VERACITY VERIFICATION SOLUTIONS' Privacy Policy

Veracity Verification Solutions, LLC., a Delaware limited liability company, is serious about protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy ("Policy") covers how Veracity collects and uses the personal information you provide on our website and in conjunction with any of the services hosted at veracityvs.net ("Service" and "Website"), including verification services accessed by internet enabled devices. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information. This Policy also applies if you participate in our research and information verification projects.

The Policy was last updated on March 22nd, 2021.

This Policy explains what personal information we collect about you, with whom we share it, and how you can elect in certain situations to not share information with third parties. "Personal Information" refers to information such as name and email that can be used to identify you individually.

We may amend this Policy at any time, and whenever we do so we will post a revised version on the Website. If, however, we plan to make a material change in the way we collect, use, or store your personal information, we will attempt to provide prior notice to you by email.

You will then have the chance to decide whether or not we will use or disclose your information in that new manner, whether though an "opt-out" procedure or by ending your relationship with us. Such changes will become effective, at the earliest, 30 days after the date posted on our Website.

Minors (those under the age of 18 years) are not eligible to use our Service and should refrain from using the Service or submitting any person information to us.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this Policy, you should contact us at privacy@veracityvs.com.

Information We Collect

We will collect the following information about you, which may include non-public personal information:

1. Personal and financial Information you give us as a result of using the Service, such as your address, e-mail address, telephone number, and occupation (Including Title, Position, Employer, etc.).
2. Information about your usage of the Service, including your transaction history, and how and to whom you use the Service to verify information;
3. Information that we lawfully obtain from third parties, such as identity verification services, electronic database services, and credit reporting agencies;
4. Information that we indirectly obtain from you, such as information about the hardware and software you use when accessing the Service, your IP address, and the pages you access on this website, and other websites that you visit prior to accessing the Service.

We partner with a third party to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third-party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this site and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may opt-out by clicking here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads.

Why We Collect Information

We collect Personal and Non-Personal information for the following purposes:

1. To process your transactions
2. To verify your identity
3. To track, improve and personalize our Services, content and advertising
4. To troubleshoot problems with the Service
5. To comply with applicable laws and regulations.
6. To detect and prevent fraud and other illegal uses of the Service
7. To send you marketing notices, service updates, and promotional offers, and/or
8. To collect survey information that will be used to monitor or improve the use of our Service and overall customer satisfaction.

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you the Service. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

How We Share Information With Others

We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy. We do not sell or rent the information we collect to third parties for their promotional purposes. These companies are authorized to use your personally identifiable information only as necessary to provide these services to us.

Nevertheless, we may share information about you (including nonpublic, personal information) with:

1. Third-party service providers under contract with Veracity that help us with our business operations, such as transaction processing, fraud prevention, marketing, market research, and validation of information provided. These third parties are prohibited from using your information for their own separate business purposes.
2. In the event of the sale, acquisition or merger of some or all of our assets, your personal information might be a part of the transferred assets. We shall notify you in the event of such an occurrence, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information, by placing a notice on our website.
3. Law enforcement, government officials or other third parties, but only
   • in connection with a formal request, subpoena, court order, or similar legal procedure; and,
   • when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, prevent physical harm or financial loss, report suspected illegal activity, or to investigate violations of our User Agreement.
4. Other third parties that you consent or direct, which may include you authorizing an account linking for a third-party service, account and/or platform.
   • For the purposes of this privacy policy, an "account linking" with such a third party is a connection you authorize or enable between your Veracity account and a non-Veracity account, or platform that you lawfully control or own. When you authorize such a connection, Veracity and the third-party will exchange your personal information and other information directly.
   • Information that we share with a third-party based on an account connection will be used and disclosed in accordance with the third-party’s privacy practices. Before authorizing an account connection, you should review the privacy notice of any third-party that will gain access to your personal information as part of the account connection.

Access To Your Information

You can request for your personal information to be modified or deleted by emailing our Customer Support at privacy@veracityvs.com. We will respond to your request to access within a reasonable timeframe.

Research Participants

Personal information we collect: If you participate in any research projects for us (by phone, in-person, electronic survey or otherwise), we will hold your name, contact details and any other personal information you choose to give us when taking part in our research projects.

Using your personal information: We will use this information for our legitimate interests namely to conduct our research projects which may also help us to improve and/or develop our products and services.

Sharing your personal information: We will share this information with:

• our staff (but their use shall be limited to the performance of their duties and in line with the reason for processing);
• our platform, database, and website hosting suppliers to enable them to maintain, protect, support and host those solutions which are used to store our research;
• various third parties who provide software and tools which are used to operate our business (including email, instant messaging, document/contract management and file-sharing);
• third parties in the event of the sale, acquisition or merger of some or all of our assets if your personal information is part of the transferred assets (we shall notify you in the event of such an occurrence, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information, by placing a notice on our Site).

Retaining your personal information: We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider (amongst other things):

• obligations and/or retention periods imposed on us by applicable laws and/or our regulators
• the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information
• the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, and
• the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.

Notice to Customers who reside in California

What are your rights with regard to the information you share with us?

Certain countries and states’ privacy laws provide certain rights for individual consumers. For example, in California, residents have the right to request that the business disclose what personal information it collects, use, discloses, and sells. Veracity seeks to honor your privacy rights.

