V&T respects your privacy. Whether you are buying one of V&T' quality products, or just browsing the V&T websites, V&T wants to make you comfortable with our privacy policy. If you do not agree to any of the following terms, please stop using this web site. In violation of these rules, V&T has the right to take legal and equitable remedies.

1. General principles for processing of personal data

In order to ensure that your personal data is processed correctly and with a suitable level of data protection, V&T has adopted the following processing principles:

· Personal data is processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner;

· Personal data is collected only for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes.

· Personal data shall be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed.

· Personal Data shall be accurate and, where necessary kept up to date and inaccurate or incomplete personal data will be rectified or erased or further processing suspended.

2. Types of personal data

We will collect and process your personal data in a number of ways when you engage with us via the various existing channels.

Some of the personal data is necessary to process in order for us to provide you with the services you have requested and some personal data you can choose to provide voluntarily.

The personal data that we collect and process can generally be divided into the following categories:

· Contact information such as name, address, phone number, email address, title, place of work, etc.

· Information that you provide when contacting us via online contact forms, emails or phone

· User information such as technical data regarding usage and viewing, including IP addresses when you visit our websites or applications, including on third party sites

· Transaction information, including credit card information when you purchase goods or services from us

· Information received via our hotline

As a general rule we will not process any special categories of personal data (special personal data) about you unless you have provided your explicit consent thereto or we are required to do in order to comply with applicable regulation.

3. Our purposes for processing your personal data

We only process your personal in order to pursue a legitimate purpose and generally we will only process your personal data if:

· You have provided your consent to such processing; or

· The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract; or

· The processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject to; or

· The processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party and such processing is not considered to be harmful towards you.

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

· To provide you with products, services and information that you request from us; or

· To send you newsletters or other marketing material, including surveys; or

· To administer our business relations and negotiate and execute agreements; or

· To provide general customer service and support; or

· To gain customer insights and knowledge of how our various services, including websites and applications, and products are used as well as evaluation and improvement hereof; or

· To communicate with you regarding various matters; or

· comply with any applicable law.

4. Cookies

We may use cookies on our websites or our applications. Please read more about the use of cookies in our cookie policy, which you can find in the footer of each website.

The purposes of processing of data collected by the use of cookies, are the following:

· to operate, improve and optimize the performance and user experience of the website and its services,

· perform customer and user analysis and segmentation in order to improve our understanding of our users, and provide better and tailored services to users, including you,

· statistical purposes.

Cookies 

5 Disclosure, transfer and making available personal data to recipients

Our disclosure and transfer of your personal data to recipients (natural or legal persons, public authorities, agencies or another body, to which the personal data is disclosed) is kept to a minimum.

We may disclose or make personal data available to recipients under the following circumstances:

· Recipients who carry out services on our behalf, such as e.g. hosting, cloud computing, IT-support, marketing services, administrative services, training services or other data processing. Such recipients are only allowed to process the personal data in accordance with our instructions; or

· To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights; or

· If you have provided your prior consent to the disclosure of personal data to a recipient or

· In the event of any merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of V&T’ assets or stock (including without limitation in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings) or

· As set out in our cookie-policy, cf. section 4 above.

6. Your consent

As stated above some of our processing activities will be based on your consent. In such case, you will have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

If you withdraw your consent, we will cease to process your personal data, unless and to the extent the continued processing or storage is permitted or required according to the applicable personal data legislation or other applicable laws and regulations.

Please note that the withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing conducted prior to the withdrawal. Further, as a consequence of your withdrawal of your consent, we may not be able to satisfy your requests or provide you with our services.

7. Data Security

In order to safeguard your personal data, V&T has implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risks represented by the processing and the nature of the personal data to be protected, having regard to the state of art and the costs of their implementation.

Following the evaluation of the risk, V&T has taken measures to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, in particular where the processing involves the transmission of personal data over a network, and against all other unlawful forms of processing.

8. Links to other websites, etc.

Our websites may contain links to other websites or to integrated sites. We are not responsible for the contents of the websites of other companies (third-party websites) or for the practices of such companies regarding the collection of personal data. When you visit third-party websites, you should read the owners' policies on the protection of personal data and other relevant policies.

9. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy in the future due to changes in applicable legislation, We will not inform you of any such amendments.