Privacy Policy

Effective Date: November 15, 2024

This Privacy Policy describes the policies of V Squared Associates, LLC (“VSquared,” “V2,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) as they apply to the following services operated by VSquared (collectively, the “Service”):

• www.v2associatesllc.com and other websites owned and/or operated by VSquared that contain a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Site");
• All mobile applications that contain a link to this Privacy Policy (the “VSquared Apps”); and
• All services made available by VSquared through the Site and the VSquared Apps, in addition to email communications made outside of the Site or VSquared App, collectively, the “Service”.

This Privacy Policy explains what Personal Data (defined below) we collect, how we use and share Personal Data, and your choices concerning our Personal Data practices. We employ several technical, organizational and physical safeguards designed to protect the Personal Data we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies, and we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data. Please read this Privacy Policy before using our Service or submitting any Personal Data to VSquared and contact us if you have any questions.

Information We Collect

When you contact us or interact with our Service, we collect information about you (including that which otherwise constitutes “personal data” or similarly defined term under applicable laws) (“Personal Data”) as follows:

• Personal Data You Provide to Us: We collect Personal Data when you sign up for our Service through the Site or an VSquared App. The Personal Data collected during these interactions may vary based on what you choose to share with us, but it may include any of the following:

• Account Data: When you sign up, some information is required to create an account on our Service, such as your name and email address.
• Payment Data: If you choose to purchase a subscription to our Service via credit card, debit card or other payment method, our third-party payments processors (Stripe or QuickBooks or Bill.com) will collect and process certain payment and billing information, such as billing zip code, payment card details, and authentication features on behalf of VSquared. That information is collected by our payment processors directly, and we do not collect or store it.
• Social Media Data: We have pages (“Social Media Pages”) on social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, X, and LinkedIn (each a “Social Media Site”). The platforms that host our Social Media Pages may provide us with aggregate information and analytics regarding the use of our Social Media Pages. Additionally, should you choose to interact with any of our Social Media Pages, we may collect Personal Data you provide or make available through our Social Media Pages.
• User Generated Content: User-generated content, such as photos, images, videos, community posts, reviews, community comments, and other content or information that you generate, transmit, or otherwise make available on the Service, as well as associated metadata. Metadata includes information on how, when, where and by whom a piece of content was collected and how that content has been formatted or edited. Metadata also includes information that users can add or can have added to their content, such as keywords, geographical or location information, and other similar data.
• Sensitive Personal Data: While using the Service on our App, you may choose to allow us to collect sensitive Personal Data about you, such as your precise geolocation by turning on location services on your mobile device, which may be considered “sensitive personal information” (or similarly defined term) under certain applicable laws. Turning on location services on your mobile device constitutes consent for us to collect precise geolocation. You can disallow our collection of precise geolocation data by turning off location services on your mobile device at any time. You may also choose to share other sensitive Personal Data through the content you share on our Site, for example, when leaving a review, or otherwise sharing information on our Site. By sharing this information, you consent to the collection of this sensitive Personal Data. You may limit the visibility of such sensitive Personal Data, including tracking your Geolocation, through the Settings accessed on your device.

• Personal Data We Generate From Your Use of Our Service: When you visit, use, interact and register with the Service, we may automatically generate certain information about your visit, use, interactions or registration. For example, we may monitor the number of people that visit our Site or VSquared Apps, peak hours of visits, which page(s) are visited on our Site or VSquared Apps, the domains our visitors come from (e.g., google.com, yahoo.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to access and visit our Site (e.g., Firefox, Microsoft Edge, etc.), broad geographical information, and Site- and VSquared App-navigation pattern. In particular, the following information is created and automatically logged in our systems:

