Privacy Policy

Version 2.0 dated 20.08.24

Scope of this Privacy Policy

Variment delivers solutions that enable our clients to meet their strategic goals. This Privacy Policy applies to personal information that we collect through this website, through other Variment websites on which we post this Privacy Policy, in any of our Applications and offline when you interact with us (such as when you inquire about or purchase services from us). Depending on your relationship with us, additional privacy notices may apply.

Data Controller

For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (and the UK version thereof, collectively GDPR) and other applicable laws, “Propl AS”, organization number 926 409 263 is the data controller for the collection and further processing of personal information that we collect through this website. When we refer to Variment throughout this Privacy Policy, we refer to the relevant group entity/entities acting as the data processor and/or data controller.

Variment is the data processor with regard to the personal information that we process on behalf of our clients ("end user personal information"). Please see the section below Information We Collect in our Capacity as a Data Processor.

Contact Us/Questions/Complaints

If you have questions or complaints regarding Variment's handling of personal information, please contact hello@variment.io

What Personal Information Do We Collect?

We collect information, including personal information, directly from you, from other persons, and automatically as you use our website and services (collectively, our "Services").

The personal information that we collect in our capacity as a data controller is predominantly:

  1. Services Information: Information when you use our Applications. Information to provide our services to you or to a business that has or may have a professional relationship with you.
  1. Business Contact Information: May include information from our clients, suppliers, and other business contacts (whether current, former, or prospective).
  1. Website Visitor Information: Information that we collect through our website

Below you can find additional information about the purposes of processing each category of personal information, the legal bases relied upon (as well as the legitimate interests pursued, if applicable) and the categories of recipients to whom personal information is disclosed in connection with the respective purposes.

  1. Services Information
  1. Processing Purpose: Provide our services to you, bill our services, and process payments
  1. Processing Purpose: Send you information about our products and services.
  1. Processing Purpose: Understand Clients' Needs and Preferences, Provide Tailored Products and Services to Clients, and Promote or sell Products to Clients
  1. Processing Purpose: Safeguard and Defend Our Rights, and Meet Any Regulatory or Legal Requirements
  1. Other purposes that we provide notice of and/or seek consent, where such notice or consent is required by applicable law.
  1. Business Contact Information
  1. Processing Purpose: Communicate with Clients Throughout our Relationship, Bill our services, and process Client Payments
  1. Processing Purpose: Understand Clients' Needs and Preferences, Provide Tailored Products and Services to Clients, and Promote or sell Products to Clients
  1. Processing Purpose: Safeguard and Defend Our Rights, and Meet Any Regulatory or Legal Requirements
  1. Other purposes that we provide notice of and/or seek consent, where such notice or consent is required by applicable law.

    c) Website Visitor Information

  2. Processing Purpose: Provide Our Website

  1. Processing Purpose: Contact and Provide Information Requested by Visitors
  1. Processing Purpose: Website Analytics and Targeted Advertising
    We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page.
  1. Processing Purpose: Enable Users to Recommend Our Website via Social Plugins
  1. Processing Purpose: Enable Users to Access Third-Party Content on Our Website
  1. Processing Purpose: determine disruptions and to ensure the security of our systems, including the detection and tracing of (the attempt of) unauthorized access to our web servers
  1. Processing Purpose: Safeguard and Defend Our Rights and Meet Any Regulatory or Legal Requirements

Please note that we will disclose your information where required or permitted by law, where we believe it is appropriate to do so. Representative examples include:

For these reasons, we may disclose your information to courts, government entities, legal advisors, law enforcement, and to other persons where we are required or permitted to make such as disclosure

Sources of Information

We may collect the above information directly from you, from your employer, and, where permitted by law, from lead generation or publicly available sources.
You directly provide Our Company with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data on our website when you:

Information Collected through Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

When you visit the website, we and our service providers/processors may use cookies and other tracking technologies (collectively, "cookies") to automatically collect information about you and your visit to our website. A cookie is a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters that a website stores on your device that we can later retrieve. We may use cookies that last until you close your browser ("Session Cookies") or cookies that last until they are deleted by you or your browser ("Persistent Cookies"). The information that we collect through cookies, which may be defined as personal information in the jurisdiction in which you reside, includes the web address you came from or are going to, device model, operating system, the type of web browser, internet service provider/mobile carrier, unique identifiers, mobile network carrier, the duration of the visit, time zone and IP address, and additional information provided by the browser or device. Whether we collect some or all of this personal information depends on the type of device used, your device settings, and, where required by applicable law, whether you have provided consent cookies that are not strictly necessary for the functioning of our website.

You stop or restrict the placement of cookies on your computer or remove them from your browser by clicking on Cookie Preferences by adjusting your web browser preferences or using certain browsers or tools as described below. As applicable, please note that blocking or deleting non-essential cookies may affect the website's functionality.

We also may use cookies to administer the website, store your preferences for certain kinds of information, track your movements around the website, analyze trends and gather information about website visitors, to or make emails more useful or interesting (for example, we may receive a confirmation when you open or forward an e-mail from us, if your device or settings support such capabilities). Non-affiliated entities that we engage, including data analytics providers, social media providers, and ad networks also may collect data from you on our website through cookies.

