CHILDREN
The Service is intended for general audiences and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. if you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent please let us know.
SECURITY
We use best efforts to safeguard and protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and after we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or via mobile device, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
THIRD PARTIES
Third parties may share, receive or process information about you is as follows:
Advertisers: We may share some non-identifiable, de-identified or aggregated information from or about you with third parties in connection with advertising programs and data analytics. We also share certain information described below with businesses on Via Vibes Inc., who may or may not be advertisers.
Content and Data Partners: We allow third party partners to use and display some of the public content available through the Service, such as your photos, reviews, and other information listed under “Public Content” in Section 1 above.
Acquired Data: Via Vibes Inc. may acquire information enabling us to identify and contact representatives of local businesses from third parties. Such acquired data may be combined with other data Via Vibes Inc. receives from or about you, and used for the purposes described in Section 1 of this Privacy Policy.
Aggregate or Anonymous Information:
We share user information in the aggregate with third parties, such as businesses that are listed on Via Vibes Inc. and content distributors. For example, we disclose the number of users that have been exposed to or interacted with advertisements, or that we estimate visited the physical location of a particular business.
Cookies
Via Vibes Inc uses cookies and similar technologies to track your use of our Websites to enable us to provide you with important features and functionality of Via Vibes Inc and all ours Websites, as well as monitor your usage, and provide you with a more personalized experience and display information (including targeted advertisement) that matches your preferences.
This Statement reflects the requirements of Canada’s Federal and Provincial privacy legislation as well as our continuous commitment to protecting your personal information.
1. What are cookies?
A cookie, or tracking pixel, is a small data file that is downloaded on to your computer, mobile phone or tablet, when you visit a website. It allows the website to recognize your device and store some information about your preferences and past actions.
The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie cannot read data from your hard disk or cookie files created by other websites. Via Vibes Inc. does not correlate this information with data about individual users, nor does it share this information or sell it to any third party.
2. What is a tracking pixel?
A tracking pixel, also known as a marketing pixel, is a small piece of code containing a graphic that is placed on a webpage to track user behavior, site conversions, web traffic, and primarily, to target and/or remarket ads. In order to target or remarket ads, information is collected on an anonymous cookie, which is then used to display targeted advertisements to select individuals on Via Vibes Inc Websites.
For example, if you visited our website searching for plumbers, tracking pixels are the technology that allow for you to be served a special offer advertisement from a plumber when you visit Facebook, X (formally Twitter), or another website later.
3. What cookies are used on this website?
There are four groups of cookies used by Via Vibes Inc Websites, and they are:
Essential Cookies:
These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of our website. They enable you to navigate the site and use its features. Without these cookies, some parts of the site may not work correctly.
Functional Cookies:
These cookies enhance the user experience by remember your preferences and choices on our website. They allow us to provide you with personalized features and improved functionality.
Marketing/Advertising Cookies:
These cookies are used to deliver relevant advertisements to you and track the effectiveness of our marketing/advertising campaigns. They also help us display targeted ads and measure the performance of our marketing/advertising efforts.
Analytics Cookies:
These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website. For example, analytics cookies are used to track which pages visitors look at and how long they stay. This data is important as it helps us improve website performance and optimize its content for a better user experience.
Some of the cookies and/or tracking pixels described herein are stored on your device by third parties when you use our website (for example, the Facebook Pixel or Google Analytics). Via Vibes Inc has no control over these, or how the third parties in question use them. They are used to allow the third party in question to provide a service for us, such as analytics, or in the case of Facebook, to tailor the advertising you see on Facebook to relevant products, services, business, or other interests of yours, based on your searches on Via Vibes Inc Websites. Should you wish to know more about what these cookies are, please communicate with us info@viavibes.com.
4. How do we use cookies?
We use cookies for various purposes, including:
Authentication and Security: Cookies help authenticate users and prevent fraudulent activities.
Personalization:
Cookies remember your preferences (such as language or color preferences) and provide personalized content and recommendations.
Advertising/Marketing:
Cookies enable us to show you relevant ads based on your interests and browsing behavior.
Analytics:
Cookies allow us to gather insights into how users interact with our website, which helps us improve its functionality and content.
Visitor Profiling:
We may use cookies to create profiles of our website visitors, including identifying their location and interests. That being said, we do make an effort to keep this information to a minimum and will anonymize or aggregate as much of the information as possible in order to prioritize your privacy.
We also place ads on a number of third-party websites. These cookies are used to control the frequency with which you are shown a particular ad on those websites, so that you do not see the same Via Vibes Inc sourced ad too frequently. These cookies are not used for data collection.
We may use software that receives and records the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer that has contacted Via Vibes Inc. Websites. We make no attempt to link these addresses with the identity of individuals visiting Via Vibes Inc Websites.
We may also use service providers to serve third party’s advertisements on Via Vibes Inc Websites or Via Vibes Inc advertisements on other websites. In serving advertisements these providers may place cookies on your browser computer and may collect certain anonymous information about your visits to other websites or on Via Vibes Inc. Websites. This information may include browser type, IP address, domain name and the name of the web page from which you entered such websites, web activity and time of day. This information is used by these third parties to better understand and optimize the online advertising campaigns.
From time to time, we analyze traffic and use Via Vibes Inc. Websites to determine which features and services people like and do not like so that we can improve what we do. We prepare aggregated user statistics or information summaries in order to describe our services to third parties such as prospective business partners and advertisers and for other lawful purposes.
5. How do you manage your consent to cookies?
The first time you visit a Via Vibes Inc. Website, you will be informed about our use of cookies and tracking pixels to improve you site experience. You must accept the use of cookies in order to benefit from their functionality.
Should you change your mind and wish not to have cookies used when visiting our websites, you can control or manage cookies in your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to refuse or delete cookies.
More specifically, you can:
Delete the cookie from your browser’s cache. Most browsers have a function by which you can delete clear the cache, and for more information on how to do so, please click the “help” function on your browser. You can also prevent all or some future cookies from being saved on your device moving forward.
If you only want to reject some or all of the third-party cookies you will need to revisit the relevant party’s website directly to manage the cookies stored on your device by them.
Please note that disabling cookies may impact some of our sites’ functionality.
6. How Long is your Consent Valid For?
Once you accept the use of cookies, your consent is valid for 12 months. This means that should any individual cookie expire within that 12-month period, we do not need to ask your permission again to download a new cookie on your device. If you decide not to accept the use of cookies on your device when you visit our website, we reserve the right to ask your permission again each time you visit the site.
7. Changes to this cookie statement
Your use of Via Vibes Inc. Websites, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Statement, our Privacy Statement and is governed by our Terms of Use, including its choice of law provisions. We reserve the right to change and update the Statement and these changes will be made when appropriate, in a timely manner. We encourage you to examine our Statement from time to time to ensure you are aware of any changes we may have made.