• Log Data: Information that your browser automatically sends whenever you visit the Site or VSquared Apps. Log data includes your IP address (so we understand which country you are connecting from when you visit the Site or VSquared Apps), browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interacted with the Site or VSquared Apps.
• Cookies Data: We use cookies and similar technologies to operate and administer our Site and VSquared Apps, make it easier for you to use the Site and VSquared Apps during future visits, and gather usage data on our Site and VSquared Apps.
• Device Data: Includes the model of the device, operating system, and browser you are using. The information collected may depend on the type of device you use and its settings. We may also collect data from your device to estimate a variety of metrics like the time, frequency and duration of, your activities for the purpose of calculating your Usage and Activity Data (described below).
• Usage and Activity Data: We collect information about how you use our Site and VSquared Apps, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, and the time, frequency and duration of your activities.
• Geolocation Data: If you have enabled location services for an VSquared App on your mobile device or on your computer via the Site, we may collect your geolocation information based on IP address, city, state, zip code, country, latitude and longitude. VSquared may also derive your approximate location from the IP address of your computer or mobile device. Geolocation data is used for purposes of confirming your arrival and departure from service locations and offering other relevant content and services. We do not process Geolocation Data absent you granting permission through your device or browser.
• Inferences about You. We may combine the information we collect and otherwise generate or draw inferences about your preferences and interests to improve our Service and service offerings.

• Personal Data We Receive from Third Parties. If you elect to authenticate to our Service using your account on another service (such as Facebook, Google, or Apple account), we may receive from the other service information like your external account name as well as other information you may choose to make available to us based on your external account settings, such as contact lists and profile photos (if any). You can stop sharing the information from the other service with us by removing our access to that other service. We may also obtain your Personal Data from service providers or vendors as well as other business partners (such as marketing partners and event co-sponsors).

Privacy Settings Default

When you sign up for an VSquared account, personal data that you add to your profile and content that you add to your account is Private by default.

How We Use Personal Data

We use your Personal Data for a variety of purposes, which are listed in the table below. If we need to use your Personal Data for an unrelated purpose, we will update this Privacy Policy to explain any such new purpose.

In addition, in respect of each of the purposes for which we use your Personal Data, privacy laws in certain jurisdictions such as the European Economic Area and United Kingdom may require us to have a legal basis for that use. Most commonly, we will rely on one of the following legal bases where required by applicable law:

• Where we need to process your Personal Data to deliver our Service to you, or to otherwise perform our contractual obligations to you (“Contractual Necessity”).
• Where we need to process your Personal Data for our legitimate business interests, and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests (“Legitimate Interests”).
• Where we need to process your Personal Data to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation (“Compliance with Law”).
• Where we have your specific consent to carry out the processing for the purpose in question (“Consent”).

We have set out below, in a table format, the various purposes and legal bases (where required by applicable law) we rely on in respect of the processing of your Personal Data:

Email Marketing. Where you have provided us with your consent, we may contact you to provide information we believe will be of interest to you – e.g., promotional information about our products and services. You may opt out of receiving emails at any time by following sending a request to sitegeo@v2associatesllc.com or by clicking ‘Unsubscribe’ in any of our marketing communications. If you opt out, you will no longer receive marketing communications, but you may continue to receive Service-related and other non-marketing emails.

How We Share and Disclose Personal Data

In certain circumstances, we may share your Personal Data with third parties without further notice to you, subject to our obligations under applicable law, as set forth below:

• Affiliates: Other companies in our corporate group may help us deliver our Service to you.
• Vendors and Service Providers: To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may share Personal Data with service providers, including hosting, cloud services and other information technology services providers; email communication software providers and email newsletter providers; data base and sales services; customer relationship management, customer engagement, and customer feedback services; security services; and analytics services. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process or store Personal Data while performing their duties to us.
• Payment Processors: Individuals who purchase a subscription through our website provide personal data to our payment processors as part of the checkout process.
• Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of all or a portion of our assets, or transition of our Service to another provider, your Personal Data may be shared in the diligence process with counterparties and others assisting with the transaction and transferred to a successor or affiliate as part of that transaction along with other assets.
• Legal Requirements: With law enforcement, government authorities, private parties and others, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with legal or regulatory obligations, including to respond to lawful requests from public or government authorities, or other regulatory agencies and to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, (ii) protect and defend our rights or property, (iii) prevent fraud, (iv) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Service, or the public, or (v) protect against legal liability, including seeking legal advice and for insurance purposes.
• Other Users. Your profile, User Generated Content and other Personal Data may be visible to other users of the Service (which may include all users of the Service or a limited number of users, depending on your privacy settings). For example, other users of the Service may have access to your Personal Data if you chose to make your profile available to them through the Service, and they may also have access to content that you submit to the Service such as when you provide reviews, community posts, or share other content. This Personal Data can be seen, collected and used by others, including being cached, copied, screen captured or stored elsewhere by others (e.g., search engines), and we are not responsible for any such use of Personal Data.
• Advertising partners. Third-party advertising companies for interested-based advertising.

