Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to information that VirtualMaze Softsys Pvt Ltd. and/or its affiliates
("VirtualMaze", "VMMaps", “we,” "us," and "our") collect (A) when you use any of our websites, APIs or
other
online services (collectively, our “Services”), including third-party products and services that
integrate
with our Services, and (B) when you use third-party websites and applications that cite this Privacy
Policy
to provide us with feedback, event or shipping-related information (collectively, our “Vendors”).
This Privacy Policy is intended to help you understand what data we collect, why we collect it,
what we do
with it, and your options regarding our collection and use of that data.
Information We Collect
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Account Information:
If you sign up for an account, we may collect information that
you provide to us in connection with setting up the account, such as your username, name, email
address
and, for corporate accounts, your role. Further, in the course of using your account, you may
provide us
with additional information through your communications with us.
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Payment Information:
Payment is required for some of our Services, and we may ask you
to provide certain information, including your name, address, email, and credit card information
(collectively, “Payment Information”), in connection with processing your transactions. You
may
update
your Payment Information through your account. All credit card processing for our Services is
handled
directly by our third-party payment providers like Google Play Store, Apple App Store, Huawei Store
(and
any information you provide for payment is governed by the third-party payment providers privacy
policy). Your Payment Information is encrypted and transmitted directly and securely via HTTPS, and
is
not stored on our systems.
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Information from Third Parties:
We may receive information related to your use of our Vendor websites and services, including
your
username, name, email address, phone number and your interaction with our Vendor. From time to time,
we
may also receive contact enrichment information from third parties.
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Website Logs and Cookies:
Whenever you visit or interact with our website, we automatically collect certain information
about your browser and your interaction with our website, including (a) IP address, (b) browser and
device type, (c) operating system, (d) referring web page, (e) the date and time of page visits, and
(f)
the pages accessed on our websites. We also use cookies and similar technologies to recognize and
improve your use of our websites and, for accounts a user authenticated into, to retain records
associated with each user, and you will not be able to access certain parts of our websites,
including
those that require a login, unless your device accepts cookies from us. You can find out more
information about the cookies on our website and managing your browser’s cookie preferences for our
website here.
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Mobile Application, APIs and SDKs:
We automatically collect certain technical information through our APIs and SDKs, including
(a) IP
address, (b) device and browser information, (c) operating system, (d) the content of the request,
(e)
the date and time of the request, (f) limited usage data, and (g) for our mobile SDKs, limited
location
data.
The mobile applications which have been developed by VirtualMaze will have the proper
consent
dialog
before start collecting the above mentioned info. In that way we let our users know about
the
information we collect from them. The third party mobile applications which are using our
SDKs/APIs
will
be having its own way of consent dialogues which are fully their responsibility to show in
proper
manner.
We delete IP addresses after 30 days. In addition, when a mobile application uses our
SDKs, it
may send us certain limited location and usage data along with an ephemeral ID. This
ephemeral ID
changes hourly and we do not associate it or the unprocessed mobile location data with any
personally identifying information, including names, permanent IDs, email addresses, IP
addresses,
or phone numbers. We also collect randomly-generated IDs for the limited purpose of
analyzing the
use of our APIs and SDKs, including the number of active users. We will delete the randomly
generated IDs and the content of requests made to our APIs after 5 years.
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Hosted Data:
In using your account, you may upload data to us via our SDKs, APIs, and Mobile
applications(developed by VirtualMaze) so that VirtualMaze can host it for you as part of providing
our
Services. We delete Hosted Data upon your request, however, due to our highly available, distributed
implementation of our hosting solution, artifacts of Hosted Data may remain on VirtualMaze systems
after
you delete the file in your account. We will delete those artifacts in accordance with our standard
platform maintenance practices after we either receive a specific request from you to delete the
Hosted
Data artifacts (along with sufficient information to identify which data you want to ensure are
deleted)
or we receive a request from you to delete your account.
