Privacy Policy
A Legal Disclaimer
This Privacy Policy applies to personal information collected online by Virtual Media Experts LLC. its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively referred to as “VME”) in connection with its U.S.-based websites, micro-sites, mobile sites or mobile apps that expressly adopt, display or link to this Privacy Policy (collectively referred to as our “Sites”). It also applies to personal information VME collects in connection with its pages on social media sites, such as Facebook®, Twitter®, Google Plus® or others (collectively referred to as our “Social Media Pages”). Our sites are not directed at children under the
age of 13, and no one under the age of 13 should provide personal information on our sites.
Privacy Policy - The Basics
1. What information does VME collects about you on our Sites and Social Media Pages?
2. How do we use the information we collect about you?
3. How is technology used to serve our advertisements on other sites that you visit and what choices do you have?
4. Does VME share your information with third parties?
5. What choices do you have over how VME uses your information?
6. How does VME store and secure your information on its Sites?
7. Will this Privacy Policy change?
8. How can I contact VME?
9. Supplemental Privacy & Cookie Notice for Visitors from the European Economic Area.
What information does VME collect about you on our Sites and Social Media Pages?
We may collect information about you from a variety of sources, including when:
you provide us information
we observe or collect information through technology
we receive information about you from third parties
we collect information on our Social Media Pages.
Information You Provide
We may ask you to provide information about yourself directly to our Sites, such as the following:
name address email address telephone number username and password birthday payment card information location information financial information information related to customer satisfaction surveys government issued identifiers
personal preferences other identifiers
We may allow you to use your personal social media account, on social media sites (“Personal Social
Media Account”), to provide information to us when you participate in certain features on our Sites.
This information may include any information you have shared on your Personal Social Media
Accounts, such as the following:
your name profile picture gender networks user ID list of friends language
birthday education work history address interests likes country
It is also possible that we will be able to continue collecting this information from your Personal
Social Media Accounts should the information be revised by you later. You may choose not to
provide us with certain requested information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of
some of the features on our Sites.
Information Observed or Collected Through Technology
a. Navigational Information. Navigational information, such as the following, is collected by us and
our third party service providers when you use our Sites:
browser type and version operating system the Internet service provider used to access our sites
IP Address use of links to arrive at our Sites web pages requested and viewed time spent on our sites
for our mobile websites and apps, technical information about the device used, such as
screen size, cookie support by the device and how images may appear
b. Location Information. Our Sites and emails include features that may require collecting
different types of location information that we then use for the specific feature you have
selected.
c. Cookies and other similar technology. We and our third party service providers use “cookies.”
Cookies assign a unique identification to your device and are typically stored on your device by
your web browser. We may also use pixel tags (also known as web beacons, web bugs, and clear
GIFs) on the sites and in emails. A pixel tag is a nearly invisible pixel-sized graphic image on a
webpage or in an email message.
The information we and our third party service providers collect through cookies, pixel tags and
similar technology includes the following:
your interactions with our sites and with our advertisements the time of your visit to our Sites
confirmation when you open email from us, including the time you open the email and
whether you click on any links in the email sites you visit after visiting one of our sites.
For additional information on the use of cookies for advertising, see “3. How is technology used
to serve our advertisements on other Sites that you visit and what choices do you have?”.
Information Obtained from Third parties
We may combine information about you from other sources with the information we have collected
about you on our Sites or Social Media Pages.
Information Collected on VME's Social Media Pages
Personal information may be collected directly by us through our Social Media Pages. The type of
information we would collect is similar to what is described above under “Information You Provide.”
Personal information may also be collected by the social media site hosting our Social Media Pages.
Our Privacy Policy does not cover the privacy
and security practices of the social media sites on which VME has its Social Media Pages.
How do we use the information we collect about you?
The information we learn from you helps us personalize your experience with us and our
communications to you, and helps us continually improve your experience on our Sites. We use the information you provide, information collected through your Personal Social Media Accounts, and information collected on our Social Media Pages for things like:
opening an online account improving and developing our service servicing our customers advertising and marketing, including
emails and postal mail personalizing your experience when
visiting our Sites responding to your inquiries market research and surveys
conducting events, promotions, contests and sweepstakes
analytics processing payments
We use navigational information gathered through technology for determining things like: which parts of our Sites are most visited or
used what features/products are browsed how to improve and better transact business the effectiveness of our Sites
lead generation difficulties visitors may experience in
accessing our Sites monitoring the number of visitors to our Sites average time spent on our Sites any programming errors or failures on any of our sites
We use information collected through cookies and similar technology to determine many of the same
things listed for navigational information above. In addition cookies and similar technology are used for
things like:
personalizing your experience on our Sites
serving tailored ads on other sites, as described below
tailoring email marketing to you based on your preferences on or use of our Sites
determining return visitors
measuring the effectiveness of our advertising.
