What we collect
Depending on how you use vmeet50, we may collect the following.
1.1What you give us
When you create an account or a profile, or use platform features, you may provide:
- A name
- An avatar
- A one-line introduction
- Personal links
- An attention price
- Contact details
- Account information
- Reasons for support, comments or other content you submit
- Anything else you choose to send us
Some of these fields are optional and it is your choice whether to fill them in.
1.2What is displayed publicly
If you add information to a public profile or to the Attention Board, it may be displayed publicly to other users and to anyone on the internet. For example:
- A name
- An avatar
- A one-line introduction
- Personal links
- An attention price
- Position on the board
- Visibility
- Credibility
- Anything else you choose to make public
Please think carefully about whether you want something seen before you make it public.
1.3Contact details
If you provide contact details on your profile, we store them as the feature requires. Unless a product page says otherwise, your contact details are not displayed publicly by default. When another user sends you a connection request through the platform, we may show them your contact details as the product flow provides. Another user paying a connection fee never obliges you to make contact with them.
1.4Payment information
When you use a paid feature, we may collect:
- The amount
- The time
- The type of transaction
- The order number
- The payment status
- Technical or risk-control information relating to the transaction
Card details and other payment instrument information may be handled directly by a third-party payment processor. Except where the law or the service requires it, we do not store full card numbers, card security codes or similar payment credentials.
1.5Technical information
When you visit vmeet50.com, we and our service providers may automatically collect:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Operating system
- Device type
- Pages visited
- Time of visit
- Language settings
- Network and security information
- Information generated by cookies or similar technologies
- Other information used to keep the site running, secure and performant
Why we use it
We may process your personal information for the following purposes.
2.1Providing the service
Including:
- Creating and maintaining accounts
- Displaying profiles
- Operating the Attention Board
- Handling listings and boosts
- Handling connection requests
- Providing customer support
- Handling payments and orders
2.2Running and improving the product
Including:
- Analysing how the product is used
- Improving the experience
- Developing new features
- Adjusting the board and product mechanics
- Product testing
2.3Security and fraud prevention
Including:
- Preventing rank manipulation
- Preventing fake accounts
- Detecting irregular transactions
- Preventing bots and automated attacks
- Protecting account and platform security
- Investigating abuse
2.4Legal and compliance
We may process the information necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law
- Respond to lawful requests from government, judicial or regulatory bodies
- Resolve disputes
- Enforce our agreements
- Protect the lawful rights of us, our users or third parties
How public information is used
If you publish personal information to the Attention Board or to a public profile, it may be viewed, copied, shared or spread across the internet by other users. Please do not put anything in a public profile that you would not want made public.
International processing
vmeet50 is a global service, so your personal information may be processed, stored or accessed by us or our service providers outside the country or region you are in. Privacy laws differ between countries. Where applicable law requires additional safeguards for a cross-border transfer, we will put them in place, for example through contractual safeguards, adequacy decisions, standard contractual clauses or other lawful transfer mechanisms.
How long we keep it
We keep personal information for as long as we genuinely need it to provide the service, meet legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and protect platform security. When there is no longer a reasonable business or legal need to keep it, we delete, anonymise or otherwise deal with it as applicable law provides. Some information may be retained for a reasonable period after an account closes, for reasons such as:
- Legal requirements
- Tax and financial records
- Fraud investigation
- Security records
- Dispute resolution
- Backup systems
Your privacy rights
Depending on where you are and what law applies, you may have the right to:
- Know whether we process your personal information
- Request access to it
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion
- Request restriction of certain processing
- Object to certain processing
- Withdraw consent, where applicable
- Request a copy of your personal information
- Request transfer to another service provider, where applicable
- Object to automated decision-making
- Complain to, or seek a remedy from, the relevant data protection authority
The specific rights vary by region. To exercise any of them, write to contact@vmeet50.com.
California residents
If you are a California resident covered by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended, your rights may include:
- The right to know
- The right to access your personal information
- The right to delete it
- The right to correct inaccurate personal information
- The right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information
- The right to limit the use or disclosure of sensitive personal information
- The right not to be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights
We will not refuse you a service the law requires us to provide because you exercised a privacy right. To exercise these rights, contact us using the details at the end of this policy. We may need to take reasonable steps to verify your identity, to protect your account and your personal information.
EEA and UK users
Where the GDPR, the UK GDPR or other applicable data protection law applies to you, we process your personal information on the corresponding legal basis, to the extent that law requires.
9.1Legal bases
The possible legal bases include:
- Performance of a contract with you
- Compliance with a legal obligation
- Legitimate interests
- Your consent
9.2Rights you can exercise
Where applicable, you may:
- Request access to your personal data
- Request correction
- Request erasure
- Request restriction of processing
- Object to processing
- Request data portability
- Withdraw consent
You may also lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. For transfers from the EEA to other countries, we apply the cross-border safeguards required by applicable law.
Users in China
Where the Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China and other Chinese personal information laws apply, we will meet the corresponding obligations as applicable law requires. Users in China may have the right to:
- Be informed
- Decide about the processing of their personal information
- Access and copy their personal information
- Correct it
- Delete it
- Ask for an explanation of our processing rules
- Any other right applicable law provides
To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details at the end of this policy.
Children's privacy
vmeet50 does not offer its services to children below the minimum age set by local law, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has given us personal information without meeting the age requirement, please contact us; where we confirm it, we will act as applicable law requires.
Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information, including where applicable:
- Access controls
- Network security measures
- Protection of data in transit
- Anomaly detection
- Security monitoring
- Security management of our providers
No system on the internet is absolutely secure, so we cannot guarantee that any method of transmission or storage is completely safe. Where a personal information security incident requires notification under applicable law, we will notify as that law requires.
Third-party links
Profiles on vmeet50 may contain links to third-party websites, which vmeet50 does not control. When you visit one, read its own privacy policy. vmeet50 is not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party sites.
Changes to this policy
We may update this privacy policy as the product, the law or our privacy practices change. Updated versions are published on vmeet50.com. Where a change is significant, we will notify you by reasonable means as applicable law requires.
Contact us
To access, correct or delete your personal information, to understand how it is processed, to exercise any other privacy right applicable law gives you, or to complain about a privacy matter, reach us at:
- Operating entity: vmeet50, Inc.
- Website: vmeet50.com
- Email: contact@vmeet50.com
We will handle your request within the period applicable law requires. This privacy policy forms part of the vmeet50 terms of use.