Your Privacy Choices

Depending on where you reside and the laws that may apply, you may have certain rights to access, correct, restrict or object to our processing of, withdraw your consent in relation to our processing of, and/or obtain a copy of your Personal Data.

For more information on how to update or manage your Personal Data and privacy settings, please contact us at sitegeo@v2associatesllc.com.

Data Retention

We keep your Personal Data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy including as long as required by law (e.g. for tax, legal, accounting or other purposes).

To determine the appropriate retention period for your Personal Data, we will consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we use Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

Children's Privacy

Our Service is not directed to children who are under the age of 16. VSquared does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 16, and we do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the Personal Data of children under the age of 16 years. If you have reason to believe that we have collected Personal Data about a child under the age of 16 without parental or guardian consent as required by applicable law, please contact us at sitegeo@v2associatesllc.com and we will take steps to delete that Personal Data as required by applicable law.

US Privacy Rights Disclosures

In addition to the other disclosures in this Privacy policy, the disclosures in this US Privacy Rights Notice apply to the extent that VSquared processes your Personal Data subject to US state consumer privacy laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act. 

Collection, Disclosure and Use of Personal Data: In this section, we identify the specific categories of Personal Data that we collect about you described above in the “Information We Collect” section for the last 12 months: 

• Identifiers such as contact information, name, or email address
• Commercial information such as transaction history
• Device, usage and internet or other electronic network activity information such as information about your device type, browser settings or interactions with our sites
• Online identifiers such as Log Data, Cookies Data, and Usage and Activity Data 
• Geolocation data
• Visual information you choose to share
• Sensitive Personal Data such as precise geolocation, as voluntarily disclosed by you
• Inferences about your preferences and interests from data we collect

In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed for business purposes the following categories of Personal Data identified below to the categories of third parties identified in the “How We Share and Disclose Personal Data” section: 

• Identifiers such as contact information, name, email, or IP address
• Commercial information such as transaction history
• Device, usage and internet or other electronic network activity information such as information about your device type, browser settings or interactions with our sites
• Online identifiers such as Log Data, Cookies Data, and Usage and Activity Data 
• Geolocation data
• Visual information to third parties designated by you
• Sensitive Personal Data, such as precise geolocation, as voluntarily disclosed by you
• Inferences about your preferences and interests from data we collect

As noted above, we may provide your Personal Data to third parties for “business purposes”, such as with affiliates and marketing partners, analytics providers, and social networks, who assist us in advertising our Service to you. The business and commercial purposes for collecting Personal Data are described in the “How We Use Personal Data” section. We collect Personal Data directly from you and from external accounts you use to log-in to the Service.

Understanding Your Rights. In addition to your rights and choices as outlined above, depending on where you reside, and under applicable local law and subject to any applicable exceptions, you may have the following additional rights regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Data: 

• Right to know the categories of Personal Data that VSquared has collected about you, the business purpose for collecting your Personal Data, the categories of sources from which the Personal Data was collected, whether VSquared has disclosed your Personal Data for business purposes and the categories of Personal Data so disclosed, and the categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed your Personal Data.
• Right to access the specific pieces of Personal Data that VSquared has collected about you.
• Right to ask us to correct inaccurate Personal Data that we have collected about you 
• Right to have VSquared, under certain circumstances, delete your Personal Data.
• Right to be free from discrimination related to the exercise of your rights.
• Right to Opt-Out (such as from the sale or sharing of your Personal Data):

• Opt-out of certain processing for targeted advertising purposes. You may have the right to opt-out of certain processing of Personal Data for targeted advertising purposes.
• Opt-out of profiling/automated decision making. You may have the right to opt-out of automated processing or profiling performed on Personal Data to evaluate, analyze, or predict personal aspects related to a person’s economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements. However, we do not engage in profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning individuals.
• Opt-out of other sales of Personal Data. You may have the right to opt-out of other “sales” (which may include the disclosure of your Personal Data in relation to targeted advertising) of your Personal Data.