We use third-party analytics providers, such as Google Analytics, to measure traffic and usage trends,
and to help us better understand your use of and interaction with our Sites and Social Media Pages. For
more information on how Google uses data when you use our Sites, click here.
Similar to the navigational information described above, the social media sites where we have our Social
Media Pages may provide aggregate information and analysis to us about visitors to our Social Media
Pages. This allows us to better understand and analyze our user growth, general demographic
information about the users of, and interaction with content on, our Social Media Pages.
How is technology used to serve our advertisements on other sites that you visit and what choices do you have?
We may contract with third party advertising companies to tailor online advertising to be directed to
you on other websites. These third party advertising companies place, use, or rely on technology, such
as cookies and pixel tags, to obtain information about your interactions with our sites as well as with
other websites. This information helps us select advertising to serve to you and where to serve it based
on your experience on our sites and other sites that you visit.
For information about opt out programs that these third party advertising companies participate in, and
the effect of opting out, click the following: DAA Opt Out click here or NAI Opt Out click here. By clicking
these links, you will then leave our site for another online site where you may specify your preferences
under that opt-out program. You can also click the preference icon that may appear on some of our
advertising served through these technologies. You should also note that our systems may not
recognize “Do Not Track” headers from some or all browsers.
What choices do you have over how VME uses your information?
We give you choices about the information we collect and how we communicate with you.
1. Email: You may opt-out of our marketing emails by following the instructions listed in the email
that you received. However, even if you opt-out you may still receive non-marketing emails,
such as customer service communications.
2. Location Information:
a. Mobile Device Location Information. Your mobile device settings may allow you to
disable location-based services, which will prevent our Sites from accessing your precise
mobile device location information. We recommend you review the help or user
manual provided with your device for instructions.
b. Desktop Device Location Information. Your desktop web browser may allow you to
remove permission you granted through your desktop device for our sites to access
your location information and/or completely block requests for location information.
We recommend you review the help or user manual provided with your browser for
instructions.
c. Email Location Information. Your email program may allow you to prevent the pixel tags
or images in the emails you receive from us from downloading, which will also prevent
our service provider from accessing your location information. You can also unsubscribe
from receiving our emails, as described in the "Email" section above.
3. Postal Marketing: If you no longer want to receive marketing materials from us via regular
postal mail, please notify us using our contact us page or call us at (330) 671-1572, and tell us
that you want to be removed from VME's postal mailing list, including the postal address you
wish to have removed.
4. California Opt-Out Rights: Under California law, if you are a resident of California and have
previously communicated with us or provided us with your personal information, you may make
a request to us about how we have shared your personal information during the prior calendar
year with others for their direct marketing purposes. In response to your request, we are
allowed to provide you with a cost-free means to opt-out of such sharing rather than provide
the information about those parties. We are providing you the opportunity to opt out, which
you can do by submitting an opt out request to our contact us page or email us at
operations@virtualmediaexperts.com that includes your name and
all of the addresses and other contact information that you have provided to use.
Additionally, California residents have the right to request that we disclose the
categories of personal information collected; the categories of sources from which personal
information is collected; the business or commercial purpose; the categories of third parties
which the businesses shares personal information and the specific pieces of information we hold
about you. The vast majority of this information is contained within this Privacy Policy, but you
can make further access requests by submit a request at our contact us page, writing us at the
address below, or calling us at (330) 671-1572. Similarly, California residents can choose to
direct us to delete certain pieces of their personal information, which you can do using any of
those same methods (contact us page, letter, phone). While California law also allows for
California residents to opt out of the sale of their personal information, All VME does not
“sell” personal information. For further details on California residents’ privacy rights see Cal Civil
Codes §§ 1798.80-83.
How does VME store and secure your information on its Sites?
Our employees involved in data processing and our servers are based in the state of Ohio, and other
locations throughout the U.S. We work with affiliated and unaffiliated service providers in the U.S, the
U.K., and other jurisdictions around the world.
Our Sites utilize encryption technology. We also use firewalls and have implemented other reasonable
technical, administrative and physical measures designed to protect the personal information in our
custody or control from unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure. While we implement
these security measures on our Sites, you should be aware that 100% security is not always possible.
Will this Privacy Policy change?
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it periodically. We will update
the effective date of the Privacy Policy at the time a change is made.
How can I contact Buy 360?
If you have questions or concerns with respect to our Privacy Policy, please contact us by submitting an inquiry to our contact us page or by emailing our operations team at operations@virtualmediaexperts.com
Attn: Privacy Policy, making sure to include your question, name
and contact information.