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Feedback:
You and/or your end users may provide us with feedback regarding our Services (e.g., in the
form
of email, suggestions for how to improve our maps, etc).
How We Use the Information We Collect
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Account Information:
We use the account information we collect to provide our Services to you, to maintain your
accounts, and to process your transactions. This information is necessary for us to provide the
Services to you. We may combine account information with data we receive from other sources. We also
may use certain information, such as your email address, to help you by telling you about new
VirtualMaze products or features that may be of interest to you and by providing you with examples
of how VirtualMaze products and services can be used. We have a legitimate interest in improving and
marketing our Services. If you receive promotional emails from VirtualMaze or VMMaps, you can opt
out by following the instructions in those emails.
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Payment Information:
We use payment information solely for billing purposes, which is necessary to provide the
Services.
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Information from Third Parties:
We may use the information you provide to our Vendors in connection with the event or
transaction (including shipments and deliveries), to improve our Services, and to provide you with
information about our Services and/or the event or transaction. In addition, from time to time we
obtain data from contact enrichment providers for sales and marketing purposes. We have a legitimate
interest in improving and marketing our Services and certain data collection is necessary in order
to provide the Services. You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us at any
time.
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Website Logs and Cookies:
We use cookies, website logs and other similar data and technologies (i) to preserve
information so you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or on subsequent visits to our
site; (ii) to maintain sessions for authenticated users; (iii) to monitor metrics about our site
such as the number of visitors and pages viewed; (iv) for internal diagnostic and analytic purposes
(v) to improve our website and the services we provide, and (vi) to market our Services to you. We
may combine this data with information we receive from other sources. We have a legitimate interest
in improving and marketing our Services and certain data collection is necessary in order to provide
the Services.
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Mobile Applications, APIs and SDKs:
We use the data collected through our Mobile Applications, APIs and SDKs (1) for internal
diagnostic and analytic purposes (2) to improve our mapping products and services (3) to provide our
Services to end users of our customers and (4) to generate aggregated and anonymized usage
statistics. We have a legitimate interest in improving our Services and certain data collection is
necessary in order to provide the Services.
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Hosted Data:
We use Hosted Data to provide our Services to you.
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Feedback:
We may use the feedback that you provide for any purpose, including improving our Services. We
have a legitimate interest in improving our Services for the benefit of all of our users.
When We Share the Information We Collect With Third Parties
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In General:
We are a global company and may transfer your information outside of the country where you
live. However, we will not transfer personal information unless the recipient is subject to suitable
contractual safeguards to ensure that the personal information is processed in accordance with law.
For more information, please email us at privacy@vmmaps.com.
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Account Information and Information from Third Parties:
We may share your account information and information we receive from third parties with our
service providers (e.g., hosted infrastructure providers) who need access to such information to
carry out work on our behalf.
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Payment Information:
We may disclose Payment Information to (a) our payment provider, as described above in the
“Information We Collect” section, (b) billing and accounting service providers acting on our behalf
and (c) in connection with “Rare and Limited Disclosures” described below.
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Website Logs and Cookies:
We share information about your device and interaction with our website with our service
providers that host our website and provide marketing and analytics services to us. Certain
marketing and analytics services that integrate directly into our website may collect information
about your device, browser, and interaction with our websites (including by placing third-party
cookies on your browser or other similar technologies). We do not control how these third parties
use or share this information, which is subject to their privacy policies. You can find out more
information about the cookies on our website and managing your browser’s cookie preferences for our
website here.
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APIs and SDKs:
If provided, we only share raw location data with our hosted infrastructure service providers.
We share other data collected through your use of our APIs and SDKs with our hosted infrastructure
and internal analytics service providers. In limited situations, we may also share API log data
associated with a specific customer's account with that customer for the purpose of resolving
billing questions. We also may share aggregated and anonymized usage statistics with other third
parties.
