Introduction This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how Vent Limited, and its affiliates will gather, use, and maintain your Personal Information on the Vent Platform. It will also explain your legal rights with respect to that information. By using the Vent Platform, you confirm that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Use (together referred to herein as the “Agreement”). The Agreement governs the use of the Vent Application. Vent will collect, use, and maintain information consistent with the Agreement.
General Terms In this Privacy Policy: Vent Limited may be referred to as "Vent," “we,” “our,” or “us.” We call a user of the Vent Platform “User,” “Users,” “you,” or “your,” as appropriate. The mobile applications (whether on iOS or Android) are referred to as the“Apps.” Vent Sites, Apps and related services, information and communications are collectively referred to as the “Vent Platform.” “Terms of Use” refers to our Terms and agreement, which can be found here. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into, and considered a part of, the Terms and agreement.
Information Collection: Information you provide to Vent, Vent collects certain personally identifiable information about you, including information that can identify, relate to, describe, be associated with you, or is reasonably capable of being associated with you (“Personal Information”). Examples of Personal Information that Vent collects include but are not limited to: Contact Information. This may include your first and last name, postal address, telephone number, and email address. Billing Data, including your payment instrument number (such as a credit or debit card number), expiration date, and security code as necessary to process your payments. Identity Information. If you are an accountant, we may collect Personal Information, such as your date of birth and address, national identification number if applicable, together with the result of basic criminal record checks as provided by you, or by our Third-Party Agents (as defined below), as applicable and to the extent permitted by law in your jurisdiction, as well as such information as may be needed to validate your identity. Employment Information. We collect employment and education history, transcripts, writing samples, and references. Content Information. You also may choose to send Vent Personal Information in an email or chat message containing inquiries about the Vent Platform and we use this Information in order to help us respond to your inquiry. Vent may work with Third-Party Agents to perform identity checks and criminal background checks on service providers, if applicable and permitted by local law, in order to advance our legitimate interests in ensuring the safety of our Users and maintaining the integrity of the Vent Platform
We automatically collect certain information when you use the Vent Platform. The categories of information we automatically collect and have collected, include;
(i) Service Use Data, including data about features you use, pages you visit, emails and advertisements you view, portions of the Vent Platform that you view and interact with, the time of day you browse, and your exiting pages.
(ii) Device Data, including data about the type of device or browser you use, your device’s operating system, your internet service provider, your device’s regional and language settings, and device identifiers such as IP address and Ad Id. When you visit and interact with the Vent Platform, Vent may collect certain information automatically through cookies or other technologies, including, but not limited to, the type of computer or mobile device you use, your mobile device’s unique device ID, the IP address of your computer or mobile device, your operating system, the type(s) of internet browser(s) you use, and information about the way you use the Vent Platform (“Device Information”).
(iii) Location Data, including imprecise location data (such as location derived from an IP address or data that indicates a city or postal code level), and, with your consent, precise location data (such as latitude/longitude data). When you Use the Vent App via a native mobile application, we use, with your consent when required under applicable law, GPS technology (or other similar technology) to determine your current location to determine the city you are in and display a relevant location map. We will not share your current location obtained in this manner with other Users
To contact you and deliver (via email, SMS, push notifications, or otherwise) transactional information, administrative notices, marketing notifications, offers and communications relevant to your use of the Vent application with your consent when required under applicable law, as necessary for our legitimate interests in proper communication and engagement with our Users, and in promoting our business;
To provide you with customer support in order to fulfil our contracts with Users;
For internal market research for our legitimate interest in improving the Vent Platform to grow our business;
To enforce our Terms of Use and our legitimate interests in ensuring our Agreement is complied with; and As otherwise set forth in the Agreement. Analytics and Market Analysis. Vent may analyze information (“Market Analysis”) as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing an engaging and relevant experience and promoting and growing the Vent platform. We use information to offer services to Users who express an interest in these services, through a poll for example, or to Users who can be presumed to have an interest based on results from our Market Analysis. We do this as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing an engaging and relevant experience, promoting our services, and growing our business. Cell Phone Numbers. Vent may use your cell phone number to call or send recurring text messages to you, using an auto-dialer or prerecorded voice, in order to provide you notifications about Tasks, for marketing purposes (with your consent where required by law), and to administer the Vent Platform. Call recordings. Calls to or from Vent or its Third-Party Agents may be monitored and recorded for the purposes of quality control and training. Such calls may contain Personal Information