumer information that is de-identified in response to a
consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a
consumer request.
Right to Non-Discrimination
for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy
Rights
We will not discriminate against
you if you exercise your privacy
rights.
Right to Limit Use and Disclosure
of Sensitive Personal Information
We do not process
consumer's sensitive personal information.
Verification
process
Upon receiving your request, we
will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same
person about whom we have the information in our system. These
verification efforts require us to ask you to provide information so
that we can match it with information you have previously
provided us. For instance, depending on the type of request you
submit, we may ask you to provide certain information so that we
can match the information you provide with the information we
already have on file, or we may contact you through a
communication method (e.g. , phone or email) that you
have previously provided to us. We may also use other
verification methods as the circumstances
dictate.
We will only use personal
information provided in your request to verify your identity or
authority to make the request. To the extent possible, we will
avoid requesting additional information from you for the purposes
of verification. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the
information already maintained by us, we may request that you
provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your
identity and for security or fraud-prevention purposes. We will
delete such additionally provided information as soon as we finish
verifying you.
Other privacy
rights
To exercise these rights, you can
contact us
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contact details at the bottom of this document. If you have a
complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear
from you.
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11. DO VIRGINIA RESIDENTS
HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY
RIGHTS?
In
Short:
Yes, if you are a resident of Virginia, you may be granted specific
rights regarding access to and use of your personal
information.
Virginia
CDPA Privacy Notice
Under the Virginia Consumer
Data Protection Act (CDPA):
If this definition "consumer" applies to you, we must
adhere to certain rights and obligations regarding your personal
data.
The information we collect, use,
and disclose about you will vary depending on how you interact
with Knox Virtual Solutions and our
Services. To find out more, please visit the following
links:
Your rights with respect to your
personal data
- Right to be informed whether or
not we are processing your personal data
- Right to access your personal
data
- Right to correct inaccuracies in
your personal data
- Right to request deletion of your
personal data
- Right to obtain a copy of the
personal data you previously shared with us
- Right to opt out of the processing
of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising, the sale
of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that
produce legal or similarly significant effects (
"profiling" )
Exercise
your rights provided under the Virginia
CDPA
More
information about our data collection and sharing practices can be
found in this privacy notice .
If you are using an authorized agent to exercise your
rights, we may deny a request if the authorized agent does not submit
proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your
behalf.
Verification
process
We may request that you provide
additional information reasonably necessary to verify you and
your consumer's request. If you submit the request through an
authorized agent, we may need to
collect additional information to verify your identity before
processing your request.
Upon receiving your request, we
will respond without undue delay, but in all cases, within forty-five
(45) days of receipt. The response period may be extended once
by forty-five (45) additional days when reasonably necessary. We
will inform you of any such extension within the initial 45-day
response period, together with the reason for the
extension.
Right to
appeal
If we decline to take action
regarding your request, we will inform you of our decision and
reasoning behind it. If you wish to appeal our
decision, please email us at andrea@knoxvirtualsolutions.com . Within sixty (60) days of receipt of an
appeal, we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not
taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of
the reasons for the decisions. If your appeal if denied, you may
contact the Attorney General to submit a
complaint.
12. DO WE MAKE UPDATES
TO THIS
NOTICE?
In
Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to
stay compliant with relevant
laws.
We may update this privacy
notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by
an updated "Revised" date and the updated
version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make
material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either
by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly
sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this
privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting
your information.
13. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT
US ABOUT THIS
NOTICE?
If you have
questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at andrea@knoxvirtualsolutions.com or by post
to:
14. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW,
UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM
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Based on the applicable laws of
your country, you may have the right to request access to the
personal information we collect from you, change that information,
or delete it. To request to review,
update, or delete your personal information, please fill out and submit a
data subject
access request .
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