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Hosted Data:
We use third parties to store, process and deliver the Hosted Data as directed by you (e.g.,
AWS and Cloudfront). We may share the Hosted Data with such service providers subject to obligations
consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We do not otherwise disclose Hosted Data except as directed by you or as described below in “Rare
and Limited Disclosure”.
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Feedback:
We may share your feedback with third parties, including our third-party suppliers and
partners who help us provide the Services.
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Rare and Limited Disclosures:
We may share information in our possession in response to a request if we believe disclosure
is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law, regulation or legal process. For more
information, see “Law Enforcement and Transparency,” below.
Furthermore, we may share information in our possession if we have a good-faith belief that
access, use, preservation, or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to enforce our
terms of service, detect, prevent, or otherwise address threats to our platform, or protect against
harm to the rights, property or safety of VirtualMaze, our users, or the public as required or
permitted by law.
Finally, we may also share the information we collect in connection with, or during negotiations
of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business
by another company. We may also share information among our current and future parents, affiliates,
subsidiaries and other companies under common control and ownership.
Your Choices About What We Do with the Information We Collect
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Account and Payment Information:
Certain account information is optional, and you may choose not to provide it to VirtualMaze.
Note that some of this account and payment information is necessary for related Services to function
properly – for example, if you do not provide payment information, you cannot take advantage of
features that require payment.
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Website Logs and Cookies:
You may delete cookies from your computer, and most browsers provide the option to block
cookies. Note that if you block cookies placed by us (first party cookies), portions of our
Services, including our website, may not work as intended. However, your access to our websites
should not be affected if you disable third-party cookies placed by third parties that manage
marketing and analytics aspects of our website. You can find out more information about the cookies
on our website and managing your browser’s cookie preferences for our website here.
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APIs and SDKs:
If you are an end user of a product or service that integrates our Services, your privacy
options will be largely determined by the developer of the product or service. In addition to any
privacy options that the developer may have provided you with, you may also be able to control the
applications that can collect information about your precise location by using the settings
available on your device, including opting out of collection of telemetry data.
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Questions:
If you have any questions about how to limit the disclosure and/or use of your personal
information to us, please email us at privacy@vmmaps.com.
Your Access to and Control of the Information We Collect
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In Genreal:
If you believe that information about you has been processed in violation of this Privacy
Policy, please email us at privacy@vmmaps.com. In accordance
with applicable law, your privacy
rights may include the following: (i) access personal information about you including: (a)
confirming whether we are processing your personal information; (b) obtaining access to or a copy of
your personal information; and (c) receiving an electronic copy of personal information that you
have provided to us, or asking us to send that information to another company (the “right of data
portability”), (ii) request correction of your personal information where it is incomplete or
inaccurate, (iii) request deletion of your personal information, (iv) request restriction or object
to the processing of your personal information, and (v) withdraw your consent to our processing of
your personal information.
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Account Information, Hosted Data, and Payment Information:
You may exercise your privacy rights with respect to certain account information in the
account pages we’ve made available to you, and you may exercise your privacy rights over other
Account Information, Hosted Data or Payment Information that you have provided to us at any time by
emailing us at privacy@vmmaps.com. If you wish to delete or
deactivate your account, please email us
at privacy@vmmaps.com, but note that we may retain certain
information as required by law or to
protect our rights and property.
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Non-account Information
If we have non-account information about you, such as your email address on our newsletter
list, you may exercise your privacy rights with respect to this information. However, we may not be
able to verify your identity for purposes of processing your request, as we do not have sufficient
information to adequately verify your request if you do not have an account. To unsubscribe from our
newsletter, please follow the instructions in the emails that you receive from us.
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Website Logs, Cookies, APIs and SDKs:
We temporarily retain IP addresses for security and accounting purposes. Given the temporary
nature of this storage, it is generally not feasible for us to provide access to IP addresses or the
logs associated with them.
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Feedback;
You may request that we update, correct or delete any feedback that you have provided to us by
emailing us at privacy@vmmaps.com, however we may have
deleted or anonymized the feedback you had
previously provided to us in a way that makes it infeasible for us to associate a particular piece
of feedback with a particular user.
