Privacy Policies & Cookies

Privacy Policies & Cookies

We respect your privacy. Vince AS wants to be transparent about which rights you have, and also which cookies we are storing and sharing. We are committed to follow EU regulatory laws also known as General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). If you have any questions about how we store our information, please contact us by mail; post@vince.no

Our CEO is responsible for the processing and maintenance of our stored data.

1.1.1 Data controller

The data controller responsible in respect of the information processed on this website is Vince AS, org. number: 896 890 042.

1.1.2 Your rights

It is important for you to understand and be able to exercise your ‘data rights’; in particular, your right to not to have personal data used for direct marketing purposes. Under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), you have the right to access, modify, and delete your data.

1.1.2.1   Withdrawal of consent including marketing opt-out

You may withdraw consent for data processing at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal;

You may also instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes. In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

Our contact details are above should you wish to exercise these important rights.

1.1.2.2   Access to personal data

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you, in relation to information we store on your name, email address, profile information such as company and job title. Following a request we require up to 30 working days to provide you with your information.

We may withhold such personal information to the extent permitted by law.

1.1.2.3   Retention of your data

Your personal data  will be retained whilst you continue to be an active user.

In all other cases, we will erase or anonymize your data once it is no longer necessary for the purpose we obtained it for.

1.1.2.4   Changing or erasing data

You may instruct us to change any inaccurate data or to erase data that is no longer required for a specified purpose. We should erase or provide your personal data within 30 days.

1.1.2.5   Complaints to a supervisory authority

You have a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In Norway, you should first make your complaint to Datatilsynet. Their contact details are available on their website www.datatilsynet.no.

1.1.3 What information do we collect?

We collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

(a) We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website, including information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation). Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.

(b) We use HubSpot as CRM and marketing tools. Please visit Hubspot knowledge base for more information about which tags and information we store.

(c) Facebook and LinkedIn pixel is implemented on our website. These services lets us improve your user experience and activities and shearing this information with our social platforms.

(d) information that you provide to us for registering with us and for subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters (including name, email, job role and communication preferences);

(f) and any other information that you choose to send to us.

Personal information submitted to, and acquired via, this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy and/or in relevant parts of the website. It is processed in either in accordance with your consent and/or for contractual necessity.

1.1.4 Using your personal information

We may use your personal information to:

1. improve your browsing experience by using your data to profile you and personalize the website;
2. enable your use of the services available on the website;
3. send you general (non-marketing) commercial communications;
4. send you email notifications which you have specifically requested;
5. send you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our business which we think may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
6. deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website;
7. provide third parties with anonymous statistical information about our users;

1.1.5 Disclosures

We may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.

In addition, we may disclose your personal information:

(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(b) in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;

(c) to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights

(d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and

(e) to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

1.1.6 Cookies

Vince AS uses cookies to improve your web experience and also make sure that all functions on our website is correct and working properly. We will not see your name or other sensitive information, and we are not able to read any files on your computer. By continuing to use our website, after having been informed about the cookies, you are indicating to us that you consent to the use of cookies as set out in this policy.

We want to be open about our use of cookies on vincesoftware.com

A cookie consists of a piece of text sent by a web server to your web browser, which is then stored by your browser. The information is then sent back to our web server each time your browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify individual web browsers. It does not contain personally identifiable information such as your name or other personal details – but may enable us to identify and profile your activities if you are logged in to our site.

We use persistent cookies to enable our website to recognize you when you return to our site. These cookies are essential to use of our web service in recognizing your membership status, and as such are permitted by law.

We also use other web services provided by other companies to improve the experience for users of vincesoftware.com and to help us review how we improve our service for users and commercially.

How do I block cookies from these service?

Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies.  For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.  Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including this one.

If you want to manage privacy we recommend you install Ghostery which gives you a chance to learn more about each service it identifies on a site and block their cookies or Scripts. It gives information on how they describe themselves, a link to their privacy policies.

1.1.7 Third party websites

The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.

1.1.8 International data transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

1.1.9 Security of your personal information

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers. All electronic transactions you make to or receive from us will be encrypted using SSL technology.

Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

1.1.10 Updating information

If you are a client, or if you used some of our digital forms we will have this information stored. If you want us to update or delete this information, please contact us by mail; post@vince.no

1.1.11 Future sale

In the event that the business is sold or integrated into another business, your details may be disclosed to our advisors, and to any potential purchaser’s advisors, and following completion of a sale would transfer to the new owners of the business

1.1.12 Policy amendments

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website.  You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

We may also notify you of changes to our privacy policy by email.