We may, in certain circumstances, use Adobe Flash Player to deliver special content, such as video clips or animation. To improve your user experience, Local Shared Objects (commonly known as “Flash cookies”) are employed to provide functions such as remembering your settings and preferences. Flash cookies are stored on your device, but they are managed through an interface different from the one provided by your web browser. This means it is not possible to manage Flash cookies through your browser in the same way you would normally manage cookies. Instead, you can access your Flash management tools from Adobe’s website at http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html.

Social Plugins

We use social plugins on the website, such as plugins for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube. If you click on the plugin, your browser will create a direct link to the other entity. Please visit the social media platform’s privacy policy for more information.

Embedded Content

We have implemented the following kinds of third-party content on our website:

To be able to access the third-party content on our website, you first need to activate it by confirming via click that you wish to view the video in question/listen to the podcast in question.
If you choose to activate the third-party content on our website, your browser will create a direct link to the other entity which may allow this entity to collect your personal information. Please visit the respective platform's privacy policy for more information.

Ad Networks

We use ad network advertisers to serve advertisements on affiliated and non-affiliated website. This enables us and the ad network advertisers to target advertisements to you for products and services in which you might be interested. Ad network providers, advertisers, analytics providers and/or traffic measurement services may use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (including clear GIFs), and other tracking technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content to you. These cookies and other technologies are governed by each entity's specific privacy policy, not this one. We may provide these advertisers with information, including personal information, about you.

We use service providers such as Google's AdSense and AdWords to help us provide advertisements to you that are tailored to you based on interests that you have expressed on our website or elsewhere. Any advertisements served by Google, Inc., and affiliated companies may be controlled using cookies. These cookies allow Google to display ads based on your visits to this website. Any tracking done by Google through cookies and other mechanisms is subject to Google's own privacy policies. You may decide to disable Google cookies by clicking on: www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/optout?hl=en. You can use Ads Settings to manage the Google ads you see and opt out of interest-based ads delivered by Google.

You can also control how participating ad networks use the personal information that they collect about your visits to our website, and those of third parties, in order to display more relevant targeted advertising to you. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking on Cookie Preferences. Please note that any choice with regards to cookie-based advertising only applies to the web browser and device through which you exercise that choice. If you delete your cookies, you may need to reapply your choices. Additionally, you will still continue to non-personalized ads even if you opt-out of personalized advertising.

How do we store your data?

Our website is hosted on the Webflow platform (https://webflow.com/) and our newsletter is connected to the Mailchimp platform (https://mailchimp.com/). Webflow and Mailchimp applications provide us with online platforms that allow us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored on Webflow’s and Mailchimp's data storage, databases, and applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

Retention

Variment will keep Services Information, Business Contact, and Website Visitor Information only as long as it remains necessary or relevant for the purposes it is processed for (5 years in most cases) unless longer retention is otherwise required to meet legal or regulatory requirements. Once this time period has expired, we will delete your data by deleting your information on all our communication platforms.

Your Rights

Choices of Business Contacts and Website Visitors (collectively "you" or "your" for this section)
Some jurisdictions, such as countries within the EU and the UK give you a right to make the following choices regarding your personal information:

Access to Your Personal Information:

You may request access to your personal information or confirmation that we have and/or process information about you.

Changes to Your Personal Information:

We rely on you to update and correct your personal information. You may ask us to correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete. Note that we may keep historical information in our backup files as permitted by law.

Deletion of Your Personal Information:

You may request that we delete your personal information. If required by law, we will grant a request to delete, block, or anonymize the information, as applicable, but you should note that in many situations, we must keep your personal information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, or for another business purposes.

Revocation of Consent:

When we process your personal information based upon consent, you may revoke consent. Please note that if you refuse to provide your consent, or revoke your consent, for the processing of personal information, then we may no longer be able to provide you services. If you have agreed to receive marketing communications, you may always opt-out at a later date. You have the right at any time to stop Our Company from contacting you for marketing purposes.

Contact Information for Exercising Rights

If you are in the EU and the UK may exercise the rights described above by contacting hello@variment.io

If you are not satisfied with our response, and are in the EU or UK, you may have a right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.

Safeguards

Variment takes measures in an effort to safeguard the personal information in our possession. Please note that no measures are 100% secure.

Information We Collect In Our Capacity as a Data Processor

We may collect personal information about end users in our capacity as a data processor on behalf of our clients. When we act as a data processor, our business customer dictates the scope of personal information that we collect from or about end users and our use of that information. Our clients may provide us with—or direct that we collect—the following information about end users: contact information; and behavioral information (such as interactions, preferences, feedback, needs and problems).

We use the personal information that we obtain from our clients for the purpose for which it was provided and according to the instructions of the data controller, predominantly to fulfill the contractual obligation. We also use such information, where permitted by law and contract, for training purposes, trouble-shooting, to investigate and resolve issues and complaints, write or modify software applications. Where permitted by contract and law, we also may use the information (typically in the aggregate) to improve our products and services.

As permitted by our contract with our business customer and/or as required/permitted by law, we disclose end user personal information to service providers/subprocessors to assist in providing the services to our clients; to law enforcement, regulators, advisors, and others, where we believe it necessary to protect our rights and interests, the rights and interests of our clients, or the rights and interests of any other person.

Cross-border Transfers

Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using our Applications you understand that your information may be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your Personal Information
If you are located in the EEA: Some of the non-EEA countries are recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection according to EEA. For transfers from the EEA to countries not considered adequate by the European Commission, we have put in place adequate measures such as Standard Contractual Clauses to protect your Personal Information.

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