Our consumers have the following privacy rights:
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to request to know the personal information VirtualMaze has about you. You may access personal
information associated with your VMMaps account, such as username, email address, and associated
account activity by logging into your VMMaps account;
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to request deletion of your personal information collected or maintained by VirtualMaze;
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to designate an authorized agent to make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal
information on your behalf.
In order to submit a request to exercise your privacy rights, you may do one or more
of
the following:
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If you have a VMMaps account, login to your VMMaps account, go to Settings, and click “Delete
account” and follow the instructions. By logging into your account, VMMaps can verify that you
are
the account holder. If you do not login to your VMMaps account to make this request, information
associated with your VMMaps account will not be deleted, as we are not able to sufficiently
verify
your identity.
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You may, without logging into your VMMaps account, request deletion of your email address and
associated personal information (if any) through this form. VirtualMaze will email you a
confirmation link at the email you provide in order to verify the request. You must click on the
confirmation link in the verification email VirtualMaze sends you to verify the email belongs to
you
before VirtualMaze can process your request. A request through this form will only request to
delete
personal information from non-account-related sources (such as our newsletter email list). To
delete
account-related information, you must login to your VirtualMaze account to verify your identity.
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If you believe VirtualMaze has any personal information about you that is not account-related
and
not an email address and associated information, please email VirtualMaze at privacy@vmmaps.com
describing in detail the information you believe VirtualMaze has and how you believe VirtualMaze
obtained it. Please note that without an email address, it may not be possible for VirtualMaze
to
verify your identity to a reasonable degree of certainty to locate or delete any information.
The categories of sources from which we collect personal information and our business and commercial
purposes
for using personal information are set forth above in the sections Information We Collect, How We
Use the
Information We Collect, and When We Share the Information We Collect With Third Parties.
VirtualMaze does not "sell" personal information, nor do we have actual knowledge of any "sale" of
personal
information of minors under 16 years of age. You may complete this form
to opt
out of the disclosure of your
personal information to third parties that are not our service providers. (If you also want to opt
out of
third-party cookies on our website, you can do so using your browser’s cookie preferences. More
information
is available here.)
If you wish to print this policy, please do so from your web browser or by saving the page as a PDF.
Law Enforcement and Transparency
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Account Information, Hosted Data, Store Data and Payment Information:
We require a subpoena or court order to provide information about your account, such as the
name
associated with the account, means of payment, and length of service. If we are ever forced to share
identifiable information about you, we'll notify you with the full details of the request before we
disclose it unless we are legally prohibited from doing so by law or court order.
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Website Logs, Cookies, APIs and Mobile SDKs:
We will only disclose information collected through our Services, including maps and
associated
data and location information, in response to a subpoena or court order.
Security
We take steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy
Policy, as described on our Security page. Unfortunately, no system is 100% secure, and we cannot ensure
or
warrant the security of any information you provide to us. We have taken appropriate safeguards to
require
that your personal information will remain protected and require our third-party service providers and
partners to have appropriate safeguards as well. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we
do
not accept liability for unauthorized disclosure.
By using our Services or providing personal information to us, you agree that we may communicate with
you
electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of our
Services.
If we learn of a security system’s breach, we may attempt to notify you electronically by posting a
notice
on our Services, by mail or by sending an email to you.
Children's Information
The Services are not directed to children under 13 (or other age as required by local law), and we do
not
knowingly collect personal information from children.
If you are a parent or guardian and wish to review information collected from your child, or have that
information modified or deleted, you may contact us as described below. If we become aware that a child
has
provided us with personal information in violation of applicable law, we will delete any personal
information we have collected, unless we have a legal obligation to keep it, and terminate the child’s
account.
Other Websites
This privacy policy does not cover APIs and other services available on domains other than VMMaps.com,
which
are instead governed by their respective privacy policies, if any, available therein.