While Veracity does not sell your personal information to any third party, you have the right to opt out of the sale of personal information. You also have the right to request information regarding the information Veracity may have collected about you through your interactions with Veracity. You may also request that Veracity modify, update, change, delete, or remove information that you have previously provided.

If you desire to submit a verifiable consumer request to us, or to exercise your California privacy rights with regard to the information you may have shared with us, please contact us. A verifiable consumer request allows you to request that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected about you. You may also request that we delete the personal information we have collected about you. In order to verify your request, you may need to provide us with proof of your identity including, for example, providing us with a copy of your driver’s license. Under California, law, a consumer may also designate an authorized agent to make a request under the California Consumer Privacy Act. If you utilize an authorized agent, we may require you to submit proof that the agent acts on your behalf.

If you are making a request for Veracity to delete information it has collected about you, please be sure to provide a description of the material that you want removed and information reasonably sufficient to allow us to locate the material and include "Privacy Request" in the subject line of the email. You may also ask us for a copy of Personal Information we maintain about you. Veracity will comply with reasonable requests to obtain a copy of your Personal Information consistent with legal requirements and limitations.

We retain the information you share with us for as long as we need to in order to provide you the services you request. We also retain other data generated by you (i.e., data generated when you browse our website) in a depersonalized or aggregated form in order to help us improve users’ experience on our website. We may also retain your information for a reasonable period of time for Veracity to conduct audits, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or other legitimate business interests.

Under certain laws we are required to share with you our legal basis or business purpose for processing the personal information you share with us. We have attempted to specifically designate those legal bases or businesses purposes where applicable in this policy. In addition, we may also we process your personal data under the following additional scenarios:

• To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
• For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract;
• For our legitimate interests; and
• Where you have given consent for a specific use.

Under California law, we cannot discriminate against you because you exercised your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act. It is also important to note that you can enjoy Veracity’s website without providing personal data to us.

If you desire to submit a verifiable consumer request to us, or to exercise your California privacy rights with regard to the information you may have shared with us, please contact us. In order to verify your request, you may need to provide us with proof of your identity including, for example, providing us with a copy of your driver’s license. Under California, law, a consumer may also designate an authorized agent to make a request under the California Consumer Privacy Act. If you utilize an authorized agent, we may require you to submit proof that the agent acts on your behalf.

Security

We employ industry accepted standards in protecting the information you submit to us on our Website.

We have put in place SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption technology to protect your sensitive information such as name, occupation, and email transmitted through our Website. We also require a username and password from each user who wants to access their information on our Website. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can contact us at privacy@veracityvs.com.

Choices You Can Make About Our Use Of Your Information

Federal and state laws allow you to restrict the sharing of your personal information in certain instances. However, these laws also state that you cannot restrict all types of sharing. Because we have chosen to refrain from certain types of data sharing, the only type of sharing of your personal information that you may restrict is as follows:

1. You may opt-out from promotional emails to you by selecting the "Unsubscribe" function present in each email we send you.

Links to 3rd Party Sites

Our Site includes links to other web sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of Veracity, Inc. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any web site you visit.

Google Maps

Parts of the Veracity Service use Google Maps services, including the Google Maps API(s). Use of these features is subject to Google Maps Additional Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.

Chat

We use a chat feature to answer questions about our service and assist you with our website's functionality. If our chat feature is offline we will collect your name and email address so that we may reply to your request.

Social Media Widgets

Our web site includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Import Contacts

You can import contacts from your Gmail and Yahoo Mail to invite them to become members of our site. We do not collect the username and password for the email account you wish to import your contacts from as you provide it directly to Gmail and Yahoo and after your approval they send us your email contacts. At your instruction we will send an email invite and at most one reminder email in addition to the original invite.

Referrals

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend an email and at most one reminder email inviting him or her to visit the site. Veracity stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this email and tracking the success of your referral.

Your friend may request that we remove this information from our database by contacting us at privacy@veracityvs.com.

Complaints

If you have a complaint, contact Veracity Customer Service, online; or by email at privacy@veracityvs.com.

Contact

You can contact us with any questions or concerns at: privacy@veracityvs.com

COOKIE POLICY

This Cookie Policy explains how we use tracking methods such as cookies (including pixels, SDKs, JavaScript, device identifiers, etc., which we refer to as "Trackers").

What Sort of Trackers or Cookies Do We Use on the Veracity Website?

We, like many businesses, use a variety of methods to track visitors to our website. Below are some examples of the Trackers we use.

1. Cookies
   • A cookie is a small string of text that a website stores on a user’s browser. There are several types of cookies including:
     • First Party Cookies – those cookies that we place on our own website.
     • Third Party Cookies – those cookies that are set by other companies whose functionality may be embedded into our website (i.e., Facebook).
     • Session Cookies – temporary cookies that are stored on your device when you visit our site and expire when you close out our website.
     • Persistent Cookies – cookies that linger after you close out our website. They can be set to expire in a period of time or can be deleted manually.
     You can choose to accept cookies in your browser settings. If you decline to use cookies, it may make your experience on our website more difficult.
2. How do I Manage Trackers or Cookies?
   • You can manage your tracker settings in your browser’s settings. If you refuse trackers, you may not be able to use some of the functionality of the Veracity website. Most browsers automatically accept cookies but you can adjust these settings.