Privacy Policy

Last modified: September 30, 2024

Introduction

Veriground LLC (“Veriground,” "Company," or "We") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy (this "Policy").

This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.veriground.io (our "Website") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This Policy applies to information we collect:

On the Website; and
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company; or
Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you agree not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 18

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, phone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us by visiting out CONTACT PAGE.

Personal Data

As used in this Policy, “Personal Data” means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or household or with a particular individual’s or household’s device; or any inferences drawn therefrom. Veriground processes Personal Data in connection with its newsletter and subscription services, in the performance of the agreement between Veriground and its account holders (each a “User”), and may collect, store, and process Personal Data of guests and visitors to its Website, as further described below.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

Including and related to your Personal Data;
About payments, such as credit card numbers;
About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

Directly from you when you provide it to us;
Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies; and/or
From third parties, for example, our business partners and distributors.
Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, purchasing our products, or requesting further information or related services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes to help build trust, improve our brand, and drive growth.
Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.
Your search queries on the Website.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "Posted") on the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are Posted and/or transmitted to others at your own risk. We engage third-party service providers to assist us with collecting survey responses—which may be Posted on our Website, providing payment processing services, and other services related to our business. Although we contract with companies who implement security measures to protect your Personal Data, you acknowledge that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). We do not respond to Do Not Track requests.

We do not use automatic decision-making or engage in profiling.

The information we collect automatically may include Personal Data (e.g., IP address). We may associate non-Personal Data and Personal Data we collect automatically with Personal Data we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. This helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications on the Website may be served by third parties, including third parties that use analytics tools to help measure traffic and usage trends and to understand more about the demographics and behaviors of our users. Information collected automatically through these tools may be combined with other Personal Data we collect from you or receive from other sources. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Data or they may collect information, including Personal Data, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. For information about managing your security settings for cookies and how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Data:

To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To provide you with notices about your account, including information regarding changes to this Policy.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose to which you consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (e.g., the order form/registration form) or contact us at team@veriground.net. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose Personal Data that we collect or you provide as described in this Policy:

To the employees and owners of Veriground and its parent company, holding company, subsidiaries, or other affiliated entities.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Data confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Veriground's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Veriground about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to "subscribe to our newsletter" feature of our Website, we will transmit our newsletter to that email address. When you submit a review about your experience with us, your review may be Posted on our website. You will be advised of the use of your information before you voluntarily provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.
We may also disclose your Personal Data:
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our Terms of Use, Subscription Agreement/Terms of Sale, and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Veriground, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Data you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly. Customers accessing our Website from jurisdictions that require consent before using non-essential cookies will be provided with the opportunity to opt-in to cookies upon arrival at our Website.
Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. You can express your preference regarding whether we can share your Personal Data with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the order form/registration form). You can also always opt-out by sending us an email with your request to team@veriground.net.
Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address or other contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the order form/registration form) or at any other time by sending us an email stating your request to team@veriground.net. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions or by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email. This opt out does affect our ability to communicate with you regarding a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience, or other transactions.
We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.

Residents of certain states or countries may have additional Personal Data rights and choices. Please see Your Location-Specific Privacy Rights for more information.

Retention of Your Personal Data

Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for. Therefore:

Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between Veriground and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
Personal Data collected for the purposes of Veriground’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfil such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by Veriground within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting Veriground.

Veriground may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. The Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.

Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Data

You may also send us a message by visiting our CONTACT PAGE to request access to, correct, or delete any Personal Data that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your Personal Data except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Residents of certain states, such as California, may have additional Personal Data rights and choices. Please see Your Location-Specific Privacy Rights for more information.

Your Location-Specific Privacy Rights

Your United States (“US”) Privacy Rights

Various US state consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their Personal Data.

California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits our customers that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to team@veriground.net or write us at: Veriground LLC, 955 N 1300 W, Ste. 11, St. George, UT 84770, USA.

Several states, including but not limited to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia, may provide their state residents with rights to:

Confirm whether we process their Personal Data.
Access and delete certain Personal Data.
Correct inaccuracies in their Personal Data, taking into account the information's nature processing purpose.
Data portability.
Opt-out of Personal Data processing for:
- targeted advertising;
- sales; or
- profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
- Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive Personal Data.

The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights please contact us using any of the methods specified in the Contact Information section at the end of this Policy.

Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain Personal Data sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to this designated address: team@veriground.net. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute's opt-out requirements.

Your International Privacy Rights

While this Website is provided for use by persons located in the United States, if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the United Kingdom (“UK”), Switzerland, or other country outside the United States, you may have certain additional rights with respect to your Personal Data under the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (the “GDPR”), the General Data Protection Regulation of the United Kingdom (“UK GDPR”), Swiss Federal Data Protection Law (“FADP”) or other applicable privacy legislation.

Processing Bases

To process your Personal Data, we rely on the following legal bases:

For the performance of a contract we have with you (for example, if you use our Website or subscribe to our newsletter).
For compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject (such as lawful requests from competent authorities such as law enforcement).
For the purposes of our legitimate interests (such as tailoring your experience using our Website), provided that such processing does not outweigh your rights and freedoms.
For the purposes to which you consented when you provided the data or when you created an account.

Your International Privacy Rights

To the extent a specific element of our processing of your Personal Data relies upon your consent, you may withdraw such consent at any time with future effect. Such a withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the consent withdrawal.

If you wish to object to the processing of your Personal Data on the basis of legitimate interest and no opt-out mechanism is available to you directly, please contact us by using our CONTACT PAGE.

Users in the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Brazil and residents of other jurisdictions may also have the following rights, as set forth under applicable data protection law, which include:

Access — You may request that we confirm whether or not we are processing your Personal Data. If we are, you may request a copy of your Personal Data, which we will provide free of charge, together with information about the processing, such as the purposes of the processing and the categories of Personal Data concerned. However, this is not an absolute right and the interests of other individuals may restrict your right of access. We may decline or charge a reasonable administrative cost for requests which are excessive, particularly if repetitive.
Rectification — You may edit some of your Personal Data when you have access to do so. You may also ask us to change, update, or fix your Personal Data in certain cases, particularly if it’s inaccurate.
Erasure — Subject to certain limitations, you may request the erasure of your Personal Data that Veriground stores.
Restrict Processing — You may ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Data under certain circumstances, such as if your Personal Data is inaccurate or unlawfully held.
Data portability — You may ask for a copy of the Personal Data you provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you may have the right to transmit this data to another entity.
Object — You may object to the processing of your Personal Data on grounds relating to your particular situation under certain circumstances, for example for direct marketing. If you have a right to object and you exercise this right, your Personal Data will no longer be processed for such purposes by us, unless there are overriding compelling legitimate grounds for the processing or as otherwise provided under applicable law.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes, to complete any transactions that you began prior to your request, or for other purposes as required or permitted by applicable law.

Veriground is committed to abiding by all applicable data protection laws and will honor the rights they confer on our Users and any data subject whose information we process.

If you are located outside the United States and you are or have been our customer, we may have provided you with the opportunity to opt-in to receiving marketing communications. If you have consented to receiving marketing communications from us, you may opt out of such communications at any time by using the unsubscribe feature at the bottom of the email or by contacting us directly using the information provided in the Contact Information section of this Policy. We will never share your Personal Data with a third party for such third party’s marketing purposes, unless you have specifically consented to us doing so.

You may contact us by visiting our CONTACT PAGE to exercise any of the above rights. If you believe that our processing of your Personal Data is inconsistent with your data protection rights under the GDPR, UK GDPR, or other data privacy law in your jurisdiction and we have not adequately addressed your concerns, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority of your country.

International Transfers

Veriground and our service providers are located in Utah, United States of America. If you visit the Website from outside the United States and providing us with your Personal Data, you are transferring your data to us in the United States. Your Personal Data will be transferred to different locations around the world including the United States for storage and processing. Wherever your Personal Data is transferred, stored, or processed by us, we will take reasonable steps to safeguard the privacy of your Personal Data. For the information you provide directly to us, with relation to which we function as a data controller (e.g., your account information), by using the Website, you consent to the transfer of your data outside of your country of residence to different locations including the United States, which may not provide an adequate level of protection as defined by the data protection law in your country.

Persons with Disabilities

Veriground strives to ensure that every person has access to information related to our Website, including this Policy. Please contact us if you would like this Policy provided in an alternative format, and we will seek to meet your needs.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of Personal Data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

Our policy is to post any changes we make to our Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' Personal Data, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

Veriground LLC

955 N 1300 W, Ste. 11

St. George, UT 84770

USA

Tel: +1 (435) 255-3541