If you have questions about your rights, these disclosures, would like to request access to an alternative format of this notice, or appeal a refusal to fulfill your request made under these provisions, you may reach us at sitegeo@v2associatesllc.com. If you have shared Personal Data with us through our social media Pages, you may contact the Social Media Site regarding the rights you may have under their applicable privacy policies and terms.

Global Privacy Controls and Do Not Track Signals: We and our third-party vendors and service providers, may use cookies, pixels, or other tracking technologies to collect Personal Data about your browsing activities over time and across different websites following your use of the Site and use that Personal Data to send targeted advertisements. Our Site honors Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) opt-out preference signals in a frictionless manner. If our website detects that your browser is transmitting an opt-out preference signal, such as the GPC signal, we will opt that browser out of cookies on our website that result in a “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information. To download and use a browser supporting the GPC browser signal, click here: https://globalprivacycontrol.org/orgs. If you choose to use the GPC signal, you will need to turn it on for each supported browser or browser extension you use to visit our websites. Our Site currently does not respond to “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) signals. To find out more about DNT signals, please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Make a US Privacy Rights Request: Depending on where you reside, and under applicable local law and subject to any applicable exceptions, you may make a US Privacy Rights Request as follows:

• Exercising your rights to know, access, correct, delete, or make changes with respect to your consents. If you would like to exercise your rights (as available) to make requests to know, access, appeal, correct, delete, or make changes with respect to your consent, you may do so by clicking “Make a Privacy Request” at the top of this page or by contacting sitegeo@v2associatesllc.com.
• Exercising your right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your Personal Data. We do not sell or share your Personal Data for money or use services that help deliver targeted ads to you. Our Site and Service is Ad Free. If you have questions about selling or sharing your personal data, you can submit a request for additional information to sitegeo@v2associatesllc.com.
• Verification of identity. Once we receive your request, we will require you to verify your identity to process your request. To verify your identity, we require you to respond to an email that we send to the email address associated with your VSquared account. We require verifying identity through email authentication before privacy requests can be processed as we require limited information to create an account and as a result it is difficult to verify identity even if we collect additional information. If we are unable to verify your identity through email authentication, we will be unable to complete your request.

Under some state privacy laws, you may enable an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. However, we may need to verify your authorized agent’s identity and authority to act on your behalf. We may require a valid power of attorney given to your authorized agent pursuant to applicable law. If you have not provided your agent with such a power of attorney, we may ask you to take additional steps permitted by law to verify that your request is authorized, such as by providing your agent with written and signed permission to exercise your state privacy law rights on your behalf, the information we request to verify your identity, and confirmation that you have given the authorized agent permission to submit the request.

EEA and UK Users

Scope: This section applies to users located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”).

Data Controller: VSquared does not distribute, support or market our Site or Service to audiences in the EEA or UK.

International Transfers

VSquared is based in the United States. Some of our vendors and service providers may also be in the United States or another country. As such, any processing of your Personal Data may involve the export of your Personal Data outside of your country of residence, including to countries which may have data protection laws that are less stringent than the laws in effect in the country in which you are located. Whenever we transfer your Personal Data out of your country of residence, we endeavor to ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing appropriate safeguards. If you would like to receive more information about these safeguards, please contact us at sitegeo@v2associatesllc.com.

Links to Other Websites

The Site and VSquared Apps may contain links to other websites, products, or services not operated or controlled by VSquared, including Social Media Sites (“Third Party Sites”). The information that you share with Third Party Sites will be governed by the specific privacy policies and terms of service of the Third-Party Sites and not by this Privacy Policy. By providing links to Third Party Sites, we do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed such sites. Please contact the Third-Party Sites directly for information on their privacy practices and policies.

Additional Information

By accessing or using our Service, you signify that you have read, understood, and acknowledged our collection, storage, use, disclosure, and other processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please check back often for any updates. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy periodically and that your continued use of our Service after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acknowledgment of such changes.

If you have any questions about this Notice, please contact us at sitegeo@v2associatesllc.com.